Iten Genealogie
The Jewish Family Bachmann of Friesen near Kronach
(Later in Kronach, Amberg, Munich and Switzerland)
The Jewish Family Strauss in New York, Munich, Stuttgart
Herbert Bachmann
Herbert Bachmann was born in Amberg/Oberpfalz in 1893 as son of David Bachmann of Kronach/Oberfranken and Rachel Strauss of Syracuse/New York1. Herbert Bachmann studied Staatswirtschaft (public or state economy) from 1912/13 to 1918/19 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. At this time he lived with his parents at the Häberlstrasse 15/3 in Munich as it is shown in the register of the University2.
Herbert Bachmann was a soldier in World War I from 01.12.1916 until 18.11.1918. First he was in the 2. Ersatz-Bataillon of the 4. Feldartillerie-Regiment, then on the 27.04.1917 he was transferred to the 6. Battery of the Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 1. On the 04.07.1917 he was rejected from the frontline to the 4. Company of the 3. Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon Augsburg. Finally he was transferred to the Wirtschafts-Kompanie 33 on the 08.07.1918 and to the Zivilverwaltung 6 on the 18.11.19183.
In October 1934 he asked for a confirmation of his service in World War I at the Zentralnachweisamt für Kriegerverluste und Kriegergräber, Zweigstelle Munich. This record says that he only was in the theatre of war from 27.04.1917 until 02.07.1917, more exactly in the trench war in Flanders/France. As he only served at the frontline for a short time he had never obtained any promotion or medal or decoration. A directive of the 26.06.1917 said that he should only be employed in the back area3.
From 1921 until 1936 Dr. Herbert Bachmann was managing director of some trade associations. 1936 he migrated to Switzerland where he did academic researches and published a book with the title “Wirtschafts-Wille und –Wert” in Bern in 1945. Beginning in the year 1946 he was the secretary of economy- und social politics at the Landesbezirk Bayern of the DGB4.
The Stadtarchiv Zurich sent to me three scans of Einwohnerkontrolle-Meldekarten (documents of the inhabitants registry office). They say that Herbert Bachmann lived sometimes in Berlin and sometimes in Zurich between 1936 and 1938. He lived at Kasinostr. 12 and at Plattenstr. 78 (Hottingerhof).5
I received the following information from the Staatsarchiv Basel Stadt: Herbert Bachmann was registered in Basel in November / December 1937 and from May to July 1938. Both times he left Basel for Berlin. In October 1938 he was again registered in Basel and stayed there until 1946. As he lived as a boarder/lodger he wasn't listed in the City directoires of Basel of this time. His profession was mentionned as Syndikus for academic researches and stud. phil. respectively.6
In August / September 1940 Herbert Bachmann lived on the Hebelstrasse in Basel.7 The Hebelstrasse beginns near the University and the house Nr 137 is situated northwest of the University. In 1942 Herbert Bachmann lived on the Hebelstrasse in Basel.8 Nowadays the Jewish Museum of Switzerland is situated south of the University.
https://www.juedisches-museum.ch/de/
He also worked as editor of the Gewerkschafts-Zeitung (newspaper of the trade/labor union). In the Munich city directories of the years 1953, 1954, 1961 and 1966 he was mentioned as Direktions-Sekretär and he lived at the Prinz-Ludwig-Strasse 14/4 in Munich9.
1 Biographisches Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden 1933-1945
http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/gedenkbuch/gedenkbuch.html
2 Matrikeln der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1912-1919
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität_München/Matrikel/Veröffentlichungen
3 Stammrolle der bayerischen Armee inkl. Militär-Dienstzeit-Bescheinigung bei ancestry.de
(Original im Bayerischen Kriegsarchiv des Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchivs in München)
4 library.fes.de/gmh/main/pdf-files/gmh/1951/1951-11-Mitteilungen.pdf
You will find more publications of Herbert Bachmann in Switzerland on e-periodica.
https://www.e-periodica.ch/ (in German and French Language)
5 Stadtarchiv Zurich https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/prd/de/index/stadtarchiv.html
Einwohnerkontrolle-Meldekarten. (V.E.c.100. Einwohner- und Fremdenkontrolle. Meldekarten)
More Information of Hottingerhof at Plattenstrasse 78 in Zurich-Fluntern
https://www.alt-zueri.ch/turicum/strassen/p/index.htm
http://www.flunternerzaehlt.ch/articledetail/200
6 Staatsarchiv Basel Stadt (Request Formular Genealogische Anfrage)
PD-REG 14a 9-7: Niederlassungskontrolle Ausländer (1936-1974), Nr. 28093
https://www.staatsarchiv.bs.ch/benutzung/dienstleistungen/anfrageformulare.html
7 Inventarverzeichnis aller persönlichen Eigentums oder persönlicher Habe von Herberts Mutter
ausgestellt vom Amtsgericht München, Vormundschafts- und Nachlassgericht, Arolsen Archives
8 Inventarverzeichnis aller persönlichen Eigentums oder persönlicher Habe von Herberts Vater
ausgestellt vom Amtsgericht München, Vormundschafts- und Nachlassgericht, Arolsen Archives
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/70119774/?p=1&s=Bachmann%20David&doc_id=70119774
9 http://genwiki.de/w/index.php?title=Kategorie:Adressbuch_in_der_DigiBib&from=M
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Siegfried Bachmann
Siegfried Bachmann was born in Amberg/Oberpfalz on the 28.04.1894 as son of David Bachmann of Kronach/Oberfranken and Rachel Strauss of Syracuse/New York1. Siegfried Bachmann did his service in World War I at an infantery regiment of Hessen and he died in Russia in December 19142. You can read the history of the “5. Grossherzoglich hessisches Infanterie Regiment Nr. 168” online3.
1 Biographisches Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden 1933-1945
http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/gedenkbuch/gedenkbuch.html
2 Preussische Verlustliste Nr. 134 vom 25. Januar 1915
http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1330489
Haus der bayerischen Geschichte – Für das Vaterland starben auch jüdische Soldaten
http://www.hdbg.de/gedenktafeln/index_extern.shtml
Liste der im 1. Weltkrieg gefallenen Soldaten jüdischen Glaubens aus München
http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2024/vl_gedenkbuch-rjf_wk1.html
3 Adolf Soldan. Das 5. Grossherzoglich hessische Infanterie-Regiment Nr 168
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/IR_168
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/50._Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
http://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/qhg/id/1799
4 Münchner neueste Nachrichten: Wirtschaftsblatt, alpine und Sport-Zeitung, Theater- und Kunst-Chronik. 1915 = Jg. 68, Vorabend-Blatt vom 24.01.1915
5 Preussische Verlustliste Nr. 134 vom 25. Januar 1915
http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1330489
6. Münchner neueste Nachrichten: Wirtschaftsblatt, alpine und Sport-Zeitung, Theater- und Kunst-Chronik. 1915 = Jg. 67, General-Anzeiger vom 13.12.1914
David Bachmann
David Bachmann was born in Friesen near Kronach on the 13.11.1860 and died in Munich on the 21.02.1942. He was the son of Hermann Bachmann, salesman and Louise Bachmann, born Krauss. David Bachmann married Rachel Strauss in Regensburg on the 21.06.1892. Their sons Herbert and Siegfried were born in Amberg/Oberpfalz in the years 1893 and 1894. On the 24.10.1906 this family moved from Kronach to Munich where they lived and worked at the Häberlstrasse 15/3 until 1940. On the 20.02.1940 David and Rachel moved to the Herzog-Heinrich-Strasse 8/2. On the 15.10.1940 David Bachmann moved to the Leopoldstrasse 48/0 and on the 01.12.1941 he was placed in the old people’s home of the Jewish Community at the Mathildenstrasse 8. David Bachmann died on the 21.02.1942 at the Hermann-Schmid-Str. 5 at the Israelitische Privatklinik (Hospital), which was closed in June 1942.
Biographisches Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden 1933-1945 und Adressbücher von München.
http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/gedenkbuch/gedenkbuch.html
http://genwiki.de/w/index.php?title=Kategorie:Adressbuch_in_der_DigiBib&from=M
Verzeichnis der gewerbepolizeilich gemeldeten jüdischen Gewerbetreibenden in München (Stand vom 15. Februar 1938) http://www.rijo.homepage.t-online.de/pdf_2/DE_MU_JU_gewerbe.pdf
Inventarverzeichnis aller persönlichen Eigentums oder persönlicher Habe von David Bachmann,
ausgestellt vom Amtsgericht München, Vormundschafts- und Nachlassgericht, Arolsen Archives
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/70119774/?p=1&s=Bachmann%20David&doc_id=70119774
Rachel Bachmann, born Strauss
Rachel Strauss was born in Syracuse, New York, USA on the 23.07.1869 and she died in Munich on the 18.08.1940. She was the daughter of Jakob Strauss, Jeweler in the USA, later trader in Munich, and Lina Weil. Rachel Strauss had two brothers, Moritz Strauss, born in Syracuse on the 04.05.1872 and Samuel Strauss, born in Richfield Springs on the 02.06.1875 and died on 22.06.1939 in Pullach. Rachel Strauss married David Bachmann in Regensburg on the 21.06.1892. Their sons Herbert and Siegfried were born in Amberg/Oberpfalz in the years 1893 and 1894. On the 24.10.1906 this family moved from Kronach to Munich where they lived and worked at the Häberlstrasse 15/3. On the 20.02.1940 they moved to the Herzog-Heinrich-Strasse 8/2.
Biographisches Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden 1933-1945 und Adressbücher von München
http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/gedenkbuch/gedenkbuch.html
http://genwiki.de/w/index.php?title=Kategorie:Adressbuch_in_der_DigiBib&from=M
Censuslists of 1870 in Onondaga and of 1875 in Richfield/Otsego on familysearch
https://www.familysearch.org/ (you need to have an account to view the original documents)
Inventarverzeichnis aller persönlichen Eigentums oder persönlicher Habe von Rahel Bachmann, ausgestellt vom Amtsgericht München, Vormundschafts- und Nachlassgericht, Arolsen Archives
Samuel Semi Strauss
Samuel Strauss was born in Richfield Springs, USA on the 02.06.1875 and he died in Pullach on the 22.06.1939. He was the son of Jakob Strauss, Jeweler in the USA, later trader in Munich, and Lina Weil. Samuel Strauss had one sister, Rachel Bachmann, born in Syracuse/New York on the 23.07.1869 and died in Munich on the 18.08.1940 and one brother, Moritz Strauss, born in Syracuse/New York on the 04.05.1872. Samuel Strauss married Klara Eigner in Mannheim on the 10.04.1913. Klara Eigner was born in Mannheim on the 10.03.1885 and she died in Munich on the 04.05.1939.
The information about this marriage can not only be found in the Gedenkbuch of the Jews of Munich but also in the Jewish Standesbücher in the Hauptstaats-Archives in Stuttgart. On the website of the archives you can find the BMD records of the jewish comunities in Württemberg, Baden and Hohen- zollern from the 18th to the 20th century with the ones from Mannheim. Unfortunately you can only find a register list of the marriages of Mannheim, not the entries with the whole amount of info. So I would appreciate it if someone could give me more info about the parents and ancestors of Klara Eigner.
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Samuel Strauss in the address books / city directories of Munich 1916-1938:
1916-1922: Strauss Samuel, Haarschmuck-Grossgewerbe, Herzog Wilhelm Strasse 21/0, Wohnung Hans-Sachs-Str. 12/3
1923-1926: Strauss Samuel jun., Herzog Wilhelm Strasse 21/0, Wohnung Hans-Sachs-Str. 12/3
1927-1934: Strauss Samuel jun., IR Parfümwaren-Grosshandlung, Häberlstrasse 12/1, Wohnung Hans-Sachs-Strasse 12/3
1935-1938 Strauss Samuel jun., IR Parfümwaren-Grosshandlung, Müllerstrasse 39/1, Wohnung Hans-Sachs-Strasse 12/3
They had one son, Ludwig Jakob Strauss, born in Mannheim on the 27.02.1917. He migrated to France in March 1933 and continued his studies there. He attended the following schools:
1935-1936 Facultés des Lettres, Université Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France
1936-1937 Collège Chaptal, 45bd Boulevard des Batignolles, 8. Arrondissement, Paris
1937-1939 Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris.
The records with information about this schools and his studies in France from 1935 to 1939 are held in the archives of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. I also found a copy of his birth certificate from Mannheim and its translation into French language in this archives.
Ludwig Jakob Strauss was interned in the Camp Tombebouc and Camp de Savaud in Casseneuil (both situated in the Department Lot-et-Garonne). On the 09.09.1942 he was deported on the 30th convoy from Drancy to Auschwitz. It remains unknown to me, if he was one of the young men considered able to work who were taken out of the train in Cosel and were sent to several Arbeitslager in this area. Or if he reached directly the destination Auschwitz and if he was one of the few men who were selected to work or if he was murdered on the same day he arrived in Auschwitz. But it is almost sure that he didn't survive this cruel time.
You'll find the detailed report of the 30th convoy from Drancy to Auschwitz in German language in the sources section below. I'm interested in reports/stories about other people who were on the same convoy from Drancy to Auschwitz.
Moritz Strauss (not Samuel's brother) in the city directories of Munich 1922-1938:
1922-1923 Strauss Moritz, Bankbeamter, Kobellstrasse 1/2
1924-1926 he ist not listed, 1925 not found any Strauss entry
1927 Strauss Moritz, Bankbeamter, Ainmillerstrasse 37/0
1928-1929 Strauss Moritz, Bankbeamter, Finkenstrasse 3/4
1930-1931 Strauss Moritz, Bankbeamter, Andréestrasse 6/2
1932 Strauss Moritz, Bankbeamter, Liebherrstrasse 31
1933-1938 Strauss Moritz, Hotel- und Kücheneinrichtungen, Liebherrstrasse 31
This Moritz Strauss was married to Hedwig Burghardt. They had at least one daughter Ruth Nora who was born in Munich on the 08.01.1928. All three persons travelled on board the S.S. Manhattan from Southampton to New York, where they arrived on the 30.03.1939. On the passengers manifest were mentioned two brothers: F. Strauss at Ventlostreet in Düsseldorf and N. Strauss at Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. In 1940 Morris and Hady Strauss lived at Oakwood Garden Apartment House in Brooklyn, New York. Ruth Nora Strauss died at the Nursing Home at Cedar Village Drive in Mason, Warren County, Ohio on the 26.06.2004. She was buried on New Hope Cemetery in Covedale, Hamilton, Ohio.
Biographisches Gedenkbuch der Münchner Juden 1933-1945 und Adressbücher München
http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/gedenkbuch/gedenkbuch.html
http://genwiki.de/w/index.php?title=Kategorie:Adressbuch_in_der_DigiBib&from=M
Verzeichnis der gewerbepolizeilich gemeldeten jüdischen Gewerbetreibenden in München (Stand vom 15. Februar 1938) http://www.rijo.homepage.t-online.de/pdf_2/DE_MU_JU_gewerbe.pdf
Personenstandsregister der jüdischen Gemeinden in Württemberg, Baden und Hohenzollern
https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=5632
Bestätigung des Selbstmords durch Sturz von der Grosshesseloher Brücke (Arolsen Archives)
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/70038770/?p=1&s=Straus%20Samuel&doc_id=70038770
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/archive/70118541/?p=1&s=Straus%20Samuel&doc_id=70118541
Arrestation dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne en 1939-1945 (Louis Strauss)
http://www.ajpn.org/arrestationdep-47.html
L'Exil des Juifs en Lot-et-Garonne - Venus en zone libre pour échapper à l'enfer Nazi
Mémorial de la Shoah, Documentation, Ressources, Liste originale de convoi de déportation
Friedrich Frédéric Spiro, mit Louis Strauss zusammen von Tombebouc/Casseneuil deportiert.
https://www.gedenkbuch-wuppertal.de/de/person/spiro
Detaillierter Bericht über den Transport Nr. 30 von Drancy nach Auschwitz
Yad Vashem - Zentrale Datenbank der Namen der Holocaust-Opfer
Liste von Deportierten aus Frankreich, Le Mémorial de la déportation
des juifs de France, 1942-1944, Béate et Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=de&itemId=3222321&ind=1
Yad Vashem - Zentrale Datenbank der Namen der Holocaust-Opfer
Verfolgtenliste, Service Européen de Recherches (SER - European Search Service)
Information card used for searching for relatives, France 1940-1946
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=de&itemId=7094770&ind=1
Yad Vashem - Zentrale Datenbank der Namen der Holocaust-Opfer
Liste von ermordeten Juden aus Deutschland, List of Jewish victims from the Memorial book
"Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945", prepared by the German Federal Archives.
https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=de&itemId=11643099&ind=1
Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung vom 15.03.1928 (Ruth Nora Strauss)
http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/titleinfo/2727853
Passagierliste von Southampton nach New York 1939 bei familysearch.org
Volkszählung (Censusliste) von Brooklyn, New York 1940 bei familysearch.org
Ohio Death Index 1908-1932, 1938-1944, 1958-2007 bei familysearch.org
Moritz Strauss and the Mayer Family in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart
Moritz Strauss, born in Syracuse, New York on the 4th May 1872, as son of Jacob and Maslina Strauss, lived on the Wiesbadener Strasse 26 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt on the 17th May 1939. He got married to Clara Mayer on the 19th November 1906. She was born in Cannstatt on the 24th October 1883, as the daughter of Ferdinand and Sannchen Mayer. Moritz and Clara Strauss had two daughers, Martha, born in Munich on the 13th September 1907 and Meta, born in Cannstatt on the 21st April 1909.
The death notice of Ferdinand and Susanne Mayer in "Der Aufbau", a newspaper for emigrants, lists their daughter Clara Strauss, née Mayer, who was living in Palestine back then. Another genealogy researcher in Israel helped me to find their traces in Israel. She found the papers of naturalisation for Clara Strauss, née Mayer, which mention her immigration in 1940 without crossing any border. She possessed a German passport issued in Stuttgart on the 21.02.1940. She arrived in Haifa on the 21.03.1940 and crossed for the first time the borders of Palestine. This documents also mention that her husband Moritz Strauss died shortly after their arrival in Israel, on the 29th March 1940. He is buried on the Sde Yehoshua Military Cemetery in HaHagana, Haifa, Israel. At the time of her naturalisation Clara Strauss, née Mayer lived in Kiryat Binyamin near Haifa, Israel.
https://billiongraves.de/grave/Moriz-Strauss/28927052
I also found the the papers of naturalisation for their daughter Martha Strauss, née 13th September 1907 in Munich. She was unmarried and worked as a clerk and her address was a P. O. Box in Haifa.
She possessed a German passport issued in Stuttgart on the 12.08.1932. She arrived in Haifa on the 13.09.1934 and crossed for the first time the borders of Palestine. Her naturalisation papers are dated with the 26.02.1939, 29.03.1939. 16.04.1939, 18.04.1939 and 25.05.1939. The naturalisation papers for Martha and Clara Strauss are available online on the website of the Israel State Archives.
Ferdinand Mayer, born in Heidelberg-Rohrbach on the 24th July 1856 and his wife Sannchen, born in Hockenheim, Mannheim on the 25th April 1859, lived on the Kirchstrasse 16 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt on the 6th May 1936 and on the Emser Strasse 16 on the 17th May 1939. Parents of Ferdinand: Löb Mayer and Carolina Löwenthal, parents of Sannchen: Samuel Lussheimer (or Sussheimer) and Meta Wirzweiler. Ferdinand and Sannchen had three children: The above mentioned Clara oo Strauss, Ludwig, born on the 16th of April 1885, married to Lucie née Strauss, Cannstatt and Meta, born on the 9th December 1886.
Ludwig Mayer got married to Lucie Strauss on the 12th or the 18th November 1919. Lucie Strauss was born in Cannstatt on the 2nd September 1893 as the daughter of Salomon Strauss and Frida née Neter of Gernsbach, Baden. Ludwig and Lucie Mayer had two daughters: Sara/Lara/Lore/Laura, born on the 20th May 1921 and Gertrud, born on the 30th May 1923. The whole family emigrated from Hamburg to New York on the ship Manhattan on the 6th May 1936. At the time of the census of 1940 this Mayer family lived in Queens, New York. In 1942 Ludwig Mayer worked for the Kops Brothers Inc. on the Rockaway Boulevard, Ozone Park, Queens, New York.
Salomon Strauss, born in Stammheim, Amt Mosbach on the 17th September 1863, got married in Heilbronn on the 21st October 1892 to Frida Neter, born in Gernsbach, Baden on the 13th June 1871. Parents of Salomon: Karl Strauss and Karolina Frank, parents of Frida: Eli Neter and Augusta Sinnauer.
Frieda Strauss travelled in 1937 to her son-in-law Ludwig Mayer, who then lived at 97 Avenue, in Richmond Hill, Long Island. In 1939 she travelled to her son Julius Strauss in the 1197 Elm Avenue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Frieda Strauss née Neter died on the 9th March 1949. She was buried on the Shaarai Shomayim Cemetery in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Salomon and Frida had two children: the above mentionned Lucie and Julius, born in Cannstatt on the 21st July 1899. He got married to Eva Kops and they emigrated to the USA in 1936. Julius und Eva Strauss lived in 1939 at the 1197 Elm Avenue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and in 1949 at the 329 Spencer Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I found both this addresses in the Passenger Manifest of the mother Frieda Strauss née Neter in 1939 on familysearch and in the death notice of the mother in the newspaper "Der Aufbau" vom 18.03.1949. (This was a newspaper for Jewish Emigrants)
Ludwig Strauss of Cannstatt, his wife and two sons also emigrated on the ship Manhattan on the 6th May 1936. At the time of the census of 1940 they lived together with a nephew called Herschmann in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut and Ludwig worked as foreman in the Tobacco Warehouse. In 1942 they lived on the Adams Street 52 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut and Ludwig worked in the General Cigar Company on the Oakwood Avenue and Tolles Street West in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut. Ludwig (18.11.1892-01.08.1967) and Anna Strauss (13.06.1893-08.03.1985) are buried on the Tikvoh Chodoshoh Cemetery in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
Sources for the information about the above mentioned Mayer and Strauss families
In May 1939 all Jewish People who lived in Germany had to be registered in a census.
(Search with surname, maiden name, address, place where they lived, place and date of birth)
https://www.mappingthelives.org/
Records of the Jewish communities in Wurttemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern are online
Births, Marriages, Deaths until 18709/1875, Family Books and Burials until 1939
https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=5632
Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: Documentation of
Jewish tombstones on Jewish cemeteries in Baden-Württemberg
https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=24368
Passenger Manifests of 1936, US-Census of 1940 and World War II Registration Card on
Graves on Tikvoh Chodoshoh Cemetery in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut on
Cemetery entry with picture of the headstone of Frieda Neter Strauss (13.06.1871 - 09.03.1949)
Shaarai Shomayim Cemetery in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/170687651/frieda-n-strauss
Death notices of Susanne Mayer, née Lussheimer and Ferdinand Mayer (Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt) of 14.08.1942 and Frieda Strauss, née Neter (from Bad Cannstatt) of Friday 18.03.1949 in the Jewish newspaper for emigrants "Der Aufbau" are here online:
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper
History of Kiryat Ata in the Haifa District, Kiryat Binjamin has belonged to Kiryat Ata since 1965.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryat_Ata
Personal file of Martha Strauss with correspondence regarding the issuing, renewal, extension of validity and cancellation of a Palestine certificate. 1940-1945
http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/CZA/Pages/OnlineSearch.aspx
Personal file of Moritz and Clara Strauss with correspondence regarding the extension of validity for Palestine Certificates, their wellbeing, and the journey to Palestine. 1939-1940
http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/CZA/Pages/OnlineSearch.aspx
Familien Loeb Mayer and their ancestors in Rohrbach / Heidelberg
This chapter lists the ancestors of above mentionned Ferdinand Mayer. His father Loeb Mayer
was born in Rohrbach/Heidelberg on the 17th August 1814. He died in Rohrbach/Heidelberg on the
4th of September 1868 and was buried on the Jewish cemetery in Wiesloch. He was the son of
Anschel / Anselm Mayer and Edel Simonn and he got married to Karoline Loewenthal.
Karoline Loewenthal was born in Aldingen on the 15th November 1823. She died in Rohrbach/ Heidelberg on the 18th September 1876 and was buried on the Jewish cemetery in Wiesloch. She was the daughter of Veit Loewnthal and Roesle, daughter of Moses Loeb of Walldorf.
Loeb Mayer and Karoline Loewenthal had eight children: Elise (*1848), Dina (*1849), Julie (1852-1927), Anselm Isaak (Jakob) (*1854), später in Cannstatt, Ferdinand (*1856), später in Cannstatt, Max (1858-1898), Rebecka (Ricka) (*1860) und Adolf (Wolf) (1862-1925).
Anschel Moses (Anselm) Mayer was born in Rohrbach/Heidelberg on the 1st October 1779. He died in Rohrbach/Heidelberg on the 13th June 1854 and was buried on the Jewish cemetery in Wiesloch. He was the son of Moses Maier/Mayer and Jendle (Jette) Traumann.
His wife Edel Simon was born in Walldorf in the year 1779. She died in Rohrbach/Heidelberg on the 8th May 1834 and was buried on the Jewish cemetery in Wiesloch. She was the daughter of Loeb Simon and her mother was called Rebecka.
Anschel/Anselm Mayer and Edel Simon had 12 children: David (*1800), Bessle (1802-1861), Bala (*1803), Simon (1805-1893), Blum (Babette) (1806-1862), Tolz (Therese) (1808-1870), Zordal (1810-1893), Jonas (*1811), Loew (1814-1868), Mayer (1816-1816), Rebecka (1818-1889), Hanna (*1822).
Moses Mosche Mayer was born in Rohrbach/Heidelberg on the 20thh October 1752. He died in Rohrbach/Heidelbert on the 20th April 1824 and was buried on the Jewish cemetery in Wiesloch. He was the son of Mayer Moses and got married to Jendle (Jette) Traumann.
Moses Mosche Mayer and Jendle (Jette) Traumann had six children: Anschel (Anselm) Moses (1779-1854), Raphael Moses (1781-1868), Wolf Moses (1783-1861), Isaak (1786-1871), Therese (Dolz) (1790-1858) und Rosina (Roeschen) (1793-1866).
More Information about Ferdinand and Susanne Mayer and the Neter family in Gernsbach
Cannstatter Stolperstein Initiative - Ferdinand and Susanne Mayer
Information about some people in the Jewish community of Bad Cannstatt
(75th birthday of Ferdinand Mayer, Golden Wedding of Ferdinand and Sannchen Mayer)
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/cannstatt_personen.htm
Biography of Nelly Oettinger - a daughter of Anselm Mayer and Fanny Adler
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/images/Images%20185/RiedlingenNellyOettinger1.pdf
Jewish Life in Gernsbach - A search of Jewish traces, written by Irene Schneid-Horn
Chapter 4: Familie Neter war Gernsbach sehr verbunden (Eli Neter und Auguste Sinnauer)
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/images/Images%20327/Gernsbach%20Spurensuche.pdf
Neter Eugen Isaak - childrens doctor and president of the Jewish community of Mannheim
DigiBaeck (Leo Baeck Institute, New York and Berlin) has a few documents of this Neter Family:
Emil Neter Collection 1888-1961
Eugen Neter Collection 1880-1975, Bulk Dates 1939-1974
Eugen Neter, Der jüdische Frontsoldat, Erinnerungen an den 1. Weltkrieg (Jewish Soldiers WWI)
Eugen Neter, Report concerning Jewish people of Baden in the Camp de Gurs (World War II)
https://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/
Emil Neter and wife Hedwig Karoline Reis (Parents Ludwig Reis and Rosa Seligmann)
(Birth Record of Hedwig Karoline Reis, Meldekarte of Mannheim of the Reis Family,
Photo Family Grave Reis, Hauptfriedhof Mannheim (incl. Emil and Hedwig Neter, née Reis)
https://brotmanblog.com/2015/04/29/too-many-missing-pieces-part-ii/
1939 all Jewish people who lived in Germany had to be registered in a census
(There are registered also: Mathilde Neter oo Schlossberger, Clara Haymann oo Oppenheimer,
Amalie Neter oo Behr, Eugen Neter oo Janson, Walter Neter oo Daffing, Emil Neter oo Reis)
https://www.mappingthelives.org/
Passenger Manifests of different European ports to New York 1934-1940 on familysearch
(Julius Neter, Son Erwin Neter (2x), Son Robert Neter (2x), brother Emil Neter oo Reis)
Ancestors and descendants of Eli Neter and Auguste Sinauer in Gernsbach, Baden
https://www.geni.com/people/Eli-Neter/6000000002955206186
Meldekarten of Mannheim on familysearch (Familie Reis)
Newspapers about Erwin and John Neter on Fulton History
Jacob Straus, Jeweler in Syracuse, New York
In October 1859 Jacob Straus applied for citizenship of the United States of America, at an age of more than 21 years. He declared that he has resided within the United States for five years, and for three years after he reached the age of 21 years, and that for three years it has been his intention to become an US Citizen. Abraham Stern and Isaac Saanenberg oder Sonnenberg, two citizens of the United States, testified that Jacob Straus has resided within the United States for at least five years, and within the State of New York one year at least, and that during that time, he has behaved as man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States.
It is unknown to me where Jacob Straus was born and when he travelled first to the United States. The Census lists say, he was born in Württemberg and his wife was born in Baden (Counties in Germany). At he time of the US-Census of 1860 a Jacob Strous lived in the household of Abraham Stern, jeweler in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York. Abraham Stern and his wife Ricka also came from Württemberg and they had three children: Bella, Rachael and Samuel Stern (who was later an attorney or lawyer).1
In the newspapers of Syracuse in the State of New York Jacob Straus is mentioned several times between 1866 and at least 1873.
In January 1866 a Co-partnership was announced between Abraham Stern and Jacob Straus, for the purpose of carrying on a general Jewelry business.2 1868 their business location was at 31 East Genesee Street as it is mentioned in the business directory of Onondaga County, where Syracuse is situated. They were importers and dealers in Watches, Jewelry, Silver ware.3
Also in 1868 Jacob Straus travelled to Europe for some months and visited Germany. In October he came back to Syracuse with his bride or wife, which is not named in the newspapers. Unfortunately they also mention neither her place of birth nor their place of marriage.4
1869 the firm Abraham Stern & Co. moved to a new business location. As the first part of this article is missing, I don’t know their new business address.5 On the census list of 1870 Jakob Straus, his wife Maslina and their daughter Reginal (Rachel) lived in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.6
On February 1873 several newspapers announced the dissolution of the Co-partnership of Abraham Stern and Jacob Straus. Abraham Stern continued to manage the firm at the same business location at South Salina Street, Globe Building in Syracuse.7
Jacob Straus started a new business at Church Street in Richfield Springs. An advertise mentions that he now offers a very large stock of Fine Gold and Silver Foreign Watches of his own importation. American Watches, direct from the manufacturers. Jewelry of every description! Solid Silver and Plated Ware spectacles! First Class Jewelry Store, at greatly reduced prices.8
On the census list of 1875 Jakob Straus and his family still lived in Richfield Springs, Otsego County, New York. Now they had a daughter Rachel and two sons Moris and Samie. Moris was born in Syracuse, Onondaga in 1872 and Samie was born in Richfield Springs, Otsego County in 1875.9
In November 1876 Jacob Straus of the County of Onondaga in the State of New York applied for a passport. He mentioned that he already had obtained a passport on the 6th of March 1868 (but I couldn’t find this passport application). According to the passport application in November 1876 he planned to go abroad with his wife and the three minor children, Rachel (age 7 years), Moriss (age 4 years) and Samuel (age 1 year and 4 months).10
0 New York, County Naturalization Records, 1791-1980, Onondaga,
Petitions for naturalization and petition evidence 1859-1860 www.familysearch.org
1 Censuslists 1860, 1865, 1870 of Syracuse, Onondaga, New York
1 You will find the original documents on www.familysearch.org
2 The Syracuse Daily Journal, Syracuse, New York, Monday Morning, January 15, 1866
3 Gazetteer and business directory of Onondaga County, New York for 1868
4 The Syracuse Daily Journal, Syracuse, New York, Tuesday, October 20, 1868
4 Official Paper of the City and County, Syracuse, Tuesday, October 20, 1868
5 Syracuse Daily Standard, Syracuse, New York, 1869
6 Censuslist 1870 of Syracuse, Onondaga, New York
6 You will find the original document on www.familysearch.org
7 Syracuse Daily Standard, Syracuse, New York, Wednesday, February 5, 1873
8 Richfield Springs Mercury, Richfield Springs, New York, 1867-1884
9 Censuslist 1875 of Richfield Springs, Otsego, New York
9 You will find the original document on www.familysearch.org
10 The Passport Application of 1876 is online on www.familysearch.org
All newspapers and advertisings you can see here http://fultonhistory.com/
Ancestors of David Bachmann in Friesen near Kronach
Parents: Hermann Bachmann was born in Friesen near Kronach on the 24. or 28.07.1828. He was married to Louise Krauss, born in Burgkunstadt. Hermann died in Kronach on the 08.04.1897 and was buried on the Jewish Cemetery in Burgkunstadt (see JewishGen Burial Registry Database).
Louise / Liah Bachmann, née Kraus, was born on the 15. April 1835 in Burgkunstadt, as daughter of Salomon and Sara Kraus. Louise Kraus died on the 2. May 1924 in Rastatt and was buried on the 4. May 1924 also in Rastatt, Baden. Salomon Kraus, the father of Louise / Liah Kraus, died on the 16.06.1847 at the age of 56 years. He was buried on the Jewish Cemetery in Burgkunstadt (see at digibaeck).
Salomon Bachmann, was born on the 11.09.1859 in Friesen near Kronach, as a son of Hermann Bachmann und Louise Kraus. Salomon joined the business of his father in 1886. After the death of his father in 1897 he continued the business on his own. Maybe he is the same Salomon Bachmann who worked for the Schuhfabrik Maintal Philipp Pretzfelder in Burgkunstadt from 1908 to 1915.
Salomon lived on the Merkurstrasse 1 in Rastatt, Baden in 1933 and on the Strasse der SA 22a (today Leopoldring) in Rastatt, Baden on the 17. Mai 1939. Probably he is the same Salomon Bachmann who died in Cannstatt on the 24.09.1939 and who was buried on the Steigfriedhof.
Rosa Bachmann, geb. Pretzfelder, was the wife of Salomon Bachmann. She was born on the 22.11.1865 / 27.11.1865 in Burgkunstadt or Lichtenfels. Rosa lived on the Strasse der SA 22a (heute Leopoldring) in Rastatt, Baden on the 17. Mai 1939. She was deported on the 10.09.1942 from Nürnberg (her last address was Wielandstrasse 6) nach Theresienstadt where she died on the 06.01.1943 in the Krankensaal L514. She had a Kennkarte which was issued by the Landrat in Rastatt.
Heinrich Bachmann, was born on the 14.12.1863 in Friesen near Kronach and he died on the 13.12.1916 in Munich. He was engaged on the 09.02.1897 and got married on the 19. Mai 1897 to Olga Pretzfelder of Regensburg. He worked for Hauser & Sobotka in Munich for more than 30 years.
A Heinrich Bachmann, Salesman lived 1914-1917 on the Sonnenstrasse 11/3 in Munich from 1914 to 1917. Heinrich Bachmann, husband of Olga Bachmann, née. Pretzfelder and father of Fritz Hermann Bachmann died in Munich on the 13.12.1916 at the age of 53 years after a long illness. He was buried on the Ostfriedhof in Munich on the 16. Dezember 1916, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
Olga Pretzfelder, was born on the 08.02.1875, as a daughter of Adolph Pretzfelder, salesman and Jette née. Fechheimer. Olgas parents both lived in Regensburg later in life. A Olga Bachmann, Prokuristenwitwe, lived on the Schubertstrasse 10/2 in Munich from 1918 to 1939. In Mai 1939 Olga Bachmann, née. Pretzfelder lived on the Hiltenspergerstr. 43II right, in Munich.
Fritz H. / B. Bachmann, was born on the 23.05.1898 in Munich, he too lived on the Hiltenspergerstr. 43II right, in Munich in Mai 1939. From the 10.11.1938 to the 11.01.1939 he was interned in Dachau.
Fritz and his mother Olga emigrated to London, England later in the year 1939.
Olga died on the 27.10.1950, Residence: 55 Belsize Park Gardens, London. Fritz B. Bachmann died on the 04.10.1977 in London, both were buried on the Hoop Lane Cemetery. (see JewishGen Worldwide Burial Registry Database).
Hermann’s brother Simon Bachmann was born in Kronach on the 29.10.1836 and he died in Bamberg on the 25.12.1897. He was married to Hedwig Reitzenbeger, she was born in Burgkunstadt on the 28.01.1843 and she died in Bamberg on the 03.04.1920.
In the night from the 8th to the 9th January 1868 a fire broke out in the house Nr. 92 in the higher part of the city which was in possession of the brothers Hermann and Simon Bachmann. This is mentioned in the “Fortgesetzte Chronik der Stadt Cronach” written by Carl Mertel (the Mayor of Cronach).
The Parents of Hermann and Simon were:
David Bachmann, born in Friesen near Kronach in 1792 and died in Burgkunstadt on the 31.12.1859 (buried also in Burgkunstadt) and Mathilde Magdalene Bamberger, born in Burgkunstadt in 1799 and died on the 04.06.1878. She had a sister named Behle Bamberger, born in Burgkunstadt in 1792 who was married to Abraham Hirsch Bachmann, born in Friesen near Kronach in 1788.
More Information about the Bamberger and Bachmann Families
You will find more information about the siblings of Hermann and Simon Bachmann and also the siblings of Mathilde Magdalene Bamberger, their spouses and descendants on the following links:
http://www.lorlebergplatz.de/juden_in_erlangen_II.pdf (Bamberger)
http://sternmail.co.uk/sld/descend.php?personID=I11009&tree=SLtree
If you search on Leo Baeck Institute https://www.lbi.org/
for Burgkunstadt you will find the following reports:
- The Descendants of Salomon Bamberger and Esther Kann, darin zitiert:
History of the Bamberger Families of Burgkunstadt and Mitwitz (H. Loebl)
- Der jüdische Friedhof von Burgkunstadt / Dr. med. Siegfried Rudolph
- The Jewish cemetery at Burgkunstadt, Upper Franconia, Germany
Surveyed, photographed and recorded by Dr. Siegfried Mitwitz
- Street scenes, synagogues and cemeteries in Altenkunstadt,
Burgkunstadt and Württemberg, Germany
Information about Rosa Rosenblatt, the daughter of Simon Bachmann, on page 470 of the Biographisches Handbuch der Würzburger Juden 1900-1945 von Reiner Strätz.
Information about Betty Fried oo Wilhelm Fried in Bamberg, daughter of Simon Bachmann in the Gedenkbuch der jüdischen Bürger Bambergs, Opfer des nationalsozialistischen Terrors, authors:
Antje Yael Deusel und Ortwin Beisbart and also in the database of the KZ Theresienstadt.
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/11042-betty-fried/
Martha Zimmer, née Bachmann, *07.12.1870 Kronach, Oberfranken, Bayern
Place where she lived on the 17.05.1939: Gabelsbergerstr. 5, Fürth, Mittelfranken, Bayern
Date of Death (Suicide): 31.08.1942 / daughter of Simon und Hedwig Bachmann
Wife of David Zimmer (16.02.1857-29.10.1930), son of Abraham and Leah Lotte Zimmer
Children: Albert Zimmer (01.02.1894-1942 Izbica) and Dr. Siegfried Zimmer (21.08.1899-1992 USA)
Die Wechselmatrikel des königlich bayerischen Wechselgerichtes Bamberg
Mit dem Verzeichnis sämtlicher Kauf- und Handelsleute und Rangschiffer der Stadt Bamberg
und aller Wechselgerichte des Königreichs Bayern. Nach amtlichen Quellen zusammengestellt.
8. März 1826: Samuel Joseph Kraus, zu Altenkunstadt. Firma: Samuel Joseph Kraus.
Procura: an seine Ehefrau Lea Kraus.
17. März 1826: Salomon Kraus, zu Burgkunstadt. Firma: Salomon Kraus, ohne Procura.
26. Okt. 1826: Daniel Bachmann zu Küps. Firma: Daniel Bachmann, ohne Procura.
26. Okt. 1826: Abraham Bachmann zu Friesen. Firma: Abraham Bachmann, ohne Procura
26. Okt. 1826: David Bachmann zu Friesen. Firma: David Bachmann, ohne Procura.
„Kataster über israelitische Glaubensgenossen“ aus dem Jahr 1823 in Friesen:
Haus Nr. 49 Abraham Bachmann und seine Ehefrau Babette
Haus Nr. 61 Abraham Bachmann und seine Ehefrau Rosetha, Söhne Abraham, David, Daniel
Haus Nr. 61 David Bachmann, Ehefrau nicht erwähnt, Kinder Abraham und Fanny
Haus Nr. 72 Bis 1820 Manasses Strauss, ab 1823 David Bachmann
1856 waren 20 Häuser des Dorfes Friesen im Besitz der Juden, darunter:
Haus Nr. 49 Salomon Rossmann, Isaak Rauh und David Bachmann
Haus Nr. 52 Hermann Bachmann, lediger Handelsmann, später Salomon Strauss
Haus Nr. 61 David Bachmann und seine Ehefrau Magdalena, geborene Bamberger
Jewish families in Friesen near Kronach in the 18th and 19th century with parts of the
„Kataster über israelitische Glaubensgenossen“ of the year 1823 and list of houses in 1856.
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/images/Images%20408/Friesen%20Lit%20201.pdf