During the course of my emails and conversations with the descendants of Clara Rothschild and Moritz Katz, I received some photographs of family members about whom I’d previously posted. I will add these to those earlier posts, but since many readers will not be going back to posts they’ve already read, I also wanted to post them here.

First, this is a photo of Gerson Rothschild and Frommet “Fanny” Kugelmann’s oldest child to survive infancy, Siegmund Rothschild, whom I wrote about here.

Siegmund Rothschild c. 1915
Courtesy of the family

I don’t know when this was taken, but it appears he was wearing a cap from some kind of uniform. Siegmund was born in 1884 and looks perhaps in his thirties here, so perhaps this was taken during World War I. A Google Image search using the picture of Siegmund’s cap turned up several photos of soldiers in the German army during World War I wearing similar caps. I asked Siegmund’s grandson Alex whether his grandfather had fought for Germany in World War I, and Alex told me that he had and that he’d felt betrayed by his country after the Nazis took over and started persecuting Jews, including those who had served in the German army twenty years before.

Closeup of Siegmund’s cap

Bavarian officer in World War I, found at https://www.omsa.org/a-photo-of-bavarian-military-max-joseph-order-recipients/

This photograph is of Siegmund, his sons, and his wife Elise taken in 1938. From left to right are Siegmund, Werner, Ernst, and Elise.

Siegmund, Werner, Ernst, and Elise (Bloch) Rothschild, January 1938. Courtesy of the family.

This photograph is of Siegmund’s wife Elise and their son Ernest in the laundromat they owned in New York City in the 1950s.

Elise Bloch Rothschild and her son Ernest in their laundromat. Courtesy of the family

The fourth photo is of Auguste Rothschild Feldheim, whose life I wrote about here. Auguste married Wolf Feldheim in 1919, three years after his first wife Johanna died. This photograph must have been taken around the time Auguste married Wolf, and she is surrounded by Wolf’s children from his first marriage. On her lap is Arthur, later known as Aharon, who was born shortly before his mother died in April 1916. The little girls are from left Else (born in 1914), Ruth (1912), and Selma (1913). Ruth was the daughter who married Jonas Tiefenbrunner and survived the war in Belgium, helping her husband protect and care for Jewish children in an orphanage there. Aharon and Selma ended up in Israel. Else was killed in the Holocaust.

Auguste Rothschild Feldheim with her four stepchildren. Courtesy of the family

When I look at this photograph of these little children, all I can see is a haunted sad look in their eyes. A photograph definitely tells a story without words.

Finally, this photograph may be of Jenny Rothschild Abraham and her husband Salomon Abraham, but Judy, who sent me these photos, was not certain.

Maybe Jenny Rothschild Abraham and her husband Salomon Abraham
Courtesy of the family

When I compare this woman’s face to the photos I have of two of the other Rothschild daughters—-Auguste and Clara—-I definitely see a resemblance. But I do not have Ava Cohn’s skills so I can’t tell for certain whether this is Jenny or any of the other Rothschild daughters or somebody completely unrelated. I think Ava would say that we’d need more photos to be sure. What do you think?

Clara Rothschild Katz closeup

closeup of perhaps Jenny Rothschild Abraham

Auguste Rothschild Feldheim closeup

Now I will go back to the posts for these cousins and add their photographs to the appropriate posts. And with that, I will move on to the next child of Gelle Blumenfeld and Simon Rothschild, their ninth child, Malchen Rothschild.