This is a collection of facts and folklore about the Zwieback family name. I hope to use this web page to present how this family name came about and how the name-bearers kept the name going.
Current emphasis is on European data prior to the Holocaust.
I hope to keep this web site current with new information added as it comes to me. Therefore, I encourage anyone with information that can be added to this page to send it to me via e-mail as shown at the end of this page. Variants are Zwibach, Zuieback, and Zwiebach . Zwieback means Rusk or Twice-Baked Bread in German, and a Nabisco bakery product is still sold using this name. From the web, it was found that during the American Civil War, a government supplies list, dated 1863, described food supplies that included Zwieback.