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Genealogical tables

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 503 Collections and/or Records:

Landsberger Gans Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25331
Abstract

The collection contains various letters, certificates, photographs, and printed materials relating to the families of Carl Heinz Gans and Ruth Landsberger.

Dates: 1887-2008; Majority of material found within 1934-1972

Landshut Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 55
Scope and Contents

Folder 1 and 2 mostly contain documents (invitations, songs, poems, speeches, wills) pertaining to occasions such as weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, golden weddings, and birthdays of various family members, but also official documents such as school certificates, identity cards, police clearances etc. from the years 1833 to 1955 (including undated materials), and family correspondence (1865-1931).

Folder 3 contains materials pertaining to Selma Wittenberg née Landshut (1878-1960). It includes manuscripts by Selma Wittenberg, a notebook titled "Lehrgut Wittgenstein und die Seinen" (handwritten, 41 pp., also exists as typescript (carbon copy)) and a second notebook (handwritten, 46 pp., also exists as typescript (carbon copy)) with several short stories ("Schabbeslichter","Was ein alter Familientisch zu erzaehlen weiss", "Idill [sic] in der Kleinstadt", "Omchen, erzaehl uns ein Maerchen!", "Glauben", "Vom Birnbaum", "Tante Erna – das Sternchen", "Der Wagen", and "Ein Urteil"). The texts are written in a concentration camp on Rhode (Rodi) under Italian occupation in the summer of 1941 after the ship, which was supposed to bring Wittenberg from Triest to Palestine, was wrecked. The latter notebook consists of various memoirs including descriptions from the situation in the camp.

The file also contains correspondence of Wittenberg (1938-1941), partly drafts of letters, in which she refers to life in the camp.

Folder 4 contains a family history by Siegfried Landshut (bound print, 44+1 pp.) including a genealogical table from 1962, family photographs, and materials pertaining to the Landshut family collection by the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.

Dates: 1833-1962

Lasker Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5136
Abstract

This collection documents Helmuth Lasker's genealogical research project on the origins of his family. In addition to drafts of Lasker's genealogical manuscript, there is extensive correspondence, as well as some family, personal, and vital papers.

Dates: 1848-1981

Lebenserinnerungen

 Collection
Identifier: ME 1610
Abstract

Recollection of Julius Kohsen’s life, including a family tree. Also available are two translations by his grandchildren, Monica Schubert (ME 939) and Gunther Steinberg (ME 1611).

Dates: 1941, 1992, 2011

Lederer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5141
Abstract

Letters and genealogical documents of the Lederer family from Gladenbach in Hesse, Germany

Dates: 1834-2001

Leo and Anne Marie Grebler Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25872
Abstract

The Leo and Anne Marie Grebler Family Collection records the Greblers’ personal and professional lives in Germany and the United States through correspondence, documents, family histories, writings, and photographs. Both the personal correspondence and photographs available in the collection demonstrate the Greblers close relationships with their extended family and friends, particularly Jacob (called Jascha) and Marianne (called Bertel) Marschak. A substantial quantity of information regarding the Grebler, Gerson and related families is also available. Writings by Leo Grebler elucidate his career as an economist and his special interest in real estate and housing finance.

Dates: undated, 1879-1996

Leo Kopf Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10385 / MF 552
Abstract

Photographs, programs, sheet music, memorabilia, family tree, scrapbook, audio recordings

Dates: 1911-1957

Leo Lauterbach Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6311
Abstract

The collection contains 3 typescripts pertaining to the Zionist functionary Leo Lauterbach and to his family.

Dates: 1955, undated

Leo Rapp Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25228
Abstract

This collection documents the personal lives of Leo Rapp (1924-2004), his wife Hildegard Rapp née Kaiser (1921-1997), his aunt Rosa Lang née Rapp, and her husband Julius Lang. There are approximately equal amounts of papers and photographs ranging from the late 19th century through approximately 2005. The papers include vital records, immigration papers, military records, tax records, school grades, correspondence, biographical notes, and family trees. The photographs consist mainly of formal and casual photographs of Leo Rapp, Rosa Lang, and Julius Lang, alongside many family group photographs.

Dates: 1882-circa 2005

Lepehne-Jastrow Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6629
Abstract

This collection contains an itemized assemblage of documents, correspondence, clippings, genealogical tables, and photographs illustrating the history of the Lepehne and Jastrow families.

Dates: 1771-2000

Levi Genealogy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25987
Abstract

This collection documents the genealogical origins of Arthur Levi (1919-2018) and his wife, Kitty Pappenheim Levi (1925-2022).

Dates: 1743-2015; 1980-1995

Lilli Liegner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1228
Abstract

The Lilli Liegner Collection centers on the work of this social worker and her role within the Jüdischer Frauenbund in Breslau. A smaller amount of material relates to the history and individual members of the Liegner and Rawicz families. Included in this collection are reports, correspondence, organizational papers and newspaper clippings on the Jüdischer Frauenbund of Breslau. In addition, the collection contains personal and official papers of family members along with a family tree and personal correspondence.

Dates: 1841-1888;1921-1977; Majority of material found within 1930-1938

Linz Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11230
Abstract

This collection contains genealogical and family documents of the Linz and the Weiter families from Greussenheim and Tauberrettersheim; as well as documents and photographs regarding the Jewish community in Hof. Genealogical information includes a family tree and family history about the Linz and the Weiter families (from mid-18th to early 20th century), and correspondence with German archives about historical members of that family (1983-1998) including a list of Linz family members listed in the Jewish registers of Greussenheim and Weiter family members of Tauberrettersheim, 1813-1875. Material about the Jewish community at Hof consists of correspondence with the city of Hof and photographs taken in 2005 of the new Jewish community center (primarily composed of Russians) and memorial plaque to the original synagogue burned in 1938 (where current community has a Yom Hashoah service annually). The collection also contains a leather bound book that belonged to Hermann Epstein (maternal grandfather of Charles B. Linz), containing poetry dedicated to his future wife Marie Frank, and a poem written on business stationary. Old photographs include one of Hermann Epstein in a Shakespeare performance. Also included in the collection is a letter, of unknown connection to the rest of the collection, addressed to Emil Heniken in Nürnberg, enforcing the law that non-Jews must only be treated by non-Jewish doctors (1934).

Dates: 1887-2005

Lion Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4602
Abstract

This collection largely contains genealogical information on the Lion family, with a few essays on Jewish history. The collection contains, in part: correspondence between S. Lion and "The Jewish Historical General Archives" (Jerusalem); genealogical notes on the Lion (also Lyon) family; manuscript on Jewish community of Ettenheim (2 pages); affidavit by the Luxembourg minister of interior regarding the deportation and death of Max, Olga and Elfriede Lion (1947); genealogical notes by Shlomoh Lion; correspondence of genealogical nature between S. Lion and archives in Germany; handwritten manuscript on "Der Ursprung der Bruder-Idee"; typewritten manuscript "Entgegnung auf das Referat von Auerbach Anlässlich der Tagung in Nahariah;" correspondence between Sigmund (Shlomoh) Lion; letter by Kurt Burg to the 60th birthday of S. Lion.; typewritten (with handwritten copy) manuscript by Sigmund Lion "Überwindung des jüdischen Intellektualismus" (4 pages); Lion family history and tree (18th-20th centuries).

Dates: 1947-1968

Lismann Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6934
Abstract

This collection documents the genealogy of the Lismann family as well as the personal lives of Heinrich Lismann and his son Gerald (born Gerhart) during both world wars and their eventual emigration to the United States. The genealogical materials include family trees, family chronicles, correspondence, notes, photographs, and photographic negatives. The materials on Heinrich and Gerald include correspondence, passports, poems, clippings, visa applications, a biography and death announcements, ephemera, and limited restitution papers.

Dates: 1843-1991

Littauer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10466
Abstract

The collection holds mainly published materials and some original documents pertaining to Lucius Littauer and his family’s endowment for hospitals and study centers in the U.S.A. and in Breslau, Germany. Also included are two documents pertaining to the Littauer relative, Paul Schreyer.

Dates: 1926-1997

Loeb and Feibes Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25368
Abstract

This collection contains personal papers of Siegfried Loeb and Else Loeb née Feibes and their immediate family members. The Loebs fled Germany for Palestine and then the United States, settling in Forest Hills, New York. Included are family trees, emigration papers, official documents, photographs, Julian Ulrich Loeb’s U.S. Army papers, and a cookbook.

Dates: circa 1900-circa 1980s

Loewen Family Berlin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6489
Abstract

This collection consists of papers of the Loewen family, including Samuel Liepmann Loewen and Liepmann (Leopold) Loewen. It includes personal, business and official papers, correspondence, genealogy, a collection of wax seals, some newspaper clippings, art prints, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1774-1931; Majority of material found within 1820-1869

Loewenstein Family Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10106 / MF 617
Abstract

Various manuscripts, translations, and historical documents relating to the Loewenstein family.

Dates: undated, 1933-1997

Loewenstein-Samulon family collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12113
Abstract

Original and photocopied documents and correspondence as well as family trees pertaining to the Samulon family from Osterode in Prussia, specifically to the married physicians Alfred Loewenstein and Frieda née Samulon. - Also included are Haggadahs belonging to Fritz Loewenstein from Osnabrück, a son of Alfred and Frieda Loewenstein.

Dates: 1832, 1840, 1860, 1878, 1923, 1931

Lotte Buff Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25205
Abstract

The Lotte Buff Family Collection consists of material on the Neuburger, Bendit and other related families (including the Rosenberger, Bergmann and Muhr/ Fleischmann families). The collection encompasses family trees and a wedding album.

Dates: 1937; 1996-2004

Louis Herz Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2561
Abstract

This collection contains three generations of family and personal documents pertaining to the family of Louis Herz. Included are vital documents such as birth certificates, death certificates, and identification cards, as well as passports, death notices, school documents, and military papers.

Dates: 1862-1939

Lowell Loewenthal Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25306
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to Steven Lowell (born Loewenthal) and his ancestors. It includes historical family documents, genealogical research, and photographs, as well as files concerning Lowell’s efforts at gaining restitution from the Austrian government.

Dates: 1896-2006

Ludwig Philippson Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2679
Abstract

This collection holds the papers of rabbi Ludwig Philippson and other Philippson family members. Noteworthy items in this collection include handwritten manuscripts by Ludwig Philippson, correspondence between various family members, and diaries kept by Henriette and Moritz Philippson; the latter describes experiences as a medical student in Jena. In addition, the collection also holds manuscripts by the geographer Alfred Philippson that describe in depth family members as well as his experiences as a student, lecturer, and professor. Other items include detailed family trees, official papers, poems, notes, clippings, wills, and photographs.

Dates: 1810-1989

Manfred Lewandowski Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7027
Abstract

The Manfred Lewandowski Collection documents the professional life of cantor Manfred Lewandowski with a focus on some of his more prominent compositions. It additionally holds some genealogical material on the Lewandowski family. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and copies of photographs; also included are sheet music, official and professional documentation including certificates, family trees and genealogical notes, and an essay on cantorial music.

Dates: 1821-1995; Majority of material found within 1955-1965

Mankiewitz Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 722
Abstract

Official and vital documents and family papers pertaining to the Mankiewitz and Magnus families of Mühlhausen, Leipzig, and Berlin.

Dates: 1806-1972; Majority of material found within 1806-1935

Manuscripts on the history of Jewish community in Mühlhausen

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6887
Abstract

Manuscripts on this history of the Jewish community in Mühlhausen and a few other localities near Bamberg. Several of the manuscripts contain reproductions and transcriptions of original documents.

Dates: 1991-1993

Margaret Rothenberger Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25465
Abstract

This collection contains documents and photographs relating to Margaret Rothenberger (1894-1995) and her family. The materials include family trees and genealogical research about the Katz, Oppenheimer, Rothenberger, and Hochschild families, as well as documents relating to specific individuals and hundreds of photographs.

Dates: 1829-1995

Margie Stern Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25200 / MF 890
Abstract

Photographs, certificates, family trees, genealogical information and other materials related to members of the Stern, Schoenfeld, May, and Brodnitz families.

Dates: 1906-1980

Margot Gerson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6146
Abstract

This collection includes theater programs, clippings, a company history, and a few personal documents and papers pertaining to the maternal relatives of Margot Gerson née Horwitz, including the Stern family (especially the opera singer Frieda Ernesti (Lachmann-Stern), the Hess/Hessdörffer families, and the Schiff family.

Dates: 1890-2003