Biographies
Biographies
Paula Bourquin, nèe Wittekind came from a long-established Jewish family in Bad Kissingen. She was born in the Franconian spa on November 25, 1898 as the daughter of the textile merchant Wilhelm Wittekind and his wife Fanny, née Mendle. Together with her three brothers Simon (*1892), Arthur (*1900), and Max (*1903) she grew up in Villa Paula...
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(Rosa) Ruth Boyle, née Cohn was born in Berlin on April 22, 1920 as the daughter of Siegfried Cohn and his wife Jenny, née Engel. Her mother came from Bad Kissingen. Her parents had established the flourishing spa hotel Villa Engel in Schönbornstrasse there.
In Jully 1932, Ruth went back to Bad Kissingen and Villa Engel with her...
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Berta (sometimes also spelled Bertha and Bertel) Braunschweiger, née Heinemann, only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time, during which time she worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium. She was born in Bayreuth in September 1893, the eldest daughter of David Heinemann and Rosa, née Goetz, and had two younger s...
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Klara Bretzfelder, née Goldstein came from a long-established and respected Jewish family in Bad Kissingen. She was born in the Franconian spa on July 27, 1857 as the first child of Leopold and Hanna Goldstein. Her father was a merchant in Marktstrasse 14. After the death of his first wife Regina Eisenburg, he had married Hanna Hartmann, with wh...
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Nathan Bretzfelder was born in Estenfeld on August 13, 1863 as the son of Samuel and Hanna Bretzfelder, née Reichmann. For many years he was the chairman of the Israelite Religious Community and as its determined opponent actively fought against the rise of National Socialism in Bad Kissingen. With his spa hotel Villa Holländer - he m...
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Inge Juliane Brown, née Dressel lived and worked in Bad Kissingen for only few months. She was born in Erfurt on March 9, 1921 as the daughter of the shoemaker Karl Dressel and his wife Trude (Gertrude Bertha), née Bär. Her parents had married in Wiesbaden, Trudes hometown, in 1917. In 1924, Inges sister Dorothea was born. Shortly afterw...
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Karoline Buchbinder came from came from the family of David and Regina May in the village Berkach in South Thuringia. She had been married to the musician Karl Buchbinder since 1890 and lived in Bad Kissingen and Würzburg.
Her husband was a musician in Kissingen Spa Orchestra and, therefore, the family lived in Bad Kissingen time and again ...
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Rose (Rosa) Buchbinder was born in Bad Kissingen on August 10, 1897 together with her twin sister Olga as the daughter of Karl and Karoline Buchbinder, née May. Her father was at times a member of the Kissingen Spa Orchestra.
In 1900, the family moved to Würzburg. Rose studied music, presumably at Würzburg Conservatory and played as harpist...
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Martha Burghardt, née Leuthold came from a long-established Jewish family in Bad Kissingen. She was born in Bad Kissingen on November 22, 1896 as the daughter of Salomon Leuthold and his wife Rosa, née Bergmann. Her father followed the family tradition as a tailor and owned a textile shop at Marktplatz. Martha had an older brother Leo (*1892) a...
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Elisabeth Buxbaum, née Schneider, spent several years in Bad Kissingen at the beginning of the 1930s and worked here as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium.
Very little is known about her life. She was born on February 17, 1903, the daughter of the merchant Julius Schneider and his wife Thekla, née Dreifuss, in Ba...
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Dr. Abraham Cohn was born in Burgpreppach on June 5, 1906 as the oldest son of Burgpreppachs Rabbi Dr. Nathan Cohn and his wife Hanna, née Auerbach. Between 1916 and 1918, he attended Kissingen Realschule and during that time lived with Rabbi Dr. Seckel Bamberger in Promenadestrasse. In 1918, when his father was transferred to Marburg, he wen...
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Bianca Cohn, née Frei, was born in Steinach on September 27, 1906 as the youngest of seven children of the merchant Bernhard Frei and his wife Rosa, née Löwenberger. The Frei family, who came from Eichenhausen near Bad Neustadt, had been living in Steinach since the middle of the 18th century at least and been butchers there for generations. ...
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Jenny Cohn, née Engel was born in Bad Kissingen on June 5, 1892. Her parents, Josef and Sophie Engel, née Seligsberger, had been living in the Franconian spa town since 1890 and ran a flourishing bath hotel there in Schönbornstrasse 18 (now 26), Villa Engel. Jennys younger sister was born in 1894. Her father Josef was in a mental hosp...
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Martha Cohn stayed in Bad Kissingen in the summer months of 1931 and 1932 and worked as a cook in the Israelite children's sanatorium.
Little is known about her life. She was born in May 1896, the second daughter of Lehmann (Lizmann) Cohn and his wife Piene, née Bohn, in Friedrichsberg (Berlin, district of Lichtenberg). Her sister Jenny (1893...
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Margot Conradi, née Benger, only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite children's sanatorium.
She was born in July 1906 in Königshütte in Silesia (now Chorzow in Poland), the second child of the merchant Jakob Benger and his wife Henriette, née Grätzer, and had two more siblings: Ali...
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Hedwig Dambitsch, née Oppenheimer was born in Neustadt/ Saale on January 16, 1878 as the daughter of the merchant Salomon Oppenheimer and his wife Flora, née Goldmann. She married Louis Dambitsch, a merchant from Rödelheim in the vicinity of Frankfort, and apparently moved to Switzerland with him as her two sons Fritz and Berthold were born in...
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Arthur Dannenbaum belonged to the students of Bad Kissingen Realschule who came from the region of Rhön-Grabfeld and spent some years in Bad Kissingen during their time at school. He was born in Mellrichstadt on October 25, 1885 as the son of the cattle and horse dealer Levi Dannenbaum from Reyersbach and his wife Sabine, née Schwab among lots ...
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Edith Danziger lived in Bad Kissingen for only few months. On July 14, 1899, she was born as the daughter of Max and Marie Danziger in Königshütte in Upper Silesia. There is only fragmentary information on her life. She later lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg and had the profession of a dietician.
In April 1938, she went to Bad Kissingen for ...
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Irma Dehler, née Frank was born in Steinach on September 24, 1898 as the youngest of six children of the cattle dealer Lazarus Frank and his wife Clara, née Ansbacher. He father was highly regarded in the Jewish and non-Jewish communities there: He was elected into the parish council in 1896, where he successfully fought for a village doctor an...
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Bertha Diller, née Klau was born in Poppenlauer in October 1903 as the oldest of three daughters of the cattle and horse dealer Seligmann Klau and his wife Lina, née Vollweiler. Like her two sisters she also married a non-Jewish partner. Her husband Kasper (also: Kaspar) Diller came from Kirchlauter/ District of Hassberge and initially was a bu...
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