About this site
Hier wohnte
This is a private memorial for the Gerechter family of Groß Räschen, and for the people they married and the children they had. It is made for their family, to know who they were and what happened to them.
What is real, and what is drawn
The documents and photographs are real. The family photographs are courtesy of Samantha Brigher and the family.
The drawings in the films and on these pages are made with AI image tools, in one house style. They show places like the real ones, a shop, a street, a room, as they may have looked; they are not portraits, and no face is drawn. The brass stones are drawn too, with their real inscriptions set as type. The music is newly made with AI music tools, from songs and dances of the time that are free to use.
The people who did this are never shown. What was done is told through the family's own papers, through sound, and through what was left behind.
Living people
Living members of the family are not named here, except Samantha.
Where it comes from
Everything is drawn from the family's research archive. Its main sources are the Arolsen Archives, the German Federal Archives' Memorial Book, the Joods Monument and the Dutch archives, Yad Vashem, the Brandenburg State Archives, the Berlin address books and census of 1939, the UK National Archives, the Canada Gazette, and the family tree on Geni.
Thanks
- Samantha Brigher, for the family photographs and for her trust.
- The Großräschen parish pastor and her group, who researched the town's Jewish families for the 2011 Stolpersteine.
- The archivists and volunteers behind the memorial books and databases this archive draws on.