Database - Biographisches Handbuch - Jüdische Bürger Bad Kissingen

Weil, Sali

Sali Weil was born in Bad Kissingen on August 26, 1883 as the fourth of the 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 bo...

Weill, Felicitas (Felizi) (geb. Hamburger)

Felicitas Weill, née Hamburger came from a long-established Jewish family whose roots reach back to the 17^th century. She was born in Bad Kissingen on March 22, 1903 as the daughter of Nathan Hamburger and his wife Pauline, née Wimmelbacher. Her father was a butcher according to family tradition and owned a butchery at Marktplatz.

In Decemb...

Weinberg, Bella (geb. Oppenheimer)

Bella Weinberg, née Oppenheimer spent only one season in Bad Kissingen presumably as an employee in Hotel Herzfeld. She came from a long-established Jewish family of the community of Schriesheim near Heidelberg whose ancestors can be found documents of as early as in the 17^th century. Bella was born in Schriesheim on June 9, 1893 as the dau...

Weinmann, Simon

Simon Weinmann belonged to the students from the rural areas who attended Kissingen Realschule and, therefore, lived in the Franconian spa for a short time.

He was born in Middle Franconian Altenmuhr in the district of Weißenburg on June 5, 1881 as the son of the cattle dealer Bernhard Weinmann and his wife Marie, née Wimmelsbacher. He atten...

Weinstein, Bertha (geb. Kugelmann)

Bertha Weinstein, née Kugelmann came from a very respected Kissingen family. Her father David Kugelmann was an arts dealer who had made a name of himself as a supplier of artistic silversmith and ivory works and entertained international trade relationships. How important his connection with his hometown was to him, can be proved by his puncheon...

Weiss, Josephine (geb. Zarnowitzki (Zarnowiecki, Zarnowietzky))

Josephine Weiss, née Zarnowitzki was born in Wien/ Vienna on June 10, 1898 as the oldest child of Hermann Zarnowitzki and his wife Berta, née Wexberg. After her brother Philipp had been born in Auschwitz/ Owicim, her fathers hometown, the parents decided to leave the poor and depressing conditions in their home region and look for bette...

Weiss, Marthe (geb. Berditschewsky)

Marthe Weiss, née Berditschewsky was born in Fürth on November 7, 1919 as the first child of Michael Berditschewsky and his wife Anna (Chana Eichle). Her father was from Mariupol/ Ukraine and her mother was born in Swienciany near Wilna/ Vilnius (which belonged to the Czars Empire in those days). Her mother Anna had emigrated to Germany with...

Weitzman, Rosel (Rosalie) (geb. Emrich)

Rosel (Rosalie) Weitzman, née Emrich, only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time and worked in the Israelite children's sanatorium.
She was born in November 1903 as the second child of Joel (Julius) Emrich and his wife Pauline, née Mann, in Osthofen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Alzey-Worms. Her father came from Merchingen (today a...

Werner, Hedy (geb. Klau)

Hedy Werner, née Klau was born in Poppenlauer in January 1908 as the youngest of the three daughters of the cattle and horse dealer Seligmann Klau and his wife Lina, née Vollweiler. Just like her two sisters, she also married a non-Jewish partner. After getting married to the baker and innkeeper Edmund Michael Werner in August 1930, she moved t...

Werner, Helmuth

Helmuth Werner was born in Garitz (now a suburb of Bad Kissingen) in December 1931 as the only child of the Garitz baker and innkeeper Edmund Werner and his Jewish wife Hedy, née Klau. His father and his uncle Kasper Diller both of them werent Jews ran two restaurants there at the beginning of the 1930s: His father was the landlord of...

Wittekind, Armand

Armand Wittekind was born in Bad Kissingen on May 5, 1890 as the first child of the dealer of antiquities Arthur Wittekind and his wife Therese, née Rheinstein. In 1895, his sister Olga was born. The family lived in Theresienstrasse 23. who held the title "imperial-royal purveyor to the court", had been given citizenship right of Kissingen by th...

Wittekind, Arthur

Arthur Wittekind came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen whose roots can be traced back to the beginning of the 19^th century. He was born in Bad Kissingen on September 10, 1900 as the third of four children of the merchant Wilhelm Wittekind and his wife Fanny, née Mendle, who was born in Swabian Fischach. The family lived in...

Wittekind, Fanny (geb. Mendle)

Fanny Wittekind, née Mendle was born in Swabian Fischach on August 15, 1872 as the daughter of Josef Mendle and his wife Sara, née Kaufmann.

In 1891, she married Wilhelm Wittekind from Bad Kissingen in Ansbach and moved to the Franconian spa with him. Between 1892 and 1903, their four children were born: Simon, Paula, Arthur and Max. The fam...

Wittekind, Max

Max Wittekind came from a long-established Jewish family of Bad Kissingen. He was born in Bad Kissingen on October 9, 1903 as the youngest of four children of the merchant Wilhelm Wittekind and his wife Fanny, née Mendle from Swabian Fischach. The family lived in Villa Paula in Promenadestrasse 5a. Between September 1914 and June 1918, Max...

Wittekind, Rose (geb. Wittekind)

Rose Wittekind was born in Koenigsberg/ East Prussia on September 24, 1897 as the daughter of Aaron Wittekind and his wife Sonja, née Lembrowski. Her father had been born in Bad Kissingen and came from one of the long-established Jewish families of the spa town who had been living there for generations. As his profession, you find butcher as wel...

Wittekind, Simon (Hermann)

Simon Wittekind was born in Bad Kissingen on December 10, 1892 as the son of the Kissingen merchant Wilhelm Wittekind and his wife Fanny, née Mendle. He lived with his parents at Marktplatz 4. From 1902 till 1909, he attended Kissingen Realschule and changed to Oberrealschule Würzburg after finishing middle school. There he graduated with his A...

Wittekind, Therese

Therese Wittekind belongs to the Kissingen victims of the Nazi Euthanasieprogramm (euthanasia program). She was born in Bad Kissingen on April 28 or 29, 1864 (different dates to be found in the sources!) as the third child of Salomon Wittekind and his wife Nanny, née Meininger. She had three older siblings: Simon (*1854), Aron (*1856) and ...

Wittekind, Wilhelm

Wilhelm Wittekind came from a long-established Jewish family the roots of whom can be traced back to the beginning of the 19^th century. He was born in Bad Kissingen on April 1, 1861 as the son of Simon Wittekind and his wife Klara, née Hamburger. In 1891, he married Fanny Mendle from the Swabian Fischbach in Ansbach who moved to Bad Kissingen a...

Wolff, Else (geb. Neumann)

Else Wolff, née Neumann was born in Bad Kissingen on August 10, 1895 as the daughter of the respected fashion merchant Karl Neumann (1860-1942) and his wife Klara, née Löwenthal (1869-1915). Her father came from West Prussian Jastrow and had lived in the Franconian spa town since October 1893. He married Klara Löwenthal who came from a long-e...

Wolff, Felicie (Lizzi) (geb. Rosenau)

Felicie (LIzzi) Wolff came from a long-established Jewish family in Bad Kissingen, whose roots can be traced back to the 18^th century. Felicie was born in Bad Kissingen on September 5, 1896 as the third child of the jeweler Hermann Simon Rosenau and his first wife Luise, née Feuchtwanger. The family owned a jewelers shop and a residential ho...

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