The History Workshop in the Jakob Grimm Schule Rotenburg a.d.F.
 
The History Workshop of the Jakob Grimm Schule in Rotenburg an der Fulda, which was opened in May 2002, is a permanent exhibition of former Jewish life in the township of Rotenburg and the vicinity. First of all, the History Workshop is meant as a place for the students of the Jakob Grimm Schule to remember the life and fate of the Jewish people and their importance for the history of the town and the region. However, there are also opportunities for the general public to visit the workshop.
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Fictitious Diary of the Jewish Oak
    The “Tagebuch der Judeneiche”, The Fictitious Diary of the Jewish Oak, is the award-winning contribution of the workgroup “AG Spurensuche” for the 2002 competition (The Tree as Companion of Man) of the Youth Prize Foundation of the Hessische Akademie, the academy for research and development in rural areas. The readers learn about the peaceful living together of Jewish and Christian village people, but also about envy, jealousy, hatred, and persecution. The jury “particularly appreciated the sensitive description of the meaning of a tree for the fate of a Jewish community in the course of history as the result of an intensive securing of evidence and reflecting on it at a high level”.
The presentation you find here is especially made for the internet.
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Crystal Night in Hersfeld
    The reconstruction of the events in November 1938 in (Bad) Hersfeld is the result of extensive witness accounts and systematic research in archives. However, it is not meant to be a documentary reconstruction in the original sense of the word.
 
The sound-and-slide show “Reichskristallnacht in Hersfeld”, crystal night in Hersfeld, is based on the project of the art teacher Ulrich Fischer.  
 
 
Baumbach - Virtual Tour
   
Jewish Life in Baumbach – A Virtual Tour
The virtual tour of “Jewish Life in Baumbach” takes you to the sites of the former Jewish community and the places of residence of Jewish families once living in Alheim-Baumbach.
Texts, documents, drawings, photos and video clips present a graphic idea of two centuries of Jewish life and its destruction in a village in central Germany. The virtual tour of Jewish Baumbach was especially made for the 1000th anniversary of Baumbach in 2003.
The CD ROM version is on sale in bookshops (ISBN 3-933734-06-1) or direct via www. ag-spurensuche.de
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Burghaun - Tracks of Jewish Life
"Following the Tracks of Jewish Life in Burghaun. A Work of Remembrance"Based on research by Elisabeth Steinberg this module presents an overview of local Jewish history and tradition. In detail you get to know the Strauss clan. The project was originally made for American pedagogues who were very impressed when they were learning about this aspect of German-Jewish history.
Frederick M. Browning (New York) was born as Manfred Braunschweiger in Burghaun, Germany, in 1919. Over the years he has paid a number of visits to his home town and the graves of his father David and his grandparents Braunschweiger on the Jewish cemetery of Burghaun. His amazing life-story is presented here as a separate module conceived and worked out by Elisabeth Sternberg-Siebert.
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Niederaula - Fictitious Diary of Marga Levi
 
The Fictitious Diary of Marga Levi
Marga Levi, born 1927 in Gemünden on the Wohra, lived with her grandparents in Niederaula as a foster child. Marga was last seen in the ghetto of Riga in 1943, she was then murdered in one of the concentration camps. Scared to death in the "Crystal Night" of November 1938 she jumped off from the balcony of her grandparents´ restaurant. The video presentation is based on the fictitious diary of Marga Levi written by Daniela Eckstein.

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Rhina Rhina Rhina
Jakob Nussbaum – an (almost) forgotten painter from Rhina
The module deals with the life and work of the painter Jakob Nussbaum (1873- 1936) who was born in Haunetal-Rhina in 1873 but no longer had any place in Germany from 1933.
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In a fictitious diary the so-called Jewish Oak in the bounds of Niederaula-Kerspenhausen recalls the memory of the Jews of Rhina. The book version is on sale in bookshops (ISBN 3-933734-07-X) or direct via
www. ag-spurensuche.de
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Abraham Frank (Jerusalem), History of the Jews of Rhina
In his thesis on Rhina the author made use of original Hebrew sources enabling him to show aspects of inner-Jewish life.

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Rotenburg a.d. Fulda
The Jewish Cemetery of Rotenburg
(oldest tombstone of 1743)

A virtual tour with information on individual graves and Jewish burial customs and photos of all 346 gravestones.

Jewish Life in Rotenburg a.d. Fulda
A virtual tour
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Judaica History Workshop
In the attic of the Jakob Grimm Schule.
For visits contact 06623-8075 or 06623-2482
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