Biographies
Biographies
Heinrich Benedick belonged to the Jews who spent only a short time in Bad Kissingen.
He was born in Albersweiler in the Palatinate (Pfalz) on October 3, 1885, where his family can be traced back to the early 18th century. They had a match factory there and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie (See H.J. Beck, Kissingen war unsere Heimat...
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Anna Berditschewsky, née Scher was born in Swienciany near Wilna (Vilnius)/ Lithuania (which belonged to the Russian Czars Empire in those days) on August 27, 1896 as the daughter of Noah Scher and his wife Fanny, née Zerkinsky. Her father Noah worked as a fisherman there, but in 1899, he decided to move to Würzburg and earn his living as a...
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Rolf Berditschewsky was born in Bad Kissingen on June 23, 1925 as the second child of Michael Berditschewsky and his wife Anna (Chana Eichle). His father was from Mariupol/ Ukraine and his mother was born in Swienciany near Wilna (Vilnius)/ Lithuania (which belonged to the Russian Czars Empire in those days). His mother Anna had emigrated to G...
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Rosa Berg lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time and worked there as a nurse. She was born in Mittelsinn on February 22, 1911 as the daughter of the butcher Leopold Marx and his wife Sara, née Strauß and had several half-siblings from the first marriage of her father.
In May 1935, the moved to Bad Kissingen for one spa season and worke...
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Pauline Bergmann lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time. She came from a widely branched Jewish family who had lived in Völkersleier for generations and made their living as cattle merchants. Pauline was born on December 21, 1887 as the daughter of the tradesman Seligmann Bergmann and his wife Jette, nèe Kahn. Her father traded with cattl...
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Elsa Berliner, née Knöpfelmacher (often also spelled Knöpflmacher), lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium.
She was born in Vienna in December 1899, the daughter of Leopold and Betty Knöpfelmacher. Her father was born in Vienna and had married Betty Heinsheim...
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David Bichowsky was a wealthy businessman from Riga, who in the 1920s was the owner of Liebs Terrassen-Café, the former Café Lohengrin in Bismarckstrasse. He was born on September 3, 1876 as the son of Usiel Bichowsky in Mogilewas/ Latvia (which belonged to the Russian Czars Empire in those days). His daughter Feiga was born i...
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Nelly Bloch, née Strauß, was born on July 3, 1912 as the first child of the wine wholesaler Max Strauß and his wife Johanna, née Hamburger in Munich. His father came from a cattle dealers family in Geroda, whereas his mother came from a long-established butchers family in Bad Kissingen. The two had married in Munich in 1911 and lived th...
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Fanny Kelah Bloemendal, née Neustadt was born in Hamburg on April 29, 1879. Her parents were Moritz Neustadt and Klara, née Goldstein. [Her mother was born in Bad Kissingen in 1844 and came from the widely branched Goldstein family. Fanny was the cousin of Otto Goldstein and Joseph Kauders.]
After her marriage to Siegfried Bloemendal, Fanny...
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Josef Bloemendal was born in Bad Kissingen on November 15, 1912 as the youngest son of Siegfried Bloemendal and Fanny Neustadt. He attended Kissingen Realschule and for 16 years lived with his family in Grabengasse 8, before he went to Halberstadt/ Harz presumable for his training for half a year. After that he returned to Bad Kissingen. ...
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Manfred Bloemendal was born on March 25, 1907 in Ober-Ingelheim (Rhineland-Palatinate). He was the oldest son of Siegfried Bloemendal and Fanny Neustadt. When Manfred was three, the family moved to Bad Kissingen into Grabengasse 8, where his father had a vegetarian restaurant.
Unfortunately, we know only very little about Manfred Bloemendal. L...
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Siegfried Bloemendal was born on February 22, 1880 in the Dutch town of Winschoten/ Province of Groningen which in those days was where the second-biggest Jewish community in the Netherlands was to be found. He was the ninth of the eleven children of the butcher Izaak Marcus Bloemendal and his wife Rosette Polak. Siegfried learned his fathers ...
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Hermann Blum was born in Borken, Hesse, on February 1, 1892, the son of the merchant Joseph Blum and his wife Amalie, nèe Haas. In October 1920 he married Selma Blum, née Steinfeld, with whom he had two daughters - Hilde (*1923) and Marga (Martha) (*1928), who were also born in Borken. In the 1930s the family (also) seems to have lived in ...
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Justin Blum was one of the numerous students from the region of Rhön-Grabfeld who attended Kissingen Realschule and lived in Bad Kissingen during that time. He was born in Mellrichstadt on October 25, 1896 as the youngest child of the merchant Simon Blum and his wife Rikke, née Rosenthal and grew up there with his five older brothers and sister...
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Selma Blum, née Steinfeld and her husband Hermann Blum lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time. Selma was born in Josbach/ Hesse on June 21, 1892 as the daughter of Herz Steinfeld and his wife Johanna, née Katzenstein. The Steinfelds were a long-established, respected Jewish family that can be traced back to 1811 in Josbach. In an intervie...
Sara Blumberg, née Eisenburg, was born in Bad Kissingen in January 1864 as the daughter of the Bad Kissingen Ökonom (economist) and cattle dealer Hess Eisenburg and his wife Sisle Sette (Sedla), née Stern. There are different dates of birth to be found in the sources, January 9, and in some sources also January 12, 1864 are mentioned.
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Bertha Blumenthal, née Mannes, worked as an employee at the Israelite spa hospice and only stayed in Bad Kissingen for a short time. She was born in January 1908, daughter of Dr Salomon Mannes and his wife Klara, née Jacobi, in Schwabach in Central Franconia and grew up with six siblings in a large family. Bertha's parents came from the former ...
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Ida Bock, née Rosenau came from a long-established Jewish family in Bad Kissingen whose roots can be traced back to the 18th century. It cant be learned from the sources how long and in what periods of time Ida Bock lived in Bad Kissingen. She was born in Munich on December 4, 1893 as the daughter of the jeweler Hermann Simon Rosenau and his...
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Nanny Bodenheimer, née Löwenthal, was born in Bad Kissingen on May 12, 1876 as the fourth of five children of the tradesman Hermann Löwenthal and his wife Fanny, née Frank and grow up with her parents in Promenadestrasse.
She married Hermann Bodenheimer in Frankfort, in whose business her younger brother Isidor worked. Between 1902 and 191...
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Meta (Miriam) Bonne, née Hönlein, lived in Bad Kissingen in the summer months of 1926 and 1927 and worked as a nursery school teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium (Israelitische Kinderheilstätte).
She was born in Nuremberg in November 1905, the second child of Jakob Michael Hönlein and his wife Hannchen, née Schlachter, ...
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