This post allows readers to quickly retrieve all previous Blog publications, and easily see which ones I’ve written postscripts to based on newly acquired information.
“Jetpack,” a plug-in for the WordPress software package I use for my website, tracks the number of “All-time views” and tells me which posts are the most popular. It is clear readers are most interested in first-hand accounts, letters, and diaries of the people and tragic historical events I write about. Equally compelling to readers seem to be stories where I’ve worked out the fate of people my father and ancestors were acquainted with, or managed to locate their descendants. As readers can imagine, first-hand accounts are hard to come by because few exist, or they were destroyed during the war. Regardless, because most are handwritten in hard-to-decipher German, which I don’t speak or read, I rely on a network of relatives and friends for translations and interpretations; I am most grateful for their generous assistance.
As previously explained to readers, my digital “footprint” is intentionally small, so the number of visits to my Blog is correspondingly bounded. However, given the great effort that’s gone into maintaining and expanding the website, I hope by consolidating links in one easy-to-access place, I might remind readers of the wide range of topics I’ve written about and increase the number of “clicks” on my posts.
POST 1: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: THE BEGINNING (July 2017)
POST 2: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: JUERGEN “PETER” LAU (August 2017)
POST 3: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: THE “SCHLUMMERMUTTER” (August 2017)
POST 3, POSTSCRIPT: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: THE “SCHLUMMERMUTTER” (May 2018)
POST 4: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: HANS “MOCHUM” WAGNER (August 2017)
POST 4, POSTSCRIPT: OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: HANS “MOCHUM” WAGNER (June 2018)
POST 5: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: “IDSCHI & SUSE” (August 2017)
POST 6: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: 1932 POCKET CALENDAR (August 2017)
POST 7: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: THE CLUB RUSCHAU (August 2017)
POST 8: DR. OTTO BRUCK & TIEGENHOF: NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARADES (August 2017)
POST 9: TIEGENHOF & RUDOLF DARGATZ (September 2017)
POST 10: TIEGENHOF & THE DIARY OF HEDWIG “HEDSCH” SCHLENGER (September 2017)
POST 11: RATIBOR & BRUCK’S “PRINZ VON PREUßEN“ HOTEL (October 2017)
POST 11, POSTSCRIPT: RATIBOR & BRUCK’S “PRINZ VON PREUßEN” HOTEL (March 2018)
POST 11, POSTSCRIPT 2: RATIBOR & BRUCK’S “PRINZ VON PREUßEN” HOTEL (July 2018)
POST 12: “STATE ARCHIVES IN KATOWICE BRANCH IN RACIBÓRZ (RATIBOR)” (October 2017)
POST 13: THE FORMER JEWISH CEMETERY IN RATIBOR (RACIBÓRZ) (October 2017)
POST 13, POSTSCRIPT: THE FORMER JEWISH CEMETERY IN RATIBOR (RACIBÓRZ) (July 2018)
POST 14: RATIBOR & THE BRAUER (BREWER) M. BRAUN “LINK” TO AMERICA (October 2017)
POST 14, POSTSCRIPT: RATIBOR & THE BRAUER (BREWER) M. BRAUN “LINK” TO AMERICA (March 2018)
POST 15: BERLIN & MY GREAT-AUNTS FRANZISKA & ELSBETH BRUCK (November 2017)
POST 16: TRACKING MY GREAT-AUNT HEDWIG LÖWENSTEIN, NÉE BRUCK, & HER FAMILY THROUGH FIVE COUNTRIES (December 2017)
POST 17: SURVIVING IN BERLIN IN THE TIME OF HITLER: MY UNCLE FEDOR’S STORY (January 2018)
POST 18: REMEMBERING MY GREAT-AUNT CHARLOTTE “LOTTE” BERLINER, NÉE ROTHE, VICTIM OF THE HOLOCAUST (January 2018)
POST 19: “GAME ON!” GERMANY’S 1929 DAVIS CUP TEAM VS. CZECHOSLOVAKIA (January 2018)
POST 20: MY AUNT SUSANNE, NÉE BRUCK, & HER HUSBAND DR. FRANZ MÜLLER, THE BERLIN YEARS (February 2018)
POST 21: MY AUNT SUSANNE, NÉE BRUCK, & HER HUSBAND DR. FRANZ MÜLLER, THE FIESOLE YEARS (February 2018)
POST 22: MY AUNT SUSANNE, NÉE BRUCK, & HER HUSBAND DR. FRANZ MÜLLER, THE FAYENCE YEARS (February 2018)
POST 23: MY AUNT SUSANNE’S FINAL JOURNEY (March 2018)
POST 24: A FEW WORDS WITH READERS (March 2018)
POST 25: DEATH IN THE SHANGHAI GHETTO (March 2018)
POST 26: “APATRIDE” (STATELESS) (March 2018)
POST 27: JEWISH DEPORTATIONS FROM GURS, FRANCE IN 1942 (April 2018)
POST 28: EMMY GOTZMANN, GERMAN POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER (April 2018)
POST 29: TIEGENHOF: UNRAVELLING THE “MYSTERY” OF HEINRICH “HEINZ” REGEHR (April 2018)
POST 30: FAMILY ”PILGRIMAGE” 2018 (July 2018)
POST 31: WITNESS TO HISTORY, “PROOF” OF HITLER’S DEATH IN MY UNCLE FEDOR’S OWN WORDS (July 2018)
POST 32: FINDING GREAT-UNCLE “WILLY” (August 2018)
POST 33: FINDING GREAT-UNCLE WILLY’S GRANDCHILDREN (August 2018)
POST 34: MARGARETH BERLINER, WRAITH OR BEING? (September 2018)
POST 34, POSTSCRIPT: MARGARETH BERLINER, WRAITH OR BEING? DEATH IN THERESIENSTADT (November 2018)
POST 34, POSTSCRIPT 2: MARGARETH BERLINER, WRAITH OR BEING? MORE DISCOVERIES (December 2019)
POST 35: FATE OF SOME JEWISH GUESTS WHO STAYED AT THE VILLA PRIMAVERA (FIESOLE, ITALY), 1937-1938 (September 2018)
POST 36: THE WOINOWITZ ZUCKERFABRIK (SUGAR FACTORY) OUTSIDE RATIBOR (PART I-BACKGROUND) (October 2018)
POST 36, POSTSCRIPT: THE WOINOWITZ ZUCKERFABRIK (SUGAR FACTORY) OUTSIDE RATIBOR (PART I-MAPS) (October 2018)
POST 37: PETER & ILONA MULLER-MUNK’S GREEK SPONSOR CHILD (October 2018)
POST 38: THE EVIDENCE OF MY FATHER’S CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY (November 2018)
POST 39: AN IMPERFECT ANALOGY: FAMILY TREES AND DENDROCHRONOLOGY (November 2018)
POST 40: ELISABETH “LISA” PAULY NÉE KRÜGER, ONE OF MY UNCLE FEDOR’S “SILENT HEROES” (December 2018)
POST 41: DR. OTTO BERGER & OTHER “SILENT HEROES” WHO HELPED MY UNCLE DR. FEDOR BRUCK SURVIVE THE NAZI REGIME (December 2018)
POST 42: “DIE SCHLUMMERMUTTER’S” PARTING GIFT TO MY FATHER, A SIGNET RING (January 2019)
POST 43: HELPING A JEWISH FRIEND UNCOVER HIS GERMAN ROOTS (January 2019)
POST 44: A TROVE OF FAMILY HISTORY FROM THE “PINKUS COLLECTION” AT THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE (January 2019)
POST 45: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE: RECALLING MY PAULY ANCESTORS (February 2019)
POST 46: WARTIME MEMORIES OF MY HALF-JEWISH COUSIN, AGNES STIEDA NÉE VOGEL (March 2019)
POST 47: WHALE-WATCHING IN BAJA CALIFORNIA (March 2019)
POST 48: DR. ERNST NEISSER’S FINAL DAYS IN 1942 IN THE WORDS OF HIS DAUGHTER (March 2019)
POST 49: GUIDE TO THE “LANDESARCHIV BERLIN” (BERLIN STATE ARCHIVE) CIVIL REGISTRY RECORDS (March 2019)
POST 49, POSTSCRIPT: GUIDE TO THE LANDESARCHIV BERLIN (BERLIN STATE ARCHIVE) CIVIL REGISTRY RECORDS: ANSWER TO “THE CHALLENGE” (April 2019)
POST 50: DR. ADOLF GUTTENTAG’S 1942 DIARY (April 2019)