Biographies
Biographies
Esther Zaidman, née Taubenblatt, lived and worked in Bad Kissingen for only one spa term. She was born in Nuremberg on November 23, 1916 as the daughter of the private tutor Israel Taubenblatt and his wife Malka, née Gelernter. Her parents came from what is now Poland and had married in Warsaw in 1903. In 1906, they had emigrated to Nuremberg. ...
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Berta Zarnowi(e)tzki (different spellings in the sources: partly Zarnowiecki or Zarnowietzky), née Wexberg and her husband Hermann belong to the immigrants from Eastern Europe who wanted to escape from the poor and depressing conditions in their home region and looked for better lives for themselves and their children in the West. There, they of...
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Hermann Zarnowi(e)tzki (different spellings in the sources: partly Zarnowiecki or Zarnowietzky) and his wife Berta, née Wexberg belong to the immigrants from Eastern Europe who wanted to escape from the poor and depressing conditions in their home region and looked for better lives for themselves and their children in the West. There, they often...
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Philipp Zarnowitzki was born in Auschwitz/ Owicim on July 2, 1900 as the second child of Hermann Zarnowitzki and his wife Berta. Soon after his birth, his parents decided to leave the poor and depressing conditions in their home region and look for better living conditions in the West. In December 1902, the family moved from Würzburg into W...
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Lotte Zelinka, née Holländer lived and worked in Bad Kissingen for only few months.
She was born in Berlin on October 25, 1914 as the first of two daughters of Ernst Holländer from Samter in Posen/ Poznan and his wife Margot who was born in Breslau/ Wroclaw.
Little is known about her life. In April 1938, she went to Bad Kissingen for few...
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Olga Zentler, née Wittekind was born in Bad Kissingen on May 30, 1895 as the second child of the dealer of antiquities Arthur Wittekind and his wife Therese, née Rheinstein. She lived in Theresienstrasse 23 with her parents and her brother who was five years her senior. Olgas father had been given citizens rights in November 1896 by Bad K...
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Nora (in American sources Lora) Schiff came from a widely branched cattle dealers family in Oberthulba who had been living in the rural community for generations. She was born in Oberthulba on September 24, 1906 as the youngest child of the cattle dealer Gabriel Schiff and his wife Regina, née Stern. She had two older sisters: Kathinka ...
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Greta (Margarete) Zofar, née Neuberger was a student at Kissingen Realschule for a short time and lived in the Franconian spa town during that time. She was born in Haßfurt on June 9, 1912 as the daughter of the merchant Max Neuberger and his wife Bertha, née Hiller. She spent the first years of her life in Haßfurt where her father ran the wh...
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