Jewish Families from Ichenhausen (Schwaben/Bayern), Germany

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