"From his Love of Germany he has Became a German" - Collection of Documents and Letters from Germany, many from the ...

"From his Love of Germany he has Became a German" - Collection of Documents and Letters from Germany, many from the Nazi Period, telling the Tragic Story of a Jewish-German Family that Converted to Christianity during the 19th Century. However, Their Loyalty to Germany did not Save Them - the Mother, Gertrud Olga Eisler was Murdered in Auschwitz in 1942
Fascinating documents about the happenings of the Eisler family, many from the Nazi rule.
The Eisler family lived first in Prague and Reichenberg, Austria and then in Cottbus, Germany.
The Father, Oswald Moritz:
A. Birth certificate from 1873, confirmed by a Nazi stamp from 1941.
B. Naturalization certificate (1904) with confirmation from 1930. His two sons are mentioned.
The mother, Gertrud Olga:
C. Birth certificate of the Jewish community. She was born in 1873 to the Hitschmann family.
Marriage:
D. Confirmation of the marriage certificate of the couple, Prague 1892, by a Rabbi. Stamp of the Jewish community with a Star-of-David. Confirmation from 1932.
Conversion to Christianity:
E. Baptism certificate of the Protestant Church, 1893, together with the boys.
The son:
F. Letter from the German Army, 21.8.1918, about his position in the army.
G. Letter to the father from that same year about receiving a Cross Medal in honor of the son, who was killed during World War I and died "as a hero for the motherland".
The father died in 1937 and was cremated. In eulogies for him, his love for Germany was emphasized as well as the death of his son as a hero and the ungratefulness of the German state in refusing to grant citizenship to his other sons.
Olga Eisler lived in Germany during the Nazi rule. According to the documents, in 1939 she received a letter from Yisrael Shlezinge requesting her to register, by law, to the Jewish Union of German Jews.
The name "Sarah" was added to her name in all documents sent to her at the time, as to all Jewish women. Some of these letters bear the Nazi "greeting" "Heil Hitler"…
An additional letter from 1942 from the synagogue of Cottbus asks her to apply to Shlezinger and not to worry…
Olga was murdered in 1942 in Auschwitz. She lived as a Christian and died as a Hew. On such cases, the great adjudicator Rabbi Moshe Isserles (the Rama) wrote that a covert that was killed by gentiles should be mourned as a Jew.
The collection includes several other documents related to the Jews of Germany.
Fascinating, rare, thought-provoking collection.
General Condition: Very Good.