POST 94: MY GREAT-GREAT-UNCLE & AUNT JOSEF & ROSALIE PAULY’S NINE CHILDREN THROUGH TIME

 

“You know how the time flies

Only yesterday was the time of our lives

We were born and raised in a summer haze

Bound by the surprise of our glory days”

                                                                                    Adele “Someone Like You”

 

Note: In this post, I present photos of Josef and Rosalie Pauly’s nine children, my great-great-uncle and aunt’s offspring, showing them as young children, adolescents, young adults, middle aged, and elderly. Naturally, there are gaps in the photo sequences for some of the children.

 

Related Posts:

Post 45: Holocaust Remembrance: Recalling My Pauly Ancestors

Post 56: Reflections on Life and Family by The Paterfamilias, Dr. Josef Pauly

Post 57: Disappeared Without A Trace, Maria Pohlmann Née Pauly

Post 57, Postscript: Disappeared Without A Trace, Maria Pohlmann Née Pauly—Mystery Solved!!

Post 58: Finding Therese “Thussy” Sandler Née Pauly, My Great-Great-Uncle and Aunt’s Youngest Child

Post 89: Evidence of My 18th & 19th Centuries Marle Ancestors

 

 

I have often thought to myself that upon one’s birth, one is metaphorically handed an hourglass measuring the sands of time slowly or rapidly draining out. Regular readers may recall that in Post 89, I discussed my great-great-great-grandparents, Wilhelm Wolf Marle and his wife Rosalie (“Reisel”) Marle née Grätzer, whose headstones survive in the former Jewish Cemetery in Pless, Germany [today: Pszczyna, Poland]. (Figures 1-2) Given my musings about the passage of time, I was mildly surprised to see that an hourglass is carved into Rosalie Marle’s headstone signifying how quickly time passes. (Figure 2) Clearly, I can take no credit for the originality of this metaphor.

 

Figure 1. My great-great-great-grandfather Wilhelm Marle’s (1772-1846) tombstone in Pszczyna, Poland, formerly Pless, Germany
Figure 2. My great-great-great-grandmother Rosalie Marle née Graetzer’s headstone showing the hourglass carved into it signifying how quickly time flies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Josef Pauly (Figure 3) and Rosalie Pauly née Mockrauer (Figures 4-5), my great-great-uncle and aunt, had nine children all born in Posen, Germany [today: Poznan, Poland] between 1871 and 1885. (Figure 6) In perusing my digital collection of photographs, I realized I have photos of all of them capturing how they looked through the years. Not unexpectedly, there are gaps in the photo sequences for some of the children, which my third cousin, Andi Pauly, more closely aligned to this branch of my family, was partially able to fill. I think it is unusual to have a “continuous” sequence of photos for one’s relatives who were born in the 19th century and died in the 20th century, and for this reason I thought I would array these photos for readers to see. I certainly find it to be true that I can recognize photos of some of my ancestors from specific periods in their lives but not necessarily from other intervals in their lives; interestingly, I occasionally even find this to be true of photos of myself.

 

Figure 3. My great-great-uncle Dr. Josef Pauly (1843-1916)
Figure 4. My great-great-aunt Rosalie Pauly née Mockrauer (1844-1927)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5. My great-great-aunt Rosalie Pauly née Mockrauer with one of her newborns, likely one of her firstborn daughters, judging from Rosalie’s age (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)

 

Figure 6. Photo of Josef and Rosalie Pauly’s six oldest daughters as children and infants, from left to right, Anna, Paula, Helene, Elisabeth, Margarethe, and Maria, probably taken ca. 1878 (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

Below, readers will find a table with the vital statistics of Josef and Rosalie Pauly’s nine children. This is followed by the sequence of photos I have for each of them showing how differently they looked at various stages of their lives. The second-born child, Paula Pincus née Pauly, died youngest at age 49, while the last born, Therese Sandler née Pauly, was the longest lived at age 84. Three of the daughters, Helene Guttentag née Pauly, Elisabeth Herrnstadt née Pauly, and Margarethe Neisser née Pauly, died during the Holocaust, two by their own hands.

 

 

VITAL STATISTICS FOR JOSEF & ROSALIE PAULY’S CHILDREN

NO. NAME EVENT DATE PLACE
         
1 Anna Rothholz née Pauly

(Figures 6-7)

 Birth 14 March 1871 Posen, Germany
Marriage 20 May 1892 Berlin, Germany
Death 21 June 1925 Stettin, Germany
2 Paula Pincus née Pauly

(Figures 6, 8-9)

 Birth 26 April 1872 Posen, Germany
Marriage 16 November 1891 Berlin, Germany
Death 31 March 1922 Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
3 Helene Guttentag née Pauly

(Figures 6, 10-14)

 Birth 12 April 1873 Posen, Germany
Marriage 5 February 1898 Berlin, Germany
Death (suicide) 23 October 1942 Berlin, Germany
4 Elisabeth Herrnstadt née Pauly

(Figures 6, 15-17)

 Birth 2 July 1874 Posen, Germany
Marriage 11 May 1895 Cunnersdorf, Germany
Death (murdered) 27 May 1943 Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia
5 Margarethe Neisser née Pauly

(Figures 6, 17-22)

 Birth 16 January 1876 Posen, Germany
Marriage 5 September 1898 Stettin, Germany
Death (suicide) 12 October 1941 Berlin, Germany
6 Maria Pohlmann née Pauly

(Figures 6, 23-26)

 Birth 21 July 1877 Posen, Germany
Marriage 30 September 1901 Posen, Germany
Death 18 July 1946 Freiburg, Germany
7 Edith Riezler née Pauly

(Figures 17, 27-32)

 

 Birth 4 January 1880 Posen, Germany
Marriage 28 May 1923 Berlin, Germany
Death 5 February 1961 Munich, Germany
8 Wilhelm Pauly

(Figures 33-38)

 

 Birth 24 September 1883 Posen, Germany
Marriage 3 January 1914 Breslau, Germany
Death 1961 Tsumeb, Namibia
9 Therese Sandler née Pauly

(Figures 39-46)

 Birth 21 August 1885 Posen, Germany
Marriage 31 August 1912 Posen, Germany
Death 25 November 1969 Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Anna Rothholz née Pauly (1871-1925)

 

Figure 7. Anna Rothholz née Pauly (1871-1925) in the early- to mid-1890’s

 

Paula Pincus née Pauly (1872-1922)

Figure 8. Paula Pincus née Pauly (1872-1922) as a young adult (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)
Figure 9. Paula Pincus née Pauly in the early- to mid-1890’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helene Guttentag née Pauly (1873-1942)

 

Figure 10. Helene Guttentag née Pauly (1873-1942) as a young girl (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)
Figure 11. Helene Guttentag née Pauly in 1888

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 12. Helene Guttentag née Pauly in her 20’s

 

Figure 13. Helene Guttentag née Pauly in middle age (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)
Figure 14. Helene Guttentag née Pauly in 1938 in Berlin, four years before she committed suicide after being told by the Nazis to report for deportation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elisabeth Herrnstadt née Pauly (1874-1943)

 

Figure 15. Elisabeth Herrnstadt née Pauly (1874-1943) as young girl (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)
Figure 16. Elisabeth Herrnstadt née Pauly in the early- to mid-1890’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 17. Elisabeth Herrnstadt née Pauly as a young adult (middle) with two of her younger sisters, Margarethe (left) and Edith (right) (photo courtesy of Agnes Stieda)

 

Margarethe Neisser née Pauly (1876-1941)

Figure 18. Margarethe Neisser née Pauly (1876-1941) in 1878 as a toddler (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)
Figure 19. Margarethe Neisser née Pauly as a young girl (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 20. Margarethe Neisser née Pauly as a young adult (photo courtesy of Agnes Stieda)

 

Figure 21. Margarethe Neisser née Pauly in middle age (photo courtesy of Agnes Stieda)
Figure 22. Margarethe Neisser née Pauly later in life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Pohlmann née Pauly (1877-1946)

 

Figure 23. Maria Pohlmann née Pauly (1877-1946) as a young girl (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)
Figure 24. Maria Pohlmann née Pauly in the early 1890’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 25. Maria Pohlmann née Pauly on her wedding day the 30th of September 1901
Figure 26. Maria Pohlmann née Pauly in 1906

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edith Riezler née Pauly (1880-1961)

 

Figure 27. Edith Riezler née Pauly (1880-1961) as a young child
Figure 28. Edith Riezler née Pauly as a young girl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 29. Edith Riezler née Pauly as young adult (photo courtesy of Agnes Stieda)
Figure 30. Edith Riezler née Pauly as an adult (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 31. Edith Riezler née Pauly as an adult (photo courtesy of Agnes Stieda)
Figure 32. Edith Riezler née Pauly in 1936 (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wilhelm Pauly (1883-1961)

 

Figure 33. Wilhelm Pauly (1883-1961) as a young boy in 1888 (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)
Figure 34. Wilhelm Pauly as a young boy (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 35. Wilhelm Pauly in 1901 at his sister Maria Pohlmann née Pauly’s wedding
Figure 36. Wilhelm Pauly in 1914 in his WWI uniform (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 37. Wilhelm Pauly with his wife Melanie Pauly née Schöneberg in the 1910’s (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)
Figure 38. Wilhelm Pauly in 1952 (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Therese Sandler née Pauly (1885-1969)

 

Figure 39. Therese Sandler née Pauly (1885-1969) as a young child (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)
Figure 40. Therese Sandler née Pauly as a young girl (head leaning on her father) in a group photo with her parents, six older siblings, and an unidentified man (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 41. Therese Sandler née Pauly in 1901 at her older sister Maria Pohlmann née Pauly’s wedding
Figure 42. Therese Sandler née Pauly in a cabinet photo taken in Berlin (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 43. Therese Sandler née Pauly in a traditional Bavarian Oktoberfest Beer Dirndl dress (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)
Figure 44. Therese Sandler née Pauly wearing an elaborate hat (photo courtesy of Andi Pauly)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure 45. Therese Sandler née Pauly photo from her 1938 “Reisepass,” or passport, that allowed her to leave Germany during the Nazi era (photo courtesy of Pedro Sandler)
Figure 46. Therese Sandler née Pauly after she immigrated to Argentina (photo courtesy of Danny Sandler)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 thoughts on “POST 94: MY GREAT-GREAT-UNCLE & AUNT JOSEF & ROSALIE PAULY’S NINE CHILDREN THROUGH TIME”

  1. That must have taken a lot of work! It is interesting to see the dress and the hair over the years as the women were in sequence.

    1. THAT IS THE MOST INCREDIBLE BLOG RICHARD. I HAD SO MUCH FUN ,SEEING ALL MY GRANDAUNTS,SOME I REMEMBERED VERY WELL, OF SOME I HEARD ONLY THE NAMES,BUT NEVER MET THEM OR KNEW WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE.NOT TO FORGET UNCLE BILL,WHOSE “ADJUTANT “ CAME WITH A BIG CAKE AND A BOTTLE OF WINE FOR MY CONFIRMATION IN 1942,IN THE MIDDLE OF STARVING GERMANY.(POTSDAM).THANK YOU SO MUCH OF BRINGING ALL THESE PHTOS TOGETHER. THEY ARE REALLY A VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
      YESTERDAY I RECEIVED MY D,N,A, HERITAGE DOCUMENT WHICH WAS VERY INTERESTING.WHAT I DID NOT KNOW WAS THAT THERE IS APPARENTLY ALSO SOME FINNISH BLOODLINE..SO I AM A REAL MIX=PICKLE AS MY BEST FRIEND CALLED ME JOKINGLY. MANY THANKS AGAIN,AGNES.

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