This is a presentation describing the Schwab Family History in Hanau and Daniel and Ricci's trip back to Hanau 68 years after the first train transporting Jews from Hanau to the gas chambers.
19. Schwab Family Holocaust Era Out of 20 family members living in Hanau between 1933 and 1939: 11 murdered 9 escaped Countries fled: China, USA, Canada, France, Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, Holland, South Africa
20. Murdered Max Schwab Martha Schwab Hans Ferdinand Schwab Helen Schwab Erna Schwab Johanna Hausmann Jettchen Fleischmann Adolf Fleischmann Alice Frank Oskar Frank Lotte Frank
32. Survivors Rudolf Erwin Alexander Schwab Rosa Schwab Kaufmann Alexander Schwab Armand Demuth, Montreal Quebec Alfons (son of Helene and Jonas) Demuth Ella, sister of Martha Schwab/Hausman Irene Hoexter Gustav Fleischmann Toni Koch
33. Famous Jews from Hanau Moritz Daniel Oppenheim Ernest Fleischmann – (cousin of Rudolph Schwab) One of the most successful orchestra managers in the world, had left Frankfurt at age 12 when his parents fled from Adolf Hitler to settle in Cape Town. General director by the London Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic
34. Elizabeth Schmitz In 1935, Elizabeth Schmitz authored an anonymous call to Christian conscience about the church’s responsibility to the Jews. Schmitz insisted: “We must, as Christians,” she declared, “act for all the Jews as much as is our possibility.” http://vimeo.com/3325702
As a mere teenager in South Africa, he organized two music festivals, and at age 35 Fleischmann was hired as general director by the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1969, he took over the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he guided the orchestra's direction for 29 years. During that time, he transformed a good provincial orchestra into an orchestra with world reputation. He attracted music directors of international stature, created links to the film music industry and made the traditional Hollywood Bowl America's largest summer festival. A half-year ago (in March 1998), he passed his position at the Philharmonic on to a young Dutchman by the name Willem Wijnbergen. However, retirement is not an issue for 74-year-old Fleischmann. He just started a new company consisting of himself and one assistant. The cultural counseling company is called "Fleischmann Arts, " and it has customers in all parts of America and in Germany. He regularly visits the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg to give management advise. Georg Hirsch has a profile of this mover and shaker from Los Angeles.
