Jewish Families from Floss, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany

This project is for the families descended from the Jewish community of Floss. There is a shtetl site for that location at jewishgen: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/floss/floss-home.html

There is a brief history here:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/floss/floss-history.htm

And a more recent one here

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0007_... "

There were 200 Jews living in Floss in 1799, 391 in 1840, 205 in 1871, and 19 in 1933. Floss served as a religious center for the Jews of the neighboring villages. On Kristallnacht (November 1938) the synagogue (consecrated in 1817) was burned down and the rabbi's house and communal center were ransacked. No Jews returned after the war"

And a reference here in this history of the Jews

http://books.google.com/books?id=WGhprPLD26oC&lpg=PA174&ots=b2tkUch...

Discussion of the synagogue here: http://books.google.com/books?id=WDnbzk4-BmkC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=f...

And more pictures of the restored synagogue here: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/floss/synagogue.html

Some of the family names lare

ANSBACHER BAMBERGER BLOCH BOMEISLER BOSKOWITZ DOPPELMAYER DOPPELMEIER EISEMANN EISMANN ENGELMANN ENGLAENDER FLOSSER GOLDMANN GRUENBAUM HAMBURGER HOENIG HOENIGSBERGER KOENIGSHOFER LANGERMANN LEVI PLOCH REICHENBERGER SCHWARZ STEINHARDT WEISS WELTZER WIENER WILMERSDOERFER

   (became WILLIAMS

   and WILMERS)  WITTELSHOFFER 

There is currently a project to translate the old Hebrew gravestones for which we have pictures. Volunteers needed!