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Research access · institutional collaboration
The Reichenbach Family Archive is an independent, descendant-led digital museum documenting a German-Jewish family through family-held objects, archival records, testimony and continuing research.
Collection at a glance
The public archive connects intimate family evidence to the civic, commercial and Jewish history of Halberstadt and Wernigerode, persecution and exile, and later continuity in the United States and beyond.
It is noncommercial and remains under active research. The archive welcomes correction without presenting credited institutions as endorsers or project partners.
Five entry points
Each route opens into permanent object records with provenance, source credit, image treatment, uncertainty, known reuse terms and a suggested citation.
DOC-LETTER-1938
The archive's core document appears with direct photographs, German transcription, English translation by Rabbi Dr. Esther Jilovsky and historical context after the November pogrom.
Read the letter
RB-PHO-0207
Family-held photographs, architectural records, advertisements and surviving objects document a German-Jewish business rooted in Halberstadt and Wernigerode.
Enter the store record
RB-PHO-0023
A bounded documentary path follows Kurt Reichenbach, Paula Wollenberg and Hans Wollenberg from Halberstadt to the Warsaw transport without inventing an endpoint the sources do not establish.
Follow the documented day
RB-SCAN-007
The notarial deed for Breite Straße 7 names Fritz Reichenbach as Jewish and records the racial-law approval governing the property transfer, joining business history, persecution and dispossession in one primary legal record.
Open the deed record
RB-PHO-0273
A family-held photograph records Daniel Reichenbach signing Halberstadt's Golden Book during the 2022 visit by descendants of former Jewish residents.
Read the return accountArchival method
Documents establish what they directly record. Family testimony is identified as testimony. Conflicts and absences remain visible rather than being resolved by guesswork.
Conventional adjustments and AI-assisted presentation are disclosed at object level. AI derivatives are modern interpretations and never replace the source object in the archive record.
Work with the archive
A focused question is easier to answer responsibly than a general request. No inquiry creates an endorsement, transfer, license, loan or partnership unless separately agreed in writing.
Send the page address, object ID and the evidence or context that should be reviewed.
Ask about a named person, place, date, object or archival series rather than requesting a review of the entire site.
Discuss a primary-source packet, seminar, guest session or age-appropriate educational use.
Propose a clearly bounded object group, talk, digital feature or program audience.
Identify the exact item, medium, treatment and expected reach. Availability depends on custody and rights.
Begin with a nonbinding discussion of ownership, custody, access, preservation and retained publication rights.
Rights and access boundary
The archive can discuss material it owns or administers. Third-party and institution-held objects remain subject to their own rights, credit and access terms. A better scan, metadata delivery and publication permission are separate questions.
Collection citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “For Researchers & Institutions.” Accessed [date]. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/institutions.
Every permanent object page supplies its own suggested Chicago-style citation.
Contact
Email contact@reichenbacharchive.org or use the archive contact form. Include a page URL, object ID or named person whenever possible.