A refuge for artists and audiences

The Jewish Cultural Confederation of the Rhine and Ruhr, whose offices were in Disch-House, enabled hundreds of artists, musicians and actors to pursue a professional life despite increasing isolation and work bans. Jewish audiences could continue to enjoy cultural programmes and forget the oppressions of daily life for the moment of a theatre performance or a concert.
Names like Friedl Münzer, Hans Tobar and Flora Jöhlinger mean little today, but in the 1930s they were well-known actors, Carnival entertainers and artists respectively.

Quote from Dr. Paul Moses, First Chairman of the Jewish Cultural Association Rhine-Ruhr, November 1933
Audio recorded later