“On May 8, 1945, a young soldier rode on his horse into the courtyard of the barracks in Theresienstadt bearing the greatest gift — freedom… Read More »8 May 1945 — Liberation of Ghetto Theresienstadt
‘Cousin’ Leo Gassenheimer — on the passenger list of the ship Hansa arriving in New York on 16 April 1939 — caught our attention!  He was sponsoring cousin… Read More »Who was ‘cousin: Leo Gassenheimer’?
For update of this post based on new research, see: 1945: Liberation of Auschwitz. On Saturday 27 January 1945, Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz. Of the 7,000… Read More »27 January 2015 — 70 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz!
On 1 August 1914, Germany declared war on Russia; on 3 August 1914, Germany declared war on France and marched into Belgium. On 4 August… Read More »How did WWI affect Themar’s Jewish families?
We have made significant progress in finding the ‘founding families’ of the Jewish community of Themar in the late 1800s — Baer, Frankenberg, Gassenheimer, GrĂĽnbaum, Kahn,… Read More »Finding the Grandparents of Themar’s Jewish Community!
On 10 May 2013, four Stolpersteine were laid before Bahnhofstrasse 7. The Stolpersteine honour the Rosengarten family — Paul and Berta (nĂ©e Schwab) Rosengarten and… Read More »The first ‘Stolpersteine’ in Themar, 10 May 2013
The pogrom of Kristallnacht, the 9/10 November 1938, transformed Nazi policy towards German Jews from encouraged emigration to forced emigration. The burnings of synagogues, smashing… Read More »A Reflection on “Reichskristallnacht” 1938
Between June 1942 and February 1949, 67Â Jews connected to the families of Themar were transported to Theresienstadt. The first were Georg and Rudolf Gassenheimer, both… Read More »Day of Remembrance: 20 September 1942
by Fred Michael Brick Amram I’m an only child. It was customary for young German adults during the Holocaust to have only one child—often none… Read More »Cousin Aaltje
On 12 November 1941, Martha Hahn, nĂ©e Katz, b. 1889 in Themar, was deported from Frankfurt am Main to Minsk Ghetto in Belarus, 1672 km to the… Read More »Day of Remembrance: 12 November 1941