Biographies
Biographies
Cornelia (Nelly) Eberhardt was born in Maßbach on October 4, 1900 as the daughter of the grain merchant and baker Samuel Eberhard and his wife Amalie, née Rosenberger.
In May 1923, she moved to Bad Kissingen and lived there with short intervals until September 1928. After her marriage with Salomon Hans Bacharach she started to live...
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Nora Ballon, née Hausmann was born in Bad Kissingen on January 13, 1920 as the second child of Max Hausmann and his wife Hertha, née Hamburger. She had an older sister, Anny, who was born in 1907. Her parents owned a butchers shop in Obere Marktstraße 10. Her mothers ancestors belonged to the long-established family of Hamburger, who had...
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Dr. Isaac Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on July 3, 1877 as the son of Bad Kissingens rabbi for many years, Moses Loeb Bamberger, and his second wife Esther, née Goldschmidt. At first, he lived at Maxstrasse 5, later at Theresienstrasse 5b. Between 1887 and 1889 he attended Kissingen Realschule. In January 1916, he was contracted for his...
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Josef Aron Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on October 7, 1875, as the son of Kissingens Rabbi for many years, Moses Löb Bamberger, and his second wife Esther, née Goldschmidt. His father served as District Rabbi between 1872 and 1899. On his initiative, the New Synagogue was built, the consecration of which Moses Löb Bamberger was not t...
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Kehla Bamberger was born in Schrimm (now Srem) near Posen/ Poznan (Poland) on January 4, 1893. She was the daughter of the Rabbi Dr. Seckel Bamberger and his wife Nannette, née Bamberger. Her father was the Rabbi of Schrimm at that time. In 1902, the whole family moved to Bad Kissingen, as Seckel Bamberger had become the successor of his late fa...
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Martin Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on January 17, 1915 as a son of the Kissingen dentist Mendel Hirsch and his wife Rachel née Winter. He grew up in the spa town and attended Realschule Bad Kissingen between 1925 and 1931. His class teacher Gagel describes him as a student supporting the teachers work and winning the trust of...
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Mendel Hirsch Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on May 31, 1884 as a son of Moses Löb and Esther Bamberger, née Goldschmidt. At first, he lived with his parents in Maxstrasse 5, later in Theresienstrasse 23 and finally in Ludwigstrasse 13. After his studies at a university he worked in the spa town as a dentist.
Just like his brother Isaak...
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Moses Löb Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on December 3, 1902 as a son of Rabbi Seckel Bamberger and his wife Nannette. After attending Kissingen Realschule between 1912 and 1918, he passed his high school graduation (Abitur) at the Kreis-Oberrealschule in Würzburg at the end of April in 1921. He then studied at Würzburg University (1921),...
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Nannette Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on January 30, 1870. She was the daughter of the Rabbi of Bad Kissingen, Moses Löb Bamberger (1838-1899) and his first wife, Sara Ettlinger (1842-1871), who was the daughter of a rabbi. Her brothers Simon and Simon Aron already died at a very young age.
Nannette married her cousin, Rabbi Dr. Seck...
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Nathan Wolf Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on June 5, 1888 as the youngest son of Bad Kissingens rabbi of many years, Moses Löb Bamberger, and his second wife Ester, née Goldschmidt. His father was the District Rabbi between 1872 and 1899. On his initiative, the New Synagogue had been built, the consecration of which Moses Löb Bamberge...
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Rachel Winter was born in Mönchengladbach on January 9, 1880 as the daughter of Josef and Sara Winter, née Rosenbaum. On December 28, 1909, she married Mendel Hirsch Bamberger from Bad Kissingen, who was four years her junior, and moved to the Franconian spa town with him. They had four children: Judith (born in 1911 and married to Stephan Wall...
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Dr. Seckel Bamberger was born in Fischach near Augsburg on April 13, 1863. His father Simon Bamberger worked there as a rabbi and had 11 children with his wife Adelaide.
Seckel Bamberger enjoyed a profound education as a teacher of religion and rabbi and finished his studies at the universities of Berlin, Würzburg, Munich, and Leipzig in 188...
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Seligman Bamberger was born on January 20, 1896 in Schrimm (now Srem) near Posen/ Poznan (Poland). He was the son of the respected Rabbi Dr. Seckel Bamberger and his wife Nannette. Between 1905 and 1911, he attended Kissingen Realschule; his marks prove him to have been a conscientious and good student. After graduating there, he attended Oberrea...
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Simcha Simon Bamberger was born on December 27, 1899 in Schrimm (now Srem) near Posen/ Poznan (Poland) as the son of Rabbi Seckel and his wife Nannette Bamberger. When his father got his appointment as a rabbi, the family moved into the spa town. In July 1915, Simon graduated from the Royal Realschule of Bad Kissingen with great success. In the l...
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Josef Friedel Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on June 23, 1919 as the son of the dentist Mendel Menachem Bamberger and his wife Rachel, née Winter. In spite of the discrimination he had to suffer, Friedel Bamberger mostly enjoyed remembering his childhood: Nearly all my memories of Bad Kissingen are beautiful and harmonious. I loved the t...
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Babette Bauer, née Schloß, was born in Rödelsee near Kitzingen on August 1, 1884. Her father Hermann Schloß was a tradesman in that community. First, he was married to Sophia, née Hasselbacher, who died in 1881. Babette (Bettie, Betty) was a child of his second marriage to Babetta, née Gutmann. She had two younger brothers and sisters and ...
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Hermann Baumblatt was born on May 11, 1864 as the son of Itzak Baumblatt and his wife Marianne Fleischer in Theilheim near Waigolshausen in the district of Schweinfurt.
On May 12, 1895, one day after his 31st birthday the master baker married Sara Neuburger in Obereuerheim where she had grown up and moved to Bad Kissingen with her. At the b...
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Martha Baumblatt was born in Bad Kissingen on August 22, 1900 as the daughter of Hermann and Sara Baumblatt, née Neuburger. The family had had a bakery there since 1896. Martha Baumblatt worked in the little family bakery. Her elder brother Arthur had been killed in World War I at the age of only 21 years.
While her parents were deported to T...
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Sara Baumblatt was born in Obereuerheim near Schweinfurt on June 6, 1867 as the second of four children of Karl Koppel Neuburger and his wife Nanni Löwenthal, who had grown up in Bad Kissingen.
On May 12, 1895 she married the baker Hermann Baumblatt, who had been born in Theilheim, in her home village and moved to Bad Kissingen into Badgasse ...
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Suse Ben David, née Ehrlich, was born in Bad Kissingen on March 11, 1915 as the oldest child of Ludwig and Margarete Ehrlich. Her father was the co-owner of a renowned fashion shop in Ludwigstrasse and thus Suse had a nice and carefree childhood together with her siblings and cousins who all lived in the spacious house at the corner of Ludwigst...
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