The Jewish Chemist Turned Gold Counterfeiter – Werner Adolf Goldstein

This blog is Part 2 of a 4-Part Series on German Jew Werner GoldsteinPart 1 is here, Part 3 & Part 4 will be here when posted. I never thought I would find any information on Josef’s gold counterfeiting buddy. To me, the name “Goldstein” (Goldstone) seemed too utterly made-up to be real. But, it […]

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German Spy Josef Jakobs’ Gold Counterfeiting Story Confirmed by Swiss Archives Documents

This blog is Part 1 of a 4-Part Series on German Jew Werner GoldsteinPart 2 is here, Part 3 & Part 4 will be here when posted. I burst into tears the other day. Now, this is not an unusual occurrence when I am researching the lives and deaths of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

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Spooky Trees

Lavinia Stratford – A Candidate for Bella in the Wych Elm?

A few months back, I read M.J. Trow’s 2023 volume on the Bella in the Wych Elm mystery. The book was a disappointment. It suffered from a number of errors and inaccuracies. On top of that, the dearth of source citations meant that readers and researchers were left wondering what was fact and what was

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Podcast Review – The Trail Went Cold – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?

Original Air Date – 19 October 2022Episode – The Trail Went Cold – Episode 299 – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?Duration – 58:11 minutesHost – Robin Warder Whenever I hear a podcast host with a North American accent, about to tell the British story of Bella in the Wych Elm, I cross my

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The 1942 Deportation of German Jew Gustav Goldemann from Berlin to Latvia

A few years ago, I told the story of my great aunt’s common-law husband, Gustav Goldemann. While my great aunt was not a Jew, Gustav was a Jew. For many months, he managed to avoid deportation, perhaps because he was in a common-law relationship with my great aunt, Tante Hanni Knöffler. But eventually, his luck

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Book Review – Hitler’s Spy Against Churchill – Jan-Willem van den Braak – 2022

I am way behind in my book reading! And blogging… and research! But… I am happy to report that earlier this summer, I ordered and read Jan-Willem van den Braak’s book about Nazi spy Jan Willem ter Braak (no relation to the aforementioned author). Hitler’s Spy Against Churchill was first published in Dutch a few

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