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My great-grandfather Julius Jacks and his brother James Jacks. German soldiers in WWI.
Julius and his family were murdered by the Nazis at Sobibor death camp, 1943 for being Jewish, and James fled the country with his.
No matter how you shake it, war is stupid af.
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My family on Nov 9/10 1938.
A #Kristallnacht thread.
As the Neues Synagogue in Berlin was burning only a block away, Ruth and Lilly Jacks (in pic here) were ushered to an assembly with their classmates at the Berlin Jewish Girls' School at Auguststraße 11-13.
Moses' fourth child Rudolf Israelski was detained in Brandenburg-Garden prison in 1937 along with political prisoners, including famous Communist & @AuschwitzMuseum survivor, Bruno Baum.
He was sent to Hamelin prison, November 11 1941 & murdered in 1942 at 35 years old.
My great-grandfather Julius Jacks (Moses' nephew) had fled to Amsterdam with his wife Else and 14 y/o daughter Susi.
Their synagogue on Isarstraße 8 in Berlin was burned to the ground on #Kristallnacht.
Julius, Else & Susi Jacks were gassed in Sobibor in 1943
