Moritz and Rosalie Berger
My second great-grandfather. There are no family documents that I have found so far, but there is material from the museum in Zabrze, which I capture below.
From the Zabrze "Dictionary of the Jews"
life dates:
born 10/08/1825 Loslau (Wodzisław Śląski) d. September 5, 1902 Liegnitz (Legnica)
parents:
tradesman Joseph Berger and Handel Berger née Adler
wife husband:
Rosalie Berger née Goldmann
kids:
Max Markus Berger b. November 16, 1856 Zabrze death Shoah [deported from Berlin on July 21, 1942 Theresienstadt Ghetto (Terezin - Czech Republic), on September 19, 1942 Treblinka]; Therese Berger pv Freund b. March 5, 1858 Klein Zabrze (Little Zabrze); Clara Berger pv Hausdorf b. June 13, 1860 Alt Zabrze (Stare Zabrze); Siegfried Berger b. July 15, 1862 Klein Zabrze (Little Zabrze); Hugo Berger b. 22/10/1863 Zabrze d. after 1939; Emmi Berger pv Hoffmann b. 8.02.1865 Klein Zabrze (Małe Zabrze) d. after 1939; Laura Berger pv Fraenkel b. 23.07.1866 Zabrze d. March 25, 1922 Kattowitz (Katowice)
professional activity / place:
merchant Klein Zabrze (Małe Zabrze), Alt Zabrze (Stare Zabrze) (1858, 1859, 1869, 1870, 1876, 1896) [1]
another:
founding member of Chevra Kadischa Zabrze (Israeli Funeral and Protective Brotherhood) (1870)
From Deutscher Reichsanzeiger July 13, 1899
Zabrze. Notice. [27858]
Related in our company register registered non - existing trading companies:
a. No. 4. "M. Berger" to Klein - Zabrze (Owner: Moritz Berger of Alt-Zabrze , now supposedly in Breslau).[2]
Grave in Leignitz
From the Zabrze "Dictionary of the Jews"[3]
Marriage
Translated from German:
According to the hearing of January 14, 1857 vol:15. Fol. 204 the files concerning the certification of Jewish marriages, the Jewish co-religionists, merchant and grain dealer Moritz Berger, 31 years old, and Miss Rosalie Goldmann, 21 years old, both from Zabrze, declares that from now on he intends to behave as married to each other.
Registered Beuthen the twentieth of January 1857
Sommer Schönwäher
Court Assessor Actuar.
Notes:
These dates correspond to the clippings (presumably in the same order).
Guess didn't know that he had moved to Liegnitz where Max lived.
Confirmed with Zabzre Museum that this gravestone was photographed in Liegnitz Cemetery. For discussion of Liegnitz (now Legnica) Jewish cemetery, see Jewishgen.org. See also the International Jewish Cemetery Project ("The cemetery is a rare, one surviving almost untouched.") However, also see Virtual Stetl (After various cleanup work had been done, "Unfortunately, in the summer of 2009 the cemetery was severely damaged due to a strong hurricane that hit Legnica."