Contemporary History Collection; Jews

Collection

Web address:: http://archivlandschaft.vda.lvmecklenburg-vorpommern.archiv.net/stadtarchiv-wittenburg.html

Scope and content:: This collection comprises collected material, including: extract from the book "Hamburger Gedenkbuch für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus" (M. Lazarus); from the history of other Jewish congregations (Malchow; Müritzkreis); chronicle of Jews in Mecklenburg; Jewish community Wittenburg; Jewish cemetery; construction of a Jewish bathhouse; birth list; congregation regulations of 1847; newspaper excerpts; Shalom Magazine No. 1 1997; handwritten compilation of the minutes of the meetings of the Jewish congregation of Wittenburg 1836/1886; newspaper article on the Jewish history of Wittenburg, stumbling stones (Stolpersteine) for Anna and Philip Stiel as well as Max and Martha Lazarus.

Archival history:: The Wittenburg City Archive's collections are predominantly located in the Ludwigslust-Parchim District Archive. Files from the City Archive are only partially accessible. Integration into the archive portal of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Ariadne) is planned. Supplementary sources include civil status books and building files.

Access points: persons/families:: Aaron, Meyer; Adler, Salomon; Behrend; Franck; Jacob, Isaack; Jacobson; Kronthal; Lazarus, Henny; Lazarus, Martha; Lazarus, Max; Lazarus, Nathan; Liebrecht; Lion; Marcus

Subject terms:: Cemeteries; Jewish community records; Monuments and memorials; Nazism; Newspaper clippings; Synagogues; Vital records--Birth records

System of arrangement:: Files within the folders are arranged in chronological order and consist of single sheets.

Finding aids:: Integration into the archive portal Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ariadne is planned, currently an inventory is avaible: Findbuch für Judaica in den Kreis- und Stadtarchiven Westmecklenburgs, published by Verein für jüdische Geschichte in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern e.V., edited by Norbert Francke, Schwerin 2001 (partially obsolete)