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18th- and 19th-century Jewish communal registers (pinkasim in Hebrew) obtained by special agreement with the Russian State Library.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. See the "About" tab for details.

Details of four yizkor books and one communal history featured in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Documents associated with Rabbi Shimen Eisenberg, whose 2nd volume of memoirs was transcribed for Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

The manuscript of volume three of Avraham Shlomo Melamed's memoirs, which is included in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

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Nurnberg (Nuernberg, Nuremberg), Germany (32)

49°27' N,11°04' E

Nearby Localities and Map
- Furth 1 (Fuerth, Fiorda), Germany 3 miles / 5 km
- Zirndorf, Germany 5 miles / 8 km
- Behringersdorf, Germany 6 miles / 10 km
- Schwabach, Germany 8 miles / 13 km
- Bruck, Germany 9 miles / 14 km
- Ruckersdorf (Rueckersdorf), Germany 9 miles / 14 km
- Erlangen, Germany 10 miles / 16 km
- Dormitz, Germany 11 miles / 18 km
- Lauf an der Pegnitz (Lauf), Germany 11 miles / 18 km
- Herzogenaurach, Germany 11 miles / 18 km
- Buchenbach (Buechenbach), Germany 11 miles / 18 km
- Langenzenn, Germany 12 miles / 19 km
- Forth, Germany 13 miles / 21 km
- Ottensoos (Otenzoys), Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Altdorf bei Nurnberg (Altdorf), Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Ermreuth, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Roth 1 (Roth bei Nurnberg), Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Hessdorf, Germany 14 miles / 23 km
- Abenberg, Germany 15 miles / 24 km
- Baiersdorf (Payersdorf), Germany 15 miles / 24 km
- Schnaittach, Germany 15 miles / 24 km
- Grafenberg (Graefenberg), Germany 15 miles / 24 km
- Huttenbach (Huettenbach, Hitnbakh), Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Weisendorf, Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Wilhermsdorf, Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Kairlindach, Germany 16 miles / 26 km
- Kunreuth, Germany 17 miles / 27 km
- Wilhelmsdorf, Germany 17 miles / 27 km
- Hersbruck, Germany 17 miles / 27 km
- Dietenhofen, Germany 18 miles / 29 km
- Windsbach, Germany 18 miles / 29 km
- Zeckern, Germany 18 miles / 29 km
- Forchheim, Germany 18 miles / 29 km
- Georgensgmund (Georgensgmuend), Germany 19 miles / 31 km
- Markt Erlbach, Germany 19 miles / 31 km
- Egloffstein, Germany 19 miles / 31 km
- Hilpoltstein, Germany 19 miles / 31 km
- Forrenbach (Foerrenbach), Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Adelsdorf, Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Pommelsbrunn, Germany 20 miles / 32 km
- Oberweilersbach, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Freystadt, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Uehlfeld, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Pretzfeld, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Neumarkt), Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Konigsfeld 2 (Koenigsfeld), Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Hagenbach 2, Germany 21 miles / 34 km
- Hochstadt an der Aisch (Hoechstadt), Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Merzbach, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Wannbach, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Meckenhausen, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Lonnerstadt, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Eggolsheim, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Pautzfeld, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Pahres, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Diespeck, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Heideck, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Hallerndorf, Germany 22 miles / 35 km
- Neustadt an der Aisch (Neustadt), Germany 23 miles / 37 km
- Hochstadt, Germany 23 miles / 37 km
- Ebermannstadt, Germany 24 miles / 39 km
- Schornweisach, Germany 24 miles / 39 km
- Ansbach (Anspach), Germany 24 miles / 39 km
- Gunzendorf, Germany 24 miles / 39 km
- Buttenheim, Germany 24 miles / 39 km
- Sulzburg 2 (Sulzbuerg), Germany 24 miles / 39 km
- Muhlhausen 3, Germany 24 miles / 39 km
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- Rappenau, Germany 25 miles / 40 km
- Hirschaid, Germany 26 miles / 42 km
- Altenmuhr, Germany 26 miles / 42 km
- Dottenheim, Germany 26 miles / 42 km
- Lehrberg, Germany 26 miles / 42 km
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- Pegnitz, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Colmberg, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
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- Bamberg, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Cronheim, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Sugenheim, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Hermannsberg, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
- Greding, Germany 30 miles / 48 km
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- Scheinfeld (Markt Scheinfeld), Germany 31 miles / 50 km
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- Zips, Germany 33 miles / 53 km
- Bischberg, Germany 33 miles / 53 km
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- Burgbernheim, Germany 34 miles / 55 km
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- Beilngries, Germany 34 miles / 55 km
- Ehingen 2, Germany 34 miles / 55 km
- Trabelsdorf, Germany 34 miles / 55 km
- Zeckendorf, Germany 35 miles / 56 km
- Viereth-Trunstadt (Trunstadt, Viereth), Germany 35 miles / 56 km
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- Hollfeld, Germany 35 miles / 56 km

Die Ausweisung der Juden von Nuernberg im Jahre 1499 (1868) ( Communal Histories )
Briegleb, Hans Karl
Geschichte der Juden in Nürnberg und Fürth (1878) ( Communal Histories )
Barbeck, Hugo
Geschichte der Juden in Franken mit bes. Rücks. auf die beiden Städte Nürnberg und Fürth : auf Grund d. vorh. gedr. Materials, der in d. kgl. Archiven zu Nürnberg u. Bamberg befindl. Akten u. Urkunden, d. Archivalien im Cultusgemeindebesitz etc. hrsg. u. bis auf d. Neuzeit erg. (1887) ( Communal Histories )
Kurländer, Adolf
Das Martyrologium des Nurnberger Memorbuches (1898) ( Communal Histories )
Salfeld, Siegmund
See Note.
Die israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg von ihrem Entstehen bis zur Einweihung ihrer Synagoge (1900) ( Communal Histories )
Ziemlich, Bernhard
Dritter Geschaftsbericht (1904) des Hilfsvereins der Deutschen Juden (1905) ( Communal Histories )
Achter Geschaftsbericht (1909) des Hilfsvereins der Deutschen Juden (1910) ( Communal Histories )
Zwolfter Geschaftsbericht (1913) des Hilfsvereins der Deutschen Juden (1914) ( Communal Histories )
Kriegsgedenkbuch der israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg [War Memorial Book of the Nuremberg Jewish Community] (1920) ( Communal Histories )
Freudenthal, Max
Die israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg (1925) ( Communal Histories )
Freudenthal, Max
Die israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, 1874 - 1924 (1925) ( Communal Histories )
Freudenthal, Max
Mittelalterliche Synagogen ([1927]) ( Communal Histories )
Krautheimer, Richard
Bilder aus meiner Heimatgeschichte : ein Beitr. zur Geschichte u. Heimatkunde d. Juden in Bayern (1929) ( Communal Histories )
Friedmann, Aron
Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden: Jahresbericht fur 1929 (1930) ( Communal Histories )
Die jüdischen Gefallenen des deutschen Heeres, der deutschen Marine und der deutschen Schutztruppen 1914 - 1918: ein Gedenkbuch [The Jewish Fallen of the German Army, Navy and Protection Forces: A Memorial Book: Part 2] (1932) ( Communal Histories )
See Note.
Die jüdischen Gefallenen des deutschen Heeres, der deutschen Marine und der deutschen Schutztruppen 1914 - 1918: ein Gedenkbuch [The Jewish Fallen of the German Army, Navy and Protection Forces: A Memorial Book: Part 3] (1932) ( Communal Histories )
See Note.
Germania Judaica: von der ältesten Zeiten bis 1238 (1934) ( Communal Histories )
Elbogen, I. and A. Freimann
Nuremberg: The Unholy City (1937) ( Communal Histories )
Podro, Joshua
Historia Judaica: Volumes 1-2 (1938-1940) ( Communal Histories )
Kisch, Guido [Ed.]
A World Passed By: Scenes and Memories of Jewish Civilization in Europe and North Africa (1938) ( Communal Histories )
Lowenthal, Marvin
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia: Vol. 8: Moses to Prophets (1942) ( Communal Histories )
Landman, Isaac (ed.)
See Note.
Nisht derbrente shaytn (1956) ( Communal Histories )
נישט דערברענטע שייטן
Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf
Esa de'i leme-raḥok: pirke zikhronot (1967) ( Autobiographies )
אשא דעי למרחוק: פרקי זכרונות
Yakobzon, Binyamin Z'ev (1894-1973) 1967
Geschichte der Juden in Nürnberg 1146-1945 (1968) ( Communal Histories )
Müller, Arnd
Di Yidishe prese vos iz geven [The Jewish Newspapers That Were] (1975) ( Communal Histories )
די יידישע פרעסע וואס איז געווען
Rozenfeld, Shalom, et al
See Note.
Rabbinic Registry 1975 (1975) ( Communal Histories )
רשימת חברי הסתדרות הרבנים דאמריקא: תשל"ה
The Rabbi's Blessings: From the Memories of a Chaplain in the U.S. Army: 1943-1965 (1980) ( Autobiographies )
Livazer, Hersh (Rabbi) (1904-1981)
Yeriot Shlomoh: zikhronot ve-ḥidushe Torah (1983) ( Autobiographies )
יריעות שלמה: זכרונות וחידושי תורה
Fisch, Shlomo (Ha-Rav) (1889-1985)
Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern: eine Dokumentation [Stone testimonies of Jewish life in Bavaria: A Documentary] (1988) ( Cemeteries, Communal Histories )
Schwierz, Israel
Juden in Nürnberg: Geschichte der jüdischen Mitbürger vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (1993) ( Communal Histories )
Eckert, Alfred et al
A Memorial of Yugoslavian Jewish Prisoners of War Half a Century After Liberation, 1945-1995 (1995) ( Yizkor Books )
חיילים יהודים מיוגוסלביה כשבויי מלחמה בגרמניה הנאצית: אלבום זיכרון מבלאת יובל לשחרור, 1945 - 1995
Lebl, Zeni
See Note.
Gedenkbuch für die Nürnberger Opfer der Schoa (1998) ( Yizkor Books )
Jochem, Gerhard Kettner, Ulrike

External Links

Jewish History

JewishGen Yizkor Book Project: Nürnberg’s Victims of Shoah

JewishGen Yizkor Book Project: Leaving Nuremberg: An Internet Presentation on Jewish Emigration 1933 to 1945

General History

Wikipedia (English)

Wikipedia (German)

Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - interviews

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - documents, photos, & artifacts

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