the museum's then curator peter shakos resigned over accusations that he was supporting the palestinian led b.d.s. movement to boycott divestment from and sanction israel a wave of controversy the museum has tried to move on from. the new exhibition is part of the museum's bid for a new start existing a burst of installations about the holocaust remain now with 1700. the use of jewish german history in similarly innocent fashion with information meeting virtual reality tools have destroyed synagogues sound installations and sculpture. and my colleague michael kruger is here to chat about this new chapter for berlin's jewish museum welcome micah on a really personal note i have to say i actually was really relieved about this new exhibition because the 1st time i remember the 1st time i went to this museum and i was just incensed also being jewish myself that there was all of this all of these exhibitions about the extermination of jews but i got no real sense that there was an understanding that jews are living people exactly i had exact the same feeling you that they that i missed info