\u00a0 <\/span>surrounded by an angry mob. No one survives.<\/p>\nDeliver us from evil.<\/p>\n
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Jewish Interpretation Center, Seville | Source: WorldJewishTravel.org<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#000000″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” custom_padding=”||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
It is 1477 and we try to live quietly, hiding among <\/span>our neighbors, in Seville. On 6 February 1481 six Jews are burned alive. The Inquisition begins.<\/p>\nDeliver us from evil.<\/p>\n
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Map of Strasburg, from 1887 to 1920 | Source: Richard Andree<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”38px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#000000″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” custom_padding=”||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
My father, Markus Zack, was born on 24 September 1878, in Strasburg\/Brodnica, then a part of Prussia.<\/p>\n
Why did he leave his home, his family and travel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nas\u00a0 <\/span>far west as he could and still live in the Prussian Empire?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBetween 1886 and\u00a0 <\/span>1910 Strasburg\/Brodnica receives railway connections.<\/p>\nAt the end of World War 1, in 1918, Strasburg\/Brodnica becomes part of Poland and attacks on the Jewish community <\/span>increase, that contagious disease spilling over from violent riots, pogroms in the Russian Empire.<\/p>\nAnd my father joins the exodus <\/span>to Germany.<\/p>\nMarkus Zack settles in the Eifel, Germany, close to the Belgian border, marries Amalie Schneider and enjoys life as a member of the small Jewish community\u00a0 <\/span>an established businessman.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.19.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/nx1sam.infiniteuploads.cloud\/2024\/06\/Gemund-a-Luftkurort.jpg” title_text=”Gem\u00fcnd a Luftkurort” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Gem\u00fcnd, a Luftkurort (A Respiratory Health Resort) | Postcard from 1930\u2019s<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text quote_border_color=”#000000″ _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” custom_padding=”||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
By the time I was born in 1932, he is a respected, local citizen.<\/p>\n
Six years later our peaceful life is shattered.<\/p>\n
On\u00a0 <\/span>Kristallnacht, November, 9-10, 1938 our synagogue is burned, Jewish shops are vandalized, <\/span>we are driven out of Gem\u00fcnd, our little home town.<\/p>\nA month before World War 2 begins I escape to England, via the Kindertransport but my parents\u2026<\/p>\n
they have Stolpersteine laid in the pavement before our former home\u2026<\/p>\n
Deliver us from evil.<\/p>\n
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Stolpersteine in Gem\u00fcnd for my parents 2017<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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