The descendants of Feibel Baruch (Meschulam Feibel Ben Baruch)

FIRST GENERATION :

1.Feibel Baruch (Meschulam Feibel Ben Baruch), from Mansbach, born 1788, he married Marianne Hesse, from Haaren near Paderborn, born about 1797. Feibel and Marianne Baruch had twelve children:

2.Abraham Baruch, born 01.(?) 05.1813 in Niederwildungen

3.Belchen Baruch, born 28.07.1817 in Niederwildungen, dead

4.Jettchen Baruch, born 26.01.1820 in Niederwildungen

+5. Sarchen Baruch, born 31.03.1823 in Niederwildungen

6.Hannchen / Johanna Baruch, born 01.08.1825 in Niederwildungen, she

died 07.12.1918 in Wildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 836, p.2)

+7. Roeschen / Rosalie Baruch, born 25.01.1827 in Niederwildungen

8.Mienchen / Wilhelmine Baruch, born 28.02.1829 in Niederwildungen, she

died 15.10.1903 in Wildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 836, p.2)

+9. Baruch Baruch, born 19.10.1830 in Niederwildungen

10.Isaak Baruch, born 06.03.1833 or 24.05.1833 in Niederwildungen

+11. Gottschalk Baruch, born 13.05.1835 or 19.06.1835 in Niederwildungen

+12. Joseph Baruch, born 27.11.1837 in Niederwildungen, he died 08.11.1905 in

Wildungen. (HHStAWi, 365, No. 836, p.2)

+ 13. Settchen / Lisette Baruch, born 08.04. or 08.08.1840 in Niederwildungen

This list was written on 29.04.1861 in Niederwildungen with the note „Isaak Baruch isn't born on 06. March 1833, but by his own details on 18. October 1835.“ („Isaak Baruch ist nicht geboren am 06. Maerz 1833, sondern nach eigenen Angaben am 18. Oktober 1835.“) - But it seems to be impossible.

(Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden [HHStAWi], Bestand 365, No. 831, p.22, No. 830, p.5)

Feibel Baruch died 05.10.1866 in Niederwildungen, he is buried in Wildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No., 835, p.6, 1866/1)

Marianne Baruch died 12.06.1872 in Niederwildungen, alleged 75 years old,

announced by her son Baruch Baruch. (HHStAWi, 365, No. 835, p. 11, 1872/1)

Feibel and Marianne Baruch had a farmhand (Knecht), Aron Schoendorf, from Haaren near Paderborn, son of Jacob Schoendorf. He was unmarried. He died 24.07.1867 between seven and eight o'clock in the morning, alleged at the age of

101. (HHStAWi, 365 No. 835, p. 7, 1867/2)

SECOND GENERATION :

5.Sarchen /Saara Baruch, born 31.03.1823 in Niederwildungen, she was married to Isaac Levi. Saara Levi died 23.02.1854 in Niederwildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 834, p.4)

7.Roeschen / Rosalie Baruch, born 25.01.1827 in Niederwildungen, she was married first on 21.02.1855 in Niederwildungen to Isaac Levi. He was a son of Moses Levi and the widower of Rosalie' s sister Sarchen. In 1855 Isaac Levi was 67 years old, born about 1788. (HHStAWi, 365, No. 832, p.4)

Rosalie Baruch / Levi was married a second time, after Isaac Levi died, on 24.04.1862 in Alt Wildungen to Georg Eckhardt, born 17.04.1836 in Niederwildungen. Rosalie Eckhardt died 15.07.1904 in Niederwildungen, Georg Eckhardt died 04.01.1922 in Bad Wildungen.

9.Baruch Baruch, 19.10.1930 in Niederwildungen, he married on 28.03.1865 in Niederwildungen Rosette Weinberger, born 01.04.1841 in Wuestensachsen, daughter of Hirsch Weinberger and his wife Giedelle, nee Seligmann.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 833, p. 2, 1865/2) Baruch and Rosette Baruch had a daughter:

+ 14. Pauline Bertha Baruch, born 23.12.1865 in Niederwildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 831, p. 8, 1865/3)

Rosette Baruch died on 27.12.1865 in Niederwildungen at the age of 24.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 835, p.5, 1865/1) Baruch Baruch married a second time Fanny

Wiesengrund, born about 1857 in Dettebach, died 27.06.1887 in Niederwildungen Baruch Baruch died 25.10.1890 in Niederwildungen. (HHStAWi, 365, No. 836, p.3)

11.Gottschalk Baruch, born 13.05.1835 in Niederwildungen, he married on 04.12.1867 in Kassel Jette / Henriette Wiesner, born 18.12.1842 in Kassel, daughter of Jacob Wiesner and his wife Rebecca, nee Katzenstein.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 833, p. 3, 1867/2) Gottschalk and Henriette Baruch had three children:

15.Pauline Baruch, born 01.11.1868 in Niederwildungen

16.Bertha Baruch, born 10.06.1870 in Niederwildungen

17.Clara Baruch, born 10.04.1872 in Niederwildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 831, p. 11, 1868/5, p. 13, 1870/5, p.15, 1872/2)

12.Joseph Baruch, born 27.11.1837 in Niederwildungen, he married on 24.08.1869 in Niederwildungen Jenny Rothschild, daughter of Kalmann Rothschild and his wife Jettchen, nee Neuhaus from Herleshausen near Eisenach. Joseph and Jenny Baruch had six children:

+18. Ferdinand Baruch, born 11.05.1871 in Niederwildungen

20.Mathilde Baruch, born 26.12.1873 in Niederwildungen, she was married on 26.10.1897 in Niederwildungen to Joseph Rosenberg, born 11.01.1873 in Dorstfeld near Dortmund.

21.Frida Baruch, born 06.08.1876 in Niederwildungen. She was married on 23.05.1900 in Niederwildungen to David Levy, born 13.12.1865 in Borken.

22.Berthold Baruch, born 27.12.1877 in Niederwildungen. He married on 09.03.1906 in Kreuznach Paula Rothschild, born 15.08.1881 in Kreuznach, daughter of Joseph Rothschild and his wife Jenny, nee Jacobi. Berthold and Paula Baruch were the owner of the „Palasthotel“ in Bad Wildungen, Brunnenallee 23. They had two sons:

33.Erich Joseph Baruch, born 24.12.1907 in Bad Wildungen, he died 02.11.1922 in Bad Wildungen by pneumonia.

+34. Werner Baruch, born 17.01.1911 in Bad Wildungen.

Berthold and Paula Baruch lost their hotel at the end of 1938 and were forced to leave Bad Wildungen in November 1939 and moved to Kassel. They lived in Weissenburgstrasse 6 and from 15.10.1941 in Schillerstrasse 7. On 09.12.1941 they were deported from Kassel to Riga.

(Namen und Schicksale der Juden Kassels 1933-1945. a.a.O., p. 179/180)

Their son Werner Baruch wrote in a testimony that they were murdered in the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga in April 1943.

23.Rosalie Baruch, born 22.07.1880 in Niederwildungen. She was married on 12.04.1907 in Kassel to Siegmund Bachmann, born 25.03.1883 in Kassel,

son of Joseph Bachmann and his wife Mathilde, nee Eichenberg.

(Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 511)

Rosalie and Siegmund Bachmann had five children:

+35. Edith Pia Margarethe Bachmann, born 10.06.1906 in Kassel

36.Hans Bachmann. born 18.01.1907 in Kassel

37.Philipp Joseph Bachmann, born 18.01.1908 in Kassel

+38. Regina Ruth Bachmann, born 22.08.1909 in Kassel

39.Fritz Bachmann, born 11.08.1910 in Kassel.

(Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 154, 156, 158, 160, 162.)

The Bachmann family moved from Kassel to Gera. Siegmund Bachmann was arrested on 10.11.1938 in Buchenwald and deported together with his wife Rosalie and his mother Mathilde Bachmann on 20.09.1942 from Weimar - Leipzig to Theresienstadt. Mathilde Bachmann died on 26.12.1942 in Theresienstadt, Siegmund Bachmann died on 13.04.1944 in Theresienstadt and Rosalie Bachmann was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz on

09.10.1944. (http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch)

24.Helene Bachrach, born 28.04.1870 in Niederwildungen. First she lived in the house of her sister Alma Recha and Sally Hirsch in Brunnenstrasse 3. Later she was married to Emil Berger, born on 27.01.1870 in Mayen. Helene and Emil Berger moved to Gelsenkirchen. They were deported on 27.01.1942 from

Gelsenkirchen to Riga and killed there.

(Hier wohnte … Stolpersteine in Bad Wildungen. a.a.O., p.14, http://bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch)

25.Alma Recha Bachrach, born 20. or 21.05.1871 in Niederwildungen. She was married to Sally Hirsch, born 16.07.1875 in Wellen. They took over the shop of Aaron Bachrach in Brunnenstrasse 3. Alma and Sally Hirsch had four daughters:

+40. Alice Hirsch

+41. Flora Hirsch

+42. Hertha Amalie Hirsch, born 28.04.1903 in Bad Wildungen

+43. Sidonie Hirsch, born 04.02.1907 in Bad Wildungen.

(Hier wohnte.... Stolpersteine in Bad Wildungen. a.a.O., p.14)

Alma Recha Hirsch died on 06.03.1938 in Bad Wildungen, Sally Hirsch died on 21.08.1938 in Bad Wildungen.

(HHStAWi, 365, No. 836, p. 3)

FOURTH GENERATION :

34.Werner Baruch, born 17.01.1911 in Bad Wildungen. He studied medicine in Wuerzburg. After the 09.11.1938 he was arrested in Buchenwald for three and half weeks.(Prisoner-No. 2562). Later he took part in the Hachschara camp in Blankenese to learn agriculture and emigrated on 07.03.1939 to Palestine. First he was working in a Kibbuz, then as a waiter and later he opened his own cafe. He married on 27.03.1947 in Tel Aviv Rena Wolf, born 20.07.1916 in Bickenbach. Werner and Rena Baruch have a two children:

44. Ruth Paula Baruch, born 1949. She lives in Haifa.

Werner Baruch died in 1996 in Haifa.

(Johannes Groetecke: Spurensuche. a.a.O., p. 15/16., ders.: Ehemalige Bad Wildunger Juden und ihre Kinder im Interview. a.a.O., p.4/5.)

35. Edith Pia Margarethe Bachmann, born 10.06.1906 in Kassel, she was married on 30.06.1934 in Kassel to Julius Lebrecht, born 10.07.1904 in Schoellkrippen.

(Helmut Thiele,.a.a.O., p. 582)

38.Regina Ruth Bachmann, born 22.08.1909 in Kassel, she was a gymnastics trainer, she was married on 05.05.1917 in Kassel to Siegfried Weingarten, born 13.05.1897 in Kassel, son of Moses Weingarten and his wife Johanette, nee Krautkopf. Siegfried and Regina Ruth Weingarten had a son:

45. Peter Weingarten, born 31.01.1933 in Kassel.

Regina Ruth, Siegfried, Peter Weingarten and Siegfried's sister Silna Weingarten emigrated on 20.11.1937 into the USA. Siegfried's parents Moses and Johanette Weingarten followed them on 18.12.1838 to New York.

(Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 194, 533, 736)

40.Alice Hirsch, she emigrated into the Netherlands and moved after war in the USA.

41.Flora Hirsch, she moved to Worms and was married to Albert Zadok Herz, born 12.11.1888 in Obertiefenbach/Oberlahnkreis. Flora and Albert Herz lived in Worms and in Duisburg. They had a daughter:

46.Suse Herz, married Rosenstock. She lived in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. She wrote on 17.12.1972 a testimony for her father.

Albert Zadok Herz was deported on 25.07.1942 from Duesseldorf to Theresienstadt, where he perished 06.10.1942. Flora Herz and her daughter Suse emigrated into the USA.

(Hier wohnte …, Stolpersteine in Bad Wildungen., p.14., http.//www. Bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch)

42. Hertha Amalie Hirsch, born 28.04.1903 in Bad Wildungen. She was married to N. N. Frank. She emigrated into the Netherlands and was deported to Auschwitz. She was killed there on 22.10.1942.

(Hier wohnte … Stolpersteine in Bad Wildungen. a.a.O., p.14., http://db.yadvashem.org)

43.Sidonie Hirsch, born 04.02.1907 in Bad Wildungen. She was married to N. N. Meyer. She emigrated into the Netherlands and was deported to Auschwitz, where she was killed on 22.10.1942.

Sources:

Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, Bestand 365, No. 831 – 836 Bad Wildungen

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch

Namen und Schicksale der Juden Kassels 1933-1945. Ein Gedenkbuch. Kassel 1986

Helmut Thiele: Die juedischen Einwohner zu Kassel 1700-1942. Familiennamen und Adressen. Als Manuskript vervielfaeltigt. Kassel 2006.

Hier wohnte … Stolpersteine in Bad Wildungen. Redaktion Johannes Groetecke. Bad Wildungen o.J.

Johannes Groetecke: Spurensuche. Ein Rundgang über den juedischen Friedhof in Bad Wildungen. Bad Wildungen 2003.

Johannes Groetecke: Ehemalige Bad Wildunger Juden und ihre Kinder im Interview. Begleitheft zur Ausstellung. Bad Wildungen 2012.

http://db.yadvashem.org

blue: From Menfred Huelsebruch, Stadtarchiv Bad Wildungen, Stammbaum Baruch - fragmentarisch.

Compiled by Hans-Peter K l e i n

Melsungen, September 2013