Fritz Löwenthal, Dr. med. - Fritz Löwenthal Relatives

Below is the Google Translate of the German website I mentioned in the previous post:

Family Loewenthal (Bahnstraße 44)

Elfriede Loewenthal was born on 9 January 1895 as daughter of Juliane and Moses Loewenthal, both Jewish faith, in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The mother, Juliane Loewenthal born Feist was born on January 12, 1859 came from Bendorf (now Rhineland-Palatinate). Elfrida's father, the chief clerk Moses Loewenthal, born in 1853 in Lennep near Remscheid, died already in 1930. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mülheim, is where today to find his grave stone. Elfriede Loewenthal had two sisters, Henriette and seven years older than Johanna, born on 28 January 1888 in Lennep.

Elfriede Loewe valley career began on Oberlyzeum in Oberhausen. There she was in 1914/15 their teaching exams and joined in June 1915, her service as a substitute teacher at the evangelical school at Mellinghofer road to (today municipal junior high school at the Mellinghofer road). The final appointment was made in March 1918 by the Royal Prussian Government, Department of Church and Education. Critical voices already expressed concerns about a 1922 appointing a Jewish teacher at a Protestant school. In its reply, however, the county and city council Peter pointed out that in the seven years of activity Elfriede Loewe valley at the Protestant school at Mellinghofer street no complaints were recorded and the Protestant character of the school was not endangered by their activities. Due to the political circumstances, the attitude changed towards Elfriede Loewenthal. She was born on April 21, 1933 on leave by the school board and the commissioner district president in Dusseldorf until further notice in order "to avoid unpleasant incidents."

In May 1933, Elfriede Loewenthal took over the behalf of the ill teacher in Dinslaken until she was two months later moved to the Jewish school in Essen. In April 1934, she went to its assigned place at the Jewish elementary school in Duisburg. There she taught under difficult conditions, and at times the only teacher all Jewish pupils from Duisburg and after the war began in 1939 10 students from Mülheim to the arranged closure of the school in late June 1942nd

The last freely chosen place of residence of Elfriede Loewenthal in Mülheim was Bahnstraße 44, where she lived with her mother and her sister Johanna Juliane together. From there, the forcible relocation took place in the "Jewish house" Delle 29. In July 1942 the family was deported via Dusseldorf in the Theresienstadt ghetto. There, the 84 year-old mother died in early 1943 the hardships and harassment of deportation. Her daughter Elfriede was probably further deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered and declared a May 8, 1945 dead. Previously, the older sister Johanna was deported in April 1942 after Izbica and was later killed in the Sobibor extermination camp. About the life and fate of Henriette Loewenthal, Elfriede's second sister, nothing is known.

I note that there is no mention of Fritz Loewenthal in this write-up.

I uploaded a photo of a man identified as a "Bendorfer Onkel." He appears to be the same person identified as Moritz Feist in a different photo.

My guess is that Moritz Feist is my grandfather Fritz Loewenthal's uncle, the brother of Juliane Feist (who is known to have come from Bendorf).

Dear Daniel,

probably you are right with this connection of your grandfather Fritz Löwenthal to this family that lived in Mülheim/Ruhr. I precise their dates via the »Gedenkbuch«-site that lists all people from Germany that have been perished throughout the Holocaust. This site comes from the German Bundesarchive and is the best source to find.
For the moment it's not a hundred per cent sure that all is correct, but no problem: this could be corrected later.

Best regards

Thomas

This is very interesting. I have meanwhile been researching the Feists, per your other post about Therese and her uncle Phillipe Löb and her mention of Fritz (possibly Löwenthal) There are some serious merge issues with the Feist / Gunz / Götz tree. There are two Mayer / Maier Goetz / Götz men married to the same woman, Eva Emilie Gunz Götz. There is a male Saly who is thus the half-brother of a Solomon (but Saly is a nickname for Solomon). There is a Peppi (unlikely name) who is the half-sister of a Rebeka (and Peppi is a nickname for Rebekah).I think these folks are related to you through Mortiz Feist and Therese Feist, but i have no evidence and i have not done any merging, because i feel that someone else should look them over.

Thomas, I am interested in your thoughts on something here. While I was pleased to have put pieces of the puzzle together looking for Fritz Lowenthal's relatives (or so I thought), I am bothered that this is not confirmed by documentation anywhere. I am wondering in particular about the site http://ahnenreich.de. Fritz does not show as a son of Moses and Juliane Lowenthal (Feist). Additionally, Moritz Feist doesn't show as a sister of Juliane Lowenthal (Feist). How should I interpret their absence? Is it more likely there is a gap in the data, or that my deductions are incorrect?

In the above post I shouldn't have said "not confirmed by documentation anywhere." I don't know that. I don't even know the places to look. All I can say is that the two places I know of that have information about this family (the Mulheim website translated above and the ahnenreich.de website) don't mention Fritz.

Can anyone explain why this website -- http://www2.genealogy.net/vereine/ArGeWe/jiw/Bendorf_Juden.htm -- does not show Juliane Feist (whom I believe but I would like to document is my great-grandmother) or Moritz Feist (whom I believe but would like to document is my great-uncle)? Juliane Feist is stated to be from Bendorf in the above-referenced Mulheim-Ruhr website. Photographs in my possession indicate Moritz Feist was from Bendorf. Thank you anyone who can help!

This does not mean nothing, Dan. This site relates to burials and to so called »Familienbücher« stored in archives or wherever. Mostly the data are from the time between 1750 and 1850. Feist is also a pre name and therefore you find so many matches there.

Thank you, Thomas

I found documents confirming our thesis! I've uploaded them as photos to my photo collection on Geni. I wasn't even looking for them. I was cleaning out an old wet outdoor shed and found a box of old correspondence. In it was correspondence with my Uncle Chaim. He had sent me these documents about the Bendorf branch of the family - probably twenty years ago.

The documents appear to be computerized printouts in English of records in Germany.

Isaak Feist and Amalie Feist are identified as Chaim's great grandparents. Besides Juliana Feist (now confirmed as my great-grandmother) and Mortitz Feist (now confirmed Fritz Lowenthal's Uncle), the Feists had six other children, previously unknown to me.

Oh my! How wonderful. This is great news indeed. I am going to check this out now.

Following Cat I can only congratulate for your energy!!