Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

Alfred Gruenspecht Family Collection 1748-2003

by: Gruenspecht, Alfred

Topics: Jews, Jews, Butchers, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Collection: LeoBaeckInstitute; microfilm; americana; additional_collections

Contributor: Leo Baeck Institute Archives

Language: German

Volume: 01

The Alfred Grünspecht Family Collection illustrates Alfred Grünspecht’s interest in documenting the horrors of World War II by way of translating the works of other authors as well as his interest in the genealogy of his own family. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, vital documents, and printed materials.

Alfred Gruenspecht was born in Wuestensachsen in 1920. His family emigrated to the United States in 1937, where they launched a successful butcher business. He died on September 28, 2001 in New York.

The Alfred Gruenspecht Family Collection contains genealogical material about the following Jewish communities in Franconia and Hesse: Aub; Ebersburg; Ehrenberg; Ermershausen; Fuchsstadt; Gossmansdorf; Lippe; Ochsenfurt; Reichenberg; Rhoen; Schweinshaupten; Walldorf; Weyhers; Wuestensachsen