Biographies
Biographies
Jetta Schriesheimer stayed in Bad Kissingen for only few months during her apprenticeship.
She was born in Hessian Kleinhausen (now part of the community of Einhausen) near Bensheim on July 19, 1890 as the first daughter of the leather merchant Leopold Oppenheimer and his wife Elle (Elise), née David. Three years later, her sister Emma was bo...
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Eva (Luise) Schröder, née Apolant was born in Posen/ Poznan on March 19, 1898 as the second child of Edgar Apolant and his wife Emma, née Memmelsdorf. Her parents were the founders and managers of the renowned spa establishment Dr. Apolant, a sanatorium for internal diseases and diets.
In 1903, the family moved to Bad Kissingen and on...
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Julius Schuster was born in Nordheim vor der Rhön on May 7, 1878 as the son of the cattle dealer Samuel Schuster and his wife Amalie, née Gassenheimer. Nothing is known about his childhood and youth.
He married Hedwig Ida Löwenthal from Altenkunstadt in the Upper Franconian district of Lichtenfels and moved to Coburg with her, where their s...
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Max Schuster was born in Coburg on April 10, 1906. His father Julius was a merchant and came from a cattle-dealers family in Nordheim vor der Rhön. His mother Hedwig Ida, née Löwenthal was born in Upper Franconian Altenkunstadt. The family first lived in Coburg but soon moved to Nuremberg where Max sister Edith was born in 1911. Max f...
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Rosa (Rosel) Schuster, née Blumhof, was born on April 11, 1898 in Grebenau in the middle-Hessian District of Vogelberg. She came from a long-established Jewish family, whose roots in Grebenau can be traced back to the 18th century. Her parents were Seligmann Blumhof, a butcher, and his wife Karoline, née Apt, who had been born in Breitenbach n...
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Ruth Schwab, née Löwenthal was born in Bad Kissingen on June 15, 1893 as the daughter of the banker Abraham Simon Löwenthal and his wife Gitta, née Haas. The origins of this respected family can be traced back to the middle of the 18th century. Ruth and her family lived in Ludwigstrasse 4 (now 11) above her fathers bank which was on the g...
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Regina Schwarz, née Goldstein came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen whose roots reach back into the 18th century. She was born in Bad Kissingen on April 5, 1861 as the youngest child of Josef Goldstein and his wife Karoline, née Schühlein. She grew up with seven siblings in her parents house. In the Kissingen Registry...
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Karl Max Schwed was born in Bad Kissingen on March 27, 1864 as the third of eight children of the baker Max Schwed and his wife Sara (Sophie), née Westheimer from Westheim near Hammelburg. The family lived in a house at Marktplatz. Only little is known about Karl Max Schweds life. In October 1877, he entered class 4 of Kissingen Realschule fr...
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Max Schwed came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen who can trace back their genealogical tree to the time of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) to the gunsmith and ball caster Koppel Meyer who was to become a fabled figure as Jud Schwed. Max Schwed was born in Bad Kissingen on August 13, 1874 as the son of the horse dea...
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From his mothers side, Max Schwed came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen who can trace back their genealogical tree to the time of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) to the gunsmith and ball caster Koppel Meyer who was to become a fabled figure as Jud Schwed. It is not known who Max father was. His mother Ernestine...
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Erna (Klara) Schiewer, née Loeb, worked for several years as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium in Salinenstraße and lived in Bad Kissingen during the summer months.
She was born in January 1899, the youngest daughter of Michael Loeb and his wife Berta, née Reichenbach, in Worms. Michael Loeb ran a wine shop there...
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Alfred Seelig was born in Bad Kissingen on May 7, 1888 as the youngest child of Isaak and Klara Seelig, née Friedmann. His older brother Jakob had died in World War I in 1918. His two older sisters Rosa and Hedwig who were unmarried ran a kosher hotel in Bad Kissingen till 1938 that was held in high esteem. Both of them were deported to Poland a...
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Hedwig Seelig was born in Bad Kissingen on July 8, 1878 as the daughter of Isaak and Klara Seelig, née Friedmann. Her father was a shohet in Bad Kissingen and conveyed a deep religious attachment to them. Her brother Jakob had died in World War I and her youngest brother became a teacher, cantor and shohet in Hessian Friedberg.
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Rosa Seelig was born in Bad Kissingen on December 22, 1880 as the daughter of Isaak and Klara Seelig, née Friedmann. Her father was a shohet in Bad Kissingen and conveyed a deep religious attachment to his children. Her brother Jakob had died in World War I and her youngest brother became a teacher, cantor and shohet in Hessian Friedberg.
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Paula Seliger was born in Steinach on February 1, 1887 as the youngest child of the horse dealer Otto Frank and his wife Henriette, née Schülein. Her seven siblings were also born there.
The family moved to Bad Kissingen where Paulas father was given citizens rights by the Magistrate in February 1905. Two years later he died.
Just l...
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Adele (Ada) Sichel was born in Bad Kissingen on December 29, 1900 as the first child of the merchant Samuel Katz and his wife Betty, née Strauß. In February 1904, her younger sister Klara was born. The family lived in Brunnengasse 4 where Adeles grandfather on her mothers side, Samuel Strauß ran a shop selling manufactured goods, white g...
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Franziska (Fränzi) Sichel, née Hirschenberger was one of the students who came from the rural surroundings of Bad Kissingen and attended Kissingen Realschule for some years. She was born in Westheim near Hammelburg on December 1, 1913 as the second child of Arnold Hirschenberger and his wife Hellen, née Frank. Her brother Bruno was one year ol...
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She was born on June 1, 1906 and grew up as the second of the five children of the dealers family of Abraham Michel and Minna, née Widawski in Edelfingen and Würzburg. Her father was a bookbinder. Hanni attended the school in Würzburgs Ursulinenkloster (monastery of the Ursulines) and then apprenticed as a hairdresser. In 1923, she first...
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Klara Silbermann, née Losmann comes from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen, documents of which can be found since the beginning of the 19th century. Her father Isaak had learned the trade of a metalworker. He had three children with his wife Mathilde, née Bach who came from Unsleben. Klara was born in Würzburg as their first ...
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Albert Silberschmidt was born in Bad KIsingen on December 7, 1913 as the son of the lawyer Dr. Kossy (Kosimir) Silberschmidt and his wife Selma, née Sondheimer. His father, who came from Bayreuth, had first moved to Bamberg and then on to Bad Kissingen in 1908 and had his chancellery in Ludwigstrasse 4 (now 11). In February 1910, he had marri...
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