Sussen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism

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Map of Baden-Württemberg. (Created by Will Fontanez, University of Tennessee, 2011.) F5756.indb A F5756.indb A 4/30/12 7:49:41 AM 4/30/12 7:49:41 AM Lang memorial in Süssen Stiegelwiesen cemetery. F5756.indb B F5756.indb B 4/30/12 7:49:41 AM 4/30/12 7:49:41 AM Historical fountain in Süssen built by Jo Homolka in 1981. F5756.indb C F5756.indb C 4/30/12 7:49:42 AM 4/30/12 7:49:42 AM Historical fountain in Süssen, closeup of deportation scene. 1911 Süssen postcard with Lang house in the very front right-hand corner. (Courtesy of Süssen City Archive.) F5756.indb D F5756.indb D 4/30/12 7:49:42 AM 4/30/12 7:49:42 AM Ottenheimer factory in Süssen, 2002. Ottenheimer foreman’s house at Donzdorfer Strasse in Süssen. F5756.indb E F5756.indb E 4/30/12 7:49:42 AM 4/30/12 7:49:42 AM 1906 Ottenheimer Süssen company letterhead. (Courtesy of Süssen City Archive.) Two two-family houses at Donzdorfer Strasse in Süssen built by Ottenheimers as apartments. F5756.indb F F5756.indb F 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM Werner Ottenheimer (back row, 4th from left) with Cuban trade delegation visiting Chiang Kai-shek. (Courtesy of Werner Ottenheimer.) Alfred Ottenheimer, father of Werner, no date. (Courtesy of Werner Ottenheimer.) F5756.indb G F5756.indb G 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM (to left) Luise Ottenheimer, mother of Werner, no date. (Courtesy of Werner Ottenheimer.) (below) Jakob and Fanny Pressburger Lang, with children Alma, Lina, and Otto (Adolf). Courtesy of Süssen City Archive (in 1998 SPD-Kalender). F5756.indb H F5756.indb H 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM 1932 Architectural rendering of Louis Lang property at Hauptstrasse in Süssen (excerpt). (Courtesy of Süssen City Archive.) Lang house, popularly known as the “Judenhaus” at Hauptstrasse in Süssen. F5756.indb I F5756.indb I 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM Lang grandfather clock. (Courtesy of Werner Runschke.) F5756.indb J F5756.indb J 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM 4/30/12 7:49:43 AM Jakob Lang advertisement of French horses in Göppinger Zeitung of August 1911. (Courtesy of Göppingen District Archive.) Grandfather Samuel Lang holding Kurt, with Inge (left) and Henny. (Courtesy of Hugo Lang.) F5756.indb K F5756.indb K 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM House at 31 Heidenheimer Strasse in Süssen owned by Louis Lang in the 1920s. Leopold and Eva Lang with children Fred, Hugo, and Ruth, in Süssen. (Courtesy of Hugo Lang.) F5756.indb L F5756.indb L 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM (above) Liffmann grandparents : Sofie and Jakob. (Courtesy of Hugo Lang.) (to left) Liffmann siblings. Front right: Eva; left to right: Max, Hugo, and Marta. (Courtesy of Hugo Lang.) F5756.indb M F5756.indb M 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM Seven Lang cousins. Back left to right: Fred, Ingeborg, Hugo, Henny; front left to right: Siegfried, Ruth, and Kurt in Süssen (ca. 1929). (Courtesy of Hugo Lang.) F5756.indb N F5756.indb N 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM 4/30/12 7:49:44 AM Four generations: Front: Frieda (Alisa) Pressburger; back: Sofie Schweizer Gideon (Alisa’s grandmother), Resi Gideon Pressburger (Alisa’s mother), and Dora Schweitzer (Alisa’s great-grandmother), no date. (Courtesy of Alisa Klapfer.) F5756.indb O F5756.indb O 4/30/12 7:49:45 AM 4/30/12 7:49:45 AM Leopold Lang depicted as “Viehjud” in 1936 issue of Nazi newspaper, Flammenzeichen. (Courtesy of Göppingen District Archive and Werner Runschke.) F5756.indb P F5756.indb P 4/30/12 7:49:45 AM 4/30/12 7:49:45...