Family Holocaust Victims remembered on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022

Below is a link to findings on over 2,100 members of my German Jewish ancestral families. 

All were murdered in the Holocaust. 

Some were killed along with their parents, siblings and children. Some had survivors in the next generation to tell their stories, some did not. 

This is an attempt to remember and document their memory. 

Never Forget

The photos come from a variety of sources.  Even though they are only headshots, the great majority posed, their expressions tell their story.

Some, faces clipped from photos of large family celebrations, are quite fuzzy, but they are celebrations. It is good to remember them in good times no matter how fuzzy.

Some photos show successful looking, handsome men and beautiful women dressed to celebrate.

Others show people at home with visitors, often relatives.

The more recent photos are tense, angry and fearful. The oppressive 1930s clearly took a toll.

The pictures of the old show resignation.

The saddest pictures of this horrific presentation are of the children of the 1930s and 1940s. Couples, optimistic and hopeful in spite of the situation, continued to bring forth children. Later, optimism and hope would disappear. 

link: Family Victims of the Holocaust

Family Reference Documents: preserving family research for future generations

I have prepared family reference documents which include information on all descendants of each of my researched ancestral lines.  Any descendants of the lines listed below who desire access to Family Reference Documents should contact the author at dennisaron@gmail.com.  Only family members will be granted access.

Each family reference document includes details of the family’s Holocaust losses, a family register listing all family members, living and dead, descended from the patriarch and matriarch. An example Table of Contents is discussed below.

This project was undertaken to convey a personally meaningful sense of the Holocaust to future generations of my families; to help them understand their family and what it has experienced. 

Never Forget.

Reports are available for these families:

·                Aron of Neuwied, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Aharon Ha-Levi

·                Baer of Wiesbaden, Hessen, descendants of Gumpel

·                Bockmann of Stein-Bockenheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Nathan

·                Gutheim of Ungedanken, Hessen, descendants of Leib

·                Heilbron/Heilbrunn of Frickhofen, Hessen, descendants of Simon Heilbronn

·                Heinemann of Niedenstein, Hessen, descendants of Seligmann

·                Jakoby – Berg of Brohl, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Eva Jacoby and Daniel

·                Kander of Riede, Hessen, descendants of Jonas Cantor

·                Katz of Gudensberg and Guxhagen, Hessen, descendants of Jeremias Katz

·                Katz of Guxhagen, Hessen, descendants of Moses Katz

·                Levy of Bosenbach, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Moses Levy*

·                Loeb of Bosenbach, Rheinland-Pfalz descendants of Joseph Loeb*

·                Mayer of Gemünden and Plein, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Mayer*

·                Mayer of Argenschwang, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of David

·                Michel of Immendorf, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Moses

·                Plaut of Obervorschütz, Hessen, descendants of Seligmann Plaut

·                Rosenbusch of Borken(Hessen), descendants of Elchanan

·                Schoenfeld of Wachenbuchen, Hessen, descendants of Abraham Schoenfeld

·                Speier of Guxhagen, Hessen, descendants of Salomon Speier

·                Stern of Gilserberg, Hessen, descendants of Hirsch Stern

·                Various families of Meudt, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Moses and Haium

·                Various families descended from Cappel Israel of Nesselröden

·                Windmueller of Frankenberg including the Gutheim and Hirschberg families

·                Wirth of Gemünden, Hunsrück, Rheinland-Pfalz, descendants of Abraham

 

* Combined into one report as they have significant overlap

Each report has a similar format.  Below as an example is the table of contents for the Meyer Windmueller Reference Document.

• The introduction includes a brief summary of the author’s background and family research history and then describes the subject family, gives a summary of its Holocaust losses and acknowledges important sources.
• Notable family members: This family’s notables include a father and son who escaped the Nazis to Argentina where they were again subject to government tyranny, a political scientist who focused on state official policies, two men who served in the Civil War for opposite sides and two men who served the US Army as Ritchie Boys in WW II.
• The Holocaust sections are self-evident from their titles
• A Family Photo Album
• Family Locations includes a Location Index for all events recorded for family members and details of Jewish life in towns where the family resided.
• The family reports include two forms of family register, one an outline and the other including all narratives, articles and obituaries.
• A Brief History of the German Country Jews was written by Sanford Jacoby of UCLA as an Introduction to a recently published book in Germany about some typical small German Jewish communities.  It has been included, as some family branches have long been in the USA and today’s members have learned little of their ancestors’ German Jewish home-towns.