Meier Rothschild’s son Theodor Rothschild and His Family: How and Where did They Survive the Holocaust? And Who Was Willie Weisbecker? Although it was hard to find much about the life of Berthold Rothschild and his family after the Nazis came to power in Germany, I was able to scratch together some basics: the death of his ex-wife in a Nazi-run hospital in Herborn, his death in South Africa, his profession (photographer), the marriage of his daughter Adelheid to Manson Samson at Westerbork, and the young couple’s survival of their time in Nazi concentration camps.

Meier #Rothschild, Part III: Theodor Rothschild and family #monaco #blumenfeld #france #willieweisbecker

Meier Rothschild’s His Son Berthold And An Important Lesson about AI Although I had a fairly easy time locating the names, birth dates, marriages, and children of the five children of Meier Rothschild and Bertha Lorge and I knew that all five lived beyond World War II, I have had a much harder time finding information about how they survived the Holocaust—did they leave in time or did they get sent to the camps?

Meier #Rothschild's His Son Berthold And An Important Lesson about #AI #chatgpt #blumenfeld #holocaust #bergenbelsen

Meier Rothschild, Part I: Marriage and Children and Grandchildren Returning to the Blumenfeld saga, I am now up to the youngest child of Gelle Blumenfeld and Simon Rothschild, their son Meier, born in Zimmersrode, Germany, on May 9, 1861. On January 6, 1889, Meier married Bertha Lorge, the daughter of Salomon Lorge and Hannchen Eichenberg in Harmuthsachsen, Germany, where Bertha was born on April 14, 1863. Meier and Bertha had five children, all of whom not only survived to adulthood but survived the Holocaust, just as their first cousins, the…

Meier #Rothschild, Part I: Marriage and Children #blumenfeld #genealogy

Sarah Rothschild Adler’s Lost Grandchildren As we saw, by 1940 all of the eight surviving children of Sara Rothschild and Moses Adler were out of Germany and living in the US, the five youngest all living in Chicago: Grete Caroline, Malchen, Emmi, David Theodore, and Betti Jenny. And all of Sara and Moses' grandchildren were also safely out of Germany---except the children of David Theodore and their mother Emma Suss.

Sarah #Rothschild #Adler's Lost Grandchildren #blumenfeld #chicago #holocaust

Die Liebe zur Damenkonfektion
ist in den Fotos von #Blumenfeld
doch sehr deutlich erkennbar !
Wenn ich nicht wüsste, wann er
diese Fotos gemacht hat, ich würde
sie doch jüngerer Zeit zuschreiben !

Sara and Moses’ Chicago Five in the 1940s: Becoming US Citizens As of 1940, the five youngest of the eight surviving children of Sara Rothschild and Moses Adler—Caroline Grete, Malchen, Emmi, Betty Jennie, and David Theodore— were all living in Chicago. The 1940s saw them become US citizens and saw many of their children marry. Grete’s son Kurt Mandelstein registered for the US draft on October 16, 1940, before he was even a US citizen.

Sara and Moses' #Chicago Five in the 1940s: Becoming US Citizens #adler #rothschild #blumenfeld #naturalization

Sara and Moses Adler’s Younger Children: The Chicago Five As of 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany, five of Sara Rothschild and Moses Adler’s surviving children were still living in Germany: Caroline (Grete), Malchen, Emmi, David Theodore, and Betty. Their oldest three children—Louis, Sigmund, and Julius—had long ago emigrated to the United States. Fortunately, all five of those still in Germany were able to leave in time.

Sara and Moses #Adler's Younger Children: The #Chicago Five #holocaust #nazis #germany #immigration #blumenfeld #rothschild

Julius Adler, Part IV: Did I Have the Wrong Guy or Not? More Confusion! As we saw in the last post, the 1940s saw all the children of Julius Adler married except for one, Julius' second child with his first wife Edith, his daughter Chrystal. Chrystal married Oliver Kenneth Boyd on October 20, 1955, according to one tree on Ancestry, and they had one child.1 While Chrystal was beginning married life, her brother Roland’s marriage to Verna Pataky seems to have ended sometime after 1957.

Julius #Adler, Part IV: Did I Have the Wrong Guy or Not? More Confusion! #rothschild #blumenfeld #stlouis

Julius Adler, Part III: Were He and Minnie Still Married in the 1940s?? We saw at the end of the last blog post that in 1940 Julius Adler and his wife Minnie were living almost 300 miles apart—-Julius on a farm in Leavenworth, Kansas, and Minnie in St. Louis with their three children. Two of Julius’ children from his first marriage—Roland and Irene—were married and living with their spouses, also in St. Louis. I could not locate Chrystal, the third child from Julius’ first marriage on the 1940 census or anywhere else between 1930 and 1940.

Julius #Adler, Part III: His Life and That of His Family in the 1940s #blumenfeld #rothschild #missouri #stlouis

Julius Adler, Part II: Another Restless Brother Relying on the assumption that Julius Adler was in fact the brother of Louis and Sigmund Adler and was born Joseph Adler, I will now continue to tell the story of his life from 1920 to 1940. We know that in 1920 Julius was living in Leavenworth, Kansas, with his older brother Louis, that he was a widower, and that he had three young children, Roland, Chrystal, and Irene.

Julius #Adler, Part II: Another Restless Brother #blumenfeld #rothschild #kansas #censussymbols

Julius J. Adler, Part I: Was His Birth Name Joseph? The third son of Sara Rothschild and Moses Adler, Joseph, was born on July 28, 1887, in Niedermeiser, Germany, and as I mentioned in my first post about Sara’s family, I could not find any further documentation of the existence of this son other than his birth record: I searched for a Joseph Adler in US and German records but failed to come up with anyone who was a definite or even a likely match.

Julius J. #Adler, Part I: Was His Birth Name Joseph? #wisconsin #blumenfeld

Sigmund Adler, A Life Dedicated to the Young Compared to the rather tumultuous life of his older brother Louis, the life of Sara Rothschild and Moses Adler’s second child Sigmund seems relatively uneventful, but not without its own drama. And it started even earlier in Sigmund’s life. He was sent off at the age of twelve to live with an uncle in the United States; he arrived even earlier than his older brother Louis.

Sigmund #Adler, A Life Dedicated to the Young #YMCA #HartfordCT #Blumenfeld #Rothschild #Ishpeming #Beloit #Wisconsin

Louis Adler, Continued: More Troubles in the 1930s My last post before Thanksgiving about Louis Adler stirred a lot of interest. Many wondered why he got into so much legal trouble: was it discrimination? Was it economic desperation? Was it just his nature? We don't know. Two readers went above and beyond and did their own research, looking for answers. Linda Stufflebean, a fellow genealogy blogger who writes the blog…

Louis #Adler, Continued: More Troubles in the 1930s #prohibition #blumenfeld #leavenworthkansas

Louis Adler, A Man with Many Legal Troubles Sara Rothschild Adler’s first child was her son Louis, born on December 4, 1884, in Niedermeier, Germany. Louis was just a teenager when he left home and immigrated to the United States. I could not find a passenger ship manifest for Louis despite hours of searching, but according to the 1910 census1 he arrived in 1900 when he was going on sixteen years old.

Louis #Adler, A Man with Many Legal Troubles #rothschild #blumenfeld #kansas #legaltroubles

Sara Rothschild Adler, Part I: Ten Children in Seventeen Years Having completed the story of Malchen Rothschild Rosenblatt, I will now move on to the tenth child of Gelle Blumenfeld and Simon Rothschild, their daughter Sara. Fortunately her family has happier stories than those of some of her siblings. Sara Rothschild was born on either January 6, 1859, or January 3, 1860, in Waltersbrueck, Germany. Her marriage and death records indicate the January 3, 1860, date, but there was no record of her birth on that date in the archives for Waltersbrueck.

Sara #Rothschild #Adler, Part I #grebenstein #niedermeier #blumenfeld

Zooming with My Cousin Julio Rosenblatt in Uruguay Since it's been a while since I wrote about the Blumenfeld clan, let me recap where I was. I was writing about the family of Malchen Rothschild, the ninth child of Gelle Blumenfeld and Simon Rothschild. Malchen and her husband Daniel Rosenblatt had seven children, one of whom died as a child (Betti) and one, Julius, who died in 1920 as a thirty-six year old newlywed whose wife Julie Rosenblatt had just recently given birth to their son, Manfred or Friedel/Fredi (hereinafter "Fredi.")

Zooming with My Cousin Julio #Rosenblatt in #Uruguay #holocaust #blumenfeld #rothschild #montevideo

#mohnblumen #poppies #wildflowers #naturelovers #redflowers #blumenfeld #naturephotography #flowerpower #naturewalks #landscapephotography #summermood #naturpur

Malchen Rothschild Rosenblatt, Part II: Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die Of the five children of Malchen Rothschild and Daniel Rosenblatt who were still living when Hitler came to power in 1933, only two survived, the two sons Felix and Siegmund. Their three daughters—Julchen/Julie, Jette/Thekla, and Auguste--were all murdered by the Nazis. Julchen/Julie and her husband Max Wolf were first deported from Kassel to the Riga ghetto on the December 9, 1941, transport…

Malchen #Rothschild #Rosenblatt, Part II: Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die #holocaust #blumenfeld #argentina

Ein Feld, bis hin zum Horizont, voll mit Sonnenblumen.

"Halte dein Gesicht der Sonne zugewandt, dann kannst du die Schatten nicht sehen."

Helen Keller (1880 -1968)

#Sonnenblume #Sonnenblumen #Blumen #Sonnenblumenfeld #Blumenfeld #Sonne

Clara Rothschild and Moritz Katz, Part IV: Their Family and Their Life after World War II By early 1946, both Otto and Hal Katz had returned home from service in World War II, and life began to return to normal. Otto returned to his job at the Kenneth Miller Company (later Custom Bed Covers), where he worked for the rest of his career, eventually buying the company.1 Otto married Edith Alexander on June 27, 1948. Edith, like Otto, was a refugee from Nazi Germany.

Clara #Rothschild and Moritz #Katz, Part IV: Their Family and Their Life after World War II #blumenfeld #

Clara Rothschild Katz and Her Family, Part II: Life in America After Moritz Katz and his fifteen year old son Otto arrived in New York in August, 1937, they shared a furnished room in the Bronx that they rented from some cousins of Moritz. Moritz started working in a meat processing plant, and Otto, who was fifteen, went to school during the day and worked at a grocery store after school. In an interview with his daughter Judy in 2000, Otto told her that he didn’t know any English, and the teacher, who would occasionally speak to him in German, was not a good teacher and didn’t care if the students learned or understood the material.

Clara #Rothschild #Katz and Her Family, Part II: Life in America #blumenfeld

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Auguste Rothschild Feldheim: Another Life Destroyed As I move on now to the next child of Gerson Rothschild and Fanny Kugelmann, I am struck by the differences in the fates of their eight surviving adult children. Siegmund and his wife and all his children left Germany in time to escape death at the hands of the Nazis. Katchen and her husband and son were all killed by the Nazis.

Auguste #Rothschild #Feldheim #holocaust #blumenfeld #jonastiefenbrunner #belgium

Max Rothschild: Escape to Argentina Fortunately, the story of the third child of Gerson Rothschild and Fanny Kugelmann, their son Max, does not end as tragically as that of his sister Katchen. Max was born in 1886, and, as we saw, he married Johanna Katz on October 19, 1919, in Zimmersrode, Germany. They had three sons, Erich, Fritz, and Richard. According to his marriage record, Max was a merchant in Zimmersrode.

Max #Rothschild: Escape to #Argentina
#Blumenfeld #holocaust

Katchen Rothschild Hirschberg: A Family Destroyed The second oldest child of Gerson Rothschild and Fanny Kugelmann was their daughter Katchen, born in 1885 in Waltersbrueck. As we saw, she married Adolf Hirschberg in 1914, and they had one child, a son Ludwig born in 1920. According to their marriage record, Adolf was a merchant and a butcher. They were living in Kassel, Germany, when Ludwig was born in 1920.

Katchen #Rothschild #Hirschberg #Blumenfeld #Holocast #Riga #kassel

Siegmund Rothschild: Escape from Nazi Germany It's been a few weeks since I wrote about the family of Gelle Blumenfeld Rothschild, given the breaks for some updates, Passover, and our trip to England. Today I return to Gelle's story, specifically the story of her son Gerson Rothschild. In my last post about Gerson, we saw he died in 1930 and was survived by his wife Fanny Kugelmann and eight children.

Siegmund #Rothschild: Escape from #Nazi Germany #Holocaust #Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969)
“Wet Veil”, Paris, 1937
#photography #ErwinBlumenfeld #Blumenfeld #veil

Gelle Blumenfeld Rothschild’s Middle Children: Isaak, Gitel, and Betty Returning now to the Blumenfeld branch of my family tree, it’s time to see where I am in that saga. I am still on the oldest child of my four-times great-grandparents Abraham Blumenfeld and Geitel Katz—-their son Moses I. I have completed the stories of Moses’ first two children, Abraham IIA and Isaac I, and have been working through the children of Moses’ youngest child, his daughter Gelle Blumenfeld Rothschild.

Gelle #Blumenfeld #Rothschild's Middle Children: Isaak, Gitel, and Betty #genealogy #germany #zimmersrode

Aron Rothschild: An Elusive Subject Returning now to the story of Gelle Blumenfeld Rothschild's son Moses Rothschild, this post is about his youngest child, Aron Rothschild. We've already seen that Aron married Martha Schoenholz in 1918 and that they had a son Melville born in 1919. In 1920 Aron was in his own business selling beads and novelties. Finding Aron after 1920 proved to be a challenging search.

Aron #Rothschild: An Elusive Subject #genealogy #blumenfeld #censusrecords