During World War I, Faybusch Itzkewitsch is taken prisoner by the Germans. Afterward, he remains in Germany. In Ehmen, Lower Saxony, he opens a cobbler’s shop and falls in love with a local woman. In 1923, a son is born. His Jewish heritage is of no consequence. But since the Nuremberg Race Laws were enacted, love between Jews and Germans has been a criminal offense. Denounced by neighbors, he is convicted as a “racial defiler.” After months in prison, he is sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. He and his partner make futile efforts to secure his release. In 1941, the SS places him on the list of Jewish prisoners unfit for work. They have him murdered in Pirna-Sonnenstein.
