Emma Chapman

There are several towns in Germany named Homburg, this one is in Bavaria on the river Main, 25 kilometers west of Wuerzburg..Over 14 years the entire Freimark family left Germany one by one for the united states. Bertha was the first to leave in 1925 and then came Emmy, Emmy left for the USA from the port of Bremen on board the S.S "Berlin" as a single 19 years old woman, on November 11, 1926. arriving on Nov. 21, 10 days later. She gave her sister Bertha's name and address as destination in New York. Bertha her sister's was living at that time on 530 - 159th Str. It was the same address her sister Bertha gave a year earlier as her cousin Isaak Freimark's address in New York. She also stated that her nearest relative in the country she came from was SJ Freimark which means that her father was alive when she left home at the end of 1926. The date he died in Germany has not been established yet.