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latest: Schmul Levin [*1901]
Mother of
Wife of Meyer Horwitz [*1840]
Meyer Horwitz, cattle dealer (1889-1893)
Meyer Horwitz, Sally Horwitz and Alex Horwitz families,
Widow Caroline Horwitz (1889-1940)
Caroline Meier was born in Dützen near Minden in Westphalia in 1842. Her parents were salesman Joseph Meyer and his wife Henriette, nee Westheim. In 1865, Caroline married the cattle dealer Meyer Horwitz and started to live with him in his hometown Bünde. In the years up to 1885, Caroline gave birth to eleven children, all of whom reached adulthood
In September 1889, the whole family moved from Bünde to Lüneburg, where Meyer"s relative Hermann Horwitz, also a cattle dealer from Bünde, already lived. Caroline and Meyer Horwitz and their children initially lived at Am Berge before moving to Rotehahnstraße 3 in 1893. This house remained the home of the extended Horwitz family until they were forced to sell it during the Nazi era.
Meyer Horwitz died in 1904 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg. For more than two decades afterwards, Caroline continued to live as a widow in Rotehahnstraße. The house was also the home of her third child Sally Horwitz, who had taken over his father"s cattle business. Caroline died in 1928 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg.
Sources and info:
Juden- und Dissidentenregister in Westfalen und Lippe, Seite P2-131-Teil_2-0004: (Meyer) Caroline
Juden- und Dissidentenregister in Westfalen und Lippe, Seite P2-131-Teil_2-0066: (Meyer) Caroline
Name variants: Karoline Meier