Jewish life in Harxheim: Other Jewish persons
According to research by Rüdiger Gottwald, the Jewish families Sommer and Goldschmitt lived at the end of the 19. respectively in the first years of the 20th century successively a small house in the Gaustraße 5 in Harxheim. All persons had already moved away again well before 1933. No further details are known about her time in Harxheim. The building at Gaustraße 5 was demolished in the early 1950s.
Sommer, Louis/Ludwig
Ludwig Sommer, (date of birth unknown) was married to Barbara Mayer (*19.12.1851 – unknown) from Harxheim. The marriage produced the children Joseph, Berta, Sophie, Martha and Moritz, who died after a few months. All children were born in Harxheim. The Sommer family lived at Gaustraße 5 between 1890 and 1897. 1)
Sommer, Joseph
Joseph, born on 20.11.1890, was later resident in Bad Neustadt, from 1938 in Frankfurt. He was deported from there to Theresienstadt on 15.09.1942, murdered in Auschwitz on 23.01.1943. 1) 3) 4)
Sommer, Berta
Born 09 Nov 1892; no other information available. 1)
Sommer, Sophie
Sophie, born on 25.11.1894, moved to Frankfurt. In 1929 she married Georg Cohn (* 19.09.1891), a native of Laboe. Both were murdered on 08.05.1942 in Izbica, Lubelskie, Poland. 1) 2) 4) 8)
Sommer, Martha and married Sommer
Martha was born 23/02/1898. She was an accountant by profession. She lived in Frankfurt. The marriage with the tailor Adolph Abraham Sommer (*19.12.1901 in Frankfurt/M.) took place on 26.08.1924. Both were deported from Frankfurt to the ghetto in Litzmannstadt (Lodz) on 20.10.1941. 1) 2) 4)
Goldschmitt, Julius
Julius, born on 06.08.1889 in Ebersheim, was the son of the cattle dealer and master butcher Isaak Goldschmitt (*06.10.1855 in Ebersheim – 14.01.1941 in Mainz) and his first wife Philipine Löwenthal (*08.06.1856 – unknown). He probably lived with his father and stepmother in Harxheim at Gaustraße 5 since 1897. Julius was a soldier in the First World War. He fell on 02.04.1918. His name can be found on the memorial for the fallen of the First and Second World War in the Harxheim cemetery. 5)
Goldschmitt, Therese and married Güttner
Therese was the daughter from the second marriage of Isaak Goldschmitt with Charlotte Koch and was born on 06.03.1898 in Harxheim. She later lived in Munich. She was married to the decorative painter Bruno V. R. Güttner. The marriage was divorced in 1938. 1) 4) 6) 7)
Portrait of Therese Güttner, née. Goldschmitt
Ruth Gisela Esther Güttner
Therese Güttner was deported together with daughter Ruth Gisela Esther Güttner (*22.03.1927 in Munich) on 20.11.1941 from Munich to Kowno (Kaunas) in Lithuania. Both women were murdered there on 25.11.1941. 4) 6)
Portrait of Ruth Gisela Esther Güttner
References:
1) Archiv der Verbandsgemeinde Bodenheim; Personenstandsregister der Mairie Harxheim-Gau-Bischofsheim.
2) Stadtarchiv Frankfurt/M., Standesamtsregister.
3) City archive Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale.
4) The Memorial Book of the Federal Archives for the Victims of the National Socialist Persecution of Jews in Germany (1933-1945).
5) Stadtarchiv Mainz, Standesamtsregister Ebersheim und Mainz.
6) Biographical Memorial Book of Munich Jews.
7) Stadtarchiv München, Meldeamtsakten.
8) www.search-ancestry.de
