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Legacy: The Saga of a German-Jewish Family Across Time and Circumstance
by Werner L. Frank
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.
8½" x 11" 926pp. hardcover
$49.00 |

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