{"id":1077,"date":"2022-03-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:49:57","slug":"we-mourn-leon-schwarzbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/en\/2022\/03\/16\/we-mourn-leon-schwarzbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"We Mourn Leon Schwarzbaum z&#8220;l"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Leon Schwarzbaum (20 Feb 1921 &#8211; 14 Mar 2022)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"971\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leon-zl-971x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leon-zl-971x1024.jpeg 971w, https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leon-zl-285x300.jpeg 285w, https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leon-zl-768x810.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leon-zl-1200x1265.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Leon-zl.jpeg 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Schwarzbaum, whom we had the honour to call &#8222;Henry&#8220;, was the only family member to survive the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald as well as the death march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We mourn a wonderful Mensch, an important historical figure of Germany&#8217;s history, a member of our congregation who constantly supported us and who lent a Torah to our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff he had answered as one of the last contemporary witnesses a huge number of questions that were collected and sent to him by students of schools in Hesse on Henry&#8217;s request. The resulting documentary movie is a very impressive conversation. Henry&#8217;s commitment to peace is of huge importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to all that, Henry was an incredibly interesting and humorous conversation partner, a musician who could sing all the songs in his mother tongue Yiddish, an art connoisseur and inspiring narrator, a real gentleman, an admirable Mensch who stayed young until his final days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are fortunate and grateful to have known Henry and we will forever lovingly remember him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leon Schwarzbaum (20 Feb 1921 &#8211; 14 Mar 2022) Mr Schwarzbaum, whom we had the honour to call &#8222;Henry&#8220;, was the only family member to survive the concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald as well as the death march. We mourn a wonderful Mensch, an important historical figure of Germany&#8217;s history, a member of our congregation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jg-michelsberg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}