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Presenter: Stephen Falk

This presentation reviews archival resources created or maintained by the Breslau Jewish community or about Jewish families or individuals from Breslau, primarily over the period from 1791 to the Community's destruction in the 1940s; records now dispersed around the world. Breslau, the capital of the German province of Silesia, was the home of the third largest Jewish community in Germany before the War. Its Jewish population grew throughout the 19th century as Jews from elsewhere in Silesia, from towns in Posen Province, and from elsewhere in Germany and neighboring countries (Russian Poland, Austrian Galicia, Moravia and Bohemia) migrated to this dynamic city, considered a trade and cultural crossroad between West and East. Archival resources in Wroclaw, Poland (modern day Breslau), Warsaw, Berlin, Frankfurt, Jerusalem, London and New York will be discussed.