Kirchenstrasse, by any chance?

I think they always have this phrase, but will see if I can find time to look into the location further.

Gilly - thanks, as always - your posts from these trips and your thoughts about them are always fascinating and I value them.

Deported 6 December 1941

A close-up of Clara Vogel’s stolpersteine

Hard to read the names but I looked up Clara Vogel.

Deported to Riga ghetto - like my dad’s uncle Fedor from Düsseldorf, in fact. Around the same time.

(And my apologies if my tone is wrong - the explanation above is meant for anyone reading this who might not know how decisions are made about where to place stolpersteine. I had no idea until I was at a Düsseldorf archive, and one of the Stolpersteine team happened to be there and told me about it)

Id be interested to know the story. Usually they’re laid at the last home address not a ‘Judenhaus’

But in Düsseldorf, where my dad’s uncle had his own home is now a huge bank. They don’t allow Stolperst. outside, so it would’ve had to be outside the deportation house

Wonder if it’s similar here

Oh my - I must look up how long the exhibition is on for.

Crazy busy just now, so almost certainly can’t make it. I wonder where it’s going next.

I visited #BullenhauserDamm this morning, a subcamp of @neuengamme-mem.bsky.social, a site of forced labour and of the murder of 20 children who had been medically experimented upon. The ‘doctor’ who killed the kids continued to practice after the war, producing his ‘scientific notes’ at his trial.

Glad I’m not in Cuba this week.

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It is almost like the Trump administration has no idea what it is doing, beyond enriching itself of course…

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Hard agree.

If I never hear the word ’deal’ again in a political context it’ll be too soon.

Watching my pension go up.

Watching my pension go down.

Watching my pension go up.

Watching my pension go down.

Watching my pension go up.

Watching my pension go down.

What a pointless waste of everyone’s time and resources this is.

Go for it…

So many people are so awful.

😢

Most wives, children, parents, grandparents were killed in the Holocaust.

A few families were fortunate to get mum out on a domestic service visa, dad to Kitchener, and child on Kindertransport, but most were unable in the end to save their families.

The Wiener Holocaust Library has a postwar list of 600+ Kitchener children they had tried to rescue, without success

The Kitchener rescue was specifically set up to get these men out of the camps and they then would move on to a third country and bring out their families after them.

As you know, most countries wouldn’t take more refugees, so it was complex and traumatic.

The men had mostly been imprisoned in concentration camps in the Nov 38 (‘Kristallnacht’) round ups (around 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested). To get release they had to pay a fine and commit to leave the country within 2 weeks.

100s died or killed over these months in the camps.

As with most migration narratives, the men left first, with the expectation they would move on to a third country (they weren’t supposed to stay in the UK, as a condition of their visa), find work, bring their families out. The start of war meant this migration onwards happened for a few 100 only

There is a narrative that they were largely single, working class men - a narrative that oversimplifies the reality when we started to get more accurate data from records for the Kitchener Camp Project. In fact there were married men with children and a real mix of trades, training, and professions

So a good book on this - very readable - written by Prof Clare Ungerson, a Sandwich resident in retirement - ‘Four Thousand Lives: The Rescue of German Jewish Men to Britain, 1939’

I’ve got a journey to do later today, so will come back to you then, if I may ☺️

Any thoughts on ‘where’, Diana, please?

I do have copies of everything - good suggestion - I did that when I was putting From Numbers to Names together for the family.

I just haven’t been able to take the last step.

It’s such a trust thing.

I fell asleep sitting up at the table again the other day - about 6pm.

I’m turning into my gran, but way too soon.

Now I have to face my hardest death-cleaning decision: what - finally - to do with my father’s family / Holocaust materials.

To retain longer; or donate.

Still dithering. Lots of our things have to go into storage for a while (renting before buying), so I need to decide & have no idea how.

We’re (hopefully) downsizing again this year.

We moved out of the family home into the home of my in-laws when they were ill and dying, and stayed on to stabilise the place.

Then we had further family deaths - so it’s been a hard few years since the process began in 2020… What a year that was.

Can relate! Hope she finds it helpful.

We’re clearing things out for another downsizing ahead (if the house sells).

It’s hard, but feels good when done.

I regard what I’m doing as ‘death cleaning’ & it helps me focus on what matters to me - what I actively want to take forwards with me.

Forget-me-knots have taken over a flower bed, as they always do for a few weeks, and are being exceptionally cute about it. Photos show small blue and pink flowers in what passes for sunlight in April.

Here’s some weeds being frivolous instead

Mood