Metadata : Photo 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
- 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:
- F
- Title:
- Photo archive
- Title (official language):
- Fotoarchiv
- Date(s):
- 1856/2016
- Extent:
- 5,261 photos
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection holds a vast number of photographs, most of which were taken by members of Jewish families connected to Hohenems, who helped in organising the collection. Many sections are named after these families, most notably the families of Tänzer, Rosenthal, Bollag, Landauer, Reichenbach, Weil, Brunner, Hirschfeld, Brüll, Moos and Burgauer. These photographs were taken between 1856 and 2016, depicting men and women in all situations of life, such as war, holidays (including photographs of famous landmarks and postcards), life in a refugee camp (the Gordola camp in Switzerland), business life and so on.
Furthermore, the collection contains a variety of photographs of the Jewish quarter of Hohenems. Many of these depict buildings which were once owned by families of the Jewish community of Hohenems or connected to the community or the town of Hohenems such as the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Krankenhaus (hospital of Hohenems), the poor house of Hohenems, the Heymann-Rosenthal mansion (now the Jewish museum) or the Rosenthal factories.
Other photographs taken by the staff of the museum record the gravestones of the Jewish cemetery of Hohenems and the various objects which are part of the “Realienarchiv” (object collection). Another section of the collection includes photographs of displaced persons who lived in Hohenems for a time after the Second World War, including activities such as weddings, sports and so on. Another cluster of photographs was taken during the last two reunions of the descendants of the Jews of Hohenems in 1998 and 2008. These photos show many of the descendants of the Jews of Hohenems who now live all over the world.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1991 and is still being added to.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The photo archive of the Jewish museum in Hohenems was created to collect the photographs that were handed over to the museum by individuals and institutions or were taken by the staff of the museum itself.
- Access points: locations:
- Bonn
- Braunschweig
- Hohenems
- Monte
- Ottenstein
- Steinach
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham
- Adler
- Baginski
- Baitz
- Bass
- Baum
- Beifuß
- Bernheimer
- Blisko
- Bloch
- Bollag
- Bondi
- Brachfeld
- Brentano
- Brettauer
- Brüll
- Brunner
- Bunzel
- Burgauer
- Burgheimer
- Carniel
- Craston
- Daniel
- Dannhauser
- Davidovits
- Davon
- Demerer
- Dreißuß
- Eckstein
- Ehrlich
- Eisenberg
- Elkan
- Ellenberg
- Eskanazi
- Federmann
- Ferda
- Feuerstein
- Finke
- Follmann
- Frankau
- Frankel
- Frankfurter
- Friedmann
- Garfield
- Glaser
- Gluck
- Goldschmidt
- Goldstein
- Greenberg
- Gross
- Grossbard
- Guggenheim
- Gutmann
- Hausmann
- Heilbrun
- Heimann
- Heimendinger
- Herschkovits
- Herskovitz
- Herz
- Herzko
- Herzl
- Hess
- Hirn
- Hirsch
- Hirschfeld
- Hirschtal
- Hohenemser
- Hornung
- Hutterer
- Ilonitch
- Isenberg
- Jacobi
- Jacobsohn
- Jaffe
- Jahreis
- Jellinek
- Kafka, F.
- Kantorowicz
- Kassierer
- Katz
- Kohn
- Kopolovits
- Kreutner
- Krieger
- Laemle
- Landauer
- Langer
- Laufer
- Levi
- Lew
- Link
- Lippmann
- Littmann
- Loewy
- Löwenberg
- Majer
- Mayer
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Menz
- Meyerbeer
- Monheit
- Moos
- Morvay
- Nordmann
- Österreicher
- Paulus
- Perlhefter
- Piper
- Pollack
- Porges
- Rabinovici
- Rand
- Reich
- Rimpel
- Rollin
- Rosenberg
- Rosenheim
- Rosenthal
- Rothschild
- Schemell
- Schlesinger
- Schmelzer
- Schoemann
- Schottländer
- Schreiber
- Schwarz
- Seiler
- Shimer
- Silberstein
- Singer
- Spatz
- Spiegel
- Spieler
- Spindler
- Steinbach
- Stern
- Strauß
- Sulzenbacher
- Sulzer
- Susman
- Szasz
- Tänzer
- Turteltaub
- Uffenheimer
- Ullmann
- Valenzin
- Vobr
- Wahle
- Wastrika
- Weil
- Weiss
- Weisz
- Weltsch
- Wieler
- Wohlgenannt
- Wolf
- Wollner
- Zweig
- System of arrangement:
- The collection comprises 5261 photos. The photos are marked with an f (for “Foto”), three letters that mark the collection and a number; 255 f-tae (“Fotos Tänzer”); 127 f-ort (“Fotos Orte"; photos of places); 596 f-per (“Fotos Personen”; photos of people); 659 f-hau (“Fotos Häuser”; photos of houses); 153 f-hoh (“Fotos Hohenems”); 34 f-fri (“Fotos Friedhof”; photos of the cemetery); 233 f-dok (“Fotos Dokumente”; photos of documents); 29 f-ros (“Fotos Rosenthal”); 837 f-bol (“Fotos Bollag”); 264 f-wei (“Fotos Weil”); 416 f-rei (“Fotos Reichenbach”); 53 f-bru (“Fotos Brunner”); 258 f-dis (“Fotos displaced persons”); 233 f-nac (“Fotos Nachkommen”; photos of descendants); 8 f-lan (“Fotos Landauer”); 12 f-hir (“Fotos Hirschfeld”); 29 f-son (unknown); 144 f-bru (“Fotos Brüll”); 418 f-moo (“Fotos Moos”); 503 f-bur (“Fotos Burgauer”).
- 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.
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017
- Reference number:
- F
- Title:
- Photo archive
- Title (official language):
- Fotoarchiv
- Date(s):
- 1856/2016
- Extent:
- 5,261 photos
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection holds a vast number of photographs, most of which were taken by members of Jewish families connected to Hohenems, who helped in organising the collection. Many sections are named after these families, most notably the families of Tänzer, Rosenthal, Bollag, Landauer, Reichenbach, Weil, Brunner, Hirschfeld, Brüll, Moos and Burgauer. These photographs were taken between 1856 and 2016, depicting men and women in all situations of life, such as war, holidays (including photographs of famous landmarks and postcards), life in a refugee camp (the Gordola camp in Switzerland), business life and so on.
Furthermore, the collection contains a variety of photographs of the Jewish quarter of Hohenems. Many of these depict buildings which were once owned by families of the Jewish community of Hohenems or connected to the community or the town of Hohenems such as the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Krankenhaus (hospital of Hohenems), the poor house of Hohenems, the Heymann-Rosenthal mansion (now the Jewish museum) or the Rosenthal factories.
Other photographs taken by the staff of the museum record the gravestones of the Jewish cemetery of Hohenems and the various objects which are part of the “Realienarchiv” (object collection). Another section of the collection includes photographs of displaced persons who lived in Hohenems for a time after the Second World War, including activities such as weddings, sports and so on. Another cluster of photographs was taken during the last two reunions of the descendants of the Jews of Hohenems in 1998 and 2008. These photos show many of the descendants of the Jews of Hohenems who now live all over the world.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1991 and is still being added to.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The photo archive of the Jewish museum in Hohenems was created to collect the photographs that were handed over to the museum by individuals and institutions or were taken by the staff of the museum itself.
- Access points: locations:
- Bonn
- Braunschweig
- Hohenems
- Monte
- Ottenstein
- Steinach
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham
- Adler
- Baginski
- Baitz
- Bass
- Baum
- Beifuß
- Bernheimer
- Blisko
- Bloch
- Bollag
- Bondi
- Brachfeld
- Brentano
- Brettauer
- Brüll
- Brunner
- Bunzel
- Burgauer
- Burgheimer
- Carniel
- Craston
- Daniel
- Dannhauser
- Davidovits
- Davon
- Demerer
- Dreißuß
- Eckstein
- Ehrlich
- Eisenberg
- Elkan
- Ellenberg
- Eskanazi
- Federmann
- Ferda
- Feuerstein
- Finke
- Follmann
- Frankau
- Frankel
- Frankfurter
- Friedmann
- Garfield
- Glaser
- Gluck
- Goldschmidt
- Goldstein
- Greenberg
- Gross
- Grossbard
- Guggenheim
- Gutmann
- Hausmann
- Heilbrun
- Heimann
- Heimendinger
- Herschkovits
- Herskovitz
- Herz
- Herzko
- Herzl
- Hess
- Hirn
- Hirsch
- Hirschfeld
- Hirschtal
- Hohenemser
- Hornung
- Hutterer
- Ilonitch
- Isenberg
- Jacobi
- Jacobsohn
- Jaffe
- Jahreis
- Jellinek
- Kafka, F.
- Kantorowicz
- Kassierer
- Katz
- Kohn
- Kopolovits
- Kreutner
- Krieger
- Laemle
- Landauer
- Langer
- Laufer
- Levi
- Lew
- Link
- Lippmann
- Littmann
- Loewy
- Löwenberg
- Majer
- Mayer
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
- Menz
- Meyerbeer
- Monheit
- Moos
- Morvay
- Nordmann
- Österreicher
- Paulus
- Perlhefter
- Piper
- Pollack
- Porges
- Rabinovici
- Rand
- Reich
- Rimpel
- Rollin
- Rosenberg
- Rosenheim
- Rosenthal
- Rothschild
- Schemell
- Schlesinger
- Schmelzer
- Schoemann
- Schottländer
- Schreiber
- Schwarz
- Seiler
- Shimer
- Silberstein
- Singer
- Spatz
- Spiegel
- Spieler
- Spindler
- Steinbach
- Stern
- Strauß
- Sulzenbacher
- Sulzer
- Susman
- Szasz
- Tänzer
- Turteltaub
- Uffenheimer
- Ullmann
- Valenzin
- Vobr
- Wahle
- Wastrika
- Weil
- Weiss
- Weisz
- Weltsch
- Wieler
- Wohlgenannt
- Wolf
- Wollner
- Zweig
- System of arrangement:
- The collection comprises 5261 photos. The photos are marked with an f (for “Foto”), three letters that mark the collection and a number; 255 f-tae (“Fotos Tänzer”); 127 f-ort (“Fotos Orte"; photos of places); 596 f-per (“Fotos Personen”; photos of people); 659 f-hau (“Fotos Häuser”; photos of houses); 153 f-hoh (“Fotos Hohenems”); 34 f-fri (“Fotos Friedhof”; photos of the cemetery); 233 f-dok (“Fotos Dokumente”; photos of documents); 29 f-ros (“Fotos Rosenthal”); 837 f-bol (“Fotos Bollag”); 264 f-wei (“Fotos Weil”); 416 f-rei (“Fotos Reichenbach”); 53 f-bru (“Fotos Brunner”); 258 f-dis (“Fotos displaced persons”); 233 f-nac (“Fotos Nachkommen”; photos of descendants); 8 f-lan (“Fotos Landauer”); 12 f-hir (“Fotos Hirschfeld”); 29 f-son (unknown); 144 f-bru (“Fotos Brüll”); 418 f-moo (“Fotos Moos”); 503 f-bur (“Fotos Burgauer”).
- 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.
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017
