Two exhibitions in the Jewish Museum and City Museum are dedicated to the so-called displaced persons who ended up in Munich after the Second World War – and who at times made up up to 20 percent of the city’s population.
There is the Polish-born Jewish watchmaker Abraham Rosner, who ended up in Munich after his release from the Dachau concentration camp. Alone, without a home, his family murdered in the Holocaust, his application to open a new watchmaking business was approved here in 1946. Although he seemed to be considering emigrating, he ended up staying in the Bavarian capital, where he married again, became a synagogue servant in the prayer room on Schulstraße and ran his business – finally located at Rindermarkt – until his death in the year 1982 led.