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"There’s nobody left". Anti-Semitic exclusion and persecution in Rauischholzhausen, 1933-1942
(2018)
"I just can’t go back there. [...] I [would] like to go once more to Holzhausen, to the cemetery, and to Kirchhain. I want to see, but ... there’s nobody left." – Martin Spier, New York City 2009.
The people no longer left there are the Jewish residents of Rauischholzhausen. They were persecuted and deprived of their rights, then expelled and murdered. At the same time, the history of Jewish life in this village goes a long way back, as does the antisemitism there. In 1933, the village still had 20 Jewish residents.
On September 6, 1942, the last 18 Jewish individuals from Rauischholzhausen and the surrounding areas were forced onto lorries at the village square and transported from there to Theresienstadt. Three of them survived the Holocaust, returning to the village in 1945.
This book is the result of searching for those who are missing and the reasons for their absence. It is the result of an extensive search in archives and conversations with contemporary witnesses from the village. Yet, in particular, it is the result of conversations with four Jewish survivors, the siblings of the Spier family. On the basis of their memories, this book attempts to describe those years between 1933 and 1942—years that beggar description. It presents a history of events in Rauischholzhausen that developed their own dynamic and that in many respects preempted the state’s policies of exclusion and persecution.
"Phantasie der Bürokratie“. Raul Hilbergs Pionierstudie zur Vernichtung der europäischen Juden
(2011)
Es sei, so erinnerte sich Raul Hilberg Anfang der 1990er-Jahre in einer kurzen Skizze und Vorarbeit zu seinen Memoiren, am Tag nach Pearl Harbor gewesen, dem 8. Dezember des Jahres 1941, als der 15-Jährige von einem Lehrer seiner Mittelschule in Brooklyn erstmals als „Historiker” angesprochen worden sei. Kurz nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges, als er sein Studium beendet hatte, wählte er aber Politikwissenschaft statt Geschichte zum Fach seines Hauptinteresses, denn er wollte über die Vernichtung der Juden schreiben – und „der Holocaust war für mich Gegenwart”. (...)
Wiederveröffentlichung von: Nicolas Berg, „Phantasie der Bürokratie“. Raul Hilbergs Pionierstudie zur Vernichtung der europäischen Juden, in: Jürgen Danyel/Jan-Holger Kirsch/Martin Sabrow (Hrsg.), 50 Klassiker der Zeitgeschichte, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, S. 71-75