Michael Honey family trees
Extent and Medium
oversize folders
document tube
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Creator(s)
- Michael Honey
Biographical History
Michael Honey was born Michael Honigwachs on September 3, 1929 in Nový Jicín, Czechoslovakia. He lived in Valasske Mezirici before the Holocaust. He survived the Theresienstadt ghetto and the Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, and Gunskirchen camps before liberation. He immigrated to England in 1945 and then to Israel in 2002. Honey developed a method of drawing parallel family trees he called "The Jewish Historical Clock" spanning multiple families and generations.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Michael Honey donated his collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
Six family trees created by Michael Honey: 1. Jewish Historical Clock - Branches from the Start of the Horowitz Family in Prague up the the Horowitz Dynasty in Dzikow/Tarnobrzeg Poland Giving Estimates of Birth Years for Each Generation, 1994, 19 1/4 x 13 7/8 2. The Charif-Heizelbeck Genealogy to Find Eitzikel Charif, 1995, 16 ½ x 32 3/4 3. The Levy-Benoliel-Cansino Genealogy from Gibraltar, 1995, 40 1/4 x 41 ½ 4. Jewish Historical Clock - Descendants of R. Yehuda Löw Ben Bezalel The Mahara”l of Prague Giving Estimates of Birth Years For Each Generation, 1995, 41 ⅝ x 41 5. Jewish Historical Clock - Migrations From Ashkenaz to Poland of Family Branches - Start of the Shpiro/Spiro Family of Megale Amukot Showing Likns with the Ten Testimonials of His Book, 42 x 41 ¼ 6. Jewish Historical Clock - Branches from the Start of the Horowitz Family in Prague up the the Horowitz Dynasty in Dzikow/Tarnobrzeg Poland Giving Estimates of Birth Years for Each Generation, revised, 1995, 81 ¼ x 41
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three folders: OS 1: Jewish Historical Clock - Branches from the Start of the Horowitz Family in Prague up the the Horowitz Dynasty in Dzikow/Tarnobrzeg Poland Giving Estimates of Birth Years for Each Generation, 1994 OS 2: The Charif-Heizelbeck Genealogy to Find Eitzikel Charif, 1995 OS 3 (rolled): Remaining documents
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Michael Honey
Subjects
- Jews--Genealogy.
Genre
- Document