Hamburg (Germany)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Adolf Wolfermann Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1957
Abstract
This collection mostly consists of personal correspondence, including communications from relatives and friends interned in concentration camps in France, Lublin, and Theresienstadt, and letters regarding the establishment of an agrarian training camp for Jews in Italy.
Dates:
1934-1962; Majority of material found in 1934-1946
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Adolf Wolfermann Collection
Albert B. Oppenheimer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6282
Abstract
This collection contains a considerable amount of correspondence relating to Albert Oppenheimer's restitution and inheritance cases, as well as a number of personal, family, and vital records (mostly photocopies) and a large number of photographs.
Dates:
1920-1978
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Albert B. Oppenheimer Collection
Albert Jacobson Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3794
Abstract
This collection contains Jacobson family documents from 19th and early 20th century Hamburg, as well as a substantial amount of materials pertaining to Albert Jacobson's attempts to secure an exit visa for his mother Adele Jacobson.
Dates:
1847-1971
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Albert Jacobson Family Collection
Alfred Jacobsberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 6462
Abstract
The Alfred Jacobsberg collection consists of correspondence between Alfred Jacobsberg and various members of the Jacobsberg family during Alfred Jacobsberg's military service in the German army in World War I. Additionally, there is a small amount of business correspondence and documents dealing with Alfred Jacobsberg’s import business, and some World War I clippings.
Dates:
1908-1935
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Alfred Jacobsberg Collection
Arthur Rath Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25762
Abstract
This collection contains the archival papers of Arthur Rath. Most of it consists of correspondence with friends and family members. Primary topics of the collection are Arthur's life in Switzerland towards the end of World War II and the decades immediately after, correspondence with friends who were also Jewish refugees from Germany after the war, and Arthur Rath's life decisions following the displacement of his family during the war.
Dates:
1908-2013; Majority of material found within 1942-1960
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Arthur Rath Collection
Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens
Collection
Identifier: AR 3965
Abstract
The collection contains bylaws, circulars, guiding principles, lectures, minutes, newspaper articles, and proclamations pertaining to the German representative organization “Centralverein”.
Dates:
1884-1937, 1972
Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens - Alfred Hirschberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: MF 582
Abstract
Circulars, pamphlets, clippings, reports concerning the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbuerger Juedischen Glaubens, and Eugen Fuchs, its cofounder.
Dates:
1894-1961
Constantin Brunner Collection
Collection
Identifier: LBI/JMB-2009/2 LBI AR 1024
Abstract
This Collection contains the almost complete estate of Constantin Brunner (a.k.a Leo Wertheimer) as well as a comprehensive collection of documents and especially letters from the Brunner circle and those pertaining to the Brunner reception.
Dates:
1866-2010
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Constantin Brunner Collection
Cortell Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10552
Abstract
This collection contains family trees, marriage records and passports from the 19th century and 1930s, as well as correspondence and several photographs documenting Jules Cortell's professional and philanthropic activities.
Dates:
1806-2003
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Cortell Family Collection
Deportations to Riga Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25096
Abstract
This collection comprises deportation lists from several German cities to Riga.
Dates:
1941-1942
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Deportations to Riga Collection
Dolly Haas Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25447
Abstract
The Dolly Haas Family Collection documents the significant events in the lives of several Haas family members and it also contains some details of the early career of Dolly Haas. About half the collection consists of family correspondence. In addition there are a diary, wedding papers of Charles and Margarethe Haas, photographs, educational certificates of Dolly Haas and her sister Margarete, some articles, and various other family documents.
Dates:
1883-2011; Majority of material found within 1901-1935
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Dolly Haas Family Collection
Elias Bondi Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 5426 / MF 542
Abstract
Correspondence of Dr. Elias Bondi.Letters are to his brother Marcus Bondi, a geologist. And to his sisters Schewa and Clara. Letters refer to cholera epidemics (1831) in Hamburg. Letter of November 1833 to Clara Bondi refers to marriage and dowry. Letters from Ignaz Maron to his wife. George Meyer to his brother Friedrich (1890s). Letters from Clara Bondi to her niece Julie Bondi. Letters from Ignatz to Caecilie Bondi.
Dates:
1796-1890
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Elias Bondi Collection
[Elizabeth Melamid collection]
Collection
Identifier: AR 25691
Abstract
The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence to the siblings Elisabeth and Margaret Jonas in Kent, England from their parents Julie and Julius Jonas and others in Hamburg, 1938-1939. Also included is the guestbook of the Melamid family in Antwerp and in New York, 1933-1949, containing signatures, drawings and photographs.
Dates:
1933-1949; Majority of material found in 1938-1939
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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[Elizabeth Melamid collection]
Enrique Lerdau Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25726
Abstract
The Enrique Lerdau Family Collection focuses on documentation of the lives of Fritz and Barbara (née Elkan) Lerdau and their children, including their early years, marriage, and emigration to Peru. In addition the collection provides material on the Elkan and Rée families and their members, and to a smaller extent on the Lerdau (formerly Levy) family, including some genealogical information. The history of the hops industry and of the company J.F.U. Scheibel is also mentioned among the documents of this collection. The collection includes an assortment of documents, including extensive correspondence; several memoirs; official, legal, educational, financial, and military documents; many photographs; and family writings including poems, notebooks, and eulogies.
Dates:
1849-2011; Majority of material found within 1924-1940
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Enrique Lerdau Family Collection
Erika Guetermann Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1893
Abstract
This collection contains a small amount of correspondence with authors, including Hans Leip and Nelly Sachs, and German-Jewish organizations, as well as a scrapbook containing clippings of Guetermann's cultural reviews published in German newspapers.
Dates:
1920-1967
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Erika Guetermann Collection
Erna Magnus Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7166
Abstract
This collection comprises the research of the social worker Erna Magnus into the professional, cultural and civic activities of members of the Hamburg Jewish Community from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. It is composed entirely of index cards that record biographical and professional data on these individuals.
Dates:
1933-1938
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Erna Magnus Collection
Ernest Bing Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 1789 / MF 596
Abstract
Next to a short genealogical abstract, folder 1 contains two handwritten, German letters (one of them in Hebrew script) from Salman Ben M. Warburg (1789) and F.S. Warburg (1827), respectively.
Dates:
1848-1918
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ernest Bing Family Collection
Ernst Oppenheim Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25030 / MF 1071
Abstract
This collection contains the genealogical research of Ernst Oppenheim, and includes his investigations into the Oppenheim, Pasch, Breit, Altschul, Sirkis and Jaffe families. Included are his extensive correspondence, family trees and copies of original documentation, as well as interview transcripts and notes.
Dates:
1861-1999; Majority of material found within 1986-1992
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ernst Oppenheim Collection
Fedor Ganz Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 7238
Abstract
The collection contains documents, correspondence, unpublished writings, sketches, photos, and various flyers, postcards, posters, and a substantial amount of family documents.
Dates:
1870-1984
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Fedor Ganz Collection
German Jewish Periodicals Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 5036
Abstract
Single issues of various German Jewish periodicals, published primarily from 1922 to 1942. Also included are one Yiddish paper (1927) and one German paper from Israel (1961).
Dates:
1922-1961
Gisela A. Weil Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25391
Abstract
The Gisela A. Weil Family Collection holds papers of several branches of the family. Prominently featured are papers of members of the Meyer, Weil, Warburg and Melchior families. These papers provide glimpses into family members' lives along with some biographical details on them. The collection includes correspondence; many articles and clippings; official papers; educational certificates; family narratives and a few family trees and photographs.
Dates:
1829-2005; Majority of material found within 1933-1985
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Gisela A. Weil Collection
Gumprecht Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25735
Abstract
This collection comprises materials used by the Gumprecht family to escape Germany after 1933. Included are family letters and information about the ship that took them to America.
Dates:
1881-2017; Majority of material found within 1941
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Gumprecht Family Collection
Hamburg Jewish Community Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 193 / MF 346
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence and a large number of programs and announcements regarding the Jewish community in Hamburg, mostly during the 1930s.
Dates:
1931-1995
Hans Martin Schwarz Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25064
Abstract
This collection contains clippings of articles by Hans Martin Schwarz (1917, Hamburg – 2006, New York, better known as Martin Ebon), published between 1934 and 1938 in German-Jewish newspapers on a wide variety of subjects such as sports, emigration, the political situation in Germany, and religious attitudes of the young. It also contains reviews of his books "Einer wie Du und Ich" and "Heiteres, Besinnliches, Nachdenkliches."
Dates:
1934-1938
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Hans Martin Schwarz Collection
Helen and Eva Hesse Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25327
Abstract
The Helen and Eva Hesse Collection holds material on the Hesse family of Hamburg. Most notable in this collection are the diaries of Helen and Eva Hesse, created by Wilhelm Hesse, which document the sisters' childhood. In addition, the collection includes scrapbooks and photograph albums, some of Wilhelm Hesse's educational papers, and correspondence related to immigration.
Dates:
1882-1956; Majority of material found within 1933-1946
Helmuth Nathan Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 3911
Abstract
The Helmuth Nathan Collection documents professional activities of Helmuth Nathan, physician, artists, teacher, and a historian of medicine. The collection includes brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, financial documents, minutes, notes, off prints, photographs, drawings, and writings.
Dates:
1918-1988
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Helmuth Nathan Collection
Ida Ehre Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 5926
Abstract
The Ida Ehre Collection contains material on the actress and theater director Ida Ehre. Much of the papers in this collection focus on her postwar work as director of the Hamburger Kammerspiele; biographical information on the actress is particularly evident, along with correspondence with her friend Liselotte Sperber. The collection is comprised of articles, newspaper clippings, Hamburger Kammerspiele programs, personal correspondence, obituaries and a few photographs.
Dates:
1928-1989; Majority of material found within 1981-1986
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Ida Ehre Collection
Igersheimer Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 25466
Abstract
This collection documents the members of Igersheimer (Iggers) family of Frankfurt, Hamburg, and later Richmond, Virginia, as well as their ancestors and contemporary relatives.
Dates:
1880-1974, 1994
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Igersheimer Family Collection
Immanuel Wohlwill Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 2671
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, including several letters from Leopold Zunz and Moses Moser, documents, and family trees related to the teacher Immanuel Wohlwill, the neurologist Friederich Wohlwill, and other Wohlwill family members.
Dates:
1812-1965
Irene E. Newhouse Collection
Collection
Identifier: AR 10479 / MF 1002
Abstract
This collection contains research material on the genealogy of Irene Newhouse's ancestors, including members of the Morgenstern, Honigman, and Goldschmidt families and others, mainly from Prussia (in particular, Breslau). It includes as well the correspondence she had with cemeteries, communities and other institutions for her research as well as the family trees she found or made herself.
Dates:
1932-2008; Majority of material found within 1980-2002
Found in:
Leo Baeck Institute
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Irene E. Newhouse Collection