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Mother of
Wife of Samuel Marcus [*1835]
Sister of Louis Rosenbaum [*1859]
Samuel Marcus and Wolf Marcus family residence (1875-approx. 1910)
Adolf Horwitz (1906)
Residence of Widow Rosa Marcus
Rosa Marcus, Textile and shoe business (1907-1915)
Stern"s Wäschehaus (1905-1933)
Samuel Marcus and Wolf Marcus, Textile and shoe business
Rosa "Röschen" Rosenbaum was born in Ottbergen close to Höxter in 1852. At the time, the place had a small but important Jewish community. Rosa came to Lüneburg in 1880 and married the Lüneburg merchant Samuel Marcus who was a widower. His first wife Bertha had died in September 1879 a few months after the early death of their ninth child.
Rosa and Samuel Marcus had another seven children together, two of whom died very young. After her husband"s death in 1904, Rosa Marcus continued to run the Marcus family shoe and clothing store at Lüner Straße 5, later 2, on her own.
From 1916 she lived at Am Schifferwall 3, where she died in 1937. She was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg - the second to last burial that could still take place there. Two of her children were able to emigrate. Three of her children became victims of the Nazi persecution of Jews.
Sources and info:
Jewish history in Ottbergen (mentions, among others, Rosa"s brother Samuel Rosenbaum, born 1856)
Name variants: Röschen