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Jewish families

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 256 Collections and/or Records:

Rothschild-Lippmann Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25026
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of the postcard correspondence of Hans Rothschild (1890-1987). It includes correspondence of his parents Arnold Rothschild (1851-1921) and Fanny Rothschild née Lippmann (1869-1937?), as well as some ephemeral material related to the family. It also includes detailed genealogical material about the Lippmann and Rothschild families of Cologne, Germany and Simmern, Germany (today Simmertal, Germany).

Dates: 1729-1980; Majority of material found within 1891-1918

Rudolph E. Friedman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25803
Abstract

The Rudolph E. Friedman Collection contains the papers and extensive correspondence of this businessman. The collection centers on his early life in Germany, emigration and early years in the United States, and his military service during World War II. Some information on his family is also available. The collection consists largely of correspondence and documentation of his military service, but also includes a small amount of official documents and personal papers.

Dates: 1928-1946, 1973-2000s; Majority of material found within 1933-1945

Ruth Beermann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25478
Abstract

Materials pertaining to Ruth Beermann and to her father, Rabbi Max Beermann.

Dates: 1861-1935

Ruth Marion Mosse Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25854
Abstract

This collection includes correspondence, official documents, family trees, and photographs relating primarily to Ruth Marion Mosse and the Mosse family. Also included are documents pertaining to Ruth Marion Mosse’s erstwhile husband Ernest Goodman.

Dates: 1858-2015; Majority of material found within 1915-2001

Salier Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25792
Abstract

The Salier Family Collection holds papers of members of the Salier family as well as related families, such as the Alexander, Lipmann, and Lehmann families. The collection consists primarily of official, educational, and professional documents of family members, along with a small amount of family correspondence, a few photographs, family writing, newspaper clippings and articles, a cookbook, and a friendship album.

Dates: 1769, 1825-2018

Salomonsohn Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4137
Abstract

The core of the collection is a compilation of letters of the Salomonsohn family, mostly surrounding Gedalja Salomonsohn's untimely death. Correspondents include Gedalja Salomonsohn, his wife, Ernestine Salomonsohn, his parents, Rabbi Schachne and Rachel, and others. Also included are essays and letters by Rabbi Schachne and others on religious law, as well as documents, translations of twelve letters into English and German, a family tree compiled from the information in the letters, and a thorough summary description of the collection.

Dates: 1807-1848; Majority of material found within 1837

Samton Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25764
Abstract

The Samton Family Collection documents the lives of members of the Samton (Szamatolski) and Fiegel families. It includes material on the education and professional work of Henry Samton, the Adolph Fiegel paper factory, the last days and estate of Emil Fiegel, the genealogy of the Fiegel and Scharff branches of the family, and other topics. The collection includes personal, legal, and professional correspondence; official documents; a small amount of photographs; personal papers; a cookbook; a few newspaper clippings; family trees and genealogical research; and some financial documentation.

Dates: 1906-2007; Majority of material found within 1926-1980

Sartorius Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25504
Abstract

The Sartorius Family Collection holds documentation on the history of the Sartorius family, along with its related families. Most of the collection consists of family trees and correspondence concerning family genealogy, although memoirs and biographical articles are also present, as are a number of family photographs. The collection especially provides information on the family's origins in Germany and lives in the American South, including family members' service in the Confederate forces during the Civil War, in addition to some information on parts of the family who resided in France.

Dates: 1839-2009

Schafranik-Popper-Gruenfeld families collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5924 / MF 842
Abstract

The collection holds mainly vital and other original documents pertaining to the Gruenfeld and Schafranik families from Moravia.

Dates: 1829-1989; Majority of material found within 1829-1912

Schickler-Rosenbaum Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25736
Abstract

The Schickler-Rosenbaum Family Collection documents primarily the life of Harry Schickler during his service in World War I for the German Army, by holding his written memoires and photographs. The collection also contains photographs of the Schickler and Rosenbaum families; various or unidentified photographs; and other documents.

Dates: 1914-1997; Majority of material found within 1915-1919

Schmidt and Hesse family collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12077
Abstract

Photographs of Ruth Schmidt Hesse and her family and life in Germany from 1919-1937. Also included are photocopied pages from the book, 'Jüdische Familien in Meschede' concerning the Hesse family.

Dates: circa 1919-1937

Seidenberger-Sondhelm Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10520
Abstract

The collection contains primarily documents pertaining to Carl (Karl) Seidenberger (1882-1943), such as vital and other official records and correspondence. Also included are papers of his wife, Else Seidenberger née Sondhelm (1897-1996).

Dates: 1872-1987

Selma Berliner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1992
Abstract

The collection holds autographs, correspondence, music scores, official documents and photographs pertaining to the pianist and composer Selma Berliner.

Dates: 1833-1947

Semi Uffenheimer Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25892
Abstract

The Semi Uffenheimer family collection contains the papers of Semi Uffenheimer and his famliy, and documents the effects of Nazi persecution on their lives, his emigration to Argentina and the fate of his mother Anna, his father Adolf and his sister Flora, who were deported to the concentration camp of Gurs, France. The collection also holds information about other members of Semi’s family. Much of the collection is correspondence between Semi and his sister, focusing on the family’s life in Germany and later in the concentration camp of Gurs. Furthermore the collection contains genealogical research documents such as family trees; documents relating to Semi’s marriage search; and some photographs and postcards.

Dates: 1928 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1949

Siegbert J. Weinberger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25562
Abstract

This collection consists mainly of materials related to the restitution claims of the Weinberger family members who owned a group of grocery stores in Berlin from the early 1920s until its forced closure in 1936. These materials include correspondence, legal papers, inventories, and financial records. Also included are some personal papers of Adolf Weinberger as well as speeches and photographs from a memorial ceremony.

Dates: 1899-2003

Sigmund Weinberger Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25541
Abstract

The collection includes official and personal documents pertaining to Sigmund, Selma and Erna Weinberger as well as photographs of the family, World War I sites and medical staff.

Dates: 1887-1958; Majority of material found within 1915-1918

Sigo and Else Baum Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25839
Abstract

The collection contains materials relating to the Sigo and Else Baum family. The bulk of the collection is made up of photo albums documenting everyday life of the family. Other materials in the collection include, correspondence, official documents, clippings, and an autograph album.

Dates: 1864 - 1972

Silberstein Family, 1979, 1991

 File — Box 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series II pertains to the genealogical history of the extended family. It includes a number of family trees of several branches of the family. Most pertain to the related Pincus and Silberstein families; one tree in folder 2/4 shows relatives of the Ball/ Zorek family.

Dates: 1979; 1991

Sobel Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25147
Abstract

This collection consists of documents of and about the Sobel family, including the family's genealogy, correspondence (primarily about the family's history), family reunions, a detailed will of a family member, and photocopies of photographs.

Dates: 1914-1983; Majority of material found within 1938-1939

Sonia Marder Better Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25853
Abstract

This collection contains personal documents of Sonia Marder Better. The materials include correspondence; official documents; transcripts of school records; poems; notes; and photographs. The majority of the materials relate to the correspondence between Sonia and her parents; documents relating to her migration the United Kingdom and USA; as well as pictures that document the life of Sonia Marder Better and her family.

Dates: 1928-1976; Majority of material found within 1939-1944

Staudacher and Hoegerle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25442
Abstract

This collection includes documents related to the activities of Barbara Staudacher and Heinz Högerle pertaining to the former Jewish community in the village of Rexingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Dates: 2003-2011

Stein-Eichengrün family collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12051
Abstract

Correspondence, official documents and clippings pertaining primarily to Bernhard and Gertrud (née Eichengrün) Stein.

Dates: 1937 -1977; Majority of material found within , 1937-1941

Suess Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11950
Abstract

This collection contains documents related to the Suess (Süss) and Hochstaedter (Hochstädter) families of Lampertheim. Most of the documents are from the early 19th century.

Dates: 1822-1935

Susan Graham Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25662
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence mostly authored by Stephanie and Franz Pisker, dispatched from Vienna, Austria and the Jewish ghetto in Opole, Poland to their daughter Susan (née Herta) in America, before Franz and Stefanie were killed in the extermination camp of Sobibor. Also included are official documents and letters pertaining to their unsuccessful attempt to immigrate to the United States and the questionnaires by the Austrian Heritage Collection of Susan and her husband John H. Graham.

Dates: 1938-1947; Majority of material found within 1939-1941

Suzanne Schrag Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25833
Abstract

The Suzanne Schrag Collection holds papers of Suzanne (née Fuchs) and Paul Schrag, as well as papers of family members, especially Suzanne's parents and Paul's maternal uncle Nathan Sulzberger. Much of the collection focuses on the lives of family members, especially as documented in their extensive family correspondence. Prominent is also the unpublished writing of Paul Schrag and Nathan Sulzberger, notably the memoirs of Paul Schrag and short stories of Nathan Sulzberger. Some official documents, especially those pertaining to the education of Paul and Suzanne Schrag are also present, along with a few photographs, notes on genealogy, and other papers.

Dates: 1827-2008; Majority of material found within 1933-1989

Tarnowski Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25746
Abstract

The Tarnowski Family Collection provides documentation on the lives of Tarnowski and related family members' lives during the late 1930s and 1940s. The bulk of the collection consists of personal correspondence sent to Klaus Günther Tarnowski in Sweden from 1939-1942 but documentation, including official correspondence from German government offices, is also present on property of the Tarnowski and Friedmann families. Most prominent among the collection's personal correspondence are Georg, Marie, and Hans Tarnowski, as well as Betty Friedmann.

Dates: 1938-1948; 1960; Majority of material found within 1939-1942

The Memoirs of Lilo Goldenberg

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25740
Abstract

This collection forms a memoir of the lives of Lilo Goldenberg and her family members through essays and documentation. The documentation includes papers such as official and educational papers, family correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings, and works with the extensive essays to document the experiences of Lilo Goldenberg and her family.

Dates: 1910-2016; Majority of material found within 1998-2012

Victoria (Zetlin) Russman Pordes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25583
Abstract

The Victoria (Zetlin) Russman Pordes Collection holds the correspondence, personal, and professional papers of Victoria Pordes, along with other members of her family, especially her sister Anna (Zetlin) Jarosik. Much of the collection consists of correspondence, notably the personal family correspondence between Zetlin siblings. In addition, the collection includes official, and educational papers, postcards, photographs, scrapbooks, tourism materials, immigration and citizenship papers, notebooks, address books, diaries, and other items.

Dates: 1903-2002, 2013; Majority of material found within 1946-1986

Wald Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25698
Abstract

The bulk of the collection consists of documents of the Wald family. Most of them were used to get American visas or citizenship. A body of correspondence is also part of the collection. The focus of these letters concerns emigration / immigration, and the possibility of fleeing Germany.

Dates: 1923-1952; Majority of material found within 1941

Wallach (Wallich) Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 809
Abstract

The collection contains various materials pertaining to the Wallach family, collected and edited by Else Levi-Mühsam (a decedent of the family), and comprises three folders.

Dates: 1930-1997