Jakob Herrmann

Birth record: LOCHOVICE (o. Beroun)1074 N 1839-1895 O 1840-1895 From 1840-1895 (10/59)

Marriage record: PLZEŇ (o. Plzeň-město) 1549 O 1868-1878 (8/44)

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Jakob and Marie Herrmann of Pilsen (today Plzeň, Czech Republic) had three daughters: Clara, born March 28, 1877; Paula; and Erna (sometimes called Ernestine). All three sisters lived in Vienna, Austria.

Clara, the oldest, married Jacques Schoenmann; they had two children, Hannah and Paul. Hanna married the Viennese optician Eric Oppenheimer, and had two children. Paul Schoenmann married Pipi Kern; they also had two children, George and Helly. Clara and Jacques Schoenmann remained in Vienna after the Anschluss of Austria, where Jacques died in January 1941 of natural causes. Clara was deported to Lodz, Poland, where she died in October 1941.Hannah and Eric Oppenheimer's two children went to England via Kindertransport, where they stayed until their parents could join them. Paul and Pipi Schoenmann went to Wales, where Paul founded a factory.

Jakob and Maria Herrmann's second daughter, Paula, married Joseph Beer, who owned a business manufacturing silk ties and scarves in Vienna. They had two children: Fritz (later Fred) and Alice. After Joseph's early death Paula continued his business. At some point, Paula Beer left Vienna to return to Pilsen to assist her aunt Charlotte, sister of Jakob Herrmann. She returned to Prague and died in the Holocaust. Fritz/ Fred Beer went to England, where he started a tie factory in Macclesfield before being sent to Australia, where he joined the Australian Army. Alice Beer married William Diamant; they had a daughter, Hannah, and lived in Prague. Theyemigrated from Prague to England, where Alice took over her brother's business when he left for Australia.

Erna Herrmann married Heinrich (usually called Hans) Mayer, the son of Elly Malz and Amalie Mayer. Heinrich Mayer ran his family's textile firm, Leopold Mayer and Sons, with his brother Franz until his brother's death in 1937, and his wife Erna worked as the firm's bookkeeper. Sometime in 1940 Erna and Hans Mayer left Vienna for Shanghai, traveling via train to Berlin and Moscow, across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostock, then via boat to Japan before arriving in Shanghai. Hans Mayer died at some point in the 1940s in Shanghai.

Erna and Heinrich Mayer had three children: Alfred, Auguste ("Gusti") and Kaethe. Alfred Mayer and his grandmother Elly Mayer went to England and in the 1950s, Canada, before Alfred Mayer went to the United States. Auguste Mayer married Emil Glauber in 1928; they had two children, George and Lore (later Eleanor G. Feitler). Auguste Glauber left Vienna with George and Lore for the United States in August/ September 1938 while Emil Glauber waited for his American visa in Antwerp, Belgium. The Glauber family eventually settled in Illinois. - Kaethe Mayer married Rudolph ("Rudi") Weiner. Rudolph Weiner was jailed in spring 1938. After his release they went to Chicago, Illinois, where Rudolph Weiner had connections in the laundry business; they later settled in Oakland, California.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Sep 21 2018, 19:02:55 UTC