The chronological story of the Baruch family from Hamburg during WW2, and extras.

• 2006 – 2014

  Prologue: It all began with a picture

• 1900

  A generation is born

• 1926

  The house in Hamm

• 1933, 1935

  The lost war letters at the Heinrich Hertz school

• 1936

  Rolf moves to Hachshara Ahrensdorf – the German Hachshara camps

• 1936

  Helga and Bernard getting married and fleeing to Eretz Israel

• 1936

  Marion Baruch – Eine Seefahrt die ist lustig – The Lost Book

• 1936

  Irma, mother dies. About her and aunt Betty, and her son who died in the war of independence

• 1937

  The last home as free people

• 10.5.1938

  Rolli writes to Hamburg from Hachshara Ahrensdorf

• 26.5.1938

  Rolli writes to Hamburg from Hachshara Ahrensdorf #2

• 6.6.1938

  Rolli writes to his sister in Tel-Aviv from Hachshara Ahrensdorf

• 23.7.1938

  We only know one goal: A Jewish State! – Rolli writes from Hachshara Ahrensdorf

• 10.11.1938

  Kristallnacht In Hamburg

• 28.11.1938

  “Help! only you can help father!” The dramatic telegrams

• 15.12.1938

  The letter from after-Kristallnacht-Hamburg: Rolli writs from home

• 20.12.1938

  “I am back” – Georg writes to Helga

• 20.12.1938

  “I always looking for hopeless things in men” Marion and the failed Amsterdam path

• 20.1.1939

  Georg writes from Hamburg to Palestina

• 1939

  War breaks, the family is forced into the “Jew house”

• 1939

  Marion’s last attempt to escape

• 1941

  Hachshara Neuendorf – the last youth Hachshara in Germany

• 8.11.1941

  The deportation from Hamburg: “Tomorrow Marion and I are going from Hamburg”

• 1941

  “Father and Marion are moving to Minsk, no address for letters”

• 1941

  Georg Baruch

• 1942

  Rolli and Walli Hirschfeld are getting married

• 1943

  Marion Baruch’s murder

• 1943

  The last letter

• 1943

  Rolf Baruch in Auschwitz

• 1945

  The Death of Rolf Baruch – an End to a Family

Oh can you see? and who will kiss me? – the short life of Marion Baruch

The Lost ex-librīs Library in Stutgart

The Lost ex-librīs of Bremen and the Restitution of the WW2 Stolen Books

The murder of Marion Baruch

Georg Baruch

Marion Baruch

Walli Hirschfeld