Luft family

 

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David LUFT ( - 1836) & UNNAMED

  1. •Leibusch David (Lewin) LUFT (1791, Krojanke - 4 March 1835, Flatow) & Gelicksche/Glücksche KIEWE (1795, Flatow - )

  2. ‣Kiewe LUFT (24 May 1819, Flatow - 7 May 1903, New York, NY) & Pauline Feigelschen (Vögelchen) HEIDE (25 July 1809, Flatow - 4 March 1884, Flatow)

  3. -David LUFT (15 August 1841, Flatow - 26 July 1903, New York, NY) & Minna JACOBUS (15 August 1844 - 12 January 1929, New York, NY)

        The descendants of David Luft are not listed due to permission issues.  Please contact me directly for information on them.

  1. -Nuhme LUFT (3 November 1843, Flatow - 16 January 1845, Flatow)

  2. -Levy (?) LUFT (15 November 1845, Flatow - )

  3. -Abraham LUFT & UNNAMED

  4. •LUFT

  5. •Hulda LUFT & Frank

  6. ‣David LUFT** (29 November 1817, Flatow - ) & Beile LUFT

        David Luft married Beile Luft, who was probably his cousin (see comments under Machol David Luft, below)

  1. -Nuhme LUFT (18 August 1841, Flatow - 7 May 1843, Flatow)

  2. -Manasse LUFT (12 February 1843, Flatow - )

  3. -Michle LUFT (13 December 1844, Flatow - )

  4. -Süsmann LUFT (20 November 1846, Flatow - )

  5. ‣So... LUFT (22 November 1822, Flatow - ) The first name is illegible. Looks like it starts with “So”

  6. ‣Jacob LUFT (27 July 1830, Flatow - )

  7. ‣Rebecca LUFT (30 March 1833, Flatow - )

  8. •Machol David LUFT & Ruhle SALOMON

         Hanne and Beile (below) being the daughters of Machol Luft is somewhat speculative. The marriage records of Flatow show Hanne being the daughter of Michael Luft.  This may have been an error either in the writing of the name or in my reading of it.  For Beile it is even more speculative.  The records simply show Beile or Berta Luft being married to David Luft.  There are records of three Lufts in Flatow belonging to her father’s generation, Leibusch, Machol, and Samuel.  Leibusch is the father of Beile’s husband, so he can’t be her father. Samuel had another daughter named Beile (who married Marcus Klein, see below).  Therefore her father is probably the remaining Luft, Machol.

  1. ‣Hanne LUFT (about 1824 - ) & Freitel WEISS (about 1823 - ) (married 13 April 1847)

  2. ‣Beile/Berta LUFT** (?) & David LUFT (29 November 1817, Flatow - )

        Beile or Berta Luft married David Luft, above.

  1. -Nuhme LUFT (18 August 1841, Flatow - 7 May 1843, Flatow)

  2. -Manasse LUFT (12 February 1843, Flatow - )

  3. -Michle LUFT (13 December 1844, Flatow - )

  4. -Süsmann LUFT (20 November 1846, Flatow - )

  5. •Samuel David LUFT (January 1795, Krojanke - 25 March 1869, Flatow) & Branche (Brigitte) KOPPEL (1797, Rogasen - 8 April 1881, Krojanke)

  6. ‣David LUFT (28 November 1824 - 20 October 1828)

  7. ‣Leihe (Helene) LUFT (2 January 1827 - ) & Moses TAU

  8. -David TAU & UNNAMED

  9. •Nathan TAU (1870, Krojanke – 1941, Beuthen) & Julie JULIUS (1863 or 1869, Krojanke – about 1942, Auschwitz)

  10. ‣Max TAU (19 January 1897 - 13 March 1976) & Tove FILSETH (1 September 1905, Lillehammer, Norway - )

  11. ‣Friedel TAU (1899, Beuthen - ) & REIN

  12. ‣Fritz TAU (1902 - )

  13. ‣Schmuhl (Samuel) LUFT (2 May 1828 - ) & Rachel MARGONINSKY

  14. ‣Noemi LUFT (5 February 1836 - )

  15. ‣David LUFT (28 November 1836, Krojanke - 4 March 1881, Plienitz) & Henriette COHN (3 May 1833, Plienitz - 17 August 1915)

  16. -Samuel LUFT (died in Frankfurt an der Oder) & Martha PLACZECK

  17. •Selma LUFT (2 February 1892 - April 1982, New York, NY) & William BAB

  18. ‣Helmut BAB

  19. ‣Erica BAB & William NESBITT

  20. -Pamela NESBITT

  21. -Elizabeth NESBITT

  22. -Max LUFT & Martha PLACZECK

  23. •Elsbet LUFT & Erich JACKS (died in London)

  24. ‣Hella JACKS

  25. •Hertha LUFT (12 June 1896, Frankfurt an der Oder - February 1943, Auschwitz) & Hans WIENER (23 June 1889, Schwersenz - February 1943, Auschwitz)

  26. -Natalie LUFT & Michael JOSEPHSOHN

  27. •David JOSEPHSOHN ( - 1945)

  28. •Hilda JOSEPHSOHN (3 April 1894, Crone an der Brahe - February 1943, Auschwitz) & Erich BORCHARDT (3 May 1888, Kremmen - February 1943, Auschwitz)

  29. ‣Inge BORCHARDT (26 August 1927, Berlin - )

  30. -Robert LUFT & Hedwig HEYMANN

  31. •Elsa LUFT (6 January 1905, Frankfurt an der Oder – 1944 Auschwitz) & Kurt FELLERT (1 July 1894, Fürstenberg (Oder) – 1944, Auschwitz)

  32. ‣RITA FELLERT (6 February 1931, Frankfurt an der Oder – 1944 Auschwitz)

  33. ‣Lothar FELLERT (6 April 1936, Frankfurt an der Oder – 1944 Auschwitz)

  34. •Günther LUFT (2 November 1913, Frankfurt an der Oder - March 1943, Auschwitz)

  35. -Sally LUFT (16 December 1869, Prignitz - 22 July 1942, Theresienstadt) & Bertha LANDSHOFF (2 April 1875, Hamburg - 13 January 1943, Theresienstadt)

  36. •Walter LUFT (4 May 1906, Essen - 16 August 1940, Le Vernet, France)

  37. •Herbert Georg LUFT (27 August 1907, Essen - 13 January 1992, Beverly Hills, California) & Pepi (Paula) FEUER (9 September 1907 - 28 June 1997, Beverly Hills, California) 

        Growing up in Los Angeles I knew Herbert and Pepi Luft; they visited our home often.  Herbert worked in the movie business, mainly as a film critic. 

  1. -Caeser (Cäsar) LUFT (4 March 1874, Krojanke - 23 July 1939, Berlin) & Gertrud ARNDT (11 January 1886 - 3 March 1975) Cäser Luft is buried in the Berlin Weissensee Cemetery. See photo at left.

  2. •Walter David LUFT (15 November 1907, Berlin - January 2008) & Annemarie SCHNEIDER (3 February 1919, Berlin - 20 August 2009, Milford, NY)

  3. ‣Jill LUFT* (1949, Cooperstown, NY - ) & Dennis BUFFO

  4. -Shawn David LUFT, born BUFFO (1972 - ) & Kimberly Ann Walker

  5. •Riley Jordan LUFT

  6. •Madison Ann LUFT

  7. ‣Jill LUFT* (1949 - ) & Chris SMITH

  8. ‣Jill LUFT* (1949 - ) & Gregory NUNN

  9. •Gerhard LUFT* (30 November 1908, Berlin - about 2000, Austria) & Margot Paula LITTMANN (23 December 1912, Berlin - 28 February 1945, Auschwitz)

  10. •Gerhard LUFT* (30 November 1908, Berlin - about 2000, Austria) & Stella DREXLER (about 1907 - about 2007)

  11. ‣Beile (Bertha/Berta) LUFT (6 May 1840, Tarnowke - 3 June 1908, Krojanke) & Marcus KLEIN (30 October 1829, Krojanke - 21 December 1891, Krojanke)

  12. -Rosalie (Rulle) KLEIN (30 October 1856, Tarnowke - ) & Ascher SOMMERFELD ( - 3 July 1908, Krojanke)

  13. •Max SOMMERFELD (died in Chile) & Lotte MENGEL (died in Chile)

  14. ‣Ruth SOMMERFELD & Bernhard BERDICHESKI

  15. -Andrés BERDICHESKI & Yael KLEIN

  16. •Anat BERDICHESKI

  17. -Vivian BERDICHESKI & Hugo LOYOLA

  18. •Antonia LOYOLA (2007 - )

  19. •Sebastián LOYOLA (2009 - )

  20. -Ricardo BERDICHESKI (1972 - )

  21. •Anni SOMMERFELD ( - 1994, Chile) & Erwin SPICKER

  22. -Abraham KLEIN (17 August 1864, Krojanke - )

  23. -Lina KLEIN (16 November 1868, Krojanke - 19 January 1942, Lodz Ghetto) & Bernhard BENDIT (?, Krojanke – about 1942, Lodz Ghetto)

  24. •Anna BENDIT ( - ?, Chile) & Hugo KAFFE ( - ?, Chile)

  25. ‣Siegbert KAFFE & Cely POLAJEWER

  26. •Fritz BENDIT (died in Chile)  & Meta MARKUSE (died in Chile)

  27. •Regina BENDIT (died in Chile)  & Martin ROSENBERG (died in Chile)

        Some of the following names use the Spanish convention of having the father’s last name followed by the mother’s last name.

  1. ‣Joachim ROSENBERG BENDIT (8 June 1922, Krojanke - 8 September 1998, Santiago, Chile)  & Inge HIRSCHBERG SCHACHMANN (11 June 1933, Berlin - )

  2. -Lilian ROSENBERG (1955 - )& Guillermo NUDMAN GORDON (1947 - )

  3. •Tania NUDMAN (1980 - ) & David Robert BERLIN ROSENBLUT (1972, Haifa, Israel - )

  4. ‣Moshe BERLIN (2006 - )

  5. ‣Sara BERLIN (2007 - )

  6. •Andrea Clarita NUDMAN (1982 - )

  7. •Vanessa NUDMAN (1987 - )

  8. •Natalie NUDMAN (1990 - )

  9. •Siegfried BENDIT (died in Chile) & Lisa SILBERSCHER ( - 1995, Chile)

  10. -Sarah KLEIN (21 April 1870, Krojanke - 13 March 1944, Santiago, Chile)) & Benno GROSS (8 June 1872, Zempelburg - ?, Krojanke)

  11. •Rosa GROSS (28 July 1896, Zempleburg - 16 January 1977, Maabarot, Israel) & Leo BLOCH (2 December 1883, Bentschen - 18 January 1963, Maabarot, Israel)

  12. ‣Hanni BLOCH (20 June 1923, Berlin - ) & Salomon (Shlomo) AISNER (30 August 1922, Zolkiewka - )

  13. -Jehoschua AISNER (1950, Petach Tikwah, Israel - ) & Tamar KUBANI (1952, Rechowoth, Israel - )

  14. •Yaniw AISNER (1982,  - )

  15. •Arnon AISNER (1985 - )

  16. •Matan AISNER (1993 - )

  17. -Dan AISNER & Dafna ALEXANDROWITSCH (1959 - )

  18. •Carmel AISNER (1986 - )

  19. -Dorit AISNER (1963 - ) & Akiva DULITZKI later DORON (1950 - )

  20. •Ronnie DORON (1989 - )

  21. •Maya DORON (1992 - )

  22. •Tal DORON (1995 - )

  23. ‣Inge BLOCH (2 December 1930, Berlin - ) & Schraga HEYUM (24 March 1931, Mannheim - )

  24. -Michal HEYUM (1958 - ) & Jehuda COHEN

  25. •Ortal COHEN (1983 - )

  26. •Carmel COHEN (1988 - )

  27. •Lotan COHEN (1997 - )

  28. -Gabriela (Gaby) HEYUM (1961 - ) & Baruch KONORTI

  29. •Inbal KONORTI (1984 - ) & Netanel DAHAN

  30. ‣Lee-Yam DAHAN (2009 - )

  31. •Omri KONORTI (1989 - )

  32. •Eden KONORTI (1995 - )

  33. -Liora HEYUM (1969 - )

  34. •Max GROSS (23 June 1898, Zempelburg - 30 July 1988, Detroit, MI) & Magda KOSCHINSKY

  35. ‣Harold Bernd GROSS (1 December, Berlin  - )

  36. ‣Eva GROSS (24 March, Berlin  - ) & Arno

  37. •Siegfried GROSS (26 September 1899, Zempelburg - April 1943, Auschwitz) & Liesbet GUMPERT (14 June 1902, Berlin - April 1943, Auschwitz)

  38. •Anni GROSS (?, Zempelburg – about 1943, Auschwitz) & Herbert GINTZ (9 March 1903 - January 1943, Auschwitz)

  39. ‣Heinz GINTZ (5 November 1928, Berlin - July 1943, Auschwitz)

  40. •Fritz GROSS (28 April 1901, Zempelburg -  ?, Los Angeles) & Rosa RIFKIN

  41. ‣Harald GROSS

  42. -Sophie KLEIN (6 May 1872, Krojanke - )

  43. -Samuel (Sally) KLEIN* (11 July 1874, Krojanke - 6 October 1939, Berlin) & Hulda MOSES

  44. •Dagobert KLEIN (12 October 1904, Wirsitz - August 1942, Auschwitz)

  45. -Samuel (Sally) KLEIN* (11 July 1874, Krojanke - 6 October 1939, Berlin) & Fanny JACOBSOHN (16 November 1889, Heilsberg - 31 May 1956, Santiago, Chile)

  46. •Manfred KLEIN (8 May 1922, Berlin - ) & Gisela GRÜN (12 July 1927, Berlin - )

  47. ‣Samuel KLEIN (1957 - ) & Fiona REITICH (1963 - )

  48. ‣Enriqueta KLEIN (1954 - ) & Elias ZAVELEV (1950 - )

  49. -Bernardo ZAVELEV (1981 - )

  50. -Daniel ZAVELEV (1984 - )

  51. ‣   Jakob LUFT (Vater Jakob)* (29 July 1847 - 10 October 1929, Berlin) & Jeanette MORGENSTERN (29 March 1844 - 2 May 1898, Berlin)

        See photos above and at the bottom of the page.

  1. -   Max (der “Älteste”) LUFT* (31 January 1872, Tarnowke - 24 August 1946, Berlin) & Henriette BEHRENDT (10 September 1873, Colberg - 31 March 1911, Berlin)

  2. •   Johanna (Hanna) LUFT (22 May 1902, Berlin - August 1943, KZ Auschwitz) & Bernhard WARSZAWSKI (31 Jan 1920 (??) - 0 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  3. ‣   Hans WARSZAWSKI (1920 - about 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  4. -   Max (der “Älteste”) LUFT* (31 January 1872 - 24 August 1946) & Unknown

  5. -   Max (der “Älteste”) LUFT* (31 January 1872, Tarnowke - 24 August 1946, Berlin) & Hedwig Klara TWARDY (18 July 1892, Breslau - 2 May 1977, Berlin)

  6. •   Harry LUFT (25 July 1919, Berlin - ) & Gisela CYCHI (17 December 1925, Berlin - )

  7. ‣   Monika Gabriele LUFT (1946 - ) & Friedrich-Karl THIEL (1943 - )

  8. -   Christopher Wenzel THIEL (1980 - )

  9. ‣   Reinhard Max LUFT* (1948 - ) & Margit

  10. ‣   Reinhard Max LUFT* (1948 - ) & Gabriele BUKALL (1949 - )

  11. -   Phillip LUFT (1982 - )

  12. -   David Gabriele LUFT (1985 - )

  13. •   Netty JEANETTE LUFT* (25 July 1921 - ) & Rudi-Erwin PINCUS (25 April 1910, Berlin - 4 February 1945, Salza)

  14. ‣   Joachim Detlev Georg PINCUS born LUFT (1941 - ) & Helga Irmgard Ursula JAESCHKE (1935 - )

  15. •   Netty JEANETTE LUFT* (25 July 1921 - ) & Walter CORDES (11 July 1920, Hamm - 26 April 1998, Berlin)

  16. ‣   Ilona Gabriele CORDES (20 March 1951, Berlin - 28 March 1951, Berlin)

  17. ‣   Marion CORDES (15 October 1952, Berlin - 15 October 1952, Berlin)

  18. ‣   Gabriele CORDES (15 October 1952, Berlin - 15 October 1952, Berlin)

  19. ‣   Sylvia CORDES (15 October 1952, Berlin - 15 October 1952, Berlin)

  20. ‣   Rainer CORDES (1954 - ) & Regine KUNZE (1957 - )

  21. -   Sandra CORDES (1984 - )

  22. •   Gerda Henriette LUFT (9 February 1924, Berlin - 14 November 1948, Berlin) & Walter CORDES (11 July 1920, Hamm - 26 April 1998, Berlin)

  23. - Natalie (Tale) LUFT* (15 December 1873, Berlin - 16 May 1944, KZ Auschwitz) & HEIMANN

  24. •   Alfred LUFT* (9 January 1893, Dresden - 4 December 1976, Stockholm, Sweden) & Edith Gertrud EISENSTAEDT (7 June 1896, Berlin - February 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

     Alfred Luft, my grandfather, is shown at left.  He owned a textile company in Berlin.  One day the Gestapo came to the business looking for him.  He grabbed his passport, went out the back door, headed for Sweden, and never went back. Why the Gestapo was looking for him is a bit murky.  I’ve heard that it was due to his friendship with a French spy, or maybe it was because his girlfriend was an “Aryan.” In any case, he settled in Stockholm, where he lived until his death in 1976.

  1. ‣   Eva Nanni LUFT (1921 - ) & Gunnar Arthur GLUCKMAN (1922 - )  See photos at the bottom of the page.

  2. -   Anita GLUCKMAN (1949 - )

  3. -   Clas GLUCKMAN (1951 - ) & Linda SMOOT  Newlyweds!!!

  4. ‣   Susanne (Susi) Jeanette LUFT (1924 - ) & Paul Louis KESTER (1925 - )  See photos at the bottom of the page.

  5. -   Daniel John KESTER (1954 - ) This is me (creator of this website) & Anna Gunilla THEANDER (1958 - )

  6. •    Anya Rebecca KESTER (1989 - )

  7. •    Shiri Sophia KESTER (1991 - )

  8. ‣   Werner Wolf LUFT (2 July 1929, Berlin - 25 January 2005, Golden, CO) & Helene TOITOT (1929 - )

     Werner Luft was an artist and a scientist.  He studied art as a teenager, including in post-war Paris.  There he saw many starving artists, so decided he needed a back-up plan. He studied engineering in Stockholm, then immigrated to the U.S.  He was one of the early researchers into photovoltaic solar cells, publishing a couple of books on the subject, and was instrumental in developing their use for space applications.  He continued painting throughout his life; one of his paintings is shown above.

  1. -   Alyce Jasmine LUFT (1953 - ) & Barry POST (1952 - )

  2. •    Madeline Valerie POST (1991 - )

  3. -   Valerie Nadine LUFT (1957 - ) & Marshall Charles NOVACK (1955 - )

  4. •    Justine NOVACK (1990 - )

  5. •    Jared Mathew NOVACK (1993 - )

  6. •   Alfred LUFT* (9 January 1893, Dresden - 4 December 1976, Stockholm, Sweden) & Gertrud (Trudel) MÖGLICH geborene WAGNER (20 January 1906 - 20 February 1973, Stockholm, Sweden)

  7. -   Natalie (Tale) LUFT* (15 December 1873, Berlin - 16 May 1944, KZ Auschwitz) & Joseph TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER/FRIEDLAND (approx 1874 - 4 January 1948, New York)

        Joseph TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER was the grandson of Rabbi Nathan Friedland (1808-1873). Together with Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, Friedland was one of the original “proto-Zionists,” Zionists fifty years before Theodor Herzl (the “Father of Zionism”).  These early Zionists, mostly Rabbis, based their Zionism on religious arguments, rather than on the secular political arguments of Herzl.

  1. •   Charlotte TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER/FRIEDLAND* (28 December 1898, Berlin - 28 February 1966, Bremen) & Paul Bernhard SCHULZ (30 August 1895, Berlin-Kreuzberg - 12 September 1956, Berlin)

  2. ‣   Lieselotte SCHULZ (19 February 1919 - February, 2008) & Karl-Heinz FALLDORF (20 October 1921, Bremen - 4 January 1999, Bremen)

  3. -   Klaus Peter FALLDORF* (1946 - ) & Magrit Alke DOHRMANN (1944 - )

  4. -   Klaus Peter FALLDORF* (1946 - ) & Heike Elske WEBER (1955 - )

  5. -   Monika FALLDORF (1947 - ) & Walter SCHIRRMEISTER (1940 - )

  6. •    Claudia SCHIRRMEISTER (1970 - ) & Michael KLAHN (1965 - )

  7. •    Benjamin KLAHN (1998 - ) 

  8. •   Charlotte TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER/FRIEDLAND* (28 December 1898, Berlin - 28 February 1966, Bremen) & Georg Johann (Schorsch) RUDAU (30 June 1896, Berlin - 28 September 1969, Löhnhorst)

  9. ‣   Veronika (Vera) RUDAU (1928 - ) & Erwin Willi Heinrich SCHMIDT (22 January 1922, Springe - 26 September 1986, Berlin)

Veronika Schmidt is an author writing under the name Vera FRIEDLÄNDER.  Her books include, Man kann nicht eine halbe Jüdin sein (One cannot be a half-Jew) and Späte Notizen.  She was a Professor of German Language at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She was a winner of the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize for her writing.

  1. -   Jutta SCHMIDT (12 October 1951, Berlin - 21 February 1984, Berlin) & Peter Heinz DAUTH (1949 - ))

  2. •    Benjamin DAUTH (1975 - )

  3. •    Valentin DAUTH (1981 - )  

  4. -   Herbert SCHMIDT verheiratet HEMKE (1955 - ) & Dagmar HEMKE (1957 - ))

  5. •    Bella Dagmar HEMKE (1982 - )

  6. •    Felix Herbert HEMKE (1984 - )

  7. -   Ulrich (Ulli) SCHMIDT (1962 - )

  8. •   Martin TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER/FRIEDLAND (approx 1900, Berlin - )

            Immigrated to New York

  1. •   Deborah TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER/FRIEDLAND (11 January 1902, Berlin - March 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  2. •   Edith TAWRIGOWSKI genannt FRIEDLÄNDER/FRIEDLAND (16 January 1905, Berlin - 5 January 1967, Berlin) & Leo WITKOWSKI (17 December 1904, Berlin - )

  3. ‣   Karl-Heinz (Heini) WITKOWSKI* (12 May 1926, Berlin - ) & Elisabeth BRANDT (24 September 1924 - 3 December 1976, Berlin)

  4. -   Michael WITKOWSKI (1948 - )

  5. -   Norbert WITKOWSKI (1952 - )

  6. ‣   Karl-Heinz (Heini) WITKOWSKI* (12 May 1926 - ) & Unknown

  7. -   Natalie (Tale) LUFT* (15 December 1873, Berlin - 16 May 1944, KZ Auschwitz) & Bernhard WILHELM (23 August 1864, Traunburg - )

  8. -   Dorothea (Dora) LUFT* (1 April 1875, Berlin - 25 May 1949, Berlin) & KORN

  9. •   Erwin Siegfried KORN* (1 March 1900, Berlin - 19 November 1969, Berlin) & Erna SAGERT (11 June 1900, Landsberg/Gorzow - 21 December 1979, Berlin)

  10. ‣   Vera KORN* (3 June 1922 - ) & Heinz SIEGEL (1 September 1924 - )

  11. ‣   Vera KORN* (3 June 1922 - ) & Günter ARON (1 August 1912, Berlin - 30 October 1982, Berlin)

  12. ‣   Harry KORN (19 June 1928 - ) & Regina BIRNBAUM (22 April 1927 - )

  13. -   Renate KORN (1953 - ) & Klaus SIMON 1943 - ))

  14. •    Mike SIMON (1970 - )

  15. •    Babette SIMON (1971 - )   

  16. •   Erwin Siegfried KORN* (1 March 1900 - 19 November 1969) & Charlotte MÜLLER born WEISS (23 February 1908 - )

  17. -   Dorothea (Dora) LUFT* (1 April 1875 - 25 May 1949) & Bernhard NIESLONY

  18. -   Selma LUFT (28 February 1878, Tarnowke - 31 August 1942, KZ Auschwitz) & Max MAKOWSKI (9 October 1870, Warsaw - )

  19. •   Alex MAKOWSKI (?, Dortmund - 1978, Laurenberg) & Maria BAHNEN ( - January 1979, Aachen)

  20. ‣   Margot MAKOWSKI* (10 April 1921 - ) & Eugené BOLLYN ( - 30 March 1962)

  21. -   Karin BOLLYN

  22. ‣   Margot MAKOWSKI* (10 April 1921 - ) & Jean SMARS

  23. -   SMARS

  24. -   SMARS

  25. -   SMARS

  26. ‣   Max MAKOWSKI (23 January 1933 - ) & Thea HEINZ (3 July 1935 - )

  27. -   Robert Theodor Alexander MAKOWSKI* (1955 - ) & Ursula UMANN (1956 - )

  28. -   Robert Theodor Alexander MAKOWSKI* (1955 - ) & Edeltrud GÜNTER (1950 - ))

  29. •    Sarah MAKOWSKI (1985 - )

  30. •    David MAKOWSKI (1985 - )

  31. •   Joseph Sigmund MAKOWSKI (2 May 1898, Dresden - 28 September 1977, Aachen) & Laura Marie Margarethe (Grete) BOCK (18 December 1896 - 22 August 1989, Aachen)

  32. ‣   Ernestine Marie (Margot) MAKOWSKI* (22 February 1924 - about 2004) & Willi GÖRTZ

  33. -   Dieter Josef GÖRTZ (1946 - ) & Christa KLIPPEL (1950 - ))

  34. •    Sandra GÖRTZ (1969 - )

  35. -   Käthe Marie Lieselotte GÖRTZ (29 March 1953 - )

  36. •    Ivonne (1970 - )

  37. •    Ingo (1972 - )

  38. -   Käthe Marie Lieselotte GÖRTZ (29 March 1953 - ) & Klaus Dieter SCHUMANN (1947 - )

  39. •    Boris SCHUMANN (1980 - )

  40. ‣    Sina SCHUMANN (2006 - )

  41. •    Sabrina SCHUMANN (1982 - )

  42. ‣    Joey SCHUMANN (2003 - )

  43. ‣   Ernestine Marie (Margot) MAKOWSKI* (1924 - about 2004) & Kurt WEISSWEILER (1935 - )

  44. ‣   Helmut Hans Ernst MAKOWSKI (1925 - about 2005) & Gertrud (Gerda) HECK (1929 - )

  45. •   Charlotte (Lotte) MAKOWSKI (21 June 1899, Aachen - 11 December 1984, Amersfoort, Netherlands) & Christiaan Johan VAN ZETTEN (21 April 1895, Wageningen, Netherlands - 4 April 1962, Utrecht, Netherlands)

  46. ‣   Christina (Tini) Johanna VAN ZETTEN (7 July 1926 - ) & Jan STAAL (13 April 1924 - )

  47. -   Ingeborg Selma STAAL (1953 - ) & Johannes BOUWENS (1951 - )

  48. •    Marnie BOUWENS (1979 - )

  49. •    Justin BOUWENS (1982 - )

  50. -   Marion Charlotte STAAL (1955 - ) & Willem DEKKER (1950 - )

  51. •    Myrthe Linda DEKKER (1986 - )

  52. •    Renate Daphne DEKKER (1988 - )

  53. ‣   Max Willem VAN ZETTEN (1928 - ) & Augusta PLANTENGA (1926 - )

  54. -   Charlotte (Lotty) Barendine VAN ZETTEN (1959 - )

  55. -   Hanneke Christine VAN ZETTEN (1962 - )

  56. •   Bertha MAKOWSKI* (5 February 1901, Aachen - 29 May 1970, Simmerath) & Hermann BURGHART (28 October 1898, Leipzig - 1942, KZ Auschwitz)

  57. •   Bertha MAKOWSKI* (5 February 1901, Aachen - 29 May 1970, Simmerath) & Peter DRABIN

  58. •   Theodor (Theo) MAKOWSKI (7 April 1902, Aachen - 23 December 1989, La Ciotat, France) & Anna Hunbertine Mathilda (Anne) LEYENDECKER (22 May 1906, Aachen - 15 May 1974, La Ciotat, France)

  59. ‣   Mireille MAKOWSKI (1944 - ) & Hubert ROUILLER (1940 - )

  60. •   Gertrude (Trude) MAKOWSKI (13 June 1904 - 17 October 1948, Aachen) & Franz BLENKERS

  61. •   Ismar (Jizchak) MAKOWSKI* (13 March 1917, Aachen or Vaals, Netherlands - 5 February 1987, München) & Jael (Genia) AWES (20 August 1924, Dortmund - 13 August 1981, München)

  62. ‣   Irit MAKOWSKI (5 December 1947 - 24 June 2003) & Ilie CIUBOTARU (1943 - )

  63. -   Josef (Joschi) CIUBOTARU (1971 - ) & Miriam PENNING (1970 - )

  64. •    Sarah PENNING (1998 - )

  65. •    Dalia PENNING (2001 - )

  66. -   Tamara (Tammy) CIUBOTARU (1977 - ) & Adi SEGAL

  67. •    Liam SEGAL (2003 - )

  68. •    Ilai SEGAL (2006 - )

  69. ‣   Edna Selma MAKOWSKI* (1952 - ) & Ariel (Arik) SHACHAF (1953 - )

  70. -   Ron (Ronny) DRAUDT (1977 - )

  71. ‣   Edna Selma MAKOWSKI* (1952 - ) & Jürgen DRAUDT (1951 - )

  72. -   Natascha DRAUDT (1985 - )

  73. ‣   Edna Selma MAKOWSKI* (1952 - ) & Bernhard Heinrich Ernst (Bernd) BERENS (1956 - )

  74. -   Scarlet Marlen DRAUDT later BERENS (1988 - )

  75. •   Ismar (Jizchak) MAKOWSKI* (12 March 1917 - 5 February 1987) & Alma RAUCHWERGER (6 January 1922 - )

  76. -   Sally LUFT* (29 November 1879, Tarnowke - 12 October 1964, Riehen, Switzerland) & Hedwig Jeanette SÜSSKIND ( - 13 October 1911)

  77. •   Jeanette (Netti) LUFT (17 July 1904, Ludwigslust - approx 1942) & Franz LICHTENSTEIN (21 December 1897, Breslau - 22 January 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  78. -   Sally LUFT* (29 November 1879, Tarnowke - 12 October 1964, Riehen, Switzerland) & Martha GABBE (29 October 1878 - 11 July 1953)

  79. -   Sally LUFT* (29 November 1879 Tarnowke - 12 October 1964, Riehen, Switzerland) & Charlotte (Lotte) Esther SADINSKY (23 October 1905 - )

  80. -   Bertha LUFT* (13 March 1882, Tarnowke - 17 October 1950, Berlin) & Isaak TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (approx 1873 - 23 December 1915, Berlin)

  81. •   Martin TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER/FRANKLIN* (18 January 1904, London - 29 May 1972, Bushey, England) & Käthe Agnes Maria WALKER (9 December 1904, Berlin - )

  82. •   Martin TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER/FRANKLIN* (18 January 1904, London - 29 May 1972, Bushey, England) & Alice STROM (18 April 1903, Glogau - 8 December 1985, Bournemouth, England)

  83. ‣   Judith Frances FRANKLIN (1946 - ) & Geoffrey PEARL (1943 - )

  84. -   Alexandra (Alex) PEARL (1967 - )

  85. -   Martina (Tina) PEARL (1972 - )

  86. -   Samantha (Sam) PEARL (1974 - )

  87. •   Herbert Josef TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (3 March 1905, Berlin - approx  February 1943, KZ Auschwitz) & Elsa LOHDE (26 July 1902, Berlin - approx  February 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  88. ‣   Gerhard TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (29 September 1934, Berlin - approx  February 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  89. ‣   Bela TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (10 March 1941, Berlin - approx  February 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  90. •   Nathan Paul TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER* (7 July 1906, Berlin - approx  February 1943, KZ Auschwitz) & Anna RIEHL

  91. •   Nathan Paul TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER* (7 July 1906, Berlin - approx  February 1943, KZ Auschwitz) & Charlotte MODRZE (23 September 1914, Bochum - approx  January 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  92. ‣   Eveline Brigitte Berta TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (13 December 1930, Berlin - approx  January 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  93. ‣   Heinz Carlo Julius TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (8 July 1933, Berlin - approx  January 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  94. ‣   Denny TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (27 December 1940, Berlin - approx  January 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  95. •   Bernhard (Benno) TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (10 June 1913, Berlin - approx  April 1944, KZ Auschwitz) & Erika KAHN (25 November 1920, Berlin - approx  April 1944, KZ Auschwitz)

  96. ‣   Gitta TAWRIGOWSKI called FRIEDLÄNDER (8 December 1939, Berlin - approx  April 1944, KZ Auschwitz)

  97. -   Bertha LUFT* (13 March 1882, Tarnowke - 17 October 1950, Berlin) & Carl Ferdinand August BETHKE ( - 15 February 1953, Berlin)

  98. -   Gertrud (Trude) LUFT (23 December 1885 - 3 June 1963, Düsseldorf) & David MAKOWSKI ( - 3 December 1947, Belgium)

  99. •   Herbert Benjamin MAKOWSKI* (31 May 1908, Dortmund - 7 June 1971, Hausen bei Bad Kissingen) & Selma SOMMERFELD (19 June 1909, Schwertz - approx  December 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  100. ‣   Monique MAKOWSKI (6 October 1941, Nice, France - approx  December 1943, KZ Auschwitz)

  101. •   Herbert Benjamin MAKOWSKI* (31 May 1908, Dortmund - 7 June 1971, Hausen bei Bad Kissingen) & Helena (Hella) LESZCZYNSKA (11 July 1925, Warsaw - 28 August 1995, Düsseldorf)

  102. ‣   Jakob LUFT (Vater Jakob)* (29 July 1847 - 10 October 1929, Berlin) & Elise (Else) MEYER (16 March 1861, Harzgerode - 28 August 1942, Theresienstadt)

  103. Else was Jacob’s second wife.  In the Jewish Museum in Berlin, there is a whole display case about her and her daughter Kate.  It includes letters sent between Kate in Shanghai and Else in Berlin and later Theresienstadt.  See photo below.

  104. -Käte LUFT (18 February 1902, Eisleben - 21 February 1902, Eisleben)   

  105. -Käte (Kate) LUFT (25 June 1904, Eisleben - 22 September 1984, San Jose, CA) & Walter FRÄNKEL (8 May 1892, Schneidemühl - 30 November 1958, San Francisco, CA)

    Kate and Walter Fraenkel escaped Germany for Shanghai.  Shanghai was considered the place of last resort, for Jews in Germany who were unable to get visas for anywhere else.  Living conditions were terrible.  As Kate told me in later years, “When people hear that I lived in Shanghai, they say, ‘Oh that must have been interesting.’  It was NOT interesting!”  They owned a small radio repair shop in Shanghai.  After the war they came to San Francisco.  Walter died in 1958.  Kate lived in San Francisco until the late 1970’s, when her health got poor and she moved to a home in San Jose. A picture of her with her parents is shown below.





*People with asterisks after their names were married two or more times.  They have a separate line for each spouse.

**People with two asterisks after their name were married to a relative who can also be found somewhere on these pages.



Luft is my mother’s family’s name.  The earliest records of this Luft family are from the town of Krojanke, now Krajenke, a small town in what is now northwest Poland, but was previously part of West Prussia (see MAP).  Family members also lived in Flatow (now Zlotow), a larger town about 5 km (3 miles) from Krojanke.  The brothers Leibusch, Samuel, and Machol all took the name Luft when Jews in that area took family names, around 1812.


The brother Samuel (1795 - 1869) had several children.  His son David (1836 - 1881) had several descendants who were killed during the Holocaust.  Other of his descendants emigrated to the United States.  Samuel’s daughter Beile (or Berta) (1840 - 1908) had many descendants who went to Chile.  Many also ended up in Israel. A third child of Samuel was Jacob Luft (1847-1929), shown at right, my great-great-grandfather.


Jacob Luft was born in Berlin and was both a merchant and a cantor. He was married twice, and had nine children. He lived with his family for several years in Eisleben, where he served as the Cantor in the Synagogue.  His first wife was Jeanette Morgenstern.  She is buried at Berlin Weissensee Cemetery. The records there say she was born in Kyritz, but that seems to be incorrect, as the Kyritz records don’t list her, or even anyone else with the name Morgenstern. Jacob’s second wife, Else Meyer, died in the concentration camp Theresienstadt.  There is a display case in the Berlin Jewish Museum about her and her story.  See Jeanette’s and Else’s pictures at the bottom of this page.


Names in RED in the listings below are people who were murdered during the period 1933-1945.


Special thanks to my cousin, Klaus Falldorf in Bremen, who researched and assembled much of this data on the Luft family.

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Alfred Luft

My grandfather

1893 - 1976

Jacob Luft

1847-1929


Jeanette Morgenstern

    First wife of Jacob Luft

1844-1898

Else, Kate, and Jacob Luft


Painting by Werner Luft

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Eva and Susi Luft

Berlin, about 1928

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Los Angeles, 2009

Caeser Luft

1874 - 1939