November 9, 2023: A Comment
For German text, please see 09 November 2023: ein Kommentar November 9, 2023 marks the 85th anniversary of the Kristallnacht or “November Pogrom” in Germany,… Read More »November 9, 2023: A Comment
For German text, please see 09 November 2023: ein Kommentar November 9, 2023 marks the 85th anniversary of the Kristallnacht or “November Pogrom” in Germany,… Read More »November 9, 2023: A Comment
They have returned to their roots – members of the Jewish family Gassenheimer. In Themar, some of those who scattered all over the world scattered… Read More »Gassenheimer – a touching story
In Themar and Hildburghausen, two members of the same family made the same agricultural machinery. By Cornell Hoppe THEMAR. Some things can be recognized by… Read More »The Windfege and the Gassenheimers
Wind sweep – S. Gassenheimer & Sohn Hildburghausen The harvested and threshed grain must be separated from litter, weed seeds, ear parts and dust so… Read More »A “Windfege” Tells Stories
On this 81st Gedenktag of the deportation of the 513 men, women, and children from Weimar, Thüringen, we remember the 75 children, 18 years and… Read More »81st Memorial Day for Deportation to Ghetto Belzyce
Sebastian Haak, PhD, “Digital Memorial to deported Thüringen Jews,” Thüringische Landeszeitung, 05 May 2022 Themar/Weimar. The last lines, which Max and Clara Müller wrote from… Read More »“Digital Memorial to deported Thüringen,” by S. Haak
On September 19, 364 people from 38 places in Thuringia were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Among these people were Hugo and Klara (née Schloss)… Read More »19 September 2022: 80th commemoration day
“A remarkable “paper monument” On 14 April 2020 the Arsolen Archives posted the exciting news that almost all of the historical collections were now available online.… Read More »20 Apr 2020: The Arolsen Archives Online