Family : Aron Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

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Oppenheimer family members; departed from Goch before 1933

Family name name c.e. date & place of birth date & place of death. domicile spouse children comments  

OPPENHEIMER

Friedrich

17.4.1893
Goch
dec.

Voss-Str. 42
later USA,
New York

Friedel

  • Ernst (dec.)
  • Judith 1926, lives in Baltimore

Friedrich lived in Berlin and emigrated to the USA (NY) prior to 1933. As a travelling-salesman he serviced tailors and laundries in NY state. His brother-in-law, Ludwig Willner, lived with him from 1937 until the latter's wife & children joined them in the USA the following year.

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OPPENHEIMER

Hermann

31.7.1895 Goch

dec..

Voss-Str. 42
later USA

 

  • Gideon (dec.)

Hermann is known to have lived in Czechoslovakia - he managed to reach the USA in 1940-1941

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OPPENHEIMER

Dr. Ferdinand
(Ferdi)

11.7.1899
Goch

Voss-Str. 42
later Israel

 
  • Aharon
    Jochanan
    Hanna Rubinstein
    (widow, Kfar Shmaryahu, north of Tel Aviv)

Made aliyah to Eretz Israel (then Palestine)

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OPPENHEIMER

Dr. Arthur

22.8.1901

25.10.1987

2 Heshvan 5748

Haifa

Voss-Str.  42
Ein Harod, Haifa

Gerda Fackenheim, ne. 14.05.1904
in Sept. 1927

  • Micha Aron, 7.7.1929 Zwickau
  • Uriel, 9.7.1931 Berlin
  • Benjamin, 10.4.1941 Affula, Israel

Dr Arthur Oppenheimer was a trained dentist, he first worked as such in Zwickau: In 1933 he chose emigration (a decision also enforced because of his political activities as a member of the SPD - a party banned by the Nazis) and made aliyah. Initially he worked as the dentist to Kibbutz Ein Harod. Later he became the regional supervisor of dental practitioners in Jewish settlements. After divorce in the late 1950's he moved to Haifa with his second wife

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OPPENHEIMER

Henriette
(Hennie)

23.9.1902 Goch

dec.

Voss-Str. 42,
Israel, Tel Aviv

spinster
  • n/a

Attended Jewish elementary school in Goch. Henriette worked in the family store until it closed in 1937.Later made aliyah. In Israel she worked as a private governess

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HICHENBERG
née. Oppenheimer

Magarete
(Grete)

9.1.1904
Goch

dec.

Vos-Str.  42
Goch, Israel Kibbutz Yavneh

Hichenberg

  • Hanna Frenkel (dec.)
    (Jerusalem)
  • Rachel Tsadok, widowed and later remarried
    (Jerusalem)

Attended Jewish elementary school in Goch. Later made aliyah. In Israel she lived in Kibbutz Yavneh

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Remained in Germany

Betty Seligmann
née. Oppenheimer
Photographed 1937 in Leipzig.
Betty lived prior to 1935, at times, in Goch. She was deported from Leipzig. Murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp.
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen

Friederike Oppenheimer
née. Cohen

From a family photograph taken on 9. May 1938
went to live with her daughter Betty in a residential home in Leipzig where she passed away in 1941.
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen

 

Emigrated to the U.S.A.

Leah Willner
aged 4 years (1938)
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen

Eva Willner
aged nearly 2 years,
From a family photograph taken on 9. May 1938
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen
Else Willner
née Oppenheimer
From a family photograph taken on 9. May 1938
Emigrated to USA in September 1938
New York (Queens)
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen
Ludwig Willner
1930
Salesman in the family business,
emigrated in 1937 to the USA
New York (Queens)
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen

Friedrich Oppenheimer
From a family photograph taken in
1937
emigrated to the USA (New York)
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen
Hermann Oppenheimer
Photo from the 1930's
emigrated 1940/1941 to the USA
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen


Made aliyah to Eretz Israel (then Palestine)

Dr. Ferdinand Oppenheimer
1930's photograph
Aliyah to Ertez Israel
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen


Grete Hichenberg
née. Oppenheimer

From a 1950 photograph
Aliyah to Eretz Israel / Kibbutz Yavneh.
Photo: Dr. Micha Ofir
Henriette Oppenheimer
From a family photograph taken on 9. May 1938
Saleswoman in the family business until 1938. Aliyah to Israel (then Palestine). She found employment there as a private governess.
Photo: Leah Cohen, Daniel Cohen
Dr. Arthur Oppenheimer
1930's photograph
Aliyah to Eretz Israel,
Kibbutz Ein Harod
Photo: Dr. Micha Ofir

 

Joseph Seligmann
(aged 12 years)
1937 in Leipzig, from where he was evacuated to Belgium in a Red Cross children's transport. After the war he made aliyah to Eretz Israel
Photo: Leah and Daniel Cohen

Family group photographs

 

Photograph taken on the occasion of the marriage of Joseph and Battia Oppheimer née. Seligmann
on 5. May 1950
(18 lyyar 5710)
1. Chaim Safrai (brother-in-law of Battia) - 2. Judit Safrai (sister of Battia) - 3. Warda Oppenheimer
4. Battia - 5. Joseph - 6. Henriette Oppenheimer - 7. Friedel (wife of Ferdinand Oppenheimer
- 9 Dr. Ferdinand Oppenheimer - 8. Dr. Arthur Oppenheimer - 10. Grete Hichenberg née. Oppenheimer

Photo: Dr. Micha Ofir

 

Ludwig Willner with the family of Friedrich Oppenheimer
1937 (Woodside New York)

upper row l-r : Ludwig Willner - Judith - Ernst
lower row : Friedrich and Elsa Oppenheimer

Photo: Daniel and Leah Cohen

 

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Dateiname: foppenh3_l.htm
Datum: 29.12.2007
Erstellt von: Ruth Warrener
Translation: Graham Warrener
Fotografien: Dr. Micha Ofir, Leah und Daniel Cohen