How did WWI affect Themar’s Jewish families?
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?
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, Grünbaum, Kahn,… Read More »Finding the Grandparents of Themar’s Jewish Community!
“My mother used to talk about a small sleepy town. My grandfather’s family lived in this townand here he had success. Then it became reality: everything… Read More »May 2013 – Film premiere in Themar
On 10 May 2013, four Stolpersteine were laid before Bahnhofstrasse 7. The Stolpersteine honour the Rosengarten family — Paul and Berta (née 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, 67 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
Five years ago, I was asked by the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center to read a series of letters in German and summarize them in English.… Read More »How did a box of letters become a website?
See also Julius Kahn 1896-1965. On September 6, 2010, it was 70 years since the HMT Dunera had called at the port of Sydney in… Read More »How we found Julius Kahn
Between December 1938 and May 1942, Clara and Max Müller wrote regularly to their two sons who had already emigrated, to Meinhold in Sweden and… Read More »How we learn the story… Dankward Sidow about his work
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