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In April 1999 the United States Holocaust Museum opened a temporary exhibition to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the sailing of the St. Louis. The exhibition (now closed - but still on the web) featured five families including Oskar Blechner. 

The City of Munich, in co-operation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-University opened an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Munich under the title "I am alive! It is a miracle - the fate of a Munich family during the Holocaust." The exhibition ran until April 11 2002. The City is in the process of designing a new Jewish Community Centre and Museum - a prominent site in downtown Munich already having been secured. In the meantime, the Museum is provisionally housed in the current Jewish Community Centre at 27 Reichenbachstraße, Munich. This building is where Mina Blechner lived the last eighteen months of her life and from where she wrote many of the letters to her son, Jacob in Switzerland. 

A web site is currently being designed by the Imperial War Museum, London using the material from the collection as an educational project about the Holocaust.

Salo Blechner in the Reichenbachstrasse Synagogue, 1994
Salo Blechner sitting in the original seat used by his father in the Reichenbachstraße synagogue, Munich - now reconstructed after the damage done during Kristallnacht. Picture taken in 1994.

Ich lebe!


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