Metadata: File archive
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Hohenems
- Holding institution (official language):
- Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
- Postal address:
- Schweizerstrasse 5; 6845 Hohenems
- Phone number:
- +43 5576 739890
- Web address:
- http://www.jm-hohenems.at/
- Email:
- office@jm-hohenems.at
- Reference number:
- A
- Title:
- File archive
- Title (official language):
- Aktenarchiv
- Date(s):
- 1617/2017
- Language:
- German
- French
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 3,139 individual records
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection holds a large number of documents of various kinds such as letters, newspaper articles and so on. It contains family trees of Jewish families such as the Brettauer/Uffenheimer and the Rosenthal/Rollin families. Furthermore, it includes, for example, a history of the Rothschild family and notes of Salomon Sulzer.
Beside these documents of genealogical interest the collection includes documents concerning the Holocaust, such as a list of prisoners of the concentration camp in Dachau, lists of victims that are archived in Yad Vashem, lists of displaced persons who lived in Vorarlberg and Tyrol after 1945 or reports of house searches in Jewish households before 1945.
The collection also holds official documents of individuals such as passports (Austria, USA, Germany), marriage certificates, school reports, confirmations of citizenship or birth certificates. Other administrative correspondence can also be found in this collection, for example letters to the French military administration, letters about the relocation of the rabbinate to Innsbruck, the establishment of the Jewish community in Meran and correspondence of the Jewish community of Hohenems in general.
Furthermore, the collection includes documents such postcards (antisemitic and not), antisemitic writings, various newspaper articles, the works of Aron Tänzer, a list of the Jews who lived in Hohenems in 1617, documents of the company Burgauer & Co of St. Gallen and a number of booklets of various exhibitions in different museums.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1991 and is still being added to.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The “file archive” of the Jewish museum in Hohenems was created to collect documents which were given to the museum by individuals or were created in the context of exhibitions planned by the museum.
- Access points: locations:
- Blumenthal
- Bonn
- Braunschweig
- Bregenz
- Dornbirn
- Feldkirch
- Herisau
- Hohenems
- Innsbruck
- Konstanz
- Lane
- Meran
- New York
- Ottenstein
- Salzburg
- San Francisco
- St. Gallen
- Steinach
- Vienna
- Access points: persons/families:
- Adler
- Atlas, Izak
- Baitz
- Bauer
- Baum
- Bernheimer
- Bernstein
- Bloch
- Bollag
- Braustein
- Brentano
- Brettauer
- Brüll
- Chaimovitz
- Cohen
- Dannhauser
- Davidssohn
- Einstein
- Eisenstein
- Elkan
- Federmann
- Fragner
- Frankel
- Frieslaender
- Gelbwachs
- Goldmann
- Goldschmid
- Goldstein(-Varady)
- Gordon
- Grün
- Guggenheim
- Hanser
- Hauser
- Herzl
- Hess
- Heyman
- Hirsch, Freimann
- Hirschfeld
- Hohenemser
- Homburger
- Hutterer
- Jaffe
- Jellinek
- Kafka, F.
- Kantorowicz
- Kaplunova
- Kapolovits
- Katz
- Kohn
- Kozak
- Krebs
- Lamm
- Landauer
- Levi
- Link
- Löbenberg
- Loewy
- Löwenberg
- Mazer
- Mendelsohn
- Menz
- Moos
- Moyses
- Nagelberg
- Neuburger
- Neudörfer
- Neufeld
- Neumann
- Nicklas
- Perlhefter
- Pollak
- Reichenbacher
- Rosenheim
- Rosenthal
- Rosenzweig
- Rothschild
- Rothstein
- Sagher
- Salomon
- Schlesinger
- Schmelzer
- Schwarz
- Silberstein
- Singer
- Spindler
- Spring
- Steinbach
- Steiner
- Stern
- Sulzer
- Süssmann
- Tänzer
- Turteltaub
- Uffenheimer
- Ullmann
- Vobr
- Weil
- Weinstock
- Weiss
- Weltsch
- Wertheim
- Winter
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- The only way to access the documents in the archive is to contact or visit the Jewish Museum in Hohenems. There you can ask staff for help or consult the electronic catalogue locally.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017