The Buxbaum Family from Roemersberg, Kerstenhausen and Rennertehausen

FIRST GENERATION :

1. Salomon Buxbaum, he had two children:

+ 3. Roeschen Buxbaum, born about 1810 in Roemersberg

+ 4. Joseph Buxbaum, born in Novmeber 1812 or 1814 in Roemersberg.

(www.lagis-hessen.de Jewish Gravesites)

2. Beile Buxbaum, she had an illegitimate son:

+ 5. Joseph Buxbaum, born 22.03.1823 in Roemersberg. (Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 231)

SECOND GENERATION :

3. Roeschen Buxbaum, she was a single, she had an illegitimate son:

+ 6. Daniel Buxbaum, born 08.11.1843 in Roemersberg.

(Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden, HHStAWI 365, No. 884 wedding register Zimmersrode)

Roeschen Buxbaum died 06.04,1873 in Römersberg at the age of 63 ½ years. She is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Haarhausen (Borken), grave no. 198.

(HHStAWI 365, no. 896 death register Zimmersrode no. 129. LAGIS, Jewish Gravesites, Buxbaum)

4. Joseph Buxbaum, born in November 1812 or 1814 in Roemersberg, butcher. He married on 15.05.1842 in Wehrda Bina / Bienchen Wertheim, 30 years old, born about 1812 in Wehrda/Fulda, daughter of Hirsch Eertheim and his wife Marga. Joseph and Bina Buxbaum had three chirdren:

+ 7. Gietel Buxbaum, born 12.?.1848 in Roemersberg

+ 8. Salomon Buxbaum, born 07.06.1851 in Roemersberg

+ 9. Mirjam Buxbaum, born 1854 in Roemersberg.

(HHStAWI 365, no. 894 birtth register Zimmersrode no., 98,112)

Bina Buxbaum died 10.12.1865 in Roemersberg. She is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 130. Joseph Buxbaum died 26.06.1877 at the age of 66 in Roemersberg. He is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 180.

(HHStAWI 365, no. 896 death register Zimmersrode, no. 106,140. LAGIS Jewish Gravesites, Buxbaum)

5. Joseph Buxbaum, born 22.03.1823 in Roemersberg, industrial worker. He married on 05.10.1856 Zerline Schuster, born 20.01.1823 in Eckardrode/Schlüchtern, illegitimate daughter of Hanne Schuster. (HHStAWI 365, no. 884, wedding reister Zimmersrode, no. 41,. Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p.409.)

Joseph and Zerline Schuster hat a son:

10. Heinemann/Heinrich Buxbaum, born 14.07.1857 in Roemersberg, he lived in Kassel

(HHStAWI 365, no. 894 birth register Zimmersrode, no. 128, Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 97)

Joseph Buxbaum died 04.05.1864 of pneumonia at the age of 43 in Kassel. He is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Kassel-Bettenhausen, grave no. A 087. Zerline Buxbaum died 20.01.1892 or 1895 in Kassel. She is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Kassel-Bettenhausen, grave no, A 088.

(HHStAWI 365, no. 896 death register Zimersrode, no. 100. 365, no.502 death register Kassel, no. 405. LAGIS, Jewish Gravesites, Buxbaum. Helmut Thiele a.a.O., p.231,260.)

THIRD GENERATION :

6. Daniel Buxbaum, born 08.11.1843 in Roemersberg. He married on 15.05.1873 in Roemersberg Dina Katz, born 19.09.1846 in Dillich, daughter of Mendel Katz and his wife Merla, née Sauer. (HHStAWI 365, no. 884 wedding register Zimmersrode, no. 59) Daniel and dina Bxubaum had five children:

+ 11. Salmon, called Simon Buxbaum, born 17.04.1874 in Roemersberg

(HHStAWI 365, no. 894 birth register Zimmersrode, no. 184)

+ 12. Levie Buxbaum, born 14.04.1876 in Roemersberg

(HHStAWI 365, no. 894 birth register Zimmersrode, no. 199)

+ 13. Rosa Buxbaum, born 30.12.1877 in Kerstenhausen

+ 14. Moritz Buxbaum, born 04.09.1881 in Kerstenhausen

15. stillborn child 1886 Kerstenhausen.

Dina Buxbaum died 12.11.1908 in Kerstenhausen. Daniel Buxbaum died 08.07.1918 in Kerstenhausen.

7. Gietel Buxbaum, born 12.?.1848 in Roemersberg. She was married on 01.08.1871 to Vogel Wertheim, born 28.05.1846 in Breitenbach am Herzberg, son of Salomon Wertheim and his wife Elli, née Hindel. (HHStAWI 365, no.884 wedding register Zimmersrode, no. 55)

8. Salomon Buxbaum, born 07.06.1851 in Roemersberg. He married on 07.01.1874 Reischen Abt, born 10.12.1845 in Niederaula, daughter of Haune Abt.

(HHStAWI 365, no. 884 wedding register Zimmersrode, no. 60)

Salomon and Reischen Buxbaum had two daughters:

16. Bienchen Buxbaum, born 18.08.1874 in Roemersberg

17. Breinchen Buxbaum, stillborn 09.12.1876 in Roemersberg.

(HHStAWI 365, no. 894, birth register Zimmersrode, no. 185, 206. 365, no. 206, deathregister Zimmersrode, no. 142)

FOURTH GENERATION :

11. Salomon /called Simon Buxbaum, merchant. He married on 16.03.1919 in Rennertehausen Auguste/Gustchen Stern born 12.07.1876 in Battenberg, daughter of Benjamin Stern and his wife Firnni, née Herzberg.

(Personenstandsarchiv Hessen in Neustadt, Bestand 922, no. 8894 Standesamt Rennertehausen, Heiratsregister 1919, no. 4)

Simon and Gustchen Buxbaum had a daughter:

+ 18. Dina Buxbaum, born 24.11.1919 in Rennertehausen.

Auguste/Gustchen Buxbaum died on 24.03.1931 in Rennertehausen at the age of 54, Simon Buxbaum died in 1932.

(Personenstandsarchiv Hessen, Bestand 922, 8963, Standesamt Rennertehausen, Sterberegister 1931, Nr.9)

12. Levie/Levi Buxbaum, born 14.04.1876in Roemersberg, merchant for oil, fat and grease. He married on 19.08.1908 in Kassel Pauline Rothschild, born 14.11.1877 in Ziegenhain, daughter of Jeisel Rothschild and his wife Lenchen née Jaffa (Kassel, Artilleriestrasse 17).

(Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 513) Levi and Pauline Buxbaum lived in Alsfeld Ludwigsplatz 4, Mainzer Gasse 11, Untergansse 31 (Information von Mr. Norbert Hansen, Alsfeld. Heinrich Dittmar, a.a.O., p.81,116.). Levi and Pauline Buxbaum had two daughters:

+ 19. Dina Buxbaum, born 12.08.1909 in Alsfeld

+ 20. Helene Buxbaum, born 17.05.1912 in Alsfeld.

Levi and Pauline Buxbaum moved on 15.05.1937 from Alsfeld to Kassel, Schaefergasse 30. Pauline Buxbaum died 24.03.1939 in Kassel (Helmut Thiele, a.a.O., p. 359). Then Levi Buxbaum tried to emigrate into the USA, his daughters paid for the ticket on the „St. Louis“. But he couldn‘t end up neither in the USA nor in Cuba and he went back to France. There he was captured and arrested in Drancy. From there he was deported on 06.11.1942 to Auschwitz and murdered.

(Gedenkbuch Bundesarciv, a.a.O.,Testimony written by his granddaughter Marlene Verber on 22.10.1999, Yad Vashem.) Im 2009 a Stoplerstein was layed for Levi Buxbaum im Alsfeld, Mainzer Gasse 13.

13. Rosa Buxbaum, born 30.12.1877 in Kerstenhausen. She was a single and lived in Kerstenhausen. Ms. Amert from Kerstenhausen informed us, that Rosa Buxbaum had a small shop. Under the persecution of the Nazis she had to flee and hided under a bright. Mrs. Amert‘s grandparents took her into their house although the Nazi threatened them with concentrationcamp. For many years after the war Rosa Buxbaum‘s house was called „Judenhaus“. In the meantime it is teared down, but Ms. Amert knows the place and she wanted to put there a Stolperstein for Rosa Buxbaum. Rosa Buxbaum was deported on 07.09.1942 from Kassel to Theresienstadt and murdered there on 03.04.1944 (Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv., a.a.O.)

14. Moritz (Morris) Buxbaum, born 04.09.1881 in Kerstenhausen. He married Ida Sachs, born 13.06.1894 in Berkach, daughter ofSimon Sachs and his wife Sara, née Schloss. He dealed with leather. Moritz and Ida Buxbaum lived in Berkach, house no. 54 (Hauptstrasse) (Gundula Bach, a.a.O.). They had a daughter:

21. Dina Buxbaum, born 22.06.1927 in Berkach.

Moritz, Ida and Dina Buxbaum were deported on 10.05.1942 into the ghetto Belzyce, near Lublin an murdered.

FIFTH GENERATION :

18. Dina Buxbaum, born 24.11.1919 in Rennertehausen. When her parents died in 1931 and 1932, she moved to family members in Kerstenhausen and from there in July 1937 to Aurich. There she was married on 24.11.1939 to Julius Abraham Samson, born 18.07.1907 in Sandhorst/Aurich, son of Abraham Samson amd his wife Hedwig, née Goldschmidt. Dina and Julius Abraham Samson lived in Aurich and moved in April 1940 to Dortmund. They had two children:

22. Reha Samson, born 16.07.1940 in Dortmund

23. Dan Samson, born 04.07.1942 in Dortmund.

Julius Abraham Samson was arrested in November 1938 till 05.01.1939 in Sachsenhausen. Then he had to work as a slave-worker in an civil engineering company Dina Buxbaum, her husband and their two little children were deported on 02.03.1943 from Dortmund to Auschwitz. Dina, Reha and Dan Samson were murdered on 03.03.1943. Julius Abraham Samson had to work in the slave-worker-camp Auschwitz-Monowitz. He had the prisoner number 105496 and was murdered in March 1943. (Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, a.a.O.,, Aurich – Spuren gegen das Vergessen, a.a.O., p.52-57.)

19. Dina Buxbaum, born 12.08.1909 in Alsfeld. She emigrated on 19.06.1936 into the USA, New York, Brooklyn. She was married on 08.08.1937 in Richmond New York to Alfred Appel, born 20.02.1908 in Borken, son of Laser Appel IV and his wife Berta, née Adler. He emigrated into the USA in 1935. Dina and Alfred Appel had two daughters:

+ 24. Rene Appel, born 25.06.1938

+ 25. Marlene Appel, born 20.10.1941.

Alfred Appel died 22.09.1993 in Mamoroneck, Westchester, New York. Dina Appel died 15.07.1996.

20. Helene Buxbaum, born 17.05.1912 in Alsfeld. She emigrated on 03.06.1937 into the USA, New York, Brooklyn.

SIXTH GENERATION :

24. Rene Appel, born 25.06.1938, she is married to Fred Lehrberger, born 24.05.1930 in Ottrau. son of Bernhard Lehrberger and his wife Irma, née Levi. Rene and Fred Lehrberger have two daughters:

26. Debra Lehrberger

+ 27. Diane Lehrberger

25. Marlene Appel, born 20.10.1941, she is married to N.N. Verber. Marlene and N.N. Verber have a daughter:

+ 28. Bonnie Verber.

SEVENTH GENERATION :

27. Diane Lehrberger, she is married to N.N. Levison. Diane and N.N.Levison have two children:

29. Adam Levison

30. Nina Levison.

28. Bonnie Verber, she is married to Marc Elkaim. Bonnie and Marc Elkaim have a son:

29. Ethan Elkaim.

Sources:

– Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden (HHStAWI),

Bestand 365, no. 884, 894, 896 Zimmersrode

Bestand 365, no. 502 Kassel.

available in the Internet: www.lagis-hessen.de Hessian Vital Records (Searching machine)

– www.lagis-hessen.de Jewish Gravesites (Searching machine)

– Personenstandarchiv Hessen in Neustadt, Bestand 922, Standesamt Rennertehausen.

– Helmut Thiele: Die jüdischen Einwohner zu Kassel 1700 – 1942. Familiendaten und Adressen.

Als Manuskript vervielfältigt. Kassel 2006.

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

– Gedenkbuch des Bundesarchivs. www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html.de

(Searching machine)

– Gundula Bach: Ein Ensemble jüdischer Geschichte in Berkach. Berkach 2011.

– Heinrich Dittmar: Geschichte der Juden in Alsfeld. Alsfeld 1988.

– Bernd-Volker Brahms: Aurich – Spurensuche gegen das Vergessen. Weimar 2018.

compiled and edited by Hans-Peter K l e i n Melsungen, July 2016

revised and supplemented Melsungen, Oktober 2020