Ernestine Esther was born in Landshut, Austria, as the daughter of Sara- Zelda and Abraham Goldhammer. From her first husband Mr. Friedes she had her daughter Klara Chaja. From her second husband, Sinai, Siegmund, Simon Schmidt - she had two children: Netti and Max.
After her second husband's death on 1911, she opened her own business. Her firm 'Firma Ernestine Schmidt' was on Reichenberger Strasse 13 (in the same building where she lived), in Weisensee Berlin, next to the Kotbusser Tores. The business was for children's - babies cloths, and furniture. The business became a most reputable one. Customers from all over Berlin and vicinity came to shop there.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany, Ernestine was forced to abandon her business and to escape to Palestine where her son Max already lived.

Max, while working in the printing house of the Jewish Community of Berlin, two years earlier, prepared false passports for his family and friends.
Supplied with such a passport, Ernestine arrived in Palestine as a Polish tourist with the ship 'Yerushalym' on 3.10.1935.

To the rest of her life Ernestine Esther lived in Tel-Aviv, where she died on Sunday, 18 Kislev, 5703.

She is buried in Tel-Aviv, in the 'Nachalat Yitzchak' cemetery.

Field 41, row 12, number 12.
 

Sinai Siegmund Simon Schmidt, was a businessman in Berlin.
He and his wife Ernestine Esther, had two children from their marriage: Netti and Max.
He also raised Klara Chaja, who was the daughter of his wife Ernestine from her first marriage.

He was born on Friday, 26 Kislev, 5617, and died in Berlin on Saturday, 16 Elul, 5671.
He was 55 years of age at his death.

Sinai Siegmund Simon Schmidt is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin, Weisensee, on Herbert Baum St. 45.

Field  E - 3,  row - 10,  No.  39387
 
 
 
 

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