108 Hauptstrase

Owner 1932: Theo Mittel

Theo Mittel(1885) was together with his brother Josef (see no. 44) owner of the vinegar factory (Essig-Mittel).With his wife Fanni (1892), nee Naumann, he had two children, Ilse (1916) and Paul, who left alreeady in 1937 for the USA, whereas Theo with his wife left in 1939 and had to wait in Havanna, befor they could enter the USA. In the pogrom night Theo has been chased cried through the Enggasse to the open  truck, which brought the Jews to the jail in Neustadt.

His cousin Josef (1877) with his wife Rosa (1890) lived in the same home. They also left in 1939 via Havanna to the states.

11 Schlossgasse

Owner 1932: Emil Brandis

Emil Brandis(1878) living in no. 11 had two sons, Adolf(1903 and Justin(1906), his wife Rinetta (1878) died already in 1926. The place next to her in the Unsleben cemetery did Emil Brandis reserve for himself.

In July 1934 Adolf bought a garden, which has been destroyed during one night.. Adolf filed a declaration, which also was directed against members of the SA. During the night of July 14/15 members of the SA demonstrated in front of the house, three windows were broken, a window shutter has been damaged and the door to the house pressed in. In that moment Justin, the younger brother of Adolf, fired twice out of a Browning­pistol. Against him a sentence has been demanded. Both brothers have been arrested in the jail in Neustadt. Adolf pointed out, that he did not blame members of the SA for the damage. On July 17 about 100, mainly younger people, demonstrated in front of the jail. The head of the county office was told that demonstrations would be continued until the two Jews would be deported into the KZ of Dachau. He therefor ordered the transfer to Schweinfurt.

On July 27 Adolf and Justin after consultation with the county office of the NSDAP were released under the condition not to return to Unsleben. They settled in Meiningen and emigrated in the USA. Her father sold the business place to Albert Mölter and finally moved to Leipzig from where he was deported to Izbica. According to an information of the mayor Albert Mölter bought his Emmentaler cheese in 1938 from the firm Brandis & Oberbrunner in Meiningen.

The history of the family:

Emil married in 1902 Rinetta Mittel (1878). They had two sons, Adolf and Justin.

Adolf was born in Unsleben 1903, 04/23, married 1929, 05/28 Ruth Rosenbaum, born 1908, 06/16 in Detmold. They had two children, Rolf and Inge.

Rolf was born 1930, 04/06 in Unsleben, got married 1954, 05/02 to Marlen Antler, born 1932, 10/21 in Chicago. They have three children, Alan, Marion and Judith.

Inge, born 1934, 11/25 in Meiningen got married to Philipp Sokol, they have two children. Andrea and Debbie.

Justin was born in Unsleben 1906, 05/02, got married 1945, 11/10 to Paula Lang. They have a son Kenneth, born 1947, 05/02. Kenneth visited several times Unsleben since the turn of the century. Kenneth married Amy Barnard, they have three children, Aaron, Naomi, and Dov.

Naomi married 2010, 01/04 Guy Binelli born in Georgia

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.