HausChronik der Familie Gottheiner, 1914.

Auction 90 | Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Arts

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Lot 202

(GERMANY).

HausChronik der Familie Gottheiner, 1914.

Leather-bound decorative family chronicle and album of the Gottheiner family. Containing seven elaborate, <<handwritten and hand-colored family trees.>> Along with nine portrait photographs. Presented as a wedding-gift for Georg Gottheiner, merchant in Munich, and his bride Sophie Paula Lewinsky, who were married on April 24th, 1914. Commissioned by Daniel Cohn, magistrate in Thorn, who introduces the volume with a manuscript congratulatory poem. Bound in original thick leather boards with silver corner bosses. Gutter split. Sm. folio.

1914

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

Family-trees featured include: Gottheiner (Wartenberg, Breslau); Sonnenfeld (Breslau); Nathan (Gleiwitz, Beuthen); Bernhard (Burgkunstadt, Nuremberg); Lewinsky (Tuchel, Stargard, Mansfeld); Lewinsky and Cohn. Names stem back to the late 18th-century and include merchants, innkeepers, farmers, physicians, lawyers, rabbis, and soldiers. The newly married recipients of this elaborate album, Georg Gottheiner was born Berlin in 1880 and committed suicide there on November 11th, 1939. His wife Sophie Paula was born in Braunsberg in 1892 and deported from Munich on November 20th, 1941. She was sent to the Kaunas (Kovno) labor camp from where she was never heard from again.