Documentation of the experiences of the Bloch, Geismar, Levinger, and Veit family of Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust

Documentation of the experiences of the Bloch, Geismar, Levinger, and Veit family of Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust - memoirs of Erich Bloch, born in Konstanz in 1897 (immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 and re-immigrated to Germany in the late 1960s), recorded orally in the course of interviews with him by Werner Trappand Gert Zang in Konstanz in 1980–1981. The book, "Das verlorene Paradies. Ein Leben am Bodensee 1897–1939," arranged and edited by Werner Trapp, was published in 1992 (kept in the Yad Vashem library) and translated into Hebrew by Elisha Avshalom in 2006; - experiences of Emanuel Levinger, his wife Helene (Geismar) Levinger, and their children, written by Iris Galili: Life in Konstanz; Emanuel Levinger's business destroyed pursuant to an insulting article in "Der Stürmer" in 1933; moving to Horn; managing a farm in Horn in 1933–1939; training Jews dismissed from their jobs for farm labor; organizing summer camps for Jewish children; pogrom by SA men on Horn's farm in November 1938; leaving for England in 1939; spending the war in London; moving to the United States; Emanuel dies in 1949; Helene immigrates to Israel in 1950; Helene dies in 1973; - Iris Galili speech on the occasion of installing Stolpersteins in Konstanz in memory of Robert Veit and his wife, Leonore (Lorle) (Bloch) Veit, who were forced to emigrate to Brazil in 1933. Submitter's remarks: Erich Bloch and his wife, Liesel (Geismar) Bloch, immigrated to Eretz Israel from Germany in October 1939 with their three children: Chava (Eva), Elisheva (Elisabeth, the submitter's mother), and Michael. Erich worked for a publishing house and lectured at the Polytechnikum in Konstanz. After the Nazis rose to power, he was fired, moved to Horn together with this parents and his wife, and established a farm where he hired Jews who had been dismissed from their jobs, in hopes of studying agriculture before immigrating to Eretz Israel. Erich's half-sister, Heidi, suffered from cerebral palsy and remained in Germany, where she was murdered. Most members of the extended family managed to emigrate from Germany in 1933–1939 to the United States, the UK, and Brazil.