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From 1939 onwards, almost half of the Jewish population of Berlin was forced to leave their homes and get relocated as subtenants in houses and flats, in which other Jews already lived. There was a concentration of these cramped places in central Berlin. The “forced flat-shares“ were often the last abode before the Jews were deported and murdered.

The history of these places is now being investigated in a participatory project by Aktive Museum e.V. and the Coordination Office Stolpersteine Berlin in team with interested Berliners and the current residents of these houses, and shown in an online exhibition presenting this aspect of persecution by the Nazi regime in its historical context.

https://zwangsraeume.berlin