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Frieda meets Frieda’s experiences

Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn: Pioneer woman photographer in Palestine/Israel
Frieda’s memories Berlin 1933
Transferumbau exhibition
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Frieda’s birthday 7.7

Letter from Fritz to Frieda on her first birthday in Tel Aviv, 1934
Frieda’s husband and son arranging Sukka at their first home in Tel-Aviv, mid 1930s
Shmuel (Frieda’s son, my father) arranges “farm” with small wooden figurines brought from Berlin. 25 Beit Yoseph st., Tel Aviv, mid 1930s
Husband and son (and teddy-bear) at table.
At the table, 25 Beit Yoseph st., Tel Aviv. Photo: Frieda Mayer jacobsohn. This photo was recently published in the book/catalog “Lift”
Olim cards (entering immigration cards), Haifa, 8.11.1933. “Mayer” was first written by the clerk as in Yiddish spelling, then corrected to “Meir” as it remained since in Hebrew documents. It took me years to embrace the German spelling “Mayer” again.
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Frieda’s birthday 7.7.1892

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What Frieda saw in Weimar years: reflections/memories, Tel Aviv, 2016

Rivka-0002Frieda watches movie. Yom Hashoa, 5.5.2016: From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014)

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“Only ten years later […] on March 1933…”
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map@Postcard created in July 2015, in collaboration with Z., who drew the map of our walk through the Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin, October 2014.

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Frieda

Frieda is this 1929~ Box Camera at the bottom right corner.

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She is named after the woman in this photo: Berlin-born photographer Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn, whom she accompanied during the last years before forced to leave Berlin in 1933, through her voyage to Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, and finding her way there.

In 2009 many of the photos she took were exhibited in the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Frieda Mayer Jacobsohn was my grandmother.

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Since October 2014, Frieda’s Box Camera takes me to see the world through her eyes. Experiences from long ago and other lands are still stored in her memory. She finds and shows me new layers of experience, in those same places –– in my hometown Tel Aviv, in Frieda’s hometown Berlin, and some new ones. Watch video here.

She senses times and spaces.

She offers images as a way of communication throughout experiences.