We have lived here in believingWhat we were taught:That things consist in their consistencyAnd we have built on this foundationA castle of playing cardsWith the appearance of appearancesWith shadows of shadows.- Miguel de UnamunoGerman Jews had lived for hundreds of years in Germany, making tremendous contributions to German science, industry, e...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The making of Hitler and the seduction of Germania was the direct result of the harsh conditions of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, imposed on Germany on the insistence of a vengeful France. The treaty was never ratified by the United States Senate. Hitler blamed all the ills that befell the Weimar Republic in 1922, 1923, and again in 1929 on the...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Hirschberger created a visual pun combining the name of the ship and the name of a famous Blues song. The "Blues" is a genre of music that originated among African-Americans in the Deep South, blending African and European Folk tunes, incorporating chants, spirituals and work songs (which during slavery were sometimes used to convey codes and me...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
"Passion of Christ." "Simon Peter said to him [Jesus], 'Lord, where are you going? [Quo Vadis?].'Jesus answered him, 'Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward."John 13:36People and their basic instincts have not changed since the beginning of time. They only have adjusted to the changing ecological, social, an...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Some German Jews, when informed of their deportations, committed suicide. In Mannheim, out of 2,500 deportees, 10 committed suicide. In Baden-Baden, with scarcely 100 community members, 10 killed themselves. More suicides occurred during the transport. Most of these cases of suicide involved German Jews, who had moved away from Judaism, been bap...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Arrested by the Nazis in September 1939 in Hamburg, Germany; Mr. Landau was shipped to the notorious concentration camp Dachau, located in Bavaria about 15 km northwest of Munich. While in Dachau, Mr. Landau was murdered and cremated by the SS camp guards. His ashes,placed in a cigar box,were then delivered by an official of the Gestapo (Secret ...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.