Genealogy in the county of Waldeck, Hesse, Germany
This register about Jews from the Waldeck-Frankenberg district is „in progress“. That means that it is not and will never be complete. For several years I´ve been researching in various archives (e.g. Centrum Judiacum Berlin; The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, The Hessian State Archives (Staatsarchiv Marburg), Archives from different communities in this district, and newspaperarchieves) as well as in regional historical literature. Only a small fraction of these sources could be evaluated and incorperated so far. At the moment, there are about 5800 CV of Jews in Waldeck. Family trees were created when enough data about the family was available. This was possible with about 160 Jewish families.
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This compilation is made for the internet - not as a book. A book is a finished product, on the internet there is always the opportunity to easily change and add things.
In in individual cases there is justified interest to delete and or remove information about certain persons the author is more than willing to do so.
In the heading of each biography the places in Waldeck- Frankenberg with which the people are connected to are named. If those places are in bold print they lived there for some time. If those places are in normal print they were either related (spouse; children; etc.) to Jews or only lived there for a short period of time.
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by Karl-Heinz Stadtler
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