Research and sources
How the archive knows what it knows
Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach directs the archive’s continuing research. Family-held objects are read alongside civil records, archival collections, scholarship and oral testimony.
Visitors can open documents, read translations, follow source links and share corrections or identifications. The public record changes when stronger evidence changes what we know.
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Living people are protected. Conflicting evidence remains visible. AI-assisted material is identified at the object level, and stronger evidence can revise the public record.
How the archive works
Records, testimony and revision
The family story appears beside the material that supports it.
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A correction, name, photograph or family memory may change the record. Contact information and the correction route appear on the Rights and Reuse page.
Anna and the Jacob/Jakob branch
Family testimony reports that Anna Reichenbach married a Jacob/Jakob, lived in Frankfurt, and had a son Adolph/Adolf whose line reached New York. Herbert Jacob’s obituary independently documents Herbert as the son of Adolph and Marga and brother of Vernon. The archive is seeking Anna’s Halberstadt birth record, her marriage record, and a parent-naming record for Adolph before treating the branch as documentary-confirmed.
Read beyond this website
Public sources and licensed collections
The archive links outward so visitors can inspect the historical context, institutional records and original publications rather than relying on this narrative alone.
Jewish Encyclopedia: Halberstadt
A near-contemporary overview of the community’s history, institutions and population through 1903.
Website use authorized · DAVHalberstadt Alpine Club report, 1931/32
The complete section report containing Paul’s tour entry and formal membership record.
No restrictions on access or use · USHMMLillyan Rosenberg oral history
RG-50.030.0510: a Halberstadt-born witness describes family and religious life, persecution, Kindertransport and survival.
Open access · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0Philipp Graf, Ausgeschlagenes Erbe
Scholarship on Jewish Halberstadt and its contested memory in the postwar city.
Reusable images · licenses by fileWernigerode Stolpersteine
The open photographic collection containing the four Reichenbach memorial stones.
Public catalogue · image rights by itemHalberstadt municipal finding aid
Searchable records for photographs, address history and Werner Hartmann’s research dossiers.
Newly read · 10–11 August 2026
Records that changed the family account
The archive publishes the facts and institutional citations while preserving third-party scans internally until image-reuse terms are clear.
Jacob Paul Reichenbach’s birth record
The entry records Jacob Paul Reichenbach’s birth in Halberstadt on 20 October 1876, naming Adolf Reichenbach and Goldine Marcuse as his parents. The archive already publishes a full English reading from the family research copy; FamilySearch supplies an independently accessible viewing path to the same civil-register evidence.
FamilySearch index and image viewer · Halberstadt civil register no. 655Max Reichenbach’s birth record
The indexed civil entry records Max Reichenbach’s birth in Halberstadt on 15 July 1882, naming Adolf Reichenbach and Goldine Marcuse as his parents. This establishes him as a documented sibling of Jacob Paul; no middle name or death date is published here without an independent record.
FamilySearch index and image viewer · Halberstadt civil death register no. 359Ludwig Reichenbach’s death record
The entry records Ludwig’s death on 7 May 1920 and names Jakob Reichenbach and Helene Heinemann as his parents, independently establishing his place in the documented sibling line.
FamilySearch index · Massachusetts declaration and linked federal recordsDolf and Margarete’s U.S. record trail
Passenger records document their 1937 and 1938 New York arrivals; Dolf’s 1938 declaration records the first step toward naturalization, and the 1940 census places mother and son together in Brookline. The linked institutional scans remain unpublished until permitted NARA or archival copies are accessioned.
FamilySearch index · Massachusetts declaration and passenger recordsRuth Rothschild in the United States
Ruth’s 1936 declaration and 1936–37 passenger records document her American record trail. Later death and Social Security indexes correlate Ruth R. Spiegel by her exact birth date and report a death on 26 November 1987; the Spiegel marriage and civil death certificate remain unfound.
Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora · Totenbuch person 511Fritz Reichenbach in the Buchenwald death register
The official register records Fritz Reichenbach, born 14 March 1884 in Wernigerode, as dead at Buchenwald on 22 November 1938. It does not display a prisoner number or establish a medical cause of death.
Original list · 14 April 1942Kurt, Paula and Hans on the Warsaw transport
The list supplies their birth details and last Halberstadt addresses. It corrects Hans Wollenberg’s birth date to 3 June 1907 and identifies Eisenach as his birthplace.
Yad Vashem · item 6719646 · frame 2A second record of Kurt, Paula and Hans
Frame 2 lists Kurt at Dominikanerstraße 23 and Paula and Hans together at Westendorf 15, corroborating their birth dates and forced addresses without establishing their later individual fates.
Arolsen Archives · DocID 12669406Ernst Reichenbach’s Berlin death card
The card records his last address at Normannenstraße 2 in Nikolassee and his death on 27 November 1942, without stating cause or custody.
Berend Lehmann MuseumWestendorf 15
The former Jewish school and community building became forced collective housing. Paula and Hans were registered there when they were forced from Halberstadt.
Stolpersteine in BerlinNormannenstraße 2
The house history places Ernst and Rosalie, Jeanette and Martha Reichenbach at one persecuted Berlin address; its conflicting 1940 date for Ernst remains recorded as a source error or unresolved discrepancy.
Oral history in context
The Cohn family of Halberstadt
A dedicated reading path places Lillyan Rosenberg’s testimony beside the city and its commercial life without claiming an undocumented relationship to the Reichenbach family.