Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind: Permanent exhibition

Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind

The Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind opened on December 5, 2006. It tells the story of Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind. During the Second World War the brush manufacturer Otto Weidt employed mainly blind and deaf Jews who produced brooms and brushes here. Various life stories testify to Otto Weidt’s efforts to protect his Jewish employees from persecution and deportation. As the threat grew, he found hiding-places for some of them. One of these hideouts was in the rooms that are now part of the museum.

This permanent exhibition tells about the events in the Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind in eight different sections:

• Jews in Berlin 1933 to 1945
• Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind
• Working in the Workshop for the Blind
• The Workshop for the Blind workers
• Otto Weidt’s Helpers
• Postcards from Theresienstadt
• Successful Rescue Attempts
• Failed Rescue Attempts

for more information:
https://www.orte-der-erinnerung.de/en/institutions-2/