My recollections : 1872-1962 /

English translation of 'Meine Erinnerungen 1872-1962' by the author's grandnephew, Leon Chameides.digitizedMeier Koenigshoefer was born 1872 in Fuerth, Germany, son of the director of the local Jewish orphanage. He and his eleven siblings grew up together with the orphans in the orphanage. After serving in the Bavarian army, he and his brothers founded a leather and textile business in Fuerth. Koenigshoefer was the only orthodox member in the communal executive board and a co-founder of the orthodox association Ohev Tora. In 1933 he emigrated via England to Palestine, where he died in 1962