This history of the Bavarian market town, Floss, comes to us as sixty-two handwritten sheets that once belonged to Bella Thannhauser Wirz. The first thirty-six pages are apparently an unfinished attempt to make a cleaner copy of an older set of papers. The remaining pages, written in an older, more distinctive, even idiosyncratic hand is presumably by the original author. Internal evidence shows that the first run-through was finished in or after 1923 and that the author was a Christian inhabitant of the town. Dr. Wirz was born in 1890 and her Thannhauser ancestors had roots in Floss. Thus, she may well have known either the original author or his or her amanuensis. Unfortunately, the mystery of their identities remains unresolved. Dr. Wirz immigrated to Jerusalem with her daughter, Alisa, in 1933 and lived in the city until her death in 1980. Since Alisa’s death, her family in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have lovingly preserved myriad papers and artifacts of these two remarkable women.