The Amador Family World Genealogy Project

and Juan Amador Llaner Domenech Y Colomina, from Carcaixent (Valencia). He officiated over the Inquisition in Valcencia in 1630.

José Amador de los Rios.(From the frontispiece to his "Historia.")

Bibliography:

• List of his sources given in Jacobs' Sources of Spanish-Jewish History, pp. 213-244, and summary of the contents of the book, pp. 214-221.

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The Amador last name has been recognized by several Jewish Federations has been as of Sephardic descent. To this day we have Family members who practice this religion as well as other religions world wide. Most Amadors feel a kinship to the Jewish faith, proudly wearing the " Star of David " as a long term tradition handed down from one generation to the next. This has and was done to honor long lost memories and stories of the Amadors during the Inquisition on both sides of the conflict. It is said that the Amador name originated around the 700's. This means that not only was the Amador Family part of the conflict and development of Spain during the early years, their religion must have been as diverse as the county itself.

I could never imagined what must have transpired between family members in that era. Those who already were Catholic, those who were being converted, and those who never did, and those who carried the Jewish faith. This family along with multiple number of others families were separated , condemned, and exalted by the religious fervor of the times.

Alejandro Ney Amador my Uncle had his Congregation do a small genealogical report on the last names that encompassed all the member of our family line. One last name I found very interesting, "Tola". This last name also a city where part of my family grew up in Nicaragua, comes from Hebrew word, "Tola" which in Hebrew means "Sacred Ground".

Note:

The story that has been passed down from generations to generations in my family is that we are derived from the two tribes, the "Issachar", from a male heir, and from the tribe of "Judah" from a female heir. This has been handed down throughout the centuries verbally in my family.

Many other last names found in this report also contain Sephardic origins, Oppenheimer, Gonzalez, Belmonte, Bustos, Alvarez, Tola, Gutierrez, Ordonez once written (Ordonaux), Torres, and Ferrer these families intertwined with the Amador Family.

Now, on March 22, 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler had been appointed Reich Chancellor, a concentration camp for prisoners was set up in Dachau. The Dachau Camp served as a model for all later concentration camps and as a "school of violence" for the SS men under whose command it stood. In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 persons from all over Europe were imprisoned here and in other numerous training subsidiary camps. Here 41.500 were murdered just from this camp alone. The total number of Jews killed during the Holocaust has been estimated as over 1 Million. On April 29, 1945, American troops liberated the survivors.

There were two Amadors listed as prisoners in the Dachau Concentration camp. Juan Josef Amador born June 11, 1928 and Juan Marie Amador born May 8, 1904. The Holocaust records of Jewish prisoners unfortunately showed their disposition date as June 20, 1944. The war officially ended May 1945. 

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My Great Grand Father from my father's side Paul (Filiberto) Oppenheimer was a French Jew and was my Grandfather Jose Leonardo Amador's father. He came to Nicaragua in the later part of 1800's with his brother Nestor, Camilla Gold Lazard, Nestor's wife, his father, Salomon Oppenhiemer Tola and his Mother, Esther Bustos Oppenheimer. Salomon and Esther were my Great Great Grandparents and are buried somewhere in Nicaragua, even though we are not sure where at this time. Paul (Filiberto) Oppemiemer's nephew Rene Salomon Oppenheimer, (Nestor's son) was born in 1911 in Managua, Nicaragua. Rene ,my Great Grand Uncle, while in France and being Jewish descent was arrested by the Nazi regime and detained in the Drancy Internment Camp in 1942. He was able to obtain false documentation indicating that he was not Jewish and was released. He remained in France during WWII and died in Ville d'Avray on Sept 1,1996. The last I heard about this line  Oppenhimer line is that they grew up in New York. As Rene and Paul had both family in France and New York City, as far as we know all the descendants of the Oppeheimer line lives in New York.

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