Hirschbruch family collection 1892-1996

This collection consists primarily of documents pertaining to the genealogy research of Josef Hadar, as well as personal documents of his parents Elsa Graetz and Ludwig Hirschbruch.Ludwig Hirschbruch was born in 1891 in Potsdam, Germany. Elsa Graetz was born in 1891 in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of Jenny Pulvermacher and Isaac Graetz. Elsa and Ludwig Hirschbruch married in Potsdam in 1918 and had three children: Hermann, born in 1918 (he died one year later); Eva Johanna, born in 1920; and Josef, born in 1923. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1933 (?).Lesser Hirschbruch, the father of Ludwig Hirschbruch, was born in 1859 in Czersk (then part of Prussia, today in Poland) and married to Rosa Grant, who was born in Bischofsburg , East Prussia. Lesser Hirschbruch had a brother Moritz Hirschbruch. Their parents were Falk Hirschbruch and Pauline Margoninska, both from Czersk.Finding aid available onlineProcesseddigitizedDaphne Galili was the daughter of Eva Johanna Hirschbruch and Thomas Raymond Wadeson, a British officer, born in 1918. They met in Egypt while both served in the British Army.Note by donor: Bethlehem in Galilee is a village of about 100 families, some of them residing in the original houses of the German Templers