This is the only Jewish family that lived in this village since the end of the 18th century. Scholem Löw is its first known ancestor. At the beginning of the 19th century his sons Löb (another form of Löw) and Isaac adopted the family name Fried, which is the German translation of the name Scholem or Salomo, meaning peace. In the 1800s their numerous children and grandchildren either moved to other localities by marriage or emigrated to the USA. Since 1885 only one Jewish family was left, the one of Isaac’s son Lesmann Fried and his wife Babette Arfeld of Flacht and after them their daughter Feile, married to Gottfried Wolf.
In 1937 she and her (grand)children were the last Jews to leave Langenscheid. Also this branch of the Fried family still lives in the USA, as well the descendants of Joseph and of Moses.
(from: The Frank and Arfeld Families of Flacht and Niederneisen. Biographies and Genealogical Charts.
By Abraham Frank and Gerhard Buck. Jerusalem 2005.)
The earliest record of the family from Langenscheid:
Landesoberschultheyßerey Straffen Zu Niederneysen:
... den 23ten Juny (1749) Hirtz Moßis zu Nieder Neyßen weilen er in causa des Juden Löw von Langenscheid contra ihn selbst denen dilatorischen Exceptionibus die Eventual L.C. cum exceptionibus peremtoriis nicht beyge füget – 15 Albus eodem Löw von Langenscheid, weil er in eadem causa den Hirtz Moßis einen Lügner geheißen – 15 Albus.
(Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden 190 R 10419)
FIRST GENERATION :
1. Jude Loew from Langenscheid, born about1710, he married. He and his wife
had a son:
+ 2. Scholem / Salomon Loew, born about 1740.
Jude Loew died after 1749.
SECOND GENERATION :
2. Scholem / Salomon Löw, born about 1740, Schutzjude / Handelsjude (mercant) from
Isselbach. He married Hanne, daughter of Simmlin or Simon
from Rodenbach, district of Neuwied, born about 1741. They
had four sons:
+ 3. Juda Fried, born about 1770
+ 4. Löb Fried, born 28.02.1772 in Langenscheid
+ 5. Isaac Fried, born about 1774 in Langenscheid
+ 6. Meyer Fried, born 31.10.1775.
Scholem Löw died about 1790/1791 in Langenscheid, Hanne
died 09.01.1807 in Langenscheid.
THIRD GENERATION :
3. Juda Fried, born about 1770. He has a daughter in Langenscheid, the mother is unknown:
+ 7. Bissel / Elisabeth Fried, born 1797 in Langescheid.
The following two sons were born in Wasenberg, where Juda Fried lived at
that time as a married man.The mother of the sons was Martha David, the
unmarried daughter of Seligmann David in Wasenbach :
8. Salomo, born 23.07.1822 in Wasenbach, died 19.03.1827 in Wasenbach.
9. David, born 30.07.1824 in Wasenbach, died 13.03.1827 in Wasenbach.
4. Löb Fried, born 28.02.1772 in Langenscheid, Handelsjude (merchant). He married about
1802 Keile Elias, born 1770, daughter of Moses Elias and his wife Mandel
from Großmaischeid. They had seven children:
10. a nameless girl, born 10.10.1802, died 13.10.1802
+ 11. Scholem / Salomon Fried, born 28.09.1803 in Langenscheid
12. Madel Fried, born 14.09.1805, died 22.02.1811 in Langenscheid.
+ 13. Gütchen Fried, born 31.08.1807 in Langenscheid
14. Elias Fried, born 18.07.1809 in Langenscheid
+ 15. Simon / Simule Fried, born 11.02.1812 in Langenscheid
+ 16. Moses Fried, born 01.03.1816 in Langenscheid
Löb Fried died 03.07.1820 in Langenscheid, Keile Fried died 05.02.1832 in
Langenscheid.
5. Isaac Fried, born about 1774 in Langenscheid, merchant, he married 25.11.1808 Sara
Lesmann, daughter af Jacob Lesmann and his wife Sara from Maxsain.
They had seven children:
17. Scholem Fried, born 05.09.1809, died 08.01.1837 in Langenscheid
18. Jacob Fried, born 23.09.1811 in Langenscheid
+ 19. Hanna Fried, born 14.11.1813 in Langenscheid
+ 20. Fradge Fried, born 24.02.1816 in Langenscheid
+ 21. Lesmann Fried, born 15.11.1818 in Langenscheid
+ 22. Feiel Fried, born 19.05.1821 in Langenscheid
+ 23. Gütchen Fried, born 01. or 06. 01.1825 in Langenscheid
Isaac Fried died 02.07.1845 in Langenscheid, Sara Fried died 05.03.1854 in
Langenscheid.
6. Meyer Fried, born 31.10.1775 in Langenscheid (Parents: Salomon Isaak and Hanna in
Langenscheid). He married 1808 Veilchen, born 1763/64 in Nassau,
daughter of Koppel from Nassau und Jettel from Doernberg. Meyer Fried
died 04.11.1857 in Doernberg, Veilchen Fried died 11.12.1852 in Doernberg.
FOURTH GENERATION :
7. Bissel Fried, born 1797 in Langenscheid. She was married to Samuel Isaak (Stern), born
1788 in Balduinstein. They had nine children in Balduinstein between 1817
and 1835. One of their sons was:
+ 24. Josef Stern, born about 1835 in Balduinstein.
Samuel Isaak died 02.01.1854 in Balduinstein, Bissel died
06.11.1865 or 1879 in Balduinstein. The hebrew inscription on the gravestone
is:
“Hier ist begraben eine tüchtige Gattin, Zierde ihres Gatten , lauter ging sie
und erwies gutes Achten auf die Gänge ihrs Hauses und das Brot der
Trägheit aß sie nicht. Es ist Bessel, Gattin unseres geehrten Meisters, Herrn
Schmuel aus Balduinstein. Verschieden am Tag 3, 18. Marcheschvan und
begraben den 19. desselben Monats 640 nach kleiner Zählung. Ihre Seele sei
eingebunden in das Bündel des Lebens.“
(From: Michael Huyer: Zur Geschichte der Juden am Mittelrhein. Band 13.2 Jüdische
Friedhöfe. Koblenz 2006. S.40/41.)
11. Scholem / Salomon Fried, born 28.09.1803 in Langenscheid. He married 02.12.1834
Hebbe Joseph, born 15.02.1810 in Holzhausen über Aar,
daughter of Herz Löw Joseph and his wife Jette Löw.
They had seven children:
25. Loeb Fried, born 02.01.1836 in Langenscheid
26. Keile Fried, born 28.01.1838, died 29.09.1838 in
Langenscheid
+ 27. Röschen /Rose Fried, born 09.08.1839 in Langenscheid
+ 28. Joseph Fried, born 05.01.1842 in Langenscheid
29. Moses Fried, born 16.05.1846 in Langenscheid
30. Sara Fried, born 13.10.1851 in Langenscheid
31. Simon Fried, born 05.03.1854, died 09.12.1855 in
Langenscheid
Hebbe Fried died 27.03.1878 in Langenscheid.
13. Gütchen Fried, born 31.08.1807 in Langenscheid, she was married to Jacob Abraham
in Selters. Jacob Abraham was one of six children of Abraham Jacob.
“Abraham Jacob (51 Jahre alt) hat sechs unerzogene [unmuendige]
Kinder von 15 Jahrern abwaerts, ist Judenschullehrer und Schlachter,
hat sonst kein Gewerbe und lebt von der Unterstützung der Judenschaft,
verdient ca. 30 Gulden.“ (aus einem Verzeichnis von 1815).
(from: Uli Jungbluth: Landjuden im Westerwald: Die Selterser Juden.
in: Joachim Joesch/Uli Jungbluth: Juden im Westerwald. Montabaur 1998. S.114.)
In 1841 Jacob Abraham changed his family name in Danzig.
(from: Uli Jungbluth a.a.O.,S.116, S.131/132, Anm. 60.)
Jacob an Guetchen Danzig had two sons :
32. Isaak Danzig
+33. Abraham Danzig, born about 1845.
15. Simon Fried, born 11.02.1812 in Langenscheid. He married 20.11.1850 Brendle / Jette
Haas, born 19.02.1819 in Grenzhausen, daughter of Daniel Abraham
Haas and his wife Hanna, nee Benjamin. They had four children:
33. daughter, stillborn 01.11.1851 in Langenscheid
34. Löw / Leopold Fried, born 03.11.1852 in Langenscheid
35. Adolf Fried, born 13.12.1854 in Langenscheid
36. Kaile / Caroline Fried, born 01.08.1857, died 09.09.1857 in
Langenscheid
Simon Fried died 02.10.1858 in Langenscheid.
16. Moses Fried, born 01.03.1816 in Langenscheid, emigrated to USA in the 1830s and
settled in Oregon.
19. Hanna / Hannchen Fried, born 14.11.1813 in Langenscheid, was married to Hesekiel
Levi in Mogendorf.
20. Fradge Fried, born 24.02.1816 in Langenscheid, was married 30.07.1840 to Moses Feist
born 25.08.1814 in Bendorf.
Look to and compare with: www.argewe Leute / Juden im Westerwald / Jüdische
Familien in Bendorf, No.25 Moses Feist
Moses and Fradge/Friederike Feist had three children:
+ 37. Loeb Moses Feist, born 19.09.1841 in Bendorf
38. Salomon Feist, born 01.07.1843 in Bendorf
39. Sarphan / Samson Feist, born 27.06.1846 in Bendorf
(from: Familienbuch Bendorf, in: www.argewe a.a.O.)
Fradge Feist died 02.11.1888 in Bendorf.
21. Lesmann Fried, born 15.11.1818 in Langenscheid. He married 15.12.1847
Beile / Barbette Arfeld, born 25.12.1825 in Flacht, daughter of Isaac
Arfeld and his wife Zerle, nee Mendel. They had seven children:
+ 40. Hannchen Fried, born 21.10.1848 in Langenscheid
41. Minchen / Wilhelmine Fried, born 20.10.1850, died 19.10.1868 in
Langenscheid
42. Salomo/ Siegmund Fried, born 12.08.1851, died 02.01.1856 in
Langenscheid
43. Sara Fried, born 18.10.1854, died 17.12.1868 in Langenscheid
44. Samuel Fried, born 30.10.1856
+ 45. Feile Fried, born 11.03.1859 in Langenscheid
+ 46. Isaak Fried, born 22.12.1860 in Langenscheid
22. Feiel Fried, born 19.05.1821 in Langenscheid, she was married 1843 to
Tobias Bamberger, born 04.11.1804 in Hachenburg, son of
Philipp Bamberger and his wife Tauebchen, nee Amschel.
Tobias and Feiel Bamberger lived in Hachenburg.
Tobias Bamberger died 18.01.1887 in Hachenburg, Feiel Bamberger died
22.12.1891 in Hachenburg. Tobias and Feiel Fried had six children:
47. Max Bambergerm born 1844 in Hachenburg
+ 48. Julius Bamberger, born 1845 in Hachenburg
+ 49. August Bamberger, born 1847 in Hachenburg
50. Theresia Bamberger, born 1850 in Hachenburg
51. Georg Bamberger, born 1852 in Hachenburg
52. Sophia Bamberger, born 1854 in Hachenburg
(from: Werner A. Gueth, J. Kempf, A. Frank: Zachor. Ein Buch des Gedenkens.
Zur Erinnerung an die jüdische Gemeinde Hachenburg. Hachenburg 2002. S.80/81)
The inscription of Feiel and Tobias Bamberger’s gravestones:
“Hier ist begraben eine tuechtige Gattin, deren Wege die der Armut und all
ihre Pfade die des Friedens waren. Geehrt war sie in ihrem Hause und
gepriesen auf den Gassen. Ihre Haende oeffnete sie den Armen und streckte
sie aus den Bedürftigen. Sie, die zuechtige Feiele, Gattin des Tuwija, Sohn
des geehrtren Reb Eljakim. Sie ging in gutem Ruf und wurde versammelt zu
ihrem Volke und starb am 23ten des Monats Kislew und wurde begraben am
... desselben im H´Jahres 5652 d.k.Z. i.S.s.e.i.d.B.d.L.“
„Hier ist verborgen der treue, lautere und in all seinen Taten aufrechte
Mann. Die Menschen liebte er und dem Frieden jagte er nach. ... den
Armen von seinem Vermoegen, Reb Tuwila, Sdohn des Chawer Reb E
Eljakim Bamberger, er wurde geboren am 3ten Cheschwan 5565 und
starb am Dienstag, den 2ten Tewet 5647. s.S.s.e.i.d.B.d.L.“
( from: Gueth, u.a., Zachor., a.a.O., S.300.
i./.s.S.s.e.i.d.B.d.L = ihre/seine Seele sei eingebunden in das Buendel des Lebens.)
23. Gütchen Fried, born 01.01.1825 in Langenscheid, she was married 25.11.1851 to
Bezallel / Samuel Levita, born 19.10.1825 in Cramberg, son of
Abraham Levita. They lived in Doernberg and had nine children:
53. Isaak Levita, born 27.09.1852 in Doernberg
54. Meyer Levita, born 27.09.1854 in Doernberg
55. Sara Levita, born 10.03.1857 in Doernberg
56. Abraham Levita, born 05.02.1859, died 18.02.1860 in Doernberg
57. Veilchen Levita, born 18.01.1861 in Doernberg
58. Bertha Levita, born 12.01.1863 in Doernberg
59. Francisca Levita, born 08.03.1865 in Doernberg
60. Pauline Levita, born 09.05.1867 in Doernberg
61. Lina Levita, born 21.11.1869 in Doernberg
FIFTH GENERATION :
24. Josef Stern, born about 1835 in Balduinstein. He married Bette. They had two sons:
+ 62. Emanuel Stern, born 30.12.1871 in Balduinstein
+ 63. Leopold Stern, born 29.03.1884 in Balduinstein.
27. Roeschen Fried, born 09.08.1839 in Langenscheid, she was married 26.10.1871 to
Abraham Gruenebaum, born 21.12.1830 in Kettenbach.
Abraham and Roeschen Gruenebaum had a daughter:
+ 64. Jettchen Yehudit Gruenebaum, born 1872 in Kettenbach.
28. Joseph Fried, born 05.01.1842 in Langenscheid, he married Sarah Mendel,
born 01.11.1847 in Griesheim, daughter of Moses Mendel and his wife
Julia, nee Kronenberger from Griesheim. Joseph Fried took part in the
Franco-Prussian-War 1870/71. They had three children:
65. Leopold Fried, born 15.04.1871 in Langenscheid
66. Juliane Fried, born 07.02.1874 in Langenscheid
+ 67. Hermann Fried, born 04.01.1877 in Langenscheid
The family sold their house in Langenscheid Schulstraße 11 and emigrated
to the USA in 1885. Joseph Fried died 04.01.1908 in New York, Sarah
Fried died 16.03.1922 in New York.
33. Abraham Danzig, born about 1845, he married Herta Baer in Selters. Abraham and
Herta Danzig had three children:
+ 68. Simon Danzig, born 11.07.1873 in Selters.
+ 69. Minna Danzig
+ 70. Berta Danzig, born 12.04.1876 in Selters.
37. Loeb Leopold Feist, born 19.09.1841 in Bendorf. He had a son:
+ 71. Friedrich Feist
Loeb Leopold Feist died 1904 in Bonn.
40. Hannchen Fried, born 21.10.1848 in Langenscheid. She had a daughter:
72. Sarah Fried, born 12.06.1872 in Langenscheid. She died 08.11.1880
(From: Die Chronik Langenscheids. S.56.
http://langenscheid-rhein-lahn.de/mains/chronik_main.html)
45. Feile Fried, born 11.03.1859 in Langenscheid, she was married to Gottfried Wolf,
merchant, born 1857. They had a village grocery (Lebensmittelgeschäft) and
a butcher’s shop (Metzgerei) in Langenscheid, Oberstraße 10.
They had five children:
+ 73. Julius Wolf, born 22.10.1887 in Langenscheid
74. Ida Wolf, born 02.04.1894 in Langenscheid, she died 27.01.1919
in Holzappel
+ 75. Ludwig Wolf, born ca 1890
+ 76. Albert Wolf, born 29.09.1895
+ 77. Selma Wolf, born 17.01.1889
+ 78. Jakob Wolf, born 03.02.1899
Gottfried Wolf died 1931 „an Schlaganfall“ (stroke). He was buried on the
Jewish cemetery of Holzappel. Feile Fried died in May 1937 in Winterswijk /
Netherlands.
46. Isaak Fried, born 22.12.1860 in Langenscheid, he married Fanny Nachmann,
born 29.01.1855 in Nordenstadt (near Wiesbaden). She was the oldest
daughter of Liebmann Nachmann and his wife Regina, nee Roos. They
lived in Nordenstadt and had three children:
+ 79. Selma Fried, born 10.01.1889 in Nordenstadt
+ 80. Ludwig Fried, born 29.08.1890 in Nordenstadt
+ 81. Martha Fried, born 02.06.1894 in Nordenstadt
Isaak Fried died 06.05.1896 in Nordenstadt, Fanny Fried died 13.03.1939
in Nordenstadt.
„Fanny had one reputation of being keenly interested in all the affairs,
economics, social and otherwise of everyone – Gentile and Jew in
Nordenstadt an surroundings, besides being highly knowledgeable as to the
widespread family connections and relations of the large Nachmann
-Eschenheimer clan in Hesse-Nassau. Of her the saying went: „Wenn’s
Fanny’sche sich in de Lade legt, waas un seht se all’s naah
un fern”
(when Fanny leans out of the windowsill, she is bound to know and see
everything close by and far off). Having been widowed early in life, she
brought her children up, tended meticulously to her home and garden at
Stolbergstrasse 45, Nordenstadt, where she passed away on March 13,
1939.”
(From: The Frank and Arfled Families of Flacht and Niederneisen. Biographies and
Genealogical Charts. By Abraham Frank and Gerhard Buck. Jerusalem 2005.)
48. Julius Bamberger, born 1845 in Hachenburg. He was called „Baggersch Grusser“,
because he was very tall. He was a grain-merchant and butcher.
He married Regine Rosenthal from Holzappel, born 1848.
Julius and Regine Bamberger had threee children:
+ 82. Felix Philipp Bamberger, born 1876 in Hachenburg
+ 83. Rosa Bamberger, born 1878 in Hachenburg
+ 84. Telly Bamberger, born 1885 in Hachenburg.
Regine Bamberger died in 1918, Julius Bamberger died before 1927.
(from: Gueth, u.a., Zachor., a.a.O., S.80.)
49. August Bamberger, born 24.12.1847, he was a well-to-do merchant in Berlin, he was
unmarried and died 09.06.1909 in Hachenburg.
(from: Gueth, u.a. Zachor., a.a.O., S.80.
SIXTH GENERATION :
62. Emanuel Stern, born 30.12.1871 in Balduinstein, he married Betty Oppenheimer from
Laufenselden, daughter of Ferdniand and Johanna Oppenheimer.
Emanuel and Betty Stern had two daughters:
+ 85. Thekla Stern
+ 86. Susanne Stern, born 25.02.1904 in Balduinstein.
Emanuel and Betty Stern lived during the war in Friedberg. They were
deported to Theresienstdt. Betty Stern died 03.03.1943, Emanuel Stern
23.06.1943.
(Pages of Testimony Yad Vashem, written by theier daughter Thekla Meyer.)
63. Leopold Stern, born 29.03.1884 in Balduinstein. He marridd Rosa Aron. Leopold and
Rosa Stern had two daughters:
87. Anneliese Stern
88. Thekla Ilse Stern.
Leopold Stern died 04.05.1938 in Stuttgart.
64. Jettchen Yehudit Gruenebaum, born 1872 in Kettenbach. She was married to
Siegmund Meir Hirsch from Haiger. Jettchen Yehudit
and Siegmund Meir Hirsch had six children :
+ 89. Selma Hirsch, born 17.04.1904
+ 90. Berta Hirsch, born 07.04.1905
+ 91. Martha Hirsch
92. Helene Hirsch
93. Wilhelm Hirsch
94. Annie Hirsch.
Jettchen Yehudit Hirsch died 1946 in Palestine.
67. Hermann Fried, born 04.01.1877 in Langenscheid. He emigrated with his parents and
siblings to the USA in 1885. He died in New York 25.02.1925.
Hermann Fried is the great-grandfather of Michael Rubin and the
grandfather of Sandra Ganz.
68. Simon Danzig, born 11.07.1873 in Selters. He married Ella Beitmann, born 08.06.1881
in Dillkirchen. Simon and Ella Danzig had a son :
95. Herbert Danzig
Simon and Ella Danzig were deported on 15.06.1942 from Cologne to
Theresienstadt and from there toAuschwitz. They perished 28.10.1944.
(Die juedischen Opfer des Nationalsozialsismus aus Köln. Gedenkbuch. Köln 1995,
p. 88)
69. Minna Danzig, born 06.08.1879 in Selters, she lived in Frankfurt/Main. She was deported
11.06.1942 from Frankfurt/Main to Sobibor/Majdanek.
70. Berta Danzig, born 12.04.1876 in Selters. She was deported 15.06.1942 from Cologne to
Theresienstadt where she perished on 07.10.1942.
71. Friedrich Feist, he worked as a director in Berlin and emigrated to South-America.
He came back to Geneve, where he died. He had four children:
+ 96. Ruth Feist
97. Ernst Feist, Florida
98. Leopold Feist, Geneve
99. N.N. Feist, USA.
73. Julius Wolf, born 22.10.1887 in Langenscheid. He married Henny Levita, born
06.03.1892. Julius and Henny Wolf moved to Essen and had a son:
+ 100. Siegmund Siegfried Wolf.
After Julius was prisoned (Schutzhaft) in Essen, the family emigrated in
1938 to the Netherlands and from there 1940 to the USA. He became a joint
owner of the textil-factory Devries&. Wolf. He died 27.05.1952.
(Hermann Schroeter: Geschichte und Schicksal der Essener Juden. Essen 1980. p. 771)
75. Ludwig Wolf, merchant, married Bertha Hersch from Balduinstein. They took over the
grocery and butcher’s shop of Ludwig’s parents.They had a son:
+ 101. Kurt Wolf, born 1926 in Langenscheid
The family emgrated to the USA 08.02.1937.
76. Albert Wolf, born 29.09.1895 in Langenscheid. He married Grete Nathan, born
21.06.1903. Albert and Jakob Wolf founded a textile factory
“Gebrüder Wolf Kleiderfabrik” in Limburg. Albert an Grete Wolf lived in
Limburg and had two sons:
102. Franz Wolf, born 1927 in Limburg, he was deported to Poland and died
in the KZ Majdanek
103. Walter Wolf, born 1931 in Limburg, he was deported to Poland and
perished
Albert Wolf was deported to Poland and died 28.02.1945. Grete Wolf died
10.06.1944 in the KZ Auschwitz.
77. Selma Wolf, born 17.01.1889 in Langenscheid, she was married to a Mr. Phillips.
She was deported to Sobibor and perished 21.05.1943
78. Jakob Wolf, born 03.02.1899 in Langenscheid. Jakob and Albert Wolf founded a textile
factory „Gebrüder Wolf Kleiderfabrik“ in Limburg. Jakob Wolf had a son:
+ 104. Heinrich Wolf, born 24.01.1931 in Limburg
The family emigrated to the USA in 1935.
Jakob Wolf died 1961 in New York.
79. Selma Fried, born 10.01.1889 in Nordenstadt, she was deported to the KZ Izbica / Poland
and perished 10.06.1942.
“Selma remained single. She held a leading sales position in a Jewish
department store in Wuerzburg until the anti-Jewish boykott in the thirties.
Having moved to Stiftstraae 14, Wiesbaden, she was deported on June 10.
1942 to the Izbica extermination camp, where she perished.”
(From: The Frank and Arfeld Families from Flacht and Niederneisen. a.a.O.)
80. Ludwig Fried, born 29.08.1890 in Nordenstadt, he married 09.06.1929 Elizabeth
Salziger, born 27.12.1903 in Mainz. They had a daughter:
+ 105. Anita Rosel Fried, born 05.05.1931 in Wiesbaden
Ludwig Fried died 15.03.1965 in Wiesbaden, Elisabeth Fried died
13.02.1997 in Wiesbaden.
“Ludwig Fried was orphaned of his father at the age of six, he went to the
village elementary school. As a youth he became a business-apprentice in
the store of his uncle Moritz Nachmann in Frankenthal (Palatinat / Pfalz).
Returning to Nordenstadt, he ran a grocery store in his mother’s house,
being her and his sisters’ sole provider. He served as a soldier in the
German army during WWI, was wounded in battle and awarded the “Iron
Cross”. In 1929 he married Elizabeth Salziger. The couple had one
daughter, Anita. Ludwig served as a member of the Jewish community’s
board, and as honorary financial secretary of its burials society.
On November 10, 1938, the family’s home and store were ransacked and
badly damaged. Ludwig was arrested on the morrow and imprisoned at
the Buchenwald concentraion camp till December 6th. In March 1939 he
moved with his family to Wiesbaden and became a forced laborer under
the Nazi laws, working hard at road buildings, the construction of air raid
shelters and in various factories. Like other Jewish men who lived in what
was termed “privileged mixed marriages”, he was not deported to a
death camp in Eastern Europe. Instead he was sent with his young
daughter to the notorious concentration camp of Theresienstadt on
February 14, 1945. Both fortunately survived the ordeal, and reached
Wiesbaden – after a 10 days long Odyssey, once the camp was liberated
in June 1945. Having contracted TBC during internment, he could not
reopen his former business, and subsisted on restitution payments.
Ludwig was a quiet and kind person, who endured a great suffering
during the Holocaust, without ever complaining. He died in Wiesbaden
on March 15, 1966 and was buried in the local Jewish cemetery.”
“Fried, Elizabeth, nee Salziger, called Liesel, was born December 27,
1903 in Mainz to Christian parents. She was converted by Rabbi Dr. Paul
Lazarus of Wiesbaden, and married Ludwig Fried on June 9, 1929. She
kept a strictly kosher home under the supervision of her mother-in-law
Fanny in Nordenstadt. After the Nazis imposed their racial laws, she was
steadfast in keeping her marriage intact, even though she was summoned
several times by the Gestapo, who tried to convince her to get a divorce.
It was thanks to her strong character, that the lives of her husband and
daughter were saved from annihilation in the Holocaust. Having survived
her husband by 33 years, Liesel suffered in her old age from deafness and
passed away in Wiesbaden on February 13, 1997.”
(From: The Frank and Arfeld Families from Flacht und Niederneisen. a.a.O.)
81. Martha Fried, born 02.06.1894 in Nordenstadt, she was married to Josef Schiffer,
born 08.06.1889 in Bochnia / Poland. They had a son:
106. Herbert Schiffer, born 19.07.1928 in Wiesbaden.
The family was deported to Poland 29.08.1942 and perished.
“Josef Schiffer practiced as a dentist in Wiesbaden till the Nazis revoked
his license. With their son Schiffer, Herbert, born in Wiesbaden on July
19, 1928, they illegally crossed the Belgian border to Antwerp, Belgium,
and were deported from the KZ Malines by the Gestapo to an unknown
extermination camp in Poland on August 29, 1942 /Transport VI,
No. 472, 473, 474).”
(From: The Frank and Arfeld Families from Falcht and Niederneisen. a.a.O.)
82. Felix Philipp Bamberger, born 1876, he became a director of a leather-wholesale trade
in Frankfurt/Main. He was married and had two daughters.
The family emigrated to Israel.
83. Rosa Bamberger, born 1878, she was married in 1900 to Adolf Oppenheimer from
Gross-Gerau. Adolf Oppenheimer died 1935 in Gross-Gerau.
84. Telly Bamberger, born 1885, she was married 1927 in Frankfurt/Main and emigrated to
Israel.
SEVENTH GENERATION :
85. Thekla Stern, she was married to N.N. Mayer. They lived in London.
86. Susanne Stern, born 25.02.1904 in Balduinstein. She was married Berthold Schloss,
born 28.06.1898 in Montabaur. Susanne and Berthold Schloss had a son:
+ 107. Hans Leo Schloss, born 30.08.1930 in Friedberg
During the war they lived in Friedberg. The family was deported to
Poland in September 1942.
(Pages of Testimony Yad Vashem, written by Susanne Sterns’ sister Thekla Mayer
1976)
89. Selma Hirsch, born 17.04.1904 in Haiger. She was married to Peretz / Fritz Levi from
Herborn. Selma and Peretz Levi lived in Herborn and had two children:
108. Josef Levi
109. Charlotte Levi.
Selma Levi was deported 11.06.1942 from Frankfurt/Main to
Majdanek/Sobibor. She perished 01.10.1944.
90. Bertha Hirsch, born 07.04.1905 in Haiger. Sie was married to Afred Rosenberg from
Herborn. Bertha and Alfred Rosenberg lived in Herborn and had a
daughter:
+ 110. Johanna Rosenberg.
Selma Rosenberg was deported 11.06.1942 from Frankfurt/Main to
Majdanek/Sobibor.
(Pages of Testimony Yad Vashem, written by her sister Martha Levi and her daughter
Johanna Lichtblau.)
91. Martha Hirsch, she was married N.N. Levi. They lived in Israel.
100. Siegmund Siegfried Fried, he lived in the New York area.
101. Kurt Wolf, born 1926 in Langenscheid, he emigrated in 1937 to the USA.
Eintrag von Lehrer Metzler in der Schulchronik (04.02.37) :
„Am 03.02.1937 verlässt der Schüler Kurt Wolf die
hiesige Schule
(Auswanderung nach Amerika, New York).“
(Handschriftliche Aufzeichnungen von Herrn Willi Trapp, Langenscheid)
104. Heinrich Wolf, born 24.01.1931 in Limburg, he emigrated with his parents to the USA
in 1935. He has a son:
111. Gary Wolf
105. Anita Rosel Fried, born 05.05.1931 in Wiesbaden. She was married to Werner
Lippert, born 14.03.1927 in Bischofsheim. They have a son:
+ 112. Rainer Andreas Lippert, born 23.11.1962 in Wiesbaden
EIGHTH GENERATION :
107. Hans Leo Schloss, born 30.08.1930, he was deported to Pland in September 1942.
110. Johanna Rosenberg, she was married to N.N. Lichtblau. They lived in Jerusalem
(Ben Maymon 7, Israel).
112. Rainer Andreas Lippert, born 23.11.1962 in Wiesbaden, he married Susanne Klaft,
born 30.12.1966 in Frankfurt/Main. They have a son:
113. David Lippert, born 02.06.1997 in Wiesbaden
114. Sandra Ganz, she is a granddaughter of Hermann Fried (No. 67).
NINTH GENERATION :
115. Michael Rubin, he is the great-grandson of Hermann Fried (No.67).
SOURCES: -- The Frank and Arfeld Families from Flacht and Niederneisern. Biographies
and Genealogical Charts. By Abraham Frank and Gerhard Buck.
Jerusalem 2005.
-- Records from the Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden
-- Handwritten lists from Willi Trapp, Langenscheid
-- Correspodence with Michael Rubin, Boston, USA
-- Joachim Joesch/Uli Jungbluth u.a. (Hrsg.): Juden im Westerwald.
Montabaur 1998.
-- Werner A. Gueth, J. Kempf, Abraham Frank: Zachor.
Ein Buch des Gedenkens. Zur Erinnerung an die juedische Gemeinde
Hachenburg. Hachenburg 2002.
Compiled and edited by Hans-Peter Klein Melsungen May 2007
Revised August 2007, October 2008