Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Wachs Family
Write the Great BookOrigin of the name, history and genealogy of the Wachs lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
German surname ("wax").
Geographic origin: Allemagne / Pologne
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Wachs lineage has not yet been written.
Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.
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Lineage Map
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/wachsHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/wachs">Wachs — Zakhor</a>Citation
Wachs — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/wachsVariants of the name (1)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Вакс
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In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Wachs.
Search “Wachs” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Wachs give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Recorded burials
Wachs Léa
Ancien cimetière israélite de Metz · Metz — May 5, 1955
Wachs Simon
Ancien cimetière israélite de Metz · Metz — January 10, 1953
Вакс Александр Александровичsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Moscou — Vostriakovskoe · Moscou — 1942
Вакс Александр Александровичsuggested match
Carré juif du cimetière Vostriakovskoe tsentralnoe — Moscou · Moscou — 1942
Вакс Аркашенькаsuggested match
Carré juif du cimetière Vostriakovskoe tsentralnoe — Moscou · Moscou — 1955
Вакс Аркашенькаsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Moscou — Vostriakovskoe · Moscou — 1955
Вакс Б. Ш.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Saint-Pétersbourg · Saint-Pétersbourg — 1949
Вакс Бася Ароновнаsuggested match
Carré juif du cimetière Marina Rochtcha — Nijni Novgorod · Nijni Novgorod — 1972
Вакс В. А.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Saint-Pétersbourg · Saint-Pétersbourg — 1966
Вакс Геня Янкелевнаsuggested match
Carré juif du cimetière Severnoe (Timachevskoe) — Oufa · Oufa — 1984
Вакс Дина Беньяминовнаsuggested match
Cimetière juif de Moscou — Vostriakovskoe · Moscou — 1973
Вакс Е. В.suggested match
Cimetière juif de Saint-Pétersbourg · Saint-Pétersbourg — 1966
Bibliography
- A. Beider ; L. Menk, Dictionnaires des patronymes juifs d'Europe de l'Est (Beider : Empire russe 2008, Royaume de Pologne 1996, Galicie 2004) et judéo-allemands (Menk 2005), Avotaynu
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#shoah#Pologne