Isaak Strauß

71 Mühlweg

Owner 1932: Isaak Strauß

Isaak Strauß was a tradesman. He had a grocery store in that little home. He died in 1932, his wife Rosa committed suicide in 1939, after her son Max(1902) had left forEngland.

 

 

Karl Mittel II

Karl Mittel II

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.

Kuno Mittel

Kuno Mittel

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.

 

 

Jeanette Naumann

Jeanette Naumann

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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Israelitische Kultusgemeinde

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde

Jewish School – Mühlweg 63

Owner 1932: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde

Maier Blumenthal was senior teacher from 1905 until 1935. He lived in the school house with his wife Selma and two sons, Armin and Felix. After retiring he moved to Würzburg and from there to the USA. Max Rosenbaum followed him as teacher.

In a letter after the war to a friend he informed about his school life among others, that in 1916 to 1919 he also was in charge to teach in the Christian school, that in the Jewish school also events of the Nazi­regime had to be honored. The room had to be decorated with three flags: black-­white-red, white­blue and the Hakenkreuz­flag. Also the national hymn (Deutschlandlied) and the Horst-Wessel­-Lied were on the agenda.