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Genealogy of the Auerbach family from the beginnings of the family, with one David Tevele Auerbach (fl. 1575) of Vienna, to the present. the Auerbachs lived primarily in Poland and Germany until the Holocaust. Today the family is widely dispersed with about half of the known members in Israel. Includes the Goldschmidt, Spierer, Hirsch, Wolf, Cahn, Fränkel, Loeb and other allied families.
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Compilation of data on passengers of Russian nationality who immigrated to the United States from Russian territories between 1875 and 1891. Passenger lists are arranged chronolgically by date of arrival at New York harbor.
Combines the stories and genealogies of two enlarged families - that of Ernst Oppenheim and that of his wife Ruth - with essays on the history of Central European Jewry and historical documents. Ch. 1 (p. 3-16), "The First Crusade", describes massacres of Jews by Crusaders in the Rhine valley in 1096. Ch. 4 (p. 31-38), "Early Jewish Existential Conditions in Bohemia", describes legal restrictions imposed on the Jews of western Czech lands from the 11th-18th centuries. Ch. 16 (p. 213-218), "Kristallnacht in Innsbruck", contains eyewitness accounts and Nazi documents describing this event. Ch. 17 (p. 219-331), "As They Remembered It", contains texts of interviews with ten members of Ernst's and Ruth's families who survived the Holocaust, mainly by emigrating. Ch. 18 (p. 332-338), "Shoa", contains a letter from Gertrude Roubicek, who survived in Theresienstadt. Many members of both families perished in the Holocaust.