Saalfeld–Wortsmann–Silverstein

The linked Stuttgart birth notice establishes the event and parents. S-027's certified Georgia death record independently repeats the exact birth date, Germany as birthplace, and the parents Emil Einstein and Caroline Schweizer.

Rubin Milton Silverstein's contemporary obituary directly identifies Edith Silverstein as his wife. S-027's certified death record names Mrs. Max Wortsman as Auguste's daughter; related file correspondence explicitly calls Cecilie Wortsman nee Saalfeld the daughter of Auguste and Ignatz, strengthening the first parent-child link. S-028 independently repeats that relationship in Auguste's signed application and counsel's family submissions. The remaining links in this composite chain are strongly supported by the existing family and published evidence, but S-027's Cunard confirmation describes the Wortsmann children only by age and does not name Edith.

S-022's Certificate of Arrival, declaration, petition, and independent Ohio and Alabama witness depositions agree on the New York arrival and establish the Cincinnati-to-Birmingham-to-Atlanta residence sequence. S-027's Cunard correspondence independently establishes the 3 December Cherbourg sailing, ticket 333320, and Berlin booking. The restitution authority found that she left Germany on 30 November and traveled via Switzerland; counsel separately relayed her daughter's statement that the daughter fled first and met Auguste for several days in Switzerland.

Krummenacher's source-cited account supports the Swiss refuge and escape episode. S-026 adds signed retrospective accounts and institutional records that independently support the family's Swiss refuge and escape. Max and Caecilie's NARA files independently document their shared 9 March 1939 arrival at New York aboard the SS Queen Mary, Caecilie's last foreign residence in St. Gallen, and their later settlement in Birmingham and Atlanta.

The clerk's certification in S-022 states that the Certificate of Arrival and Declaration of Intention were filed with and made part of Petition no. 3939 on 25 February 1944. The admission card and oath record give 24 January 1945 as the admission and certificate date.

The complete NARA Atlanta file contains the petition filed in the U.S. District Court at Atlanta on 12 May 1944, Max's oath dated 2 August 1944, and the associated certificate card showing certificate 6106842 issued 3 August 1944.

The complete NARA Atlanta file contains the petition filed in the U.S. District Court at Atlanta on 12 May 1944, Caecilie's oath dated 2 August 1944, and the associated certificate card showing certificate 6106841 issued 3 August 1944.

A contemporary Atlanta obituary reports the 31 March 2011 death and age 90; the headstone and Samuel Silverstein's 1926 naturalization petition give 2 January 1921. Samuel's 1933 petition instead gives 2 January 1920, so the death date is confirmed but the birth year remains explicitly disputed.

Both naturalization petitions independently repeat the same birth date and birthplace; the legible headstone gives the death date and age 63.

Samuel's 1926 and 1933 naturalization petitions both identify Sara as his wife and Rubin as their son. The forms conflict on Rubin's birth year but not on the parent-child relationship.

Auguste's 30 October 1939 declaration of intention lists Emil Sealfield as her child and gives the numeric date 6-7-1902. Her adjacent entry for Cäcilie uses 3-11-1900, matching Cäcilie's independently known 3 November birth; Emil's own 1942 draft card explicitly writes July 6, 1902. The declaration therefore uses European day-month order despite the U.S. form labels, while Ancestry's index reverses both children's dates. S-028's certified death-certificate copy names Ignatz Salfield and Augusta Einstein as Emil's parents, while Auguste's signed 1957 application reports two children.

The original Ohio marriage record directly names the spouses, marriage date, and Emil's parents as Ignaz Salfield and Augusta Einstein. S-028 contains a certified 1958 copy of the same Hamilton County record.

The official Cook County death index gives the exact date and county for Emil Salfield; Spring Grove's original burial card independently gives the same date, his Chicago residence and place of death, and his interment date. S-028 contains a certified copy of the Chicago death certificate confirming the exact date, Grant Hospital of Chicago, residence, birth date, and parents.

The original Southern District of Ohio petition itself is numbered 12790 and was subscribed and sworn at Cincinnati on 22 September 1938. The separate Ancestry index card supplies the same petition number, volume, and date.

Emil's signed petition requests the name Emil Harding Salfield. The attached oath records that he swore allegiance in open court on 29 December 1938, the petition was granted, and certificate 4605537 was issued.

The federal certificate of arrival identifies Emil Saalfeld, New York, 7 February 1926, and the SS Albert Ballin. His sworn petition repeats the same arrival and identifies Hamburg as his port of emigration. The independently reviewed passenger manifest confirms the date, ship, Hamburg departure, identity, and Limburg birthplace.

The 1923 manifest independently identifies Emil through his father Ignatz and Limburg birthplace and says he had not previously been in the United States. The 1926 manifest again identifies Limburg and explicitly reports prior United States residence in New York from 1923 to 1925. Together they establish two arrivals and explain why the 1938 naturalization file used the 1926 entry as his lawful permanent-residence arrival.

Their separate Certificates of Arrival and naturalization filings agree on the New York date and vessel. Caecilie's declaration and petition both name St. Gallen as her last foreign residence; Max's filings name Stuttgart.

S-027 includes the commercial-register extract, Limburg municipal and chamber replies, tax figures, and the compensation authority's review. Those contemporary records establish the firm, formal ownership, procuration, and 1934 deletion. Cecilia Wortsman's sworn 1958 statement identifies Auguste as the working manager who independently purchased stock in Berlin. The 1958 authority concluded that the Jewish proprietor's business would otherwise have participated in the post-1933 recovery and awarded Auguste compensation for lost professional advancement. S-028 preserves duplicate working copies of the authority's business history and settlement calculation.

The signed decisions, settlement copies, payment records, pension-adjustment decisions, and death-related closure correspondence in S-027 directly record each amount and disposition. The 1958 professional-loss settlement covered Auguste's own and derivative Ignatz claim and required waiver of further professional-loss compensation. S-028 preserves the corresponding authority calculation and waiver requirement from Ignatz's heirs file.

S-028's administrative file card and Auguste Saalfeld's signed 1957 compensation application independently record the same exact date and Wiesbaden place. Counsel later relayed Max Wortsmann's account that Ignatz traveled from Stuttgart to Wiesbaden for medical treatment by a friend and died after a few days. The date and place are repeated dossier facts; the medical-trip circumstance remains retrospective family testimony.

The authority required an Erbschein because the submitted family evidence did not conclusively establish succession. Counsel considered probate costs disproportionate to the likely recovery and withdrew the private-insurance claim in October 1958, then the property, asset, and economic-advancement claims in March 1959. The authority's December 1958 calculation treated Auguste's DM 100 monthly professional-loss settlement as compensating both spouses' lost income and required waiver of her derivative occupational claim. Counsel's 21 September 1959 letter confirmed that no further claims were asserted and the files could be closed.