Sorauer

 

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   Marcus SORAUER (12 May 1751 - 13 September 1841) & Neime/Nechame/Noheme MICHEL (2 January 1755 - 5 October 1833)  Neime/Nechame/Noheme (all are variations of the same name) Sorauer died in 1833. She had three great-granddaughters who were named after her, all named Nanny Sorauer. The three were born in 1835, 1836, and 1837.

  1. •    Jacob SORAUER & Pesse MÜHSAM (FORMERLY PAPPENHEIM) (14 October 1776, Pitschen - 28 January 1845, Beuthen)

                For more on Pesse Mühsam’s family, see the main PAPPENHEIM page.

  1. ‣   Joseph SORAUER (about 1805 - )

  2. -   Professor Dr. Paul Carl Moritz SORAUER (9 June 1839, Breslau - 9 January 1916, Berlin)

Famous botanist.  Wrote “Handbook of Plant Diseases” (shown below).  Founder

and editor of the journal, “Zeitschrift für Pfanzenkrankheiten.”  His works are still

being quoted in the scientific literature, 100 years after he wrote them.

  1. ‣   Seligmann SORAUER (1800 - 29 July 1856) & Friedricke FRIEDLÄNDER

  2. -   Dr. Med. Siegfried SORAUER

  3. -   Oskar SORAUER (1835, Beuthen - 1914, Beuthen)

  4. -   Goldine SORAUER & KWELLER

  5. ‣   Moritz SORAUER, wine merchant, & Franziska (Fanny) LÖWENSTEIN (1804 - 15 May 1846, Beuthen)

  6. -   Pinkus SORAUER (4 July 1826, Beuthen - )

  7. -   Hermann SORAUER (2 July 1831, Beuthen - )

  8. -   Dr. Med. Ludwig SORAUER (14 July 1834, Beuthen - )

  9. -   Lina SORAUER (15 March 1828, Beuthen - 10 January 1856, Beuthen) & Adolf WOLFF

  10. -   Bertha SORAUER (5 December 1829, Beuthen - ) & RICHTER

  11. -   Nanny SORAUER (13 August 1835, Beuthen - 1870, Breslau) & Ferdinand Falk LONDON (20 February 1828, Breslau - 22 January 1915, Berlin)

  12. •   George (York) LONDON (23 February 1860, Breslau - 1928, Breslau) & Dora HAHN (1860 - 1928, Breslau)

  13. ‣   Carl LONDON (8 November 1897 - 15 December 1941, Oslo, Norway) & Alice WOLFF (25 June 1904, Mulhausen, France - 23 February 1991, Monticello, NY)

  14. -   Helga (Chana) LONDON (26 July 1924, Hamburg - ) & Ernst Ephraim AUFSEESER (3 August 1914, Aufsess, Bavaria - 22 July 1998, Monticello, NY)

  15. •   Cary London (Shlomo) AUFSEESER (1946 - ) & Sara Barbara (Bayla) ZALL (1950 - )

  16. ‣   Marla Simone (Nechama) AUFSEESER (1979 - )

  17. ‣   Dena Emily AUFSEESER (1981 - )

  18. ‣   Adam Seth AUFSEESER (1985 - )

  19. ‣   Anna Tyra AUFSEESER (1987 - )

  20. •   Joyce Deborah AUFSEESER (1950 - ) & Jon HARRER (1956 - 6 August 2000)

  21. ‣   Lisette Ariela HARRER (1984 - )

  22. ‣   Daniela Alexis London HARRER (1987 - )

  23. •   Walter James (Zeev) AUFSEESER (1956 - ) & Janet Mona KRATEN (1960 - )

  24. ‣   Brittany Joy AUFSEESER (1989 - )

  25. ‣   Andrew David AUFSEESER (1991 - )

  26. ‣   Eric Jordan AUFSEESER (1999 - )

  27. •   George T. (Gavriel) AUFSEESER (1958 - ) & Madeline KAMIN (1961 - )

  28. •   Franziska LONDON (28 July 1861 - )

  29. •   Emanuel LONDON (9 April 1863 - )

  30. •   Paul LONDON (7 July 1865 - ) & Mathilde (Hilda) FRIEDLÄNDER

  31. ‣   Ernst Gerhard LONDON

  32. ‣   Vera LONDON & Professor Siegfried ROSENBAUM

  33. -   ROSENBAUM

  34. •   Linna LONDON (11 June 1868 - ) & Marcus LOEWY

  35. ‣   Erna (Nanni) LOEWY* & Phillip LEWINSKI

  36. ‣   Erna (Nanni) LOEWY* & David ROSTHOLDER

  37. ‣   Rudolph LOEWY & Edith SCHWARTZ

  38. ‣   Hans LOEWY & Trude BALL

  39. ‣   Fritz LOEWY & Dr. Edith HIRSCHFELD

  40. -   Hannah LOEWY & HIRSCH

  41. ‣   Dr. Kathe LOEWY (7 February 1905, Berlin - July 1994, Hamburg) & Fritz MANASSE

Kathe Loewy (shown at right) and Fritz Manasse went to Palestine early during the Nazi era.  Still considering themselves German, they returned to Germany after the war and became very active in the Hamburg Jewish community as well as in the legal community. Read about her (in German) HERE.

  1. •   Karl LONDON

  2. -   Pauline SORAUER (6 April 1839, Beuthen - 5 October 1844, Beuthen)

  3. ‣   Moses SORAUER & Dorothea OSCHINSKY

          Dorothea OSCHINSKY was also married to Pincus MÜHSAM, Moses SORAUER’S first cousin.  See MÜHSAM page.

  1. -   Nanny SORAUER & Max Meir WYGODZINSKI

  2. •   Paula WYGODZINSKI (1860, Hirschberg - 1920)

  3. •   Martha WYGODZINSKI (1869, Berlin - 27 February 1943, Theresienstadt)

Martha Wygodzinski was a physician and active in politics. Read about her in the introduction to this page, above.

  1. •   Alma WYGODZINSKI (1871, Berlin - 1934) & Isidor DZIALOSZINSKI

  2. ‣   Ernst Wilhelm DZIALOSZINSKI (9 January 1901 - )

  3. ‣   Cacilie DZIALOSZINSKI (1898, Berlin - ?) & Felix ROSENBLITT (? - 1964)

  4. -   Gabriel ROSENBLITT

  5. -   Tuvia ROSENBLITT

  6. -   Yochanan ROSENBLITT

  7. •   Wally WYGODZINSKI (1865, Berlin - 1940) & George ZEPLER

  8. ‣   daughter ZEPLER (? - 1984, France)

  9. -   Fanny SORAUER & Samuel HAMBURGER

  10. •   Martin HAMBURGER (11 July 1867 - ) & Bianca COHN (27 December 1870 - 1943, Theresienstadt)

  11. ‣   Theresa HAMBURGER

  12. ‣   Elisabeth HAMBURGER & UCKO

  13. -   Nora UCKO* (1915 - ) & ?

  14. -   Nora UCKO* (1915 - ) & Paul MEYER

  15. -   Erika UCKO (10 October 1916, Nicolai - September 2007) & Salo/Sam ROSEN (about 1899 - about 1965)

  16. •   Ernst Martin ROSEN* (25 January 1938, Breslau - ) & Sandra GOLDBER

  17. •   Ernst Martin ROSEN* (25 January 1938, Breslau - ) & Madeline CHAPMAN

  18. ‣   Daniel Julius ROSEN (1968 - )

  19. ‣   Jeremy ROSEN (1972 - )

  20. •   Evelyn ROSEN (29 March 1940, Sydney - 9 May 1949, Sydney)

  21. •   Susan Felicia ROSEN (1950 - ) & Michael LOWY (1951 - )

  22. ‣   Simon Richard LOWY (1980 - )

  23. -     Jayden Michael LOWY (2002 - )

  24. ‣   Jessica Deborha LOWY (1982 - )

  25. •   Annette ROSEN (1952 - ) & Eric GUERRY (GERICHTER) (1945 - )

  26. ‣   Eve Elizabeth ROSEN (1981 - ) & Toffee (Terence ) FOLTYN

  27. -     Lily Sara FOLTYN (2010 - )

  28. ‣   Rachel Lea ROSEN (1983 - )

  29. ‣   Nathan Sam ROSEN (1984 - )

  30. ‣   Max Shai ROSEN (1990 - )

  31. ‣   Fritz HAMBURGER Died as a child

  32. ‣   Margot HAMBURGER ( - 1995) & Karl LOWENSTEIN

  33. -   Fritz/Fred LOWENSTEIN

  34. -   Horst/Howard LOWENSTEIN

  35. ‣   Margot HAMBURGER ( - 1995)

  36. •   Betty or Bianca HAMBURGER (20 September 1870 - ) & Benno HERTZBERG

  37. -   Rebekka (Regina?) SORAUER (7 May 1843, Breslau - before 1890, Breslau) & Alexander MOHR (1835, Breslau - before 1891, Breslau)

        Alexander Mohr was a businessman in Breslau

  1. •   Martha MOHR* (12 June 1867, Breslau - 15 September 1942, Theresienstadt) & Adolf HENDELSOHN (? - 13 October 1896, Trzemzal)

  2. ‣   Erna Alice HENDELSOHN (19 June 1890, Trzemzal - 5 April 1954, Vienna) & Franz Karl NOWAK (28 November 1884, Vienna - 2 February 1974, Vienna)

  3. -   Otto Helmut NOWAK* (23 July 1913, Vienna - 6 November 1991, Vienna) & Anneliese MALEK (7 February 1920, Vienna - 13 October 1987, Vienna)

  4. -   Otto Helmut NOWAK* (23 July 1913, Vienna - 6 November 1991, Vienna) & Gertrude M. ADLER (9 March 1917, Vienna - )

  5. -   Otto Helmut NOWAK* (23 July 1913, Vienna - 6 November 1991, Vienna) & Hildegard HRILICKA (28 September 1919, Vienna - 10 July 2000, Vienna)

  6. ‣   Margarethe HENDELSOHN (26 January 1894, Trzemzal - 22 October 1918, Breslau)

  7. ‣   Ernst HENDELSOHN (1 April 1895, Trzemzal - 10 September 1918, Laniscourt, France)

    Ernst Hendelsohn died in World War I, after receiving the Iron Cross

  1. •   Martha MOHR* (12 June 1867, Breslau - 1942, Theresienstadt) & Alfred KROTOSZYNER (9 May 1867, Ostrow - 31 October 1942, Theresienstadt)

  2. •   Selma MOHR (31 May 1868, Breslau - 7 October 1943, Theresienstadt) & Louis Leopold LEWY (about 1854, Pinne - 6 March 1916, Dresden)

  3. ‣   Dora Helene LEWY (24 March 1893, Dresden - ) & ROTHSCHILD

  4. ‣   Michael Alexander LEWY (17 July 1895, Dresden - ?, Munich)

  5. ‣   Hans Friedrich LEWY (13 October 1896, Dresden - 6 November 1942, Auschwitz)

  6. •   Paul MOHR (1874, Breslau - )

  7. •   Kurt MOHR (1875, Breslau - )

  8. •   Oscar MOHR (1880, Breslau - )

  9. •   Gertrud MOHR

  10. ‣   Pinkus SORAUER (12 March 1809 - 26 April 1873) & Friedericke (also known as Rebecca Jettel) GUTTMANN (1 April 1815 - 27 December 1897), daughter of Abraham GUTTMANN and Esther KOCHMAN  See gravestone at right.

  11. -   Nanny SORAUER (8 September 1837, Beuthen - 27 October 1916) & Wolf BRAHN (?, Tworog - )

    Nanny’s notebook of essays (shown above) is on display at the Jewish Museum of Berlin.

  1. •   Auguste BRAHN (12 May 1862, Tworog - 31 October 1942, Theresienstadt) & Siegfried EISENSTÄDT (19 January 1864, Stuhm - 2 December 1942, Theresienstadt)

  2. ‣   Wolfgang EISENSTAEDT ( - ?, Dublin, Ireland)

  3. -   Bridget EISENSTAEDT ( ?, Dublin - )

  4. ‣   Rudolf EISENSTAEDT ( - about 1932) & Elli

  5. ‣   Edith Gertrud EISENSTAEDT* (7 June 1896, Berlin - February 1943, Auschwitz) & Alfred LUFT (9 January 1893, Dresden - 4 December 1976, Stockholm)

  6. -   Susanne Jeanette LUFT (1924, Berlin - ) & Paul Louis KESTER (1925, Wiesbaden - )

  7. •   Daniel John KESTER (1954, Los Angeles - ) This is me (creator of this website) & Anna Gunilla THEANDER (1958 - )

  8. ‣   Anya Rebecca KESTER (1989 - )

  9. ‣   Shiri Sophia KESTER (1991 - )

  10. -   Eva LUFT (1921 - ) & Gunnar Arthur GLUCKMAN (1922 - )

  11. •   Anita GLUCKMAN (1949 - )

  12. •   Clas GLUCKMAN (1951 - )

  13. -   Werner Wolf LUFT (2 July 1929 - 25 January 2005) & Helene TOITOT (1929 - )

  14. •   Alyce Jasmine LUFT (1953 - ) & Barry POST (1952 - )

  15. ‣   Madeline Valerie POST (1991 - )

  16. •   Valerie Nadine LUFT (1957 - ) & Marshall Charles NOVACK (1955 - )

  17. ‣   Justine NOVACK (1990 - )

  18. ‣   Jared Mathew NOVACK (1993 - )

  19. ‣   Edith Gertrud EISENSTAEDT* (7 June 1896, Berlin - February 1943, Auschwitz) & Hans LITTMANN (12 October 1897, Berlin - February 1943, Auschwitz)

  20. •   Hugo BRAHN (22 March 1870 - 19 August 1926, Berlin) & Cerline

  21. -   Paula SORAUER & HERZFELD

  22. -   Adolf SORAUER (11 September 1839 - 22 December 1897) & Paula STEINITZ (1845 - 27 June 1904, Beuthen)

  23. •   Georg SORAUER (28 October 1868, Beuthen - )

  24. •   Elsbeth SORAUER (8 July 1874, Beuthen - )

  25. -   Dr. Med. Moritz SORAUER (13 February 1841, Beuthen - )

  26. ‣   Friedricke (Frommet) SORAUER (1811, Beuthen - ) & Pinkus STINITZ (or STEINITZ) (about 1813 - )

  27. -   Johanna STINITZ & HERZFELD

  28. -   Paula STINITZ & SORAUER

  29. ‣   Hannchen (Handel) SORAUER (1813 - ) & Michael GUTTMAN (about 1817 - )  Michael was the brother of Friedericke GUTTMANN, above.

  30. -   Max GUTTMAN

  31. -   Paula GUTTMAN & COHN

  32. -   Eugen GUTTMAN (5 June 1845, Beuthen - 10 June 1845, Beuthen)

  33. •   Aaron SORAUER & Charlotte WEISSENBERG. Charlotte was the daughter of David WEISSENBERG and Rosel DEUTSCH

  34. •   Michele SORAUER (18 April 1791 - 20 October 1833) & Simon LOEWI

  35. ‣   Friedricke LOEWI (about 1822 - ) & Scheye Pincus FREUND (27 November 1814 - ), son of Pincus Salomon FREUND and Jette ISRAEL

  36. ‣   Rachel LOEWI (15 October 1814 - )

  37. •   Hanne Haye SORAUER (15 March 1795 - 23 November 1843) & Loebel CASSIRER (7 March 1809 - 26 April 1836)

  38. ‣   Josl CASSIRER (10 February 1825, Beuthen - )

  39. ‣   Frimmel (Friedericke) CASSIRER (10 February 1826, Beuthen - ) & Salomon WACHSMANN (1807, Ujest, Gleiwitz - 1 May 1881, Königshutte, Katowice)

  40. -   Louis CASSIRER (9 July 1849, Beuthen - )

  41. -   Rosa WACHSMANN (17 November 1850, Beuthen - )

  42. -   Handel WACHSMANN (21 October 1852, Beuthen - )

  43. -   Phillip WACHSMANN (25 January 1855, Beuthen - 30 January 1934, Breslau)

  44. -   Hermann WACHSMANN (27 January 1857, Beuthen - 6 May 1943, Theresienstadt) & Hedwig BOEHM (24 February 1862, Ratibor - 13 August 1938, Ratibor)

  45. •   Kurt WACHSMANN (1885, Ratibor - 1887, Ratibor)

  46. •   Georg WACHSMANN (3 December 1887, Ratibor - 1976, Berlin) & Martha SCHULZ

  47. •   Ernst WACHSMANN (1889, Ratibor - 1910, Berlin)

  48. •   Walther WACHSMANN (2 April 1891, Ratibor - 4 December 1982, Sweden) & Rischka FALL (14 August 1897, Hamburg - 15 February 1982, Sweden)

  49. ‣   Ernst WACHSMANN & Lottie FEUCHTBAUM (3 October 1923, Vienna - 7 October 1995, Portland, Multnomah)

  50. -   Peter WAXMAN & Marianne MARCUS

  51. •   Nicholas Gabor WAXMAN

  52. -   Ruth WAXMAN & Thomas HOOPER

  53. •   Jennifer HOOPER

  54. •   Jessica HOOPER

  55. •   Jackie HOOPER

  56. •   Wilhelm WACHSMANN (26 November 1893, Ratibor - March 1971, Los Angeles) & Frieda ISRAELOWITZ (22 March 1895, Koschentin, Lublinitz - Los Angeles)

  57. ‣   Ruth WACHSMANN (7 October 1920, Germany - 15 August 1938, haifa, Israel)

  58. •   Frida WACHSMANN (28 April 1896, Ratibor - 6 March 1943, Auschwitz) & Friedrich HEYMANN (1 November 1889, Oppeln - 1943, Auschwitz)

  59. ‣   Suzanne HEYMANN & Steven PRAGER

  60. -   Deborah PRAGER

  61. -   Larry PRAGER

  62. •   Hilde WACHSMANN (21 December 1897, Ratibor - 1941, Concentration camp) & Alfred BOEHM

  63. •   Erich WACHSMANN (7 February 1901, Ratibor - 1941, Concentration camp) & Hella GUMPERT (7 February 1901, Ratibor - 1941, Concentration camp)

  64. -   Eva WACHSMANN (21 May 1859, Beuthen - 30 December 1860, Beuthen)

  65. -   Nathan WACHSMANN (16 September 1861, Beuthen - )

  66. -   Martha WACHSMANN (2 September 1863, Beuthen - ) & BRAUN (2 September 1863, Beuthen - )

  67. -   Berthe Emilie WACHSMANN (3 April 1868, Beuthen - 15 May 1868, Beuthen)

  68. ‣   Samuel CASSIRER (28 January 1827 - )

  69. ‣   Babette CASSIRER (17 October 1828 - 20 October 1828)

  70. ‣   Moritz CASSIRER (4 September 1829 - 8 March 1830)

  71. ‣   Jonah CASSIRER (3 May 1831 - )

  72. ‣   Bertha CASSIRER (11 April 1834 - )

  73. ‣   Nunne CASSIRER (30 April 1834 - )

  74. ‣   Linna CASSIRER (31 May 1835 - )

  75. ‣   Jacob CASSIRER (28 March 1837 - )

  76. ‣   Nanny CASSIRER (26 July 1838 - )

  77. ‣   Rosalie CASSIRER (17 August 1839 - )

  78. •   Rosel SORAUER* (about 1780 - ) & Joel FRIEDLAENDER

  79. •   Rosel SORAUER* (about 1780 - ) & Samson WIENER (about 1765 - )

 


*People with asterisks after their names were married two or more times.  They have a separate line for each spouse.


This is “my” branch of the Pappenheim extended family.  The Sorauer family most likely originated in the town of Zory, or Sohrau in German, which was part of the German region of Silesia, and is now in western Poland, close to the German border.


One of the daughters of Pinkus Mühsam (see PAPPENHEIM/MÜHSAM page) was Pesse, who married Jacob Sorauer, a brewery owner.  The Sorauer family lived in the cities of Beuthen and Breslau in Silesia, Germany (see MAP).  Beuthen now goes by its Polish name of Bytom, and Breslau goes by Wroclaw.  Both now lie in southwest Poland.


One book on the Jews of Germany writes, “This resulted in the emergence of a number of local Jewish dynasties, such as ... the Sorauer and Guttmann families in Beuthen (Upper Silesia), ...”


The earliest couple I have identified in the family are Marcus and Neime Sorauer.  Neime (also known as Nanny), must have been especially loved; in the four years after her death in 1833, three of her great-granddaughters were given the name Nanny Sorauer. One of these is my great-great-grandmother. Her schoolbook of essays is in the exhibit of the Jewish Museum of Berlin (shown at right).


One of the other three Nanny Sorauers had a daughter, Martha Wygodzinski, who became very admired for her work among poor women in Berlin. She was one of the very first female physicians in Berlin (she was one of only eight), and the first one to be admitted to the Berlin Medical Society. She had studied medicine in Switzerland because there were no German medical schools that would accept women. Although coming from a prosperous family, she chose to focus on treating the poor, especially poor women. She worked in the poorest working class districts of Berlin and became known as the “Engel der Armen” (the “Angel of the Poor”). She founded a women’s medical clinic in the Pankow district of Berlin as well as a home for unwed mothers. Wygodzinski was a member of the Socialist party (SPD) and became a member of the Berlin City Council in the 1920’s. Around 1936 the Nazis revoked her medical license, and in 1942, at the age of 73, she was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt, where she died of weakness and starvation in February 1943.



Thanks to Cary Aufseeser (a descendant of still another Nanny Sorauer) for assembling much of this information, including finding the connection between our respective Nanny Sorauer great-great-grandmothers.  Other information comes from the book “Geschichte des Namens Mühsam” (History of the Name Mühsam), written by Siegfried Mühsam in 1912. Information on the descendants of Regina Sorauer and Alexander Mohr was assembled by the faculty and students of the Wasagasse Gymnasium (high school) in Vienna. Thanks to Jim Falk and his Genealogy/Metastudies site for information on the Cassirer and Wachsmann families.

Essay notebook of Nanny Sorauer from 1856.  Part of the permanent exhibit of the Jewish Museum of Berlin

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