Read and Research
The archive and library reading room of the Jewish Museum Berlin is open to the public. Opening hours are:
- Monday and Wednesday, 12 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
- Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Contact
Reading Room
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 93 560
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 93 441
bibliothek[at]jmberlin.de
Archive
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 93 582
archive[at]jmberlin.de
The following holdings can be viewed online: Jewish Museum Berlin Library, Leo Baeck Institute, Wiener Library.
A written application is required for use. To gain entry to the Reading Room, please register first at the Info-Point in the Museum entrance area.
Inquiries relating to individuals and families
Cover of a special issue of the magazine "Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Jüdische Familien-Forschung" on the occasion of the exhibition "Unsere Ahnen" (our ancestors) at the Jewish Museum on Oranienburger Straße Berlin, 1936
© Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
The Jewish Museum Berlin receives numerous inquiries relating to individuals and families from genealogists, scientists, and journalists. There is no central inquiry office for such matters, neither at the Jewish Museum Berlin nor elsewhere. The sources of German-Jewish history are scattered throughout the world. Some of the archives we can recommend are assembled in the following PDF (in German).The Jewish Museum Berlin is only able to provide information on the approximately 1,500 bequests held in its own collections; it does not undertake person-related searches in other institutions.
