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.
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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 four sons Aaron, 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, n e Lewin,
1835-1897,
wife of Isidor Simonstein, emigrated from
Schneidem hl
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 Schneidem hl.
.
(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, n e 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.
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(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.
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(Photo courtesy R. Schleimer, London)
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Auguste Schleimer, n e Jakubowski,
1878-1942,
widow of Mentheim Schleimer,
was deported to the Riga Ghetto where
she was murdered in 1942.
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(Photo courtesy R. Schleimer, London)
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