The story of the Buchheim family.

Short survey of family history reaching back to 1780. Describes Otto Boeckel's anti-Semitism campaign in Northern Hesse and anti-Semitism in the German army. Includes detailed family tree and statistical information about 460 descendants of the Buchheim family.Born in Rosenthal bei Marburg on December 28, 1887, Wilhelm Buchheim studied to become an elementary school teacher and, after army service during World War I, taught in the Jewish school in Essen. From 1933 to 1939, he was principal of the Jewish school in Dortmund. He immigrated to the United States via Great Britain in 1939-1940 and died in New York City on October 15, 1957.Published in Monika Richarz: "Juedisches Leben in Deutschland": Vol. II; 10Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C54World War, 1914-1918Military service; 1871-1914Emigration and immigration, 1933-1945; US