Jüdisches Landleben in Windecken, Ostheim und Heldenbergen
Traces the history of Jewish families in the town Windecken and two adjacent villages, all three now consolidated in the town Nidderau (Hesse). Documents persecutions and expulsions in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Notes that the citizens of Windecken opposed the antisemitic wave of the late 19th century; in 1891 Social Democrats, together with Jews, stormed a meeting of the antisemitic agitator Böckel, prevented him from speaking, and almost lynched him. Nazism took root with difficulty because of socialist and Catholic opposition. Describes in detail Nazi anti-Jewish measures as they affected each family, the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, emigration, and deportation. Deportations took place from Frankfurt, to which most of the families had already moved. Gives a detailed history of every family and its fate in the Holocaust. Includes many photographs, facsimiles of documents, and reminiscences by Jews themselves and by their friends and neighbors. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, German, 1994
CoCon Verlag, Hanau, 1994