Ostermann, Jewish Roots
Location: Deutsches Reich
Surnames/tags: Ostermann Jewish_Roots
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Overview
This is a Research Page of the Ostermann Name Study. It focuses on persons with Jewish roots, bearing the family name Ostermann and having lived in Germany (German Confederation 1815-1866 and German Empire 1871-1945).
Databases and their Ostermann statistics
The following online databases have entries for Jewish persons with the family name Ostermann:
Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem (Engl.)
As of Jan 2024, there are 216 individual results connected with the LNAB Ostermann, incl. other married names as well as variants like Oesterman.
Familiendatenbank Juden im Deutschen Reich (German)
There are 29 persons with the family name Ostermann in genealogy.net‘s database of Jewish people living in the German Empire (the page says 24 persons but then lists 29 individual entries); they are distributed chronologically as follows:
- 1x born in the 1810s, viz. Louis Ostermann, furrier in Krotoschin
- 1x born in the 1840s, viz. August Ostermann, teacher in Hadamar
- 5x born in the 1870s
- 6x born in the 1880
- 2x born in the 1890
- 1x born in the 1920, viz. notable Israeli journalist Helmut Ostermann, later Uri Avnery
- 13x without life dates
Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv (German)
The federal German archive has a memorial book for victims of persecution of Jews by the Nazi terror regime in Germany 1933-1945 (in German: Gedenkbuch für die Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933 - 1945). It lists eleven persons with the family name Ostermann who were killed in various ghettos, concentration camps and death camps:
- Elise Auguste (Ostermann) Halberstaedter (1872-1943)
- Laura Wilhelmine (Ostermann) Loewenthal (1874-1943)
- Charlotte (Horwitz) Ostermann (1900-1943)
- Else (Mayer) Ostermann (1896-1944)
- Siegfried Ostermann (1892-1944)
- Jakob Ostermann (1872-1943)
- Johanna (Mayer) Ostermann (1872-1942)
- Johannette (Wolf) Ostermann (1878-?)
- Josef Ostermann (1887-?)
- Max Ostermann (1893-1944)
- Richard Ostermann (1879-1942)
Joods Monument (Dutch and English)
This compilation of stories about Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in the Netherlands has just a handful of profiles with LNAB Ostermann, e.g.
- Martha Ostermann (1895-1942), on WikiTree as Ostermann-756
- Laura Wilhelmine Loewenthal-Ostermann (1874-1943), on WikiTree as Ostermann-315
However, for the variant LNAB Oesterman, there are quite a few, many still without WikiTree profiles. So far, the following have been entered into WikiTree:
- Elizabeth Oesterman (1875 - 1942)
- Joseph Oesterman (1893 - 1942)
- Mietje (Oesterman) Boesenach (1874 - 1943)
Sources
- Familiendatenbank Juden im Deutschen Reich, https://ofb.genealogy.net/juden_nw/?lang=de
- Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/
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