8 May 1945: The Jews of Themar in Germany

See as well:
21 January 1945: Liberation of Auschwitz
08 May 1945: Where were the Jews of Themar?
08 May 1945: The Jews of Themar in Germany
End of war and one Jewish family of Themar

On 08 May 1945, the Allies (England, France, the United States, and Russia) accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender, ending World War II and the Third Reich.

American soldiers under the command of George Smith Patton had been in the district of Hildburghausen since early April, steadily working their way from north to south. On 07 April 1945 a detachment reached Themar. Among the American soldiers was 21-year-old Ludwig Mühlfelder. Ludwig was the son of Julius Mühlfelder, b. 1891 in Themar, a member of the large Frankenberg family, one of the founding families of Themar’s Jewish community. On 21 November 1939, Ludwig had left Germany with his parents and his sister Ellen, probably never imagining that he would return to Germany six years later in a soldier’s uniform.
Of this extraordinary event, Ludwig later wrote:

     On the 8th April [1945], we reached Themar in Thüringen, the birth town of my father. …
In the last weeks of the war we heard a lot about the discovery of the concentration camps.
What happened there is almost impossible to imagine. Thousands and hundreds of thousands
were murdered, 6 million Jews. . . .
     I was grateful that I was still alive at the end of the war, and could assist the Allies, primarily the United States, in some small way, to free Europe and save some fragment
of the remaining Jews.
     Because of the Shoah, I cannot forgive the perpetrators, and the
victims remain silent.
     But one cannot blame the younger German generation for this appalling chapter wrought by their parents and grandparents.
     What I expect and require from the descendants of the perpetrators is a full reckoning with the crimes of their people.

At the same time as Ludwig was in Themar, another soldier with direct ties to Themar was on duty in Hamburg. This was 21-year-old Norbert Müller, member of the Salamon and Karoline Müller family, another of the founding families of Themar’s Jewish community. The same age as Ludwig, Norbert had left Germany via the Kindertransport program, enrolled in the British army as soon as he could, changed his name to Norman Miller, and returned to Germany in 1945. (For his story, see “War ends in Germany: One family’s story.”

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In addition to these two young men, at least 205 members of the Jewish families of Themar were alive on 8 May 1945, when war ended in Europe. (A table below identifies these  205 men, women, and children and where they were on 08 June 1945.)

While most of these men, women, and children were in continents other than Europe (and primarily in the United States), at least 27 (13%) were in “Germany,” that is, in Germany within its pre-war boundaries as well as in occupied Czechoslovakia where the Theresienstadt Ghetto was located.

The connection to Themar was probably not top of mind to those Jews in Germany who had survived the war and Holocaust. The last contact they had had with Themar had been a bureaucratic one in late December 1938/early January 1939, when all Jews had to add “Israel” or “Sara” to their given names and wrote to the city registrar informing him of their compliance with the law. Given that Themar lay behind the Iron Curtain as of July 1945, most survivors had little interest in visiting their or their parents’ home town.

But the connection to Themar has proved of enormous importance to their descendants. They have found that knowledge about their ancestors’ connection to this small city, and it surrounding villages, has filled a void they didn’t know existed. Since the fall of the wall in 1989, a steady stream of descendants has visited Themar eager to learn as much as possible about their origin stories. And a significant amount of the information, documents, and photographs that are presented here come from the descendants, thus contributing to the shared knowledge.

For historians, genealogists, and other researchers, the stories play a vital role. Uncovering the complexities and nuances of their individual and intertwined stories widens the lens through which we can explore, and seek to comprehend, the experience of one Jewish community. The two soldiers, Ludwig Mühlfelder and Norbert Müller, left Germany at the end of their turn of duty. But others stayed. Otto Baer and Meta Krakauer are names familiar to most. Other names are less known, if at all: for example, Doris Lorenzen, née Frankenberg, b. 1895 in Themar. Doris was deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1945, and found her aunt Meta there. Once freed, Doris took Meta home with her to Dinslaken where both women lived for the rest of their lives. Meta died ten years later on 10 July 1955, and was buried in the Dinslaken Jewish Cemetery, “the only survivor of a National Socialist ghetto to be buried there.” Doris died in January 1970. Bringing closure to Meta’s story honours both Meta and Doris. (See more detail below and at “Finding the traces — one google at a time!”

This article tells as much as presently known of the stories of these 27 people.

See as well:
8 May 1945: An Overview
End of war and one family’s experience

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The long-standing assumption was that were only two of Themar’s Jews survived — Otto Baer who survived Auschwitz and Meta Krakauer, née Frankenberg who survived Theresienstadt Ghetto. Given this assumption, it was therefore believed that there were no Jews in Themar or elsewhere in Germany who had survived camps, ghettos, or in hiding,

There were Jews in Themar or close nearby at the time of Ludwig Mühlfelder’s visit, although he was probably unaware of this. The twins Johanna and Gunter Haaß, b. 1928 in Themar, children of Erna Kahn and Hermann Haaß., a non Jew, had survived under the care of their father’s relatives. They were now 17 years old. Both remained in the Themar area after the war. Gunter married and formed a family. Hanna remained single and worked in Themar for the Morgenroth family; she died in 1968. Gunter became a policeman in East Germany. He married and lived in a small village near Themar with his wife and their two children. Gunter died in 1988, just before the Wall fell.

Eleven-year-old Ellen Neumann, daughter of Adolf Kahn, lived with her mother and stepfather in Themar. She continued her stepfather’s photography business well into well into the 2000s. She died in Themar in 2019.

How many children of Louis Walther and his non-Jewish wife Olga Zinn were in Themar is not known, but possibly four sons, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter.

Members of Themar’s Jewish families were living in other places in Germany; they were either non-Jewish spouses or the children of inter-faith marriages. In western Germany, in the town of Dinslaken were the husband of Doris Lorenzen, née Frankenberg and their son. In Halle a/d Saale was the family of Siegfried Marcus, eldest son of Emma Marcus, née Gassenheimer, b. 1863 in Themar. While Siegfried had been able to flee Germany, his wife Emma Marcus (née Becker) and their three sons, Erich, Dieter, and Peter had been trapped in Halle. Erich had suffered badly in forced labour but survived while Emma and the younger boys managed to survive in Halle.

And in Darmstadt lived Else Rosenberg (née Pabst), the wife of Julius Rosenberg (b. 1910 in Themar), and their 11-year-old daughter Lotte. After the war ended, Else contacted the administration in Hilburghausen to find out what had happened to Julius. In the early 1950s, Else and Lotte, and Lotte’s husband Peter Schaefer, left Germany to live in Canada. Else died in Vancouver British Columbia in 1965. In 2017, Lotte returned to Themar for the first time with her daughter Bianca, her sister Lore and other relatives. Stolpersteine were laid for Lotte’s father, Julius Rosenberg, for her grandparents Markus and Else (née Kahn) Rosenberg, and for her great-uncle Adolf Kahn, all of whom had lived at Schulstrasse 3 (now the site of Anne Frank school). In March 2026, a Stolperstein will be laid for Lotte.

Members of Themar’s Jewish families were in Berlin and the surrounding area at the end of the war. Bella Klöckner, née Frankenberg, b. 1883 in Themar, had left Themar sometime after the birth of her daughter Irma in Themar in 1907. Irma married Hans Bünning, b. 1901 in Denmark, and in the early 1930s, they were living in Lübben (in Brandenburg) where son Gernot was born in 1933 and daughter Sigrid in 1934. In the May 1939 German Minority Census, the Bünnings were living in Teltow on the outskirts of Berlin, while Bella and Richard were living in Hanover. The story of their lives during the war is unknown at this time. Irma’s husband Hans died in Berlin on 25 April 1945 just before the war ended. Irma continued to live in Berlin with Gernoth and Sigrid. When Bella and Richard moved to Berlin is not yet known: in 1962, Bella died in Berlin-Bukow and was buried in Parkfriedhof Tempelhof; Richard had died several years before her, also in Berlin-Bukow. Sigrid remarried (Franz Nietzsch) and remained in Berlin until her death in 1990. Both her children married but died before their mother: in 1959, Gernoth died in an accident just a year after his marriage; Sigrid died in 1974.

Also in Berlin in May 1945 were the Themar-born children of Samuel & Lina Baer: Otto, b. 1895 and Klara, b. 1906. Otto Baer was a survivor of Auschwitz. Deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 09 December 1942, Otto had managed to stay alive for over two years in the brutal conditions of the camp. According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, only he and one other person on the transport of 9 December 1942 were alive on 27 January 1945. Otto Baer was just short of his 50th birthday.

Sometime after the liberation, the American army found Baer in Zeitz, south of Leipzig. He returned to Berlin and to the area in East Berlin where he had lived earlier. Aufbau, the New York newspaper that provided the Jewish community with names of victims and survivors, included Otto’s name and address in its issue of 9 November 1945 — Otto was living at Hussitenstrasse 43, a 40-minute walk from his former address. Two years later, the listing in the Mitgleidverzeichnis der Judischen Gemeinde zu Berlin/Members of the Jewish Community of Berlin, was the same. Otto remained in Berlin for the rest of his life; he did not marry. In 1972, he died.

Klara Compart, b. 1906 in Themar, also survived the war and Holocaust. Her husband, Mordka “Moritz” Mendelwicz did not; he was murdered shortly before the end of the war, March 1945 in Mathausen KZ. Klara’s and Mordka’s son, Siegbert, also survived. Klara and Siegbert chose to leave Germany and they sailed to New York City from Antwerp in August 1948. Klara and Siegbert Mendelwicz changed their names to Claire and Barry S. Mendell. Claire Mendell died in 1977 and Barry Mendell died in 1991.

Paula Compart, daughter of Alfred Compart, b. 1881 in Themar, was either in Berlin in May 1945 or en route. She was also a survivor of Auschwitz as well as Theresienstadt Ghetto and Flossenburg concentration camp. On 28 May 1942, Alfred Compart had been executed in a brutal action at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Three weeks later, on 19 June 1942, Alfred’s wife, Fanny Compart, née Rothmann, and her two children, 18-year-old Paula and 28-year old Kurt, were deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto. On 04 October 1944, the three were transported to Auschwitz. Fanny was murdered in Auschwitz, probably soon after their arrival. On 12 October 1944, Paula was transferred from Auschwitz to Flossenburg concentration camp. In January 1945, as the Red Army neared Auschwitz, Kurt was sent on a death march from Auschwitz to Dachau; he died in the camp on 2 February 1945. (Note 1)

On 23 April 1945, Flossenburg was liberated. Exactly when Paula returned to Berlin is unknown, but she was married and living in the city in 1950. In 1963 and 1964, she testified in war crimes court trials, most importantly in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial of September 1964, when she testified about the brutal murder of her father and her experiences in Auschwitz. She married three times in all and chose to live in East Berlin under Communist rule. On October 16, 1979, aged just 54, she died and was buried at Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. There were no children from her marriages.

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Nine members of Themar’s Jewish families survived Theresienstadt Ghetto.

One of them, Hulda Grünbaum, née Schlesinger, had left Theresienstadt on “The Train to Freedom” to St. Gallen, Switzerland as part of an 11th hour deal between Heinrich Himmler and a Jewish organization. Hulda was subsequently reunited with her daughter Ilse in England, where Ilse had been since 1939; in 1948, the two women sailed for Australia, where Kurt Grünbaum, son & brother lived.

Both Ilse and Kurt married and had children; Hulda’s grandson Garry Meller has researched his family story deeply and contributed much to the histories of Themar, Walldorf and Schmalkalden, the ancestral homes of the Grünbaum and Schlesinger families. In 2019, he came to Themar to honour the Grünbaum family at the laying of Stolpersteine.

Liberated in the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 8 May 1945 were seven women and one man: Minna Frankenberg, née Gassenheimer; Doris Lorenzen, née Frankenberg; Meta Krakauer, née Frankenberg; Hulda Grossmann, née Bär; Gertrud Heim, née Walther; Rita Dressel, née Walther; Walter Dressel, and Margot Dressel.

Part of Doris Lorenzen’s story has been summarized above, but more is known of her complicated story which illuminates the experience of  Jewish women married to non-Jewish men. Doris, b. 1898,  grew up in Themar close to her aunt Meta. Upon marriage to Karl Lorenzen in 1926, she moved west to Dinslaken in NRW and they had a son in 1938. Until July 1942, the Lorenzen family lived in Dinslaken-Lohberg but they were then forcibly committed to the ‘Jews’ house’ in Weseler Straße.

Doris completely lost her protected status on 17 September 1944, when she was arrested in Dinslaken with the three other Jewish women in Dinslaken married to Christian men. With them, she was taken from Düsseldorf to Minkwitz near Zeitz to do forced labour for the “Organisation Todt.” On 18 February 1945, she was deported from Frankfurt am Main to Theresienstadt Ghetto on the train registered as transport no. XII/10. Doris Lorenzen was given prisoner number 1210496.

Finding her aunt Meta still alive when the Ghetto was freed, Doris took Meta home with her to Dinslaken where both women lived for the rest of their lives. Doris died in January 1970. She had converted to Catholicism and was buried in the Catholic cemetery. Her husband, Karl, predeceased her. Her son Gerd  married and remained in Dinslaken until his death in 2019.

Of the others liberated from Theresienstadt little is known. Gertrud Heim, née Walther, returned to Hildburghausen but when it fell under Communist rule, she moved to West Germany. No further trace has been found. Gertrud’s niece Rita Dressel, née Walther, and Rita’s two children, also returned to Germany. Rita and her son Walter chose to stay in Germany while her daughter Margot chose to immigrate into Palestine, soon to become Israel. Rita moved to West Germany where she died in 1983 in Frankfurt am Main. Walter lived in Greifswald in East Germany; he died in 2012.

Hulda Grossmann, née Baer, age 71, returned to Chemnitz where she had lived most of her adult life. On 17 March 1948, the American Joint Distribution Committee recorded her as living at Gerhard Hauptmannplatz 1. Sometime after this date, Hulda moved to Berlin to live in a Jewish nursing home where she died on When Hulda learned of the murder of her son Richard and daughter Elly Stern, née Grossmann, and granddaughter Hannelore Stern is unknown. She knew that Elly and her husband Robert Stern had been deported in May 1942 before she herself was deported to Theresienstadt. She would have hoped that her son Richard Grossmann and granddaughter Hannelore Stern might have found safety in France.

Minna Frankenberg, née Gassenheimer, was the one member of the family of Samuel and Lotte Gassenheimer who survived the war and Holocaust. Her husband Nathan Frankenberg died in Theresienstadt Ghetto on 06 December 1942, several months after their arrival in the ghetto. Minna remained in the ghetto and was not transported further to Auschwitz where she would probably have been murdered upon arrival. When freed on 8 May 1945, Minna, 71 years old, returned to her home in Halle an der Saale. There she reconnected with Emma Marcus and her three sons. Whether or not Minna considered leaving East Germany when Emma and her boys did in 1948 is not known. She said ‘good-bye’ to them and lived the rest of her life in Halle. Her brother Siegmund did not know in his lifetime that his sister had survived.

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On the morning of 4 July 1945, two short months after Ludwig Mühlfelder had freed Themar from the Nazi tyranny, the people of Meiningen, just up the road from Themar, “noticed that the Americans had completely left the town. As the Americans moved in and out, a paralyzing silence set in and the big question arose: What’s next? In the afternoon, the first units of the Red Army arrived and the Red Army command moved into the place where the American command had previously been located: the Strupp villa. A new era was dawning, a departure into an uncertain future.”

It would be many years before descendants of the Jewish families of Themar who lived in other parts of the world would visit the town again.

 

 

 

 

 

CORE FAMILY	NAMES			08 MAY 1945
	FAMILY	BIRTH	GIVEN	COUNTRY
BACHMANN	BACHMANN		Sophie	Palestine
BAER	BAER		Otto	Auschwitz
BAER	DAVIDS	Stein	Gerda	USA
BAER	DAVIDS		Walter	USA
BAER	GROSSMANN	Bär	Hulda	Theresienstadt
BAER	HIRSCH	Stein	Lieselotte	USA
BAER	HIRSCH		Hugo	USA
BAER	MENDLEWICZ	Baer	Klara	Auschwitz
BAER	MENDLEWICZ		Siegbert	Auschwitz
BAER	PLAUT	Baer	Elly	USA
BAER	PLAUT		Arthur	USA
BAER	PLAUT		Hanna Karola	USA
BAER	STERN		Adalbert	Australia
BAER	STERN		Herbert	England
COMPART	COMPART		Paula	Germany
FRANKENBERG	BÜNNING	Kloechner	Irma	Berlin
FRANKENBERG	BÜNNING		Sigrid	Berlin
FRANKENBERG	FRANKENBERG		Lothar	Canada
FRANKENBERG	FRANKENBERG	Gassenheimer	Minna	Theresienstadt
FRANKENBERG	FRANKENBERG	Mittel	Hedwig	USA
FRANKENBERG	FRANKENBERG		Ilse	USA
FRANKENBERG	FRANKENBERG		Heinz	USA
FRANKENBERG	HERZBERGER	Katz	Hilda	Palestine
FRANKENBERG	HERZBERGER		Kurt	Palestine
FRANKENBERG	KATZ		Siegmund	Sweden
FRANKENBERG	KLOECHNER	Frankenberg/Wertheimer	Bella	Berlin
FRANKENBERG	KLOECHNER		Richard	Berlin
FRANKENBERG	KRAKAUER	Frankenberg	Meta	Theresienstadt
FRANKENBERG	LORENZEN		Karl	Germany
FRANKENBERG	LORENZEN		Gerhard	Germany
FRANKENBERG	LORENZEN	Frankenberg	Doris	Theresienstadt
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER	Frank	Hanna	Palestine
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER		Lothar	Palestine
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER		Ludwig	Themar
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER	Frank	Minna	USA
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER	Frank	Klara	USA
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER		Julius	USA
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER		Ellen	USA
FRANKENBERG	MÜHLFELDER		Max	USA
FRANKENBERG	SANDER		Louis	Shanghai
FRANKENBERG	SANDER		Marion	USA
FRIEDMANN	FRIEDMANN		Friedrich	Belgium
FRIEDMANN	FRIEDMANN		Hugo	South Africa
FRIEDMANN	LANG	Friedmann	Johanna	South Africa
FRIEDMANN	LANG		Karl	South Africa
FRIEDMANN	LANG		Wilma	South Africa
FRIEDMANN	LANG		Werner	South Africa
GASSENHEIMER	FRIEDMANN	Gassenheimer	Ruth	Brazil
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Herbert	England
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Siegmund	England
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Amelie	England
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Heinz	England
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Albert	South Africa
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Peter	South Africa
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Michael	South Africa
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER	Joseph	Johanna	USA
GASSENHEIMER	GASSENHEIMER		Julius	USA
GASSENHEIMER	LÜDICKE	Gassenheimer	Ilse	England
GASSENHEIMER	LÜDICKE		Herbert	England
GASSENHEIMER	LÜDICKE		Barbara	England
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS	Becker	Emma	Germany
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Dieter	Germany
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Peter	Germany
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Erich	Germany
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS	Loeb	Hertha	Uruguay
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Paul	Uruguay
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Beatrice	Uruguay
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS	Mendel	Karola	USA
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Siegfried	USA
GASSENHEIMER	MARCUS		Erich	USA
GASSENHEIMER	REIS		Siegmund	USA
GASSENHEIMER	REIS		Lore	USA
GASSENHEIMER	REIS		Werner	USA
GASSENHEIMER	ROSENBAUM		Charlotte	Spain
GASSENHEIMER	ROSENBAUM		Walter	Spain
GRÜNBAUM	FERNICH	Grünbaum	Sophie	USA
GRÜNBAUM	FERNICH		Frederich	USA
GRÜNBAUM	GRÜNBAUM		Kurt	Australia
GRÜNBAUM	GRÜNBAUM		Ilse	England
GRÜNBAUM	GRÜNBAUM		Hans	Palestine
GRÜNBAUM	GRÜNBAUM	Schlesinger	Hulda	Switzerland
GRÜNBAUM	MÜNZER	Seckel	Gertrud	USA
GRÜNBAUM	MÜNZER		Alfred	USA
GRÜNBAUM	MÜNZER		Dorothea	USA
GRÜNBAUM	SECKEL	Glassmann	Edith	USA
GRÜNBAUM	SECKEL		Heinrich	USA
GRÜNBAUM	SECKEL		Joachim	USA
GRÜNBAUM	SECKEL		Jutta/Elsie	USA
GRÜNBAUM	SOMMER	Grünbaum	Mira	Italy
GRÜNBAUM	SOMMER		Arno	Italy
GRÜNBAUM	SOMMER		Sigfried	Italy
GRÜNBAUM	WOHLGEMÜTH	Seckel	Hilda	USA
GRÜNBAUM	WOHLGEMÜTH		Max	USA
KAHN	HAASS		Gunter	Germany
KAHN	HAASS		Johanne	Germany
KAHN	KAHN		Julius	Australia
KAHN	NEUMANN	Kahn	Ellen	Themar
KAHN	ROSENBERG		Miriam	England
KAHN	ROSENBERG		Lotte	Germany
KAHN	ROSENBERG		Else	Germany
KAHN	ROSENBERG		Elly	USA
KATZ	Katz		Walter	England
KATZ	KATZ		Fritz	USA
MAYER/ MÜLLER	MÜLLER	Wolf	Flora	USA
MAYER	LEVINSTEIN	Mayer	Nanett	USA
MAYER	LEVINSTEIN		Heinrich	USA
MAYER/ MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Herbert	USA
MAYER/ MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Helen	USA
MAYER	WOLF	Mayer	Frieda	USA
MAYER	WOLF		Albert	USA
MÜLLER	AMRAM		Sitta	USA
MÜLLER	AMRAM		Meinhardt	USA
MÜLLER	AMRAM		Manfred	USA
MÜLLER	DRESSEL	Walther	Rita
MÜLLER	DRESSEL		Walter
MÜLLER	FRIEDMANN	Müller	Margarete	England
MÜLLER	FRIEDMANN		Lothar	England
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER	Rapp	Rosa	USA
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER	Frank	Paula	USA
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER		Erich	USA
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER		Fritz	USA
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER		Giesela	USA
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER		Erich	USA
MÜLLER	HÄUSLER			USA
MÜLLER	HEIM		Gertrud	Theresienstadt
MÜLLER	MEYER	Müller	Karola	Australia
MÜLLER	MEYER		Gerhard	Australia
MÜLLER	MEYER		Ruth	Australia
MÜLLER	MÜLLER	Vollmann	Martha	Argentina
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Albert	Argentina
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Margot	Argentina
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Hans	Argentina
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Willi	Palestine
MÜLLER	MÜLLER	Grünbaum	Recha	Shanghai
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Karl	Shanghai
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Julius	Sweden
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Meinhold	Sweden
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Martin	USA
MÜLLER	MÜLLER	Kahn	Mary	USA
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		S.	USA
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Sebald	Netherlands
MÜLLER	MÜLLER	Heinemann	Hertha	Netherlands
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Ursula	Netherlands
MÜLLER	MÜLLER		Norbert	England
MÜLLER	NEUMANN		Erich	USA
MÜLLER	SÜSSMANN	Walther	Recha	Germany
SACHS	FRIEDMANN	Sachs	Elsa	USA
SACHS	FRIEDMANN		Julius	USA
SACHS	KLEEMANN	Sachs	Anna	Shanghai
SACHS	KLEEMANN		Harry	Shanghai
SACHS	SACHS		Moritz	Shanghai
SACHS	SACHS		Feodor	Shanghai
SACHS	SACHS		Robert	Shanghai
SACHS	SACHS		Hilde	South Africa
SACHS	SACHS	Rindsberg	Helene	USA
SACHS	SACHS		Felix	USA
SACHS	SACHS		Albert	USA
SACHS	SACHS	Alkan	Rosita	USA
SACHS	SACHS		Hans	USA
SCHWAB	ROSENGARTEN	Schwab	Bertha	Shanghai
SCHWAB	ROSENGARTEN		Paul	Shanghai
SCHWAB	ROSENGARTEN		Manfred	Shanghai
SCHWAB	ROSENGARTEN		Erich	Shanghai
SCHWAB	SCHWAB	Steindler	Frieda	Shanghai
SCHWAB	SCHWAB		Oskar	Shanghai
WALTHER	LÜBECK	Walther	Wera	Palestine
WALTHER	LÜBECK		Gustav	Palestine
WALTHER	LÜBECK		Amos	Palestine
WALTHER	WALTHER		Otto	Themar?
WALTHER	WALTHER		Alma	Themar?
WALTHER	WALTHER	Sauerby	Helga	Themar?
WALTHER	WALTHER		Willi	Themar?
WALTHER	WALTHER		Ernst	Themar?
WALTHER	WALTHER		Erich	Themar?
WERTHEIMER	GLASER		Siegfried	USA
WERTHEIMER	GLASER		Marianne	USA
WERTHEIMER	KLIPSTEIN	Wertheimer	Irma	USA
WERTHEIMER	KLIPSTEIN		Leo	USA
WERTHEIMER	KLIPSTEIN		Janine	USA
WERTHEIMER	KOLODZINSKI	Wertheimer	Hanna	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	KOLODZINSKI		Rudolf	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	KOLODZINSKI		Ruth	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	KOLODZINSKI	Wertheimer	Käte	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	KOLODZINSKI		Franz	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	MEDER	Wertheimer	Lotte	Netherlands
WERTHEIMER	MEDER		Edwin	Netherlands
WERTHEIMER	MEDER		Siegbert	Netherlands
WERTHEIMER	WASSERMANN	Wertheimer	Charlotte	Uruguay
WERTHEIMER	WASSERMANN		Adolf	Uruguay
WERTHEIMER	WASSERMANN		Hans	Uruguay
WERTHEIMER	WASSERMANN		Ursula	Uruguay
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER	Frankenberg	Else	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Nathan	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Edith	Argentina
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Julius	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Käthe	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Heinz	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Alfred	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER	Mahlendorf	Louise-Marthe	Netherlands
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Alfred	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER	Warner	Marion	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER		Edgar	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER	Shapiro	Roslyn	USA
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER	Lindenfeld	Rosalie	?
WERTHEIMER	WERTHEIMER	Lamm	Helene	Netherlands

NOTES:
1. As elsewhere in this website, a member of a Themar Jewish family is defined as one related to the 15 core families; that is spouses, and descendants of a person with a direct connection to Themar. Such persons may not have been born in Themar. For example, Ludwig Mühlfelder was born in Suhl but was the son of Themar-born Julius Mühlfelder. The number does not include members of a spouse elsewhere than Themar; for example, relatives of Minna Frank, b. in Bavaria, the wife of Julius Mühlfelder.
2. Although the Compart family is not considered to be one of Themar’s core founding families (because the family lived only lived about 5 years in the Kleinstadt), the fate of the family has been included in this review.