This book is a meticulously researched family history on the German-Jewish experience in the rural area of southwestern Germany, an area traditionally known as the Kraichgau, in what was once the principality of Baden, now a part of the State of Baden-Württemberg. It is an account of Landjuden (small-town Jews) whose livelihood as horse, cattle, and feed brokers depended upon the needs of the surrounding gentile farming communities. Their life as Schutzjuden (protected Jews) is recorded from the period of the Thirty Years' War to their achieving emancipation in the early 19th century, and shown as loyal subjects of imperial Germany in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century. The impact of Nazism on this family is revealed through the life experience of the author including his immediate family's immigration to the U.S. in 1937, and the ultimate fate of his closest relatives on Kristallnacht and subsequent deportations to the death camps beginning in 1940. Archival records, family photographs and documents provide the basis for the story told in this book.

Included is a CD-ROM in GEDCOM format containing information about more than 30,000 individuals.

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