Book Launch: “The Hess Family Guestbooks – Weimar, the Bauhaus and the Hess Family Story”

Spanning nearly 600 pages, this groundbreaking scholarly publication presents, for the first time, complete reproductions of the two remarkable guest books kept by the Hess family between 1907 and 1965. The volumes trace the family's journey from their prosperous Jewish household in Erfurt through the cultural flourishing of the Weimar Republic to their forced exile in Great Britain following the National Socialist seizure of power.