Three books bearing the stamp of this institution have so far been found in the Heidelberg holdings. We were able to restitute a copy to today’s Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria in…
(1857 Güssing - 1942 Theresienstadt) On the occasion of his 25th anniversary of service, Dr. Ignaz Ziegler, the long-time Rabbi of Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad, published the paper 'Dokumente zur…
(Jaraczewo 1875 - Auschwitz 1943) "Jiskor! Buch der Erinnerung" ["Yizkor! - book of commemoration"] is the title of a slim volume that was forgotten immediately after it was inventoried in our…
(Prague 1872 - Treblinka 1942) "The Jews are much closer to freedom than the German. They are slaves, they will break their chains one day, and then they will be free. The German, however, is…
(Prague 1867 - Theresienstadt 1944) In the last volume of the yearbook Ha-Asif - "The Harvest" in Hebrew, published in Warsaw by Nahum Sokolov - there are several references that allow us to…
(1893 Fischhausen - 1944 Auschwitz) The book estate of Rabbi Emil Davidovič, which is now located in Heidelberg’s HfJS, consists to a large extent of Nazi loot, which had been collected from…
(Lakompak/Lackenbach 1887 - Auschwitz 1944) An exhibition in memory of Dr. Tobias Jakobovits The estate of Rabbi Emil Davidovič, which is kept in the library of the University of Jewish…
(1900 Wrocław – 1978 Israel) In 1916, the 16-year-old schoolgirl Nelly Grünmandel from Breslau received a small booklet as a gift from her religion teacher. It is a Haggadah with a glued-in…
(1869 Ahaus - 1943 Theresienstadt) In the library of the HfJS we have so far identified three books with the handwritten name of a person called Moses Gottschalk. These are a prayer book from…
(1901 Vienna - 1945 Landsberg am Lech/Kaufering) We found an unusual stamp as proof of ownership in the "Philo-Lexikon. Handbuch des Jüdischen Wissens", published in 1937: HUGO ISRAEL…
