„Skills, Devotion and Great Kindness of Heart” – Rahel (Spiero) Seckbach, Matron of Gumpertz´ Infirmary
The predecessor: Matron Thekla (Mandel) IsaacsohnThe “Hausstandsbuch” [record kept by the local police stations that listed Frankfurt´s residents sorted by street and house number] for 62-64 Röderbergweg (main location of Gumpertz´ infirmary) … Read more
Julie Glaser (1878 – 1941 deported)
Matron of the hospital of the Jewish Frankfurt am Main community …for the comfort of the sick and to the glory of Judaism…” – as long-standing matron of Frankfurt´s Jewish hospital on … Read more
Gumpertz´ Infirmary: Biographical Directory
May the thought be comfortingthat true happiness is not always the enjoyment of life,but arises from sorrow.”Hermann Seckbach (1918) The diverse life stories out of Gumpertz´ infirmary (1888-1941), a Jewish nursing home … Read more
Frankfurt´s Grave Stones as the last witnesses – the nurses Bertha Schönfeld and Thekla Dinkelspühler
About 800 grave stones in the newer cemetery of Frankfurt´s Jewish community on Eckenheimer Landstrasse are evidence of persons who were victims of anti-Semitic persecution, who escaped from Nazi persecution and deportation … Read more
“Descending from a famous family of scholars…”
Jewish nursing history and genealogy using the example of the nurse Johanna Sämann Whose purpose and work was it?His, who sent out the generations from the start.I, the Lord, the first, and … Read more