March 24, 2023 until January 7, 2024 (extended until March 17, 2024)
Ludwig Levy, On the beginning of the 1920s, photo private
Ninety years ago, large portions of the German population welcomed the takeover of power by the National Socialists (Nazis) on 30 January 1933. Using the tools of terror and propaganda, the new Nazi regime eliminated many of the basic democratic rights established in the Weimar Republic. In just a few weeks, the Nazis managed to institute the dictatorship they longed for. They persecuted, incarcerated and mistreated not only political rivals,
critics and dissidents, but also many others due to their religion or sexual identity as well as for anti-Semitic and racial motives.
The jail and courthouse in Lindenstrasse was part of the Nazi’s system of terror. A large number of the lawyers and judicial staff who worked here were also persecuted, stripped of their rights and expelled by the Nazi dictatorship because of their Jewish heritage. Their little-known stories serve to illustrate the fates of the millions of people across Europe murdered by the Nazi regime until its demise in 1945.
Ludwig Levy shared the fate of persecution with more than 600 people of Jewish origin in the area of today’s city of Potsdam alone.