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Mother of Adolf Kupferstein [*1879]
Wife of Jacob Kupferstein [*1846]
Adolf and Jacob Kupferstein families (1910-1929)
Samuel Melzer-Reiss (1923-1924)
Jakob Jassy family (1925-1927)
Adolf Kupferstein family (around 1905)
Jacob Kupferstein family
Adolf Kupferstein family (around 1905)
Jacob Kupferstein family
Rosa (Rosalie) Lichtig was born in Krakow in 1846. Around 1870, she married Feitel "Jacob" Kupferstein, who came from Dabrowa in Galicia. The couple emigrated to Germany. Their first stop was Hanover, where Jacob Kupferstein set up a produce trade. Their three children Antonie, Abraham Moses "Adolf" Kupferstein and Sara were also born there.
From Hanover, the family moved to Uelzen, where they also had a shop for raw products. Around 1900, Jacob and Rosa Kupferstein passed this business on to their daughter Antonie and son-in-law Max Lerner. They themselves moved to Lüneburg.
In 1901, Jacob Kupferstein"s name was mentioned for the first time as a member of the Lüneburg Jewish community. As far as is known, Rosa and Jacob Kupferstein were the very first Jews from Eastern Europe to settle in Lüneburg. Many other families followed them in the years to come. Like the Kupfersteins, a striking number came from the Galician town of Dąbrowa (Dombrowa): for example Hirsch Lengel, Adolf Abraham Klein, Jakob Jassy and Hirsch Sturm with their families.
Rosa and Jacob initially lived briefly in various flats in the western part of the old town until they moved to Lünertorstraße 4 (on the corner of Am Werder) around 1910. For many years, Jacob Kupferstein ran what soon became a well-known shop for produce, second hand goods, coal and colonial goods. The house was still known in Lüneburg as the "Kupferstein House" long after the Second World War. From 1905, son Adolf Kupferstein also joined the family, working alongside his parents.
Rosa Kupferstein, née Lichtig, died in 1913 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg. Jacob continued to run the business for many years as a widower. He died in Bremen in 1930, but was also buried in Lüneburg.
Sources and info:
Ingo Paul: Jewish families in the Bremen area
Erich Woehlkens, Lisa Kuhlmann, Beate L. Weiland: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Uelzen und Nordostniedersachsen. Edited for the town of Uelzen by Ralf Busch, Oldenburg 1996, p. 610
Dietrich Banse (ed.): Gedemütigt - vertrieben - ermordet. Uelzener Bürgerinnen und Bürger jüdischen Glaubens zwischen 1933 und 1942, pp. 100-105
Name variants: Rosalie