The sweep of family history across the generations
In 1898, Paechter’s Kaufhaus in Tiegenhof came under repeated anti-Semitic arson attacks.
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
Helga's second cousin suffered unimaginable traumas in and around Krakow from 1939 to 1945. She survived and gave testimony later in life
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Our Paechter family prospered in the Vistula delta town of Tiegenhof. But their roots probably go back further in west Pomerania.
In 1907, Moritz Feidt built a department store in Berlin Stieglitz. It still stands today