Rabbi Hugo B. Schiff

Schiff, Dr. Hugo (geb. 1892 in Hoffenheim): im Ersten Weltkrieg als Theologiestudent Feldseelsorger im deutschen Heer, danach LandesRb in Braunschweig, 1925 bis März 1939 StadtRb in Karlsruhe, BezirksRb für Karlsruhe-Pforzheim, danach ausgewandert.

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Schiff_(Rabbiner)
• http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0171/ms0171.html

1939: Alexandria’s Beth El Hebrew Congregation obtained a visa for Rabbi Hugo Schiff of Karlsruhe, Germany, who had been imprisoned in Dachau. Schiff brought with him a Torah scroll saved from the Nazis. Rabbi Schiff and his wife became naturalized citizens on D-Day, 1944.

Courtesy of Beth El Hebrew Congregation.

BODENHEIMER - Johanna Bodenheimer 1919 Mannheim Marriage to Hugo Schiff

• Marriage Date: 4 Sep 1919
• Marriage Place: Wallstadt, Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Certificate Number: 1524
• Name: Hugo Schiff
• Gender: männlich (Male)
• Birth Date: 28 Nov 1892 (Age: 26)
• Parents: Max Schiff and Pauline Schiff geb. Brader
• Name: Johanna Jenny Bodenheimer
• Gender: weiblich (Female)
• Birth Date: 7 Mar 1891 (Age: 28)
• Parents: Salomon Bodenheimer and Mina Bodenheimer geb. Weiss
• Title: Heiratsregister MA-Stadt (Nr. 1122 - 1618)
• Archive Sequence Number: 237, Volume: 3
• Source data: Personenstandsregister: Heiratsregister Standesamt Mannheim und Vororte, Stadtarchiv Mannheim, Mannheim. Deutschland.

-- Rabbi Schiff donated his body to Rutgers Medical School in 1986, and his remains were cremated at Evergreen Crematory in Hillside, NJ in 1992.

His cremains were subsequently interred at the Evergreen Cemetery in an area where there is no specific grave marker or headstone.