Michael Berolzheimer Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents on the history of the Berolzheimer family, as well as family trees of the Berolzheimers and related families. It includes copies of censuses, vital records, and tax lists of the Jewish communities of Berolzheim, Fuerth, Heidenheim, Mittelfranken, and Redwitz an der Rodach from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and photos of cemeteries and ritual objects. The Addenda include a letter (1939) from Michael Berolzheimer to Charles and Lois Berolzheimer.
The following families are mentioned in this collection: Asyl family; Auspitz family; Bechmann family; Behrens family; Bendit family; Benedict family; Bergmann family; Berlin family; Berolzheim family; Berolzheimer family; Beselau family; Besels family; Bessels family; Besselsohn family; Biedermann family; Bing family; Binswanger family; Bloch family; Bondi family; Brilin family; Brill family; Brillin family; Bruehl family; Bruell family; Buechenbacher family; Cassel (Cassella), Loeb, family; Eger family; Engel family; Eskeles family; Ettlinger family; Faber du Faur, von, family; Falkenau family; Fellheimer family; Fraenkel, Albert family; Fraenkel family; Fraenkel-Fellheimer family; Friedberg family; Friedmann family; Gablenz-Eskeles family; Gagern family; Goldschmidt family; Gomperts family; Gomperz family; Gosdorfer family; Greenhood family; Groedel family; Guenzburger family; Gueterbock family; Gumperts family; Gumpertz family; Gumperz family; Guthmann family; Gutmann family; Haas family; Hausmann family; Heilbronn family; Heine family; Henle, von, family; Herzfelder family; Hirsch family; Hirsch, von, family; Hirschel family; Hopf family; Iglauer family; Josephthal family; Katzenellenbogen family; Katzenelnbogen family; Kaula family; Kaulla family; Koenigswarter family; Krakenberger family; Lang family; Lehmann family; Levy family; Lieser family; Mannheimer family; Mendelssohn family; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy family; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Lea, family; Menzels family; Meyerbeer family; Meyerbeer, Giacomo, family; Midas family; Nathan family; Nathan, Esther, family; Neuburger family; Neustaedter family; Newburger family; Oettinger family; Offenbacher family; Ollesheimer family; Oppenheim family; Oppenheimer family; Oppheim, Jechiel family; Oppler family; Osterberg family; Pessels family; Pesselssohn family; Pfeiffer, von, family; Prager family; Priel family; Prill family; Raule family; Reitzenberger family; Rindskopf family; Rosenbaum family; Scherer family; Schnebel family; Schwab family; Schweizer family; Spira family; Steiner family; Stettauer family; Strupp family; Tuchmann family; Uhlmann family; Ullmo family; Ullstein family; Wassermann family; Wedeles family; Wertheim family; Wertheimber family; Wertheimer family; Wertheimstein family; Willstaetter family; Wimpffen family; Winkler family; Wolf family; Wolfskehl family; Zaudy family; and Zwehl, von, family.
The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Andronin, Cecile, Baroness; Auspitz, Stephan v.; Bauer, David; Behrens, Siegfried; Bendit, Leo; Berlin, Abraham Meier; Berlin, Roeschen Dina; Bernstein, Max; Berolzheim, Maennlein; Berolzheimer, Babette; Berolzheimer, Baruch; Berolzheimer, Daniel; Berolzheimer, Edel; Berolzheimer, Emanuel; Berolzheimer, Fanny; Berolzheimer, Frederike; Berolzheimer, Gluecksche; Berolzheimer, Haennlein Hirsch; Berolzheimer, Heinrich; Berolzheimer, Hirsch; Berolzheimer, Leah; Berolzheimer, Menachem Maennlah; Berolzheimer, Michael; Berolzheimer, Michael G.; Berolzheimer, Mirjam; Berolzheimer, Moses Jakob; Berolzheimer, Naftali Hirsch; Berolzheimer, Philip; Berolzheimer, Reikel; Berolzheimer, Salomon Loeb; Berolzheimer, Simon; Berolzheimer, Telzela; Berolzheimer, Theresa; Bienenfeld, Else; Biermann, Franz; Bondi, Simon Isaak; Carl Thedor von Bayern, Kurfuerst; Deutsch, Hermann; Fraenkel, Albert; Fraenkel, Michael; Fraenkel, Michael Koppel; Freudenthal, Else; Freudenthal, Max, Rabbi; Groedel, Ephraim; Grombacher, H.; Haas, Ludwig; Hamburger, Theodor; Harburger, Theo; Heine, Heinrich; Henle, Jacob; Hoenigsberg, Hoenig Edler v.; Katzenelnbogen, Isaak; Katzenellenbogen, Jakob Pinchas; Kaula, Friedrich; Koenigsberger, Moritz; Krakenberger, Isaak; Jakobovitz, Tobias; Josephthal, Gustav; Josephthal, Hans; Lamm, Louis; Lewy, Rudolf; Lewy, Wolf Samuel; Lieben, S.H.; Loewi, Isak; Maennlein, Moritz; Mannheimer, David; Mendelssohn, Moses; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Lea; Meyerbeer, Giacomo; Neuberger, Hirsch Model; Nathan von Oberhausen; Newberger, Alfred H.; Oppenheim, Michael; Oppenheimer, Albert; Oppenheimer, Menachem Mendel Emanuel; Oppenheimer, Simon Wolf; Phiebig, Albert J.; Prager, Fanny; Prager, Joachim; Rosenbaum, Benno; Rosenthal, Berthold; Salin, Edgar; Tuchmann, Friedrich Carl; Ullstein, Hermann; Ullstein, Leopold; Ulmann, Emil; Wachstein, Bernhard; Wassermann, Jakob; Wertheim, Liepman Cohen; Wertheimber, Abraham Wolf; Wertheimber, Eleanor; Wertheimber, Lazarus Samuel; Wertheimber, Loew Isaak; Wertheimber, Philipp; Wertheimber, R. Simson; Wertheimber, Regine; Wertheimstein, Edler von; Wolf, Wolf; and Wolfskehl, Karl.
The following locations are mentioned in this collection: Ansbach, Austria, Baiersdorf, Bavaria, Bayreuth, Bechhofen, Berlin, Berolzheim, Burgkunstadt, Buttenwiesen, Cronheim, Czechoslovakia, Dresden, Dinkelsbuehl, Franconia, Fuerth, Gunzenhausen, Haigersloch, Harburg, Heidenheim, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Kriegshaber, Leipzig, Mainz, Mannheim, Markbreit, Mertingen, Mittelfranken, Moehren, Munich, Nuremberg, Oettingen-Wallerstein, Oppenheim, Pappenheim, Paris, Pfersee, Prague, Redwitz a.d. Rodach, Schopfloch, Treuchtlingen, Uehlfeld, Vienna, and Wertheim.
Dates
- 1325-1942
Creator
- Berolzheimer, Michael, 1866-1942 (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in German, English, and Hebrew.
Access Restrictions
Open to researchers.
Collection is microfilmed; use MF 550 (3 reels).
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 "Request" 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
Born in Fuerth on February 22, 1866, Michael Berolzheimer was a lawyer whose chief vocation was genealogy. He left Germany on July 26, 1938 for Zurich, Switzerland, than departed Europe via Le Havre, France on September 8, 1938. He arrived in New York on September 15, 1938. Michael Berolzheimer died in Mount Vernon, New York, on June 5, 1942.
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Abstract
This collection contains documents on the history of the Berolzheimer family, as well as family trees of the Berolzheimers and related families.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 8 series.
- Inventory, undated
- Series A: Manuscript: "Die Familie Berolzheimer", undated
- Series B: Family Trees, undated
- Series C: Jewish Community Registries, undated
- Series D: Berolzheimer Family Documents and Varia, undated
- Series E: Photographs, undated
- Series F: Correspondence with Other Family Researchers, undated, 1927-1939
- Series G: Newspaper Clippings, 1924-1938
- Series H: Varia, undated, 1760-1939
Microfilm
Collection is available on 3 reels of microfilm (MF 550).
- Reel 1: 1/0 - 1/5
- Reel 2: 1/6; 2/1 - 2/4
- Reel 3: 2/5 - 2/6; 3/1 - 3/7
Separated Material
Most photographs removed to LBI Photograph Collection.
- Archival materials
- Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
- Bayerisches Staatsarchiv Nürnberg
- Berolzheimer & Illfelder (firm) (Fuerth)
- Berolzheimer family
- Cemeteries
- Genealogical tables
- Genealogy
- Germany -- History -- 1789-1900
- Gesellschaft für Jüdische Familien-Forschung (Germany)
- Industrialists
- Jewish cities and towns
- Jews -- Genealogy
- Judaism -- Customs and practices
- Louis Lamm Verlagsbuchhandlung (firm) (Berlin)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Marriage
- Moritz Kaufmann'sche Familienstiftung
- Photographs
- Schutzbriefe (letters of protection)
- Schutzjuden -- Protected Jews
- Vital statistics records
- Wills
- Title
- Michael Berolzheimer Collection, 1325-1942 AR 4136 / MF 550
- Author
- Processed by LBI Staff
- Date
- © 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- 2010-03-23 : encoding of linking to digital objects from finding aid was changed from <extref> to <dao> through dao_conv.xsl.
- 2012-09-24.: Biographical note edited.
Repository Details
Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository