Freddy Godshaw sitting in a garden holding a croquet stick; Germany.

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Fritz Gottschalk family with other children on the beach; Norderney, Germany.

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Graduation portrait including Otto Gersuny, class of 1908, K. & K. Gymnasium; Teplitz, Germany (Teplice, Czech Republic).

Otto Gersuny (1890-1964), third row from the front wearing cap (see arrow)

Fred Herz seated on a car hood on a country road; Harzfahrt (Harz Mountains), Germany.

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Students on excursion from Lausanne to Wallis, St. Maurice, Sion and Brug, Switzerland.

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Mathias family preparing to board the ship "Deutschland" to emigrate from Germany to New York Portraits; Family

On January 6, 1938 our family left Nazi Germany and boarded a ship "Deutschland" for New York. This ended our family's life in Germany forever. Rudolph ES Mathias.

Studio portrait of Emilie?; Görlitz, Germany Portraits Women

Verso: handwritten dedication signed Emilie

Tel Aviv - Allenby St.

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Tolle Jahre Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung

Description of the author’s family background. His paternal family owned a tobacco and cigarres business in Ulm, which was transferred to Munich in 1888. The maternal family in Frankfurt am Main had a textile export business. Recollections of his schooldays at the Catholic St. Anna Schule. Antisemitic encounters at the local Gymnasium. Description of life in the 19th century. Reverence for the local royalties. The family was involved in the Zionist movement, as were most of the members of their local synagoge.

How to find your ancestors in Germany 1984

Paper presented at the Fourth National Seminar on Jewish genealogy, Evanston, IL, July 22-25, 1984.

Dwelling house in a sacred space: reused synagogues in Germany.

Contribution to the Congress " Sacred and Secular Buildings," Washington, May 1999, describing a project of the Institute of Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem, which has been working on a documentation of synagogues, cemetery chapels, and ritual baths in Germany since 1994.