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BELLA HEPPENHEIMER' S MEMORIES

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COMMEMORATION 1938-2008
JONATHAN GOLDSCHMIDT: WHAT THE COMMEMORATION IN BOLLENDORF ON NOVEMBER 9 MEANS TO ME
A SHORT HISTORY OF JEWS IN BOLLENDORF
MEMORIES OF BOLLENDORF
BELLA HEPPENHEIMER
MARTHE KRISTELLER
HELEN HERRMANN
DANIEL MAYER
WALLY MAYER
A MAP OF BOLLENDORF
IN MEMORIAM
PHOTOS OF BOLLENDORF, NOVEMBER 2008
STOLPERSTEINE PROJECT

BELLA HEPPENHEIMER'S MEMORIES

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Bella on her 95th Birthday, August 2007

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2.20 2007
Thinking of Bollendorf brings all kinds of memories back.  Of the hundred Jews 80 of them were either Levy or Mayers. I was related to them on my father side or my mothers.  We lived next to my grandparents house until after the first world war. I always went for vacation to my grandparents and all the second cousins from all over came also.  We enjoyed each others company and did a lot of nice things together.  We would go over the bridge to the Luxembourg side.  There was a guard on either side of the bridge.  We would go together to buy candy and chocolade or have ice cream in one of the hotels.  During summer vacation the hotels would send the overflow of their guests to the private homes.  There was a Burg [large manor house] in Bollendorf. The owner was an old maid. They grew golden delicious apples; during harvest time, my aunt would help to wrap the apples separate in paper and they send them all over the world.  Bollendorf was known for the blueberries.  During harvest time the grocers from Trier would come and wait in front of the forest to pick them up.  I often think what a nice time we had together with the family.

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