Bäckergasse 1
Bavaria
97711 Maßbach
Germany
For a hundred years, house no. 90 was in Jewish ownership. In 1840, the Jewish butcher Isak Themar acquired it in exchange from the widow Margaretha Dellert. He moved in with his wife Mirjam, née Blum, and their daughter Rebekka, who was born in 1828. Rebekka had her son Jakob (Ignatz Themar) in Maßbach in 1850 and married the butcher Nathan Strauß from Oberlauringen in 1857. Their children Lazarus (1858) and Karolina, called Lina (1860), were born in HN 90.
Karolina married the merchant Samuel Simon Nussbaum from Mittelsinn in 1891. She lived with him in HN 90, where their daughter Recha was born in 1893 and their daughter Betty in 1900. Simon Nussbaum was a cattle dealer and led a modest life with his family. After the early death of his wife Lina in 1919 and the difficult economic situation after the First World War, he had to provide for his two daughters alone. Often there was only enough money for a salted herring and potatoes, which was sometimes even shared with the neighbor's child. Many remembered the dainty Simon, how he bought hare and goat skins from the farmers together with the sturdy „Joukufsmax“. Many a village joke also remained unforgotten, such as when the youth put a straw doll with the sign „Der Nusser sonnt sich!“ on his roof.
Recha later moved to Frankfurt and married Leopold Rothschild. Betty became a milliner and sold her hats to the ladies of Maßbach. In 1937 she married the salesman Sigmund Kahn. On the evening of Nov. 1938, Simon Nussbaum stood in front of the house of his neighbors, the Ames family, and asked: „Leave us here, those people out there are destroying my whole house and beating us to death!“ She sat up all night on the sofa in the living room while the mob destroyed her belongings, her whole existence. Simon saw no future for himself and Betty in Ma & bach. On December 12, 1938, they left Maßbach and hoped to go into hiding in the city of Frankfurt. However, none of the family were able to escape the Shoa.
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