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The tribes are moving around

I tried to describe the moves between 1820 and 1940 of our tribes (the descendants of
Johanna Frnkel and Salomon Isaac Borchardt). 90 % of the information here I have from
the unbelievable work of Prof. Francois Cellier!! Please inform me of any mistake or missing
detail!
Johanna Frnkel and Salomon Isaac Borchardt live in Jastrow (Salomon Isaac came as a child
with his parents from Kslin, Johanna we don't know). In France begins a big revolution,
but in the meanwhile are born Isidor Isaac (1795), Max (1796), Fanny (1798), Karoline
(1799), Sara (1803), Jacob Salomon (1804), the twins Elias and Leopold Lipman (1807)
Raatze (1810) and Lewin Louis (1812). Leopold goes to Landsberg, as does Wolff, his cousin
(Salomon Isaac has at least three brothers who came as well from Kslin to Jastrow), and he
married, but we don't know of descendants.
Isidor Isaac goes very early far east to Mispelsee, around the same time when Napoleon also
tries to go far east in 1812. Max and Lewin Louis go far west to Berlin, Fanny to Btow,
Karoline and Sara marry to two Behrend brothers in Neustettin, Jacob Salomon to Bromberg,
Elias to Tempelburg, Leopold to Landsberg an der Warthe, Raatze - unknown. Elias has one
son we know about: Adolf. From Adolf's four sons, all born in Tepelburg, we know, that two
were killed by the Nazis, the son of the third emigrated (where?), and the forth, Walter
Ludwig, escaped 1939 to Shanghai and from there to Detroit, Michigan. There is property in
Berlin at two different places that belongs to them!
Isidor Isaac in Eastern Prussia has three sons, two of them come back to Pomerania: Marcus
Mordechai is born Johannisburg (Pisz), works in Buk and Tremessen and dies in Stettin. Jacob
is born in Hohenstein (Olsztynek) and moves to Stargard (Stargard Szczecioski). There are
sure more children, one is Moses, and his daughter marries to Gustav Ascher in Berlin.
Max is the pioneer and goes to Berlin. There are already Borchardts in Berlin (f.e. his fathers
aunt Hindel Kleeman died in Berlin already in 1817 at the age of 68, and she had already
various children and grandchildren in Berlin, when Max arrived), but from this family he is
the first. He and his wife die in the Cholera epidemy in Berlin in 1847. Their children
(including the adopted Hermann) stay in Berlin.
Lewin, who is 16 years younger than Max, adopts Max' children after the death of Max and
his wife. His eldest own son Isidor is born still in Jastrow in 1852. We don't know really if
Lewin took the orphans to Jastrow, or they stayed with him in Berlin, when he came to take
over Max' business. In Berlin he has two daughters, but the line stops here.
Fanny's children from Btow: Gustav Stern goes to Rawitsch, his children go to Berlin and
Hamburg, Isidor Stern goes to Dirschau (Tczew), his children go to Berlin, Pinkus Stern goes
to Knigsberg, he has five children, but we don't know nothing except their names, Leopold
Stern goes to London, Henriette marries her cousin Behrend from Neustettin, and after his
death she goes to her children Siegmund (or Sigismund?), Rosa and Theodor to Berlin.
Henriettes other children: Wilhelm goes to Knigsberg, and Clara?

Salomon Siegmund Behrend's daughter Ada emigrates with her husband Leo Kristeller and
her daughter two months after the beginning of the war to New York, her son joins them in
October 1940.
Karoline's seven children and Sara's seven children stay all in Neustettin, as far as we know.
Sara's grandson Alfred Behrend goes to Berlin in the beginning of the century and takes his
family in 1937 to the US. Karoline's grandson Friedrich goes to Berlin, and he and Gertrud
Grosskopf have eight children. Most of them went to Argentine and built La Cumbrecita.
Kurt went to Brazil, and the story of Elsbeth Rosenfeld in Nazi-Germany is amazing, until she
finally, in 1947, could join her family in Great-Britain. Karolines granddaughter Elise goes to
Breslau, her daughter Cecilie marries Wilhelm Tichauer, and they take their two boys in 1936
to Argentine.

Jacob Salomon has also seven children. Louis and Kora and Emil and Siegmund are born
before 1843 still in Jastrow, Adele, Ida and Hedwig are born after 1847 in Bromberg. Hedwig,
the first who is born in Bromberg, dies as a baby, Louis dies in the age of 33 in South Tyrol,
but all the others go to Berlin, and after the death of father Jacob Salomon joins mother
Johanna her children in Berlin. About the three children of Kora Hirschfeld we don't know
what happened. Emil had also three children, Fritz emigrated through Shanghai to the UK,
his divorced wife emigrated with his daughter Alice to Australia. Siegmund's children had no
reason to move from Berlin. Their father, the Handelsrichter und Kommerzienrat Borchardt
was a very successful business-man, beginning in the company of his mother's brother, than
taking over the Schriftgiesserei Wilhelm Woellmer, and so on Two children died as babies,
one at the age of 13, Paul's story is not clear: travelling around, specially Tunesia, than being
taken to the concentration camp Dachau, released, escaping to UK and from there to the US
was he a spy or not? For whom? Wilhelm, who was ashamed of his brother the traitor,
emigrated to the US in 1935 with wife and three teenager-children. Else died very early, but
her two children emigrated to the US. Anna died in Berlin in 1936, but her son Werner
escaped in May 1938 to New York, with his wife and two children Ulla and Thomas, and
Siegmund's youngest daughter, Kthe, emigrated to Palestine with her two daughters Erika
and Hedi, already young women.

Now, let's see what happened in Eastern Prussia with the three sons of Isidor Isaac and Anna
Freundlich: Marcus Mordechai moves to Tremessen after the birth of his first-born, in 1845,
and at the end of his life he joins his daughter Caecilie ("Tsilush") to Stettin. At this time his
two sons are already in Hamburg, Tsilush will come to Hamburg too, in 1913, when her
brothers are already buried. One is Isidor Isaac, and his son, Richard, founds the famous
shipping company. Richard's siblings perish in the Holocaust, his wife and descendants
escape to UK and Palestine. The other is Salomon, with seven children. Moritz, Ivan and
Zerline escape to the US, and the others? Johanna was been killed, Hugo dies in Hamburg,
his children, go to France, Palestine, stay in Hamburg or were killed. Tsilusch's children are:
Dietz, Leo, Johanna, Julius, Ella and Frieda. Leo dies very early, Dietz and Ella escape to
Switzerland, Julius is been murdered, Johanna (my great-grandmother) dies in Hamburg two

weeks before deportation, and the youngest, Frieda, escapes with her husband, Gustav
Bucky (Einstein's friend and doctor) to the US. Johanna's daughter (my grandmother)
escapes two Switzerland, and her granddaughter from her second daughter escapes to the
US.
The second son of Isaac and Anna is Moses. He and his chidlen rest in Johannisburg (Pisz).
The youngest of the East Prussians children of Isidor Isaac and Anna Freundlich, Jacob,
marries in 1865 or 1866 a woman from Anklam near Stettin, Rosa Tonn (it seems she was
the daughter of the teacher J. Tonn there), and settle with her in Stargard nearby, but she
dies shortly after the birth of the three sons. Hugo goes to Cologn, the other two, Leo and
Max, to Berlin. Leo's son Jaques emigrates with his wife through Italy to New York. Max' son
Hans Jacob emigrates to London and from there to Dublin, Irland.
In the meanwhile, what happened in Berlin to Max' children, after their parents died from
cholera in 1847? The two sons of Hermann Levin, the adopted son, are Georg Hermann, the
writer, and Ludwig the archeologist. Ludwig lived mainly in Egypt and had no children,
Georg Hermann was the most loved German writer in Holland, and so he escaped with his
big family 1933 to Holland. From there his wives and children escaped to UK, Ursula and the
little Peter were saved right from the entrance to hell and reached Palestine, while Georg
Hermann himself was murdered.
Then there are Max' own children Salomon (Sally), Johanna, Max and Henriette. About
Henriette we don't know if she had children, Max's daughter Clara escaped to London, his
son Wally was murdered, and Felix emigrated to Sweden, but Felix's daughter was
murdered. Sally had five children: Ludwig and Bruno escaped to France and died there in
1937 and 1940, Ludwig's son Herbert reach the US, as well as Bruno's three children. Else
emigrate to Switzerland, and Willy and Johanna were murdered.
Johanna (Sally's sister, not his daughter) married Moritz Salomon and their son Martin and
his children and their daughter's children (Margarete and her husband Richard Schlesinger
died in Berlin) went to Portugal, South-Africa, USA, Australia and Palestine.
It's interesting: sometimes I write "escape", sometimes "emigrate". There is no attent to
make a difference between the two. One thing is clear: they move!
Since the end of WWII the tribes are again growing and growing, and of course they
continue to move!!

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