Hedwig and Jacob Heymann

Jacob Heymann of New York, New York United States was born on December 31, 1899 in Nohfelden, SL Germany, and died at age 63 years old in October 1963 in New York, New York United States.

Hedwig Heymann was born in the beautiful town of Ebernburg, Germany in 1899 to Emil and Flora (Haas) Gottlieb. She had one sister named Irma. She met and married Jacob Gottlieb of Gonnesweiler, Germany, a cattle dealer and had 2 children in the same town she was born and raised until the start of WW2. Her husband and father, Emil, were arrested on the night of Kristallnacht and sent to the Dachau concentration camp as she awaited paper for her family to come to America and for the men in het family to be released. In August 1939, Hedwig, Jacob and their daughters Margot and Rose managed to safely board the SS Statendam from Rotterdam, Holland to Hoboken, NJ.