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The Case of the Missing Tombstones

Together with a German friend my wife and I are just completing a book documenting the features and history of an old Jewish cemetery in rural Bavarian Swabia (see the picture above). During our work we becam increasingly aware of … Continue reading

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The Labyrinthine Trails of the Gatermann Films

How the 19th century, German Jewish civil registers found their way into various of today’s archives. Continue reading

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