Recently, I uncovered a collection of DVDs. Originally thought to be a stack of blank discs, together with my technology consultant — Tyler Brandt his website is www. I wrote about that trip here , and that blog now includes a lot of the photos recovered from these DVDs. Alongside those photos were a collection of audio interviews I conducted with various Germans regarding history, the Shoah, my family, and the Jewish people of Germany—now only a memory or a page in the history book.
To view these interviews alongside some earlier audio recordings of conversations with my family, visit the new and growing Audio Interviews page. Thank you. Now, the couple has embarked on a new matchmaking project: finding homes for German-Hebrew prayer books in synagogues in Germany. For the past several years, Schoen, whose customers range from academics to rabbis, has been sending books to Rabbi Mordechai Przybilski in Paderborn, Germany. The rabbi has been distributing the books to people in his community.
He sent the community 30 Chumashim and prayer books. Schoen already has sent about books to Germany. Now we have a way to bring them back to life. My father, Irving, left his hometown of Vacha in Part of my motivation is to honor my parents. Another part is to help fellow Jews in Germany.
Schoen and Trigere are hoping to find other communities in Germany looking for German-Hebrew and Russian-Hebrew prayer books.
They welcome information from anyone who may know about a community who would like to receive books. So there has been some kind of reconnection. The booksellers specialize in out-of-print, scholarly and antiquarian books in the following fields: Judaica in all languages, exile and refugee writers, the Holocaust, Germany, fascism, World War II, Zionism and psychoanalysis. They also stock and order new titles. Catalogs of recent acquisitions are produced at monthly intervals and sent around the world by mail and via the Internet.
