Exhibition Opening in the SuUB: “Marions Buch”

The State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) invites you to the exhibition “Marions Buch” (“Marion’s book”). At 6 p.m. on Friday, September 7, 2018, Director Maria Elisabeth Müller opens the show in the foyer with humorous watercolor drawings “Ach schau, und wer küsst mir?” from 1936.

At that time, Marion Baruch gave her sister Helga a book with her drawings about the history of the family and the love story between Helga and her husband Bernhard Arna. That same year, the couple emigrated to Palestine – and they took with them Marion’s book. Decades later, Helga’s grandson happened to hold the book in Tel Aviv and took it back to the place where it was written: Hamburg. There, together with Geschichtswerkstatt Eimsbüttel, he created a traveling exhibition that can now be seen in Bremen. Today, Marion Baruch’s drawings show us the life of a happy family destroyed by National Socialism. Lior Oren, the grandson of Helga Baruch, will also be on hand to talk about the opening of the exhibition.

Contribution to the “Looted Cultural Property” Project

In the context of the Looted Cultural Property projects at the State and University Library Bremen and the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart, several books were found in both libraries last year from the family property auctioned off after the deportation. Only last year, the State and University Library Bremen returned an ex libris to the family. Research at the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart is still ongoing. Hans-Christian Pust, who heads the research project on looted cultural assets at the Württemberg State Library, will talk about this.

The exhibition will be on display in the foyer of the SuUB until October 10, 2018. Admission is free.