The Heilbrunn Family from Spangenberg

F I R S T G E N E R A T I O N :

1. Leib Heilbrunn, born about1771, butcher (Patentmetzger). He married Leah Meier-Goldschmidt, born about 1762. Leib and Leah Heilbrunn had two sons:

+ 2. Joseph Heilbrunn, born about 1805 in Spangenberg

+ 3. Herz Heilbrunn, born about 1809 in Spangenberg.

Leib Heilbrunn died on 24.03.1833 at the age of 62 years in Spangenberg. He is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Binsfoerth, grave no.109. Leah Heilbrunn died on 20.09.1852 in Spangenberg at the age of 90 years.

S E C O N D G E N E R A T I O N :

2. Joseph Heilbrunn, born about 1805 in Spangenberg, cattle dealer. He married on 10.02.1835 Sara Assur Loewenstein / Levisohn, born about 1806 in Sontra, daughter of Assur Loewenstein and his wife Michele, née Manus. Joseph and Sara Heilbrunn had three sons:

+ 4. Leib Levi Heilbrunn, born 30.12.1835 in Spangenberg

+ 5. Assur Heilbrunn, born 29.03.1839 in Spangenberg

+ 6. Meier Heilbrunn, born 20.10.1841 in Spangenberg.

Sara Heilbrunn died on 28.05.1870 at the age of 70 years in Spangenberg. Joseph Heilbrunn died on 04.09.1870 at the age of 64 years in Spangenberg.

3. Herz Heilbrunn, born about 1809 in Spangenberg, cattle dealer. He married on 13.06.1839 Gelle Tannenbaum, born about 1813 in Mansbach near Vacha, daughter of Joseph Tannenbaum and his wife Perle, née Bachrach. Herz and Gelle Heilbrunn had five children:

+ 7. Perle / Bertha Heilbrunn, born 22.09.1840 in Spangenberg

8. Frummet / Minna Heilbrunn, born 01.02.1843 in Spangenberg, she died on

08.08.1856 at the age of 13 ½ years.

9. Levi Heilbrunn, born 23.05.1845 in Spangenberg

10. Betti Heilbrunn, born 16.07.1847 in Spangenberg

11. Leah Heilbrunn, born 05.06.1853 in Spangenberg.

Herz Heilbrunn died on 23.05.1883 in Spangenberg. Gelle Heilbrunn died on 27.11.1883 in Spangenberg. Both are bureid on the Jewish cemetery of Spangenberg, double grave no. 41

T H I R D G E N E R A T I O N :

4. Leib Levi Heilbrunn, born 30.12.1835 in Spangenberg. He married on 19.03.1862 Guetchen Oppenheimer from Iba. Leib Levi and Guetchen Heilbrunn lived in Iba.

5. Assur / Ascher Heilbrunn, born 29.03.1839 in Spangenberg, butcher. He married on 14.06.1866 in Spangenberg Malchen Plaut, born 01.04.1843, daughter of Menke Plaut and his wife Hannchen, née Plaut. Assur / Ascher and Malchen Heilbrunn lived in Spangenberg Lange Strasse 219, they had five children:

12. Menko Heilbrunn, born 04.01.1869 in Spangenberg. He died on 28.06.1877

in Spangenberg by a hit of a horse (durch den Schlag eines Pferdes).

13. Leah Heilbrunn, born 21.04.1870 in Spangenberg

14. Joseph, called Julius Heilbrunn, born 04.06.1872 in Spangenberg. He died

on 19.03.1873 (Hirnwassersucht, Krämpfe).

15. Abraham Heilbrunn, born 01.06.1874 in Spangenberg

+ 16. Levi Heilbrunn, born 13.12.1878 in Spangenberg.

Assur Heilbrunn died on 11.05.1892 in Spangenberg at the age of 53 years and 1 month. He is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Spangenberg, grave no. 19. Malchen / Amalie Heilbrunn died on 23.09.1917 at the age of 74 years in Spangenberg. She is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Spangenberg, grave no. 92.

6. Meier Heilbrunn, born 20.10.1841 in Spangenberg, he married on 01.09.1867 Beile / Bertha Schartenberg, born 29.12.1839 in Zierenberg, daughter of Abraham Schartenberg and his wife Hendel, née Levi. Meier and Beile Heilbrunn lived in Spangenberg Lange Strasse 221 ½. Theyhad four children:

17. Leah Heilbrunn, born 22.09.1868 in Spangenberg, she died on 19.12.1868

at the age of 28 days.

18. Levi Heilbrunn, born 18.01.1870 in Spangenberg, he died on 13.06.1870 at

the age of five months (Hirnkrampf)

19. Joseph Heilbrunn, born 20.05.1871 in Spangenberg

20. Moses Heilbrunn, born 15.01.1875 in Spangenberg.

Meier Heilbrunn died on 26.01.1878 in Spangenberg. He is buried on the Jewish Cemetery of Spangenberg, grave no. 52. Beile / Bertha Heilbrunn died on 30.09.1916 in Spangenberg, she is buried on the Jewish cemetery of Spangenberg, grave no. 94.

7. Perle / Bertha Heilbrunn, born 22.09.1840 in Spangenberg. She was married on 04.06.1873 to Eduard Blumenrath from Dortmund.

F O U R T H G E N E R A T I O N :

16. Levi Heilbrunn, born 13.12.1878 in Spangenberg. He married on 21.08.1909 in Harmuthsachsen Sara Neuhaus, born 26.09.1882 in Harmuthsachsen, daughter of Moses Neuhaus, teacher in Harmuthsachsen, and his wife Rickchen, née Rosenbaum. Levi Heilbrunn was a teacher on the Jewish school in Kassel and since 1919 head of the Jewish orphanage. Levi and Sara Heilbrunn lived in Kassel, Giessbergstrasse 7. They had four sons:

+ 21. Oskar Heilbrunn, born 24.09.1912 in Kassel

22. Martin Heilbrunn, born 20.08.1918 in Kassel

+ 23. Max Heilbrunn, born 20.08.1918 in Kassel

+ 24. Paul Heilbrunn, born 10.01.1923 in Kassel.

In 1939 Levi Heilbrunn was arrested in the police station in Kassel, Reuterstrasse and perished there during the questionings on 03.08.1939. Sara Heilbrunn moved on 31.10.1939 to Weissenburgstrasse 6 and on 16.10.1941 to Koelnische Strasse 4. She was deported with her son Paul on 09.12.1941 from Kassel to Riga. Sara Heilbrunn was deported from Riga on 02.11.1943 to Auschwitz and murdered there on 05.11.1943.

F I F T H G E N E R A T I O N :

21. Oskar Heilbrunn, born 24.09.1912 in Kassel. He was busy at the Jewish orphanage in Kassel Giessbergstrasse 7. He married on 29.02.1938 in Kassel Elfriede Loewenthal, born 28.10.1915 in Spangenberg, daughter of Arthur Loewenthal and his wife Sofia Selma, née Meyerfeld. Oskar and Elfriede Heilbrunn emigrated on 31.07.1939 to Australia.

23. Max Heilbrunn, born 20.08.1918 in Kassel, tailor. He emigrated on 05.08.1938 to New York.

24. Paul Heilbrunn, born 10.01.1923 in Kassel. He moved on 31.05.1937 to Frankfurt/Main, came back to Kassel on 20.04.1940 and lived with his mother in Weissenburgstrasse 6. On 29.07.1940 he moved to Berlin and came back to Kassel on 02.03.1941 Weissenburgstrasse 6 and on 16.10.1941 Kölnische Strasse 4. He was deported with his mother on 09.12.1941 to Riga and from there on 01.10.1944 to Stutthof. Possibly he survived, because he is not listed as a victim in the memorial book of the german state archive. I found his name in the survivers‘ list of the deportation 09.12.1941 from Kassel to Riga.

Sources:

--- www.lagis-hessen.de sources – Hessian Vital Records – Spangenberg – Register

der juedischen Gemeinden and Personestandsarchiv 1874 ff

topics – Jewish gravesites – Binsförth

(Leib Heilbrunn 1833)

– www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html searching engine

– Helmut Thiele: Die juedischen Einwohner zu Kassel 1700 – 1942. Familiennamen

und Daten. Als Manuskript vervielfaeltigt. Kassel 2006.

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

Kassel 1986.

blue : The direct ancestors of Suzanne Moses

Researches and compiled by Hans-Peter Klein Melsungen, December 2017