Another interruption to the blog series on the black market German passport business. I’m needing some serious research time to look into the Finn Algot Niska. Quite a character but much of the information is in Finnish and requires some tedious translation work with Google Translate. Stay tuned for the continuing series in a week […]
There is another person whom Josef Jakobs and Lily Knips both mentioned, a German Jewess who also sought to escape Nazi Germany. This Fräulein Schachtel apparently bought a Finnish passport through Ziebell but neither Josef nor Lily knew what became of her. Let’s take a look… What Lily Knips & Josef Jakobs Said On 28
Fräulein Dorothea Schachtel – Client of Niska’s Black Market Passport Business Read More »
We are going to take a bit of a break from the schemers behind the black market passport business in 1930s Berlin and focus on a few of the desperate Jewish clients who sought to escape Nazi Germany.. **** Before I begin this blog, I need to acknowledge Lily’s granddaughter, Sylvia, who has welcomed me
Frau Lily Knips avoided the Black Market Passport business Read More »
Normally I can bang out these blog posts in about eight hours – about 6 hours of research and a couple of hours of writing and editing. In the case of Jürgen Ziebell, however, I have been sucked into an overwhelming web of information, most of it in German. It has taken me quite a
Christian Friedrich Jürgen Ziebell – Mastermind of the Black Market Passport Business Read More »
We interrupt the regularly scheduled blog posts on the wartime Jewish emigration business in Berlin to bring you an update on the search for Kenneth Clifford Howard… This gentleman’s notebook and diary from the mid-1930s ended up in the National Archives at Kew. The two notebooks probably started off in Karl Theodore Drücke’s file and
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N.B. I normally try to include a fair few photographs in my blog posts to add visual interest. In this case, it didn’t seem entirely appropriate but I have included links to some images on other sites. Information from Josef Jakobs For an introduction to the Jewish emigration business, please read the blog here first.
Hans Blum – originator of the Berlin Black Market Passport Business Read More »
In my previous blog, I gave an overview of Josef Jakobs and his involvement with a black market passport business. I’m going to begin this overview with a summary of what Frau Lily Knips, German Jewish refugee told the officers of MI5 about the passport business with which Josef was involved. Lily had escaped to
Overview of the Black-Market Passport Business Read More »
N.B. 2019 08 26 – This blog is constantly being updated as I publish blog posts about the characters Introduction A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about Josef Jakobs and one of his associates (Egon Rammrath) and the black market passport “business” that they were involved with in Berlin from 1937-38.
Josef Jakobs and the Characters involved in the Blackmarket Passport Business Read More »
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about the notebooks belonging to Kenneth Clifford Howard – notebooks that now reside within one of Josef’s files at the National Archives. There is no evidence that the notebooks belonged to Josef, nor that they should have been placed within his file. One of the notebooks
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War separates families. It separated Josef Jakobs from his wife and children, permanently. It’s not a unique story but sometimes I wonder… after hostilities… do people find each other again? Or are they forever burst asunder by the legacy of conflict? A few months back, I had written a blog post about the apparent estrangement
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