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Amalie (Male) Meyer was the second child of secondhand dealer Benjamin Meyer and his wife Georgine, née Mendel. She was born around 1822 and came to Lüneburg with her family around 1828, probably from the area of Neustadt am Rübenberge. In 1853, Amalie married merchant Isaac Blumenthal in Lüneburg and moved to nearby Hitzacker on the river Elbe to live with him.

The couple had three daughters, who were born in Hitzacker between 1856 and 1863: Bertha Jeanette Blumenthal, who later married Baruch Löwenstein; Johanne Blumenthal, who later married Berend Hertz; and Rosa Blumenthal, who died in Hitzacker just a few months after giving birth.

Amalie Blumenthal, née Meyer, seems to have returned to her home town of Lüneburg later - perhaps as a widow. Her brother Mendel Meyer still lived there. Amalie died in Lüneburg in November 1906 and was buried in the town"s Jewish cemetery.


Sources and info:

Lisa Kuhlmann, Zur Genealogie jüdischer Familien in Uelzen und Nordostniedersachsen, in: Erich Woehlkens/Lisa Kuhlmann/Beate L. Weiland, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Uelzen und in Nordostniedersachsen, Oldenburg 1996, pp. 107-257, see pp. 130-132

Name variants: Male Malchen Amalia