German SIG #Germany Re. INTRO - researching Arndt family from Schneidemuhl, Germany #germany
Justin Levy <jlevy2008@...>
Hello Yoni, Welcome to GerSIG!
I have just been helping someone locate records for their ancestors who came >from Samotschin (Szamocin in Polish), which is very close to Schneidemuhl (Pila in Polish), both were in the Bromberg district of the province of Posen. You should read this info file as a good starting point. http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PosenResources.html The Nazi's obsession with racial purity led them to seize all the vital records of the Jewish communites in Germany and further afield. The registers were then diligently microfilmed by the Reichssippenamt - a government department that had been established in 1935 to determine German or Aryan ethnicity and classify Jews - could be translated as the Imperial Kinship Office. Although most of the original registers have been lost, the microfilms (and copies) survived and are held at several locations. Microfilms of the registers >from Schneidemuhl (Pila) are amongst them. You should contact the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main. (http://www.jewishmuseum.de/). There may also be a copy of the microfilm at the Central Archives of the History of Jewish People in Jerusalem. The museum receives enquiries >from around the world and can take quite some time to respond. I speak (and write) German and have had to remind them about my enquiries in the past. Also just spotted this book 'History of the Jews of Schneidem=FChl: 1641 to the Holocaust' by Peter Simonstein Cullman Best of luck, Justin Levy, Dublin, Ireland (and Morecambe, UK) |
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