Her Hebrew stone in Halberstadt names her Miriam Mathilde, wife of Moshe HaLevi Reichenbach. The cemetery register adds Loewenthal and places her in plot VIII 5, beside Moritz. She died on 17 December 1928.
Her Hebrew gravestone gives both names by which the surviving record knows her: Miriam Mathilde. The cemetery register adds her maiden name, Loewenthal, and places her burial in plot VIII 5 of the Jewish cemetery at Klein Quenstedter Straße in Halberstadt.
The date line is read as 4 Tevet 5689. That date corresponds to 17 December 1928, exactly matching the cemetery register and resolving what had appeared to be a discrepancy when the first letter was provisionally read as resh.
The stone calls her the wife of R. Moshe HaLevi Reichenbach. The register places Moritz Reichenbach in the adjoining plot VIII 6 and records him as a merchant connected with Quedlinburg. It also records a child Paul, son of the Quedlinburg merchant Moritz Reichenbach, who died in 1904. Together, the Hebrew name, the register and the adjoining graves identify Moshe and Moritz as the same husband.
A 1916 commercial-register notice for Halberstadt HR A 934 names Moritz Reichenbach as proprietor of M. Reichenbach and records procuration for his wife Mathilde née Löwenthal. These names identify the cemetery household with the gut-casings business. An entry dated 3 June 1929, published on 6 August, records the end of Mathilde’s procuration and grants procuration to Meta Reichenbach. Meta’s relationship to the household remains unproved. The business records do not establish a family connection to the Jacob–Adolf–Paul clothing line or prove that the later proprietor Kurt was Moritz’s son.
Family and household
People connected to this life
- Moritz Reichenbach · Moshe HaLevi · husband · plot VIII 6
- Paul Reichenbach · child · died 18 October 1904 · plot D 2
Sources
Sources
- Hebrew gravestone in the Jewish cemetery at Klein Quenstedter Straße, Halberstadt
- Halberstadt Jewish cemetery register supplied by Dr. Jutta Dick, Moses Mendelssohn Akademie
- Hebrew transcription and English translation supplied by Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach, 9 August 2026
- Deutscher Reichsanzeiger, 3 November 1916: Halberstadt HR A 934, Moritz Reichenbach and Mathilde née Löwenthal
- Deutscher Reichsanzeiger, 6 August 1929: entry dated 3 June 1929, HR A 934, Mathilde’s procuration ended; Meta Reichenbach granted procuration
What remains uncertain
Her marriage to Moshe HaLevi—Moritz Reichenbach—and their parentage of the child Paul are established. Their exact relationship to the principal Jacob–Adolf–Paul family line remains unresolved.