Thank you for creating a Jewish Families from Seesen Project. I so wanted to share this about Seesen!
To paraphrase wikipedia...In 1801 Israel Jacobson founded a school in Seesen in which 40 Jewish children and 20 Christian children were to be educated together, receiving free room and board. The close association of children of different creeds was a favorite idea of his. The Jacobson school gained a fine reputation far and wide and was in existence for 100 years.
To this day you will still find the Jacobson school standing in the heart of little Seesen. Although it no longer serves as a school (it was an operating public school through the 1970's), the Jacobson name remains on the building and is used as a library and for government offices. I have spent substantial chunks of my life in Seesen and the surrounding area (Goslar) and am always so amazed at the fact that the Nazis either did not know who Jacobson was or did not dare wipe his existence completely away--afterall, his school had been hailed as a fine and upright example for other educators. Today Seesen celebrates the history of the Jacobson school and attempts to celebrate the Jewish lives that once thrived there.
