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Schutzjuden -- Protected Jews

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Adolf Eckstein Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11904
Dates: [unknown]

Anna Herzfeld Woog Family Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10847 / MF 604
Abstract

The collection contains original and photocopied documents about the Meinungen, Herzfeld and associated families as well as marriage contracts and divorce papers for Anna and Julius Woog.

Dates: 1794-1952

Berend & Co. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1571
Abstract

The Berend & Co. Collection holds information about the Berend & Co. banking house and later sugar refining company and the Berend family itself. Prominent topics are business matters and Samuel Bacher Berend's son Herz Berend. The collection consists of correspondence, bank checks, birth certificates, military documents, protection papers, royal recognitions, academic documents, and other certificates.

Dates: 1769-1855; Majority of material found within 1830s

Bueding Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7265
Abstract

The Bueding family papers contain handwritten and printed original documents of the Bueding, Goldschmidt, Cohnheim and Mardorf families in Kassel, Hesse, including royal commissions, letters of protection, business matters, and family histories. They also hold documentation collected by the Bueding family about Jewish history in Kassel, especially about the history of French Jews, from the Middle Ages until the 19th century.

Dates: 1745-1926

Decrees Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 379
Abstract

Various decrees issued by rulers before emancipation to the Jewish communities of the towns and provinces of Alsace, Augsburg, Austria, Baden, Bamberg, Berlin, Bohemia, Brandenburg, Braunschweig, Breslau, Cassel, Cologne, Dresden, Eisenach, Frankfurt am Main, Hanau, Hanover, Helmstaedt, Hessen, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Nassau, Nuremberg, Palatinate, Potsdam, Prussia, Rawicz, Rheinfels, Saxony, Schleswig, Schwerin, Vienna, Weinheim, Wolfenbuettel, and Wuerzburg. The decrees concern many aspects of life, including economic activity and taxation, settlement rights, and the regulation of the internal life of the Jewish communities.

Dates: 1614-1846

Dobrin Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4034
Abstract

The collection comprises a large amount of legal documents, deeds, correspondence and clippings relating to the Dobrin family of Freienwalde. The majority of the documents are from the 19th century.

Dates: 1751-1946

Ernst Kitzinger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3086 / MF 568
Abstract

The collection contains three circumcision registers (Mohelbuecher) with some entries from Prague, 1816 and Baiersdorf, 1819 and mostly from Munich, 1826-1885. In addition there is a ‘Memorbuch’ from Fuerth, Bavaria.

Dates: 1801-1965

Esther Elbin Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4651
Abstract

This collection contains a wide variety of family, personal, vital, and legal documents pertaining primarily to the Herz, Steinthal, Buchholz, Isenstein, and Cohn families.

Dates: 1787-1978

Fred W. Lessing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2235 / MF 483
Abstract

Family documents, correspondence, genealogical tables, memoirs, photographs

Dates: 1800-1963

Gretel Mayer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10634
Abstract

Materials within this collection include correspondence, photographs, family documents dating back to the 18th century, travel documents and naturalization papers.

Dates: 1736-1998

Hans Eltzbacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3623 / MF 649
Abstract

Financial, business, and personal papers of the Eltzbacher family and related families, including correspondence, architectural plans, financial ledgers, wills and testaments, clippings, and eulogies; of particular interest is the business correspondence of Count Aloys zu Kaunitz-Rietberg with the banker Jacob Loeb Eltzbacher (1758-1825), who was based in Neuenkirchen, Westphalia, along with supporting documents and records; material on the career of the lawyer Carl Eltzbacher (1854-1936), including clippings on his candidacy to the Cologne city council in 1903 and correspondence, including a letter from Konrad Adenauer.

Dates: 1781-1971

Itzig Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4191 MF 1234
Abstract

The Itzig Family Collection contains papers documenting the history and genealogy of the Itzig and related families. Particularly prominent are the careers and significant achievements of Daniel Itzig (1722-1799) and his son Isaac Daniel Itzig (1750-1806). The collection includes family trees, many photocopies of official certificates and letters, an unpublished typescript for a book on Isaac Daniel Itzig and a few copies of photographs of family members.

Dates: 1760-1983; Majority of material found within 1780-1900

Jacob Jacobson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7002 / MF 447 / MF 134
Abstract

Records of several Jewish communities assembled by Jacob Jacobson.

Dates: 1450-1988

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

Meyer Ems Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3177
Abstract

The Meyer Ems Family Collection contains papers of the jeweler Meyer Ems, correspondence of his father Abraham Leeser Ems with the prince of Bentheim-Tecklenburg and material on the Ems family, including a family tree.

Dates: 1804-1958; Majority of material found within 1830-1842

Michael Berolzheimer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4136 / MF 550
Abstract

This collection contains documents on the history of the Berolzheimer family, as well as family trees of the Berolzheimers and related families.

Dates: 1325-1942

Rolf Hofmann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10913
Abstract

This collection contains manuscripts, genealogical tables, photographs, clippings, and correspondence originating from Rolf Hofmann's genealogical research on Jewish communities in southern Germany from the 17th century to the present, including extensive materials from his Harburg Project.

Dates: 1999-2005; 1934

Stuehlingen Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11026
Abstract

Materials pertaining to the Jewish community in Stuehlingen, covering roughly years 1615-1820.

Dates: [unknown]

Valentin Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3818 / MF 570
Abstract

Vital documents, letters of protection and municipal citizenship, autograph albums, wills and testaments, marriage contracts, memoirs, obituaries, and clippings concerning members of the Valentin family, the family business, the freight-movers Jacob & Valentin, and related families, including the Abraham, Behrend, Loewen, and Mannheimer families; noteworthy documents include memoirs of the banker Samuel Liepmann Loewen, 1824, and records of the Prussian minter and medalist Jacob Abraham, 1753, as well as photocopies of records of his son, the minter Abraham Abramson.

Dates: 1677-2002

Veit-Simon Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4015
Abstract

This collection contains papers of several generations of the Veit and Simon families, including passports, letters of protection, contracts, wills, official and financial documents, and a few photographs. Some of the prominent individuals featured in this collection include Moses Mendelssohn, Dorothea Schlegel, and Meyer Amschel Rothschild.

Dates: 1763-1965

Vierfelder Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 890 / MF 408
Abstract

This collection covers the history of the Vierfelder family, and includes materials on the town of Buchau, Wuerttemberg.

Dates: 1694-1960

Walter S. Hertzmann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6105
Abstract

Unpublished manuscripts on the genealogy of the various ancestors of Walter S. Hertzmann.

Dates: 1989-1990