Janine J. Silberman - Leonore Baumgarten nee Lubliner

Leonore (Liba) Baumgarten nee Lubliner

1890?

1914

Mom's Memoirs:

When WWI broke out in August 1914 my mother’s family was vacationing in the area of Danzig and simply did not return to Lodz any more; Aunt Frank was working in Berlin, she had some job with the Royal Prussian Library I seem to remember and brought her mother and sister Madzia ....

When my grandmother heard of the new pregnancy she insisted that my parents come to Berlin “where all the good doctors are” and my parents packed up and went.

From Draft Letter to Evan for his Bar Mitzvah:

My first memory is of my maternal grandmother. I was six when she died but the impression she left was of an apparition all dressed in black, high neck, long sleeves, button-up shoes—she was probably only in her early 60’s[1].

Address in Lodz

From Aunt Franka's Zurich matriculation information:

E: Liba B‘., Lodz, Wschodniastr.65 [2]

Provisional Identity Card

ChatGPT translation of first page follows:

Police District 4

Provisional Identification Card

For the Russian national:

Liba Chaimovna Baumgarten [3]
residing at Rathenow Street 36 / Lubliner

Age: 55

Regulations:

All male and female nationals of enemy states over 15 years old must:

Carry this ID at all times
Report twice daily in person to the responsible police station
Remain in their residence from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Not leave the designated district
Not change residence without police permission
Not send encrypted correspondence

Police officers are authorized to conduct inspections, including inside the residence.
Violations will result in military detention.

Authority:

Commandant of Berlin
[signature]
General of Cavalry

ChatGPT translation of second page follows:

Permanent exemption

Temporary exemption
from the reporting requirement
between 2–4 (hours)
however must report
once weekly [4]

Berlin, Dec 1, 1914

One-time exemption

Concerning rules 3 and 4
(curfew and movement restrictions)
valid for today
Nov 29, 1914

Right-side note (later)

Likely:

Residence / presence
Charlottenburg
March 1915

Personal Identity Paper

Issue as replacement for passport for travel within the German Empire, along with various permits for travel to and from Switzerland.

ChatGPT translation of first page follows:

Police President
Charlottenburg, January 26, 1918

Identity Card No. 797

Issued as a substitute passport for residence within the German Reich.
(Each border crossing requires a visa endorsement from the competent German authority.)

Surname:
Baumgarten, née Lubliner

Given name(s):
Liba Chaimovna

Nationality:
Russian

Occupation:
Widow

Permanent residence:
[blank]

Current residence:
Charlottenburg
Living with Koenig[5]

Date of birth:
June 23, 1857

Place of birth:
Łódź

Age:
55 years

Build:
Medium

Hair:
Brown

Eyes:
Gray

Face shape:
Oval

Distinguishing marks:
None

Red stamp:
“Invalid for return to the Reich and for residence therein”

It is hereby certified that the holder is the person depicted in the attached photograph and that the signature below has been executed by her own hand.

Signature of holder:
Liba Baumgarten

ChatGPT translation of second page follows:

Upper sections

Certificate

Issued for Liba Baumgarten
Berlin, July 9, 1918
Commandant of Berlin

Authorization

Valid extended for travel to the specified area,
in connection with the required travel permit and visa.

Berlin, August 12, 1918
Commandant
(signed Bürger)

Main travel permit

Visa No. 3642

From: Charlottenburg (Berlin)
Via: Lindau
To: Zurich and Davos (Switzerland)

Purpose of travel:
To see a doctor

Duration:
Approximately 2 months

Valid for departure:
Sept 18, 1918 → Dec 28, 1918

Handwritten note

Registered departure: Sept 20, 1918
Approved for travel to Davos, Switzerland

Key statement (very important)

“The Commandant confirms that there are no objections to the re-entry of Mrs. Baumgarten from Switzerland into Germany after approximately 8 weeks.”

Swiss diplomatic visa

Seen/approved by the Swiss Legation in Berlin
Valid for travel to Switzerland and duration of stay

Dated: Sept 14, 1918

Extension

Stay extended until January 15, 1919
Bern, Dec 20, 1918

(Stamped by Swiss foreigner/police authority)

Added on: [6]

Deadline for departure

Swiss federal extension

Stay extended until October 15, 1919
Issued in Bern on October 7, 1919

Registration / deregistration

Deregistered in Zurich on October 14, 1919

Final extension

Deadline for departure extended to October 25, 1919
Issued in Zurich on October 15, 1919
(Fee: 5 Swiss francs)\

Final registration stamp

Registered in Zurich on October 16, 1919

Death Notice

[In adidition to our 2 copies, Aunt Franka's diaries has 3 copies of it.]

our beloved mother, Mrs.

Leonore Baumgarten
née Lubliner

died on July 2, 1926, 67 years old, variously

In deep pain

Julian Baumgaten,
Dr. Franciska Baumgarten-Tramer,
Dr. Rose Baumgarten,
Magdalena Jonas nee Baumgarten,
Lydia Baumgarten nee Loewenstein,
Dr. R. Jonas
and 2 grandchildren

The funeral took place quietly in Berlin on July 5th.

Note from Lila, June 2, 1951

Berlin, Weissensee[7] June 2, 1951

On the 25th anniversary of your beloved mother's death[9], a special warm greeting on June 1st. I put the hill back in order[9] and planted it with fuchsia. The dog-florets bloom in full splendor

Your Lila[10]

Calling card

Found inside one of Aunt Franka's diaries. The Russian version of her name with the "ova" ending.

Leonara Baumgartenova

Notes:

We seem to have more knowledge about the rest of the Lubliners than of our great-grandmother. Mom was 6 years old when her grandmother died, but I've only found one little thing she wrote about her. There is a letter Uncle Tramer wrote her asking for Franka's hand in marriage.

She was 67 when she died.
An actual address for the family, presumably at the time of Franka's matriculation. 65 Wschodnia Strasse. Here is location and photos on Google maps. I have found links with modern photographs of other apartment blocks (tenements) on Wschodnia Strasse (East, or Eastern, Street), which suggest that these buildings do date back that far: See 54 Wschodnia and 45 Wschodnia. Also, a someone who sells a cast from of the impression of a mezzuzah from 34 Wschodnia. Don't know how long they lived there, but I see that Wschodnia Strasse figured in the 1905 Lodz uprising.
ChatGPT read this as "Janson" but I believe it is her patronymic Chaimovna.
Quickly got an exemption to report weekly, and can see that she did until going to Switzerland in 1918.
Residence “bei Koenig” indicates lodging with a host (likely landlord or sponsor).
Don't know if this is a further extension or related to a separate trip later.
Weisensee is the site of the largest Jewish Cemetery in Berlin and survived the war.
We have her death recorded as July 2, not June. Wonder if Lila just got confused by her birth month.
Suggests that there was a gravesite still intact in 1951. I wrote juedfriedweissensee@jg-berlin.org, and heard back: "Liba Baumgarten, born in Lublin, blessed A. (June 5, 1859 - July 2, 1926), born in Ozorkow and buried on July 5, 1926, is buried with burial number 71382 in grave field G 6 in row 10 of the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee."
Lila was their nanny, etc.

Geni data

Birth: June 05, 1859, Ozorkow, Poland

Death: July 02, 1926 (67), Berlin, Germany (sugar and heart disease)

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Chaim Mendel Lubliner and Jetta Lubliner
Wife of Rafael Isek Ioachimow Baumgarten
Mother of Julek Baumgarten; Jytta Baumgarten; Freidel Francisca Tramer; Rosa Baumgarten; Felicias Baumgarten-Campetti and 1 other
Sister of Jankiel Lubliner; Moritz Lubliner; Flora Ashkenasy; Max Lubliner and Auguste Friedmann

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