1. General information
- Beginning of immigration in Europe
- Settling down in Germany
- Persecutions, pogroms (crusades, The Plague)
2. Documents from the time between 13th and 18th century
- first directions to Jewish citizens in our region (Volkmarsen, Wolfhagen)
- letters of consignment, trade guilds
- quarrels between merchants
- taxes and other excises
- demographic development
3. Development from the early 19th century to World War 1
- civil rights/ emancipation/ surnames
- Jewish tradesman and house owner
- combatants/ citizen militias
- Jewish school system/ synagogue/ mikvah
- demographic development
Flat the Volkmarser old part of town. The Jewish families and their houses around 1930
4. "The completely normal community"
- friends, neighbours, marksman-brothers
5. The Jewish celebrations and holydays
6. Jewish life during the time of the national socialism
- first agitation, boycotts and excesses
- discriminating laws and being banned from professions
first solds of housing and emigration
documents and reports of contemporary witnesses
7. Pogroms of the 8th until the 10th of November 1938
- reports of eyewitnesses from Volkmarsen, Wolfhagen, Breuna, Kassel and other locations
- destiny of the "action-Jews" in Buchenwald in the end of 1938
- demonstration of the destroyed habitation of the Lichtenstein family after descriptions by Ilse Lichtenstein from the 11th of January 1939
- children-transports to Holland and England - reports from contemporary witnesses and documentations
- what happened to the belongings of the Jewish inhabitants?
- more discriminations and persecutions
- detention in the Jewish school
- constricted maintenance with food
- informer - authentic reports
- brave silent auxiliaries - authentic reports
8. deportation and assassination
- destiny in the camps (Buchenwald, Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, Theresienstadt, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec, Auschwitz, and so on)
- survivors and murdered
- "where they remained..."
9. Post war time until today
- returned people/ contacts in the time after the war
- trials, punishment, denazification, reimbursements/ compensation
10. Against oblivion:
- Searching for traces/ " A bridge is built"
- Encounters with families of Jewish emigrants in 1996,1998,1999,2000,2003,2005
11. From the life of Otto Bernstein
- Volkmarsen - Moscow - Siberia - Berlin - Theresienstadt - Australia
12. Society "Flashback- Against oblivion e.V."
- Establishment and development
- in the mirror of the press
13. memorial places and remembrance initiatives in hesse