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Jutkowski Adelaide

Surname
Jutkowski
Birth Name
Bamberger
First Name
Adelaide
Date of Birth
12-21-1905
Place of birth
Bad Kissingen
Other family members

Parents: Dr. Seckel and Nannette Bamberger
Siblings: Sarah, Kehla, Seligmann Bär, Iyras m. Adler, Simcha Simon, Moses Löb
Spouse: Rudolf (Israel) Jutkowski
Children: Yitzhak, Israel Meir, Eliezer, Shaul Yutav  

Address

Promenadestraße 17 (today's count)

Profession
Emigration/Deportation

September 1934 emigrated to Palestine

Date of death
10-13-1966
Place of death
Israel

biography


Adelaide Jutkowski, née Bamberger was the daughter of Bad Kissingen’s penultimate Rabbi Dr. Seckel Bamberger, who had been Kissingen’s rabbi for thirty years, between 1902 and 1932. His wife Nanette had given birth to a daughter named Adelaide on December 21, 1905. Adelaide first attended the “Institut der Englischen Fräulein” (Mary Ward School). In September 1919, after finishing class 3, she entered class 4 of Kissingen Realschule, didn’t have problems with her change of schools, got good grades and was the first girl who graduated from this school in 1922.

After finishing Realschule, she passed her ‘Abitur’ at Sophienschule in Würzburg and studied Mathematics, Physics and Hebrew Literature in Marburg. As a student, she got to know her later husband Rudolf (Yisrael) Jutkowski who came from Milicz (Militsch) in Lower Silesia, a little town 60 kilometres north of Wroclaw (Breslau). As a confident Zionist, he emigrated to Palestine as early as in April 1933. After passing her exam, Adelaide followed him a year later. In the summer of 1933 and between February and September 1934, she stayed with her parents in Bad Kissingen a last time before she left Germany and married Rudolf Jutkowski in Palestine, with whom she had four sons.

When Adelaide’s mother Nannette visited her daughter in Palestine in 1938 (before Pogrom Night), the Jutkowskis urged her to stay with them in Palestine. But Nannette Bamberger refused to do that arguing that she had one daughter in Palestine but six children in Germany. In addition, she was certain that the situation in Germany would soon get to normal again. Israel Jutkowski’s mother demanded of her son he should prevent Nannette from doing what she had planned but she was still absolutely determined to return to Germany. In the Pogrom Night of 1938, she was to learn that she had interpreted the situation completely wrongly. Together with her unmarried daughter Kehla, in April 1942 Nannette Bamberger was deported from Bad Kissingen to Krasniczyn and murdered somewhere there.

In the face of such experiences, Adelaide Jutkowski and her husband  never missed Germany despite the hard life they had in the first 20 years in the country. They never wanted to return to Germany or even to visit it.

Adelaide's husband taught for about 20 years mainly in elementary schools and only then moved on to teaching only in high school, and Adelaide took care of the upbringing of their four children, who were born between 1935 and 1941 - and it was already a full-time job. The family lived first in Tel Aviv for a short time, then for ten years in Pardes Hanna in the Haifa district and then for twelve years in Petah Tikva, an eastern suburb of Tel Aviv. In the late 1950s, the Jutkowskis returned to Tel Aviv. For the first time, they owned a comfortable apartment. Adelaide Jutkowski did not have time to enjoy the comfortable life for a long time. She became seriously ill and died in 1996 at the age of 61.

Her husband outlived her by two decades, he died in 1987 at the age of 81.

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Adelaide Jutkowski née. Bamberger with her family


References


Biographische Datenbank Jüdisches Unterfrankenexterner Link
Datenbank Genicomexterner Link
Schülerakte Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium
Meldeunterlagen Stadt Bad Kissingen
Hans-Jürgen Beck, Kissingen war unsere Heimat, Stand April 2017, S.431, 441
Informationen Dr. Shaul Yutav, Tel Aviv, Mail vom 14.10.2020 und vom 29.03.2021

Photo credits


© Dr. Shaul Yutav, Tel Aviv



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