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Weitzman Rosel (Rosalie)
Parents: Joel (Julius) Emrich and Pauline nèe Mann
Siblings: Betti, Siegfried
Spouse: Morris J Weitzman
Salinenstraße 34
April 1937 emigrated to the USA
biography
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 district of Ravenstein in the Neckar-Odenwald district) and in 1901 he married Pauline Mann, who was born in Osthofen. Rosel's father ran a cattle and country produce business in Osthofen and later a cucumber pickling business, together with Bernhard Levi, his wife's brother-in-law. Rosel grew up with two siblings, an older sister Betti (1902 - 1976) and a younger brother Siegfried (Siggi) (1908 - 2001).
Rosel Emrich came to Bad Kissingen in May 1926 and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite children's sanatorium during the summer months. She left the Franconian spa town again at the end of October.
Little is known about the life of Rosel Emrich and her family in the 1930s. In any case, she managed to escape from Germany, as did her two siblings. She arrived in New York harbour in April 1937. All three lived in the United States in 1940.
However, her parents were denied the opportunity to escape the Nazi terror. They lived in Bischofsheim/Mainz in 1939 and were both deported to Theresienstadt via Darmstadt on 27 September 1942. Rosel's father died there from the unspeakable prison conditions in March 1943 at the age of 75. Her mother survived Theresienstadt. She weighed less than 45 kg when the camp was liberated by the Red Army on May 8, 1945 and stayed in a camp for displaced persons in Deggendorf after the end of the war. She naturally wanted to join her children in the USA as soon as possible, which she managed to do in May 1946 thanks to the efforts of her son Siegfried. Pauline Emrich later lived in Chicago, where she died in October 1964 at the age of 86. In Mainz Bischofsheim, where Joel and Pauline Emrich lived since December 1938 until their deportation, a memorial stone on Marienplatz commemorates them and 16 other Jewish citizens who were deported from here in 1942.
In June 1940, Rosalie Emrich married the Russian-born Morris Jacob Weitzman, who already had two grown-up sons from his first marriage to Esther Gillman, from whom he was divorced. It was indirectly thanks to her brother Siegfried that Rosel got to know Morris Weitzman. Siegfried Emrich and Morris Weitzman were at one time in business together, and that's how Rosalie met her husband. Rosalie and Morris lived in Columbus, Ohio, for several years in the 1940s and 1950s. Rosel was a very traditional wife in most respects and Morris Weitzman was a successful businessman, involved in a number of businesses and owned both apartment and commercial property there. He retired around 1960 and moved to Los Angeles with Rosalie to be closer to his two sons.
Morris Weitzman died there in April 1977 and Rosalie in April 1984 at the age of 80.
References
Personalliste der Israelitischen Kinderheilstätte, Jahrgang 1926, Stadtarchiv Bad Kissingen
Datenbank Ancestry, Emrich Family of Merchingen
Datenbank Myheritage, Emrich Website
Datenbank Familysearch, Stammbaum Rosalie Emrich Weizman
Datenbank Myheritage, Rosalie Weitzman (geb. Emerich) In Geni Welt-Stammbaum
Datenbank Genicom, Rosalie Emerich Weitzman
Datenbank Ancestry, Rosa Emrich in the New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957
Datenbank Familysearch, Eheschließung 1940
Datenbank Myheritage, Rosalie Weitzman In Todesfälle in Kalifornien, 1940 - 1997
Datenbank Myheritage, Rosalie Weitzman In U.S. Sterbe-Verzeichnis der Sozialversicherung (SSDI)
Datenbank Ancestry, Einbürgerungsantrag Pauline Emrich, Illinois, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1856-1991
Stolpersteine Bischofsheim
Alemannia Judaica Merchingen, Kennkarte Joel Emrich
Website Zentralarchiv der Juden
Arolsen Archives, Ghetto Theresienstadt-Kartei, Signatur 11422001 058, Todesvermerk Joel Emrich
Arolsen Archives, Erfassung von Ausländern und deutschen Verfolgten, Bischofsheim, Signatur DE ITS 2.1.1.1 HE 021 JÜD 7 ZM
Arolsen Archives, Inhaftierungsdokumente Ghetto Theresienstadt, Pauline Emrich, Signatur 11422001 058
Arolsen Archives, Registrierung und Betreuung von DPs innerhalb und außerhalb von Lagern, Signatur 03010101 06 064
Arolsen Archives, verschiedene Dokumente des DP- Lagers Deggendorf, zu Pauline Emrich
Arolsen Archives, Unterlagen von EMRICH, PAULINE, geboren am 12.12.1877 und von weiteren Personen, Signatur 06030101 050.078 a
Arolsen Archives, Unterlagen von EMRICH, PAULINE, geboren am 12.12.1877 und von weiteren Personen, Signatur 06030101 050.078 b
Inga May, Kurzbiografie Auguste Levi [Schwester Pauline Emmrichs]
Informationen Ronald Emrich (Neffe Rosalie Weitzmans), Mail vom 12.03. und 23.03.2024
Photo credits
© Robert Jonathan Emrich
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