{"id":657,"date":"2020-12-19T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/?page_id=657"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:54:12","slug":"familie-eschwege-simon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/en\/familie-eschwege-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Eschwege; Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Family origin<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The <strong>Eschweges <\/strong>are one of the oldest Jewish families of Fulda, having first settled in the town in the 17th century, or earlier.<\/p><p><strong>Simon Nathan<\/strong> assumed the name <strong>Simon Eschwege<\/strong> on December 27, 1811.<\/p><p>His grandson <strong>Simon Eschwege<\/strong>, born December 3, 1799 in Fulda, married <strong>Malchen Trepp<\/strong>, born 1804 in Fulda, on February 15, 1832 in Fulda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1832-2-15-simon-eschwege-mit-Jungfrau-Malchen-Treppe-wochenblatt-fuer-die-Provinz-Fulda.jpg\" alt=\"aus Wochenblatt f\u00fcr die Provinz Fulda, 1832, Quelle Stadtarchiv Fulda\" data-id=\"647\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1832-2-15-simon-eschwege-mit-Jungfrau-Malchen-Treppe-wochenblatt-fuer-die-Provinz-Fulda.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/1832-2-15-simon-eschwege-mit-jungfrau-malchen-treppe-wochenblatt-fuer-die-provinz-fulda\/\" class=\"wp-image-647\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">source Wochenblatt for the Province of Fulda, p. 158, 1832; <em>image source Stadtarchiv Fulda<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--background-color); color: var(--theme-text-color); font-family: var(--fontFamily); font-style: var(--fontStyle, inherit); letter-spacing: var(--letterSpacing); text-transform: var(--textTransform);\">Simon <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--background-color); color: var(--theme-text-color); font-family: var(--fontFamily); font-style: var(--fontStyle, inherit); font-weight: var(--fontWeight); letter-spacing: var(--letterSpacing); text-transform: var(--textTransform);\">died February 6, 1885 and <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--background-color); color: var(--theme-text-color); font-family: var(--fontFamily); font-style: var(--fontStyle, inherit); letter-spacing: var(--letterSpacing); text-transform: var(--textTransform);\">Malchen <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--background-color); color: var(--theme-text-color); font-family: var(--fontFamily); font-style: var(--fontStyle, inherit); font-weight: var(--fontWeight); letter-spacing: var(--letterSpacing); text-transform: var(--textTransform);\">died November 13, 1880. Both are buried in the old Jewish cemetery which was destroyed during Kristallnacht.<\/span><\/p><p><strong>Simon <\/strong>and <strong>Malchen <\/strong>had nine children, who were born between 1833 and 1847 in Fulda.<\/p><p>Their son <strong>Samuel <\/strong>Eschwege, born November 28, 1843 in Fulda, was a cigar manufacturer and in his second marriage married <strong>Fanny Schweiger<\/strong>. Both lived on Mittelstrasse 25 with their children.<\/p><p><strong>Samuel <\/strong>died April 5, 1929 in Fulda, and is buried in the new Jewish cemetery. <br><br><strong>Fanny <\/strong>died March 6, 1942 in Fulda and is buried in Weyhers\/Rhoen, about 12km from Fulda. After the Fulda administration closed the new Jewish cemetery in October 1940, the deceased had to be buried in Weyhers. Fanny&#8217;s funeral was the second to last in Weyhers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-imagelightbox=\"0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel und Regina Eschwege\" data-id=\"646\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/gabriel-and-rachel-eschwege\/\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Gabriel-and-Rachel-Eschwege.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Gabriel and Regina Eschwege, n\u00e9e Michel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>Samuel and Fanny&#8217;s son <strong>Gabriel Eschwege<\/strong>, born November 4, 1878 in Fulda, was married on October 27, 1910 in Fulda to <strong>Regina Michel<\/strong>, born November 4, 1885 in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gabriel <\/strong>Eschwege served for Germany from 1898-1899 in Muehlheim\/Ruhr and during World War I in 1915 in garrison duty&nbsp; in Wetzlar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gabriel <\/strong>and <strong>Regina <\/strong>Eschwege had six children.<br><br><strong>Simon<\/strong>, born September 28, 1911<br><strong>Juda<\/strong>, born June 19, 1913<br><strong>Auguste<\/strong>, born June 26, 1915<br><strong>Meier<\/strong>, born May 2, 1919<br><strong>Benjamin<\/strong>, born December 13, 1925<br><strong>Felix<\/strong>, born October 19, 1927<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-imagelightbox=\"1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin und Felix, Ende der 1920er Jahre\" data-id=\"648\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/benjamin-und-felix-eschwege\/\" class=\"wp-image-648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-und-Felix-Eschwege.jpg 1331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Benjamin and Felix in the late 1920s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Felix.jpg\" alt=\"Felix, Ende der 1930er Jahre\" data-id=\"644\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Felix.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/eschwege-felix\/\" class=\"wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Felix.jpg 633w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Felix-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Felix in the late 1930s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eschwege-Meier-606x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Meier Eschwege\" data-id=\"645\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eschwege-Meier.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/eschwege-meier\/\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eschwege-Meier-606x1024.jpg 606w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eschwege-Meier-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eschwege-Meier-768x1299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eschwege-Meier.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Meier Eschwege<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Simon-615x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Simon, ca. 1935\" data-id=\"643\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Simon.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/eschwege-simon\/\" class=\"wp-image-643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Simon-615x1024.jpg 615w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Simon-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Simon-768x1279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Simon.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Simon in the mid 1930s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-imagelightbox=\"2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1397\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Buchenwald Deportationsliste; Lothar steht unter Nummer 82.\" data-id=\"638\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/tannenberg-wormann-gottlieb\/\" class=\"wp-image-638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Tannenberg-Wormann-Gottlieb-2048x1490.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Buchenwald deportation list, Meier is listed under number 83; <em>source Stadtarchiv Fulda<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>Excerpt of the deportation list from Fulda to Buchenwald on November 10, 1938 with <strong>Meier <\/strong>Eschweges name on it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Simon<\/strong>, <strong>Juda <\/strong>and <strong>Auguste <\/strong>could flee in time from Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Benjamin <\/strong>was sent by his parents with a Kindertransport to England in May 1939. He describes his life in Germany and the feelings when he had to leave his parents in <a href=\"#memoiren\">his memoirs<\/a> (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">All four were reunited after the war in Palestine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-imagelightbox=\"3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege-1024x816.jpg\" alt=\"von links nach rechts: Benjamin, Simon, Juda und Auguste\" data-id=\"649\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/benjamin-simon-juda-auguste-eschwege\/\" class=\"wp-image-649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Benjamin-Simon-Juda-Auguste-Eschwege.jpg 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">From left to right: Benjamin, Simon, Juda, Auguste<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-7 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1942-Kassel-Sobibor-Eschwege.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-imagelightbox=\"4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1942-Kassel-Sobibor-Eschwege.jpg\" alt=\"Auszug aus der Deportationsliste vom 31.05.1942 von Fulda nach Kassel und am 1. Juni 1942 von dort ins Vernichtungslager Sobibor; Quelle www.statistik-des-holocaust.de\" data-id=\"807\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1942-Kassel-Sobibor-Eschwege.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/1942-kassel-sobibor-eschwege\/\" class=\"wp-image-807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1942-Kassel-Sobibor-Eschwege.jpg 641w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1942-Kassel-Sobibor-Eschwege-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Excerpt of the deportation list from Fulda to Kassel on May 31, 1942 and further to Sobibor on June 1, 1942; <em>source www.statistik-des-holocaust.de<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Gabriel <\/strong>and his wife <strong>Regine <\/strong>were deported together with their children <strong>Meier <\/strong>and <strong>Felix <\/strong>from Fulda to Kassel&nbsp;on May 31, 1942 and from there, on June 1, 1942 to Sobibor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The train stopped in Lublin where male Jews were selected for forced labor and transferred to the Majdanek camp. <strong>Meier <\/strong>was among them and separeted from his family. He was murdered in Majdanek on September 27, 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Felix<\/strong>, only 14 years old, was immediately murdered in one of the gas chambers, together with <strong>his parents<\/strong> after his arrival in the extermination camp of Sobibor, on June 3, 1942.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"memoiren\">Memoirs of Benjamin Eschwege<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Made available and translated from Hebrew by his son in law Yeshaya Baror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-8 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Eschwege, ca. 1949\" data-id=\"652\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/eschwege-benjamin\/\" class=\"wp-image-652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin.jpg 679w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Benjamin Eschwege in Israel, late 1940s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I was born in 13.12.1925 in Fulda, South Germany. My father Gabriel and my mother Rachel had another 5 children. Shimon was born in 1911, Yehuda in 1913, Gustle in 1915, Meir in 1919, and Uri (Felix) in 1927.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fulda was a small town with a population of 300 Jewish families, most of them observant of Jewish religious&nbsp;ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All educational institutions were operative, including a kindergarten, school etc. Around 1935 a Yeshiva (for Jewish higher learning) was opened, with Rav&nbsp;Baruch Kunstat as Head. Rav Kalman Kahana (later a religious leader and &nbsp;member of Parliament in Israel ) served as a teacher there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Our home was a typical German Jewish home, combining &nbsp;strict observance of Jewish practice with openness to general culture. My father went to a Torah class every evening after work. I went to a Jewish kindergarten and then to a Jewish elementary school. My elder brothers went on to the general higher school, but in my time it was prohibited so I had to make do with elementary education.&nbsp; There were three combined classes with eight teachers, with a shortened daily schedule. On the other hand we had organized classes in the&nbsp;afternoons where we studied diverse Jewish studies which were not taught in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My father had a large store for machines and tools. I was told the shop provided decent income until the rise of the Nazis in 1933. They prevented Germans from buying at Jewish shops. This made earning a living more and more difficult so the shop had to be sold to non-Jews. I am sure this caused much indignation and pain, as my father had to give away a &nbsp;business he had built and developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-9 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges-.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-imagelightbox=\"5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges-.jpg\" alt=\"Liste des versteigerten Hausinventars von Gabriel Eschweges Familie; Quelle Stadtarchiv Fulda\" data-id=\"1123\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges-.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/liste-des-versteigerten-hausinventars-gabriel-eschweges\/\" class=\"wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges-.jpg 812w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges--203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges--693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges--768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Liste-des-versteigerten-Hausinventars-Gabriel-Eschweges--1039x1536.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">List of the auction house inventory of Gabriel Eschwege&#8217;s family; <em>source Stadtarchiv Fulda<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>List of the auction house inventory of Gabriel Eschwege&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auction took place on August 31, 1942 under the direction of the Fuldaer Finanzamt.&nbsp;All the belongings the family was forced to leave behind were bought by residents of Fulda and its sourroundings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e9e9e6\">In the morning of Kristallnacht, 9\/11\/1938, we were sent home from school. There was an atmosphere of scariness among all the Jews. That evening the Germans set fire to most of Germany`s synagogues, and also our synagogue.&nbsp; The Jewish school was subject to vandalism but was not burned. <br><br>All men&nbsp;aged 16-60 were taken to a concentration camp. My father was exactly 60 and was thus saved. But my brother Meir was taken and held at the concentration camp for about six weeks. Meir had his fingers frozen due to the stay at the camp, and most had to be amputated. Because of the required medical treatment he could not leave Germany despite having the licence to do so.<br><br>Persecution of Jews in Germany became more severe and people became convinced<br>there was no hope for their children there, and made every effort to send them outside Germany. England was prepared to accept a certain number of children, on the condition that there was a family or institution willing to have them. I went to England within a group of children in May 1939, three months before the outbreak of WWII. I am sure&nbsp;this was a very difficult separation for my parents. For the children, most took it as having no choice &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-default\"><blockquote><p>One day I got a letter from my parents, through the Red Cross. They said : &#8220;We will travel soon&#8221;. That meant they expected to be deported shortly. This was one of the rare times I broke out crying. <\/p><p>We never heard any more of them and never knew where they and my brother Meir and brother Uri (Felix) were sent.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-10 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-imagelightbox=\"6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"752\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2-752x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Eschwege\" data-id=\"651\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/eschwege-benjamin-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2-768x1046.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juden-in-fulda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eschwege-Benjamin-2.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Benjamin Eschwege<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Yeshaya Baror<\/strong>, whose father was one of the prosecutors in the trial against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, says about his father in law, Benjamin Eschwege:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;<\/em><em>May I add that he worked until old age in the Kibbutz, where he lived, as a locksmith, and was always busy and happy with his work and daily hours of learning Torah. But he did not easily show emotion and never talked of his years as a child and young man. In my view, the terrible mental wounds he suffered never healed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em><em>Many thanks to the family Eschwege for providing pictures and documents.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family origin The Eschweges are one of the oldest Jewish families of Fulda, having first settled in the town in the 17th century, or earlier. Simon Nathan assumed the name Simon Eschwege on December 27, 1811. 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