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A return after nearly 100 years to a place that her own family was forced to leave when fleeing into exile:

A few days ago, the descendants of the famous German-Jewish Cassirer family were invited to visit the house that was built in 1929 for Suzanne Aimeé Cassirer and her husband Hans Paret. She was the daughter of art dealer Paul Cassirer, for whom a major exhibition has just opened at the Alte Nationalgalerie.

Many prominent members of the Cassirer family shaped Berlin’s cultural life in the 1920s before they were forced to flee due to Nazi persecution. Many of them found refuge in the United States.

Together with the U.S. Embassy, the Exile Museum organized this emotional visit in the footsteps of their ancestors. We thank the family for their trust, as well as U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Alan Meltzer.

The event was part of the Embassies of Exile program, in which the Exile Museum collaborates with embassies and cultural organizations worldwide to commemorate stories of exile and revive connections across borders.