On the best way of the Jews

Neighborhood members of the Winterthur Israelite Neighborhood visited the gorgeous village of Kyburg in Diessenhofen on Sunday. Within the cultural heart “Haus zur Gewesenen Zeit”, which can be concerned in coping with native Jewish historical past, Christine Kolitzus-Hanhart mixed historical past with tales about former Jewish locations of prayer, shopkeepers and producers in Diessenhofen. Within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a number of Jewish companies have been run by households from Gailingen. The Fränkl household made socks in Diessenhofen, the Weil household made aprons and the Hasgall household ran an engraving manufacturing facility within the seal tower. There was Isaac’s sponge store, a cleaning soap maker, hairdresser Schlenz and the banker Rothschild in addition to Oscar Picard, a producer of journey toiletries. And the Biedermann household opened the clothes retailer Rothaus within the coronary heart of Winterthur. We continued by means of the historic previous city and throughout the picket coated bridge over the Rhine to the German aspect. The Jewish Museum Gailingen (JMG) lies steeply on a river terrace on the Rhine. Ina Appel, scientific director, and Heinz Brennenstuhl, JMG board member, have been very obsessed with speaking in regards to the non secular, cultural and public lifetime of the Gailingen Jews and their finish through the Nazi regime. However they spoke not solely about criminals, but additionally about individuals who confirmed ethical braveness in essential conditions. Along with the museum there may be the ceremonial immersion pool, the place graphic works are presently participating in an atmospheric dialogue with the non secular area in an artwork exhibition. In the long run, the group members visited the Jewish cemetery, a spot of peace and a time-honored witness. To at the present time, descendants of Jewish households go to the cemetery searching for their roots.