Deportation of the last Jews of Bruchsal, October 1940

Deportation of the last Jews of Bruchsal, October 1940 

Title onscreen:"Bruchsal Judenfrei! Die letzten Juden verlassen Bruchsal, 18 Oktober 194" [Bruchsal free of Jews! The last Jews leave Bruchsal, October 18, 1940] A line of Jews, wearing warm clothing and carrying suitcases and bags, files past the camera, including Marcus Rosenberg and his son Leo Rosenberg and Edith [Loeb] Leuchter and her mother, Julie. They are guarded by uniformed Germans, including police. Many people in civilian clothes stand in the background, watching the deportation. Uniformed Germans follow behind the last of the Jews. The last Jews of Bruchsal were deported to Gurs in France in October 1940. 

Leo Rosenberg is the 7 year old boy at the end of the film walking alongside his father, Marcus Rosenberg. Leo (age 86) now lives in London. Refer to"Juden Unserer Heima" by Willy Messmer (page 185) for more information. 

Leo Rosenberg and his father, Marcus Rosenberg, appear in the Bruchsal deportation film footage. The Rosenberg family lived at 37 Holzmarkt (aka 37 AdolfHitlerPlatz) in Bruchsal according to the 1939 Minorities Census for Bruchsal (Reel 6 of RG14.013M in the USHMM Archives). Josef Michael Rosenberg (10 years older than Leo) had already left Bruchsal for the UK on a Kindertransport. Leo (age 86) now lives in London. Edith [Loeb] Leuchter, her mother, Julie, and her grandmother were deported from Bruchsal, Germany in October 1940 to Gurs, France. Edith went into hiding in France. Julie was killed at Auschwitz.