87 Enggasse

Ludwig Naumann (1895) together with his brothers Nathan and Otto managed the Gärtner firm. He left Germany in 1937 evidently to prepare the emigration of his family.
The history of his emigration is as follows:
18.  8.1937  filed a motion to get free from military service because of emigration plans
28. 8.1937 citation to the county office with passport
2. 9.1937   National Bank branch Würzburg ok
3. 9.1937   IRS Würzburg still no
4. 9.1937   Local IRS ok
7. 9.1937   county office of NSDAP ok
8. 9.1937   Gestapo ok
6.10.1937  IRS Würzburg ok
14.10.1937  Passport valid until 14.10.1938
22.10.1938  county office reports to the Gestapo emigration on 20.10.1937 to NY
22.5.1939   German Consulate N.Y. reports the prolongation of passport by one year.

Half a year (27.4.1938) later his wife Hilde Naumann(1897) applied with her three children Fanny Lotte (1925), Ruth(1928) and Fritz (1930) the emigration to the USA.
In her passport from 28.5.1935 she had a transit visa for France and three money order entries to NY, each 10 Mark, had been made from the post office of Unsleben and Mellrichstadt.
Her emigration application went as follows:
6.5.38      local IRS ok
10.5.38     National bank branch   ok
12.5.38     IRS Würzburg still not ok
12.5.38     Gestapo ok
18.5.38     county office of the NSDAP ok
22.6.38     IRS Würzburg ok
29.6.38     departure

70 Mühlweg

Owner 1932: Karl Mittel II

Karl Mittel II(1866) was farmer and a trader in cordage. With him in business was his oldest son Siegfried(1897). He himself already died in 1927, his wife Sarchen followed him in 1933. The family has been also called Wasser (=water)­Mittel to differentiate them from other Mittels, because they lived near the river. The home already has been owned by Jews as early as the beginning of the 19th century. The family accepted in 1817 the name Rosenbaum, later Wolf Brandis from Maßbach married into that family. Evidence for an old Jewish home is an inscription engraved in a bar of the upper story which says: Jud From Abraham Simon B.H. 1806″, above is the iron cross. The interpretation could be, that the jew From, son of Abraham Simon, took part and died in the Napoleon wars of that time. The B H means „Buried here”,an old Jewish formula on gravestones.

The sons of Karl Mittel II, Siefried (1897), Ernst (1904) and Benno (1910) emigrated in 1937 to France and there at least one of them became a legionary.

81 Geiersgasse

Owner 1932: Kuno Mittel

Kuno Mittel(1871) was farmer and cattle trader. He had two children with his wife Karolina (1876), Meta (1905) and Alfred (1907). Both of them immigrated in 1936 to the USA. Her parents followed after the pogrom night in 1938 via Havanna.

In the night of the pogrom the Jews of Unsleben evidently had a warning. Most of them had hidden themself or have been out of town, but not Kuno Mittel. When the executors came and demanded to follow, he asked to be allowed still to fill a pipe.

86 Geiersgasse

Owner 1932: Jeanette Naumann

Jeannette Naumanns jüngster Sohn Otto (1901) musste bereits 1936 nach Südafrika auswandern. Sie selbst glaubte zunächst nicht auswandern zu müssen, hat aber am 5.1.1939 noch die Auswanderung in die USA über Havanna beantragt und ist am 24.1.1939 bereits ausgewandert. Ihr reserviertes Grab neben ihrem Mann im Unslebener Friedhof blieb daher leer. Jannette Naumann(1868) was the widow of Isaak Naumann(1864­1930). He was owner of the Gärtner firm dealing with agricultural products in the nowadays so called “Dorfscheuer” adjacent to the synagogue. Isaak Naumann from Untersotzbach/Hessia came to the firm as an apprentice. In 1891 he applied for citizenship and got married to Jeannette Gutmann from the neighboring house of the Gärtners. She was a nice of his boss Moses Gärtner. Moses and Mathilde Gärtner had no children, so the firm went to Isaak Naumann, after him to his three sons, Ludwig, Nathan and Otto. When Moses and Mathilde Gärtner died (1911/12) they had decided that with the capital of 4000 mark a “Moses­and Mathilde­Gärtner­foundation” be erected, the interest of which should yearly be distributed equally among Jewish and Christian poor people.
Jeannette ́s youngster son Otto (1901) had to emigrate already in 1936 to South Africa. She himself deed not feel the necessity to do so before 1939, when she managed in less than three weeks to follow her family via Havanna to the USA. The grave reserved for her at the side of her husband therefor stayed empty.

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