[FYI—this post should have preceded the one posted yesterday. Sorry about that! I will blame being in Florida…]

We have seen that the oldest three children of Sara Rothschild and Moses Adler—Louis, Sigmund, and Julius—all came to the US around the turn of the century as teenagers. But what about their younger siblings? And their parents?

Back in Germany, Caroline Grete Rothschild, the second oldest daughter, married Albert Abraham Mandelstein on October 23, 1911, in Grebenstein. Albert was born in Grebenstein on June 2, 1855, to Berr Mandelstein and Sarchen Katzenstein. He was 56 years old when he married Caroline while she was only 22. (Albert was a widower.) Caroline and Albert had one child, a son Kurt Siegfried Mandelstein, born on July 15, 1916, in Kassel, Germany.¹

Caroline Adler and Albert Mandelstein marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Signatur: 2997, Year Range: 1911, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

The next child to marry was the third oldest daughter Emmi. She married Robert Speier on August 26, 1919, in Grebenstein. Robert was born on September 15, 1889, in Guxhagen, Germany to Levi Speier and Mina Lange. Emmi and Robert had two children, Senta, born on September 7, 1920, and Elsie, born August 23, 1931.²

Emmi Adler and Robert Speier marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Signatur: 3005, Year Range: 1919, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

Less than three months after Emmi’s wedding, her mother Sara Rothschild Adler died in Grebenstein on November 10, 1919, at the age of sixty.

Sara Rothschild Adler death record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Sterberegister; Signatur: 3065; Laufende Nummer: 909, Year Range: 1919, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Deaths, 1851-1958

The next child to marry was the oldest daughter Malchen. She married Fritz David Apolant on December 24, 1920, in Grebenstein. Fritz was born on December 23, 1880, in Stettin, Germany (now a city in Poland). I am not certain of his parents’ names; one unsourced tree on Ancestry records their names as Samuel and Minna Apolant, but I don’t know if that is accurate. Malchen and Fritz did not have any children.

Malchen Adler and Fritz David Apolant marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Signatur: 3006, Year Range: 1920, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

David Theodore Adler, the eighth of Sara and Moses’ children, married Emma Suss, on February 7, 1921, in Watzenborn-Steinberg, Germany. Emma was the daughter of Joseph and Johanna Suss and was born on September 19, 1894, in Watzenborn. Emma and David Theodore (known later primarily as Theodore) had two children, Kurt, born October 25, 1922, and Lydia, born August 15, 1927, both in Watzenborn.³

David Theodore Adler and Emma Suss marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: 905; Laufende Nummer: 1407, Year Range: 1915-1925, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

Finally, the last child to marry was Bettt Adler. She married Marx Regenstein on June 24, 1921, just a few months after her brother David Theodore was married. Marx was born September 5, 1895, in Leeheim, Germany, to Joseph Regenstein and Johannette Wolf.⁴ Bettt and Marx had two children, Lucie Johanna, born March 31, 1923, and Eric, born March 3, 1926, both in Grebenstein, Germany.⁵

Betti Adler and Marx Regenstein marriage record, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Signatur: 3007, Year Range: 1921, Ancestry.com. Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

Moses Adler died in Grebenstein on June 21, 1927.⁵ He was 69. He had outlived his wife Sara Rothschild and two of his ten children.  By 1927, all eight of his surviving children were married (three in the US, five in Germany) and almost all of his grandchildren were born.

Moses Adler died before Hitler came to power and disrupted all of their lives. He and Sara didn’t live to know that their five children still in Germany would escape from Nazi Germany and join their brothers in the United States as Americans. They didn’t know that all of their children and almost all of their grandchildren would survive the Holocaust.

Those stories continue in the next post.