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My great grandmother of whom I have a photo was Ida Hackenbroch nee Lewisohn. She was born in Hamburg but am not sure of exact date.
She had three sons, Leon (my grandfather) Josef, Max and two daughters, Zerline and Fanny.
As far as I know the name Lewisohn is also spelled Lewinsohn.
The Lewisohns lived in Copenhagen in Denmark as far back as 1550. At some point they went to Hamburg which was then under Danish
rule as far as I know.
They were leaders in the German Jewish community of Hamburg and great philanthropists.
My great grandmother Ida was orthodox and the wife of the president of the Frankfurt community, Wilhelm Shimon Hackenbroch.
She passed away from the effects of breast cancer in the early 1900s.
Many of her descendants were named after her.
I have a story about Adolph Lewisohn whose parents were very orthodox.
He emigrated to the United States where he amassed an enormous fortune and was known as Copper King Lewisohn.
At some point he visited his parents in Hamburg which meant leaving a ship on the Sabbath which is not allowed according to Jewish law
and somehow made his way to his parents' house. There he was greeted by a slap in the face administered by his father who was very
orthodox! My great grandmother Ida nee Lewisohn had light coloured hair which is inherited by some of her descendants, including my grandfather
and some uncles and one aunt Ida who was named after her.
My father Dr Ernst Hackenbroch who was in England tried to save the Levys and Cohns who are related by contacting a British member of the
family but they failed to do so. They came to a tragic end in the concentration camps. He never forgot that. He knew them well as he
lived in Hamburg for a time and was a regular guest of Gustav Levy on Friday nights.