Jakob Herz Collection

Three items referring to Prof. Jakob Herz: Memorial by Ilse Sponsel in memory of Herz; excerpt from "Erlanger Tagblatt," (May 5, 1983); invitation to participate at the unveiling of the pillar and Alex Bauer's remarks at the occasion, May 5, 1983.

Zacharias Hamburger Collection 1803-1870

Photocopies of family papers, such as birth-, citizenship-, and marriage certificates, as well as a permit to trade in Schmiegel, Posen. Also included is a family tree, circa 1787-1880.

Fred Oppenheimer Collection 1799-1896

Military, family and business documents: accounting of the Jewish community in Gemmingen (1799/1800); public school certificate (1884); appointment as instructor of the Volkswehr (1849); note to the mayor of Gemmingen; power of attorney in German, Philadelphia (1896).

Wilhelm Dorn Collection 1908-1937

Documents: passport (Deutsches Reich/1937); citizenship certificate (1908).

Mailaender Family Collection 1962

Newspaper clippings realting to the 100th anniversary of Mailaender brewery "Bergbraeu" (1862-1962) in Fuerth, Bavaria.

Moenchengladbach; Jewish Community Collection 1933-1937

Report on the Jewish community in Moenchengladbach (1933-1937); letter to Walter Froehlich confirming his election to chair the Jewish community in Moenchengladbach (1936); membership card for the "Juedische Kulturbund, Moenchengladbach).

Jules Wertheimer family collection.

Family trees listing; newspaper clippings on Nazi period in Wertheim; inscriptions from Jewish cemetery in Schmieheim.

Marianne Berel Collection 1938-1996

Clippings, correspondence, published and unpublished articles on learning disabilities and music therapy; contains testimony on her experience in the internment camp of Gurs, France.

Mediaş Jewish Community Photograph Collection 1900-1930s bulk: undated

The collection contains more than 60 black and white photographs from the first decades of the 20th century found in the synagogue of Mediaş (Mediasch, Medgyes), Romania. The photographs were found in the process of an on-going clean-up and restoration project and for the most part are unidentified. The photographs are of community members and their relatives and friends; they consist of group family portraits, individual portraits, babies, and children. Some of the photographs originate from Mediaş and other nearby Transylvanian towns, while others were printed by foreign printing shops and were presumably sent to relatives living in Mediaş.

Lipperode; Jewish Community Collection 1830-1939

Community record book 1846-1939; documents; business contracts; papers of individuals.

Beradt Family Collection 1850-1956

Documents related to Ulla Brode, née Beradt and her family.

Ruth Loewenstein Collection 1942

Order of confiscation of all property (photocopy ) for Ruth Loewenstein , issued on Aug. 21, 1942, when she was deported from Sammellager Killesberg in Stuttgart, Germany.

Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie Collection 1933

Correspondence (photocopies) concerning the dismissal of Jewish scientists and staff members at the Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut in 1933.

Max Michel Collection. 1933-1986 Bulk dates: 1933-1937

The bulk of the collections consists of correspondence from the 1930s relating to Michels’s job applications in the U.S. in different academic institutions and activities of the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland. Also included is a 36 p. typescript, ‘Geschichte der Familie Wertheimer’; pamphlets by Juda Magnes and Kurt Blumenfeld on the university in Jerusalem; as well as family trees.

Herbert Dorn Collection 1881-1987

Curriculum vitae, program for memorial for Herbert Dorn; clippings on Dorn exhibition.