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 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...

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 Francon...

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).

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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...

VERNISSAGE "JACK-STEINBERGER" IN THE AUDITORIUM OF THE JACK-STEINBERGER-GYMNASIUM (JUNE 2022)

On June 21, 2022, a vernissage on Jack Steinberger opened in the auditorium of Jack Steinberger Gymnasium. At the suggestion of their ar...

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https://youtu.be/7rWIFSn42s4

The video (1:44) shows excerpts from Steinberger's visits to his hometown in 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2011.

We would like to thank Dr. Michael Peter and TV Mainfranken for the permission to use their footage from the visits.

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...

Goldner Irma
Landauer Sofie
Münz Heinrich
Rosenau Helene
Rosenau Klara
Rypinski Elsa
Scher Klara
Sieber Johanna
Wolff Else

Obituaries

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.

The following short biographies have been added to the memorial book

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:

Saale-Zeitung/Mainpost 22.Januar 2020

Saale-Zeitung/Mainpost, 25. Januar 2020:

Saale-Zeitung/Mainpost, 18. Januar 2020: