Werner Marx Family Collection
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains mainly photocopies of family trees and other documents about the history of the Marx, Dreyfuss (Dreifuss), Freiberg, Deutsch, and Tuteur families. These documents constitute the research material for Werner Marx's book Circumstances. The majority of the documents are from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The collection includes family and legal records, correspondence (among modern researchers as well as in older letters and postcards), written family histories, general history articles, and photographs.
Dates
- 1796-2003
- Majority of material found in 1820-1850, 1932-1945, 1990-2003
Creator
- Marx, Werner J. B., 1930- (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in English and German, with some French.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Access Information
Readers may access the collection by visiting the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History. We recommend reserving the collection in advance; please visit the LBI Online Catalog and click on the "Reserve" button.
Use Restrictions
There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact:
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: lbaeck@lbi.cjh.org
Biographical Note
Werner Marx was born in 1930 in the Northern Palatinate (Nordpfalz, Germany), the region where his family had lived for generations. In 1939 Werner and his family immigrated to the United States on board the S.S. Deutschland, via Hamburg. After completing his military service with the U.S. Air Force, he went to the Rochester Institute of Technology and graduated there in 1953 with a degree in Photographic Technology. In 2003 his book Circumstances was published by Northeast Color Laboratory, describing the history of four Jewish German families: Marx, Dreyfuss (this family was distantly related to Captain Alfred Dreyfus), Freiberg and Deutsch. Werner was the son of Sigmund Marx (1881-1946) and Helene Freiberg (1892-1987); Sigmund Marx was the son of Jakob Marx (1844-1914) and Marianna Dreyfuss (1846-1914), whose own family, generations earlier, was related to the Marx family.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection contains a variety of vital records, identification papers, legal documents and family records from the Dreyfuss, Freiberg, and Marx families, mostly from the 19th century, as well as family trees, personal histories, and research material, much of which was used in Werner Marx's book, Circumstances: a family history.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in two series:
Digitization Note
The collection was digitized and made accessible in its entirety.
Separated Material
See also the Marx and Freiburg family portrait album – ALB 187.
- Correspondence
- Deutsch family
- Dreyfuss family
- Freiberg family
- Genealogical tables
- Ingenheim (Germany)
- Jewish families
- Jews -- Germany
- Jews -- Germany -- Genealogy
- Jews -- Social life and customs
- Kirchheimbolanden (Germany)
- Legal documents
- Marx family
- Marx, Helene
- Marx, Sigmund, 1881-1946
- Marx, Werner J. B., 1930-
- Notes (documents)
- Palatinate (Germany) -- History
- Photocopies
- Photographs
- Rockenhausen (Germany)
- Sohren (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
- Title
- Guide to the Papers of the Werner Marx Family 1796-2003 AR 25181
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Michael Himmel
- Date
- © 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- Digitization made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
- Edition statement
- This version was derived from WernerMarxFamily.xml
Revision Statements
- June 2015: dao links and digitization information added by Leanora Lange.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository
