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Bad Kissingen
(Unterfranken)
At Bad Kissingen, there are memorials commemorating the participation and dying of Jewish soldiers ,on the Jewish cemetery as well as on the local memorial.

On the Jewish cemetery on Bergmannstraße there are three graves of soldiers of the war in 1866. One gravestone for second-lieutenan JACOB MICHAELIS (row 19 - grave no. 9 - near the tree) with the inscriptions nearly all in German, they read as follows:

Hier ruht Jacob Michaelis, aus Nieheim. Lieutenant im preuss. Inftrie. Regt. No. 15 und 53 gestorben am 20. Juli 1866 und Iacob Michaelis geb 13. Februar 1842 zu Nienheim in Westphalen Kämpfte mit Auszeichnung im Schleswig=Holsteinschen Kriege vor Düppel und auf Alsen. Er wurde am 10. Juli 1866 zu Kissingen tödtlich verwundet, als der nach der Einnahme der Stadt edelmüthig die Lazarethe vor Feindes und Freundeswuth schützte. Ehre seinem Andenken Friede seiner Asche.

(Here lies ... Iacob Michaelis, born on the 13th of february 1842 at Nienheim in Westphalia Successfully fought in the War in Schleswig-Holstein near Düppel and Alsen. He received a deadly wound on the 19th of july at Kissingen, when after the siege of the town he protected the military hospitals. We honour his memory, peace to his ashes).

Further up the hill you will find the grave of an unknown Bavarian soldier (row 15, grave no.2), the inscription is entirely in Hebrew. The translation is as follows:

(Here lies a brave man from Bavaria, fallen on the battlefield (on) 27 Tammus 11.july 626 (=1866) following the small calendar. Although his name and the name of his hometown are unknown, through the sign we recognized that ... of our community. TNZBH Erected by the Chewra Kaddischa, here (in) Kissingen). )

Parts have crumbled away, but a Bavarian helmet can still be recognized. Not far from this, there is the grave for the Prussian soldier JACOB NEUSTÄTT (the inscription on his weathered gravestone is unreadable)

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bad-kissingen-4.jpg (16451 Byte) In the higher part of the cemetery you will find the gravestone for FRAU LINA HOFFMANN, née MANN. 9th of october 1859 - 30th of november 1930, on which, below an Iron Cross, the fallen soldier KURT HOFFMANN s.A. is commemorated with the following text:

KURT HOFMANN GEB. 17.3.1895 GEF. 3.10.1918 IN NORDFRANKR.

In the right part of the entrance hall of the Tahara-house, a few years ago, a metal plaque with the following inscription below a star of David has been put up: 

ZUM GEDENKEN AN GEFALLENE JUEDISCHE MITBUERGER DER STADT BAD KISSINGEN 1914 – 1918

(In memory of the fallen Jewish citizen):

BAMBERGER BENZION 29.5.1918

BAUMBLATT ARTHUR 15.1.1917

EHRLICH PAUL 9.1.1917

FRANK MARTIN 16.12.1916

HEILNER GUSTAV 16.10.1914

HOFMANN KUR 3.10.1918

LOEWYNSKY ERICH 30.3.1918

SEELIG JAKOB 27.9.1918

A further - local - memorial is to be found at the western wall of the "Kapellenfriedhof" on Kapellenpfad. Below the inscription

DEN BESCHÜTZERN DER HEIMAT DEN TOTEN DER STADT BAD KISSINGEN IM WELTKRIEG 1914 – 1918 ZUM DANKE UND ZUM BLEIBENDEN GEDENKEN  

(To the guardians of the country the dead of the town of Bad Kissingen in the World War 1914-1918 in gratefulness and lasting memory) the fallen soldiers of the town are immortalized (listed in chronological order). Among them the following Jewish soldiers, who died in action, can be found:

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1914:
HEILNER GUST.

1916:
FRANK MARTIN

1917:
EHRLICH PAUL
BAUMBLATT ARTHUR

1918:
BAMBERGER BENZION
HOFMANN KURT

 

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