Biographies
Biographies
Isaak Tachauer was born in Georgensgmünd on June 7, 1879 as the son of Bernhard Tachauer and his wife Marianne, née Schweizer. His father Bernhard came from Eisenstadt/ Burgenland and had immigrated to Germany. He had studied to become a rabbi in Hungary and took on the position as a Teacher, Prayer Leader and Shohet. He was married to Marianne...
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Regina Tachauer was born in Bad Kissingen on March 29, 1876 as the first child of Isaak Seelig and his wife Klara, née Friedmann. Her father was the Shohet of Bad Kissingen and conveyed a deep religious attachment to his children. Her brother Jakob had died in World War I. Her younger brother Alfred became a teacher, cantor and shohet in Hessian...
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Sally Tachauer, who called himself Stanley Tash after his emigration to England, was born in Bad Kissingen on June 13, 1909 as the son of the merchant Isaak Tachauer and his wife Regina, née Seelig. The family ran a spa board in Promenadestrasse. Sally entered Kissingen Realschule, the predecessor of contemporary Jack-Steinberger-Gymnasium, in S...
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Feiga Tevelev, née Bichowsky was born in Krustpils, Gouv. Riga/ Latvia on August 26, 1900 as the daughter of the Riga merchant David Bichowsky. She married Yosef Abkin. On March 13, 1919, their son Abraham was born. When Feiga moved from Riga to Bad Kissingen in March 1923, she was already widowed. She worked as a household help in the spa town ...
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Recha Goldschmidt (in official documents she is also noted as Ruth and Rosa) was born in Würzburg on March 7, 1909. She was one of the eight children of the Würzburg tailor and merchant Josef Goldschmidt and his wife Johanna (Hannchen), née Fröhlich. The family moved to Hanau in 1927 where Recha worked as a teaching nurse. Since M...
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Ernestine Tuteur, née Kissinger was born in Bad Kissingen in 1851 as the fifth and youngest child of Loeb Kissinger and his wife Marianne, née Schwedt.
In 1876, she married the owner of a leather factory Benjamin Tuteur from Kaiserslautern, who was six years her senior, and moved with him to Kaiserslautern. The Tuteur family came from nearby...
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Ilse von der Walde was born in Bad Kissingen on February 27, 1914 as the first child of Felix Gutmann and his wife Erna, née Haas. Her father was the owner of a glue-industry. Since 1934, he also ran a private spa board in Promenadestrasse. Ilse grew up with two younger siblings in Bad Kissingen Kurhausstrasse.
Elisabeth Wächter, née Schloß, stayed in Bad Kissingen in the summer months of 1930 and 1931 and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite Children's Sanatorium during this time. She was born in Nuremberg in October 1911, the second child of Siegfried Schloß and his wife Helene, née Wallersteiner, and grew up with two sisters, Lotte ...
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Johanna Wahle, née Frank was born in Seligenstadt on January 30, 1883 as the daughter of Hermann and Olga Frank, née Jasmin. Her father was an outstanding person in the town and a successful merchant. He was also active in Seligenstadts Jewish community and became their chairman in 1913. Johanna had three siblings. Her brother Heinrich and h...
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Kurt (Otto Wilhelm) Wahle was born in Bad Kissingen on May 5, 1907 as the son of Dr. Siegfried Wahle and his wife Johanna, née Frank. His father was a Sanitätsrat (honorary title for a doctor) and general practitioner in the Franconian spa town. His sister Anna (Bertha) was born in 1908 but already died in 1921 at the age of only 12.
K...
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Dr. Siegfried Wahle was born in Uehlfeld an der Aisch on July 5, 1869. His parents had moved into the Middle Franconian community in the second half of the 19th century. The Jewish community of Uehlfeld was in relation to the number of inhabitants of 600 rather large. They had their own synagogue, a Jewish school and a cemetery, the gra...
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Judith Wallenstein, née Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on January 11, 1911 as the daughter of the dentist Mendel Bamberger and his wife Rachel, née Winter. The family lived in Ludwigstrasse. After Elementary School, Judith first entered the Höhere Mädchenschule des Instituts St. Marien (Mary Ward School) in Bad Kissingen, changed t...
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Jenny Walter was born in the Middle Franconian Sugenheim on March 6, 1885 as the daughter of the cattle dealer and butcher Abraham Walter and his wife Babette, née Goldmann.
She stayed unmarried all her life and moved into Grabengasse in Bad Kissingen in May 1928, where her sister Rosa Hamburger lived. The Hamburger family ran a butchery ...
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Laura Walter, née Oberzimmer was born in Bad Kissingen on June 11, 1881 as the daughter of Maier and Fanny Oberzimmer, née Berliner. She spent her childhood and youth in Bad Kissingen.
In 1905, she married the notary Hugo Walter from Munich and moved to Gerolzhofen with him. One year later, their son Martin was born there. In 1907, the famil...
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Max Walter was born in Nuremberg on March 25, 1879 as the son of the merchant Salomon Walter and his wife Klara, née Brander. He became a merchant just like his father. After his marriage to Rosalie, née Ochsenmann in February 1905, he moved to Lower Franconian Poppenlauer, the hometown of his wife. There, their two daughters Edith (*1906) and ...
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Rosalie Walter, née Ochsenmann came from a long-established Jewish family in Poppenlauer. She was born in Poppenlauer on May 23, 1880 as the youngest child of David Ochsenmann and his wife Eva Walter. She had two older siblings. Her father ran a wholesale business for eggs and butter and was an agent for mail steamers. In 1905, Rosalie married t...
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Kehla Wechsler, née Bamberger was born in Bad Kissingen on June 17, 1882 as the daughter of the Kissingen Rabbi Moses Löb Bamberger (1838-1899) and his second wife Esther, née Goldschmidt.
In 1905, she married the merchant Mendel Wechsler from Schwabach and first lived with him in Fürth, later in Nuremberg. Their children Emmy (*1906), Leo...
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Lina Weil was born in Bad Kissingen on July 13, 1880 as the second of eight children of the merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Klara, née Berg. Her father came from Aufhausen in Wuerttemberg which is a suburb of Bopfingen nowadays. At least at the end of the 1870s Hermann Weil moved to Bad Kissingen where he married Klara Berg, who was born ther...
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Max Weil was born in Bad Kissingen on June 13, 1887 as the sixth of eight children of the merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Klara, née Berg. His father came from Aufhausen in Wuerttemberg which is a suburb of Bopfingen nowadays. At least at the end of the 1870s Hermann Weil moved to Bad Kissingen where he married Klara Berg, who was born there,...
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Michael Weil was born in Bad Kissingen on October 4, 1885 as the fifth of eight children of the merchant Hermann Weil and his wife Klara, née Berg. His father came from Aufhausen in Wuerttemberg, which is a suburb of Bopfingen nowadays. At least at the end of the 1870s Hermann Weil moved to Bad Kissingen where he married Klara Berg, who was born...
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