The Kaufmann – Stern – Family from Borken
The descendants of Suesel and Berte Kaufmann
FIRST GENERATION :
1. Suesel / Jekutiel Kaufmann. He married Berte / Berle Liebmann. Suesel and Berte Kaufmann had three sons:
+ 2. Mendel Kaufmann, born 29.04.1808 in Borken
+ 3. Liebmann Kaufmann, born 31.02.1810 in Borken
+ 4. Leib Kaufmann, born 27.04.1812 in Borken.
(HStAMR, Protokolle III, no. 1547, Familienbuch Borken 1798 – 1846, no.3)
Suesel Kaufmann died on 23.11.1857 in Borken.
SECOND GENERATION :
2. Mendel / Menachem Kaufmann, born 29.04.1808 in Borken, butcher and merchant. He married
first on 29.04.1835 Roeschen Reischen Moses, born in February1808 daughter of Isaak Moses
and his wife Breune, nee Levi from Grossropperhausen. Mendel and Roeschen Kaufmann had a
son:
+ 5. Isaak Kaufmann, born 20.07.1836 in Borken.
Roeschen Kaufmann died on 25.04.1842 at the age of 34 years and 2 months in Borken. She is
buried in the jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 87. Mendel Kaufmann married a second
time on 07.06.1843 in Melsungen Hannchen / Hennel Abt, born 08.06.1819 in Melsungen,
daughter of Moses Abt and his second wife Rosa, nee Katz. Mendel and Hannchen Kaufmann
had five children:
+ 6. Bertha Kaufmann, born 19.05.1844 in Borken
7. Moses Kaufmann, born 15.03.1846 in Borken died 6.8.1853.
8. Levi Kaufmann, born 31.08.1848 in Borken died 6.8.1852.
9. Sarchen Kaufmann, born in 1851 in Borken, she died on 16.04.1852 in Borken.
+ 10. Liebmann /ElieserKaufmann, born 28.05.1853 in Borken.
Mendel Kaufmann died on 02.02.1886 in Borken. He is buried on the jewish cemtery of
Haarhausen, grave no. 262. Hannchen Kaufmann died on 25.08.1892 in Borken. She is buried on
the jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 332.
3. Liebmann Kaufmann, born 31.02.1810 in Borken, butcher. He married on 03.07.1843
Goldchen / Gelle Gruenstein, born 20.01.1815 in Niedenstein, daughter of Wolf Plaut
Gruenstein and his wife Sara, nee Naphtali. (Demandt, a.a.O., p, 354) Liebmann and Goldchen
Kaufmann had three sons:
+ 11. Mendel Kaufmann, born 16.05.1844 in Borken
12. Jakob Kaufmann, born 26.02.1847 in Borken died 8.1.1852
13. Abraham Kaufmann, born 13.08.1849 in Borken died in 27.3.1850.
Liebmann Kaufmann, died on 25.05.1861 in Borken. He is buried on the jewish cemetery of
Haarhausen, grave no. 166. Goldchen Kaufmann died on 27.07.1863 in Borken. She is buried on
the jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 124.
4. Leib / Levi Kaufmann, born 27.04.1812 in Borken, tanner (Lohngerber). He married on
28.05.1846 Rebecka Koenig, born 12.04.1812 in Felsberg, daughter of Isaac and Beile Plaut
Koenig. Leib and Rebecka Kaufmann had four children:
14. Mendel Kaufmann, born 28.05.1846 in Borken died 30.12.1861
+ 15. Sussmann Kaufmann, born 27.09.1848 in Borken
+ 16. Perle / Bertha Kaufmann, born 18.06.1851 in Borken
+ 17. Sara Kaufmann, born 02.06.1854 in Borken.
Rebecka Kaufmann died on 04.05.1898 in Borken. She is buried on the jewish cemetery of
Haarhausen, grave no. 222. Leib Levi Kaufmann died on 18.04.1901 in Borken. He is
buried on the jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 274.
(HStMR, Protokolle III, no. 1547, Borken Familiebuch 1798 – 1846, no. 16-18.
LAGIS, a.a.O. Juedischer Friedhof Haarhausen.)
THIRD GENERATION :
5. Isaak Kaufmann, born 20.07.1836 in Borken, merchant. He married first on 13.02.1866 in
Kassel Fanny / Voegelchen Wertheim, born 22.07.1843 in Witzenhausen, daughter of Samuel
Wertheim and his wife Emma, nee Falkenstein. Isaak and Fanny Kaufmann had five children:
+ 18. Louis / Elieser Kaufmann, born 06.03.1868 in Borken
+ 19. Moritz Kaufmann born 05.12.1869 in Borken
20. Stillborn female, 24.06.1873 in Borken
21. Leopold Kaufmann, born 17.01.1875 in Borken, he died 08.10.1875 in Borken.
+ 22. Rosa Kaufmann, born 21.03.1877 in Borken
Fanny Kaufmann died on 23.12.1877 in Borken. She is buried on the jewish cemetery of
Haarhausen, grave no. 178. Isaak Kaufmann married a second time on 09.09.1879 in Borken
Roeschen Hanstein, born 26.02.1851 in Richelsdorf, daughter of Wolf Hanstein and his wife
Jette, nee Nussbaum. Isaak and Roeschen Kaufmann had three children:
+23. Jettchen Kaufmann, born 17.08.1880 in Borken
+ 24. Bertha Kaufmann, born 10.12.1882 in Borken
25. Julius Kaufmann, born 25.01.1885 in Borken.
Isaak Kaufmann died on 02.09.1900 in Borken. He is buried on the jewish cemetery of
Haarhausen, grave no. 236. Roeschen Kaufmann died on 17.11.1909 in Borken. She is buried
on the jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 358.
6. Bertha Kaufmann, born 19.05.1844 in Borken, she was married to Joseph Rosenbusch, born
01.11.1844 in Borken. Joseph Rosenbusch died on 06.03.1915 in Borken.
10. Liebmann / Elieser Kaufmann, born 28.05.1853 in Borken. He married on 04.01.1882 in
Lohne Hanchen / Johanna Sauer, born 24.06.1866 in Lohne, daughter of Leiser Sauer and
his wife Sueschen, nee Loewenstein. Liebmann and Hanchen Kaufmann had six children:
+ 26. Siegfried Kaufmann, born 30.09.1882 in Borken
+ 27. Adele Kaufmann, born 09.03.1884 in Borken
28. Rosa Kaufmann, born 10.10.1885 in Borken. She died on 06.12.1901 in Berlin. She is
buried on the jewish cemetery of Haarhausen, grave no. 280.
+ 29. Ida Kaufmann, born 26.07.1887 in Borken
30. Bertha Kaufmann, born11.07.1889 in Borken
+ 31. Meta Kaufmann, born 28.10.1891 in Borken.
Liebmann Kaufmann died on 11.04.1938. Hannchen Kaufmann died 21.06.1940 in Borken.
11. Mendel Kaufmann, born 16.05.1844 in Borken. He married on 08.09.1868 in Lohne Amalia
Schlesinger from Buergeln, daughter of Wolf and Fanny Schelsinger.
15. Sussmann Kaufmann, born 27.09.1848 in Borken. He married on 21.05.1875 in Fankfurt/Main
Olga Morgenstern from Singhofen, Rhineland-Palatine, daughter of Hirsch Jacob Morgenstern
and his wife Zerline, nee Gruenewald.
16. Bertha / Perle Kaufmann, born 18.06.1851 in Borken, she was married on 25.10.1881 in
Borken to Magnus Meyerstein, born 06.04.1854 in Bremke, son of Levy Meyerstein and his
wife Bienchen, nee Katz. Berta and Magnus Meyerstein moved 1913 from Bremke to
Goettingen, where he founded a cattle store (Viehhandlung). They had four children:
+ 32. Siegfried Meyerstein, born 15.06.1888 in Bremke
+ 33. Hugo Meyerstein, born 04.04.1891 in Bremke.
34. Paula Meyerstein
35. Selma Meyerstein.
Magnus Meyerstein died on 18.01.1942 in Goettingen.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., p. 236-239, Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv a.a.O., Uta Schaefer-Richter, Jörg Klein:
Die jüdischen Bürger im Kreis Goettingen, Goettingen 1992. p.177.)
17. Sara Kaufmann, born 02.06.1854 in Borken. She was married on 08.01.1884 in Borken to
Jakob Stern, born 29.12.1852 in Madfeld, son of Moses Stern and his wife Eva, nee
Loewenbach. Sara and Jakob Stern lived in Borken, Todenstrasse 82 / Obere Bahnhofstrasse 82.
Sara and Jakob Stern had three children:
+ 36. Eugenia Stern, born 13.11.1884 in Borken
+ 37. Siegfried Stern, born 12.11.1886 in Borken.
+ 38. Flora Stern, born 09.07.1888 in Borken
Sara and Jakob Stern got divorced on 19.12.1896. Jakob Stern lived in Kassel. He died on
03.05.1914 in Guxhagen. „He died on the way and was buried on the jewish cemetery of
Guxhagen.“ Sara Stern moved to his son to Essen and died there on 26.03.1941.
FOURTH GENERATION :
18. Louis / Elieser Kaufmann, born 06.03.1868 in Borken. He married Louise Stauss, born
04.09.1873 in Kronberg, daughter of Bernhard Strauss and his wife Fanny, nee Hess. Louis
and Louise Kaufmann had a son:
+ 39. Max Kaufmann, born 02.09.1898 in Borken.
Louise Kaufmann died on 25.10.1901 in Borken. She is buried on the jewish cemetery of
Haarhausen, grave no. 277. Louis Kaufmann married a second time on 17.02.1903 in Gross
Gerau Minna Hirsch, born 08.11.1875 in Gross Gerau, daughter of the liqueur manufacturer
Bernhardt Hirsch and his wife Stephanie, nee Blach. Louis and Minna Kaufmann lived in
Borken. They had two daughters:
40. Grete Kaufmann, born 23.03.1905 in Borken.
41. Clara Else Kaufmann, born in February 1907 in Borken, she died 22.09.1907 in Borken.
Louis and Minna Kaufmann moved to Berlin and emigrated from there in 1940 to Rio de
Janeiro / Brazil.
(Immigration permit consulate of Brazil in Berlin 20.02.1940)
19. Moritz Kaufmann, born 05.12.1869 in Borken, he married on 13.06.1904 in Gross Gerau
Clara Hirsch, born 20.07.1881 in Gross Gerau, daughter of the liqueur manufacturer
Bernhardt Hirsch and his wife Stephanie, nee Blach. Moritz and Clara Kaufmann lived in
Borken. They had a son:
42. Franz Kaufmann, born 17.03.1904 in Borken. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939.
(Immigration permit consulate of Brazil in Berlin 06.031939)
22. Rosa Kaufmann, born 21.03.1877 in Borken. She was married to Moritz Schaumberg, born
16.09.1869 in Schweinsberg, son of Isaak Schaumberg and his wife Gutrod, nee Strauss. Rosa
and Moritz Schaumberg had two children:
+ 43. Siegmund Schaumberg, born 30.08.1898 in Schweinsberg
+ 44. Frieda Schaumberg, 28.02.1901 in Schweinsberg.
The family moved in 1901 to Kirchhain and from there on 09.06.1933 to Warburg.Rosa and
Moritz Schaumberg were deported on 31.07.1942 from Muenster to Theresienstadt. Moritz
Schaumberg was murdered there on 28.01.1943, Rosa Schaumberg was murdered there
on 30.03.1943. James Grant from Los Angelos wrote in 1974 a testimony for Moritz (Morris)
Schaumberg. (Central database of Yad Vashem)
23. Jettchen Kaufmann, born 17.08.1880 in Borken. She married Simon Rosenberg born
14.06.1881 in Arys / Johannisburg / Ostpreußen. They had two sons:
23a. Erwin Rosenberg born 24.06.1914 in Berlin. Erwin married Rosa Riess born 30.05.1919
in Pillkallen (Schloßberg) Ostpreußen.
23b. Werner Rosenberg born 23.10.1919 in Berlin.
Jettchen and Simon Rosenberg were deported from Berlin to Riga Gehtto on 19.1.1942.
Werner Rosenberg was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 1.3.1943.
Erwin and Rosa Rosenberg were deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 3.3.1943.
24. Bertha Kaufmann, born 10.12.1882 in Borken. She was married on 15.10.1906 in Borken to
Daniel / David Hahn, butcher, born 04.10.1880 in Gudensberg, son of Levi Hahn and his wife
Settchen, nee Speier. Daniel / David Hahn took part in WWI. Bertha and Daniel / David Hahn
moved to Berlin. They had three children:
45. Rolf Hahn, he emigrated to Palestine and became dentist in Tel Aviv.
46. Walter Hahn, he emigrated to Palestine and became doctor in Tel Aviv.
47. Fritz Hahn, butcher and owner of a sausage factory.
Bertha Hahn died in 1930 in Berlin (9. Standesamt Berlin No. 228/30). Daniel / David Hahn
emigrated to Palestine. He died on 30.10.1945 in Tel Aviv.
26. Siegfried Kaufmann, born 30.09.1882 in Borken. He married on 10.08.1919 in Fritzlar Paula
Sauer, born 03.08.1893 in Fritzlar, daughter of Kalmann Sauer and his wife Sara, nee Gutheim.
Siegfried and Paula Kaufmann had a daughter:
+ 48. Lieselotte / Lisbeth Kaufmann, born 07.09.1921 in Fritzlar.
The family moved from Fritzlar in 1933 to Borken and from there in Luly 1940 to
Frankfurt/Main, Habsburger Allee 16. Siegfried and Paula Kaufmann were deported on
24.05.1942 from Frankfurt/Main to Izbica.
27. Adele Kaufmann, born 09.03.1884 in Borken. She was married on 21.01.1907 in Borken to
Seligmann Hamberg, merchant in Esssen, born 06.02.1876 in Breuna, son of Juda Hamberg
and his wife Dina, nee Sauer. Adele and Seligmann Hamberg had two children:
+ 49. Alfhild Hamberg, born 24.10.1907
+ 50. Bruno Hamberg, born in 24.10.1908.
29. Ida Kaufmann, born 16.07.1887 in Borken. She was married on 15.11.1910 in Borken to the
cattle dealer Hermann Simon from Braunschweig, born 21.10.1887 in Pohl-Goens, son of
Loeb Simon and his wife Klara, nee Kugelmann.
31. Meta Kaufmann, born 28.10.1891 in Borken, she was married on 23.05.1923 in Borken to
Hugo Friedrich Moses, cattledealer from Frielendorf, born 16.09.1888 in Frielendorf, son of
Abraham Moses and his wife Amalie / Malchen, nee Stern. They emigrated on 06.07.1938 from
Hamburg into the USA.
(Passengers list S.S. „President Roosevelt“ from 06.07.1938, no. 12,13., U.S. Naturalization Record Indixes, 1791-
1992.)
32. Siegfried Meyerstein, born 15.06.1888 in Bremke. He married in 1919 Rosa Gans, born
11.01.1888 in Rotenburg/Fulda, daughter of Koppel Gans and his wife Hedwig, nee Rosenthal.
Siegfried and Rosa Meyerstein had two sons:
+ 51. Heinz Meyerstein, born about 1920 in Goettingen
+ 52. Herbert Meyerstein, born 12.06.1922 in Goettingen.
Siegfried and Rosa Meyerstein were arrested from 26./27.03. - 31.03. 1942 in the camp
Hannover-Ahlem and on 31.03.1942 from there deported to the ghetto of Warschau.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, a.a.O., Testimonies Yad Vashem, a.a.O.)
33. Hugo Meyerstein, born 04.04.1891 in Bremke. He married in 1919 Paula Jaretzky, born
02.03.1890 in Gnesen/Posen. Hugo and Paula Meyerstein had four children:
+ 53. Ludwig Meyerstein, born 29.06.1920 in Goettingen
+ 54. Erich Meyerstein, born in August 1923 in Goettingen
+ 55. (Hans) Georg Meyerstein, born 13.02.1928 in Goettingen
+ 56. Herta Meyerstein.
Hugo and Paula Meyerstein were arrested from 26./27.03. - 31.03.1942 in the camp Hannover-
Ahlem and on 31 03.1942 from there deported to the ghetto of Warschau.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, a.a.O., Testimonies Yad Vashem, a.a.O.)
36. Eugenia Stern, born 13.11.1884 in Borken. She was married in 1907 to Albert Heumann,
born 15.01.1874 in Beuel/Rhine. Albert Heumann had a factory for men's fashion
(Herrenwaeschefabrik) in Essen, Bachstrasse 5.Eugenia and Albert Heumann had three children:
+ 57. Lotte Heumann, born 31.08.1908 in Essen
+ 58. Alice Ruth Heumann, born 24.02.1911 in Essen
+ 59. Ernst Heumann, born 06.10.1915 in Essen.
Eugenia and Albert Heumann were arrested together with her granddaughter Edith Samson in
April in the camp Holbeckshof in Essen-Steele and on 21./22. Juli 1942 deported to
Theresienstadt.
(Hermann Schroeter; Geschichte und Schicksal der Esener Juden, a.a.O., p.582)
37. Siegfried Stern, born 12.11.1886 in Borken. He married Paula Ottensoser. born 05.08.1886 in
BurgpreppachSiegfried and Paula had a daughter:
+ 60. Ruth Stern, born 27.06.1921 in Hersfeld.
Siegfried and Paula Stern owned a millinery shop. They were forced to close their business as a
result of the boycotts in the 30th and moved to Berlin, where Ruth Stern learned the trade of hat
making.While Siegfried and Paula were waiting for a trip to emigrate into the USA, Ruth Stern
escaped with a childrens' transport to Holland. Her parents could emigrate and lived in
Cincinatti, Ohio. Siegfried Stern died in December 1965 in Cincinnatti, Ohio.
38. Flora Stern, born 09.07.1888 in Borken. She was married on 18.06.1917 in Borken to Sally
Stern, born 11.08.1891 in Markoebel, son of Leopold Stern and his wife Jettchen, nee
Loebenstein. Sally Stern took part in WWI. He had a shop in Borken, Neustatdt 64 and dealed
with coal, cereals and fertiliziers. Flora and Sally Stern had two daughters:
+ 61. Herta / Hanna Stern, born 10.08.1923 in Borken
+ 62. Lotte Rebekka Stern, born 22.04.1925 in Kassel.
In 1934 the family emigrated to Palestine and lived in Hadera. Sally Stern died about 1947 in
Hadera.
Addition (from Ofra Karo):
Leopold Stern born 04.01.1862 in Stammheim/Wetteraun son of Samuel Stern and his wife Johanna, nèe Rosenthal. Leopold Stern was deported to Warschau on 31.01.1942 and murdered in the Shoa.
Johanna (Jettchen) Stern, née Loebenstein, born 17.09.1860 in Markoebel, daughter of Isaak Loebenstein and his wife Stte née Reinhardt. Johanna Loebenstein was married on 20.02.1888 in Markoebel to Leopold Stern. She died in Markoebel in January 1937.
FIFTH GENERATION :
39. Max Kaufmann, born 02.09.1898 in Borken. He lived in Berlin and emigrated to Belgium and
lived in Bruessel. He was arrested in Mechelen/Belgium and from there he was deported on
11.08.1942 to Auschwitz (transport II, prisoner no. 899), where he was murdered on 22.08.1942.
43. Siegmund Schaumberg, born 30.08.1898 in Schweinsberg. He married on 12.11.1926 in
Kirchhain Johanna Rapp, born 08.09.1901, daughter of Markus Rapp. Siegmund and Johanna
Schaumberg had a son:
63. Heinz Schaumberg, born 06.10.1927 in Kirchhain.
The family moved on 05.05.1933 from Kirchhain to Warburg.
44. Frieda Schaumberg, born 28.02.1901 in Schweinsberg. She was married on 09.04.1926 in
Kirchhain to Julius / Ernst Baer, born 24.06.1900, son of Adolf Baer and his wife Sophie, nee
Rothschild.
48. Lieselotte / Lisbeth Kaufmann, born 07.09.1921 in Fritzlar. She attended the Ursulinen School
in Fritzlar till 1933 when she was forced to leave the school. Then she moved with her parents
in 1933 to Borken and from there to Frankfurt/Main. On 08.05.1938 she emigrated to England.
She was married on 29.04.1941 to Arthur Charles Mills. First they lived in Stepney, London,
after their house wa bombed they moved to Luton Beds and lived there at 89 Strathmore Ave.
They have two sons. Lieselotte Mills died on 28.06.1997 in Barton le Clay, Bedfordshire. Arthur
Mills died in Luton Northhamptonshire on 02.03.1998.
49. Alfhild Hamberg, born 24.10.1907. She was married to Bernhard Beuthner, born
30.06.1901 in Breslau. Alfhild and Bernhard Beuthner emigrated into the USA. They had two
daughters. Bernhard Beuthner died on 04.06.1993 in Englewood, Bergen, New Jersey, USA,
Alfhild Beuthner died on 05.07.1995 in Bronx, N.Y.
50. Bruno Hamberg, born in 24.9.1908. He married Ellen Billingheimer. Bruno and Ellen
Hamberg emigrated into the USA. They had two daughters.
Bruno Hamberg died in Hickory,North Carolina, USA in 22.10.1959.
51. Heinz Meyerstein, born about 1920 in Goettingen. He moved in March 1938 to Munich, was
arrested from November 1938 – January 1939 in Dachau. He emigrated to the Netherlands and
lived in a Hachscharah-Camp. He came back to Germany with false identity papers as Dutch
slave worker. In March 1943 he went underground through the Netherlands, Belgium and
France to Spain and Portugal and emigrated from there in November 1944 to Palestine and lived
inTel Aviv.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Die juedischen Buerger im Kreis Goettingen 1933-1945. Ein Gedenkbuch.
Goettingen 1992. p.173.)
52. Herbert Meyerstein, born 12.06.1922 in Goettingen. He emigrated on 20.06.1939 to the
Netherlands and lived in Deventer and Amsterdam. He was arrested in 1942 in Westerbork and
on 15.07.1942 deported from there to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on 29.08.1942.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Die juedischen Buerger im Kreis Goettingen. a.a.O., p. 174.,
Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, a.a.O.,, Testimony Yad Vashem)
53. Ludwig Meyerstein, born 29.06.1920 in Goettingen. From Juli 1936 to February 1937 he
lived in Berlin. On 22.09.40 he was forced to work in Bielefeld. He was sent back to
Goettingen on 20.03.1942. Shortly after he was arrested with his parents and his
brother from 26./27.03.1942 in the camp Hannover-Ahlem and from there on 31.03.1942
deported to the ghetto of Warschau. From there he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was
murdered.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Die juedischen Buerger in Goettingen., a.a.O., p. 177.,
Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, a.a.O., Testimony Yad Vashem)
54. Erich Meyerstein, born in August 1923 in Goettingen. He emigrated on 05.01.1939 to
England, where he lived as Eric Herman Marston.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Die juedischen Buerger im Kreis Goettingen, a.a.O., p. 172.)
55. (Hans) Georg Meyerstein, born 13.02.1928 in Goetingen. After the „Reichskristallnacht“
jewish pupils were excluded from public schools. From January 1940 Georg Meyerstein took
part together with nine other jewish pupils in private lessons organized by the jewish teacher
Heinz Junger until it was closed in April 1941. He was arrested with his parents and his brother
from 26./27.03.1942 in the camp Hannover Ahlem and on 31.03.1942 from there deported to the
ghetto of Warschau.
(Alex Bruns-Wuestefeld, a.a.O., Die juedischen Buerger von Goettingen., a.a.O., p. 173.,
Gedenkbuch Bundesarchiv, a.a.O., Testimony Yad Vashem)
56. Herta (Tzila) Meyerstein, she emigrated to Palestine. She was married to N.N. Presch. They
lived in Israel.
57. Lotte Heumann, born 31.08.1908 in Essen. She was married to Alfred Samson, son of Robert
and Elli Samson. The Samsons had a shoe-shop in Essen Libecker Strasse, founded by Alfred's
grandfather Moses Samson. In 1889 Robert Samson took over the shop and made it to biggest
shoe-shop in Germany. He died before 1928 after an operation in the jewish hospital in
Frankfurt/Main. Then his widow Elli and the sons Kurt and Alfred took over the shop till 1938,
when they were forced to sell the shop for a low price.
Lotte and Alfred Samson had two children:
70. Edith Samson, born 15.04.1933 in Essen, she was deported with her grandmother to
Theresienstadt. She was murdered on 15.08.1942 in Theresienstadt.
71. John (Hans) Robert Samson, born in 1935 in Essen, he emigrated with his parents 1938 to
Austalia.
Lotte and Alfred Samson emigrated in 1938 with their son Hans Robert to Australia. Alfred
Samson died in Australia in 1956.
(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. a.a.O., p. 709,
e-mail von Martina Strehlen, Alte Synagoge Essen vom 25.06.2014)
John (Hans) Robert Samson is married to Fredeswinda born Fumero. They live in the USA and
have two children.
58. Alice Ruth Heumann, born 24.02.1911 in Essen. She was married Erich H. Sternberg, born
12.02.1908 in Essen, son of Leopold Sternberg (born 1868 in Meppen, 1942 murdered in Maly
Trostinec) and his wife Frieda nee Kaufmann (born 1880 in Essen, died 1940 in Essen). Erich
Sternberg emigrated together with his brother-in-law Ernst Heumann in March 1939 to Cuba.
There he bought an immigration permimt for his wife Alice Ruth heumann. She came with the
ship „St Louis“, buit they were not allowed to immigrate because the gouverment of Cuda had
decided that the permitswere not valid. The „St. Louis“ staye for a week in the Harbour of
Havana, where Alice Ruth and Erich Heumann could only shout and wave to each other. In June
1939 the ship left Havana and tried to find a harbour, which would accept the refugees: Cuba,
USA,Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Dominican Republic – all
refused. In the end the ship returned to Europe. In June 1939 the passengers had to leave the
ship in Belgium, Holland, France and Great Britain. Alice Ruth Heumann had to stay in
Antwerpen until she finally got a visa for the USA in march 1940. After a year she finally was
able to meet her husband Erich Heumann again in Miami.
(From letters and interviews Alice Ruth Heumann gave to the memorial „Alte Synagoge Essen“, e-mail from
Martina Strehlen, Alte Synagoge Essen from 08.07.2014))
59. Ernst Heumann, born 06.10.1915 in Essen. He was married to Ginette Ruth born Wertheim and they had three daughters. The family emigrated into the USA. Ernst Heumann died in the USA on 19.8.1994.
60. Ruth Stern, born 27.06.1921 in Hersfeld. She emigrated to the Netherlands, where she learned
know Jesse Isak Kropveld, born 06.09.1919. After war they got married, moved in 1947 into
the USA and lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ruth and Jesse Kropveld have four children (and eight
grandchildren). Jesse Kropveld died on 26.12.2004 in Cincinatti, Ohio. Ruth Kropveld died on
05.05.2011 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
61. Herta / Hanna (Chana-Herta) Stern, born 10.08.1923 in Borken. She emigrated with her
parents and her sister in 1934 to Palestine and lived in Hadera. Herta Stern was married in 1947
to Werner Zeev Karo, born in Nakel, living in Berlin, where the Karo family had a shoe-shop
in Muellerstrasse 156. Herta and Werner Karo have two daughters. Werner Zeev Karo died in
Hadera on 14.10.1981, Hertha/Hanna Karo died in Hadera on 6.9.2015
62. Lotte Rebekka (Rivka-Lotte) Stern, born 22.04.1925 in Kassel. She emigrated with her
parents and her sister in 1934 to Palestine and lived in Hadera. Lotte Stern was married in 1947
to Richard Reuven Karo, twin-brother of Werner Zeev Karo. Richard Reuven Karo died on
24.04.1989 in Hadera. Lotte Rivka Karo died on 08.06.2003 in Hadera.
66. Karen Ruth Beuthner was born in 7.6.1937. She Married Bert Meyers. They had 3 children:
Compiled and edited by Hans-Peter K l e i n Melsungen, July 2014
Revised and supplemented by Hans-Peter Klein Melsungen, January 2015
Melsungen, December 2015
Revised by Ofra Karo Hadera, January 2016