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GPT in Jerusalem 201535th
IAJGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH
GENEALOGY
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| Monday, July 6 – 5:00pm - 5:45pm | |||||
| Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Type | Topic |
| #377 | World War I: Photos, Field Post, Forces' Mail, War Diaries, Military Records in Archives | Ekkehard Huebschmann |
Michal | Lecture | Military |
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| Tuesday, July 7 – 4:00pm - 4:45pm | |||||
| Session Code | Session Title | Speaker(s) | Room | Type | Topic |
| #382 | Life Under the Restrictive Laws for Jews in 19th Century Germany | Ekkehard Huebschmann |
Michal | Lecture | Jewish Life |
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Main State Archives in West Germany Compensation Offices in West Germany This lecture was published by Avotaynu: Restitution and Compensation Files |
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#377 World War I: Photos, Field Post, Forces' Mail, War Diaries, Military Records in Archives by PhD Ekkehard Hübschmann
Before und during WWI more people than before went to photo studios to get their pictures taken: young men in their uniforms, or families so the son would have their photo in the field. Many of those pictures were sent as postcards giving therefore various information. Men, who usually didn’t write letters or postcards sent messages by forces’ mail to their relatives and friends. Although the text might not say much, such field post cards are very personal documents of an ancestor showing his handwriting and signature, telling where and in which unit he had to serve. By an example from Nuremberg dated November 1915 the lecture explains how such a photo postcard can be the starting point for a fruitful genealogical research. War diaries as well belong to the most important sources for ones family history. Military archives keeping personal records will be mentioned as well.
#382 Life Under the Restrictive Laws for Jews in 19th Century Germany by PhD Ekkehard Hübschmann
With the “emancipation edicts” in the early 19th century, German Jews gained their first civil rights. However, certain restrictions accompanied these rights. Probably the most restrictive was the Bavarian Jew Edict enacted in 1813, which limited the number of Jewish families per place. Only when a vacancy occurred was a young Jew given permission for residency, marriage, and children. This situation caused hardship and spurred emigration. This lecture will discribe records in the state archives that detail family struggles and offer a glimpse into Jewish life. For example, real estate and tax files report, in one instance, how four families shared one house. Thousands of individual emigration files are stored in the archives.
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