contemporary history - DE 1933-1945

Produktdetails

Verlag

CARL LAEMMLE PRESS Laupheim

Erschienen

2018

Sprache

English

Infos

ab 8 Jahre

ISBN

978-3-9818444-8-1

Kurztext / Annotation

My meeting with Sophie Nördlinger G. Bayer In the following few words, I would like to relay my meeting with the last, Jewish owner of the inn Die Ochsen (The Oxen) in 1989 in New York. Sophie Nördlinger knew Carl Laemmle personally from Laupheim and thus piqued our interest for our research on Carl Laemmle..Sophie Nödlinger, née Sänger, was born on April 4th, 1989 as the only child of Albert (? 1929) and Klara Sänger (née Einstein, 1865-1942). Sophie Nördlinger's grandfather, Benjamin Sänger, bought the Ochsen , known today as Zum Rothen Ochsen (To the Red Ox), in 1860. The building was built around the beginning of the 19th century.In an age without television, radio and internet, the Jewish inn was a pivotal location for the small city of Laupheim's cultural and communal life into the 1930. It was a first-class house, as one can see in a comical advertisement by the choir group Frohsinn published in 1914. The popular inn had more to offer than just a kitchen and its specialty 'sour tripe'. For wedding and Purim parties, however, the larger Jewish inn Zum Kronprinzen (To the Crown Prince) was more popular. The reader familiar with the inn today, Zum Rothen Ochsen , may find the list of the many rooms amusing, even if the authors of the article meant to highlight this ironically. The painful fate of the emigrants Between 1987 and 2003, and together with my husband, Udo Bay- er, who passed away in 2015, I met a number of Jewish Americans of German descent, both in the US as well as here in Laupheim, all of whom were connected by their shared fate: due to the barbaric Nazi terror of the Hitler era, they were forced to find a new home- land. In the Hitler era, Jewish lives mattered little. Thus, as these emigrants saw it, they had survived by chance. Yet, when we met them, we sensed how much these events still pained them inside like a thorn. Many had long repressed their painful experiences. For some, it was the first time that they had opened themselves up to Germans of today's generation. Faltering, they relayed what they experienced and their flight in these terri- ble times. They were very thankful that we listened. Burned into the memory of the survivors were both the incredibly emotional events and, just as much so, their happy childhood memories from their city of birth. ...

Born 1950, lives in Laupheim, a town in Southern Germany, Sophie`s and Carl´s birthplace. She has become author and editor since her retirement as teacher. For more than 30 years she has had contacts with Jewish families. Her late husband, Udo Bayer, published his most important essay on his research on Laemmle documents from the National Archives in Washington DC, in 1998. "Laemmle´s List" - Affidavits Save Lives was republished by his widow in the commemorative year for Carl Laemmle´s 150th anniversary, in 2017 as e-book in German and English.

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...Sophie then presented us with a letter Carl Laemmle had writ- ten in English dated September 7th, 1939, in which he encouraged his family with his unbelievable vigor. Laemmle knew how per- sistent and life-loving Laupheim's business owners were. At the same time, he had experienced how they once had to leave their beloved hometown, their souls broken. In this letter, Laemm- le writes that 'this is strictly confidential'. There is reason to believe that, with his letter, Carl wanted to provide a necessary impulse, wanted to help people help themselves and help acquain- tances escape. Once again, Carl showed his humble character, remaining in the background as he helped....

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