Jüdisches Leben in Thüringen

In 1349, a Jewish banker buries a treasure in the middle of Erfurt, while his co-religionists - women, men, children - are driven to their deaths in the city. Exactly 650 years later, the hoard is rediscovered and thus becomes a symbol for the rich and often perilous lives of Jews in Thuringia over the centuries, as elsewhere in Europe. Learn further how Goethe immortalises the merchant Jacob Elkan in a poem, how the department stores' is invented in Gera, how the "most beautiful woman of Jena" breaks down at the heroic death of her son and how the public memory of her husband, who drafted the first constitution of the Free State of Thuringia, is erased. A young woman lets us in on her thoughts and longings during the Weimar Republic, and a Suhl family business causes a worldwide sensation with fancy cars, fire chairs and weapons.