Otto Nothmann was able to identify himself to Allied soldiers in the chaos of postwar Berlin with his International Refugee Organization ID card. DP status entitled him to an increased level of food and lodging in a Jewish DP camp.
Otto Nothmann´s International Refugee Organization ID card © Courtesy of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, AR 10492
"Asylum is only a marginal part of my life. I don't live to get it." The musician Bahila H. comes from Syria and now lives in Berlin. She is studying architecture at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, continues to make music and hopes for a life in Berlin away from traditions and the suppression of opinions.
Alaa M. and her husband came to Germany in 2015. They have built a new life in Berlin, their twins were born in exile. Alaa is a self-confident woman in Berlin who has to fight many prejudices. She does not accept that people judge her by her appearance.
This is one of the crucial excerpts from Hannah Arendt’s essay “We Refugees” that she published in 1943 shortly after arriving in New York.
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