Excerpts from a brochure written by Dr. Pinkus Philipp Münz on the history and significance of the Israelite Children's Sanatorium Bad Kissingen, which he founded.
Source: Quelle: Jüdische Gemeindearchive in Bayern, CAHJP, Israelitische Kinderheilstätte Bad Kissingen D-Ba4-2, Blatt 113 -124]
Two further biographies of the Wittekind family, who were already resident in Kissingen at the beginning of the 19th century, have been added to the database.
Aron Wittekind and Sabine Wittekind (cousin and cousin) were both born in Bad Kissingen in the 1850s, spent their childhood and youth he...
This was not the first time the Pick/Howorth family had visited Bad Kissingen, the town where their grandfather/great-grandfather had opened the renowned Pick Sanatorium in Kurhausstraße in 1909, which was owned by the family until the beginni...
The biography of Hugo Laub has also been supplemented and updated. His nephew Martin Selling (a son of his sister Ida) gave an interview to the Shoa Foundation in 1996, which gives an even clearer pict...
Based on information from an interview conducted by the Shoa Foundation in 1996 with Max Levi's son Franz Ferdinand, we have supplemented and revised the short biography of our former "Realschüler" Max Levi and illustrated it with additional photos.
Here is the updated biography:
We have translated and analyzed further USC Shoa Foundation interviews. And updated the corresponding short biographies.
Ruth Roos (daughter of Alice Wolf and granddaughter of Hermann Sachs) also describes her special relationship with her grandfather Hermann Sachs and presents family photos fr...
Last photo from Selma Wolff, pass photo Cologne 1939
A moving interview conducted by the USC Shoa Foundation with Ellen Herz, Selma Wolff's daughter, provides us with very personal insights into Selma Wolff's life and that of her family.
Paula Jordan's son Peter, who was able to emigrate to England in 1939, gave an interview to the USC Shoa Foundation in 1998 that provides a very perso...
Among the more than 56,000 interviews with Shoa survivors conducted by the USC Shoa Foundation initiated by Steven Spielberg, there are also two impressive interviews with survivors of the Stein family, who came from No...
After analyzing the Shoa Foundation's remarkable interview with Berta Rafel née Lippmann, a much clearer and more vivid picture of Frieda Lippmann née Ehrlich has emerged. Here is the updated short biography:
A coalition of all democratic parties, churches, associations and other institutions called for a demonstration against right-wing extremism and for diversity on Sunday, February 4.
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...
from left to right: Helene, Sali, Ina and Ida Kahn (1922/1923)
Through our contact with in Colorado living Pamela Ruth Landau Lessing, a granddaughter of Ida Kahn, we have learned a lot of new information about her ancestors, which provides...
After years of vain attempts to find out something about the further fate of the student after his successful graduation from school in Bad Kissingen in 1887, we came across a family tree of Suzanne Epstein via the Ancestry database, with...
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.
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 f...
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...
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 association...
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 Walte...
For Hans Rosengold, the long-time chairman of the Jewish community in Regensburg, Bad Kissingen was only a brief episode, albeit one that was not unimportant for his professional career. Born in Regensburg, Hans Rosengold moved to the Franconi...
The article commemorates the more than 230 Jewish students who attended the Kissingen Realschule between 1871 and 1936. Their further fate could be clarified by intensive investigations in many cases (223).
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 commun...
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 wo...
We sincerely thank Gerhild Ahnert for her excellent translation. She didnt only translate the biographies but the whole of the Memorial Book in several months of work. We also thank her husband Thomas Ahnert for his support in proofreading the text.
Zur Präsentation des "Biografischen Gedenkbuchs der Bad Kissinger Juden während der NS-Zeit" am 23. Januar 2020 hielt Ernst O. Krakenberger - ein Enkel des aus Bad Kissingen stammenden Isidor Kissinger - die folgende Rede:
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