German Jewish Records: Difference between revisions

=== Locating Jewish Records ===

The Family History Library has Jewish records from many German places, but there are also many places not yet represented in the collection. The library has very few synagogue records. Most of the library's Jewish materials are vital records made by civil authorities.  

Jewish civil registration records and civil registration records that include Jews along with the rest of the population are available beginning in 1795. Because of privacy restrictions, the library has few records for events that occurred after 1875.  

Below are listed places where you can look for records of your Jewish ancestors:  

'''Civil Registration Records.''' These records are kept at the local civil registration office [Standesamt] in each town or city. Therefore, you need to know the town where your ancestor lived before you can look for these records.  

Many German archive and parish register inventories touch on various Jewish records. The inventory below concentrates on Jewish records:  

*''Verzeichnis der im Bundesarchiv aufbewahrten Filme von Personenstandsregistern: JüdischerGemeinden aus Mittel- und Ostdeutschland (Inventory of microfilms at the German Federal Archive of Jewish Vital Records from central and eastern Germany).'' Typescript photocopy, 196-? (FHL book 943 A5gp.)

This inventory is divided into five sections:  

#east of the Oder-Neiße line,  

#Russian occupied East Germany,  

#Nordrhein-Westfalen,  

#Berlin, and  

#Locality Index.

The inventory lists hundreds of synagogue records—including birth, marriage, and death records; cemetery records; school records; and so forth—and the years they cover.  

Leo Baeck Institute. ''The Leo Baeck Institute in New York has a collection of 50,000 German Jewish records, primarily from Baden, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Westpreußen, and Württemberg.'' These include circumcision, marriage, death, and memorial records. The following work describes the collection:

Grubel, Fred, et al. ''Catalog of the Archival Collections [of the Leo Baeck Institute].'' Tübingen, Germany: J. C. B. Mohr, 1990. (FHL book 974.71 A3gf.)

More good Jewish information can be found at: [http://www.lbi.com www.lbi.org] , web site of the Leo Baeck Institute.  

'''Registry of Jewish Research.''' The Jewish Genealogical Society provides an alphabetical registry of genealogists and the Jewish families they are researching:  

 

 

'''Genealogical Societies.''' The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies may be able to help find records of Jewish ancestors. Their address is:  

'''Holocaust Records.''' Most of the Jewish population of Germany was killed during the atrocities of World War II. Below is a source containing a list of about 130,000 people who died in the Holocaust, their birth and death dates, their places of residence before deportation, and the camps to which they were sent:  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'''Family History Library Records'''. To determine whether the Family History Library has Jewish records for the locality your ancestor came from, search the Place Search of the catalog under each of the following:  

GERMANY - JEWISH RECORDS  

GERMANY, [STATE] - JEWISH RECORDS