The second, third and sixth children of Meier Blumenfeld and Sarah Strauss, Karoline, Franziska, and Johanna are three about whom I know very little, but I will report what I do know and hope that eventually I will discover more information. (I will discuss the fourth child Rosa and fifth child Sophie out of order in the next post.)
Karoline Blumenfeld was born on February 27, 1869, in Momberg.
She must have married a man named Dannenberg because her death record shows her surname as Dannenberg. That death record is unfortunately the only other record I have for Karoline. I cannot find a marriage record, even after searching on Ancestry and JewishGen and on two databases of vital records for the Hesse region. One profile on Geni and several Ancestry trees report that her husband’s name was Sally Dannenberg, but there are no sources given to corroborate that information.
Karoline died on August 18, 1919, in Frankfurt at the age of fifty. Sadly, that is all I could learn about her life. I don’t know when she married or whether they had children.

Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Bestand: 903; Signatur: 10823
Year Range: 1919, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1958
Meier and Sarah’s third child Franziska was born on November 3, 1870, in Momberg.
She married Aron Oppenheim on October 10, 1905, in Marburg, Germany. Aron was fifteen years older than Franziska; he was born on February 5, 1855, in Rhina, Germany, to Salomon Oppenheim and Ester Klebe. He had been previously married to Hannchen Klebe, with whom he’d had a number of children. Franziska was thirty-four when they married, and Aron was fifty. I could not find any record of children born to Franziska and Aron.

Franziska Blumenfeld, Gender: weiblich (Female), Age: 34, Birth Date: 3 Nov 1870
Marriage Date: 10 Okt 1905 (10 Oct 1905), Marriage Place: Marburg, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany), Civil Registration Office: Marburg, Father: Meine Blumenfeld, Mother: Sarchen Blumenfeld, Spouse: Aron Oppenheim, Certificate Number: 101, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 5620, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930
Aron died on June 7, 1921, in Halle, Germany. He was 66 years old.1 Franziska survived him, but tragically she was sent to the Therienstadt Concentration Camp by the Nazis on August 18, 1942, from Frankfurt where she was then living. She died there a month later on September 28, 1942. She was 71 years old.
Meier and Sarah’s sixth child, Johanna, like Karoline and Franziska, is a sibling about whom I know very little. Johanna was born on December 22, 1878, in Marburg, Germany.

Johanna Blumenfeld birth record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 915; Laufende Nummer: 5557 Description Year Range: 1878 Source Information Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Births, 1851-1901
Tragically, the only other record I have for Johanna is her record with Yad Vashem. According to that record, Johanna was deported on October 20, 1941, from her home in Frankfurt to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Poland, where she was murdered on March 15, 1942. I had never heard of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto before seeing this listing at Yad Vashem, but learned it was another name for the Lodz Ghetto, which I had known about. You can read more about it here. Johanna was 63 when she was killed.
Thus, two of Meier and Sarah (Strauss) Blumenfeld’s daughters were murdered by the Nazis, Franziska and Johanna. As far as I know, neither of them had children nor did their sister Karoline. They thus have no living descendants.
Fortunately, the remaining three siblings—Rosa, Sophie, and Hugo—left Germany long before the rise of Hitler and have stories that do not end tragically. Their stories come next.
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Aron Oppenheim, Age: 66, Birth Date: abt 1855, Death Date: 7 Jun 1921
Death Place: Halle-Nord, Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Halle-Nord, Spouse: Franziska Oppenheim, Certificate Number: 417, Stadtarchiv Halle (Saale); Halle (Saale), Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Bestand: A 2.1; Signatur: A 2.1 3_S_1921_1,
Ancestry.com. Halle (Saale), Germany, Deaths, 1874-1957 ↩
So hard to read but so important to continue to document and remember those we have lost.
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I agree. It’s painful to do so, but necessary.
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So sad to read about the murder of the two sisters by the Nazis! Fortunately, you have a more encouraging report on the other siblings coming on your post, Amy.
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Yes, there were some who survived to carry on the family’s legacy.
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It cannot be undone but I wonder if Franziska and Johanna might have been saved from being murdered by the Nazis if they had had children. They might have chosen to leave Germany in time. So sad.
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I don’t think it would have made any difference to the Nazis, but yes, maybe that would have motivated them to leave. It’s hard to know why some people stayed and some left. Sometimes it was luck, sometimes it was money, sometimes it was being in denial. Everyone’s story is different.
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I know it didn’t make any difference to the Nazis. Unfortunately, it was only a small amount of people who did make it out in time compared to the millions who were killed.
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Yes, there probably is a statistic somewhere that shows what percentage of the Jewish population living in Europe in 1933 survived the Holocaust—either by hiding, leaving in time, or just managing to endure the camps.
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I’ve seen that by 1945 two out of three of the European Jews had been killed.
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Here are some statistics to back that up. Before the war there were about 9.5 million Jews living in Europe; six million were killed. https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/the-holocaust-facts-and-figures-1.5298803
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I’m glad your next post will have a happier ending.
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Me too!
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Amy, your blog and in particular posts like this are such a mitzvah. XOXO
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Thank you so much, Luanne. xoxo
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