[Jüdische Oberschule (Jewish Middle School) classroom of the Jüdische Gemeinde (Jewish Community), Grosse Hamburgerstrasse, Berlin]

Although Jewish children were not officially prohibited from attending non-Jewish schools until 1938, institutionalized antisemitism and aggression made it impossible for most Jewish students to attend "Aryan" schools by the mid-1930s. As a result, enrollment at exclusively Jewish schools like the Jüdische Oberschule grew exponentially. The experience of German Jewish students paralleled that of Jewish teachers and university faculty, who were prohibited from practicing their professions as part of the Aryanization of the German education system. The highly regarded Jüdische Oberschule was later used as a site for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.