Aron (Arnold) Wittekind came from a long-established, widely branched Kissingen family whose roots go back to the beginning of the 19th century. His grandfather Aron Simon Wittekind lived in the „Judenhof“ and had been granted the right to live and practise a profession in Kissingen in 1806 as a ‘protected Jew’ of the Barons of Erthal. He earned his living in the ‘silk, wool and cotton trade’ (see Kissingen address book 1838, p. 37).  Aron was born in Bad Kissingen on 30 January 1856 as the second child of Salomon Wittekind and his wife Nanny, née Meininger, and had five other siblings: Simon (1854 - 1922), Benedikt (1857 - 1928), Bertha (*1859 - died just a few months after her birth) Regina (1862 - 1914) and Therese (1864 - 1940).  

Arold's father, who had married Nanny Meininger from Burgkunstadt in 1853, was a merchant on the market square according to the Kissingen address book of 1865. He died in March 1892 at the age of 78. At this time, the family lived at Zwingergasse 5.

Shortly after his father's death, Aron, who had trained as a butcher, moved to Königsberg/East Prussia and married Sara Schepselowea Sembrowski in August 1893, who, according to the marriage entry, came from ‘Jesne in Russia’. Their son Salomon was born in 1894 and in the following years their three daughters Mina Dora (*1895), Rosa (*1897) and Nanny (*1901) were born.

Little is known about Aron Wittekind's life and that of his family. He continued to work as a butcher. Shortly after the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship, he died in Königsberg in October 1933 at the age of 77. His wife Sara died in January 1935.

Aron's daughter Rosa married Arthur Wittekind, a distant relative from Bad Kissingen. Their paternal grandfathers were siblings. Together with her son Edgar and husband Arthur, Rosa managed to flee to North America via Spain in 1942. The family settled in Toronto, Canada. Rosa, who called herself Rosi after her emigration, lived to a ripe old age, dying in Toronto a few months before her 100th birthday in September 1997. Aron's eldest daughter Dora, married name Sonder, apparently also survived the Nazi era, but nothing is known about her exact whereabouts. In 1939 she was living in Leipzig and was registered as a member of the Jewish community there.

Aron's son Salomon and his youngest daughter Nanny became victims of Nazi tyranny. They managed to escape to France, where they were caught in Luchon in the Pyrenees not far from the Spanish border and deported from the Drancy collection camp to Auschwitz in September 1942, where they were murdered.

Aron's younger sister Therese was also a victim of the Shoah. Due to her disability, she was murdered in the Hartheim killing centre (Austria) in September 1940 as part of the ‘Nazi euthanasia program’.