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Resources
Websites are in English
unless otherwise noted.
General
Websites
Archives
Databases
- The GerSIG Name Adoption List Index (NALDEX)
- JewishGen
Germany Database:
a combination database search
- Aufbau
Survivors Lists:
Over 33,000 Holocaust survivors, published in the German-language
newspaper Aufbau, New York, 1944-1946
- Bundesarchiv
Gedenkbuch (memory book).
- Danzig
Surname Adoption List
- Gedenkbuch
des Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (RjF)
- German
Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp: Names of 2,750 German
Jews at this concentration camp near Gdan'sk.
- Germans,
Swiss and Austrians Deported from France
Information about 825 Holocaust victims, 1942-1944.
-
Jews in Würzburg, 1900-1945:
Biographical dictionary of over 13,000 Jews living in Würzburg,
Lower Franconia, in the early 20th century.
- Jewish
Families of Northern Germany:
3,000 families from Lower Saxony, North-Rhine-Westphalia,
Hamburg, Bremen, and Hessen.
- JewishGen
Online Worldwide Burial Registry:
Over 4,000 burial records for Germany and German landsmanshaft
cemeteries worldwide.
- Jüdisches Gewerbebetriebe in Berlin 1930-1945 (Jewish Businesses in Berlin)
- JRI-Poland
Jewish Records Indexing; includes Germany/Prussia east of
the Oder-Neisse line
- West
Prussia 1812 Citizenship: Names of 2,400 Jews in 50 towns
in West Prussia who were granted Prussian citizenship in 1812.
- Westphalian
Jews and the Holocaust: The fate of over 8,000 Westphalian
Jews.
- Yizkor
Book Necrologies:
6,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs in Yizkor Books
for towns in Germany.
Extensive
Links and References
Newspapers
Other General Websites
- Alemannia
Judaica. This website contains a wealth of information
for Baden-Württemberg,
Alsace, Switzerland, Vorarlberg, and Bavarian Swabia on:
- Basic
Research Outline for German Genealogy
- Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland)
- General
Books on History and Genealogy
- Deutsche
Verwaltungsgeschichte von der Reichseinigung 1871 bis zur
Wiedervereinigung 1990. Contains a gazetteer of Germany,
arranged alphabetically at http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/ortsbuch39.html
and hierarchically beginning at http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/laender.html
(for pre-1945).
- Etymology
of [German] First Names
- French-German
town names: towns ordered by
French name and by German
name
- Genealogical
Resources for German-Jewish Ancestry: Historical
review with many references to small community and broad-based
books, and to various museums and memorials.
- German
Genealogy FAQ
- German
Illness Translations
- German
Occupation Definitions - English Translations
- German
Synagogues
-
German to Polish town name changes in 19th Century Posen
Province
- German
White Pages
- Germany-Poland
Town Database: contains nearly 60,000 locations with over
20,000 name changes once, and 5,500 thrice; all locations
are EAST of the Oder and Neisse rivers and are based on the
borders of the eastern provinces in Spring 1918
- Google
Books
- Holocaust
Victim Assets Litigation List (Swiss Banks)
- Holocaust
Location and Restitution of Assets List (Israel)
- How
to use the online Berlin directories
- IAJGS
Cemetery Project: Germany: Contains information
about specific
Jewish cemeteries.
- Immigrant
Ships Transcribers Guild: lists of passengers who traveled
on various ships into the US on a variety of dates
- Index
of German-Polish and Polish-German names of the localities
in Poland & Russia
- JewishGen
InfoFile Index
- Name
Adoption Lists
- Old
German Occupations (on about.com)
- Online
German Genealogy Databases
- RIJO
Research
- RootsWeb.com:
Genealogy research info and tools
- States
of Germany
- Territoriale
Veränderungen in Deutschland und deutsch verwalteten
Gebieten 1874 – 1945. county border changes, incorporations,
etc.
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German-Jewish
Bookdealers
For those
who are seeking books on German-Jewish history, there are a
few sources that have been found to be especially useful.
We have no personal interest in any of these, and are presenting
them as an aid to researchers.
- Literatur
Handlung: It is often referred to by the name of the owner,
Dr. Rachel Salamander. Their main store is in Munich,
with branches in Berlin and Vienna. They specialize
in Jewish books and have many books on the histories of Jewish
communities, as well as a host of other German, Jewish and
Israeli books, CDs and tapes.
Email: literaturhandlung@t-online.de
- Amazon:
In Germany it has many books relevant to German-Jewish history
that are not sold through their US-based website.
website: http://www.amazon.de
- Evelyn
Pearl (New York): She acquires books on the Holocaust
and German-Jewish history and issues a catalog once or twice
a year. You can get on her mailing list.
Website: http://www.evelynpearlbooks.com/
Email: epbooks@aol.com
- International
Book Import Service:
Website: http://www.ibiservice.com/
Any book can be ordered online which can be found in the German
equivalent of Books-in-Print, which can be accessed
at:
Website: http://www.buchhandel.de
Their shipping costs are less because they ship from their
location in the U.S. southeast using U.S. postal service priority
mail.
- Osiander
Bücher: This is the oldest booksellers in
Germany and is connected with the University in Tübingen
and specialize in Baden-Württemberg.
Website: http://www.osiander.de/
- Antiquariat
Laessig und Jeschke: A Berlin book dealer with online
catalogs and some Judaica.
Email: antiquaJL@aol.com
- Zentrales
Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Buecher: a gigantic database
of secondhand books from dealers all over Germany.
Website: http://www.zvab.com
- Eric
Chaim Kline, Bookseller: has 1000's of pre-war German
Jewish titles in stock. P.O. Box 829, Santa Monica, CA 90406,
(310) 395-4747, (310) 395-8825
Email: ecklinebookseller@att.net
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Historic
and Current Maps
Please Note: Many
of these are large images; if you have a dial-up connection,
they may take a few minutes to download.
- Alsace-Lorraine
- German Empire West 1882
- Baden:
Typical German States Before and since the French Revolution:
I. Baden From An Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd,
1923 (598K) Insets: The County of Sponheim. Lordship of Gravenstein.
Baden since 1801
- Bavaria:
The Electorate of Bavaria (1794): northeast,
northwest, southeast,
southwest.
- Franconia
(1799): northeast,
northwest, southeast,
southwest
- German
Empire (1871)
- German
Empire map (1917)
- German Empire map (1883)
- Germany
in 1378
- The Historic Gazetteer
- JewishGen Gazetteer (contains the names of one million localities in 54 countries in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Centarl Asia) and JewishGen Communities Database:(contains information about 6,000 Jewish communities in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East): Two valuable but separate Jewish Community search tools at JewishGen. Remember to select Germany before searching for a place name.
IMPORTANT - Read the instructions and description of each database at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/About.htm
- Landesgeschichtliches
Informationssystem Hessen
- Modern
Germany
- Modern
Germany
- Modern
Germany
- Modern
Germany
- Posen-Prussia
- German Empire East 1882
- Rhein:
Nördliche Fortsetzung des Rhein (1845): northeast,
northwest, southeast,
southwest.
- Silesia-Prussia
- German Empire East 1882
- Wuerttemberg:
Typical German States Before and since the French Revolution:
II. Wuerttemberg From A Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd,
1923 (698K) Insets: County of Horburg and Lordship of Reichenweier.
Principality-County of Montbeliard. Wurtemberg since 1495
- Jewish
Settlements in Wuerttemberg,
1932
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Old
German Currency
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Jewish
newspapers in German
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Translation
Tools
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Other
Tools
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