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PersonAdolf “Dolf” ReichenbachDolf wrote the St. Moritz letter at twenty-three, escaped Germany and began again in Massachusetts. He became a clothing designer, married Subie and raised Paul and Susan.- PersonMentioned inAlbert RothschildAlbert married Ruth Reichenbach in Halberstadt on 3 August 1933. Dolf’s wedding song already calls him a brother. The verses put the courtship in Schierke the winter before, then bring Albert to Halberstadt as a visitor the family was told not to announce.
- PersonMentioned inAnna Jacob née ReichenbachAnna Jacob née Reichenbach died in Frankfurt on 14 June 1931, at Schubertstraße 14, at 7:15 in the morning. She was fifty-one, born in Halberstadt, and married to Bankdirektor Julius Jacob. The newspaper notice that followed named their son Adolf and gathered Paul, Max, Else and Ernst as mourners.
- PersonMentioned inFritz ReichenbachFritz was Jeanette and Gustav’s only son. He took on the clothing shop at Breite Straße 7, married Martha Pohly of Göttingen and raised their son Werner in Wernigerode.
- PersonMentioned inGeorg WollenbergPaula Reichenbach’s husband, a partner in J. Reichenbach and the probable ‘Uncle Georg’ in Dolf’s wedding song.
- PersonMentioned inGoldine Marcuse ReichenbachGoldine Marcuse was born in Schwerin on 8 February 1850. She married Adolf Reichenbach there on 27 July 1872 and raised Paul in Halberstadt.
- PersonMentioned inHelene Reichenbach née HeinemannHelene and Jacob Reichenbach raised the generation that carried the family shop from Halberstadt to Wernigerode. Three records preserve her surname in three close spellings: Heinemann, Heynemann and Heynemann-Loewenhain.
- PersonMentioned inHerbert ‘Herb’ JacobA refugee family’s son who built a long working life in hospitality and on Cape Cod.
- PersonMentioned inJenny Liebenthal née SchottländerJenny Schottländer grew up in Hettstedt, the only daughter of L. Schottländer and his wife née Salzmann. At Pentecost 1887 the family printed her engagement to Philipp Liebenthal, a merchant of Halle. She became Margarete’s mother.
- PersonMentioned inJulius JacobJulius Jacob was a Frankfurt bank director. After years at Schubertstraße 13, the 1934 address book lists him at Savigny-Straße 22 with the same telephone number. His fate after mid-1934 remains unknown.
- PersonMentioned inLudwig ReichenbachLudwig worked in J. Reichenbach, owned Martiniplan 10 and served Halberstadt’s Jewish social and welfare institutions. With Lina or Pauline Asch, he was the father of Paula, Antonie and Kurt.
- PersonMentioned inMargarete Reichenbach née LiebenthalDolf wrote to her from St. Moritz four days after Fritz’s death.
- PersonMentioned inMax ReichenbachMax was born at Hoher Weg on 15 July 1882, Paul and Ernst’s brother. By 1939 he lived at Dohnenstieg 25 in Berlin-Dahlem, with a recorded tie to the Technische Hochschule, before Sachsenhausen and a death in Berlin on 18 January 1940.
- PersonMentioned inMiriam Mathilde Reichenbach née LoewenthalHer 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.
- PersonMentioned inMoritz Reichenbach · Moshe HaLeviRecorded as Moritz Reichenbach in the cemetery register and as Moshe HaLevi on his wife Miriam Mathilde’s Hebrew gravestone.
PersonMentioned inPaul J. ReichenbachDolf’s son grew up with the knowledge of his father’s escape. He made camps, Israel journeys and Jewish youth leadership his life’s work.
PersonMentioned inPaul ReichenbachPaul sold clothes at Hoher Weg 27, climbed with the Halberstadt Alpine Club and served Jewish civic organizations. With Margarete, he raised Ruth and Dolf.
PersonMentioned inPhilipp LiebenthalPhilipp Liebenthal was a merchant in Halle. At Pentecost 1887 a printed notice from Hettstedt named him as Jenny Schottländer’s intended husband. Their daughter Margarete married Paul Reichenbach in 1908.
PersonMentioned inRabbi Daniel Dolph ReichenbachPaul J.’s son carries Dolf’s name into a life shaped by Israel, Jewish education, the rabbinate and the work of returning family memory to public history.
PersonMentioned inRuth Helene ReichenbachRuth grew up in Halberstadt as Paul and Margarete’s daughter and Dolf’s sister. She left Germany, made a life in Massachusetts and died in Norwood at seventy-eight.- PersonMentioned inSalomon Gustav ReichenbachGustav was Adolf’s brother. He moved to Wernigerode, married Jeanette Rosenbaum and helped establish the shop where their son Fritz grew up.
PersonMentioned inSusan “Subie” Ulmer ReichenbachSubie grew up in Cleveland, earned a Bachelor of Science at Simmons in 1943 and built a family life with Dolf in Massachusetts.- PersonMentioned inVernon JacobThe elder son in the Jacob family’s later American household, remembered across two living generations.