Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind

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  Blick in die Dauerausstellung – Eingangsbereich der Dauerausstellung

• Blick in die Dauerausstellung

• Blick in die Dauerausstellung

• Blick in die Dauerausstellung

• Blick in die Dauerausstellung

The museum's permanent exhibition tells the story of the Otto Weidt workshop for the blind at the authentic location. Here, in the backyard of Rosenthaler Straße 39, the small manufacturer Otto Weidt employed mainly blind and deaf Jews in his brush workshop during the Second World War.

The workshop was often the last refuge for the persecuted workers and their relatives. Otto Weidt obtained food and false papers for his brush collectors who were threatened with deportation. In 1942, by bribing the Gestapo, he succeeded in bringing back the collected workers from the collection camp in Große Hamburger Straße.

Weidt hid several people in the back room of the workshop - which has been preserved in its original state - as well as in other places, and assisted an employee to escape from the Christianstadt concentration camp during the evacuation marches.

Using personal documents such as letters, poems and photographs, the exhibition paints a vivid picture of a life situation constantly threatened by persecution and deportation. At the same time, the courageous attempts of the Jewish employees to escape their persecutors are documented, as well as Otto Weidt's indispensable help in the process.

Runtime: from January 2019

barrier-free

Takes place here:

• Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt