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How to find when my German ancestors arrived and l

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Stephen

Stephen Report 25 Oct 2009 10:55

My great grandparents arrived here somewhere between 1880 and 1891. I have an ancestry account but can not find anything relating to them arriving here.
Jacob Weiss (born Germany abt 1858) married Elisabetha Holz 10/07/1880, in Wolfstein Stadt, Pfalz, Bayern. I then have them on the 1891 census in Kensington, London. Jacob was a musician.
In 1901 they were in Toruay, in 1911 they are back in London (Whitechapel). My grandparents believe they fled the country during World War 1. They were never heard from again, believed to have died in a Jew Concentration Camp.

Can anyone help me where else to look for any onfo on the arrival or departure of them?

Many thanks
Steve

Stephen

Stephen Report 25 Oct 2009 11:24

Further to the above I have just realised that the birth of the first 2 children in 1885 and 1888 in Germany would mean the came to England sometime between 1888 and 1891.

Rambling

Rambling Report 25 Oct 2009 11:36

I don't know if this might help?

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain - Contact InformationThe website of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, JGSGB, for genealogists and others with an interest in UK Jewish genealogy and family ...
www.jgsgb.org.uk/

Stephen

Stephen Report 25 Oct 2009 11:45

Thank you Rose, I'll take a look.
Although I have no real proof they were Jews, its probable they were if my grandparents believed they died in a Jewish Concentration camp... however this may have just been a presumption.
Unfortunately my grandparents are no longer here to ask!

Rambling

Rambling Report 25 Oct 2009 12:13

Stephen it is a long shot , but if you have names at all, for concentration camp victims the Yad Vashem site

www.yadvashem.org/


and from Cyndi's List

http://www.cyndislist.com/jewish.htm

Stephen

Stephen Report 25 Oct 2009 12:21

Thanks again Rose, I'll look right now and let you know how I get on.

Rambling

Rambling Report 25 Oct 2009 12:26

and the one I was trying to think of lol

www.jewishgen.org/

Good luck ,

Stephen

Stephen Report 25 Oct 2009 12:59

Wow there is a wealth of information to filter through!
Thanks for the links, no luck so far but you never know!