Data Collection Jewish Genealogy



Births 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 the official birth registers of the Jewish inhabitants of Freienwalde an der Oder is not available. They only exist for the years 1847 to 1874. The missing information can be found in internal records of the local Jewish community, which cover the period 1813 to 1855, as well as a population table which includes births from 1813 to 1840.

Our database provides the following information::

  • Father's first and last name
  • Father's occupation
  • Mother's first name, maiden name or last name
  • Child's first name
  • Date of birth

Please note:
In some cases, names could not be clearly identified due to illegible handwriting or the poor condition of the document.


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