Biographies
Biographies
Rudolph Steinberger was born in Bad Kissingen on May 1, 1924 as the youngest child of the Jewish Cantor and Teacher of Religious Education Ludwig Steinberger and his wife Bertha, née May. Just like his older siblings Herbert and Hans Jakob (Jack), he enjoyed a protected childhood in the first years of his life. His father was greatly respected a...
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Flory Steinhof lived in Bad Kissingen for several years and worked as a nurse at the Israelite spa hospice at Altenberg.
She was born in Segeberg (now Bad Segeberg) in June 1906 as the third of five children of the trader and junk dealer Moritz Steinhof and his wife Dina Kleve. Her father came from the Hungarian part of Burgenland and had move...
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Anna Stern was born in Bad Kissingen on August 6, 1924 as the daughter of Josef and Thekla Stern, née Heimann. She lived with her family in Hemmerichstrasse 29 (now 12), where her father ran a shop for ironware and agricultural machinery. After attending Kliegl Elementary School for four years, she entered the Mädchenlyzeum der Englischen Fr...
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Babette Stern, née Hamburger came from one of the oldest Jewish families of Hammelburg, whose roots reach back to the middle of the 18th century. The tradition of being cattle dealers was widely spread in the family and Babettes father Meier Hamburger also had this profession. Babette Stern was born in Hammelburg on February 16, 1881 as the ...
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Edith Walter was born in Poppenlauer on January 31, 1906 as the first child of the merchant Max Walter and his wife Rosalie, née Ochsenmann. In 1911, her sister Fanny was born.
In May 1922, the family went to Bad Kissingen and first lived in Bachgasse there. Her father ran a wholesale firm for eggs and butter in Weidgasse 1. When she was 19...
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Heinrich Stern was born in Bad Kissingen on November 5, 1870 as the son of the merchant Hermann Stern and his wife Karoline, née Poppermann. He attended Kissingen Realschule since October 1880 up to class 5. Why he left the school in spite of rather good grades, is not known.
In May 1904, Heinrich Stern married Babette Hamburger, who was 10 y...
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Karoline (Lina) Stern, née Mainzer was born in Bad Kissingen in September 1865 as the daughter of Löb Mainzer and his wife Jette (Sabine), née Löwenthal. In the files, different dates of her birth are to be found (On the registration card of the Municipal Archive of Fulda, the birthday of Karolina Mainzer was later corrected from September 19...
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According to his students file of Bad Kissingen Realschule, Ludwig Stern was born in Würzburg on February 16, 1921. His father Joseph Stern who came from a Steinach family had moved to Bad Kissingen in March 1920 after his marriage to Thekla Heimann from Schwanfeld. He had founded a business for ironware and agricultural machinery there. On A...
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Thekla Stern was born in Schwanfeld on August 8, 1891 as the daughter of the horse dealer Isaak Heimann and his wife Elisa, née Heimann. There she attended the seven-year Elementary School. Her leaving report of 1905 characterizes her as an extremely diligent and gifted student.
In March 1920, Thekla married the 30-year-old Josef Stern from S...
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Berta Sterzitz lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time. She was there looking for a new employment but only found one for one season.
Berta was born in Vienna on February 1, 1906. Her father Samuel Sterzitz had moved from Poland into the Austrian capital. There he had married Rachel Regina, née Kriss in 1901. In the same year their oldes...
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Lilly Steuer, née Lichtenauer belonged to the students of Bad Kissingen Realschule who came from the rural areas around Bad Kissingen and went to school there for some years. She was born in Gerolzhofen on June 16, 1917 as the daughter of the cattle dealer Josef Lichtenauer and his wife Gerti, née Schloss.
In order to enable Lilly a better e...
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Josef Straus was one of the Jewish students who came from the rural surroundings of the Rhön Hills and attended Kissingen Realschule for some years. He was born in Steinach on February 22, 1885 as the son of the cattle dealer Juda Straus and his wife Hanna, née Gessner.
In April 1899, he entered class 4 of Bad Kissingen Realschule and gradua...
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Friedrich Strauß belonged to the students of Bad Kissingen Realschule who became victims of the Shoa. He was born in the Middle Franconian Adelsdorf near Höchstadt on June 21, 1880 as the son of the cattle dealer and merchant Sigmund Strauß and his wife Sophia, née Loewi. He had two younger sisters Lili and Ida, who were born in 1881 and 1883...
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Johanna (Anna) Strauß, née Hamburger came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen who had been butchers for some generations. She was born in Bad Kissingen on September 3, 1885 as the first child of Isaak Hamburger and his wife Regina, née Fröhlich. In the next years, three brothers followed her. The family ran a butchery in Gr...
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Julie Strauß was born in Obergimpern (now in the District of Heilbronn) on April 12, 1873 as the daughter of the merchant Emanuel Strauß and his wife Sarah, née Bader. The rest of her life can only be vaguely reconstructed. Possibly, the family moved to Mannheim (?) which is mentioned as her fathers place of death (registration card Municip...
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Max Strauß came from a long-established, widely branched Jewish family in Geroda. He was born there on October 6, 1882 as the son of the cattle dealer Rafael Strauß and his wife Elise, née Katz.
In 1911, the young wholesale merchant of wine married Bad Kissingen-born Johanna Hamburger in Munich where she also moved after the wedding. Their ...
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Rudi Strauß was born in Bad Kissingen on January 3, 1923 as the second child of the wholesale wine merchant Max Strauß and his wife Johanna, née Hamburger. His father came from a cattle dealers family in Geroda, whereas his mothers ancestors were a long-established Kissingen butchers family. Both of them had married in Munich in 1911....
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Isidor Straußer was born in Bad Kissingen on October 26, 1873 but lived there for only a short time. As early as in 1874, the Straußer family moved to Schweinfurt.
Isidors father was the master butcher Simon Straußer from Euerbach. He had three sons with his second wife Agatha (Agathe) Sara, née Löwengard: Jakob, who was born in Euerba...
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Jakob Straußer stayed in Bad Kissingen for only few years. He was born in Euerbach on May 3, 1869 but lived there for only a short time. Soon after his birth, the family moved into the Franconian spa town. Isidors father was the Euerbach master butcher Simon Straußer. He had three sons with his second wife Agatha Sara, née Löwengard: Jakob...
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Rosa Süss, née Baum lived in Bad Kissingen for only a short time and worked as a household help during that time. She was born in Hessian Frei-Laubersheim on January 5, 1913 as the daughter of the cattle dealer Salomon Baum and his wife Zerline, née Ackermann. She grew up in a family of many children with three sister and two brothers. Not ver...
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