Ich besaß einen Garten in Schoeneiche bei Berlin

by Jani Pietsch

Ich besaß einen Garten in Schöneiche bei Berlin. Das verwaltete Verschwinden jüdischer Nachbarn und ihre schwierige Rückkehr [I owned a garden in Schoeneiche near Berlin. The organized disappearance of Jewish neighbours and their difficult return] 280 pages, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/New York 2006. In 1933, 170 of the 5 000 residents of the village of Schöneiche near Berlin were Jewish. A few years later the Jewish neighbours had vanished, and other people had moved into their homes. Did this go unnoticed? Who organized the disappearance of these people, and what happened to their furniture, their bicycles, and their household goods? The bureaucratic network organizing the expropriation and robbery stretched from the mayor, the district administrator, and the district council through to the regional president, from the second-hand shop owner and the removal company to the purchasers and the new occupants.