Published Articles / Books

Offenburg

Badische Zeitung article (German) referencing our visit to Offenburg and the butcher shop takeover during WWII:  Badische Zeitung – Offenburg June 23

Freiburg

1. Jûdische Allgemeine article (German) about Ronnie, Judi & Andrea’s visit back to Germany and Ronnie’s experience during the war, by Anja Bochtler. Juedische Allgemeine – October 24

2.  Presentation on Adolf Paul Reutlinger from Rosita Dienst Demuth at the Lessing Schule:  To Come

 

Lorrach

1. Badische Zeitung article (German) from Lörrach Mayoral reception regarding our visit back to Lörrach , Germany June 27  BZ Artikel crowdfunding

2. Lorrach Kristallnacht badische_zeitung_2019-11-09Oberbadisches Volksblatt article (German) from Mayoral reception Lörrach. Oberbadisches Volksblatt

3. Badische Zeitung article (German) Lörrach in memory of Kristallnacht, November 9/10 1938.  Mentions my grandfather Paul and Beck/Weil relatives .  Article dated Nov 9, 2019.Lorrach Kristallnacht badische_zeitung_2019-11-09

4. February 2019 Press Release in a Lörrach daily newspaper about the identification of Babbete Beck Reiser in the 1940 Lörrach deportation photos. Lörrach_ Bewegende Spurensuche – Lörrach – Verlagshaus Jaumann

Bühl

Article about Gabriel Groszman’s book (German) that illuminates the fate of Jewish citizens of Bühl / Deportations to Gurs on 22 October 1940 and features the Beck/Reiser family (aunt Babette, Emma & Erna) from Buhl, Germany. Badisches Tageblatt

 

Books

The Unwanted – America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between, by Michael Dobbs
A well researched and written book about Kippenheim, a southwest town in Baden, Germany near to where the Beck, Geismar, Günzburger, Heilbronner, Wertheimer and Reutlinger families are from.  It’s also about the American immigration policy and American policy in the 1940s.

Letters From Gurs