Image credits
Unless otherwise indicated, the images are from the private collection of Vern Gideon.
Advertisement Merkur Bloch, shop window department store Bloch, Bloch family 1931 in Randegg: Stumbling Stones Initiative Villingen-Schwenningen.
Letterhead of the Gideon soap factory in Horb: City archive Horb.
Illustration of the Dachau concentration camp: Detail from the painting "Concentration Camp Dachau, Nov. 1938" by David Ludwig Bloch. Copyright held by the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial.
Lake Michigan with a view of Chicago: Jeff Brown on Unsplash.
Gideon family visiting Horb City Hall in 2019: Maria Hopp.
Poem about the Rexingen cemetery: Sheila Sered Gideon, 1995.
Sources
Most of the information comes from the long film interview with Vern Gideon, which is available here.
Ingrid Schuldes-Tropp: Familie Gideon und die Horber Seifenfabrik. in: Stadtarchiv Horb a.N. und Träger- und Förderverein Ehemalige Synagoge Rexingen [eds.]: "Vom Leben in Horb am Neckar. Die jüdische Gemeinde und ihr Friedhof. pp. 104-118, Verlag Regionalkultur: Ulbstadt-Weiher, 2019.
StAF 196/1 No. 5941: Robert Gideon compensation application.
StAF 196/1 No. 5935: compensation application Michael Bloch.
StAF B 748/1 No. 1329: Treatment of "non-Aryan" companies and associations 1934-1943.
ITS Bad Arolsen - Judenkartei Villingen 1939, archive number 2468.
StAL F 215 Bü 128: Personal files of Robert Rafael Gideon.
