Image credits

  • Unless indicated otherwise, the images stem from the archive of the Initiative Hechinger Synagoge e.V.

  • Claire Ovadia: Ruth Schmalzbach as "Gänseliesl". Leon and Mina Schmalzbach. United Kingdom Registration Certificate for Ruth Schmalzbach. On the Zeller Horn.

  • Stadtarchiv Hechingen: Leon Schmalzbach in regalia. Identity Card Mina Schmalzbach. Passport Leon Schmalzbach. Married couple Solomon while writing their entry in the guest book 1986.

  • Hohenzollerische Heimatbücherei: The young musician Leon Schmalzbach. Cover page of Zollern-Heimat. Ruth and Leon Schmalzbach.

  • Foto Keidel Hechingen: Jewish meeting house.

  • Archiv Otto Werner: Leon Schmalzbach with child Ruth.

  • Archiv Ekkehard Hübschmann: Hiking trip 1934.

  • Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium Bayreuth: Puppet.

  • Stadtarchiv Stuttgart: Transit camp Killesberg, 1941.

  • Dukurs at Latvian Wikipedia: Ruins of camp Jungfernhof.

  • Yad Vashem: Page of Testimony for Leon Schmalzbach.

Sources

  • Otto Werner: Deportation und Vernichtung hohenzollerischer Juden. Balingen 2011.

  • Otto Werner: Synagoge und jüdischer Friedhof in Hechingen. Hechingen 1996.

  • Otto Werner: Das Hechinger Memorbuch, 1800–2000.  Hechingen 2000.

  • Waldemar Luckscheiter, Manfred Stützle: Die Rettung der Alten Synagoge in Hechingen. Balingen 2009.

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