The papers
Every document we have
All 176 documents the family archive holds: police files, camp and deportation lists, address books, newspaper notices, memorial-book entries, letters to the archives. Search for a name, a place or a year. German spellings work either way: Räschen, Raeschen or Raschen.
In Armin's films
The court lifts the bankruptcy10 November 1899
The Kaufhaus advertises for saleswomen11 February 1904
Wanted: young clerks for the menswear26 September 1907
The Kaufhaus advertises for help in the house18 February 1909
The army's list of the missing1915
Wilhelm's death notice12 May 1926
The firm in the commercial register18 March 1938
The wedding, in the family notices10 July 1930
Ilse's birth, in the family notices10 April 1931
Robert's death notice18 October 1936
The register: one firm struck out, another entered5 April and 3 May 1939
The Toronto directory, 19441944
The Toronto directory, 19541954
The police count of Jews in Amtsbezirk Räschen22 February 1937
The Großräschen police report of the arrests10 November 1938
The list of what was in Armin's pockets15 November 1938
Sachsenhausen: prisoner 131281938
The minutes of the meeting that gives away the shop2 December 1938
The camp register29 September 1939
The enemy-alien tribunal card, Sandwich20 October 1939
A search notice in the Aufbau21 March 1941
Naturalized in Canada21 December 1946
Armin's gravestone1955
Armin's Stolperstein, opposite Freienhufener Straße 222 March 2011