Title: Ich besaß einen Garten in Schoeneiche bei Berlin
Subtitle: Das verwaltete Verschwinden jüdischer Nachbarn und ihre schwierige Rückkehr
First published: 2006
Description: Ich besaß einen Garten in Schöneiche bei Berlin. Das verwaltete Verschwinden jüdischer Nachbarn und ihre schwierige Rückkehr [I owned a garden in Schoeneiche near Berlin. The organized disappearance of Jewish neighbours and their difficult return]
280 pages, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/New York 2006.
In 1933, 170 of the 5 000 residents of the village of Schöneiche near Berlin were Jewish. A few years later the Jewish neighbours had vanished, and other people had moved into their homes. Did this go unnoticed? Who organized the disappearance of these people, and what happened to their furniture, their bicycles, and their household goods?
The bureaucratic network organizing the expropriation and robbery stretched from the mayor, the district administrator, and the district council through to the regional president, from the second-hand shop owner and the removal company to the purchasers and the new occupants.
Subjects: History, Jews, Jewish property, Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Confiscations, OUR Brockhaus selection, History of Germany
Places: Germany, Berlin, Schoeneiche bei Berlin, Shanghai, Bolivia, England, France
People: Samuel Breslauer, Julius Goldstein, Cecilie Rudnik
Time periods: 20th century, 1933-1945, 1900-2005
LC classification: DS135.G4 B47235 2006