Wednesday, July 26, 2017
PORTRAIT OF OUR FOUNDING GOLDFOOT: Iones "Jonah" Goldfus 1730-1813 of Telsiai, Lithuania
Nadene Goldfoot
The farthest I have been able to trace our Goldfoot line is Iones or Jonah Goldfus born in 1730 in Telsiai (Telz), Lithuania, listed in the encyclopedia as Tels, a Lithuanian townlet.
In Yiddish, the town was called Telz. It was one of the oldest towns in Lithuania and was on the NW part of this country, called the Zemaitija region. It is on the shores of Lake Mastis.
Settlement was there by 1450 with a royal estate. Merchants and artisans began to settle around it. In 1710 the Swedes invaded the land, and 2/3 of its population were killed by epidemics. By 1750, a court was established in Telz, helping the development and growth of the town. Telz was granted the Magdeburg Rights of self rule by King Stanislaw-August in 1791. "2,500 people lived in Telz in 1797, of them 1,650 were Jews (66%).
I don't know who Iones's wife was, but Abram and Mark Goldfus were his children, born in about 1752 and 1753. Abram had 4 children; Iankel "Yankel", Leib, Mikhel and Meyer "Meier". Mark had 3 children; Iankel "Yankel", Iosel "Josel," and Ionta. I wasn't sure who Iankel's father was.
What was life like then? From then on, how were Jews treated? Telz was noted for its yeshivah (Jewish school primarily for study of Talmud and rabbinic literature) which flourished from its foundation in 1881 until World War II. Lithuania is the country most noted for the growth of the yeshiva in modern times, beginning with the establishment of the yeshivah of Volozhin in 1803. Others were Tels. Slobodka, Mir. and Kamenetz. After the war, its surviving teachers founded a yeshivah in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Many Cleveland Jews live in Israel, and were there when I lived there from 1980 to 1985.
Jews started living in Lithuania as early as 1321. Lithuania had Karaites ( Jewish sect who rejected the Oral Law) living in Troki by 1398. By 1495, 10,000 Jews were living in Vilna, Grodno and Kovno. That large figure must have been helped by the 1492 Spanish Inquisition against Jews when they were compelled to leave Spain or convert to Christianity. From 1495 to 1502, they had been excluded from Lithuania.
They actually received a charter in 1519 guaranteeing freedom of movement and employment and soon monopolized foreign trade and tax-farming. By 1566 through 1572, the Jewish badge was introduced and Jews were disqualified from giving evidence in courts.
There was a Council of the Four Lands, had once been 5 lands, and Jews had been a part of it at first, so the formed the separate Council of Lithuania in 1623 when a separate tax- system was established. Already one can see anti-Semitism at work separating Jews from Christians.
I and a few other members of my family have discovered through DNA testing including triangulation of matches, to be connected to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724) Worms, Germany. He lived in Vienna, Austria and Hungary. Our surname of Goldfus was German Yiddish, so we had a good feeling of our roots after leaving Jerusalem in 70 CE would have been Germany. It was anglicized to Goldfoot while in England. This is the common route taken by Ashkenazi Jews anyway, going through Germany and France to finally migrate into Russian lands. There are Gentile Goldfuss found in Germany as well, with a different haplogroup. Jews would have had names like David ben Moshe, minus a surname until forced to take one by a government, usually for tax purposes and for serving in the military.
From 1795 to 1918 Lithuania was part of Russia. Jews suffered from a famine under German rule in Vilna in WWI and from a pogrom at the hands of the Polish troops in 1919. Many yeshivot were part of the cultural life here. Leading rabbis were born. It was the seat of the Musar movement and a center of Haskalah. In 1870 Telz had 6,481 residents, including 4,399 Jews (68%), and in 1897 there were 6,000 residents and of them 3,088 were Jews (51%). It was in 1880 that the first aliyah to Israel had happened, and Telz was a big center of Zionism. Yet at the same time, "the Telz "Yeshivah", which had been established in 1880 by three young men (Avreikhim)-Yitskhak Ya'akov Openheim, Meir Atlas, Zalman Abel- with the help of a German Jew - Ovadyah Lakhman from Berlin - developed and prospered, and after Rabbi Eliezer Gordon was nominated as its head in 1884, it became the main institution of orthodox education. At the end of 19th century it had about 400 students and was counted as one of the greatest in the world. Next to it there was a preparatory class (Yeshivah Ketanah) for boys aged 10-16."
"The local Jews made their living in Telz from commerce, crafts and peddling. In 1841 there were 25 Jewish artisans: 14 tailors, 10 shoemakers and one watchmaker, not counting wandering artisans. Until WW1 there was a strong organization of Jewish artisans, which helped its members with loans for buying raw materials and tools. Among the Jewish merchants there were several who had big businesses of grains and flax and made a good living. "The story I had received was that a Goldfus dealt in grains and was able to leave Lithuania for this purpose. "There were also several textile merchants who imported merchandise from Germany, one of them being Ya'akov Rabinovitz." My ggrandfather, Movsha ben Josel Goldfus (Morris) Goldfus b: 1836, was a distiller, a maker of whiskey or wine. I don't know about his distilling, but my grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot's wife, Zlata Jermulowske, made her own terrific wine that I tasted at Passover. It was strong! Manischewitz wine cannot hold a candle to hers. I was only 3 at the time. I'm so glad my Bubba allowed me to imbibe! She was born in Lazdijai, Lithuania, a real Litvak, black curly hair, brown eyes!
World War I occurred from 1914-1918. During this period, 100,000 Jews were expelled or emigrated to the Russian interior. Poland took over Vilna, Lithuania in 1919 which weakened the Jews politically and socially.
Jews received National Autonomy from 1918 to 1924, and a Jewish national council was established under a Ministry for Jewish Affairs. The communities had the right to levy taxation under government auspices. In 1923, there were 300 Jewish elementary schools with the majority teaching in Hebrew. A minority taught in Yiddish. After 1924, Jewish autonomy was restricted to religious matters, while the economic position of the Jews deteriorated in the following years. Our grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus, immigrated to England, then Ireland and finally to the USA starting in 1893.
World War II broke out in Europe earlier than in the USA's 1941 . Lithuania's started in 1940. The Jewish population then was 175,000. About 25,000 were deported by the Russians from Lithuania and Latvia in July 1940. "The cruelties of first Soviet occupation, of a scale not seen in Lithuania since the Russian Empire rule, led to a widespread despise of the regime in less than a year. For example in four days between June 14 and June 18 of 1941 alone some 40 000 people from educated families were exiled to Siberia and Soviet labor camps (almost half of them 16-year-old or younger, 556 infants under 1 year, families typically separated), most never to return alive. Others were arrested with many later tortured and massacred in places like Rainiai and Cherven."
"The new Nazi German occupation brought a relief from the Soviet persecutions but it had its own target: the Jews. Some of them have fled Europe (never to return), most of the rest were killed (often after a brief life in forced ghetto or a deportation to a concentration camp in German-ruled lands elsewhere). The number of Jews living in Lithuania declined by ~88% by the time of 1959 census."
The Germans established 2 ghettos in Vilna and 30,000 Jews were killed there by the end of 1941. Those that had been able to remain in Lithuania were massacred by the Germans and Lithuanians by 1943.
Leaving South Africa after graduating from his high school yeshiva, Stanley Goldfoot, my 3rd cousin, immigrated to Palestine and became the Chief of Intelligence for the Stern Group. The English holding the mandate called it the Stern Gang. It was the most extreme of the rebelling Jews against the English before May 14, 1958. Uri Gobey, also formerly of South Africa, IDF and citizen of Israel, wrote about him: "He was born in South Africa in 1914. then in 1932, when he was 18 years old, left the good life in South Africa and went to Palestine, after he heard a speech of Ze ' ev Jabotinsky. He joined the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz. After a short time he was deported, because it was illegal to be in the country. He joined the army of South Africa, where he learned to shoot. Then went back to Palestine in 1939 and joined the Stern Group. Eventually he became an intelligence officer and worked with Yitzhak Shamir. He became friends with Rabbi Kahana and drove him around in Israel. After setting up the state of Israel. He moved to the United States. Then he went back again to Israel legally in 1956. In 1964, he decided to establish a newspaper in the English language, because he sensed that the Jerusalem post, " was too leftist. He founded a Zionist newspaper in the English language as "de times ugh Israel", published in Israel, New York and the west coast of the United States. In 1969, he wrote and posted the letter to this incredible new magazine of his, who talks about Jerusalem, in his LETTER TO THE WORLD. He was a member of THE TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL. and had plans for the 3rd Temple. He died in Jerusalem in 2006, at age 92.
1959's census found there were 24,000 Jews who had returned after the Holocaust to raise families despite the previous problems there. Language and finances helped to make decisions, no doubt. By 1989, half of these had left for Israel. Those that were left numbered 12,312.
I think that Iones or Jonah as we would call him, would be very proud and have many nakhus from his descendants. Little did he know who would follow or if any would live to be able to follow.
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia -Lithuania
Preserving Our Litvak Heritage by Josef Rosin, Joel Alpert, Editor by JewishGen, Inc.
http://www.truelithuania.com/world-war-2-in-lithuania-1940-1944-249
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/telz/Telz1.html
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| Elijah ben Solomon Zalman Vilna Gaon (1720-1797) The Gaon of Vilna was born on April 23, 1720 and died October 9, 1797 in Vilna, Lithuania. Stanley Goldfoot thought his family was related to the Gaon. I cannot find proof of this for our branch as the Goldfoot surname, but it's possible. From 1740-1745, the Gaon traveled among the Jewish communities of Poland and Germany, settling in Vilna and taught and founded his own academy. He was against the Hasidim in Lithuania. Once tried to get to Palestine but didn't make it, difficult journey in those days. Vilna's Jews were banished in 1527 by Sigismund 1st at burgher request, able to return in a few years. 4,000 Jews died in a famine from 1709-1710. Vilna became a center of rabbinical study. |
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| Telsiai, Lithuania on Lake Mastis today. |
Settlement was there by 1450 with a royal estate. Merchants and artisans began to settle around it. In 1710 the Swedes invaded the land, and 2/3 of its population were killed by epidemics. By 1750, a court was established in Telz, helping the development and growth of the town. Telz was granted the Magdeburg Rights of self rule by King Stanislaw-August in 1791. "2,500 people lived in Telz in 1797, of them 1,650 were Jews (66%).
I don't know who Iones's wife was, but Abram and Mark Goldfus were his children, born in about 1752 and 1753. Abram had 4 children; Iankel "Yankel", Leib, Mikhel and Meyer "Meier". Mark had 3 children; Iankel "Yankel", Iosel "Josel," and Ionta. I wasn't sure who Iankel's father was.
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| 1930's Yeshiva students |
Jews started living in Lithuania as early as 1321. Lithuania had Karaites ( Jewish sect who rejected the Oral Law) living in Troki by 1398. By 1495, 10,000 Jews were living in Vilna, Grodno and Kovno. That large figure must have been helped by the 1492 Spanish Inquisition against Jews when they were compelled to leave Spain or convert to Christianity. From 1495 to 1502, they had been excluded from Lithuania.
They actually received a charter in 1519 guaranteeing freedom of movement and employment and soon monopolized foreign trade and tax-farming. By 1566 through 1572, the Jewish badge was introduced and Jews were disqualified from giving evidence in courts.
There was a Council of the Four Lands, had once been 5 lands, and Jews had been a part of it at first, so the formed the separate Council of Lithuania in 1623 when a separate tax- system was established. Already one can see anti-Semitism at work separating Jews from Christians.
I and a few other members of my family have discovered through DNA testing including triangulation of matches, to be connected to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658-1724) Worms, Germany. He lived in Vienna, Austria and Hungary. Our surname of Goldfus was German Yiddish, so we had a good feeling of our roots after leaving Jerusalem in 70 CE would have been Germany. It was anglicized to Goldfoot while in England. This is the common route taken by Ashkenazi Jews anyway, going through Germany and France to finally migrate into Russian lands. There are Gentile Goldfuss found in Germany as well, with a different haplogroup. Jews would have had names like David ben Moshe, minus a surname until forced to take one by a government, usually for tax purposes and for serving in the military.
From 1795 to 1918 Lithuania was part of Russia. Jews suffered from a famine under German rule in Vilna in WWI and from a pogrom at the hands of the Polish troops in 1919. Many yeshivot were part of the cultural life here. Leading rabbis were born. It was the seat of the Musar movement and a center of Haskalah. In 1870 Telz had 6,481 residents, including 4,399 Jews (68%), and in 1897 there were 6,000 residents and of them 3,088 were Jews (51%). It was in 1880 that the first aliyah to Israel had happened, and Telz was a big center of Zionism. Yet at the same time, "the Telz "Yeshivah", which had been established in 1880 by three young men (Avreikhim)-Yitskhak Ya'akov Openheim, Meir Atlas, Zalman Abel- with the help of a German Jew - Ovadyah Lakhman from Berlin - developed and prospered, and after Rabbi Eliezer Gordon was nominated as its head in 1884, it became the main institution of orthodox education. At the end of 19th century it had about 400 students and was counted as one of the greatest in the world. Next to it there was a preparatory class (Yeshivah Ketanah) for boys aged 10-16."
"The local Jews made their living in Telz from commerce, crafts and peddling. In 1841 there were 25 Jewish artisans: 14 tailors, 10 shoemakers and one watchmaker, not counting wandering artisans. Until WW1 there was a strong organization of Jewish artisans, which helped its members with loans for buying raw materials and tools. Among the Jewish merchants there were several who had big businesses of grains and flax and made a good living. "The story I had received was that a Goldfus dealt in grains and was able to leave Lithuania for this purpose. "There were also several textile merchants who imported merchandise from Germany, one of them being Ya'akov Rabinovitz." My ggrandfather, Movsha ben Josel Goldfus (Morris) Goldfus b: 1836, was a distiller, a maker of whiskey or wine. I don't know about his distilling, but my grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot's wife, Zlata Jermulowske, made her own terrific wine that I tasted at Passover. It was strong! Manischewitz wine cannot hold a candle to hers. I was only 3 at the time. I'm so glad my Bubba allowed me to imbibe! She was born in Lazdijai, Lithuania, a real Litvak, black curly hair, brown eyes!
World War I occurred from 1914-1918. During this period, 100,000 Jews were expelled or emigrated to the Russian interior. Poland took over Vilna, Lithuania in 1919 which weakened the Jews politically and socially.
Jews received National Autonomy from 1918 to 1924, and a Jewish national council was established under a Ministry for Jewish Affairs. The communities had the right to levy taxation under government auspices. In 1923, there were 300 Jewish elementary schools with the majority teaching in Hebrew. A minority taught in Yiddish. After 1924, Jewish autonomy was restricted to religious matters, while the economic position of the Jews deteriorated in the following years. Our grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus, immigrated to England, then Ireland and finally to the USA starting in 1893.
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| Jewish Wedding in Telz; all perished in WWII. |
"The new Nazi German occupation brought a relief from the Soviet persecutions but it had its own target: the Jews. Some of them have fled Europe (never to return), most of the rest were killed (often after a brief life in forced ghetto or a deportation to a concentration camp in German-ruled lands elsewhere). The number of Jews living in Lithuania declined by ~88% by the time of 1959 census."
The Germans established 2 ghettos in Vilna and 30,000 Jews were killed there by the end of 1941. Those that had been able to remain in Lithuania were massacred by the Germans and Lithuanians by 1943.
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| Stanley Goldfoot b: South Africa 1914, died: Jerusalem, Israel 2006 Tall and slender, he could still wear his youthful uniform when I met him in 1981. We remained in touch while I lived in Israel. He had become a speaker, an advocate of Israel, speaking to football fields of listeners in different parts of the world. An amazing man to listen to. |
1959's census found there were 24,000 Jews who had returned after the Holocaust to raise families despite the previous problems there. Language and finances helped to make decisions, no doubt. By 1989, half of these had left for Israel. Those that were left numbered 12,312.
I think that Iones or Jonah as we would call him, would be very proud and have many nakhus from his descendants. Little did he know who would follow or if any would live to be able to follow.
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia -Lithuania
Preserving Our Litvak Heritage by Josef Rosin, Joel Alpert, Editor by JewishGen, Inc.
http://www.truelithuania.com/world-war-2-in-lithuania-1940-1944-249
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/telz/Telz1.html
Labels: Goldfus, Jews, Lithuania, Russia, Stanley Goldfoot, Telsiai, Wertheimer, WWI, WWII
Friday, July 14, 2017
Connecting to Wertheimer and Oppenheimer Through Life in Germany
Nadene Goldfoot
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| Oppenheim, Germany |
The town is a well-known wine center, being the home of the German Winegrowing Museum, and is particularly known for the wines from the Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen vineyards. However, to Jews of today, it is known for other reasons. We have to remember our history of being forced to become moneylenders because no other profession was allowed by the countries we were living in. It was also a profession that Jews excelled in from experience on the Silk Road trading in the Orient. Wherever Jews lived, whether it was in Europe or the Middle East where they were 2nd class citizens called dhimmis, they had to pay more taxes than the native population because they were Jews. For this reason alone they had to be good at handling their own money so they could live.
Jews are first mentioned there in the tax register of 1241, according to which they were obliged to pay the emperor an annual tax of 15 marks. The Jews of the town, legally the property of the emperor, were placed under the protection of the officers in charge of the local fortress, to whom they paid their taxes. They also paid a house tax to the archbishop of Mainz. *Rudolf of Hapsburg and other kings gave letters of credit to various noblemen which were to be defrayed from the taxes paid by the Jews of Oppenheim; at times, they also leased these taxes. The burden of their taxes appears to have caused several Jews of Oppenheim to join the group that fled from the Rhineland and, under the leadership of *Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg, attempted to emigrate to Eretz Israel (1285). At the end of July 1349, during the persecutions that followed the *Black Death, most of the Jews of Oppenheim were murdered, while others chose martyrdom (*kiddush ha-Shem) and burned themselves to death in order to escape forced conversion at the hands of the mob. Among the martyrs was the rabbi Joel ha-Kohen.
Some time later the community was reestablished. After 1400 the right of residence was made renewable at the end of every six years, and the amount of taxes to be paid was fixed. In 1422 a plot by two Christians to kill the Jews of the town was frustrated by the municipal council. Certain protection fees and "gifts" that the Jews of Oppenheim were compelled to pay weighed upon them so heavily that despite the additional support of such communities as Worms, Mainz, and Frankfurt, Oppenheim Jewry could not meet their payments and were therefore penalized (1444). In 1456, R. Seligmann Bing (or R. Seligmann Oppenheim) attempted to establish a union of the communities of the Upper Rhine, but because of community opposition and that of R. Israel Isserlein (c. 1390–1460), the project was abandoned.
Rabbi Samson Wertheimer born in 1658 in Worms, Germany at a time when it was part of the Holy Roman Empire and died in 1724 in Vienna, Austria after being a court financier. His uncle was Samuel Oppenheimer. The bank they both worked in that Samuel had established was in Vienna. Samson and his son had lent large sums of money to the emperor. In 1719 he became the Chief Rabbi of Hungary and also of Moravia. He also was the rabbi of Eisenstadt, Austria where Joseph Haydn lived.
The ridiculous happened in 1697. This was when he was accused of conspiring to murder his nephew, who others saw as his rival, Rabbi Samson Wertheimer. He was even put into prison until he was vindicated. Samuel Openheimer was known to be a man who supported the poor liberally, Jewish scholars, and even Judah Hasid's movement to settle in Palestine-the return to Israel. So evidently Zionism started then.
at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prohel/names/wertheimer/wertheimer.html.
Rabbi Samson WERTHEIM (WERTHEIMER) Born: Jan 17, 1658 Died: Aug 6, 1724 in Vienna. Landesrabbiner + Veronica "Frumet" (see BRILIN family)Born: Mar 15, 1658/9 Died: Apr 24, 1715/18 in Vienna Father: rabbi Isaak Brilin (Brüll) (Worms? - 3/17/1678 Mannheim bur. Worms, Germany) Mother: Sorle (Sarlan, Sara, Serle) Oppenheim/er (Wolf) (Worms, Germany - 3/3/1673 Worms or Mannheim, Germany)
By the marriages of his children, Wertheimer became connected with the most prominent families of Austria and Germany. His stepson, Isaac Nathan Oppenheimer, married a daughter of the wealthy purveyor Pösing; his eldest son, Wolf, married a daughter of Emanuel Oppenheimer.
Wertheimer's first son was Wolf Wertheimer who suffered a reversal of his father's fortune. "Samson's second son, Löb, married a daughter of Issachar ha-Levi Bermann of Halberstadt, a relative of Leffman Behrens, court Jew of Hanover; thus the three great "shetadlanin" were closely connected. Samson's sons-in-law were: R. Moses Kann of Frankfurt-on-the-Main; Issacbar Berush Eskeles, father of the Vienna banker Bernhard Eskeles; Joseph, son of R. David Oppenheimer; and Seligmann Berend Kohn, called Solomon of Hamburg. His youngest son, Joseph Josel (b. 1718), married a daughter of his stepbrother Wolf. Joseph died in Vienna (1761), where he was reportedly greatly esteemed for his charity and Talmudic learning.
The community suffered during the wars of Louis XIV, and by 1674 only three families remained in the town. By 1722 the number had grown to eight. Many Oppenheim Jews settled in Frankfurt and other south German cities, where they were known as "Oppenheim" or "Oppenheimer," and the name became widespread. Joseph Ben Issachar Susskind Oppenheimer was born in 1698. He was known as Joseph Suss or Jud Suss. He was a financier. This is because Jews were kept out of most all other professions, and since in Christianity, gentiles were not allowed to lend money, it became the undesirable but needy profession that was open to Jews. It was Carl Alexander of Wurttemberg who appointed Joseph as his finance minister in 1732. Joseph endeavored to consolidate the duchy's finances and free its ruler from dependence on grant from the estates. His modern financial methods aroused much opposition. After the death of the duke in 1737, he was accused of embezzling state finances and was hung in Stuttgart, supposedly for having sexual relations with Christian women. He refused to save his life by accepting baptism.
The community numbered 20 families in 1807; 257 in 1872; 189 in 1880; and 56 in 1933. Of the 17 Jews who remained during World War II, 16 were deported. In 1970 no Jews lived in Oppenheim. A memorial plaque commemorates the destroyed synagogue and the Oppenheim Jews who were victims of the Holocaust. The municipality organized two meetings of "Oppenheims" and "Oppenheimers" in 2000 and 2003."
Our Connections:
Descendants of Sender Opengeim Oppenheim
1 Sender Opengeim Oppenheim b: Abt. 1814 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
. 2 Iontaf Jontaf Opengeim b: 1839 in Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
..... +GUTTA GOLDA bat Nochem GOLDFUS b: 1839 in Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
..... 3 Khaim Nokhum OPPENHEIM b: September 12, 1875 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
. 2 Iosif OPPENHEIM b: Abt. 1841
..... +Guta (Golda)
..... 3 Mikhail Itsyk Opengeim OPPENHEIM b: July 09, 1877
. 2 [1] Shaia Opengeim OPPENHEIM b: Bet. 1842 - 1843 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
..... +Zlate Pere
..... 3 Zelman OPPENHEIM b: July 23, 1878
. *2nd Wife of [1] Shaia Opengeim OPPENHEIM:
..... +Tsipe Guta b: 1843 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
. 2 [2] Leib Opengeim OPPENHEIM b: Abt. 1845 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
..... +Rokhel b: Abt. 1845
..... 3 Liba Tsivia OPPENHEIM b: September 06, 1897 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
. *2nd Wife of [2] Leib Opengeim OPPENHEIM:
..... +Grunia
..... 3 Rokha Opengeim OPPENHEIM b: October 31, 1859 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
. 2 Iomta Opengeim b: Abt. 1849 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
..... +Gute b: Abt. 1849 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
..... 3 Lozar Nokhum Opengeim b: May 18, 1870 in Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania
Yet another with Ullmann connected to Werner Oster-married to Ann Goldfoot:
Descendants of Isaac Ullmann 1 Isaac Ullmann b: 1812 in Westerburg, Germany d: 1853 . 2 Sarah Ullmann b: 1848 d: 1904 in Bad Ems Rheinland Pfalz, Germany ..... +Seligmann Oppenheimer b: 1847 in Laufenselden, South Hesse, Germany d: 1906 ..... 3 Moritz Oppenheimer b: 1878 ......... +Hedwig Blumental b: 1885 in Nassau ..... 3 Louis Oppenheimer b: 1879 ......... +Frieda Kaufmann b: 1892 in Mannheim ..... 3 Bertha Oppenheimer b: 1883 ......... +Karl Heinemann b: 1877 in Poppenlauer, NY ..... 3 Toni Oppenheimer b: 1889 d: 1923 ......... +Felix Herz b: 1879 in Witten
OPPENHEIM from Jewish Virtual Libary http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15132.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Wertheimer
https://www.google.com/#q=wertheimer+family
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=wertheimer
FJW, 405; P. Lazarus, in: ZGJD, 5 (1934), 200–4; Germania Judaica, 1 (1963), 255–6; 2 (1968), 629–32; E.L. Rapp and O. Boecher, in: Festschrift 1200 Jahre Oppenheim (1965), 91–105. ADD.
Labels: anti-Semitism, Court Jews, dna, financing, genealogy, history in Germany, Oppenheim, Oppenheimer, Wertheimer
