Residences of deported Jews in Tübingen

  The district archive of Tübingen has entered the residential addresses of people who were murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp in the official city map of the university town of Tübingen from 1927. The deportation route of some of the 13 Tübingen residents mentioned here first led to a collection camp on the Killesberg in Stuttgart, from there by…

Terezin/Theresienstadt: Cultural life in the showcase concentration camp?!

  On 22 August 1942, a Reichsbahn train left Stuttgart’s Nordbahnhof station. In it, the German Reichsbahn transported over 1380 mostly elderly Jews from Württemberg, Hohenzollern and Baden to the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto. The fortified town from the time when it belonged to the Habsburg Empire is now in the Czech Republic. In November 1941, the German administration set up…

Ghetto money: a deceptive appearance

  Juliette Eckstein with Wolfgang Sannwald The Tübingen District Archives recently acquired a banknote for 50 kroner in antiquarian form. With this object, it documents living conditions in the ghetto concentration camp, which was particularly important for the district of Tübingen. Theresienstadt was the destination for most of the Jews who were deported from the district to the Holocaust. The…

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