Schwab family hanau_presentation - v2

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Hanau, May 31 st , 2010 Schwab Family

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This is a presentation describing the Schwab Family History in Hanau and Daniel and Ricci's trip back to Hanau 68 years after the first train transporting Jews from Hanau to the gas chambers.

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Hanau, May 31st, 2010

Schwab Family

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Schwab Family Tree

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Arrival in Hanau

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15 Generations

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Great Great Grand Parents

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Discovery of the Letters

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Excerpts from Letters

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Red Cross Letters

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Red Cross Letters

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Ancestors Schwab

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Stamp Collection

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Certificate for Bravery

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Hausmann Shop in Worms

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Rudolph (Ralph) Schwab

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Happy Family Photo at Table

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Deportation

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Destroyed House

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Schwab Family Holocaust Era

Out of 20 family members living in

Hanau between 1933 and 1939:

11 murdered

9 escaped

Countries fled:

China, USA, Canada, France, Brazil, Argenti

na, Belgium, Holland, South Africa

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Murdered

Max Schwab

Martha Schwab

Hans Ferdinand Schwab

Helen Schwab

Erna Schwab

Johanna Hausmann

Jettchen Fleischmann

Adolf Fleischmann

Alice Frank

Oskar Frank

Lotte Frank

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Invitation from Mayor

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Survivors and Descendents

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A Survivor – Levi Story

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Hans Ferdinand

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Hanau Jewish Cemetery

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Schwab Ancestors

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Lechaim – To Life

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Survivors

Rudolf Erwin Alexander Schwab

Rosa Schwab

Kaufmann Alexander Schwab

Armand Demuth, Montreal Quebec

Alfons (son of Helene and Jonas) Demuth

Ella, sister of Martha Schwab/Hausman

Irene Hoexter

Gustav Fleischmann

Toni Koch

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Famous Jews from Hanau

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Ernest Fleischmann – (cousin of Rudolph Schwab) One of the most successful

orchestra managers in the world, had left Frankfurt at age 12 when his parents fled from Adolf Hitler to settle in Cape Town.

General director by the London Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Elizabeth Schmitz

In 1935, Elizabeth Schmitz authored an anonymous call to Christian conscience about the church’s responsibility to the Jews.

Schmitz insisted: “We must, as Christians,” she declared, “act for all the Jews as much as is our possibility.”

http://vimeo.com/3325702

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Visit to Hanau May 2010

Levi, Fischer Marum

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School Presentation

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Rabbi and Priest

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Website and Contact Details

www.theforgottenletters.org

http://theforgottenletters.org/gallery/

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