Gerst family
The brothers Nathan and Aron Gerst from Frankenwinheim are among the first Jews to move to Kitzingen after the Emancipation Edict of 1861, which opens up all towns in Bavaria to the settlement of Jewish citizens. They run a successful grain and wine wholesale business there and are part of the synagogue building committee.
Source(s)
Archive of the Association for the Promotion of the Former Kitzingen Synagogue
Knobling, Harald: The synagogue in Kitzingen. Kitzingen 2003
Schneeberger, Michael, Reuther, Christian: Memorial book Kitzingen -Yiskor. In memory of the Kitzingen Jews murdered in the Shoah. Kitzingen 2011
Schneeberger Michael, Reuter Christian: Nothing more to say and nothing more to cry about. Berlin 1994
Schwinger, Elmar: From Kitzingen to Izbica. The Rise and Catastrophe of the Main-Franconian Jewish Community of Kitzingen in: Schriften des Stadtarchivs Kitzingen (ed. Doris Badel), vol. 9, Kitzingen 2009
Kitzingen town archives
Würzburg State Archives
https://www.historisches-unterfranken.uni-wuerzburg.de/juf/Datenbank
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org
Quotes from Michael Schneeberger