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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

Schwab Family Tree

Arrival in Hanau

15 Generations

Great Great Grand Parents

Discovery of the Letters

Excerpts from Letters

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Red Cross Letters

Red Cross Letters

Ancestors Schwab

Stamp Collection

Certificate for Bravery

Hausmann Shop in Worms

Rudolph (Ralph) Schwab

Happy Family Photo at Table

Deportation

Destroyed House

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

Murdered

Max Schwab

Martha Schwab

Hans Ferdinand Schwab

Helen Schwab

Erna Schwab

Johanna Hausmann

Jettchen Fleischmann

Adolf Fleischmann

Alice Frank

Oskar Frank

Lotte Frank

Invitation from Mayor

Survivors and Descendents

A Survivor – Levi Story

Hans Ferdinand

Hanau Jewish Cemetery

Schwab Ancestors

Lechaim – To Life

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

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

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

Visit to Hanau May 2010

Levi, Fischer Marum

School Presentation

Rabbi and Priest

Website and Contact Details

www.theforgottenletters.org

http://theforgottenletters.org/gallery/

Daniel.schwab@theforgottenletters.org

Daniel.schwab@kayema.com

+972 544-800 146

+27 72 3344308