Momma's arc 1930-1945

The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.

Ehrenberg-Rosenzweig Family Collection 1772-1930

The collection contains correspondence among members of the Ehrenberg and Rosenzweig families, including letters from Franz Rosenzweig, Adam Rosenzweig and Richard Ehrenberg, as well as with other parties, including Leopold Zunz, Adelheid Zunz, Claire von Gluemer, and Heinrich Heine (copies only). Also included are engagement contracts, marriage banns, school curricula and certificates, character references, eulogies, family histories, and other documents concerning family members. This material also reflects much of the history of the Samsonschule in Wolfenbuettel of which members of the Ehrenberg family were principals.

[The Rosenthal family from Münchholzhausen] 1868-1957

Vital records (originals and translations) and a family tree of the descendents of the cobbler Moses Rosenthal (1820-1896) and his wife Hannchen Stern (1815-1868) from Münchholzhausen, Germany.

Lindley Family Collection 1907-1988

Charts of the various families related to the Lindley family: Lipschitz, Heimann, Edinger, Hochstaedter, Goldschmidt, Jakobson, Braunschweig.

Rosalie Unger Collection 1856-1990

Two letters to Rosalie Unger in Oppeln (today Opole, Poland) from Adolf Heilborn and Berta Neustadt (née Fraenkel); and one letter to Max Neustadt from Leopold Rosenbaum (all photocopies). Also included is an explanatory letter from Harvey P, Newton.

Joseph Molling with wife Margarete "Gretchen" nee Benjamin and son Peter on a walk.

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Studio portrait of Hermann (Lazar Hirsch) Judey, his father Joseph (Mitskun) Judey, and Hermann's cousin Vladimir (Valodya) Barosin seated around a chess table; Riga Portraits Family

Hermann (Lazar Hirsch) Judey, born 1878 Riga and died 1959 New York; Joseph (Mitskun) Judey, born 1854 Vilna and died 1931 Berlin

Joseph Molling with wife Margarete "Gretchen" nee Benjamin and son Peter on a walk.

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Karl Gottschalk and Elisbeth nee Steinfeld with their son Rudolf Gottschalk (later Grahame) and son Fritz Gottschalk (Levy) of Lisbeth's first marriage.

Rudolf Gottschalk (later Grahame) on right; Fritz Gottschalk (Levy) on left

Karl Gottschalk and Elisbeth nee Steinfeld with their son Rudolf Gottschalk (later Grahame) and son Fritz Gottschalk (Levy) of Lisbeth's first marriage.

Rudolf Gottschalk (later Grahame) on right; Fritz Gottschalk (Levy) on left

Portrait of Josef with his son Peter Molling.

Badly faded picture of Peter Molling, left, and his father, Josef Molling