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Descendants List Berman & Rachel/Rosa (née Hertz) Kahn

The list below identifies the members of the family of Berman and Rachel/Rosa (née Hertz) Kahn. They were the grandparents of Eva Kahn who married Hugo Friedmann in 1901 and moved to Themar where he was the Jewish Lehrer in the first decade of the twentieth century. Eva bore 4 children during the time she lived in Themar. For more about Eva, and the Friedmann family, please see:
Eva Friedmann, née Kahn
The Family of Hugo and Eva (née Kahn) Friedmann

We welcome any information, comments, and/or questions that you may have about this family. Please contact Sharon Meen at [email protected]

The outlines uses the word ‘murdered’ in the sense defined by the Yad Vashem database, namely, “During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more.”

  • Berman KAHN, b. 24 Apr 1823 Wawern, d. 17 Feb 1892 Medernach-Dolenberg/Lxbg
  • ∞ (1851) Rachel Rosa HERTZ, b. 24 Feb 1814 Bosen, d. 13 Jan 1904 Medernach/Lxbg
  •      1. Nathan KAHN, b. 18 Nov 1852 Medernach/Lxbg, d. 03 Aug 1922 Ettelbruch/Lxbg
  •      ∞ (1) Sarah LEVI, b. 01 Sep 1853 Conz, d. 12 Jan 1889 Medernach/Lxbg
  •           2. Eva KAHN, b. 19 Jun 1877 Medernach/Lxbg, murdered 04 Mai 1942 Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •           ∞ Hugo FRIEDMANN, b. 01 März 1876 Neu-Ulm, murdered 13 Jun 1942 Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •                3. Johanna FRIEDMANN, b. 21 Dez 1902 Themar, d. 11 Mai 1970 S. Afrika
  •                ∞ Karl LANG, b. 17 Dec 1899 Frankfurt, d. 1963 Köln/Cologne (while visiting)
  •                     4. Wilma LANG, b. 20 Feb 192? Frankfurt, d. 15 Aug 1994 Johannesburg/SA
  •                     4. W. LANG, b. 1927 [Köln]
  •                3. Sitta FRIEDMANN, b. 28 Dec 1903 Themar, murdered 22 Feb 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto
  •                ∞ Ernst LEWIN, b. 05 Jul 1895 Falkenburg, murdered Auschwitz
  •                     4. Joachim LEWIN, b. 11 Oct 1935 Falkenburg, murdered Auschwitz
  •                3. Friedrich FRIEDMANN, b. 17 Oct 1905 Themar, d. 27 Aug 1967 Brussel
  •                ∞ Chana MAUR, b. 14 Nov 1912 Daleszyce/Poland, m. 30 Nov 1938, d. 29 Jan 1992 Belgium
  •                     4. Henri FRIEDMANN, b. 1947 Uccle/Belgium
  •           2. Bruno FRIEDMANN, b. 15 Oct 1908 Themar, d. 18 Jul 1980 South Africa
  •           ∞ Vera MARCUS, b. 01 Sep 1912 Pirmasens, m. 02 Jan 1944, d. 07 May 1989 South Africa
  •                3. R. FRIEDMANN, b. 1947 Johannesburg/SA
  •                3. S. FRIEDMANN, b. 1951 Johannesburg/SA
  •           2. Emile KAHN, b.12 Nov 1879 Medernach, murdered14 Dez 1941 Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •           2. Theresia KAHN, b. 11 Jun 1882 Medernach/Lxbg, d. Könen
  •           ∞ Meier HAYUM, b. 08 Juli 1867 Könen
  •           2. Louis KAHN, b. 01 Dez 1883 Medernach/Lxbg, d. .03 02 1885 Medernach/Lxbg
  •           2. Hermann KAHN, b. 14 Okt 1885 Medernach/Lxbg.
  •           2. Cecile KAHN, b. 21 Sep 1886 Medernach/Lxbg, d. 09 Okt 1886 Medernach/Lxbg
  • ∞ (1) Mathilde KAHN, b. 26 Jul 1863 Kirl, d.  08 Jun 1921 Medernach/Lxbg
  •           2. Sophie KAHN, b. 22 Jan 1893 Medernach/Lxbg, d. 19 Dec 1912 Medernach
  •           2. Albert Marcus KAHN, b. 22 May 1895 Medernach/Lxbg, murdered Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •           ∞ Ella KAHN, b. Bärenbach, murdered Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •                3. Rene KAHN, b. 1924 Mamer/Lxbg, murdered Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •                3. Margot KAHN, b. 1925 Mamer/Lxbg, murdered Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •                3. Yvonne KAHN, b. Mamer/Lxbg, murdered Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •           2. Otto Berman KAHN, b. 28 Feb 1901 Medernach/Lxbg, murdered Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •           ∞ Paula KAHN, b. 14 Apr 1901 Bärenbach, murdered 13 Jun 1942 Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •                3. Julius KAHN, b.1927 Kayl/Lxbg, deportiert Litzmannstadt Ghetto
  •                3. Andree KAHN, b. 16 Mai 1931 Esch/Lxbg, deportiert Litzmannstadt
  •                3. Marcel KAHN, b. 16 May 1933 Esch/Lxbg, deportiert Litzmannstadt
  •      1. Aron KAHN, b. 08 Dec 1854 Medernach/Lxbg, d. 10 Jul 1925 Medernach/Lxbg
  •      ∞ (1880) Elisa BERMANN, b. 27 Nov 1858 Osaan, d. 15 Aug 1942 Fünfbrunnen/Lxbg
  •           2. Sophie KAHN, b. 15 Jul 1881 Medernach/Lxbg
    • 2. Moritz KAHN, b. 1882 Medernach/Lxbg
  •           2. Lina KAHN, b. 14 Apr 1884 Medernach/Lxbg , d. 1885 Medernach/Lxbg
  •           2. Bernard KAHN, b. 05 Jul 1888 Medernach/Lxbg, d. 05 Jun 1961
  •           ∞ (1913) Johanna GOTTLIEB, b. 13 May 1888 Echternach/Lxbg
  •                3. Berthold Alphonse Camille KAHN, b. 23 May 1914 Medernach, d. 09 Oct 2004
  •                3. Armand Gaston KAHN, b. 29 Apr 1918 Medernach
  •           2. Norbert KAHN, b. 13 Apr 1891 Medernach, murdered 1942 KZ Buchenwald m.
  •           ∞ (30 Jan 1921) Henriette HERTZ, b. 30 Dec 1892 Ettelbruck/Lxbg, murdered 29 Jan 1943
  •           Auschwitz
  •           2. Berthold KAHN, b. 08 Jan 1898 Medernach, d. 02 May 1923 Medernach

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to thank the families of Hugo and Eva Friedmann’s children — Johanna, Friedrich, and Bruno — for their contributions to our knowledge. Henri Friedmann’s submission of Pages of Testimony in 2008 to honour his aunt and uncle and cousin — Sitta and Ernst Lewin and their son Joachim — provided critical clues that guided the research and growing knowledge of the family.

We also wish to thank two researchers for their contributions: first, Dr. Marianne Bühler provided new information to our knowledge of the family in Bernkastel-Kues and dates of marriage, departure, etc. Her work on the Jewish community of Bernkastel-Wittlich can be found here.

The new information from Dr. Bühler led in turn to contact with Linda Licina-Gedink who leads a project for the Medernach Municipal government.  The project is, as she wrote in April 2014, “to try and compile all persons that were born, married or died in Medernach, and this by entering the details from civil acts one-by-one. I have finished now all the acts that are available from Medernach on www.familysearch.org (till 1923) and I am now trying to complete the picture by finding out, where those people who did not stay in Medernach have landed.” Her project results can be found at: http://medernach.myheritage.com.

SOURCES:

  1. Alemannia-judaica, Bernkastel(Stadt Bernkastel-Kues, Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich) Jüdische Geschichte/SynagogeAlemannia-judaica, Illingen.
  2. Das Bundesarchiv, Memorial Book
  3. “En mémoire de la petite Jacqueline Bernheim,” Fonds pour la Chirurgie Cardiaque.
  4. GenAmi, L’Association de la généologie juive,
  5. Genami.org, Liste des Juifs du Luxembourg en 1940.
  6. Genamiorg, List of Survivors from Luxembourg
  7. Genamiorg, Documents.
  8. “Gurs,” und “St. Cyrpien.” Learning about the Holocaust through Art.
  9. JewishGen, Datenbank der Familie von Raphael und Nanette Kahn aus Schweich, Deutschland.
  10. JewishGen. Lodz Ghetto Hospital Records
  11. Jüdische Gemeinde Marisfeld (Kr. Hildburghausen). Matrikel 1768-1938, Koblenz: Bundesarchiv 1958.
  12. Jüdische Gemeinde Themar (Kr. Hildburghausen. Matrikel 1820-1938, Koblenz: Bundesarchiv 1958.
  13. Körtels, Willi. Die jüdische Schule in der Region Trier. Hrsg. Förderverein Synagoge Könen e.V. 2011. pp. 150-151.  Online zugänglich(pdf-Datei).
  14. National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Petitions for Naturalization from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1897-1944; Series: M1972; Roll: 174New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1905; Election District: A.D. 31 E.D. 26; City: Manhattan; County: New York; Page: 13
  15. Paris, France & Vicinity Marriage Banns, 1860-1902 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. [Original data: Archives de Paris et sa région: Publications des bans de Mariages 1860-1930. Paris: ARFIDO S.A., 2006. © ARFIDO S.A.]
  16. Schonten, Marc, Die jüdische Gemeinde in Medernach: Einwanderung, Integration und Verfolgung, Fanfare, 2006, and “Juden in Luxembourg.“
  17. Stadtarchiv Themar
  18. Statistik u. Deportation, 16 October 1941
  19. Themarer Zeitung, 1904-1909.S
  20. Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Meiningen, Geburtsregister Themar jüdsiche Gemeinde 1876-1927.
  21. “United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925,” database with images, FamilySearch[accessed 5 July 2015), Amelia Friedman, 1923; citing Passport Application, New York, United States, source certificate #285923, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 – March 31, 1925, 2257, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm.
  22. Yad Vashem, Pages of Testimony: Adele Kouperman, Paul Bernheim, Klothilde Wolff, Leon Wolff, Johanna Deutsch.
  23. Yad Vashem, International Institute for Holocaust Research, “Transport, Traian Da 3 from Luxembourg, Luxembourg to Lodz, Ghetto, Poland on 16/10/1941.”
  24. Year: 1910; Census Place: Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1024; Page: 20B; Enumeration District: 0630; FHL microfilm: