Dr. Moritz Berwin

Moritz Berwin graduated in 1863 in the law studies in Posen. Reference: Starke, Hermann, Zur Geschichte des Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasiums zu Posen, Posen: Merzbach’sche Buchdruckerei, 1884, 68 pp. At Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus I, call number 26A14298. Photocopy of extract at Leo Baeck Institute.

Moritz Berwin was a lawyer in Berlin and had a Ph.D in Law, a Juris Doctorate. He was married and may have had a daughter. At the time of his death he was listed as a retired Counselor of the Court and lived at Berlin, Kroneberg, Landshuterstrasse 21. His presumed son Dr. Lucian Berwin certified his death in a civil document.

Information provided by Dr. Janet Rovenpor of New York December 2014 from records in the Center for Jewish History in NYC, NY.

He is buried in Berlin's Weissensse along with his wife Elise Sultan Berwin.

His daughter, was born in Gaeiwitz Germany according to the obituary in the Greensboro NC papers.

The town is most likely spelled Gleiwitz a some what famous town on the Polish German border. Famous because it was the scene of a Nazi attack before WW2 even started.

His daughter Frieda was murdered by the Nazis in Riga forest in 1941. See her profile for details.

Moritz and his wife were in Gleiwitz in 1882 and 1885 when their two daughters were born.