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, wit...
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...
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).
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...
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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