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Siegmund Katzenstein, occupation: Houthandelaar
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1) Henriette Katzenstein, birth 1861 Giessen, Duitsland, died 1938 http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/fuerth-henriette Henriette Fuerth grew up in an elegant quarter of Giess, where her Jewish family at first encountered discrimination. Her father, Siegmund Katzenstein, was a timber merchant, married to Sophie, nee Loeb. Even in the first years of elementary schoo l Henriette Fčurth felt herself excluded, but she asserted herself, developed a fighting spirit and decided never to deny her Jewish origins. After completing her studies at a high school for girls, her father consented to her attending the Elisab ethschule in Frankfurt, which had a teachers&Aelig; seminar attached to it, but he withdrew his permission even before she began her studies there, since as a Jew his daughter had no chance of employment. Henriette Fčurst compensated for this lack of co mplete and demonstrable professional training after her marriage, when she moved to Frankfurt. She studied social economics at the Freier Deutsche Hochstift (Free German Higher Institute), where she began investigating women&Aelig;s work in the home. Al though, as a mother of eight, she was severely burdened by domestic duties, with the encouragement of her brother, Simon Katzenstein, she published articles of social criticism. In time she succeeded in earning a much-needed income as a highly-reg arded lecturer and journalist. Apart from a volume of poetry, Vineta (1911), she produced some two hundred articles and thirty independent publications. At the same time, she was involved in all the contemporary issues related to women: the protec tion of children and mothers; household problems; the decline in population and public health. In her last major work, Die Regelung der Nachkommenschaft als eugenisches Problem (Birth control as a eugenics issue, 1929), she discussed the possibili ty of preventing parenting by people with inherited diseases. An advocate of collaboration with radical bourgeois feminists, Fčurst was active in the League for the Protection of Mothers, which took an active part in opposing persecution of homose xuals and lesbians, a stance which was more liberal than that of the social-democrats as a whole. In addition to publishing, Fčurst found time to be involved in organizational life. Although not a believing Jew, she sought to find a way of introducing her wide range of knowledge and her sense of responsibility in Jewish circles. In 1901, toget her with Bertha Pappenheim, an orthodox Jew, she founded the Weibliche Fčursorge (Women&Aelig;s Care) Association. However, considerable differences of opinion between the two women prevented fruitful collaboration. Highly sensitive, Fčurst noted antise mitic tendencies in German society. She defended herself against personal antagonism proudly and with almost excessive self-confidence. She urged her children to gain the admiration of non-Jews by above-average contributions in social and cultura l spheres: “Jews have to contribute more than the others. You have to be more charitable than theyùprotectors of the weak, a fighter for truth and justice, clever as a snake and harmless as a dove.ö During World War I, together with her daughters , she established a War Kitchen for the poor and took on duties at the Information Center of the municipal food office, working till she was exhausted. Her sons Sigmund and Walter were severely wounded at the front. In consequence, she was appalle d by the 1916 “Judenzčahlung,ö which investigated the number of Jews in the combat units: “Go and count them. Count the buried and the crippled of this ghastly war, as well. Go there and count. You&Aelig;ll have our help in counting the Jews&Aelig; acts of ch arity and the Jewish fighters for spiritual victory. àö With the establishment of women&Aelig;s suffrage she became a candidate for the National Assembly, but was not elected. From 1919 to 1924 she was a Social-Democratic member of the Frankfurt municipal council. On reaching her seventieth birthday in 193 2 she was honored by both the city of Frankfurt A.M. and its university, but her death in Bad Ems in 1938 went unnoticed by the public. Her daughters Else and Anne Adelaar were killed at Sobibor and Auschwitz. SELECTED WORKS BY HENRIETTE FčURTH Die Fabrikarbeit verheirater Frauen. Frankfurt a. M.: 1902; Die Mutterschaftsversicherung. Jena: 1911; Vineta. Dichtungen. Leipzig: 1911; Die Regelung der Nachkommenschaft als eugenisches Problem. Stuttgart: 1929. Bibliography Angress, Werner T. “The German Army&Aelig;s Judenzčahlung of 1916.ö The Leo Baeck Institute&Aelig;s Year Book 23 (1978): 117û135. Fassman, Maya. Jčudinnen in der deutschen Frauenbewegung 1865û1919. Hildesheim: 1994. Katzenstein, Simon. Henriette Fčurth. Versuch einer Wčurdingung. Zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet von ihrem Bruder. MS. Berlin: 1931. Krohn, Helga. “æDu sollst Dich niemals beugen&Aelig;: Henriette Fčurth, Frau, Judin, Sozialistin.ö In Freimark, Peter, (ed.) Juden in Deutschland. Emanzipation, Integration, Vergolgung und Vernichtung. Hamburg: 1991, 326û343. Lexikon Jčudische Frauen. Edited by Jutta Dick and Marina Sassenberg. to: Wilhelm Fuerth |
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2) Betty Katzenstein, birth 29 Sep 1869 Giessen, Duitsland, died 1942 Lodz Ghetto, Polen
Married 1891 to: Felix Mosbacher, birth 18 MRT 1864 Eschau, Duitsland, died 13 MRT 1930 Bochum, Duitsland, occupation: Arts in Schweinfurt, son of Mendel Mosbacher and Johanna Ehrlich http://www.historisches-unterfranken.uni-wuerzburg.de/test/web324w/quellen/1001/140.pdf http://www.historisches-unterfranken.uni-wuerzburg.de/test/web324w/quellen/1001/162.pdf Katzenstein-genealogie van Letty en Eduard Adelaar via Lex Rutgers op 26-07-2016 |