Themar The text below is a translation of the article, “,,Ein Quadrat auf der Erde â Ein Mensch,âwritten by Cornell Hoppe. “Year after year, the residents of the city of Themar commemorate their former Jewish inhabitants. Thirty-eight (38) Stolpersteine/stumbling blocks have already been laid in the city to commemorate them. Another 13 were added on Wednesday November … Read more
Barely twenty years after the end of World War I, war erupted again. On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On 3 September Britain â and the Commonwealth countries such as Canada â and France declared war on Germany. The circumstances in 1939 were completely different for German Jews than they had been in 1914, … Read more
On 5 December 2017, Themar and Kloster Vessra were awarded the 2017 Democracy Prize for ThĂŒringen for their peaceful protests against the right-wing extremist activities in Themar. As you may know, three right-wing concerts were held in the meadows abutting Themar, drawing over 8,000 right-wing extremists from all over Germany as well as Austria, Czechoslovakia, … Read more
This article appeared in the January 2016 newsletter, Zachor, of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.
Quelle: Stadtarchiv Themar, Ordner 109 On 18 March 1941, Lothar Israel Guthmann, b. 1898, paid the fee of 20 pfg to register his arrival in Themar; six months later, on 12 September 1941, Guthmann once again paid a fee to register his departure. The entry was startling because the name Guthmann â spelled with âthâ … Read more
“Jewish Life in Themar” by Achim Hess for Rennsteig.tv “On November 9 2015, Themar remembered its Jewish citizens. The artist Gunter Demnig laid more Stolperstein, to remind people of the crimes committed against the Jewish population. Dr. Sharon Meen from Canada, who has been researching  the fates of the of the Jewish community of Themar … Read more
This website began with a ‘collection’ â the Photo Album of Manfred Rosengarten, Themar, My Hometown. The creation of the photo album in the early 1980s led to renewed connection between Manfred Rosengarten, who had very reluctantly left Themar in 1936, and his former non-Jewish classmates. Twenty years after Manfred’s death, his photo album served to connect … Read more
On 3 March 1921, Minnie Marks applied for a passport for herself and her five-year-old grandson Lloyd Marx to travel to Germany. Her purpose? To visit her three brothers â Julius in Magdeburg, Albert in Plauen, and Leopold in C/Zwickau â and Lloyd’s paternal grandmother, Helene Marx. Little did Minnie know that, close to a … Read more
“On May 8, 1945, a young soldier rode on his horse into the courtyard of the barracks in Theresienstadt bearing the greatest gift â freedom for the barely alive survivors of German concentration camps. ‘You are free, you can go home now to your fathers and sons, husbands and brothers, you are free!” â Bronia … Read more
‘Cousin’ Leo Gassenheimer â on the passenger list of the ship Hansa arriving in New York on 16 April 1939 â caught our attention!  He was sponsoring cousin Ruth Gassenheimer’s immigration into the United States. Ruth Gassenheimer was the granddaughter of Samuel & Lotte Gassenheimer of Themar, and anything connected to Themar interests us. And so started the … Read more