Apartment/Flat

The postcard was sent by Karl Lauinger to his brother-in-law Albert Mayer (husband of his sister Emma) in Mainz. - Karl  Lauinger was born on August 12, 1889 in Nürnberg. His parents were Julius Lauinger, born on March 3, 1852 in Binswangen and Johanna Jeanne Lauinger, née Worms, born on April 2, 1862 in Strasbourg. Karl Lauinger was married to Hildegard Sofie Lauinger, née Landshoff, born on January 15, 1895 in Berlin. The couple had three children - Hanna, born on January 25, 1923, Thomas Julius, born on March 7, 1925 and Andreas Hans, born on July 30, 1927.

Johanna Jeanne Lauinger was born in Strasbourg on April 2, 1863. Her parents were Arthur Worms, born in Karlsruhe on February 21, 1834, and Babette Hesslein, born on December 18, 1837. Johanna Jeanne Lauinger was married to Julius Lauinger, born on March 3, 1852 in Binswangen. The couple had three children - Emma, married name Mayer, born on September 28, 1887, Karl, born on August 12, 1889 and Charlotte, married name Mayer/Aal, born on February 5, 1894. Julius Lauinger died on May 25, 1901 at the age of 49 in Nürnberg. Johanna Jeanne Lauinger died on March 19, 1937 in Mainz.

Albert Mayer was born on June 14, 1874 in Mainz. His parents were the son of Bernhard Albert Mayer and Henriette Mayer, née Rindskopf. Albert Mayer was married to Emma Lauinger, born on September 28, 1887 in Nuremberg. Emma Mayer's parents were Julius Lauinger from Binswangen and Jeanne Johanna Lauinger, née Worms from Strasbourg. Albert and Emma Mayer had three children - Julia Mayer, born in 1910,  Margit Marguerite, married name Weinbach, born March 23, 1913 and Bernhard Albert Mayer, born October 14, 1914.

Here lived Beate Goldmann, married name Voremberg, born 1921
involuntarily moved
1936 Frankfurt
fled 1938
England
1940 USA

Hertha Neufeld was born on 14.1.1886 in Berlin and died on 16.1.1975 in London. She was the younger sister of the famous social work pioneer Siddy Wronsky. In Berlin, where she lived until 1938, she held a leading position with the "Jüdische Kinderhilfe e.V." (Auguststrasse), that was founded after the end of the First World War to help immigrants from East European countries and their children. It rendered a variety of services, especially in the fields of health and education.

Mirjam Wolff-Rosenstein (née Rosenblum) was born on 3.3.1911 in Berlin. Her mother was Gertrud Rosenblum-Rosenthal (née Vogelsdorff), who was a director of a business. Gertrud was deported to Riga by the Nazis and was murdered on 9.5.1945. Gertrud's second husband was Erich Rosenthal, who was deported together with her. Mirjam's father was Hermann Rosenblum, and her siblings were Alexander Rosenblum and Eva Thea (Chava) Perls. All three children went to high school. Mirjam attended a Realschule in Berlin and left it in 1928.

Jehudith (Hertha) Ish-Tov Livnat (née Loewenthal) was born on 24.11.1906 in Heidelberg (Schildberg). In Berlin-Schöneberg, she trained as a social worker at the Social Women's School (1927/29) and continued her education at the Women's Academy for Social and Pedagogical Women’s Work, both institutions founded by the social work pioneer Alice Salomon. She then worked at the recreation centre for Jewish children and in Jewish health care and specialised in looking after families at the municipal Social Welfare Offices.

Hilde Alexander-Katz (née Hochwald) was born on 12.12.1907 in Berlin and died in 1992 in Haifa. She began her career as a kindergarten teacher of infants born outside marriage. After graduating from the Social Women's School in Berlin Schöneberg in 1929, she worked in a Jewish orphanage, in a 'Kinderlandheim' and in the Jewish Child Welfare Office and held various leading positions as a kindergarten teacher and in the Jewish Welfare School. She also worked in an institution for Jewish girls founded by Bertha Pappenheim, the leader of the Jewish women’s movement.