Studio portrait of the women of the Oppenheimer family.

l-r: Thekla Oppenheimer-Benedick, Jenny Oppenheimer-Frank, Fanny Oppenheimer and Adele Oppenheimer-Nathan

Studio portrait of the women of the Oppenheimer family.

l-r: Sisters Adele Oppenheimer-Nathan, Thekla Oppenheimer-Benedick, Jenny Oppenheimer-Frank and their mother Fanny Oppenheimer

Boris Guerrit being thanked in Jerusalem for having sheltered in his mother-in-law's home in Soisy-sur-Seine his cousin Sonia and her husband Jacob Judey-Barosin from September 1943 until the liberation of Paris in August 1944 Portraits Groups

Early in 1943 the Barosins were arrested and sent to the deportation camp in Gurs. They were freed by French authorities and went into hiding until their liberation in 1944 in Paris. In 1947 they emigrated to the United States.

Family portrait including Elsa Fleissig nee Loewenthal, August Fleissig, Lena Loewenthal, Hans Frankenbach and Justin Loewenthal Portraits Family

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Reproduction of portrait of Philipp Oberlaender dressed as a frontiersman of the American West Portraits Men

Typed on verso: Philipp Oberlaender 1875 Eipel - 1911 im Sudan. Mitinhaber Sein Vater Moritz, spaeter Alleininhaber der Hronower Baumwollspinnerei in Hronow, Boehem. Grosswildjaeger, Stiftungen im Wiener und Prager Naturhistor. Museum 1910 geadelt. Verfasser von Jagdfahrten in Nordamerika Wien Verlag Huber & Lahm Nachf. 1911 261 Seiten mit 76 Abbildungen. Jagdschilderungen unter dem Pseudonym Count Orlando und Jagdaufnahmen in "Outdoor Life A Magazine of the West" published at Denver, Colorado Vol. XXII pages 525 & 615 1908 Vol. XXIII pages 27 & 253 do

Philipp-Coppel Family 1781-1908

Photocopy of family history (Chronik) of Philipp and Coppel family.

Reproduction of studio portrait of Philipp Ehrenberg; Prague Portraits Men

Originals with Paul Ehrenberg

Margarete Oppenheimer geb. Busch : 29. Mai 1883 - 8. August 1935.

Memorial book with the speeches by Leo Baeck and Hugo Jacobi.

Portrait of August Rothschild; Employee of Mendelssohn Bank, Berlin Portraits Men

"1.10.1891 August Rothschild geb. 14.11.1870"

Miraculous Survival 1939-1982

Description of war years in France and Spain, including experiences in internment camps, life in hiding, etc.; emigration to USA.

Theresienstaedter Tagebuch (Oberstdorf July-August 1945/1960s?) 1945 (January - July)

Detailed description of life in Theresienstadt during the last months of World War II and of liberation, based on the author's diary and post-war interviews and statistical material.

Aus meinem Leben 1899-1918

The memoir was written between 1899 and 1918. Family history going back to the early 18th century. Recollection of the author's childhood in Hildesheim. Moritz was the youngest child of Joseph and Bena Guedemann. Early death of his father in 1847. Moritz attended the Jewish elementary school prior to the age of five. In 1843 he was enrolled in the episcopal "Josephinum Gymnasium", where he was the only Jewish student in the entire school. He had friendly relationships with students and teachers and was not confronted with antisemitism during his school years. Moritz Guedemann graduated in 1853 and enrolled in the newly established Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. Description of teachers and colleagues in the seminary. Doctorate in 1858 and continuation of rabbinic studies. Occasional invitation to preach at the high holidays in Berlin, where Moritz got acquainted with the famous rabbi Dr. Michael Sachs. Position as a rabbi in Magdeburg in 1862. Small publications of studies in Jewish history. Engagement with Fanny Spiegel. In 1863 Moritz and Fanny Guedemann got married. Offer to succeed rabbi Michael Sachs in Berlin. Division and intrigues in the Jewish community and withdrawing from the position. Invitation to give a sermon in Vienna. In 1866 Moritz Guedemann was nominated to succeed rabbi Mannheimer at the Leopoldstadt synagogue in Vienna. Austro-Prussian war and defeat of Austria in Koeniggraetz. Initial difficulties and cultural differences. Criticism toward his orthodox conduct in the Vienna Jewish press ("Neuzeit"). Cultural life in Vienna. Welfare institutions and philanthropists. Difference within the Jewish community. Crash of the stock exchange and rise of antisemitism. Publication of sermons and studies in Jewish history. In 1891 Max Guedemann became chief rabbi of Vienna. Speeches against antisemitism and blood libel trials. He was awarded with the title "Ritter" of the Kaiser Franz Joseph order for these achievements. Death of his wife in

Queens Bet Din Gittin / Rabbi Faber Records. 1947-1994 (bulk 1974-1992)

This is a collection of the records of Rabbi Salamon Faber, Chair of the Queens Bet Din or Rabbinic Court, concerning the gittin (plural of get, Jewish religious divorces) that the Queens Bet Din granted between 1947 and 1992. These records include Rabbi’s Faber’s personal notes about the gittin, correspondence with the husband and wife and with any other concerned parties, copies of civil and religious marriage and divorce documents, divorce contracts signed by the husband, and copies of conversion certificates.

Nachman Zonabend 1939-1944

The records reflect the organizational structure of the Jewish ghetto administration and consist of the following: Correspondence with German government agencies, 1939-1941, including the Police and Gestapo, the *Oberburgermeister* of Litzmannstadt (German name for Lodz), the *Gettoverwaltung* (German administration of the ghetto). The correspondence pertains to the establishment of the ghetto, expropriation of Jewish property, resettlement of Lodz Jews into the ghetto, sanitary conditions, ghetto industry, anti-Jewish ordinances. Announcements issued by Rumkowski, 1940-1944. A complete set of daily communications to the ghetto population on all subjects pertinent to ghetto life such as: confiscations of Jewish property, food rationing, availability of work, relief distribution, deportations, liquidation of the ghetto. Files of various departments of the Jewish ghetto administration including labor divisions and workshops, the Jewish police (*Ordnungsdienst*), Statistics Department, Ghetto Court, Archives, Resettlement Department, Deportation Commission. Of special interest are the Archives files which contain essays and reports written by the Archives staff expressly for the purpose of historical record on subjects related to ghetto life. Outstanding in this group are reports and literary sketches by Joseph Zelkowicz, including his extensive account about the *Gesperre* (Yid. Shpere) - the deportation of the children, the old and the infirm in September, 1942. In addition, the Archives files contain bulletins of the *Daily Chronicle* of the Lodz Ghetto, transcripts of speeches by Rumkowski, and issues of the *Geto-tsaytung*, a short-lived official publication of the Eldest of the Jews. Iconographic materials, including photographs and albums. The photographs taken by Mendel Grossman, Henryk Ross, Maliniak, Zonabend and others, provide an extensive visual record of ghetto life.

Jewish Historical Committee (Boston, Mass.) minutes, 1947.

Contains the minutes of the Committee, which was sponsored by the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts, for the purpose of collecting and preserving material concerning the history of Boston Jewry.