Hanau, May 31st, 2010

Schwab Family

Schwab Family Tree

Arrival in Hanau

14th Generation

Schwab Family Homes

Ancestors Schwab

Certificate for Bravery

Hausmann Shop in Worms

Schwab Brothers

Stamp Collection

Happy Family Photo at Table

Farewell Letter May 1936

Red Cross Letters

Red Cross Letters

Deportation

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, Argentina, 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

Lottee Frank

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

Destroyed House

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.”

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Website and Contact Details

www.theforgottenletters.org

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Daniel.schwab@theforgottenletters.org

Daniel.schwab@kayema.com

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