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TF–23 Escape from Germany The first to leave were the young adults with an education. They had prospects of work, especially in the United States. However, visas were subject to

TF–22 Stigmatization, Deprivation of Rights, Robbery In August 1933, Die Stimme, a Jewish newspaper from Vienna, reported with a slightly amused undertone about the “chutzpah” of Siegbert Mann from Lorsch,

TF–21 „May God grant victory to the all too righteous German cause.“ Lorsch Jews in the First World War On September 29, 1914, the merchant Abraham Abraham sent a package

TF–20 From Suit Cloth to Goatskin: Offers from Jewish Merchants The rural Jews were slow to free themselves from the old occupational restrictions. They remained faithful to the division of

TF–19 The Starkenburg Chevra Kadisha and the Jewish Union Cemetery in Alsbach The Electoral Mainzian Oberamt Starkenburg was an exclave. The nearest Jewish cemetery was in Alsbach, on Hessian-Darmstadt territory.

TF–18 Simon Lorch: builder of the synagogue In the second half of the 19th century the Lorchs took over the predominance among the Lorsch Jewish families from the Mainzers, many

TF–17 7 generations – 250 years: the Mainzer family Naftali ben Salomo, called Hirz Menz, came to Lorsch at the end of the 17th century, probably from Mainz. With his

TF–16 The Synagogicum of the Land Jews in Kurmainz The Church State of Mainz was a fractured territory around monasteries and convents acquired in the medieval period with the centers

TF–15 From Nathan the Wise to the Imperial Constitution. The long road to equality. “Grandfather attended a performance of Lessing’s ‘Nathan the Wise’ in 1855. This work, in which such

TF–14 „…the same should apply to the Jews as is decreed and legislated with respect to Christians.“ Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal was the first German duke to initiate the

TF–13 The Memor Book of the Lorsch Jews The collections of Berthold Rosenthal are a stroke of luck. After the Mannheim teacher was forced into retirement by the Nazis in

TF–12 The Lorsch Building in New York “My father had cigar factories in Mannheim, and also in Lorsch and Heppenheim, and at times employed more than a thousand people.” So