JOSEF GANZ and his "Swiss Volkswagen" in the amazing "museum on demand" presentation in the Verkehrshaus Luzern: We were there on February 18 with a film team who made an interview with editor Paul Schilperoord ("Het ware verhaal van de Kever").

THE GERMAN BOOK will be published at Huber Verlag Frauenfeld, the Swiss publishing company belonging to the Orell Füssli group! We are sure that this very important translation will have a big impact on the German "home market" of the Beetle as well as in Switzerland where the Swiss Volkswagen called Rapid has been produced! The book "Die wahre Geschichte des VW Käfers - Wie die Nazis Josef Ganz die VW-Patente stahlen" will be released in spring 2011!

Please find the spring catalog of Huber Verlag Frauenfeld here!
You can pre-order the book on Amazon!!

THE PORTUGUESE BOOK has been published in Brazil in November 2010! After the original Dutch book, this is the first translation on the market. The title is "A Verdadeira História do FUSCA - Como Hitler se Apropriou da Invenção de um Gênio Judeu. "

Please find more information here!
You can order the book on the website of the publisher!

A T-SHIRT of the Josef Ganz website is available! On the front side the Josef Ganz logo is printed in white in digital print quality and on the back side the websites www.josef-ganz.com and www.ganz-volkswagen.org are mentioned.

Please contact us to order your personal Josef Ganz t-shirt!

THE DUTCH BOOK "Het ware verhaal van de Kever" by Paul Schilperoord is available in the press stores. The second print has been published only four months after the first release!

Download the book cover of the 2nd edition of "Het ware verhaal van de Kever" by Paul Schilperoord (published by Veen Magazines)

RTL7: Gek op Wielen
“This is one of those personal stories, like that of Anne Frank, taking place in one of the most important periods in world history” – Bavo Galama

BNR Nieuwsradio: De Nationale Autoshow
“It is a Hitchcock-like story” – Carlo Brandsen (editor in chief of Carros Magazine)

VPRO OVT
“The life story of Ganz reads like a thriller” – Michal Citroen

The book will also be published in other languages than Dutch! Please find here the latest status of the ongoing translation projects:
English:
A contract with a publisher had been signed and the book translated! Expect the book to be released in fall 2010!
REALIZED! Portuguese:
A Contract with Editora Alaúde has been signed. The publication had been planned for 2010.
REALIZED! German:
Negotiations with Swiss and German publishers are going on. The publication is expected for 2011.

We support the following self-financing projects with promotional activities, no money is involved from our side.

REALIZED! A BOOK about the life of Josef Ganz will be published by Paul Schilperoord. After years of research all over the world, the Dutch journalist is ready to reveal the true story of the Volkswagen Beetle. Josef-ganz.com is supporting Paul Schilperoord in any possible way. Please visit his book-related website.

A DOCUMENTARY will be produced, based on the book of Paul Schilperoord. Interviews of Josef Ganz's friends will be as impressive as the hard facts presented in the movie.

The following projects are supported financially, they are part of the mission of our foundation.

PRESERVE THE ARCHIVE of Josef Ganz is one of our main goals. The thousands of documents and pictures should be protected and well preserved for the future generations. We also want to show this archive to a wide public.

A MUSEUM is a very good way to present the great work of the engineer and journalist Josef Ganz to a wide public. We are working on a carefully composed exhibition of prototype cars, documents, pictures and interactive elements to create an emotional view on the life of the Jewish genius.

THE AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME is "The Highest Place of Honor in the International Motor Vehicle Industry". We are convinced that Josef Ganz's work should be honored with the membership of this foundation.

PROMOTION of the person Josef Ganz and his achievements is also a part of our work. We use the latest technologies on the internet to catch the attention of a wide public.

CONTINUOUS RESEARCH is very important. There are still many interesting questions to answer around the person of Josef Ganz. We are not only interested in technical history, but also in his family and his private life.

COLLECTING magazines, pictures and letters of Josef Ganz is an endless work. There are so many interesting documents and photographs (Ganz was an enthusiastic photographer). We want to collect them all to further enrich the Josef Ganz Archive.

CREATING MODELS of the cars designed by Josef Ganz is another interesting project. We already own construction plans of the Rapid car designed by the Jewish engineer in Switzerland and 3D pictures of other prototypes. It is our goal to reproduce some of the models in 1:1 scale.