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description: "Krambuden 11The painting \"Krambuden\" shown here was created in 1975 and was painted by the Wolfenbüttel artist Otto Bücher. The painter, who was born in 1895, was not always able to pursue his profession so freely.The \"Nuremberg Laws\" passed in 1935 hit him and his wife Elli hard. The laws were intended to enforce the National Socialist racial ideology and promote a division between \"Aryan\" and \"inferior\" people. It was irrelevant whether a person saw themselves as \"Jewish\" or belonged to the Jewish community, for example.&nbsp; The only thing that counted was the legal classification, which divided people into so-called full, three-quarter, half and quarter Jews. This status legitimized their disenfranchisement, discrimination and extermination. The \"Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor\" regulated relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans.Elli Freudenthal was born in Berlin to Jewish parents. She met Otto Bücher in Weimar and the two married in Wolfenbüttel in 1923. In 1935, their marriage was classified as a \"privileged mixed marriage\" under the \"Nuremberg Laws\". This resulted in numerous harassments and reprisals.Otto Bücher refused to divorce, which offered his wife Elli a certain degree of protection, but caused him professional difficulties. As early as 1933, he had to stop teaching painting classes, and in 1936 he was also expelled from the \"Reich Chamber of Fine Arts\" and was not allowed to work as a freelance artist, take part in exhibitions or receive public commissions. In 1944, he was forced to work in a camp in Blankenburg.In January 1945, his wife Elli received a letter from the Gestapo informing her that she would be deported to Theresienstadt within three days. Due to fateful circumstances, she was able to hide in the offices of her friend Ernst Koch, where she survived until the end of the war thanks to courageous and committed people."
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1935: Nuremberg Laws - places of injustice
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**1935: Nuremberg Laws**

 Krambuden 11

The painting "Krambuden" shown here was created in 1975 and was painted by the Wolfenbüttel artist Otto Bücher. The painter, who was born in 1895, was not always able to pursue his profession so freely.

The "Nuremberg Laws" passed in 1935 hit him and his wife Elli hard. The laws were intended to enforce the National Socialist racial ideology and promote a division between "Aryan" and "inferior" people. It was irrelevant whether a person saw themselves as "Jewish" or belonged to the Jewish community, for example. The only thing that counted was the legal classification, which divided people into so-called full, three-quarter, half and quarter Jews. This status legitimized their disenfranchisement, discrimination and extermination. The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" regulated relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans.

Elli Freudenthal was born in Berlin to Jewish parents. She met Otto Bücher in Weimar and the two married in Wolfenbüttel in 1923. In 1935, their marriage was classified as a "privileged mixed marriage" under the "Nuremberg Laws". This resulted in numerous harassments and reprisals.

Otto Bücher refused to divorce, which offered his wife Elli a certain degree of protection, but caused him professional difficulties. As early as 1933, he had to stop teaching painting classes, and in 1936 he was also expelled from the "Reich Chamber of Fine Arts" and was not allowed to work as a freelance artist, take part in exhibitions or receive public commissions. In 1944, he was forced to work in a camp in Blankenburg.

In January 1945, his wife Elli received a letter from the Gestapo informing her that she would be deported to Theresienstadt within three days. Due to fateful circumstances, she was able to hide in the offices of her friend Ernst Koch, where she survived until the end of the war thanks to courageous and committed people. 

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