1933 - Intensifying hatred and discrimination

In 1933 hatred and discrimination was intensifying against Jews in Germany and throughout Europe. My father and his brother Albert one nicht where taken with other Jewish men out of their homes in Uedem by men called Brownshirts (later became the SA) taken to a secluded area and were beaten up.

My father Julius was smart and when they started hitting him he dropped to the ground and acted unconscious. But Albert did not back up and fought with them. They ganged up on him and beat him so severely that for the rest of his unfortunately short life he suffered from uncontrollable brain seizures.

From 1920 to 1937 my father Julius was a self employed cattle dealer in Uedem. But in 1933 he was banned from dealing with Germans and lost most of his customers. What caused him the most grief was that he was no longer allowed to play on the football team that he loved, nor not associate with all his friends from the team.

In 1935 because of the Nuremberg Laws we all lost German citizenship.

SA-Troopers in Goch
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Jewish children of Goch an neighbor towns 1937

v.l.: Hannelore Bruenell (Goch), Herbert Oster (Udem), unknown,  Leah Willner (Goch), unknown
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