Bruce Goldstein wrote the text for Legend and History of the Weisburgers in 2019.
Tape recordings and a video of interviews with family members form the core of the story.
Memories of the tale as told aloud add some color.
Research – mostly on the internet – puts the family story into the history of the world around it, and provides some horrific details – such as the conditions in the St Cyprien Camp – that were never talked about.
Every major character – Willy, Selma, John, Margaret & Erna – tells a piece of the story in his or her own words.
Bruce Goldstein working with his sister, Vivian Beatrice as web designer/webmaster published version 1 of Legend and History of the Weisburgers in 2020.
We hope to include corrections and new material from family members in future versions.
Version 2 was published in 2021. It contains 4 new pages, the 3 pages on Jewish Life Before the Nazis and the page on Freddy Mayer. It also contains:
- new material from Erna’s autobiography on how the Ackermann family emigrated on the Out of Europe page
- other minor additions from Erna’s autobiography on the Ancestry, Good Germans & Good Jews, and America at Last pages
- several photos of the Geissants and the Weisburgers in St Etienne provided by Sandra Pichon, the great granddaughter of Baptiste Geissant who gave Willy a job at his bakery there on the Flight thru France page
- many new photos provided by Wolfgang Schönfeld, Barbara Ackermann, Joanie Heumann, Andy Weisburger, and much research on the internet on the Ancestry, Good Germans & Good Jews, Brussels, and America at Last pages
This will be the last version published by Bruce & Vivian.
We hope that someone in a younger generation finds the story inspiring enough to keep it up.
The text and images & maps labelled legendandhistoryoftheweisburgers.com or courtesy of a family member may be reused with permission.
Contact legendoftheweisburgers@gmail.com
to request permission.
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