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The purpose of this project is to compile all the Jewish people from the town Ichenhausen.
Location: Ichenhausen is located in Landkreis Günzburg, Bavarian Swabia, in the German State of Bavaria. Population: today's Ichenhausen population is about 8,400 people. There is no Jewish community there.
Some facts about the Jewish Community:
- In the 19th century, Ichenhausen was the second-largest Jewish Community in Bavaria with almost 900 Jews.
- In 1933, approxmality 300 Jews lived in Ichenhausen, and it was the largest rural Jewish Community in Bavaria
- Some large Jewish families from Ichenhausen: Neuburger, Gerstle, Koschland, Bissinger, Bernheim and others.
Ichenhausen has a big Jewish Cemetery, with 7000 to 8000 gravestones in total, of which 1100 have been transcribed.
- **Since 2014, the graves of the cemetery are available on GoogleSites, thanks to Yair Kamm:
https://sites.google.com/site/ichenhausen2014/
JewishGen Locality Page:
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-1799995
Genealogical Resources: In SuperSearch (http://jgbs.org/SuperSearch.php) Website:
Births listing from around 1784 until 31 December 1889.
Deaths listing from 1825 until 31 December 1889.
Marriages listing from 1824 until 1921.
Matrikel records
In angelfire Website:
Emigrations of Jews from Ichenhausen in the midddle of the 19th century: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/yamey/ICH.html
List of the most of Ichenhausen family heads in 1843: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/yamey/SYN.html
In Alemannia Judaica:
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/ichenhausen_synagoge.htm
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/ichenhausen_friedhof.htm
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/ichenhausen_texte.htm
In Yad VaShem (for Holocaust's victims):
http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameResults.html?place=ichenhausen&pl...
Another list of victims of the holocaust, in the German Memorial Book:
http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html.en?result#frmR...
In the Aufbau indexing project:
http://www.calzareth.com/aufbau/2010db.php?LastNameKind=exact&LastN...
Ichenhausen Jewish Cemetery in the International Jewish Cemetery Project:
http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/bayern-bavaria/ichenhausen.html
Since the 1840s, many Jews from Ichenhausen and their descendants migrated to various countries:
- Israel
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Uruguay
- Chile
- Peru
- Equador
- Costa Rica
- United Kingdom
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Australia
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Zimbabwe
Some population figures:
1567 - 13 families
1730 - more than 700
1811 - 893
1840 - more than 1,000
1853 - 718
1933 - 309