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Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
Paul entered the civil register as Jacob Paul Reichenbach
The Halberstadt register records Jacob Paul Reichenbach’s birth on 20 October 1876.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
The register names Ruth Helene Reichenbach at birth
The Halberstadt register records Ruth Helene Reichenbach’s birth on 16 May 1909.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
The register records Dolf’s birth in Halberstadt
The Halberstadt register records Dolf’s birth and names Paul and Margarete as his parents.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
The marriage record signed for Gustav Reichenbach and Jeanette Rosenbaum
Gustav and Jeanette’s 1883 marriage record connects the Halberstadt and Wernigerode family branches.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
Fritz appears as the seller of Breite Straße 7
The 1938 forced-sale deed records the loss of the family property at Breite Straße 7 in Wernigerode.
Persecution and flight
Civil and official records
Kurt Reichenbach on the transport list
The transport list dated 14 April 1942 names Kurt Reichenbach; the next page names Paula and Hans Wollenberg. They were deported from Halberstadt on 12 April.
The American chapter
Civil and official records
Dolf Reichenbach’s Certificate of Naturalization
Dolf’s family-held certificate records his naturalization in Boston on 15 May 1944.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
Ruth and Martin Pützrath married, divorced, and changed the record
This complete civil entry records Ruth Reichenbach and Martin Pützrath’s 1930 marriage and bears the signatures made that day. Marginal notes add their 1932 divorce and Ruth’s 1933 return to the name Reichenbach. The record gives the legal sequence, not the private life of the marriage.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
Paul’s German passport remains inside its worn cover
This cover enclosed the passport Paul Reichenbach carried. Paul and border officials handled the booklet as he traveled, and the family kept it after his death. The cover identifies the document type, but it carries none of the travel details inside.
Halberstadt and Wernigerode
Civil and official records
Anna Jacob’s death notice gathers the family around her name
This 1931 newspaper notice names Anna’s husband Julius, their son Adolf, and Paul, Max, Else and Ernst Reichenbach among the mourners. The family placed the notice after Anna’s death following an accident. It establishes a close household and family circle, but it does not assign every stated relationship or name Anna’s parents.
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