Kristallnacht 1938

During my Salt Lake City trip, one thing did fall out.  Again, the holocaust, where I'm not looking.  But, this day, I was looking.  And so was my helper Elder.  Looking for Julius Zimmern who eventually emigrated to Buffalo (how?  how?)

We found him as part of a 1938 deportation to Dachau.  From Schmeihiem in Baden (part of Germany next to France).  I t wasn't until I got home that I realized it was part of Kristallnacht.  He was a 39 year old teacher, married with a young son (Herbert).  He would have been my grandfather's cousin's son in law.  He was part of a group of 103 men rounded up from several towns after the burning of the synagogue in Kippenheim.

This picture was from Baden Baden about 70 miles away.  Same thing, Jewish men rounded up, marched through the streets and then sent to Dachau.  This is near the 'beginning' so notice that the men have overcoats and look pretty good.  Most of the men were NOT killed at Dachau but stayed several weeks.  I don't know what happened there.  The men were humiliated and made to wear parts of the torah scroll around their shoulders.  Terrible.

Of the 103 men who were rounded up around Julius' town, 41 died as formal parts of the Holocaust according to Vad Yashen.  But there were plenty of other ways to died for Jews in Hitler's Germany.

I don't know how Julius and his family got out,  Anybody, look for the son Herbert Zimmern who would be in his 80s.  I want to find him.  There is an older Herbert Zimmern in Green Bay.  Wrong guy.