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27 January 2026: Themar

January 26, 2026 by Themar


We commemorate the victims of National Socialism and

the former Jewish residents of Themar.

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Themar’s new mayor!
27 January 2026: International Holocaust Remembrance
  • 27 January 2026: International Holocaust Remembrance
  • 27 January 2026: Themar
  • Themar’s new mayor!
  • 8 May 2025: 80 Years since war’s end in Europe
  • 2025: “Something has changed!”
  • “Stolpersteine in Themar: A tour to commemorate”
  • 27 January 2025 – “Gedenktag” in Themar
  • November 9, 2023: A Comment
  • Gassenheimer – a touching story
  • The Windfege and the Gassenheimers
  • A “Windfege” Tells Stories
  • 81st Memorial Day for Deportation to Ghetto Belzyce
  • “Digital Memorial to deported ThĂŒringen,” by S. Haak
  • 19 September 2022: 80th commemoration day
  • May 10, 2022: 80th commemoration day
  • 20 Apr 2020: The Arolsen Archives Online
  • October 11, 2020-Events in Themar
  • Stolpersteine for Wertheimer family in Coburg
  • 1945: 75 Years since the Liberation of Auschwitz.
  • 2019: Stolpersteine for the Frankenberg & GrĂŒnbaum Families
  • Stolpersteine November 27, 2019
  • 80 Years Ago: World War II
  • Wendelmann and Kliewer “We were neighbors after all” – the significance of November 9, 1938
  • November 9, 2018
  • ThĂŒringen Democracy Prize 2017
  • Commemoration in Themar on November 9, 2017
  • C. Hoppe, “Mahnung gegen Hass and Hetzerei.
  • September 4, 2017 – Stolpersteineverlegung!
  • Commemoration of deportation of Thuringian Jews 75 years ago
  • “Commemoration should inspire reflection,” November 9, 2016
  • July 26, 2016 at 20:45!!!
  • “Building A Community—one ‘Google’ at a Time”
  • Lothar Guthmann — who was he & why was he in Themar in 1941?
  • Correspondence with survivors – Memorial Day 27.01.2016
  • 9 November 2015
  • Achim Heß, “Local History – Jewish Life in Themar”.
  • Collections: Memories of Themar
  • Maik Ehrlich and the Jewish soccer players from Themar!
  • Summer 1921 — Minnie & Lloyd visit the rellies!
  • 8 May 1945 — Liberation of Ghetto Theresienstadt
  • June 3, 2015: “The Jewish families at the end of the 2nd World War”.
  • Who was ‘cousin: Leo Gassenheimer’?
  • 27 January 2015 — 70 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz!
  • How did WWI affect Themar’s Jewish families?
  • Finding the Grandparents of Themar’s Jewish Community!
  • May 2013 – Film premiere in Themar
  • The first ‘Stolpersteine’ in Themar, 10 May 2013
  • A Reflection on “Reichskristallnacht” 1938
  • Day of Remembrance: 20 September 1942
  • How did a box of letters become a website?
  • How we found Julius Kahn
  • How we learn the story… Dankward Sidow about his work
  • Cousin Aaltje
  • The decision, Sept 1941, to ship the German Jews to the ‘East’.
  • The Jewish families in Themar – who were they?
  • Day of Remembrance: 12 November 1941
  • Day of Remembrance, 16 October 1941
  • “You are always welcome!”
  • Finding the traces — one google at a time!
  • What does the dedication of a tower clock in Themar have to do with this website?
  • Kristallnacht 1938 — what happened in Themar?
  • 70 Years after “Dunera”
  • Finding Julius Kahn
  • What is new?
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