Dr. Marc Jarzebowski
Genealogy – History – Life
Professional Familyresearch
since 2004
Blog
City of Peace Weissenberg
Religious settlement, KZ, Soviet Garrison Hardly any other place in Brandenburg presents itself as much as a place of history as the Friedensstadt (city of peace) in Glau, situated in the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park in Lower Fläming, between the small town of Trebbin...
Aharon Appelfeld: Meine Eltern (english review)
Childhood as a Core In my understanding, literary works are often - just like family trees, only in a different way - the result of an occupation with one's own roots. The processing of memories of one's own childhood, of parents and grandparents in fictional texts is...
Carinhall
Historical sites Historical places have a special power. I firmly believe that visiting an authentic site can help to better understand the past. And in a different, perhaps more direct way than reading books or watching movies. For this reason I consider the...
Jewish Cemeteries in Brandenburg
Brandenburg/Havel Already in the Middle Ages there were Jewish cemeteries in Brandenburg upon Havel. In 1747, the area on today's Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse was established as a cemetery and expanded in the 19th century. In 1860 there were over 200 graves. During the...
Rebecca Clifford: Survivors
Good Luck or a Burden? People who survived persecution by the Nazis as children, child survivors, have increasingly become the focus of Holocaust research in recent years. There are two main reasons for this: First, more than 75 years after the events, they are the...
Niklas Frank: In the Shadow of the Reich
Family Gossip "I'm lucky, I can gather the scraps of your life from the archives of Europe and the USA, I can look at them without being bothered by the lying family gossip." The reasons for doing family research can be very different. But it is always about the...
Family Research in Times of Corona
Homeoffice as usual Corona has also changed my work as a family researcher. At first, there was not much of that, in March and April. Because home office is everyday life for me. I spend about 80% of my time at the computer anyway, with customer contacts, writing...
