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After much unsuccessful research, we have now been able to clarify the fate of another Kissingen Realschule student. Philipp Stahl, who came from an old-established Kissingen family, went after his marriage in August 1899 with his wife Theresi...



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Thekla, Emilie, Gitta (May 1934), two months before Gitta emigrated to Palestine.(colorized photo)
A great-grandson of Benedikt and Emilie Schloß, who now lives in the United States, kindly provided us with family photos of the Schloß family,...



Not much is known about the life of Siegfried Mainzer, who was born in Bad Kissingen in 1878. However, we were able to clarify his further fate: The unmarried merchant died in Berlin in May 1933 - shortly after the National Socialists came to power.


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After more than 20 years the descendants of the Jewish fashion merchant Samuel Ehrlich met in Bad Kissingen again. The fashion house of his son Felix was located at the corner of Ludwigstraße and Kurhausstraße. This is already the second...


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Mark Engel, the son of Martin Engel, who was born in Bad Kissingen in 1920, watched this year's Obermayer Award ceremony and contacted us as a result. We are very pleased that he plans to come to Bad Kissingen later this year to visit the town...


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Obermayer Awards 2023 go to Rudolf and Marlies Walter from Bad Kissingen, Jörg Friedrich from St. Wendel, Stefan Schirmer and FC Ente Bagdad from Mainz, Roswitha Weber from Kenzingen-Bombach, Marion Welsch from Kleinmachnow and the associatio...


Moses Kurzweil lived with his family in Bad Kissingen for only a few years. He was employed as cantor and shochet of the local Jewish community between 1921 and 1924 and lived with his family in the Jewish Community House (today Promenadestraße 2) during this time. While his three older sons Walt...




Dr Arthur Pick, the respected physician and owner of the "Sanatorium Dr. Pick" named after him in Kurhausstraße, came to the spa town with his family at the end of 1908. The members of the Pick family belonged to the group of assimilated Jews. They were baptized and members of the religious comm...




Irma Goldner née Schiff lived and worked only for a short time in Bad Kissingen as a cookery apprentice at the Hotel Herzfeld in Maxstrasse (today Bayerischer Hof), but we feel that contact with her descendants in the United States, whom we were recently able to find, appears to us nevertheless w...