Data Collection Jewish Genealogy



Deaths in the Jewish community of Freienwalde in the year 1813-1874


A few months after the emancipation law of 11 March 1812 came into force, the Prussian statesman Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg ordered that „Every Jew, who is a Prussian citizen, should report births, marriages, divorces and deaths in his family within 24 hours to the police authorities of a towns or within 3 days to the district administrator of a rural district.“

In the following decades, the information recorded in official registers of Prussian Jews played a role comparable to that of church registers for Christians in terms of recording births, marriages and deaths. The separate recording of civil status changes for Christians and Jews ended in Prussia more than 60 years later on February 24th, 1874 with the „Law on the recording of civil status and the form of marriage“.

A complete set of entries into the official death registers of the Jewish inhabitants of Freienwalde an der Oder is not available. Official records in various formats kept in the Brandenburg Main State Archive cover only the period 1848 to 1874. The missing information for the period 1812 to 1847 can be found in internal records of the local Jewish community. In addition, a population table which includes the years 1813 to 1840 is available to researchers.

Our database contains the following information::

  • Deceased person's first and last name
  • Age
  • Date of death
  • Date of birth
  • Addition information (e.g. husband, wife, occupation, childeren)

Please note:
In some cases, names could not be clearly identified due to illegible handwriting or the poor condition of the document. These entries in the database have been marked with a question mark.


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