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27 January 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp. Until Red Army soldiers liberated about  7 thousand prisoners still at the camp, the German Nazis had murdered approx. 1.1 million people in Auschwitz, mostly Jews, but also Poles, the Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and … Read more

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, when Nazi forces destroyed over 1400 synagogues and places of worship; about 7500 businesses and homes were destroyed; and Jewish cemeteries and other Jewish community institutions were ravaged. Approximately 400 … Read more

They have returned to their roots – members of the Jewish family Gassenheimer. In Themar, some of those who scattered all over the world scattered all over the world personally met. Von Wolfgang Swietek THEMAR. “What I have seen here on this trip to Themar and Hildburghausen, as well as to a few other places … Read more

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 their name. And some things you have to see to immediately understand their name. Do you know what a wind sweep is? It sounds a bit like an outdated word … Read more

Wind sweep – S. Gassenheimer & Sohn Hildburghausen The harvested and threshed grain must be separated from litter, weed seeds, ear parts and dust so that the grain can be milled. The principle of grain sorting is based on the elements of air flow and gravity. By hand, it works like this: the threshed grain … Read more

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 younger, included in the transport. The names of the children, with links to the profiles in the geni.com database can be found at this link. Analysis and interpretation of the … Read more

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 their hometown of Themar to their son Meinhold, ended as so many other letters do — “Love”. Full of yearning: “Much love, your Papa,” writes Max Müller on 8 May … Read more

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) Grünbaum. Hugo Grünbaum was born in 1868 in Walldorf a/d Werra and came to Themar with his parents as a child. Klara Schloss was born in 1872 Schwanfeld/Bavaria. Hugo and … Read more

“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. People from all over the world can use the online archive to access 26 million documents containing information on 21 million names* of victims of Nazi persecution. In 1943, before … Read more