Introduction: survival and metamorphosis - the history of the Jewish Community of East Berlin. Part 1 The Jewish community seen from within: the Jewish community of East Berlin, Peter Kirchner; social services and the Jewish community, Sonja Berne; Jewish culture and the Jewish community, Hermann Simon; a newcomer to the Jewish community, Irene Runge; the youth group of the Jewish community, Gerrit Kirchner. Part 2 The Jews in the party - the quality of their Jewishness and their view of the Jewish community: a Yiddish folksinger in the bosom of the party, Jalda Rebling; a Jewish existentialist at the Academy of Sciences, Vincent von Wroblewsky; returning to Berlin from the Soviet Union, Clara Berliner; Jews, German and psychotherapy in the German Democratic Republic, Alfred Katzenstein; from Germany to the GDR via Palestine, France and the USA, Ursula Katzenstein. Part 3 Two interviews conducted in West Berlin: the view from West Berlin, Thomas Eckert; the unorthodox view of Jewish history in the German Democratic Republic. Afterword: the German Democratic Republic and its Jewish community.