Faces of the Community
In the
aftermath of the watershed events of the revolution
of 1848 and the
decline of absolutism, a disproportional large
number of Jewish emigrants
left poverty and the relatively parochial confines
of the province Posen during the
period 1850–1880. During this period Schneidemühl’s
Jewish community
also began to lose a fair number of their members to
emigration.
Photographs - in memory of some members of the kehila.
Akiba
(Kiewe) Rosenberg,
son of Judas and Rosalie
Rosenberg, née...?
1795 - 26 August 1879 in Schneidemühl -
husband of Mirjam
(Marge)
Rosenberg,
Mirjam (Marge) Rosenberg,
daughter of Mine Zander, née ...?,
1804 in Schönlanke - 22 June 1875 in
Schneidemühl -
wife of Akiba (Kiewe)
Rosenberg.
The couple's three sons Isidor, Joseph and
Marcus immigrated to
Amerika.
.
(Paintings and family
heirlooms, dated 1864 - courtesy of
Steve Gradus,
Milwaukee, WI, USA)
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Johanna Simonstein, née Lewin,
1835-1897,
wife of Isidor Simonstein, emigrated from
Schneidemühl
in 1865 with her husband and
three children and settled
in Australia, where the family prospered and
expanded,
establishing a new branch of the Simonstein
family.
.
(Photo courtesy of E. Davis,
Sydney, Australia )
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Dr.
Hermann Heymann, 1871-1933,
well-known veterinarian in Schneidemühl.
.
(Photo
courtesy
of F. Ephraim, Washington DC)
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Siegmund Jacob, 1867-1941,
well established grain merchant and prominent
figure in the community,
died in Berlin.
.
(Photo courtesy M. Cohen,
Philadelphia)
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Selma Simonstein, née Anschel, 1882-1942,
widow of Adolf Simonstein. Selma was deported to
Sobibor where she was murdered.
.
(Photo courtesy M. Cohen,
Philadelphia)
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Fritz
Simonstein, 1911-1942, -
son of Adolf and Selma Simonstein. Forbidden to
practice law in Germany, he immigrated to
Holland. Caught by the Gestapo
he was sent him to Westerbork and deported to
Auschwitz; murdered in 1942.
.
(Photo courtesy M. Cohen,
Philadelphia)
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Richard Rosenberg, 1893-1945,
son of clothing merchant Jacob Rosenberg,
emigrated with family in 1937 and
settled in Santiago, Chile.
.
(Photo courtesy J. Rosenberg,
Santiago)
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Dr. Emil Mislowitzer, 1868-1914,
well loved physician and respected member of
the kehillah.
He died during the First World War.
.
(Photo
courtesy
P. Mylon, USA)
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Emil Jacob, 1897-1982,
son of Siegmund and Selma Jacob, grain merchant He
emigrated with wife and two children in 1937 and
settled in Philadelphia.
.
(Photo
courtesy M. Cohen, Philadelphia)
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Gustav Simonstein, 1870-1907,
eldest son of Salomon and Esther Simonstein
(grandfather of this webmaster) one of the oldest
merchant families of the community.
.
(Photo courtesy P. S. Cullman,
Toronto)
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Mentheim Schleimer,
prominent clothing merchant, was
deported to Sachsenhausen during
the 1938 November
pogrom.
He was murdered in 1939.
.
(Photo courtesy R. Schleimer, London)
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Auguste Schleimer, née Jakubowski,
1878-1942,
widow of Mentheim Schleimer,
was deported to the Riga Ghetto where
she was murdered in 1942.
.
(Photo courtesy R. Schleimer, London)
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