The last Jewish holocaust survivors of Nowy Sacz returning to their hometown - Part 5/5
The last Jewish holocaust survivors of Nowy Sacz returning to their hometown - Part 5/5
Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
The name Tauberbischofsheim tells us about the town – it is the home of the bishop on the Tauber river. Today it has around 8,500 inhabitants and thanks to its preserved old architecture, scenic views along the river and its connection to gastronomy is a popular tourist destination being located on the Romantic Road and Siegfriedstrasse.
In this video I shall tell you a little bit about the history of the town, my visit and what can be seen today!
I arrived by motorhome and left my vehicle in the free stellplatz which is located next to the swimming baths. For those arriving by car, the town is surrounded by large free car parks. My visit took place in June, which also is the wettest month and although on the first day it looked as though it were going to pour down, it did not and on day two I enjoyed brilliant sunny weather!
The area has been settled for at least five thousand years and we can today see prehistoric finds in the landscape museum in the Kurmainzischen castle of Tauberbischofsheim.
The railway came in 1867 which in turn led to development. Water supply became assured with the construction of an aqueduct in 1896, in 1900 electrical lighting was introduced. The buildings of the town did not suffer too much as a result of the Nazi rule and the second world war although not so the population. Jewish inhabitants were rounded up by SA thugs on 3 September 1939 and forced to wear signs saying Wir sind die Kriegshetzer (We are the warmongers.) They were forced to run to the Tauberbischofsheim synagogue, where they were humiliated. They had to kneel and kiss the ground. Then they were forced to rush into the nearby stream. The 15 Jewish families were detained for weeks in the town hall. A commemorative plaque was erected in the foyer of the town hall in 1981 which commemorates the 35 Jewish citizens who were murdered in the Shoah. The Jewish population had existed since the early thirteenth century although pogroms had occurred in 1235, 1298, 1336-1339 and 1348-49. From the 17th century, the number of Jews in Tauberbischofsheim increased. There was a synagogue, a school, a ritual bath and a cemetery and the work of ritual slaughterer and religious teacher was performed by the rabbi. In 1933 there were 106 Jewish people in the city, this ancient community was destroyed by the Nazis with those that did not emigrate or escape being deported to the Gurs concentration camp on 22 October 1940. Whereas there is no longer a Jewish community, there are however a number of sites of Jewish interest in the area which the tourist can visit.
After the Second World War Tauberbischofsheim was occupied by American troops. In 1955, the 1200th anniversary of Tauberbischofsheim was celebrated. In 1972 Tauberbischofsheim received a motorway connection to the A 81. In 1970 the Tauberfränkische landscape museum was opened in the Kurmainzischen castle. In the year 1983 the Tauberbischofsheimer Christmas market was organized for the first time on the market place. Since 1995, the Christmas market takes place on the Schlossplatz and in the castle cellar at the Kurmainz castle .
Tauberbischofsheim is great for cyclists and hikers, it is located on Taubertalradweg, a 101 kilometer long cycle path which runs through the valley of the Tauber in its entire length and is relatively flat. One can also follow the Odenwald-Madonnen-Weg which begins in Tauberbischofsheim and takes one to Königheim, Walldürn, the Neckar valley at Eberbach and Heidelberg to the Rhine. Those on foot might like to see the educational wine tour!
There are a number of museums including a pharmacy museum in the former pharmacy on Sonnenplatz, a farm Museum, two village museums, a school museum and the Tauberfränkisches Landscape Museum in the Kurmainz castle
The old town, which was formerly surrounded by a city wall, houses the castle and numerous renaissance houses. The marketplace is surrounded by the town hall and several half-timbered houses. The Tauberbischofsheimer Rathaus is one of the few in southern Germany, which were built in neo-Gothic style.
One of the most attractive old buildings is the Hunger Tower which is today located next to the Mühl kanal. Near the Hungry Tower is the Kurmainz Castle with the Tower of the Turks, another tower of the former city fortifications. It was probably built at the beginning of the late Middle Ages as part of the city wall and the name suggests it was used as a prison. As with many other towns, the approximately ten meter high city wall and up to 20 towers were removed with urban development, this tower alongside small part of the city wall survived. It is today protected.
First Person with Fred Kahn, August 9, 2018
Through the First Person program, Holocaust survivors have the opportunity to share their remarkable personal stories of hope, tragedy, and survival with thousands of visitors at the Museum. This program was recorded on August 9, 2018. It features Fred Kahn, who was born in Wiesebvaden, Germany, in 1932. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933, Fred's parents fled Germany for Belgium. He joined them in October 1938, just before Kristallnacht. In 1942, the family obtained false identity papers and went into hiding under the Christian surname Lejeune. On September 9, 1944, the American forces liberated the area of Belgium where they lived.
Jan Karski: Visiting the Izbica camp
In 1996 video footage, Jan Karski (1914-2000) describes his visit to Izbica Lubelska, a transit camp in Eastern Poland where deported Jews were held awaiting shipment to the death camps of Bełżec and Sobibor.
Video footage recorded October 1996 by E. Thomas Wood, co-author of the biography Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust (
Testimonial of the late Gisela Schlanger of Boro Park a Auschwitz survivor from Czechoslovakia
In March 1942 the Nazis rounded up Slovakian Jews in Poprad for transport to Auschwitz. They started with 10,000 single girls. The girls were told they were going to be performing labor in a shoe factory.
Of the 10,000 girls only several hundred survived. This impromptu video was taken by a great grandaughter of Gisela Schlanger at the very last Family Chanukah gathering 12/27/2008 Mrs. Schlanger attended when she was already quite ill. Mrs Schlanger got up from her seat and asked for quiet. She paid tribute to G-d for her miraculous deliverance and gave this testimony to her family in yiddish. She passed away on June 2, 2009.
Larry Pantirer speaks about Murray Pantirer and Oskar Schindler
Guest Speaker Larry Pantirer, son of the late Murray Pantirer, z'l, a survivor on Schindler's List, at the South Orange / Maplewood 36th Annual Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service.
Text of the first part of the speech (the video begins in the second paragraph):
My Dad, Murray Pantirer, passed away on November 7th, 2008, the 9th day of the Jewish month of Heshvan. At the foot of his grave are inscribed the famous words of the Talmud, He who saves one soul, saves the world entire, an homage to his savior Oscar Schindler. Both men lived incredible lives of success and failure, tragedy and heroism, as intertwined and as different as two men could be.
Murray Pantirer, Moshe Michul, was born in Krakow, Poland on June 15th 1925, to Eliezer Pinchas, and Sara Baila, [video begins here:] He was the second of five brothers, Alter Hersh, the oldest, Chaim Yosef, Mordechai Yehuda, and Yisroel David Tuvia. The family was also blessed with two daughters, Esther Rochel, and Chaya Rechil. They lived in a small apartment in the religious Jewish quarter of Krakow, where Eliezer sold dairy products. They were a poor but loving family in a community filled with synagogues and Yeshivas and some 100 Pantirers, my dad's grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Friday afternoons the children would rush home from school, and help their mother wash and scrub their home in preparation for the Sabbath. Like all his contemporaries, my dad's life was filled with Religious studies and contemplation, boyhood dreams of success and love, and especially for my dad to be the greatest Jewish soccer player, ever.
Oscar Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908 into a Sudeten German family, An indifferent Catholic growing up, his parents divorced when he was 27. He was a young man when he married Emily Pelzyl, the daughter of a wealthy German farmer. Oscar could never make it as a businessman. Every attempt pre and post war ended in failure. When the war started Oscar finally found his opportunity. He took over a bankrupt enamelware factory in Krakow. There he would make pots and pans for the German Army, there he would make his fortune. Being a large city in Poland, Krakow was immediately invaded by the Nazis in the fall of 1939. The Jewish quarter was turned into a nightmarish ghetto, many people sent to the nearby concentration camp at Plaszow. But there were a lucky 1000 Jews who found work in Oscar's factory, the place they called Emelia for short. All through the war years up until 1944 Oscar charmed and bribed his way to not only personal success, but as a means of keeping his 1000 workers safe from the Nazi brutality. They had food, they had shelter and they could practice their Judaism, somehow protected by the wiles of Oscar Schindler. It was a place of refuge for my father's lifelong friend Abe Zuckerman and eventually the basis for the famous Schindler's List.
My dad and his family were trapped in the ghetto. His younger blue eyed blond haired brother Mordechai who spoke perfect Polish would sneak in and out of the ghetto for food and other needs. Eventually my dad and the older brothers were sent to Plaszow. My dad somehow got work in the kitchen and snuck food to his fellow inmates. By the fall of 1944 the ghetto, the concentration camp, and Schindler's factory were liquidated. My dad's parents while each holding a child were shot and murdered. The rest of his siblings were sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. My dad too was steps away from the gas chamber but Schindler was persuaded by two of his Jewish workers Mietek Pemper and Itzhak Stern to compile a list of 1200 names, people who were to be relocated to Schindler's new ammunition factory in Brunnlitz, Czhechlosavkia. 200 names came from Plaszow, including my father's and his uncle Isaac Levenstein. My dad was listed as a sheet metal worker. He never knew who put his name on the life saving list but over the years when we talked of God and as my young liberal mind began to question everything in life, he would always remind me that it was an angel sent from heaven that inscribed his name into that list of life.
Munitions were never made in Brunnlitz, the Schindlers spent the last 6 months of the war caring for their Schindler Jews their children as Oscar and Emily called them. In the winter of 1945 Emily took my dad and some other young men to a nearby abandoned railroad car, filled with frozen Jews, no doubt being sent to a nearby death camp. Some were still alive but their half naked skin were frozen to the metal cars. They peeled them off and took them to the safety of the factory where Emily nursed many of them back to health.
Schwedt/Oder National Park Canoe Trip with Ice Cream. 2016
In August 2016, we paddled a canoe with a group in the Oder channel. After FIVE HOURS of arduous paddling through thick reeds, we were treated with surprise ice cream cones served to our canoes from the shore on an oar.
The vendor sang as he delivered it.
The river itself is very beautiful and the nature is well-preserved.
We highly recommend taking this canoe trip to anyone in area!
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
In 950, the weir system in today’s castle garden was constructed by the Count of Comburg-Rothenburg.
In 1070, the counts of Comburg-Rothenburg, who also owned the village of Gebsattel, built Rothenburg castle on the mountain top high above the River Tauber.
The counts of the Comburg-Rothenburg dynasty died out in 1116. The last count, Count Heinrich, Emperor Heinrich V appointed instead his nephew Konrad von Hohenstaufen as successor to the Comburg-Rothenburg properties.
In 1142, Konrad von Hohenstaufen, who became Konrad III (1138–52), the self-styled King of the Romans, traded a part of the monastery of Neumünster in Würzburg above the village Detwang and built the Stauffer-Castle Rothenburg on this cheaper land. He held court there and appointed officials called 'reeves' to act as caretakers.
In 1170, the city of Rothenburg was founded at the time of the building of Staufer Castle. The centre was the marketplace and St. James' Church (in German: the St. Jakob). The development of the oldest fortification can be seen, the old cellar/old moat and the milk market. Walls and towers were built in the 13th century. Preserved are the “White Tower” and the Markus Tower with the Röder Arch.
From 1194 to 1254, the representatives of the Staufer dynasty governed the area around Rothenburg. Around this time, the Order of St. John and other orders were founded near St. James' Church and a Dominican nunnery (1258).
From 1241 to 1242, the Staufer Imperial tax statistics recorded the names of the Jews in Rothenburg. Rabbi Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenburg (died 1293, buried 1307 in Worms) had a great reputation as a jurist in Europe. His descendants include members of the dynastic family von Rothberg, noteworthy in that they were accorded noble status in the 19th century, becoming the hereditary counts of Rothenburg (Rothberg), later taking up residence in the city of Berlin, where they were well known as jewelers until the 1930s. Most members of the family were arrested and interred by the Nazis and are presumed to have been killed during the Second World War. Several of the von Rothbergs were laid to rest in a crypt located in the Weißensee Cemetery, while two members emigrated to the United States during the Second World War: Elsa von Rothenburg (1893-1993) and Hans Joaquin Albert Andreas von Rothenburg, (1913-1972). The family is survived by its last living descendant, Andrew Sandilands Graf von Rothberg, 9th Count of Rothenburg (b. 1972), who resides in the United States.
In 1274, Rothenburg was accorded privileges by King Rudolf of Habsburg as a Free Imperial City. Three famous fairs were established in the city and in the following centuries, the city expanded. The citizens of the city and the Knights of the Hinterland build the Franziskaner (Franciscan) Monastery and the Holy Ghost Hospital (1376/78 incorporated into the city walls). The German Order began the building of St. James' Church, which the citizens have used since 1336. The Heilig Blut (Holy Blood) pilgrimage attracted many pilgrims to Rothenburg, at the time one of the 20 largest cities of the Holy Roman Empire. The population was around 5,500 people within the city walls and another 14,000 in the 150 square miles (390 km2) of surrounding territory.
The Staufer Castle was destroyed by an earthquake in 1356, the St. Blaise chapel is the last remnant today.
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(POLISH) A disturbing truth of indifference (Part 1 of 2)
World War Two and people with power and the lack of bravery...
E. Richard Kuran (83)is a close friend of mine. He is Polish, but have
lived in Norway since after World War Two.
During the war he was part of an underground movement that saved Jewish
children out of the ghetto by smuggling them, and keeping them at home
before sending them abroad to safer land. During the war you got a head
shot without questioning for just giving a piece of bread to a Jewish
person.
Richard asked me to also mention his friend, Karol Danzinger - who he
worked with to help the Jewish children escape the certain death!
During the war Richard was arrested 10 times and also sentenced to
death. He was lucky, and got help escaping, and we should all listen to
what he has to say.
With heroic people like Richard and Karol, there will always be hope
even in the darkest of times.
That is... if people with power don't pull back...
Thank all of you who helped me make this video!
Thank you Richard for never giving up the important work against
indifference!
Thank you Mediefabrikken for lending me equipment for free and a
cameraman, and for letting me use your editing rooms!
Thank you Thomas for taking the time to operate the camera!
Thanks Richard and Mariusz for translating to Polish!
A disturbing truth of indifference is subtitled in English, Polish and
Norwegian.
Thanks for watching!!
~ Dan Henry
Village Frankfurt Making of video
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Wings Of Desire - Wim Wenders 1987
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
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Herbert Marcuse (; German: [maɐ̯ˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the universities of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, historical materialism and entertainment culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the book Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958). After his studies, in the 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany, France, and the United States; some consider him the father of the New Left.His best known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally. He viewed the integration of Eros and Logos to be the liberation of society.