Handout from JGSGB German Sig on 6 September 2020

JGSGB German Special Interest Group Meeting 06/09/2020

JGSGB German SIG German Interest Records What’s new?

Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE 6 September 2020

6 New books here since we last met in June 2020

Michelfeld JuedischesLebenin Michelfeld Leonhard Doerfer

Malsch Schweigen hat seine Zeit, Reden hat seine Zeit Louis Maier

London Living Up West: Jewish Life in London's West End Gerry Black JFS: The History of the Jews' Free School, London, London Since 1732 Gerry Black

London Jewish London An Illustrated History Gerry Black

Also Hope Place Liverpool Jewry by Philip Ettinger

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Address Book - Annaberg-Buchholz (Saxony) 1928

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Annaberg- Buchholz/Adressbuch_1928

Gemeinden: Bärenstein, Cranzahl, Crottendorf, C unersdorf, Dörfel, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Elterlein, Froh nau, Geyer, Geyersdorf, Hammerunterwiesenthal, Niederschlag, Hermannsdorf, Jöhstadt, Königswald e, Markersbach, Unterscheibe, Mildenau, Mittweida , Neudorf, Kretscham- Rothensehma, Neundorf, Oberscheibe, Oberwiese nthal, Scheibenberg, Schlettau, Schönfeld, Schwar zbach, Sehma, Streckewalde, Tannenberg, Walther sdorf, Wiesa, Wiesenbad

Address Book – Baden Baden

• http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Adressbuch_f%C3%BCr_Baden-Baden • 1838-1998

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Address Book Grafschaft Bentheim 1927

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Landkreis_Grafsch aft_Bentheim/Adressbuch_1927 • 432 Sides • 16,991 Entries • In Lower Saxony • At the border with the Netherlands

Address Book - Landkreis Dortmund

• Year 1900 • https://sammlungen.ulb.uni- muenster.de/hd/periodical/structure /2798169

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Address Book – Duesseldorf 1801-1955 – all of them!

• http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Adressbuch_f%C3%BCr_D%C3%BCsseldorf • http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/search/quick?query=Adressb%C3%BCcher

Address Book Stadt & Kreis Eckernförde 1914

• Schleswig Holstein • 189 Sides and 10,070 entries

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Eckernf%C3%B6rde/A dressbuch_1914

• http://des.genealogy.net/eckernfoerdeKr eisAB1914/search/index

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Address Book Heimat Adressbuch Landkreis Fallingbostel 1965

• http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Landkreis_Fallin gbostel/Adressbuch_1965 • Bad Fallingbostel is the district town of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. • Since 1976 the town has had a state-recognised Kneipp spa and has held the title of Bad since 2002. • It has close ties to Walsrode, a few miles to the west.

Address Book – Gruenstadt Bad Duerkheim Pfalz

• http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Adressbuch_f%C3%BCr_Gr%C3%BCnstadt

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Address Book - Hildburghausen in Thuringia

• Year - 1900, 222 Sides, 8219 entries • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Hildburghausen/Adressbuch_1900

Address Book – Rheingau (Hessen, nr Frankfurt)

• http://des.genealogy.net/Rheingau1 909-11/search/index • 1909, 1910 & 1911 • 563 pages • 46.634 entries

• Rheingau is particularly well known for wine production!

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Address Books – Silesia

• www.rolf-freytag.de/digibib/digibib.php

• He has lots of other books on his website too! • Saarland • Pfalz • Bavaria etc!

• See also • www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Silesia_(Schl esien)_Address_books

Address Book – Suhl, Thuringia in 1910

• http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Suhl/Adressbuch_1910 • http://des.genealogy.net/suhlTh1910/search/index • 92 sides and 6984 entries!

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Address Book – Waldheim, Saxony • http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Waldheim_(Sachsen)/Adressbuch_1936 • Beerwalde, Diedenhain, Ehrenberg, Gebersbach, Gilsberg , Grünlichtenberg, Heiligenborn, Heyda, Höckendorf, Höfc hen, Holzhausen, Knobelsdorf, Kriebethal, Kriebstein, Ma ssenei, Massenei,Vorwerk, Meinsberg, Moritzfeld, Neudörf chen, Neuhausen, Neumilkau, Neuschönberg, Neuwallnitz , Oberrauschenthal, Otzdorf, Reichenbach, Reinsdorf, Ru delsdorf, Saalbach, Schönberg, Schweikershain, Steina, S torlwald, Unterrauschenthal • & local land communities

Old Telephone Books & more Address Books!

• https://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/addressbooks/places • 1915-1981 - www.ancestry.de/search/collections/60654 • www.many-roads.com/library/prussia-histories/adressbucher-address-books • https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Adressb%C3%BCcher • www.wien.gv.at/kultur/wienbibliothek/lehmann-online.html • https://adressbuecher.sachsendigital.de • http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika • https://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de//subhh-adress/digbib/start • www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Adressb%C3%BCcher • www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Adressbuch+ • https://digitale-sammlungen.ulb.uni-bonn.de

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Alsace Lorraine Elsaß-Lothringen Resources

• http://archives.bas-rhin.fr

• www.familysearch.org/blog/en/finding -your-french-ancestry • This is a very good beginners article and links to lots of useful sources too!

Berlin records on Ancestry – Updated!

• Now 1874-1936 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2957/?fbclid=IwAR1yuCR9j 3PP7dWN8ofeGTsjuMSKneedNZ8LGkADZ7IU6q0bH3u3azrbSe8

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Berlin Phone Books 1881-1902 now online! • www.compgen.de/2020/07/berliner- telefonbuecher-von-1881-bis-1902-online/ • There are also numerous Berlin address books and directories on the ZLB website. • All known address books for Berlin are available • 1801 to 1836 have already been copied and made searchable in the address book database. • BERLINER ADRESS-, TELEFON- UND BRANCHENBÜCHER 1707 – 1991/1992 • HTTPS://DIGITAL.ZLB.DE/VIEWER/ CMS/155

Bavarian Jewish Records

• Giebelstadt Bavaria Jewish BMD records 1811-1874 • Records are held by the Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern (LAELKB) • Held at shelf number 287 • Send your query to [email protected] • Stating the reason of your request (genealogy/family history) and your postal address.

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Bavarian Cemeteries Project • C. 700 cemeteries 300,000+ images www.blf-friedhofsprojekt.de • Overview - www.blf- friedhofsprojekt.de/report/friedhofsuebersicht_ortsortiert_sum.html

• One Jewish cemetery – Oettingen in Swabia fully indexed and searchable • www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/oettingen • Jews lived in Oettingen the late 13th century.

Bamberg Bavaria

• Staatsarchiv Bamberg • English Version - www.gda.bayern.de/english • Our pages are available only in German as the consultation of the records and of the finding aid will not be possible without knowing German. • Findmitteldatenbank - Finding aid database • www.gda.bayern.de/findmitteldb/Kapitel/36 967

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Give Them A Face - Commemorating the Jews deported from Belgium

• On 10 May 1940 Belgium was invaded by Nazi-Germany. • Between August 1942 & July 1944 more than 25,800 Jewish men, women, and children were deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln, better known as the Dossin Barracks, to Auschwitz- Birkenau. • Kazerne Dossin Museum is located at the site of the former transit camp - dedicated to their remembrance. • Museum database at https://beeldbank.kazernedossin.eu/ • More info - [email protected]

Family History Research in Minden Luebecke www.ahnenerforschung.de/home_englisch/home_englisch.html

• 158 villages • Searchable by village • Searchable by lastname • Main research focus:

. Bergkirchen,

. Friedewalde/Stemmer,

. Frille,

. Hartum & Windheim

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NRW

• Ostwestfalen-Lippe Service für Familienforschung - www.archive.nrw.de/lav/abteilungen/ostwestfalen_lippe/service_familienforschung/index.php • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Juden-_und_Dissidentenregister_in_Westfalen_und_Lippe

• Ostwestfalen-Lippe und der Erste Weltkrieg 1914 to 1918 • https://archiveowl.wordpress.com

• NRW Cultural Atlas - www.lwl.org/kulturatlas/OrteAZ

• Coesfeld - http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Coesfeld • Soest - www.soest.de/03leben_wohnen/kultur/archiv/117040100000016015.php

Frankfurt am Main

• Newspapers, magazines & address books • http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika

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The Family Frank Centre at Jewish Museum www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/explore/frank-family-center

www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/connect/article/detail/the-new-jewish-museum Opens on 21 October 2020

Rheinland Pfalz Emigration Website

• www.auswanderung-rlp.de/startseite.html

• www.auswanderung-rlp.de/emigration-in-der-ns-zeit/juedische- emigration.html

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German Citizenship

• Following the Federal Constitutional Court decision of 20 May 2020 in Germany, the eligibility criteria under Article 116 of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz) concerning the restoration of German citizenship have been extended. • If you were rejected before try again now – see https://uk.diplo.de/uk-en/home-kontakt-channel • https://ajr.org.uk/latest-news/good-news-for-those-seeking- german-citizenship/

Austria • Austria offers citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled the Nazis • www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/30/austria-offers-citizenship-to- the-descendants-of-jews-who-fled-the-nazis

• Help also available from AJR https://ajr.org.uk • AJR CEO Michael Newman on twitter "The improvement in the Austrian Citizenship Act will be greatly welcomed by many descendants of those who found refuge in Britain, including many Second Generation members of @TheAJR . We are ready to provide guidance on how to apply."

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Austria Govt Website www.austria.org/citizenship

• New law in force from 1 September 2020 • Eligibility is for all direct descendants of victims of Nazi-persecution in Austria who will be eligible to claim Austrian citizenship, while keeping their present nationality. • Austria also extended the definition of victim of Nazi-persecution so that now more persons fall within the provision. All victims are eligible if they left Austria before 15 May 1955. • Further information from Austrian Embassy • Press story: www.jta.org/quick-reads/austria-will-allow-descendants-of-holocaust- victims-to-receive-citizenship • www.thejc.com/news/world/austrian-holocaust-descendants-to-be-eligible-for- citizenship-from-september-1-1.502194

Even More Info! • https://jewish-welcome.at/en/austrian- citizenship-for-nazi-victims/ • www.austria.org/the- latest/2019/10/7/austrian-citizenship- descendants-victims-nazi-persecution • https://ias.bmeia.gv.at/info58c/en-US • www.jweekly.com/2020/09/01/this-will- completely-change-jewish-life-in-austria- thousands-of-jews-around-the-world- expected-to-apply-for-austrian-citizenship- through-new-rules/ • http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=10970

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Vienna BMD Jewish Registers on FamilySearch • Registers of births, marriages, deaths, and some burials for the Jewish Community of Vienna (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien). • www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2028320 • Records are updated – including with images!

• Don’t forget also - Austria State Archives - www.oesta.gv.at • JewishGen’s Austria-Czech Research Division - www.jewishgen.org/AustriaCzech

Austrian National Library has now digitised: 30 Exile Newspapers from 1938 - 1945

• A-Z listing http://anno.onb.ac.at/alph_list.htm • Full Text Search http://anno.onb.ac.at/suchhilfe.htm

• Also a collection in Esperanto! www.onb.ac.at/bibliothek/sammlungen/ plansprachen

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Austro-Hungarian Army WW1 - Verlustlisten

• www.statearchives.gv.at/family- research/kriegsarchiv.html

• https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/ viewer/resolver?urn=urn%3Anb n%3Aat%3AAT-OOeLB-1723425

• http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi- content/anno?aid=vll

Dominican Republic Civil Registration 1801-2010 • Images of births, marriages, and deaths. Includes some divorces and indexes. • Some records have been indexed and are searchable. • Additional images & indexed records will be published in future. • Records were obtained from public access sources in the Dominican Republic for informational and research purposes only. • www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1619814

• Lots of German Jews found refuge in Sosua, Dominican Republic • Lots of info available if you Google!

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Stolperstein App https://stolpersteine-guide.de

Index to the Case Files of the AJDC Emigration Service Prague Office, 1945-1950 • As case files contain private • The index provides the names of clients served by the AJDC Emigration Service in personal information, they are not Czechoslovakia in the years immediately open to the public. However, family following the end of World War II. members may request copies of • It represents the contents of boxes 1-191 of the documents via our online the AJDC Prague Office Collection, held at Request Information form: the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian • https://request.archives.jdc.org/Ar Regimes, Prague. chiveRequest/FormRequest.aspx • The JDC Archives received a set of digital files of this collection in 2019 via the USHMM • Index = 136 pages: • The index was created thanks to a group of https://archives.jdc.org/index-of- JDC Archives Indexing Project volunteers ajdc-prague-office-emigration-case- and staff. files-now-available

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Czech Website on the Holocaust Launches Database of Victims Labeled "cikáni" by the Nazis and their Accomplices • www.terezinstudies.cz/index.htm • The Database of Victims draws from the data published in the Terezín Book of Memory (Terezínská pamětní kniha, vols. 1 and 2) • www.terezinstudies.cz/sd/publications/terezinske-pametni-knihy/miroslav-karny-kol-terezinska-pametni- kniha.html

• The Database of Victims has two sections, a public-facing section and one that is not accessible to the public. The public section is accessible at httpwww.holocaust.cz/en/main-2 and contains data just about persons who were murdered or who died as a consequence of their imprisonment.

• For privacy reasons they did not publish data about survivors or about those whose fates have not yet been traced. It is possible to access data on the basis of a research request.

• In the public section of the database, identification information is published about prisoners who died in the "Cikánský camp" at Lety between August 1942 and August 1943, the time it was in operation.

• The database includes name and surname, a date and place of birth, length of iprisonment and a data and place of death.

German Library for Research on Educational History

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliothek • The BBF | Research Library for the _f%C3%BCr_Bildungsgeschichtliche_Fors History of Education in Berlin is an chung international research library with outstanding library and archival holdings relating to the history of • http://bbf.dipf.de/kataloge/archivdatenb education in Germany. The BBF is ank/hans.pl also a center for research on the history of education in Germany. The BBF is a department of the DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Research • https://bbf.dipf.de/de and Information in Education.

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Der Deutsche Familiennamenatlas (DFA) http://www.namenforschung.net/dfa/projekt • Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I: Vokalismus, 2009. Inhalt • Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II: Konsonantismus, 2010. Inhalt • Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen, 2012. Inhalt • Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte, 2013. Inhalt • Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf, körperlichen und charakterlichen Merkmalen, 2016. Inhalt • Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen, 2017. • Band 7: Verzeichnisse, Register, Literatur, 2018.

German Digital Libraries • Genwiki Virtual Digital Library • http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Portal:DigiBib

• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue • https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/?digitalOnly=0&embedFulltitle=0&newTab=0

• Koeln - http://historischesarchivkoeln.de:8080/actaproweb/archive.xhtml

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Germany Resources on MyHeritage.com • Growing area • MyHeritage are scouring Germany for new collections • Watch this space for announcements of new data soon!

• The USHMM has linked digitized documents with Netherlands News 24,133 names in the existing collection Dutch Survivor Lists in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims database. • Indexing project of population registers from The Hague is growing fast. The project will index over • This collection, indexed by Jewishgen volunteers in half million family cards from the 1939-1939 2011, includes a number of lists obtained from the population register of The Hague. Source: Haags Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. Gemeentearchief. • It consists of lists of survivors located in various • The Gelders Archief completed a project to parts of Holland. index Gelderland marriage records from 1923 to 1942. The index will be made available via • While most were Dutch, the collection includes the Gelders Archief website a large numbers of German Jews, who emigrated to Holland both before and after the war.

• The names can be searched and viewed in the combined collection, Dutch Survivor Lists (www.ushmm.org/online/hsv_view.php?Sourceid= 27995) and also under each individual town list. • You may request the associated PDF documents by submitting a request through each name record and receive the document immediately in your email.

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Delpher www.delpher.nl

• Dutch Newspapers Magazines & journals from 1850s to 1950s • Over 120 million pages • 10 million magazine pages • More than 900,000 books • 1.5 million radio bulletins • Free to use!

Leer Synagogue

• Leer, which is located in East Friesland, northwest Germany, near the border with the Netherlands. • • https://jewish-heritage- europe.eu/2020/07/20/germany- synagogue-in-leer/

• www.gcjz- ostfriesland.de/cms/upload/Literatur/ Broschre.pdf

• 2014 brochure – 20 pages

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Hessen Juden Matrikel

• https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/detailAction.action?detailid=b43 • https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid= • https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/detailAction.action?detailid=a84 • Emigrants www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/index/sn/ha • Jüdische Wohlfahrtspflege 1932/33 • www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/index/sn/jgv • https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/list.action?nodeid=g31726&page=1&sorting=41&relo ad=true

• Hessen Source Books from an institution called "Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen", which researches the history and has issued some publications: https://kgj-hessen.de/home-en.html

Kommission für die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen

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Archive guide to German colonial history

• Archivführer zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte • www.archivfuehrer-kolonialzeit.de

• Kurrent-Schreibmaschine • https://archivfuehrer-kolonialzeit.de/font-tool

Deutsches Tagebucharchiv - www.tagebucharchiv.de • The German Diary Archive (DTA), located in the old town hall of Emmendingen, sees itself as the storage place for such testimonies from the German-speaking area.

• Unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters from everyone are collected, archived, professionally stored here and made available to both science and the general public.

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Dresden records on Ancestry.com

• Dresden, Germany, Births, 1876-1907 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5405

• Dresden, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1922 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9152

• Dresden, Germany, Deaths, 1876-1957 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9153

Niedersachsen - https://nla.niedersachsen.de

• Sources on emigration in the Lower Saxony State Archives • https://nla.niedersachsen.de/bestaende_und_benutz ung/service/quellen-zur-auswanderung-im- niedersaechsischen-landesarchiv-85731.html

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Juden in Jugenheim Rheinhessen

• book by Wolfhard Klein • Order from: [email protected] • Only EUR 13!

Isle of Man Newspapers www.imuseum.im/newspapers

• will remain available online for free permanently • more than 400,000 pages • 1792 to 1960 • Plans to add 1861 to date • Manx National Heritage (MNH)

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New Holocaust Dataset on JewishGen Reichsanzeiger (Revoked Citizenship and Property Seizures 1933-1945 • www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust • Many of the citizenship revocations affected persons who had previously left Germany, and were resident in various other countries • Almost 90,000 people and companies • The property seizures took place not only in Germany but also in occupied areas, particularly in Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately, the property that was seized is not identified. • Compensation questions should be addressed to the Claims Conference at [email protected] • 1985 a partial compilation of the citizenship revocations was published in book form by K.G. Saur • www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/RevokedGermanCitizenship.html • www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/JG0453_Reichsvereinigung.html

Meldeblaetter 1938-39

• IGRA is working on documents from the German Consulate in Palestine • German citizens living in Palestine registered with the German Consulate • Often contain a lot of genealogy information • Other files too - all in the Israel State Archives • Consulate Archives is another place to look for information • Israel may be an example of where to do WWII research • Often, the consulate records ended up being confiscated by the ruling (British) government.

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Intelligenzblätter online • An Official Journal: Gnädigst privilegirtes Bönnisches Intelligenz-Blatt, 1772 - 1792 • Court dates https://zeitpunkt.nrw/ulbbn/periodical/titleinfo/2560190 • Tenders Duisburger Intelligenz-Zettel, 1739?1767 • Bankruptcies & http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-11143 foreclosures

Lippische Intelligenzblätter, 1767?1808 • Lists of foreigners https://digitale-sammlungen.llb-detmold.de/llb/periodical/structure/123264 staying in hotels • Business and private Fürstlich-Lippisches Intelligenzblatt, 1809?1842 (small) advertisements https://digitale-sammlungen.llb-detmold.de/llb/periodical/structure/197475 • Rentals, sales & family advertisements: Münsterisches Intelligenzblatt, 1763?1849 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/um/periodical/titleinfo/1488242 • birth, marriage & death announcements Paderbornsches Intelligenzblatt, 1774?1849 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/titleinfo/146639

Gnädigst privilegirtes Ehrenbreitsteiner Intelligenzblatt, 1807?1808 https://www.dilibri.de/rlb/periodical/titleinfo/1195205

Hungarian National Széchényi Library Maps Collection

• Online collection • https://foldabrosz.oszk.hu • https://en.geneanet.org/geneal ogyblog/post/2020/09/hungary- countless-historical-maps-made- available-online-by-national- szechenyi-library • https://hungarytoday.hu/historic al-maps-available-online- szechenyi-library

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Compendia of links for NRW records online

• Hans Selbach’s Portal • www.selbach.at/D/forscher/selbach_nw/ selbach_nw.shtml

• Familienbuch Euregio – Iris Gedig • www.familienbuch-euregio.de

NRW • Bochum http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Bochum#Standesamtunterlagen • Juedisch in Attendorn - www.juedisch-in-attendorn.org • Bottrop - www.historische-bottrop.de/index.php?id=72 • Standesamt Dortmund https://tng.rolandgen.de/documents/Standes%c3%a4mter%20in%20der %20Stadt%20Dortmund.pdf • Standesamt Bochum https://tng.rolandgen.de/documents/Standes%C3%A4mter%20in%20de r%20Stadt%20Bochum.pdf • Die Bestände des Dülmener Stadtarchivs www.duelmen.de/894.html

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Danzig Residents Books https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=13073 • Pomeranian Digital Library https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra • www.ptg.gda.pl & Genealogical Association

www.ajrmystory.org.uk • 19 stories/books featured online. • Download or view online. • Project tells the life stories of Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors through the production of individual life story books to be kept as treasured memories and tools for reminiscence and to raise awareness about the Holocaust and Nazi oppression. • More to follow, 35 completed!

Ancestry.com Holocaust Records – Always Free

• www.ancestry.com/alwaysremember • Records from: • JewishGen • Arolsen Archive • USHMM

Crowdsourcing – Arolsen Archive Documents

• Every name counts: • www.zooniverse.org/projects/ cseidenstuecker/every-name- counts • Similar projects at both Ancestry.com & USHMM • Projects to add metadata to the images online • 26 million documents.

Verifying names of Austrian Holocaust victims: www.nationalfonds.org/shoah-wall-of-names-memorial

• Appeal by Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) to help verify the names for the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial • www.nationalfonds.org/announcement/appeal-by-the-documentation-centre- of-austrian-resistance-d%C3%B6w-for-the-verification-of-the-names-for-the- shoah-wall-of-names-memo

• The Shoah Wall of Names Memorial is currently under construction at Ostarrichi Park in the 9th District of Vienna. The names of the Jewish children, women and men from Austria who were murdered in the Shoah will be engraved on large stone tablets in memory of the over 64,000 who were robbed of their lives.

Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present

• www.degruyter.com/view/title/558154 • 342 Pages • Book is downloadable • Written in English • First edited volume to explore the history of the search for missing Nazi victims in detail • Explores today’s significance and relevance of archival holdings that emerged from tracing activities • Case studies • Free!

Online German Script Translators and Resources

• Brigham Young University: The German Script Tutorial • FamilySearch Wiki: Germany Handwriting • Genealoger: German Genealogy—Language, Handwriting, and Script • My Ancestors and Me: Helps for Translating That Old German Handwriting • Omniglot: German • Suetterlin Schrift: German handwriting (For fun, you can see how your name looks written in Suetterlin!) • German Alphabet Chart - www.familytreemagazine.com/wp- content/uploads/2017/08/germanic-alpha-chart.pdf

• Source: www.familytreemagazine.com

Cemeteries https://grabsteine.genealogy.net/juedisch.php • Lots of photos • Many names • … but they can’t read Hebrew! • Don’t forget JOWBR! • www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery

Ostarbeiters (forced labourers of Germany) Database

• More than 320,000 people taken from or forced to work in these countries: Russia, current day Republic of Crimea, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Lithuania, France, Norway, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. • Source: State Archive of the Russian Federation: Fund-7021, “Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes of the Nazi Invaders”. • Video in English on how to use the database: https://ost-west.memo.ru/about • Use Google translate, but this is mainly in German https://fond21.memo.ru/ • Source: https://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/2020/07/11/major-german-forced-laborer-database- on-ostarbeiters-goes-online/

France

• French National Archives have put naturalization decrees for the years 1931-1948 online • All the decrees from 1883-1948 are now online! • www.siv.archives- nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/rechercheconsultation/consultation/ir/consultationIR.ac tion;jsessionid=011E0861DD4B4EE7C0751EF0FA7D81E4?irId=FRAN_IR_057397 &udId=root&details=true&gotoArchivesNums=false&auSeinIR=true • Bernard Flam message [email protected] on JewishGen • https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/646211 #top tip! How to search • M. Flam works at www.centre-medem.org/archives - A bibliographic collection on the history of the Jewish people, in Yiddish and French,

Holocaust victims from Gelsenkirchen

• www.gelsenkirchen.de/de/stadtprofil/stadtg eschichten/juedische_verfolgte_in_gelsenkir chen_1933-1945

Mönchengladbach BMD Records – Updated on Ancestry

• Births 1798-1903 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60896

• Marriages 1798-1033 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60897

• Deaths 1798-1950 • www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60898

Aufbau Newspaper 1934-2004

• Aufbau A Newspaper For German- Speaking Refugees by Sheldon Kirshner • https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/auf bau-a-newspaper-for-german- speaking-refugees • www.calzareth.com/aufbau/search .html • www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ger many • www.jewishgen.org/new/database s-germany-aufbau • http://archive.org/details/aufbau

Saxony Census Records 1770-1934 • www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2780641 • Index of the Saxony (province) censuses and census lists from 1770-1934. Indexed fields include name, age, house number and event location. • www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Germany,_Prussia,_Saxony,_Census_Li sts_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records

Standesamt Greven NRW

• Die Hochzeiten 1874 bis 1923 • www.greven.net/medien/bindata/stadtinfo/PSR_Greven_H ochzeiten_1874-1923_2015-11-5.pdf

• Die Geburten 1874 bis 1904 • www.greven.net/medien/bindata/stadtinfo/PSR_Greven_G eburten_1874-1904_2016-01-08.pdf

• Die Sterbefälle 1874 bis 1955 • www.greven.net/medien/bindata/stadtinfo/Sterbefaelle_Gre ven_1874-1955_chronologisch.pdf

Meisenheim (near Bad Kreuzenach, Pfalz)

• 562 pages • By Udo Salomon • Free to download online • or EUR64 to purchase in hardcopy! • www.stadt- meisenheim.de/files/meisenheim- chronik-salomon.pdf • Meisenheim - Eine kleine Stadt und ihre Bewohner in den Spannungsfeldern der europäischen Geschichte • ISBN 9783945676011

Sachsen-Anhalt Halberstadt Civil Registration 1874-1982 • www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2212665

• Index of the bmd records from Halberstadt Kreisarchiv.

• Including Aspenstedt, Emersleben, Halberstadt, Klein Quenstedt (Kr. Halberstadt), Langenstein, Mahndorf, Sargstedt, Ströbeck, and Wehrstedt.

More than GerSIG https://www.jewishgen.org/gersig/ • Alemannia Judaica • www.alemannia-judaica.de • Central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany • https://zentralarchiv-juden.de/ • Jewish Places • www.jewish-places.de • Arolsen Archives • https://arolsen-archives.org/ • Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum • Train of Commemoration • www.zug-der- • www.xn--jdische-gemeinden-22b.de erinnerung.eu/kinder.html

Landesarchiv Sachsen Anhalt • https://landesarchiv.sachsen-anhalt.de/startseite/ • Created in 2015 from the three previously independent state archives: Magdeburg, Merseburg and Oranienbaum • Divided into the three specialist departments Magdeburg (with the location Wernigerode), Merseburg and Dessau as well as the Central Services department. • Created a You Tube video to highlight their family history holdings https://youtu.be/wZpHFZbGImo

USHMM New Databases (Thanks to Peter Landé)

• USHMM has added digitized documents to the following collections in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims (HSV) database. • Concentration Camp Transfers Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen, November 27, 1944 (ID: 20578) www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=20578 • First of two electronic indices of the emigration case files of the Australia Jewish Welfare and Relief Society (ID: 28347) www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=28347 • Second of two electronic indices of the emigration case files of the Australia Jewish Welfare and Relief Society (ID: 28390) www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=28390 • Sachsenhausen property forms and strength reports (ID: 20779) www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=20779 • Lublin, Poland: Stettin (Szczecin) Jewish Deportation into the Lublin Area (ID: 20875) www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?Sourceid=20875

Amtsblätter – Official Journals

• https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Po • The Deutscher Reichsanzeiger mmern/Amtsbl%C3%A4tter und Preußischer • http://wiki- de.genealogy.net/Schleswig- Staatsanzeiger (German Imperial Holstein/Amtsbl%C3%A4tter Gazette and Prussian Official Gazette) • https://digi.bib.uni- mannheim.de/periodika/en/imperial- gazette/

• http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/20 18/02/14/new-deutsche-reichsanzeiger- und-preusischer-staatsanzeiger-1819- 1945

AJR Refugee Internment Microsite www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/refugee-internment

Roland zu Dortmund Links Compendium

• 42 pages! • 2nd Edition 23 August 2020 • https://tng.rolandgen.de/docum ents/RzD%20%282020%29%2C% 20Linksammlung%20des%20RzD .pdf

Hidden Treasures - https://celebratingjewisharchives.org

Next meetings of our JGSGB German SIG: • 6 December 2020 • 7 March 2021 • 6 June 2021 • 5 September 2021 • 5 December 2021

• Please add the dates to your forward calendar • Meetings will be on Zoom until further notice.

Solving your Questions

• Where is it? – map & JewishGen Community Page • Juedische Gemeinden/Alemannia Judaica? • JewishGen – GerSIG/JRI Poland? • Who do we know that can help? • Specialist institutions or museums / libraries? • Books & community histories? • Follow links and clues from there onwards.

Wiesbaden, Hessen – Amnon’s Question • www.jewishgen.org/gersig

• www.xn--jdische-gemeinden- 22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/u-z/2089-wiesbaden- hessen

• www.alemannia-judaica.de/friedhoefe_hessen.htm

• https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/list.action?node id=g186590&page=1&sorting=41&reload=true

• www.am-spiegelgasse.de

Pomerania (1815–1945) – Andrew’s Question

• www.xn--jdische-gemeinden- 22b.de/index.php/gemeinden/e-g/604- falkenburg-hinterpommern

• https://gsta.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/

• www.pommerscher- greif.de/literatur/articles/regionales.html

• https://kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=40584

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