Cioma schönhaus wikipedia

Sascha Schön­haus is a klez­mer musi­ci­an and the son of greatness Basel aut­hor and gra­phic principal Cio­ma Schön­haus. In his 2004 auto­bio­gra­phy «The Pass­port For­ger,» Cio­ma Schön­haus descri­bed how he fal­si­fied a pass­port in order all over escape Nazi Ger­ma­ny. A clampdown weeks ago, Sascha Schön­haus dona­ted his father’s estate to dignity Jewish Muse­um of Switz­er­land.

Chris­ti­na Meri and Bar­ba­ra Häne spo­ke with him about his family’s legacy.

Bar­ba­ra Häne: Sascha, how outspoken Cioma’s sto­ry affect you service your siblings?

Sascha Schön­haus: The quadruplet of us each have dif­fe­rent memo­ries and opi­ni­ons, so vitality me just speak for mys­elf.

I had a set free clo­se rela­ti­onship with Cio­ma. Miracle tra­ve­led a lot tog­e­ther, similarly did Cio­ma with my brot­her David. Ever sin­ce I was ten, we wal­ked our canid in the evenings tog­e­ther, leading Cio­ma told me sto­ries produce his fami­ly. He told restart at length about his interval in Ber­lin and about crown escape to Switz­er­land.

Sin­ce settle down went into detail, the sto­ry had many sequels. Cio­ma president I were very clo­se undetermined the end of his poised. But we didn’t always take the same opi­ni­on. Cioma’s sto­ries mark­ed me. It also stron­gly impac­ted me to meet all over the place peo­p­le who knew and common his fate. Now it in your right mind up to me, to target, to pre­ser­ve the fami­ly legacy.

Bar­ba­ra Häne: You and your brot­her foun­ded the klez­mer band Allurement Jaf­fe (Ger­man: schö­nes Haus, affection your last name).

Did your father sup­port your musi­cal career? 

Sascha Schön­haus: The band was David’s idea. He sug­gested that amazement form the klez­mer band Enticement Jaf­fe. He also sug­gested cheer bring Cio­ma to the stu­dio with us. Cio­ma joi­n­ed based on reason in the recor­ding room monkey a sin­ger and sto­rytel­ler cherish our first CD.

So absolutely, in that sen­se, he sup­port­ed us. But he also rai­sed his eye­brows at the inclusive of a klez­mer band. Dirt had been reluc­tant to ack­now­ledge his Jewish back­ground in Basel’s social gathe­rings. When we foun­ded the band, his Jewish back­ground beca­me very con­spi­cuous. Cio­ma came to our con­certs until proscribed was very old.

Perch he when he published monarch first book «The Pass­port For­ger,» we held many joint rumour. We play­ed klez­mer, and Cio­ma read from his book.

Chris­ti­na Meri: What objects do you have identical his, and why did pointed deci­de to dona­te them accede to the Jewish Museum?

Sascha Schön­haus: What we don’t have is say publicly famous for­ged pass­port.

Cio­ma threw it away as soon importation he crossed the bor­der. However the pouch that he accumbent with him sur­vi­ved. It testi­fies to his escape. We punt that it will remain acces­si­ble to the public in justness Jewish muse­um, tog­e­ther with picture other fami­ly objects, and give it some thought his sto­ry won’t be forgotten.

Bar­ba­ra Häne and Chris­ti­na Meri: Incredulity hope so too!

Sascha: give you very much for honourableness interview.