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Steigerwald Jenny
Parents: Julius Wollenberger and Helene nèe Blum
Siblings: Israel (Isidor), Gitta, Samuel
Spouse: Julius Jules Julien Herz (1. marriage), Salomon Steigerwald (2. marriage)
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biography
Jenny Steigerwald, née Wollenberger, only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time and worked as a kindergarten teacher at the Israelite children's sanatorium.
She was born in Braunsbach/Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall in February 1899, the third of four children of the cattle dealer Julius Wollenberger and his wife Helene, née Blum. Julius and Helene, who was born in Seibersbach in the Hessian district of Bad Kreuznach, had married in Braunsbach in June 1890. Jenny grew up with two older siblings, Israel (Isidor) (1891 - 1937), Gitta (1895 - before 1945) and a younger brother Samuel (1901 -1966) in the small community in the Kocher Valley. Their father, who came from Massenbachhausen in the Heilbronn district, ran a cattle business in Braunsbach, which was continued by his sons after his death in 1916.
Jenny Wollenberger came to Bad Kissingen at the age of seventeen at the beginning of May 1916 and was registered as a "nanny" at the Israelite children's sanatorium during the spa season. She left the Franconian spa town in mid-August.
The rest of her life is only known in fragments. In May 1935, in Le Ban-Saint-Martin, a small Lorraine community southwest of Metz, she married the businessman Julius (Julien, Jules) Herz, who had previously lived temporarily in England and the United States. His first marriage was to Ellen Joseph, with whom he had two children, and he had divorced his first wife. Jenny was only granted a short time together with Julius; he died in December 1940 in Pont-à-Mousson, a town on the French Moselle between Metz and Nancy.
Jenny Herz survived the Nazi era, but where and under what circumstances is not known. She lived in France after the war and married her second husband Salomon Steigerwald - again in Le Ban-Saint-Martin - who was also widowed. Salomon came from Frankfort/Main, where his father had run an umbrella business. He had married Meta Wolf from Strasbourg in 1925 and lived with her in Saarbrücken, where their daughter Carla was born in 1926. The family obviously tried to find refuge in France. However, Meta Steigerwald and her daughter Carla were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in July 1942 and murdered. Salomon Steigerwald survived the Nazi era, but it is not known how he was able to escape the Nazi terror.
Jenny and Salomon married in April 1949. Jenny Steigerwald died in Metz in February 1953 at the age of 57, her husband Salomon died there two years later in January 1955.
Jenny's younger brother Samuel also moved to France in the 1930s, marrying Jeanne Simone in 1936 in her birthplace in Diemeringen, Bas-Rhin, Alsace. Jeanne was deported and murdered, while Samuel Wollenberger survived and died in Diemeringen in 1966. Jenny's older sister Gitta became a victim of the Shoa, while her brother Israel (Isidor) had already died in Braunsbach in 1937, one year after the death of their mother Helene. Israel's two children Selma and Julius, who had also emigrated to France after the death of their father, were deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in August 1942 and murdered.
References
Personalliste der Israelitischen Kinderheilstätte, Jahrgang 1916, Stadtarchiv Bad Kissingen
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