HausChronik der Familie Gottheiner, 1914.

(GERMANY).

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.

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.