Temporary exhibition “Women in the resistance against National Socialism”

From April 10 to June 1, 2025, the Creglingen Jewish Museum Foundation is presenting the exhibition “Women in Resistance against National Socialism” created by the Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria.
The exhibition presents women who courageously stood up to the Nazi regime. They helped Jewish citizens, procured forged papers, organized the resistance or distributed pamphlets.
The exhibition shows 18 prominent and lesser-known women from all social classes and political camps and illustrates the complexity of resistance and the significance of this history for us today.
The posters were designed by the well known Munich graphic artist Carolin Lintl; they combine historical photos, documents, short biographies and quotes. Each poster is provided with a QR code that leads to the digital exhibition. There, visitors to the exhibition will find detailed portraits, videos, audio clips and other material on the people featured.
The exhibition will open on April 10 at 7 p.m. at the Jewish Museum. The introductory lecture will be given by Church Councilor Dr. Björn Mensing.
Dr. Mensing, born in Lüneburg in 1962, an ordained theologian and historian with a doctorate, after serving in parishes in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Gauting, from 1996 head of studies at the Protestant Educational Institute in Bayreuth and from 1998 lecturer in church history at the University of Bayreuth, since 2005 pastor of the Protestant Church of Reconciliation at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and thus head of the central memorial site of the Protestant Church in Germany for the victims of National Socialism. Publications on the subject of the church and National Socialism and on the biographical memory of victims of Nazi persecution. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria honored Björn Mensing with the “Wilhelm Freiherr von Pechmann Prize” in 2009 and awarded him the title of Church Councillor in 2016. In his almost 20 years of service in Dachau, he got to know numerous concentration camp survivors personally.