An IMMERWAHR Reunion
October 23, 2012FRIEDENSTEIN – A Possible Ancestor Sighting
November 28, 201229 October 2012 – as the eye of Hurricane Sandy approaches
One year ago
(27 October 2011) at the archive of the Centrum Judaicum in Berlin, I
found the Curt Jacobsohn File and learned about the family of my great
grandmother Ida RAPHAELSOHN geb. JACOBSOHN.
Nine days ago (20 October 2012), I had a wonderful conversation with my newly found JACOBSOHN family cousin in Buenos Aires.
Today, I received this photograph from our cousins in Buenos Aires — the image on a postcard written by Rosa WEINBERG geb. JACOBSOHN (1855-1935) to her husband Adolf WEINBERG (1848-1930) in Berlin and posted from Liebstadt on 4 April 1912. It is the building where Ida JACOBSOHN geb. SIMONSOHN (1849-1940), widow of Widder (Victor Moses) JACOBSOHN (1823-1894), lived with their son Curt JACOBSOHN (1877-1940), who was the proprietor of the shop V.M. Jacobsohn (as it says in the window) – and the man on the left is Curt JACOBSOHN. (The other people worked in the shop.)
Today, via Don, I also received an excerpt from the memoir of Lutz RAPHAELSON (1922-2002) which happened to describe that same building and store. He wrote:
“Liebstadt was one of those towns
with a few stores around the market square like hundreds of others which
serviced the farms in the area. My [step-great] grandmother had one of
those stores where you could buy everything from cigars to hats to silk
stockings. My [step-great] uncle Curt ran it. It was really a small department
store.”
The year of discovery keeps yielding new and interesting findings.
