Sources & References

Reference site for Jewish community history in Baden-Württemberg. The Gemmingen page documents the synagogue and community, lists the Gedenkbuch entries for those murdered or deported (with birth years), and reproduces period notices from the Jewish press.

Reference site for Jewish community history in Baden-Württemberg. The Michelfeld page documents the community, the Oppenheimer Wollentuchfabrik, and the families of the village, drawing on the Michelfeld Heimatbuch and Baden community records. It gives the community's peak as 242 people in 1839, about a fifth of the village, falling to 22 by 1910, and records that Michelfeld's Jews were buried at Waibstadt from 1751 (at Oberöwisheim before that) until the community opened its own cemetery in 1868. It is the first source on this branch independent of both Geni and the Leo Baeck Institute.

Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands — documents all Dutch Jewish Holocaust victims

EHRI portal — catalog entry for Margit Bernstein memoir (MS 595/1) at Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich. 18-page manuscript autobiography covering 1935-1962.

Munich city archive memorial book, compiled from the Kennkartendoppel 1938/39. The entry for Julius (auch Isaak) Oppenheimer records his parents, his siblings with birth years, his marriage to Elsa on 25.05.1921 in Gemmingen, and his deportation to Piaski on 04.04.1942.

Collaborative genealogy profiles managed by Randy Schoenberg. Profiles for Joseph Marum Oppenheimer and Mina Oppenheimer (née Kirchhausen).

Civil registers of the evangelical and Israelite congregations of Michelfeld, held by the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, Bestand 390, within the Amtsgerichtsbezirk Sinsheim series. FIVE volumes, all digitised: Nr. 4772 (1808–1830), Nr. 4773 (1831–1846), Nr. 4774 (1847–1865), Nr. 4775 (1866–1870), Nr. 4776 (1870–1875). From 1810 to 1870 Baden required its rabbis to keep birth, marriage and death registers in duplicate, one copy going to the district office; Bestand 390 preserves them. PARTIALLY EXAMINED, NOTHING YET CORROBORATED. Nr. 4772 (406 images) was sampled at pages 5, 200, 300, 380, 388, 394 and 400 and is evangelical throughout — Christian names, baptisms, entries signed by the pastor Bilthaler, and a closing index of Christian surnames only. The Israelite entries its title promises were not found in the sampled portion; they may lie in a section not yet located or in a separate Judenstandesbuch series. The volumes that matter for this archive remain Nr. 4772, which would cover Zacharias's death in 1827, Brendel's in 1819 and Brendel Babette's birth in 1819, and Nr. 4773, which would cover Brendel Babette's marriage in March 1843 — the entry that would settle her conflicting dates and confirm or refute Simon Wolf as her father. ACCESS: the page viewer is at bild_zoom/thumbnails.php?bestand=12390&id=2558350 for Nr. 4772; full-resolution pages come from bild_zoom/bild.php with originalBilddatei set to /data/bildcms/internetbilder/archiv_4/olf/bestand_0000005405/titlaufn_0001224216/04_0001224216_NNNN_4-1224216-N.jpg and a zoom parameter.

Palestinian citizenship / naturalization file for Philipp Bernstein. Contains application forms, oath of allegiance, identity card, naturalization certificate, military correspondence, and related documents from the Government of Palestine Department of Migration (1945-1946) and Israel Ministry of Interior (1990).

Memorial page for Dani Tzor z"l at Kibbutz Moran community website

Engraved family tree of the Michelfeld Oppenheimers, dedicated to the family by Dr. med. Eduard Oppenheimer (Strassburg), Jakob Oppenheimer (Bruchsal) and Dr. jur. Eugen Oppenheimer (Heilbronn); drawn by K. Nagel, Karlsruhe. Centres on a portrait of Zacharias Oppenheimer (1773–1827) and his wife Fratel, with shields for his parents Hajum and Brendel and his grandparents Loeb and Kehle, and several hundred descendant shields. Includes views of the Geburtshaus and the Michelfeld factory. A copy is also held in AR 7044, folder 1/13.

Letter of 18 November 1929 from Dr. Eugen Oppenheimer (Frankfurt am Main, firm Jacob S. H. Stern) to Generaldirektor Dr. Richard Heilner, Stuttgart, giving the descent of the family: Loeb moved from Heidelberg to Hoffenheim, his son Hayum from Hoffenheim to Michelfeld, and Hayum's son Zacharias was born in Michelfeld about 1770. Records that Zacharias founded a cloth factory there and became a Gemeindebürger under Baden's sixth constitutional edict — an exception among Jews. Names the author's collaborators on the family tree: Jacob Oppenheimer of Bruchsal and Dr. Eduard Oppenheimer of Strassburg. Digitised by the Leo Baeck Institute.

Papers of Dr. Eugen Oppenheimer (b. 1869, lawyer, son of Adolph Oppenheimer and Julie née Seligmann) and his wife Lucie (b. 1877), married 1897. Digitised in full; includes a family tree and genealogical tables. IDENTIFICATION UNPROVEN, AND CURRENTLY UNSUPPORTED. It was hoped this was the Eugen Oppenheimer who wrote the 1929 chronicle (AR 5248) and co-dedicated the Michelfeld Stammbaum. Two tests have failed. The collection's eulogy (folder 5) was read in full and contains no genealogy whatsoever — it is a purely rhetorical cremation address. And all 55 grandchildren of Zacharias recorded on Geni were enumerated: none is named Adolph, and the only two Abrahams, whose name Adolph commonly Germanises, both died in infancy. If the chronicle's author was a great-grandson of Zacharias — which his own claim to be Jacob Oppenheimer's second cousin requires — then this Eugen's father is not among the family as presently recorded. Not refuted, since Geni is crowd-sourced and incomplete, but it should not be described as likely. Folder 6 (a family tree of 1891, reportedly missing most surnames) and folder 1 (letters from his father Adolph) remain unexamined.

Papers of the Bär and Oppenheimer families of Bruchsal, 1841–1981, covering the Oppenheimer woolens factory and the Bär leather firm (Firma Raphael Bär, later Anol AG). Digitised in full. Includes Eugen Oppenheimer's 1929 correspondence on the family tree (1/8), family trees (1/13), the firm history 'Geschichte eines Uniformtuchhauses' (1/14), Louis Oppenheimer's 1929 family history (1/19), Otto Oppenheimer's First World War letters (1/20), Annie Bär's 1941 diary of the crossing to America (1/25), naturalisation certificates for Otto and Emma (1/29), and drawings of the Bruchsal synagogue destroyed in 1938 (OS92). Related memoirs: Otto Oppenheimer ME 1215, Julius Bär ME 1216, Harry Ettlinger ME 1333.

11-page English translation of Margit Bernstein's Hebrew memoir/autobiography. Written in 1963. Title: 'The biography of Margit Edith Bernstein born Oppenheimer'. Covers childhood, father's arrest and imprisonment, Jewish orphanage in Esslingen, Kristallnacht, forced labor, deportation to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, factory camp in Silesia near Czech border, liberation at Nachod, emigration to Palestine via Belgium, post-war life in Israel. Ends with 'I Accuse.'

19-page handwritten Hebrew memoir/autobiography by Margit Bernstein (née Oppenheimer). Written in Israel in her later years. Covers childhood in Germany, Holocaust experiences (Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Bad Kudowa-Sakisch), liberation, and emigration to Israel. Original title: קורות חיים של מרגיט אהרן ברנשטיין, מקודם אופנהיימר

Family tree maintained by Bernhard Krane on MyHeritage. 209 profiles in 3 family trees, 16 photos. Contains Bernstein family data including Bernhard, Hulda, and their four children.

Personal documents, photos, and correspondence

Genealogy of the Oppenheim/Oppenheimer family from Worms and Frankfurt, documenting the lineage from Simon Wolf Oppenheim through Rabbi David Oppenheim to the Reis family. Includes gravestone photos from Worms.

Stolpersteine project in Kirchheim unter Teck. Detailed biographies for Hulda Bernstein (née Jutkowski) and Jeanne Bernstein, both deported to Minsk 14 November 1941. Stones at Max-Eyth-Straße 12, laid 10 April 2007.

Detailed biography page for Moses Oppenheimer Stolperstein at Griesinger Weg 9, Stuttgart-Ost. Laid 24 September 2007. Covers arrest, Rassenschande conviction, Buchenwald deportation, and children's fates.

Letters from Josef and Margit Oppenheimer to cousin Mina Kaufmann (1939, 1944, 1946)

320 photographs from the Weiler/Kaufmann/Oppenheimer family collection

Wikidata entry for the Stolperstein dedicated to Hulda Bernstein at Max-Eyth-Straße 12, Kirchheim unter Teck. Laid 10 April 2007. Includes coordinates (48.64877°N, 9.44914°E) and photo on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikidata entry for the Stolperstein dedicated to Jeanne Bernstein at Max-Eyth-Straße 12, Kirchheim unter Teck. Laid 10 April 2007. Same address as Hulda Bernstein Stolperstein. Inscription: HIER WOHNTE / JEANNE BERNSTEIN / JG. 1924 / DEPORTIERT 1941 / MINSK / ? ? ?

Free media repository. Stolperstein photographs for the Bernstein family at Max-Eyth-Straße 12, Kirchheim unter Teck. Images licensed CC0.

Yad Vashem online database of Holocaust victims, containing Pages of Testimony and historical records.

Jewish agricultural training center (Hachshara) at Gut Jägerlust near Flensburg (1934-1938). Trained ~100 young Jews for emigration to Palestine via Denmark. Likely where Änne Oppenheimer trained before emigrating. Destroyed during Kristallnacht.

Czech Holocaust victim database. Contains entry for Josef Oppenheimer.

State archive holding records of the Königin-Katharina-Stift school (Bestand FL 210/3, R 20/003 04). May contain student enrollment records documenting Jewish students forced to leave.

Extensive Ashkenazi genealogy tracing the Loeb family through the Worms branch of the Oppenheimer family. Documents the medieval Worms/Frankfurt lineage from Amschel Oppenheim (d. after 1505) through Simon Wolf Oppenheimer (d. 1673) and Rabbi Simon Oppenheimer (d. 1753) to Juda Löb Oppenheimer (1720-1772) — likely the same Loeb Oppenheimer (~1720) whose sons founded the Gemmingen and Bruchsal branches. Maintained by Daniel E. Loeb (loeb17@gmail.com).

Wiener Library Archive ref 3000/9/1/719. 51 pages of German correspondence (1953-1960) with Alfred Jutkowski, based in Israel, connected to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Discusses Wiener Library Bulletin distribution, death of lawyer Ludwig Foerder, shipping papers from Israel, and a planned visit to England. Possible relative of Hulda Bernstein née Jutkowski — uncommon surname, Israel connection, post-war timing.

Memorial page for Margit Edith Oppenheimer as a deported person from Stuttgart.

Book documenting all Jewish families of the Niederzissen synagogue community from 18th century through 1940s. May contain Chaim Berger family history.

Photo of the Stolperstein for Moses Oppenheimer at Griesingerweg 9, Stuttgart.