2020
“Seeking Traces: Gurs”
Horst Rosenthal and “Mickey au Camp de Gurs”
The Blue House project “Seeking Traces: Breisach-Gurs-Auschwitz” received three years of funding from the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the “Youth Remembers” program.
The research project focused on the fates of Breisach Jews who were deported to southern France in October 1940.
The project funding enabled the Blue House to add two positions to its team: Olivia Schneller was hired as a research assistant and Aleksandra Rembecka as a student assistant.
Another grant supported the Blue House project “Mickey Mouse in Gurs: When Cartoon Characters Have a Very Different Origin.”
Horst Rosenthal from Wrocław/Breslau (1915-1942) had drawn three graphic stories while interned in Gurs. Using Mickey Mouse and other characters, he brought to life the everyday world inside the camp’s barbed wire fence. Marking the 80th anniversary of the deportation of southwest German Jews, the Blue House told the story of Horst Rosenthal in a series of videocasts.
Videocasts
In an article, Bernd Hainmüller and Christiane Walesch-Schneller related how, after October 22, 1940, seven trains with deportees from Baden headed from Freiburg across the hastily restored Rhine bridge near Breisach to southern France.
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