Baer family

 
Made on a Mac


Nassau is a very small town in the mountains of western Germany with a population of about 5,000 (see MAP).  Yet despite it’s small size, it has had a major impact. Places ranging from Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, to Nassau County, New York, as well as the former German state of Nassau all have its name.  The royal families of both the Netherlands and of Luxembourg are named Nassau.  It has had this influence due to being the site of the castle of Nassau (built in 1125), which was the seat of the family of the Counts of Nassau, and later the Dukes of Nassau.  As that family’s power grew, their territory grew.  The former Duchy of Nassau, which included the city of Wiesbaden, was ruled by them, and the current royal houses of the Netherlands and Luxembourg are their descendants.


Another family with ancestors in the town of Nassau is the Baer (or Bär) family.  My branch of the Baer family is descended from Michael Bär and Babet Levi who married in 1845.  Michael and Babet were first cousins, and both are descended from Löw and Michele Israel from Nassau. Löw and Michele’s daughter, Frommet, married Rabbi Seligmann Levi.  Frommet and Seligmann Levi’s gravestones are still visible in Nassau’s Jewish cemetery, and are shown on the right.  Michael Bär and Babet Levi were both grandchildren of Frommet and Seligmann Levi.  This part of the family is shown in the first listing below (“Nassau family”).


Michael Bär was also descended from Isaak Gumpel and Eva Samuel and their son Isaak who took the family name Bär.  That part of the family had its origins in Wiesbaden and is shown in the second listing below (“Wiesbaden family”). They lived in Wiesbaden as early as the late 1700’s, when the city had a population of only about 2,000 inhabitants.


German Jews in the 18th century and earlier were limited in the types of work they could do.  They were prohibited from owning land, so few were farmers, and the guilds kept them out of most crafts.  They also were often prohibited from owning shops. The result was that many of them became itinerant traders, walking from farm to farm, village to village, selling and buying.  Others lent money, which the church forbade Christians from doing.  Later the Jews were allowed to open shops, and many of these itinerant traders became shopkeepers.  All of the major German department stores grew out of these small Jewish owned shops.


Many of the Bär ancestors from Nassau were cattle dealers.  Several of the Wiesbaden Bärs were in the clothing and fabric businesses.  Michael Bär was somewhat of an entrepreneur: he had a clothing store in Wiesbaden, then after his wedding he moved to Nassau where he opened a distillery and pub. He and his wife Babet had thirteen children, five of them died as children. They later moved back to Wiesbaden.


One of Michael and Babet’s grandchildren was Emilie BAER (1876 - 1944), photo at right (my great-grandmother).  She married Siegfried BAUM from Wiesbaden.  Siegfried and his brother owned a large children’s clothing store in Wiesbaden. After the brothers died, the store was run by Emilie and her daughter and son-in-law, until it was destroyed on Kristallnacht in 1938. More about the BAUM family can be found HERE.  Emilie was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt in 1942.  A day or two before she was to be deported to Auschwitz, in May 1944, she died, possibly by her own hand.  The purpose of the deportation to Auschwitz that she was scheduled to be on was to decrease the extreme overcrowding in Theresienstadt as part of the efforts of the Nazis to make Theresienstadt more presentable in preparation for the now infamous visit by the Danish Red Cross in June of 1944. For that visit the Nazis “cleaned up” Theresienstadt, putting in playgrounds, cafés, gardens, bringing in food and new clothes.  After the Danes, properly fooled, left, the camp returned to its previous horrendous conditions (e.g. people dying in the streets from starvation) and the deportations to Auschwitz resumed.


In the list below, names in RED are people who were murdered during the period 1933-1945.


Most of the information on the Nassau families on this page came from the book, “Julius Israel Nassau” by Waltraud Becker-Hammerstein and Werner Becker (see the bottom of this page for more about the book), with additional information supplied by Doris Spormann about the Isidor family.  Information on the early Wiesbaden Bärs came from Wolfgang Fritzsche.  Many thanks also to Jim Aronson, George Florsheim, Clotilde Wimmer, and Sherry Klein for sharing information on their branches of the family.

To understand how to read the family listings, click HERE.

Nassau family


Löw ISRAEL & Michele MICHAEL

        Löw Israel was a money lender in Nassau, well-to-do by Nassau standards, even lending money to the Duke of Nassau.  The wealth didn’t last long; his children are listed in the Nassau records as being poor.

  1. •Israel LÖW (1759 - 1830) & Cheiche GÖTZ (1760, Thal Ehrenbreitstein - 1829)

  2. ‣Michael ISRAEL (~1789 - 1836) & Regina MAIER (circa 1799, Idstein - 1861)

  3. ‣Moses ISRAEL/ISIDOR (17 November 1792 - 23 May 1858) & Lea LEMLE (14 May 1810, Anspach bei Usingen - 23 January 1892, Nassau)

  4. -Karoline Rosalie ISIDOR (1850 - )

  5. -Israel ISIDOR* (7 December 1852, Nassau -) & Mathilde ROTHSCHILD (1 September 1853, Werlau - 29 June 1876, Werlau)

  6. -Israel ISIDOR* (7 December 1852, Nassau - ) & Johanna BLUMENTHAL (25 February 1840, Singhofen - 1 September 1906, Werlau)

  7. •Sabine ISIDOR (19 September 1877, Werlau - 15 September 1939, Sao Paulo, Brazil) & Josef GOTTSCHALK (5 July 1882 - 24 August 1955, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

  8. ‣Karl GOTTSCHALK (25 May 1917, Werlau - 12 August 1941, Mauthausen)

  9. •Moses ISIDOR (26 January 1879, St. Goar - about 1942, Izbica) & Paula OSTBERG (13 May 1886, Bocholt - about 1943, Theresienstadt)

                       Moses and his brother Jacob had a leather business in St. Goar, Germany

  1. ‣Gertrud ISIDOR (21 November 1910, Werlau - 1960, Sao Paulo, Brazil) & FEIGE

  2. ‣Julie ISIDOR (11 August 1912, St. Goar - ?, New York, NY) & Paul LANDSBERG (30 January 1906, Oberlahnstein - 6 November 1964, New York, NY)

  3. ‣Karl Günther ISIDOR (27 October 1913, St. Goar - )

  4. ‣Herbert ISIDOR (24 May 1915, St. Goar - about 1944, Auschwitz)

  5. ‣Lieselotte ISIDOR (3 September 1918, St. Goar - about 1942, Izbica) & DREYFUS

  6. •Jakob ISIDOR (9 March 1881, St. Goar - about 1942, Lublin) & Amalia FEIST (20 January 1878, Bingen-Büdesheim - about 1942, Lublin)

  7. ‣Ernst Julius ISIDOR (11 July 1911Werlau - ?, Amsterdam) & Gerda COHEN (6 August 1909, Dorsten - )

  8. ‣Helene ISIDOR (25 October 1912Werlau - 24 December 1954, Amsterdam) & Robert BLUM

  9. ‣Karl Leo ISIDOR (Charles DORSEY) (26 December 1915, St. Goar - ). Immigrated to Puerto Rico and became Charles Dorsey

  10. -Isaak ISIDOR (1854 - ) & Elisabeth FLEISCHMANN (born Hochstätten in der Pfalz)

  11. •Rosa ISIDOR (born Nassau)

  12. •Moritz ISIDOR (born Nassau)

  13. -Johannette ISRAEL/ISIDOR

  14. ‣Janchen LÖW (1801 - 1840 or 1841) & Aaron ISAAC/STEIN (1805 - 1891)

  15. -Isaac Aaron ISAAC (7 May 1831 - August 1832)

  16. -Meyer STEIN (1836 - 1907, Ems)

  17. -ISAAC/STEIN

  18. -ISAAC/STEIN

  19. -ISAAC/STEIN

  20. -ISAAC/STEIN

  21. •Frommet/Frummet LÖW (5 May 1763 - 20 November 1829, Nassau) & Rabbi Seligmann (Selke) LEVI (4 March 1768, Singhofen - 28 January 1841, Nassau)  Seligmann was a shopkeeper who was also well educated in Jewish law; because of this he was chosen as Rabbi.  His and Frommet’s gravestones are in the Nassau cemetery, and can be seen in photos above.

  22. ‣Minna/Mahle LEVI (4 February 1790, Nassau - 8 February 1864) & Samuel BÄR (1788 - 30 July 1854)

        Samuel Bär was part of the Bär family from Wiesbaden; his family is shown in the second section, below.

  1. -Michael BÄR (13 February 1820, Wiesbaden - ) & Babet LEVI (20 August 1827, Nassau - )

    Michael and Babet were first cousins, see Babet LEVI, below.  Their descendants are shown in the second section (Wiesbaden Family) of this page.

  1. -Löw BÄR (25 October 1823 - 18 March 1867) & Bella HIRSCH (24 September 1825, Nassau - ) Löw Bär was a leatherworker in Nassau. Bella was the daughter of Abraham HIRSCH and Mina OPPENHEIMER

  2. •Berthold BÄR (20 July 1850 - 25 April 1920, Wiesbaden)

  3. •Meier BÄR (21 December 1851 - )

  4. •Karoline BÄR (17 August 1853 - )

  5. •Samuel BÄR (19 January 1857 - )

  6. •Willy BÄR (2 December 1858 - 18 June 1919, Wiesbaden)

  7. •Waleska BÄR (25 December 1859 - 27 June 1860)

  8. •Sara BÄR (25 May 1861 - )

  9. •Pauline BÄR (23 March 1863 - )

  10. •(Stillborn) BÄR (24 January 1865 - 24 January 1865)

  11. -Sara BÄR (23 Oct. 1818 or 22 Nov. 1818 - ) & Moses WOLF (born in Beilstein) The sisters Sara and Eva BÄR (see next line) married the brothers Moses and Joseph WOLF from Beilstein.

  12. -Eva BÄR (18 November 1827 - ) & Joseph WOLF (8 October 1829, Beilstein - )

  13. ‣Sara LEVI (1792 - 1866)

  14. ‣Seligmann LEVI/LEVINGER (13 November 1794 - 5 March 1860) & Bettge/Babeth ROSENTHAL (17 September 1804, Holzappel - 22 October 1831, Nassau)  They took the name Levinger after 1841

  15. -Babet LEVI (20 August 1827 - ) & Michael BÄR (13 February 1820, Wiesbaden - )

Michael and Babet were first cousins, see Michael BÄR. above.  Their descendants are shown below, in the second section (Wiesbaden Family) of this page.

  1. -Lazarus LEVI/LEVINGER (5 May 1829 - 6 May 1829)

  2. •Sara LÖW (20 April 1774 - 1834) & Mayer HIRSCH (April 1770 - 18 September 1845)  Mayer Hirsch was a leatherworker from Laufenselden im Tanus; he was the son of Abraham FEIST, a horse dealer.

  3. ‣Abraham HIRSCH* (1799 - before 1866) & Karoline FULDA ( - 1843)

            Karoline was the daughter of Wolf Herz Fulda, who came from an old Frankfurt family.  His family can be found HERE.

  1. -Bella HIRSCH (1824 - )

  2. ‣Abraham HIRSCH* (1799 - before 1866, Bad Ems) & Babette SCHÄFER (born in Brohl)   Abraham moved to the nearby town of Bad Ems.

  3. -Mayer/Moritz HIRSCH (?, Bad Ems - 1872)  Went to study in the Yeshiva in Kassel, but died shortly before finishing.

  4. ‣Israel HIRSCH (1800 - ) Died as a child.

  5. ‣Löb HIRSCH (1802 - early 1870s) & Amalie LÖB (born Leutesdorf am Rhein)

    Löb was head of the Jewish congregation of Nassau from at least 1857 to 1868.

  1. -HIRSCH

  2. -HIRSCH

  3. -HIRSCH

  4. -HIRSCH

  5. -HIRSCH

  6. -HIRSCH

  7. -HIRSCH

  8. -HIRSCH

  9. ‣Feist HIRSCH (1804 - 1830)

  10. ‣Babette HIRSCH (1807 - 1829)

  11. ‣Asher/Assur HIRSCH (1809 - 1834)




Wiesbaden family


Isaak GUMPEL & Eva SAMUEL

              Isaak and Eva had two children that we know about (although it is likely that they had more), Bär Isaak, below, and Rosina

                    Isaak, near the bottom of this page. Eva Samuel’s gravestone is shown above.

  1. •Bär ISAAK (1759 - 26 April 1841) & Beierle/Bertha/Bäuerle MICHEL (born in Schierstein - died before 1834)

        Bär Isaak had a shop in Wiesbaden where he sold cloth.

  1. ‣Gumbel/Gumpel BÄR (circa 1783 - 4 June 1848) & Esther/Ester HIRSCH (20 May 1789 - 1 August 1859)

  2. -Eva BÄR (18 August 1812 - )

  3. -Hirsch BÄR* (6 June 1814 - 27 December 1903) & Sara STRAUSS (23 September 1818, Schierstein - 27 October 1847)

  4. -Hirsch BÄR* (6 June 1814 - 27 December 1903) & Amalie HIRSCH (31 May 1819 - )

  5. -Michael BÄR (20 April 1816 - ) & Eliza Michael went to the USA. In 1859 he was living in Philadelphia (210 Green Street). Worked as an upholsterer.

  6. •Louis BAER about 1845 - )

  7. •Theresa BAER (about 1853 - )

  8. •Emma BAER (about 1855 - )

  9. -Nathan BÄR (9 May 1816 (?) - ) & Jette   Went to the USA. In 1859 was living in Sandusky, Ohio,

  10. -Malche/Amalie BÄR (7 January 1818 - 30 December 1874) & Jacob LÖWENTHAL (15 July 1819 - )

  11. -Isaak BÄR (16 February 1820 - ) & Margarethe HIRSCH (22 November 1830, Partenheim/Wörrstadt - )

  12. •(Stillborn) BÄR (11 September 1857 - )

  13. •Gustav BÄR* (15 November 1858, Wiesbaden - 16 October 1919, Baltimore) & Mathilde METZGER (about 1868, Germany - 12 March 1900, Baltimore) Gustav immigrated to the U.S. in October 1875 and was a dry goods merchant. See more below,

  14. ‣Beatrice BAER (23 May 1896, Maryland - 3 September 1978, Louisville, KY) & Leonard WEIL (20 January 1887, Kentucky - 28 February 1948, Lexington, KY)

  15. -Juliet (Judy) WEIL (5 July 1920, Lexington, KY - 18 August 1995, Louisville, KY) & Edwin Stanley KLEIN (29 May 1916, Louisville, KY - 31 January 1977, Louisville, KY)

  16. •Bruce Alan KLEIN & Sherry

  17. ‣David KLEIN

  18. ‣Nicola KLEIN

  19. ‣Matthew KLEIN

  20. •Thomas KLEIN

  21. -Richard Gustav WEIL (1924, Kentucky - 2009)

  22. ‣Irvin BAER (1 July 1897, Baltimore - 5 May 1971, Baltimore) & Alma Louise GOLDSTEIN (1902 - 1990)

  23. -Gustav “Gus” BAER (7 January 1928, Baltimore - 9 October 2012, Baltimore) & Peggy STRASBURGER

  24. •Susan BAER

  25. •Betsy BAER & GATES

  26. -Charles BAER (about 1932, Baltimore - ) & Rosalie SCHWARTZ

  27. •Richard WOLF

  28. •Wendy WOLF

  29. -Joanne BAER &Allan Dale WOLF

  30. •Robert Charles WOLF

  31. ‣Katherine WOLF

  32. •Ellen Jo WOLF

  33. ‣Elsie BAER (21 September 1899 - January 1989, New York) & Judas Gabriel VIRGILE (1890 - 1982)

  34. •Gustav BÄR* (15 November 1858 - 16 October 1919) & Anna METZGER (2 August 1874, Delkenheim (by Wiesbaden) - after 1930)

    Gustav’s first wife, Mathilde, died when her children were very small, possibly in a gas oven accident. Gustav remarried. His second wife, Anna, may have been the sister or cousin of his first wife.

  1. ‣Jean BAER (14 November 1903, Baltimore - ) & Lou SNYDER

  2. ‣Marly BAER (15 October 1901, Baltimore - 3 August 1975, Florida) & Frank WILEN (1900 - 1968)

  3. •Johannette BÄR (20 January 1861 - 27 January 1863)

  4. •Hermann BÄR (10 March 1864 - 30 July 1865)

  5. •Emma BÄR (10 May 1867 - 1939, Köln)

  6. •Moritz BÄR (15 October 1870 - 31 August 1871)

  7. •Bertha BÄR (1 December 1873 - )

  8. -Betty BÄR (7 November 1822 - )

  9. -Moses BÄR (25 April 1826 - ) & Fanni WOLF (6 October 1820 - )

  10. -Moritz (Moses?) BÄR (25 April 1826 - )

  11. -Samuel BÄR (5 June 1829 - 30 October 1833)

  12. -Gütte BÄR & Rabbi Samuel IGSTÄTTER (Ippstädter?)

  13. ‣Samuel BÄR (1788 - 30 July 1854) & Minna/Mahle LEVI (4 February 1790, Nassau - 8 February 1864) 

         Minna Levi is the granddaughter of  Löw ISRAEL and Michele MICHAEL, who are at the top of the first section (Nassau family) of this page. 

  1. -Michael BÄR (13 February 1820 - ) & Babet LEVI (20 August 1827, Nassau - )

Michael BÄR is descended from Isaak GUMPEL and Eva SAMUEL (top of this section), Both Michael and Babet LEVI are descended from Löw ISRAEL and Michele MICHAEL (first section of this page).  Michael had a clothing store in Wiesbaden.

  1. •Bertha BAER (18 July 1847, Nassau - ) & WOLF

  2. •Fannie BAER (4 January 1849, Nassau  - 15 January 1849, Nassau )  Married in Hachenburg

  3. •Pauline BAER (26 April 1850, Nassau  - ) & Siegmund SIMON

  4. •Anna BAER (4 October 1851, Nassau - 9 June 1856)

  5. •Louis BAER (24 November 1852, Nassau - ) & Jeanette FLÖRSHEIM (13 November 1849, Romrod - )

        The FLÖRSHEIM family came from the town of Romrod.  They can be found HERE.  Louis’ sister, Elise (below), married Jeanette’s brother, Moses FLÖRSHEIM.

  1. ‣Emilie BAER (5 December 1876, Wiesbaden - 12 May 1944, Theresienstadt) & Siegfried BAUM (2 August 1869 - 9 April 1935)

   Siegfried BAUM and his brother owned a large children’s clothing store in Wiesbaden. More about the BAUM family can be found HERE.  Emilie was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942.

  1. -Johanna BAUM (11 August 1897, Wiesbaden - 1943, Auschwitz) & Albert KLEINSTRASS (8 March 1883, Bredenborn - 1943, Auschwitz)

  2. •Paul Louis KESTER (previously KLEINSTRASS)(1925 - ) & Susanne Jeanette LUFT (1924 - )

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

  4. -Anya Rebecca KESTER (1989 - )

  5. -Shiri Sophia KESTER (1991 - )

  6. •Helen (Lena) KLEINSTRASS (12 December 1923, Wiesbaden - 1999, Los Angeles) & Max HENLEIN (2 April 1915, Hamburg - 10 January 2005, Santa Monica, CA)

  7. ‣Alan HENLEIN (1951 - )

  8. ‣Dyan HENLEIN (1955 - ) & Michael NORTON (1951 - )

  9. -Eric NORTON (1986 - )

  10. -Laura NORTON (1988 - )

  11. -Andrea NORTON (1988 - )

  12. ‣Else BAER (22 November 1877, Wiesbaden - ) & Siegfried STAMM

  13. -Liesel STAMM* ( - approx 1985, Israel) & STRAUSS

  14. -Liesel STAMM* ( - approx 1985, Israel) & Dr. KOUNINE

  15. -Hans STAMM* (1905, Giessen - 11 January, 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland) & Dr. Ernestine DAHLEM (? - 1967)  Born in Germany, Hans Stamm immigrated to Jamaica where he was physician to the country’s Premier, Norman Manley, as well as to his son, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley.  He later lived in Edinburgh, Scotland.

  16. -Hans STAMM* (1905, Giessen - 11 January, 1994, Edinburgh, Scotland) & Bridget (? - 1982)

  17. ‣Arthur Michael BAER (18 November 1878, Wiesbaden - )

  18. ‣Victoria BAER (19 August 1880, Wiesbaden - )

  19. ‣Friedrich Wilhelm (Fritz) BAER (13 October 1883, Wiesbaden - approx 1940)

  20. -Robert BAER

  21. •Karl BAER (30 August 1854, Nassau - ?, Wiesbaden) & Julie

  22. ‣Jenny BAER (1886, Wiesbaden - 1938) & Albert GOLDBAUM (1881, Powidz - 1965, Los Angeles) The family of Albert Goldbaum can be found on my WITKOWSKI page, HERE.

  23. -Henry GOLDBAUM (6 February 1912, Berlin - 8 February 2014, San Diego, CA) & Roselle ZATZKIS (1920 - 3 December 2010, San Diego, CA)

  24. •Lea Jenny GOLDBAUM (1 May 1952, Los Angeles - 26 June 2010, Enccinitas, CA))

  25. •Danielle GOLDBAUM (1956 - ) & Murry REICHER (1956 - )

  26. ‣Joshua Jay REICHER (1986 - )

  27. ‣Marc Steven REICHER (1991 - )

  28. ‣Curt BAER Curt never married.

  29. •Elise/Elizabeth BAER (12 February 1856, Nassau - 14 September 1927, Alsfeld) & Moses FLOERSHEIM (9 November 1848 - 26 November 1927)

         Elise Baer married Moses FLÖRSHEIM.  Her brother, Louis (above), had married Moses’ sister, Jeanette Florsheim.  The FLÖRSHEIM family came from the town of Romrod.  More about them can be found HERE.

  1. ‣Julius FLORSHEIM (3 June 1879, Alsfeld - ?, Chile) & Lydia Gutzeit AGATHA (27 November 1888, Königsfeld - ?, Santiago, Chile)

  2. -Ricardo G. FLORSHEIM* (29 March 1924, Blankensee - 6 June 1998, Guayaquil, Ecuador) & Alice M. PALM (28 November 1922, Dusseldorf - ?, Johannesburg, South Africa)

  3. •George P. FLORSHEIM (1951 - ) & Esther MENTZER (1957 - )

       George is the source of much of the data on the Flörsheims shown here.

  1. ‣Hila FLORSHEIM (1976 - ) & Michael BARRON (1968 - )

  2. -Shay BARRON (2003 - )

  3. -Noi BARRON (2007 - )

  4. ‣Shimrit FLORSHEIM (1979 - )

  5. ‣Lian FLORSHEIM (1986 - )

  6. -Ricardo G. FLORSHEIM* (29 March 1924 - 6 June 1998) & Isabel TAMYO

  7. •Ilfn FLORSHEIM

  8. ‣Mathias FLORSHEIM

  9. -Ricardo G. FLORSHEIM* (29 March 1924 - 6 June 1998) & Esperanza DOÑA

  10. •Eunice FLORSHEIM* & Joe COSSOK

  11. ‣Salballian COSSOK FLORSHEIM

  12. •Eunice FLORSHEIM* & UNNAMED

  13. ‣Ishaka Mijail ELOY FLORSHEIM

  14. •Eunice FLORSHEIM* & UNNAMED

  15. ‣Valentina

  16. -Ricardo G. FLORSHEIM* (29 March 1924 - 6 June 1998) & Rita

  17. •Gabriela FLORSHEIM & Walter KLEIN

  18. ‣Michael KLEIN FLORSHEIM

  19. -Albert/Alberto G. FLORSHEIM (13 January 1921, Blankensee - 21 July 1990, Santiago, Chile) & Tina SCHINDLER (17 September 1920, Germany - 11 July 1985, Chile)

  20. •Andrea FLORSHEIM (1951, Chile - ) & Juan-Carlos VALLE (1947 - )

  21. ‣Andres VALLE FLORSHEIM (1980 - )

  22. ‣Felipe VALLE FLORSHEIM (1984 - )

  23. ‣Pablo VALLE FLORSHEIM (1984 - )

  24. •Rene FLORSHEIM (1956 - ) & Silvia TELLO (1955 - )

  25. ‣Julian FLORSHEIM (2000 - )

  26. -Georg G. FLORSHEIM (25 July 1919, Blankensee - 5 May 1988, Brussels) & Doris

  27. ‣Albert FLORSHEIM

  28. -Ernest FLORSHEIM & Ingeborg GOTTHILF (about 1912, Berlin - 21 September 2001, Milwaukee)

  29. •Peter FLORSHEIM

  30. •Richard FLORSHEIM & Neena

  31. ‣David FLORSHEIM & Andrea

  32. -    Jacob Roy FLORSHEIM (2002 - )

  33. -    Michael Ernest FLORSHEIM (2004 - )

  34. -    Claudia Fay FLORSHEIM

  35. ‣Ali FLORSHEIM & Robert RUVIN

  36. -    Madeline FLORSHEIM (2000 - )

  37. -    Jack FLORSHEIM(2001 - )

  38. -    Joseph FLORSHEIM (2003 - )

  39. -    Gabrielle FLORSHEIMM

  40. ‣Rebecca FLORSHEIM

  41. -Alice FLORSHEIM (27 August, 1913 - 15 January, 1987) & Dr. Paul HELLER

  42. •Caroline HELLER (1950 - ) & Eileen Wynne BALL

  43. •Tom HELLER (1948 - ) & Lynn SAMUELS

  44. ‣Gabe HELLER (1976 - ) & Sara MURRAY

  45. -    Anya HELLER (2009 - )

  46. ‣Noah HELLER (1978 - )

  47. ‣Hannah HELLER (1982 - )

  48. ‣Emmi FLORSHEIM & KLEEBLATT

  49. -Walter KLEEBLATT

  50. ‣Anna FLORSHEIM & LOSER

  51. -Kurt LOSER & Thea

  52. •Lou LOSER

  53. ‣Heidi FLORSHEIM & LUBENSTEIN

  54. -Ruth LUBENSTEIN & LOMNITZ

  55. •Susan LOMNITZ

  56. •Emma BAER (21 March 1857, Nassau - 26 March 1857, Nassau)

  57. •August BAER (6 May 1858, Nassau - 29 May 1858, Nassau)

  58. •Bernhard BAER (6 November 1859, Nassau - 6 August 1860, Nassau)

  59. •Henriette (Jennie) BAER (17 April 1861, Nassau - 22 November 1942, Theresienstadt) & Maximilian METZGER

  60. •Eva BAER (20 April 1862, Nassau - )

  61. •Mathilde BAER (20 April 1862, Nassau - )

  62. -Löw BÄR (25 October 1823 - 18 March 1867) & Bella HIRSCH (24 September 1825 - ) Löw Bär was a leatherworker in Nassau. Bella was the daughter of Abraham HIRSCH and Mina OPPENHEIMER

  63. •Berthold BÄR (20 July 1850 - 25 April 1920, Wiesbaden)

  64. •Meier BÄR (21 December 1851 - )

  65. •Karoline BÄR (17 August 1853 - )

  66. •Samuel BÄR (19 January 1857 - )

  67. •Willy BÄR (2 December 1858 - 18 June 1919, Wiesbaden)

  68. •Waleska BÄR (25 December 1859 - 27 June 1860)

  69. •Sara BÄR (25 May 1861 - )

  70. •Pauline BÄR (23 March 1863 - )

  71. •(Stillborn) BÄR (24 January 1865 - )

  72. -Sara BÄR (23 Oct. 1818 or 22 Nov. 1818 - ) & Moses WOLF   The sisters Sara and Eva BÄR (see next line) married the brothers Moses and Joseph WOLF from Beilstein.

  73. -Eva BÄR (18 November 1827 - ) & Joseph WOLF (8 October 1829 - )

  74. ‣Jacob BÄR (circa 1793 - 28 January 1825) & Merle ABRAHAM (1801, Münster - )

  75. ‣Isaak BÄR (28 January 1797 - 23 September 1873) & Henriette HERZBERG

  76. -Michel BÄR (6 June 1834 - )

  77. -Bertha BÄR (12 September 1835 - )

  78. -Adelheid BÄR (14 March 1837 - ) & Samson JACOBY

  79. -Alexander BÄR (20 May 1838 - )

  80. -Eva BÄR (29 December 1839 - 20 February 1841)

  81. -Regina BÄR (2 November 1841 - )

  82. -Pauline BÄR (21 October 1844 - )

  83. ‣Abraham BAER (1797 - 21 November 1856, Frankfurt) & Fanny WOHL (14 August 1814, Wiesbaden - 10 September 1869, Frankfurt)

  84. -Bertha Bernhardine BAER (9 April 1838 - )

  85. -Jacob Emil BAER (3 July 1839, Wiesbaden - before 1869) & Klara STRAUSS  Jacob immigrated to the U.S. and was a salesman in St. Louis.

  86. •Albert BAER

  87. -Julius Adolf BAER (7 August 1840, Wiesbaden - 16 December 1907, Frankfurt) & Rosa COSMANN (8 April 1843 - 28 December 1919)

  88. •Arthur Otto BAER (6 June 1865, Frankfurt - 23 September 1919) & Amalie SIMON (4 June 1876, Frankfurt - )

  89. ‣Max Erwin BAER (31 May 1898 - )

  90. ‣Ilse Gerda Julia BAER (6 June 1903, Frankfurt - ) & Alfred KASSEWITZ (17 October 1901 - )

  91. •Carl Eduard BAER (12 March 1868, Frankfurt - 16 October 1926, Frankfurt)

  92. •Max Paul BAER (30 June 1872, Mainz - 8 April 1910, Andernach am Rhein) & Clothilde SCHMIDT (12 July 1880, Kaiserslautern - 2 March 1963, Manila, Phillipines)

  93. ‣Alexander Werner BAER (22 March 1902, Frankfurt - 5 November 1979, Manila) & Remigia de la PENA (1 October 1914, Manila - 20 July 1966, Manila)

  94. -Clotilde BAER (1955 - ) & Erich Anton WIMMER (1941 - )

  95. •Christian Alexander WIMMER (1982 - )

  96. •Claudia Beatrice WIMMER (1984 - )

  97. ‣Edgar Arthur BAER (16 August 1904, Frankfurt - 11 August 1989, New Orleans)

  98. •Mathias Richard BAER (3 November 1876, Mainz - about 1943, Kowno, Lithuania) & Clara

  99. •Friedrich Bertrand BAER (14 September 1882, Mainz - 8 May 1945, Minsk) & Johanne SIMON (12 July 1889, Frankfurt - about 1943, Minsk)

  100. ‣Julius Herbert BAER (24 July 1922, Gernsheim - about 1943, Minsk)

  101. •Fanny BAER (27 June 1885, Frankfurt - ) & Max STRIEM (19 September 1884 - about 1943, Auschwitz)

  102. •Charlotte BAER (14 February 1889, Frankfurt - ) & Ludwig GOLDSCHMIDT

  103. ‣Harry GOLDSCHMIDT

  104. -Shirley GOLDSCHMIDT

  105. ‣Ruth GOLDSCHMIDT & SUSSKIND

  106. -Allen SUSSKIND

  107. -Janet SUSSKIND

  108. -Joanne SUSSKIND

  109. ‣Erich GOLDSCHMIDT

  110. -Barbara GOLDSCHMIDT

  111. -Cindy GOLDSCHMIDT

  112. -Susan GOLDSCHMIDT

  113. -Amelia/Emilie Pauline BAER (5 October 1841, Wiesbaden - )

  114. -Bertrand BAER (19 June 1843, Wiesbaden - )   Was a merchant in Vienna.

  115. -Karl Ferdinand BAER (17 October 1845, Wiesbaden - )   Lived in South America, later in Barnesville, Georgia.

  116. -Philippine BAER (3 December 1846, Wiesbaden - )

  117. -Lina Wohl BAER (10 June 1849, Wiesbaden - 1 February 1911, Chicago) & Prof Gabriel BAMBERGER (3 June 1845, Angenrod - 9 January 1903, Chicago)

        Gabriel Bamberger established the Workingman’s School of New York and later headed the Jewish Training School in Chicago.  These schools focussed on teaching Jewish immigrant children, and Dr. Bamberger was one of the best known Jewish educators in the country.

  1. •Laura BAMBERGER (1873, Frankfurt - about 1890, Cincinnati)

  2. •Selma BAMBERGER (7 December 1874, Frankfurt - 6 January 1911, Milwaukee, WI) & Joseph ARONSON (7 August 1864, Mitau - 1 September 1928, Milwaukee)

  3. ‣Harold L ARONSON (20 June 1898, Dallas, TX - 23 November 1985) & Evelyn FRANKLIN (24 October 1900, Pine Bluff, AK - 9 September 1977, Naples, FL)

  4. -Harold L ARONSON Jr.* (24 November 1920, Chicago - December 18, 2009, Chicago) & Jeanne BEDERMAN (31 May 1928, Winnetka, IL - )

  5. •Dr Peter ARONSON (1952 - ) & Debbie ABRAMS

  6. ‣Justine ARONSON (1986 - )

  7. •John ARONSON (1954 - ) & Debbie ROSENBERG

  8. ‣Jennifer ARONSON (1983 - )

  9. ‣Evan ARONSON (1987 - )

  10. •Geoffrey ARONSON (1956 - ) & Joanie TSAI

  11. ‣Owen ARONSON (1984 - )

  12. ‣Daniel ARONSON (1986 - )

  13. -Harold L ARONSON Jr.* (24 November 1920, Chicago - December 18, 2009, Chicago) & Jean BANKS

  14. ‣Jerome B ARONSON (1 September 1899, Chicago - 17 June 1955, Highland Park, IL) & Blanche EISENDRATH (4 September 1910 - 30 June 2002, Chicago)

  15. -Barbara J ARONSON* (27 April 1933, Chicago - 9 March 2001, Chicago) & Burton NATARUS

  16. •Michael NATARUS (1961 - ) & Yesika

  17. •Jill NATARUS* (1965 - ) & Paolo BARRAGAN

  18. ‣Jacob BARRAGAN (1994 - )

  19. •Jill NATARUS* (1965 - ) & Jeffery FLINCHUM (1965 - )

  20. ‣Jenna FLINCHUM (2003 - )

  21. -Barbara J ARONSON* (27 April 1933, Chicago - 9 March 2001, Chicago) & Robert KASSRIEL (? - about 2001)

  22. -Thomas J ARONSON (1938 - ) & Judith GOLDMAN (1941 - )

  23. •J David ARONSON (1967 - ) & Lisa GROFFSKY (1962 - )

  24. ‣Lindsey ARONSON (1996 - )

  25. ‣Samantha ARONSON (1998 - )

  26. ‣Eli Justin ARONSON (2002 - )

  27. •Andrew ARONSON (1970 - ) & Lisa LORD (1970 - )

  28. ‣Abigail ARONSON (1999 - )

  29. ‣Sydney ARONSON (2001 - )

  30. ‣Alfred C ARONSON (16 December 1902, Chicago - 23 March 1995, Englewood, CO) & Lucille N RIES (25 December 1907, Toledo, OH - 19 July 1990, Highland Park, IL)

  31. -Dr. James Ries ARONSON (1932 - ) & Rita Marie CRONIN (1933 - )

  32. •James T ARONSON (1963 - ) & Doriana PILLA (1964 - )

  33. ‣Victoria C ARONSON (1993 - )

  34. ‣James C ARONSON (1994 - )

  35. ‣Monica G ARONSON (1997 - )

  36. ‣Richard T ARONSON (1999 - )

  37. •Audrey M ARONSON (1964 - ) & Joseph SAVOIA (1968 - )

  38. ‣Arianna M SAVOIA (2001 - )

  39. •Kathy J ARONSON (1965 - ) & John CARROLL (1964 - )

  40. ‣Andrew L CARROLL (1996 - )

  41. ‣Christopher P CARROLL (1997 - )

  42. ‣Sophia F CARROLL (2002 - )

  43. •Diane E ARONSON (1967 - ) & Timothy P BUTTS (1963 - )

  44. ‣Danielle M BUTTS (1998 - )

  45. ‣Rachel E BUTTS (2000 - )

  46. •Christopher S ARONSON* (1968 - ) & Karen FALETRA DULI (1967 - )

  47. ‣Nicole M ARONSON (2001 - )

  48. •Christopher S ARONSON* (1968 - ) & Stephanie GELMAN

  49. -Linda Ruth ARONSON (1939 - ) & Dr. Jordan GULINSON (1936 - )

  50. •Geoffrey GULINSON & Susan BERKELEY

  51. ‣Stephen GULINSON

  52. •Mark GULINSON & Melissa FRIEDMAN

  53. ‣Chelsea GULINSON

  54. ‣Jacob GULINSON

  55. ‣Caeli GULINSON

  56. ‣Chloe GULINSON

  57. •Todd GULINSON

  58. •Scott GULINSON & Annette GUERRA

  59. ‣Julia GULINSON (2002 - )

  60. ‣Jenna GULINSON (2004 - )

  61. •Alice BAMBERGER (1878, Frankfurt - ?, Memphis, TN) & Burton Bernard WEIL (6 January 1877, Pine Bluff, AK -  about 1930, Memphis, TN)

  62. ‣Gabriel WEIL (7 August 1903, Tennessee - ) & Regina KRAUS

  63. ‣Burton Charles WEIL (15 September 1905, Pine Bluff, AK - December 1982, Tampa, FL) & Barbara LESERMAN

  64. -Leslie WEIL & Herbert GLASS

  65. ‣Ernest Parham WEIL (17 September 1911, Memphis, TN - 6 January 1999, Germantown, TN) & Evelyn SALOMON (about 1918, Chicago - )

  66. -Barbara WEIL & Roy Nathan MANSBERG

  67. •Sally MANSBERG & ROSENBERG

  68. -Burton Bernard WEIL (6 January 1876, Pine Bluff, Arkansas - about 1930, Memphis, TN)

  69. -Grace WEIL & Louis BELKIN

  70. -Alison WEIL

  71. ‣Amelia WEIL (about 1912, Pine Bluff, AK - ) & Phillip BLOOM

  72. -Phillis BLOOM & Irvin EVANS

  73. -Nancy BLOOM

  74. •Paul BAMBERGER (6 April 1879, New York, NY - 1936) & Jessie FRANK (25 April, Spring Valley, IL - 1972, Milwaukee, WI)

  75. ‣Julien BAMBERGER* (9 December 1912 - 1989, Milwaukee, WI) & Florence WACKEROW (? - 1974, Milwaukee, WI)

  76. -Mary BAMBERGER* & Wesley (Wes) VELDBOOM

  77. •Julie Ann VELDBOOM (1963 - ) & Charles MAY

  78. ‣Brandon MAY

  79. ‣Christopher MAY

  80. ‣Sonya MAY

  81. •Peter Edwin VELDBOOM (1967 - )

  82. •Vicki Lynn VELDBOOM (1969 - ) & Michael METZ

  83. ‣Slater METZ

  84. ‣Miles METZ

  85. ‣Weston METZ

  86. -Mary BAMBERGER* & Dale HUNTER

  87. -Paul BAMBERGER & Connie BRENON

  88. •Jessie BAMBERGER & Harry GILLHAM

  89. ‣Eleanor GILLHAM

  90. •Nicole BAMBERGER

  91. ‣Julien BAMBERGER* (9 December 1912 - 1989, Milwaukee, WI) & Adele DENNISON

  92. ‣Lawrence BAMBERGER (30 January 1916 - 30 January 2003, Scottsdale, AZ) & Joan SCHMIDT

  93. -Christine BAMBERGER (1936 - 1978)

  94. -Lauren BAMBERGER (1945 - ) & Gary MELLENBRUCH

  95. •Max MELLENBRUCH (1979 - )

  96. •Mindy MELLENBRUCH (1981 - )

  97. •George W. BAMBERGER (4 July 1880, New York, NY - 9 July 1936, Chicago, IL) & Grace SUGARMAN (8 January 1886, Trinidad, CO - 2 April 1976, Chicago, IL)

  98. ‣Gabriel BAMBERGER (14 October 1912 - 27 November 2002, Memphis, TN) & Pauline DREYFUS

  99. ‣George W. BAMBERGER Jr. (1 October 1915 - 10 October 2008) & Shirley GLATT (29 November 1922 - 2007)

  100. -Sandra BAMBERGER (23 October 1945 - 1999) & Stephen ROCHLIS

  101. -Bruce BAMBERGER (1948 - ) & Mary Jo PULLEN

  102. •Alistair BAMBERGER (1973 - ) & Michael WROTEN

  103. -Bruce BAMBERGER (1948 - ) & Valerie WINDELS

  104. -Judy Ann BAMBERGER (1952 - ) & David CALTON

  105. •William CALTON (1973 - ) & Jayne BURNSIDE

  106. ‣Kelsey CALTON (1999 - )

  107. •Kesha CALTON (1977 - )

  108. •David CALTON (1978 - )

  109. -Elizabeth BAMBERGER (1956 - ) & Craig NEWMARK

  110. •Kathryn NEWMARK (1982 - )

  111. •Meredith NEWMARK (1987 - )

  112. •Elsie BAMBERGER (1881, New york, NY - ) & Morris SPIEGEL (born Keokuk, IA)

  113. ‣Gabriel B SPIEGEL & Nancy ROTH (about 1915 - )

  114. -Laurie SPIEGEL

  115. -Gay SPIEGEL

  116. •Florence BAMBERGER (September 1887, Chicago - ) & Harold OPOZNAUER

  117. ‣Gabriel POWERS (4 November 1914, Chicago - 8 May 1980, Miami) & Caroline ALSHULER (10 June 1914, New York - 21 January 1995, Miami)

  118. -Jean POWERS (1949 - ) & William SOMAN

  119. •Jill SOMAN (1971 - ) & Jack REITER

  120. •Jennifer SOMAN (1974 - )

  121. -Susan POWERS* (1951 - ) & R EVERHART

  122. •Nancy EVERHART (1975 - )

  123. -Susan POWERS* (1951 - ) & James WILKERSON

  124. -Sara BAER (17 August 1854, Frankfurt - )

  125. ‣Eva BÄR & Samuel METZGER

  126. •Rosina ISAAK (about 1767, Wiesbaden - 21 August 1845, Mandel) & Salomon HIRSCH (about 1757, Mandel - 28 February 1837)

            Rosina was the second child of Isaak Gumpel that we have information about. She and her husband, Salomon Hirsch, lived in the town

            of Mandel, about 40 km southwest of Wiesbaden.Over 1000 of their descendants have been documented, and will be added to this website

            in the future.




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


Throughout Germany people have become interested in the history and fate of the Jews from their towns.  In many places people have written books or articles on the history of the Jews of a particular place.  The best of these that I have seen is “Julius Israel Nassau, Juden in einer ländlichen Kleinstadt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert” (Julius Israel Nasssau, Jews in a small rural town in the 19th and 20th centuries) about the Jews in the town of Nassau. A lot of the information on this page comes from that book.  It was written by Waltraud Becker-Hammerstein and Werner Becker and published in 2002.  If you are interested in the town of Nassau, and can read German, I highly recommend it.

         


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Gravestones of Rabbi Seligmann Levi (top)(1768-1841) and his wife, Frommet Levi (1763-1829), my great-great-great-great-great-grandparents

Emilie Baum née Baer

1876 - 1944

Gravestone of Eva Samuel