Judaica collection of Frankfurt's Museum Judischer Altertumer and its worldwide dispersion after 1945

The Museum judischer Altertumer in Frankfurt, opened 24 January 1933, was the first Jewish museum in Germany. Its core collection consisted of objects from the Jewish community in Berlin. The museum was closed after the pogrom 8/9 November 1938. After the war part of the collection came into the hands of the Jewish Trust Corporation, the British restitution authority. In consultation with other restitution organisations it was decided which Jewish institutions would receive objects. The majority went to the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem.