Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application to Ralph and Phyllis (Wyttenbach) Helmbrecht in Owatonna He was raised on a farm in southeastern Minnesota and attended country school through the 6th grade Royce graduated from Hayfield High School in 1965 where he graduated with a degree in Mathematics education in 1969 Royce then continued his education at the University of Minnesota he was drafted into the United States Army he was honorably discharged from the service Royce was united in marriage to Karen Jenkins at the Central Free Church in Minneapolis Their union was blessed with six daughters and 51wonderful years of marriage MN and became members of Milaca Evangelical Free Church Royce began his education career in 1972 with the Minneapolis Public Schools where he taught math for 8 years at Franklin Junior High He was then transferred as a teacher on a special assignment where he was involved in the establishment of the Area Learning Centers in Minnesota Royce became the assistant principal for the Austin Public Schools he accepted the principal position at Lyle Public School He continued teaching in the GED program at the Mower County Jail Royce served as the Red Cross Regional Shelter Coordinator the Freeborn/Mower County Disaster Assistant Team (DAT) and as an Elder at the Faith Evangelical Free Church in Austin He also served as the Minnesota Membership Coordinator for Gideon’s as well as camp president for the local Gideon camp Royce was a member of the Rochester Music Men Barbershop Chorus and the American Legion Post 91 where he served on the Austin Honor Guard for military funerals He was also a member of the Austin Morning Lions Club and the Evening Lions Club who gave their family many great memories of appreciating the many cultures of this world Royce was a mentor through the Mower County Mentor Program He was most recently a member at Crane Community Chapel in Austin MN; 15 grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; two sisters; and one brother Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Share to WhatsApp Copy Link Print Send by e-mail Share to Classroom Add to Favorites var tag = document.createElement('script'); tag.src = "https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api"; var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag slider=jQuery(".royalSlider").royalSlider({ // autoplay options go gere enabled: false,//true adina imageScaleMode: 'fit-if-smaller' slider = jQuery(".royalSlider").data('royalSlider'); const fullscreenButton = jQuery(".rsFullscreenBtn"); // ???? 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They were housed in two huts with neither heating nor even minimal sanitation Holocaust survivor Eva Abrams recalled how she ended up in a Krankenrevier (sick bay) "I remember waking up every morning in the – I cannot call it a hospital – place where they just kept sick people who were ready to die She further described the 'soup' they were given to eat: "Whoever was in charge took out the potatoes and just gave us the water." Forty-four of the Jewish prisoners from the Death March died in Helmbrechts These women were later buried in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in the nearby city of Hof 577 Jewish prisoners and 590 non-Jewish prisoners left Helmbrechts together – and three weeks later The online exhibition also features testimony of one of the liberating American servicemen Major Aaron S who describes how they found the survivors of the death march "My first glance at these individuals was one of extreme shock not ever believing that a human being can be degraded can be so skinny and even live under such circumstances When I entered the room I thought that we had a group of old men lying… I was surprised and shocked when I asked one of these girls how old she was and she said seventeen when to me she appeared to be no less than fifty." the Americans retraced the steps of the women as far as was possible within the time constraints and buried the women who had died along the way They buried 95 victims in a special cemetery that the residents of Volary have tended to this day The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page approximately 1000 female Jewish prisoners were evacuated from the Schlesiersee (today Sława) camp in Upper Silesia These women were forced on a death march in a southwesterly direction the march ended in the town of Volary (German: Wallern) in Czechoslovakia 106 days of rigorous marching through snow Of the approximately 1,300 women who marched to Volary The exhibition is based on the most updated research on the death marches testimonies of survivors and US Army veterans and documentation from the trial of death march commander Alois Dörr approximately 1,000 female prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau - young women who had come mostly from Hungary and from the Lodz ghetto - were sent by train to Schlesiersee a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen in Lower Silesia where they lived in appallingly unsanitary conditions and slept on straw that had been strewn on the floor The commander of the camp was Karl Herman Jäschke of the German Security Police (Schutzpolizei) formerly a policeman in the Breslau prison the women marched about 3 km from the farms to the forced labor site They were forced to dig anti-tank trenches in the snow-covered earth using only shovels and other manual work tools and they were clothed in thin garments and given very little food Dozens perished in the course of the three-month forced labor period The dead were buried next to the fence surrounding their living quarters and since we were very poorly dressed some of us women took the one blanket they possessed and wore it out to work A check was made three or four times of all the woman returning from work and all those found wearing their blankets were given as punishment 25 whip strokes…The girls were whipped until they were bloody thirty received this punishment at one time We used to be beaten also for having our clothes a little wet or dirty.  It was practically impossible to avoid this since our work consisted of digging anti-tank ditches in the snow given to a US intelligence officer on 16 May 1945 in Volary the Germans evacuated the women from Schlesiersee This evacuation turned into a death march The death march of the female prisoners of the Schlesiersee camp under the supervision of camp commander Jäschke Jäschke was given orders to leave no one behind The women were marched on foot for eight days covering a distance of some 95 km in a northwesterly direction They did not know if and when they would be receiving more food Clad in thin garments and wearing unwieldy wooden clogs The weaker ones were pushed in wheelbarrows by their friends It is unclear how many women survived the journey and reached Grünberg or perished from hunger and exhaustion on the way were murdered in the vicinity of the village of Alt-Hauland Their bodies were later moved to a mass grave in the cemetery in nearby Kargowa A committee established to research crimes committed against the Polish people in Zielona Góra (formerly Grünberg) investigated the murder of the women in the forest and summarized as follows in their report of 1967: The German guards put aside 38 exhausted women who could not continue marching they were loaded onto three wagons… and removed together with seven guards who accompanied the transport to the forest the guards ordered the wagon drivers… to halt They then began to murder those defenseless women One of the wagon-drivers said in his testimony: The women… looked miserable and exhausted…the head of the village said that they were being taken to the hospital… When we reached the forest they [the German guards] ordered us to stop They pulled them by the hair and shot them… After the women were buried… those guards were drunk the women from Schlesiersee arrived at Grünberg a group of some 1,000 women arrived at our camp… most of them from Hungary and woman from Lodz… we didn't know that such things existed It was winter and they had been sleeping outdoors… the first thing they did when they arrived was to break into our cupboards and steal everything we had… they were very hungry We looked at them and we couldn't believe that human beings could look like that… little did we know that the same fate would befall us a forced labor camp for Jewish women was established in Grünberg The women were made to work in the local textile factory DWM (Deutche Wollwaren Manufaktur) Most of them were young – between the ages of 15 and 30 and had come to the camp from East Upper Silesia in Poland the camp went from being a forced labor camp established by Organization Schmelt (an economic network that managed a chain of sweatshops and camps exploiting the Jewish workforce in East Upper Silesia Lower Silesia and the Sudetenland) to a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen there were 971 female prisoners incarcerated in Grünberg One or two days after the women from Schlesiersee arrived The prisoners of Grünberg and Schlesiersee were divided into two groups was marched in a northwesterly direction until Jüterbog Many perished or were murdered along the way The survivors of this march reached Bergen-Belsen was marched approximately 480 km in a southwesterly direction and reached the Helmbrechts camp in Bavaria five weeks later Their possessions consisted of a thin blanket The commander of the march was the same man who had brought the prisoners from Schlesiersee – Karl Herman Jäschke The women who had come from Schlesiersee were in the worst shape Staying at Grünberg for only a day or two they had not yet recovered from their previous march but one of the guards shot her in the head a labor camp for women situated some 40 km southwest of Grünberg a few dozen women escaped the ranks of the marchers while others were caught and returned to Christianstadt We reached Christianstadt…all the streets there were full of people who had fled from the Russians I started to walk with all the Germans… suddenly I met my friend Mania… she had also escaped… and Mania was with a girl from Leipzig who could speak German Hanka said that we should say we are refugees who need a place to sleep for the night… we went into a house and they gave us a bed… We fell asleep… in the middle of the night we heard knocking at the door… Police!…They took us to the police station where there were already some sick girls whom they had put on a sled… we had to drag them a few kilometers until we reached the camp where the girls were… we got a terrible beating… the man who had brought us told the camp guard to watch over us until morning… he would hang us with his own two hands he said… our friend Hanka spoke to the German and convinced her to let us out of the cellar where we had been locked up following a stay of some two days in the Christianstadt camp It would seem that some female prisoners from Christianstadt were added to the group of women that had arrived from Grünberg They continued in a southwesterly direction Some women who had come from Grünberg took advantage of the chaos that ensued when the camp was evacuated and escaped Every escape attempt foiled by the march escorts resulted in savage fatal beatings or in the shooting of the escapees In the course of the journey from Christianstadt to Weisswasser several were beaten and shot; this was the first time that Grünberg prisoners witnessed a public execution describes the will to escape in her memoir All But My Life: Several girls had already slipped away under cover of darkness… "We must go," I wanted to whisper Instead I heard my voice saying: "Maybe tonight." "All assemble!" the voice of the SS rang out Than we heard screams and frightened begging from the forest Three SS men had rounded up fourteen girls in the forest The commandant fired again and again and the girls fell I closed my eyes and held Ilse's hand tightly At that moment I vowed that I would never try to escape never step off the path that was leading us to death about a week after the public execution of the escapees in Weisswasser the women stopped for the night near Bautzen the guards discovered that some loaves were missing No one confessed to the theft of the bread The prisoners were ordered to stand in line and every tenth prisoner was taken to the forest and shot Between fifty and sixty women were shot that day Another 8 or so other women were also taken to the forest and ordered to bury the dead Halina Kleiner was amongst those chosen to bury the murdered women This job earned each of the women a loaf of bread: no emotions apart from the terrible hunger The massive bombardments looked like an enormous bonfire to the women as if the whole world was going up in flames Mary Robinson-Reichmann recalls in her testimony that some of the prisoners were forced by the guards to spend an entire night on one of the bridges in the hope that the bridge would be targeted and that they would die 179 prisoners who had been defined as "unfit to walk" were sent by Jäschke on farmers' wagons to the Zwodau camp The rest of the women carried on marching 621 prisoners reached the Helmbrechts camp Jäschke and his men left them to the mercies of the commander of Helmbrechts SS Unterscharführer Alois Dörr and his staff On arrival their clothes were taken away for fumigation They were forced to stand naked for hours Helmbrechts was a concentration camp for women in Bavaria The camp was established in the summer of 1944 and comprised some 600 non-Jewish forced laborers They worked in the munitions factory in the town of Helmbrechts Their stay in the camp is described by the survivors as hell on earth – the hardest part of the death march with neither heating or even minimal sanitation and a few dozen women were housed there on wooden bunks a thin layer of straw covered the cold floor which were woefully inadequate for the hundreds of prisoners they were whipped because the hut was dirty The prisoners received no medical treatment in Helmbrechts and their food rations were especially meager One of the punishments meted out to the prisoners at Helmbrechts was to stand for hours under the hut roof while water dripped slowly on their heads was punished in this manner for owning "smuggled" photographs of her murdered family She was forced to stand barefoot for an entire day in freezing temperatures 44 Jewish prisoners perished in Helmbrechts These women were later buried in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in the nearby city of Hof 577 Jewish prisoners and some 590 non-Jewish prisoners including the 25 German women Dörr ordered the distribution of spare clothing left in the camp amongst only the non-Jewish prisoners The prisoners were escorted by the camp staff The women marched in a southeasterly direction 60 sick Jewish prisoners were taken in trucks to Schwarzenbach an der Saale and had to be supported by their fellow marchers Each day there were those who didn't wake up killings and beatings.Tema Weinstock (née Pinczewska) the women marched 17 km from Helmbrechts to Schwarzenbach one of the guards shot a prisoner who couldn't march any further She was buried in the cemetery in Ahornberg a village occupied by the Americans a day earlier the starving prisoners begged for food and water but most of the guards prevented the locals from helping them one of the guards led two exhausted women into the forest and shot them in the head The Americans who entered Modlitz on 15 April found their bodies and buried them where they had been found one of the guards shot two more women who could not go on residents of Modlitz buried her where she was found one of the guards shot a 20-year-old prisoner in the head because in her weakened state she had fallen behind the marchers residents of Wölbersbach found her body and buried her there After the march had passed through Seulbitz and reached a narrow gully guards shot four women in the head who were too weak to go on Their bodies were found the next day by residents of Seulbitz and buried there the women reached Schwarzenbach an der Saale The prisoners who had arrived on foot spent the night outdoors in a fenced yard on the outskirts of the town The sick prisoners who had arrived by truck were led to a building thanks to the intervention of the Deputy Mayor of Schwarzenbach One of the female guards from the truck pushed and dragged them The sick women did not receive food either five of the sick women in the building perished Another dying prisoner was taken to the cemetery in Schwarzenbach together with the 5 dead women the sick women were made to climb up onto a wagon that was attached to a tractor Their condition had deteriorated drastically and one of the female guards beat them with a truncheon for not alighting fast enough the tractor drove via the yard where the marchers had slept and picked up another 15 women who could go no further the remaining women marched 17 km from Schwarzenbach an der Saale one of the prisoners fell behind and Kowaliv Her body was found later and buried where it was discovered The day's second victim was a prisoner who was taken into the forest left of the road between Rehau and Asch some 5 km after the march had passed through Rehau two more prisoners from Hungary – 29-year-old Aranka Brody and 17-year-old Elsa Habermann – were shot 40-50 meters apart The bodies of all four women were found by the Americans They were buried in a mass grave in Rehau 24-year-old Basha Wechsler of Dąbrowa Górnica Basha was being supported by her friend Anny Keller (Hanah Kotlicki) pulled Basha away from her friend and dragged her into the forest situated on the mountainous border between Germany and Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland) The prisoners didn't receive any food that day A messenger from the SS arrived in Neuhausen and informed Alois Dörr that he was under orders to stop shooting prisoners and to release them as the Americans were approaching The guards were also ordered to stop shooting and harming the prisoners Dörr was notified that the Americans were 15 km away from Neuhausen He was told that negotiations with the Allies were taking place and was ordered to destroy all documentation and decided to continue the march immediately In the ensuing chaos caused by the nocturnal departure some 50 prisoners from the group of non-Jewish women that had left Helmbrechts some of the female guards seized the opportunity to escape under cover of darkness where they met the sick prisoners whom had been sent there from Ölsniz by Karl Herman Jäschke commander of the first section of the march Of the 160 sick women who had arrived at Zwodau 37 perished by the time the camp was evacuated The marchers also met the sick women who had been sent on the truck from Schwarzenbach to Rehau Some 150 Jewish female prisoners who had been transferred there from other camps even before the group from Helmbrechts had arrived Dörr was given orders to leave all the non-Jewish prisoners he had brought from Helmbrechts and to take with him only the German women and the Jewish prisoners during which time they marched more than 70 km they reached Neustadt in the pouring rain on the afternoon of 23 April the marchers reached the village of Wilkenau in the afternoon Those who were too weak and sick to walk were carried on horse-drawn wagons escorted by guards and retreating German soldiers the column was strafed by low-flying US aircraft Several prisoners were wounded and killed Some soldiers took the wounded Netka Demska to the local military hospital and later one of the guards brought her back to the march One of the guards wouldn't allow her to be treated for her wounds Several horses were also killed in the bombardment The ravenous prisoners swooped down on the dead horses tearing the raw meat and fat with their bare hands and devouring it Her friend Lola Lehrer brought her some horse liver to eat and Mary is convinced that this saved her life prepared for them by the residents of Wilkenau on the orders of the guards They were buried together with the prisoner who had been shot they slept on the snow in the open field where they stopped for the night the women found the bodies of those who had perished in the night a guard shot one of them in the chest near Neugramatin the women crossed the border between the Sudetenland and the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia (today part of the Czech Republic) and reached the city of Taus (today the Czech city of Domažlice) The locals tried to give the prisoners food and drink and were openly hostile towards the German guards who tried to disperse them by shooting into the air Some of the women took advantage of the situation and escaped the Czech residents of the village of Mraken tried to feed the marching prisoners Dörr became careful to avoid the main roads and to veer the march towards Sudeten settlements that had been evacuated of their Czech inhabitants Dörr demanded that the Mayor find lodging for all the prisoners The Mayor explained that there was no granary large enough to contain them all and suggested housing them in several different locations Dörr decided that the women would spend the night outdoors the prisoners didn't receive anything to eat At least 3 women perished during the night 325 Jewish prisoners and 25 German prisoners reached Volary The group that had marched on foot arrived in the evening and the sick women brought on wagons arrived later that night The residents of Volary tried to give the women food but the guards prevented them from doing so One of the female guards beat the prisoners who stretched out their hands for food Dörr had decided to let the remaining prisoners go He planned to take them to the neighboring city of Prachatice on the border between the Protectorate (Czechoslovakia) and Germany the Jewish women underwent a selection at the hands of Dörr 150 Jewish women and the 25 Germans continued the march on foot The remaining 175 were categorized as unfit to walk 35 of them were hauled up onto vehicles driven by Dörr and some of the guards the intention being to rustle up more vehicles to bring the rest of the women to Prachatice the vehicles were strafed by a low-flying American aircraft Some of the prisoners took advantage of the situation to escape but most of the women in the vehicles were too weak and the guards locked them up in a granary in the town of Bierbruck 3 guards caught 12 women from the group who were walking The guards were eager to avenge the death of Ruth Schultz and the injuries of the other guards and were angry that the Jewish women had not been hurt It would seem that one of the guards was Schultz's boyfriend The group of marchers continued via Pfefferschlag towards Prachatice Her body was found after the Americans arrived and she was buried in the cemetery in Prachatice The marching women reached Prachatice at night and charge of them was transferred to the local home guard In the shack of a furniture factory in Volary The two guards that had been left in charge of them waited in vain for the vehicles to return from Prachatice and to collect them together with the prisoners 3 guards evicted all but one of the women from the granary in Bierbruck where they had been locked up the guards forced them to run up the mountain and into the adjacent forest the guards released the last three women who were still alive Luba Federman (Dzilovski) and Jadzia Goldblum - survived Some of the women who had carried on marching to Prachatice managed to escape The remainder was handed over by Alois Dörr to the local home guard The women feared that they were about to be executed did the women realize that they were unguarded They descended the mountain in an easterly direction towards the rising sun – the direction of the Russians a Czech village in the territory of the Protectorate They arrived when the villagers were in church saw one of the women and alerted the church-goers the villagers brought soft food from their homes The doctor telephoned the mayor of the neighboring city of Vodňany The women were housed in the local school in Vodňany 12 women suffering from typhus were transferred to the hospital in nearby Volyně where two of them – Masha Heide and Liwia Zaks – died started to administer treatment to the sick women who had been left in the shack She knew we were free but did not seem elated "She went out to get water and hasn't returned She has been gone a long time"… I went out to look for Suse but for a moment I did not realized she was dead… "Suse Liesel Stepper also perished in the hospital in Volary two days after they had arrived at the shack in Volary the Americans opened a comprehensive investigation in order to establish what these women had endured and how they had come to be in the deplorable state in which they were found testimonies were gathered from some of the survivors of the march and from some of the SS women who had accompanied the march The investigation was headed by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert F the resulting report contains shocking photographs of the survivors after their arrival in Volary The German military hospital in Volary was situated in a 4-storey school building the 118 women were transferred from the shack of the furniture factory in Volary to the first two floors of the hospital after the wounded German soldiers there were evicted 111 of them were suffering from malnutrition and severe vitamin deficiency to supervise their transfer to the hospital He arrived at the shack of the furniture factory in Volary on the afternoon of 7 May In the testimony he gave two days later he relates: My first glance at these individuals was one of extreme shock not ever believing that a human being can be degraded can be so skinny and even live under such circumstances.. like mice on top of one another too weak to as much as raise an arm… when I entered the room I thought that we had a group of old men lying… at that time judged their ages ranged between fifty and sixty years I was surprised and shocked when I asked one of these girls how old she was and she said seventeen when to me she appeared to be no less than fifty… about seventy-five percent had to be carried in by litters The other twenty-five percent were able with the help of others to drag their weary bodies from the shack to the ambulance… As a medical officer of the United States it is my opinion that at least fifty percent of these 118 women would have died within twenty-four hours were they not located and given the best of care among them 25-year-old Fela Szeps of Dąbrowa Górnicza Fela perished in the hospital in Volary on 9 May The photograph of her dying on the wooden plank bed was distributed amongst the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Infantry Division Guccia and Mina had all marched together from Schlesiersee Guccia and Fela were murdered along the way She was the youngest of four sisters who started out on the march together from Grünberg buried her in the cemetery in Volary and left only after the shiva (seven days of mourning) Most of the survivors that recuperated left Volary in July 1945 The Americans established a cemetery for victims of the march in Volary and buried the women who had perished along the way There are 95 graves in the cemetery in Volary The residents of Volary have tended the graves from the end of the war to this day commander of the Death March from Helmbrechts to Volary was put on trial in 1969 in the court of Hof he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment commander of the Death March from Schlesiersee to Helmbrechts was incarcerated in a Polish prison in 1947 for war crimes Germany commenced the preparation of an indictment against Inge Schimming (Asmus) one of the SS women who escorted the march Asmus died in Berlin before she was brought to trial most of the death march survivors left Volary in July 1945 Some returned home in the hope of locating surviving family members Most of the women reached the Displaced Persons camps situated in Austria they began the slow and painful process of rebuilding their lives most of the women left Europe and immigrated to other countries the search for work and the inevitable language barriers brought new challenges started families and became involved in community life and they found joy and fulfillment in being able to give their annihilated families new life They are searching for a 37-year-old who fled in a gray 2018 Honda Pilot Monday (May 5) for more than 3,200 seats on city councils moving to the new Redondo Heights housing complex Longtime resident Richard Helmbrecht dies at 79PNJMRichard Helmbrecht He graduated from Pennsylvania State University he held several posts under Michigan Governors George Romney and William Milliken executive director of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority and director of the Michigan State Department of Commerce He was also president of the National Association of State Housing Directors and an advisor on housing policy to President Ronald Reagan He later worked as an investment banker for several firms in New York City he continued his service as chairman of the Board of the Buck Hill Falls Company in Buck Hill Falls and president of the Board of Ridgecrest Senior Citizens Housing in Ridgewood He was the husband of Rosemarie of Ridgewood; father of Hope Helmbrecht (Steve Krom) of Denver Stacy Helmbrecht Wilson (Charlie Wilson) of Plymouth Services will be held at Christ Church in Ridgewood at 11 a.m Memorial donations may be made to Michigan State University’s James G Helmbrecht Memorial Scholarship Fund in the Department of Forestry Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising the hospitality startup that pioneered the travel apartment concept in the alternative accommodation space announced the addition of Steve Helmbrecht as President and CFO With the company driving substantial expansion to help lead Stay Alfred’s next phase of growth.With the travel apartment concept Stay Alfred introduced travelers to a new category that combines the space and local feel of a vacation rental with the consistency Stay Alfred partners with developers and property managers to master-lease Class-A downtown apartment buildings delivering improved NOI and reduced absorption time.“This is an exciting time to join Stay Alfred,” said Helmbrecht “The company has grown significantly over eight years with the type of discipline and customer obsession you expect from a category leader There is increasing recognition of Stay Alfred’s value proposition making it the perfect time to invest in expansion who was instrumental in raising over $2 billion in equity and senior and subordinated debt capital for Itron will focus on forming strategic alliances and building new investor relationships to secure capital for Stay Alfred.“Stay Alfred has earned a reputation as a great operator which is the ultimate ingredient for mixed-use short-term rental success,” said Helmbrecht “Maintaining operational excellence as we expand in new and existing markets will allow us to deliver exceptional value to our guests and returns for our investors.”Working closely with the executive leadership team Helmbrecht is committed to preserving Stay Alfred’s culture of innovation where employees are encouraged to challenge the status quo Helmbrecht’s hire is a key part of Stay Alfred’s senior leadership build out.“We’ve been very deliberate in building out Stay Alfred's senior leadership team due to the intricacies of our business and unique company culture," said Jordan Allen "Steve joins at a critical time as we prepare for global expansion.”Previous key leadership team hires "With the alternative accommodations industry continuing to grow Steve’s hire comes at the perfect time,” said Jordan Allen "We're ready to meet the explosion of demand for travel apartments."## Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInA man accused of killing his neighbor in Eau Claire is now charged was charged with first degree intentional homicide in Eau Claire County Court Thursday morning He was arrested Saturday in connection to the shooting death of Jen Ward four 911 callers reported a break-in followed by multiple gunshots and screams coming from a home on Simon Ct Two of those callers were Ward's children The criminal complaint says Helmbrecht confronted Ward with a rifle while calling her a demon and shot her multiple times Ward’s children were hiding in the home at the time When police responded they found Helmbrecht trying to flee the scene and took him into custody at gun point In the criminal complaint Helmbrecht told police after he was arrested that he quote "cast demons to hell" Helmbrecht answered "because they eat babies." He also told police about having voices in his head that told him what to do The complaint goes on to say Helmbrecht admitted using methamphetamine the day before the shooting Helmbrecht is a combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan In the complaint Helmbrecht's parents say he needed medical attention for symptoms similar to those of post-traumatic stress disorder Both Eau Claire District Attorney Gary King and legal representation for Helmbrecht declined to comment (WEAU) -- A man accused of killing his neighbor in Eau Claire is now charged was charged with first degree intentional homicide in Eau Claire County Court earlier Thursday morning Eau Claire County District Attorney Gary King says Helmbrecht confronted Ward with a rifle and shot her multiple times Helmbrecht answered "because they eat babies." King says Helmbrecht admitted using methamphetamine the day before the shooting In the complaint Helmbrecht's parents says say he has symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder Maximilian Helmbrecht detected antioxidants in foodstuffs as part of his bachelor’s thesis and received the Fischer-Nernst Award of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) for it the 23-year-old is making sure that new talents can grow in the STEM sector Maximilian Helmbrecht didn’t have a hard time deciding on HU because his unusual combination of subjects—geography and chemistry with teacher training—is only offered on the Adlershof Campus and nowhere else in Berlin Helmbrecht’s passion for the natural sciences was sparked by his sister What intrigued him most about geography was the combination of physical and anthropogenic components he takes care of up-and-coming talent at Humboldt-ProMINT-Kolleg He is happy to contribute to getting young people passionate about science “I enjoy analytical work because one derives a certain property from every type of structure.” This is also what he did in the thesis for his BA “I created a filter paper test based on metal oxide nanoparticles to detect antioxidants in food samples.” In terms of handling the test is quite similar to a COVID-19 lateral flow test Helmbrecht uses a circular piece of filter paper that he dips in metal oxide nanoparticles which are metals with one or more oxygen atoms The number of oxygen atoms depends on the metal particle in the molecule Metal oxide nanoparticles are invisible to the human eye “We can perceive anything on a scale of up to one millimetre quite well If you divide a millimetre into a million pieces you get a nanometre.” The advantage of this minuscule entity is that it can be easily reduced through antioxidants while the metal oxides absorb these electrons the formal charge of the metal particle is reduced This reduction of nanoparticles causes the colour change.” When testing with cerium oxide nanoparticles the filter paper turns brown if it contains antioxidants; when testing with iron oxide nanoparticles Based on the intensity of the colour change it is possible to measure how much antioxidants were in the sample He first tested the reaction using a reference molecule “This is an essential antioxidant that we ingest through food and require to carry out certain metabolic processes.” Gallic acid is found and blackcurrants as well as green and black tea He used green tea and red wines from well-known brands The result: Green tea has a higher antioxidant capacity than red wine Helmbrecht is glad that his experiment worked it happens very often that you try something and it doesn’t work you have to find an explanation why it didn’t.” Since his final thesis also convinced the prize jury of the HU’s Department of Chemistry Maximilian Helmbrecht is scheduled to receive the Fischer-Nernst Award on 14 February 2024 Helmbrecht is currently working on his master’s thesis in chemistry didactics on how young people learn best from the perspective of a teacher “I have looked at this already during my BA and now I want to do so in greater detail because the question is intriguing and cannot be answered in a generalised way.” Maximilian Helmbrecht will now be teaching an eighth and tenth-grade class at a STEM high school two to three times a week as part of a six-month internship in Spandau Siemensstadt under the guidance of mentors When asked whether his pupils realise that they are dealing with an award-winning teacher The focus shouldn’t be on me as a person but on the students.” Susanne Gietl for Adlershof Journal The development of the Science and Technology Park Berlin Adlershof was and is co-financed by the European Union namely by EFRE. This concerns infrastructure development like construction of technology centres Furthermore EFRE is used for international projects.