Hedwig Dambitsch, née Oppenheimer was born in Neustadt/ Saale on January 16, 1878 as the daughter of the merchant Salomon Oppenheimer and his wife Flora, née Goldmann. She married Louis Dambitsch, a merchant from Rödelheim in the vicinity of Frankfort, and apparently moved to Switzerland with him as her two sons Fritz and Berthold were born in Zürich in 1902 and 1904 respectively. 

Presumably the family went back to Frankfort later as Louis Dambitsch died there.

Hedwig Dambitsch lived in her place of birth Bad Neustadt again, from where she moved to Bad Kissingen for the first time in 1929 und lived with Ulsamer in Salinenstrasse 31. Her two sons who also became merchants, temporarily lived with her there. Her older son, who had moved there from Cologne, lived in the spa town from August 1931 till August 1932 and then emigrated – before the Nazi’s seizure of power – to Philadelphia in the United States. Berthold stayed with his mother in the summer of 1935 and then returned to Cologne. In April 1937, he succeeded in emigrating to the United States. 

In December 1935, Hedwig Dambitsch moved to Edenkoben in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate (now Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse), then stayed in the Franconian spa town for several days at the beginning of 1937 before on January 29, 1937 she emigrated to Philadelphia in the United States where her son Fritz was living. The family changed their name into “Dalton” in the USA. Hedwig Dalton died in Pennsylvania in August 1944 at the age of 66.