by Marc Jarzebowski | Apr 27, 2021 | Book Reviews
Curfew My book of the month this time is a movie. A few days ago I watched it – in this cinema-less time – in the home cinema of a friend’s household. A group of people are pressuring the young conductor Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) to make an unscheduled...
by Marc Jarzebowski | Nov 25, 2020 | Book Reviews
Spuren der NS-Verfolgung. Provenienzforschung in den kulturhistorischen Sammlungen der Stadt Hannover, hgg. v. Museum August Kestner. Johannes Schwartz und Simone Vogt, Hannover 2019. Origin Genealogy and provenance research have much in common. Both sub-disciplines...
by Marc Jarzebowski | Nov 2, 2020 | Book Reviews
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...
by Marc Jarzebowski | Oct 3, 2020 | Book Reviews
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...
by Marc Jarzebowski | Aug 31, 2020 | Book Reviews
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...
