Isaak Paechter's two children and their spouses were Holocaust victims but the next generation got out to England and South Africa

Isaak Paechter's two children and their spouses were Holocaust victims but the next generation got out to England and South Africa

• Nov 20, 2023
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Isaak Paechter is the only one of the five original siblings for whom we don't have a precise birth date, but based on the date of his marriage in 1882 he was very likely the youngest of them. His wife was the other Friederike Paechter, easy to confuse with Friederike Wohlgemuth nee Paechter. 

While both of the Paechter daughters had married and moved away from Tiegenhof, Isaak was the only one of the brothers to do so. He married in March 1882 and then raised a family in the town of Crossen on der Oder in Lower Silesia. 

It could be that Friederike was from Crossen. Otherwise, I don't know why Isaak would have moved there, 300 miles west of Tiegenhof and 100 miles sourtheast of Berlin. Today it is the Polish city of Krosno Odrzanskie, but then It was in the Prussian province of Brandenburg. 

There was an organized Jewish community in Crossen, with a synagogue erected in 1851 and a cemetery where we know Isaak was buried but that no longer exists. In 1880, there were 176 Jewish inhabitants of Crossen, after which the Jewish population slowly declined.

Isaak's and Friederike's children were born in Crossen—Rosa in 1883, Bertha (who died as an infant) in 1885, and Kurt Julius in 1888. The family remained in Crossen until at least 1895. when Isaak died at an estimated age of 40 years old. 

Rosa and Kurt Julius both married and raised families in Berlin. Both of them would remain in Berlin throughout the Nazi era and were ultimately deported to their deaths. However, all their children survived the Holocaust, ending in South Africa and England. 

I'll go on with their stories in the following posts.