Biographies
Biographies
Selma Silberschmidt was born in Darmstadt on February 24, 1886 as the daughter of the teacher Wolf Sondheimer and his wife Regina, née Bender. Her father from Beerfelden worked in Darmstadt as a teacher for many years; initially in a Jewish school and later at Städtische Mädchenrealschule (municipal realschule for girls).
In February 191...
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Irene Mann was born in Bad Kissingen on August 26, 1903 as the daughter of the butcher Lazarus Mann and his wife Cilly, née Löwenberger. She had five siblings. The family lived in Weingasse, where Cillys father ran a butchery. He already died before the beginning of Nazi dictatorship in February 1932.
Irene Mann became a caretaker. The de...
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Fanny Simon, née Gutmann was born in Bad Kissingen on February 13, 1878 as the child of the cattle dealer Josef Gutmann and his wife Regina, née Ambach. She grew up in Salinenstrasse with her parents and three older siblings.
In October 1903, she married the merchant Hermann Simon who had been born in Roßdorf and moved to Arnstadt to him af...
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From her mothers side, Lore Simon, née Wolff, came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen. Her mother Selma, née Kissinger, was born in the Franconian spa town in 1877 where her father Max Kissinger ran a flourishing mens clothing business cum tailoring at Marktplatz. Selma Kissinger had married Emil Wolff in 1904 and had ...
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The Jewish violinist Charles Snoeck, who is spelled Carl or Karl Snoeck in different documents, played an important role for many years as a concertmaster, soloist and conductor of the Kissingen Spa Orchestra. He was often responsible for the arrangement of the spa music proper, whereas the well-known and famous chief and guest conductors reserve...
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Martha Spier, née Löwenthal was born in Bad Kissingen on March 4, 1891 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 18thcentury in Bad Kissingen. Martha lived with her family in Ludwigstrasse 4 (now 11) above her fathers bank...
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Charlotte Kugelmann was born in Bad Kissingen on July 5, 1872 as the first child of the art and antiquities dealer David Kugelmann and his wife Johanna, née Wormser. She had six younger siblings and lived with her parents in Theresienstrasse. Charlotte/ Lotte Kugelmann married the merchant Hermann Stahl, who had been born in Bad Kissingen in 186...
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Josef Stahl was born in Bad Kissingen on January 23, 1868 as the youngest child of the cattle dealer and shoemaker Lämlein Stahl. The family lived in Judenhof (small ghetto in the old part of Bad Kissingen) in Bachstrasse where Josef grew up with his two older brothers Hermann and Philipp. Just like them, he attended Kissingen Realsc...
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Philipp Stahl was born in Bad Kissingen on January 26, 1864 as the first child of the cattle dealer and shoemaker Lämlein Stahl and his wife Karoline née Gutmann. The family lived in Judenhof (small ghetto in the old part of Bad Kissingen) in Bachstrasse where Philipp grew up with his two younger brothers Hermann and Josef. Just like th...
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Jenny Steigerwald, née Wollenberger, 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 Braunsbach/Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall in February 1899, the third of four children of the cattle dealer Julius Wollenberger and his wife Helene, née Blum. Julius and He...
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(Ernst) Wolfgang Stein was born in Schweinfurt on August 4, 1929 as a son of the entrepreneur Dr. Fritz Stein and his wife Ruth, née Kantoworicz. His father and his brother Jakob were the co-owners and directors general of Basaltstein GmbH Schweinfurt, a company to which numerous basalt works in the Rhön hills and in Switzerland belonged....
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Dr. Fritz Stein and his brother Jakob were co-owners and chief executive officers of Basaltstein GmbH Schweinfurt, an enterprise that operated numerous basalt quarries and basalt works in the Rhön hills and in Switzerland. At the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s he used to spend the summer months in Bad Kissingen with his family.
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Leo (Lev) Stein was born in Cologne on March 24, 1904 as the son of the Jewish merchant Louis Stein and his wife Helena née Blum. In Leos birth certificate one finds artist as his fathers profession. His mother Helena was a Catholic, her son Leo is always described as Israelite.
In April 1928, Leo Stein moved to Bad Kissin...
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Ruth Margot Stein was born in Posen/ Poznan on December 3, 1905 as the daughter of the merchant Hugo Kantorowicz and his wife Betty, née Lissauer. Her mother came from Lübeck. Initially, Ruth grew up well protected with two younger siblings with her parents in Posen and attended the Below-Knothesche Lyzeum till class 4. In the first year ...
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Amanda Steinam, née Hamburger was born in Bad Kissingen on December 8, 1881 as the oldest daughter of the master butcher Wolf Hamburger and his wife Jette, née Lustig.
In 1905, she married the merchant Moritz Steinam in Würzburg. Then the couple moved to Nuremberg where their daughter Martha was born in April 1913. Amandas husband alread...
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Bertha May was born in Nuremberg in 1892 as the first daughter of the hops dealer Moritz May (1864-1926) and his wife Rosa Rosenstein (born in Schwabach in 1864).
Initially, Bertha May attended a grammar school in Munich and then studied French and English at Munich University, which was rather unusual for a woman in those days. At the age o...
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Hans Jakob Steinberger was born on May 25, 1921 as the son of Ludwig Steinberger and his wife Bertha in the Jewish Community House in Bad Kissingen. His father, who had been born in Schonungen in 1874, was the son of a small cattle dealer and had seven siblings. After his education, Ludwig Steinberger worked in Bad Kissingen since 1892 as the Can...
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Herbert Steinberger was the oldest son of Ludwig and Bertha Steinberger and was born in Bad Kissingen on May 18, 1920. He had two younger brothers, Hans Jakob (Jack) and Rudolph who were born in 1921 and 1924.
The three Steinberger boys enjoyed a protected childhood in their first years of life. Between 1931 and 1934, Herbert attended Kissinge...
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Ludwig Steinberger, who was the Cantor and Teacher of Religious Education of the Jewish Community in Bad Kissingen for 45 years, came from Schonungen near Schweinfurt. He was born there on January 20, 1874 as the son of the cattle dealer Lazarus Steinberger and his wife Eva. They had eight children. In addition to his breadwinning job as a cattle...
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Meta Steinberger, née May, was the aunt of the Bad Kissingen Nobel Prize winner Jack Steinberger. She only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time and worked as a kindergarten teacher in the Israelite children's sanatorium in Salinenstraße.
Meta May was born in Nuremberg in September 1894 as the second daughter of the hop merchant Moritz May (...