24/05/2024

'BETWEEN MAN AND STONE':
It has been 20 years since Stolpersteine were placed in Hamburg in memory of Rabbi Joseph Carlebach and his family, who perished in the Holocaust.

'Everyone has a name'.. Here is the speech article by Miriam Gillis-Carlebach at the Stolpersteine laying ceremony (in April 2004) in memory of her parents and younger sisters. In her speech, Miriam spoke about the special significance attributed in our consciousness, dating back to the biblical era, to stones, especially memorial stones..

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20/04/2024

CILLY CARLEBACH [1911-1968]

In the Carlebach Family Archive, there is a collection of items related to Cilly, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Carlebach from Leipzig. An educated and energetic young woman, she contracted polio in her youth, which left her dependent on the care of her family and close surroundings. Despite this, she learned secretarial work and stenography, and maintained correspondence with friends and family. The collection prominently features her correspondence with her close friend, nurse Anni Steinberg (Jablonski), from the period between 1927 and 1940, which documents, among other things, the tragic story of the family's attempted emigration from Leipzig (Germany) under the Nazi threat.

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02/02/2024

'THE END OF GERMAN JEWRY IS UPON US':
Rabbi Joseph Tzvi Carlebach (1883-1942) - End of an Epoch.

By Dr. Meir Seidler.
Bar-Ilan University Press, 2023.


The way Rabbi Carlebach dealt with the events of his time expresses not only his complex and unique personality, but also sheds light on the deep intellectual and emotional involvement of most of the German rabbis in the culture that gave birth to the monster that eventually destroyed their communities..

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