Collection
Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
Memory🌳 Ashkenazi
The Weitz Family
Write the Great BookOrigin of the name, history and genealogy of the Weitz lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
German surname ("wheat").
Geographic origin: Galicie / Hongrie
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Weitz 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.
Web research
Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).
Writing
Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.
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In the meantime
Lineage Map
This book tells the story of the Weitz. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.
To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Weitz, remember and share its dedicated address:
zakhor.ai/weitzThe address zakhor.ai/weitz leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.
🔗 Cite / link this page
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Link
https://zakhor.ai/weitzHTML
<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/weitz">Weitz — Zakhor</a>Citation
Weitz — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/weitzVariants of the name (1)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Weiz
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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 Weitz.
Search “Weitz” 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 Weitz give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day
Recorded burials
Weitz Avraham Moshe
Cimetière juif de Varsovie (Wola) · Varsovie — September 21, 1910
Weitz Chaia Yuta
Cimetière juif de Varsovie (Wola) · Varsovie — August 7, 1920
Weitz Chaim
Cimetière juif de Tarnów · Tarnów
Weitz Chana Reizel
Cimetière juif de Pabianice · Pabianice — March 13, 1923
Weitz Mendel
Cimetière juif de Tarnów · Tarnów — February 6, 1968
Weitz Miriam
Cimetière juif de Tarnów · Tarnów — March 6, 1920
Weitz Perla
Cimetière juif de Tarnów · Tarnów — January 11, 1967
Weitz Rózia
Cimetière juif de Jasło · Jasło — September 11, 1942
Weitz Salusia
Cimetière juif de Jasło · Jasło — September 11, 1942
Weitz Tyla
Cimetière juif de Jasło · Jasło — September 11, 1942
Weitz Yaakov Aharon
Cimetière juif de Varsovie (Wola) · Varsovie — October 26, 1927
Weitz Yosef
Cimetière juif de Varsovie (Wola) · Varsovie — April 27, 1887
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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