Melita Einstein
Auguste's 1965 obituary names Melita Levy as her sister. The 1950 census directly identifies widowed Melita Levy, age 70, at 3897 Clay Street in San Francisco as the sister of Ludwig Einstein and Josephine Stone. Josephine's independent identity records complete the bridge to the Stuttgart Einstein household. The census age supports an approximate 1879 birth year but does not establish an exact date or birthplace. No linked source identifies Melita's husband or supports the proposed Bruno Levy association.
- Record ID
- P-020
- Name variants
- Melita Levy
- Birth
- about 1879
- Death
- Unknown
- Family lines
- Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein
- Related people
- Emil Einstein, Karoline Schweizer, Auguste Einstein Saalfeld, Josephine Einstein Schwarzschild Stone, Ludwig Einstein
- Places
- Stuttgart, Württemberg, New York, New York, San Francisco, California
- Sources
- Auguste Saalfeld obituary, Josephine Schwarzschild naturalization file and legal name-change order, Josephine Schwarzschild passenger manifest aboard SS Pennland, 1939, Josephine Schwarzschild passenger manifest aboard City of Baltimore, 1939, Einstein-Levy-Schwarzschild household in the 1940 United States census, Einstein-Levy-Stone household in the 1950 United States census, California death index entry for Josephine Stone, Ludwig Einstein declaration and petition for naturalization, Ludwig Einstein World War II draft registration card, Ludwig Einstein entry in the California Death Index, Ludwig Einstein passenger manifest aboard SS Aquitania, New York arrival, 1939, Ludwig Einstein passenger manifest, San Francisco arrival, 1939, Corinne Schweitzer Koshland passport application, 1913, Biography of Benno Nördlinger of Laupheim
Evidence-backed claims
Auguste's 1965 obituary names Josephine Stone and Melita Levy as her sisters. The 1950 census directly places Melita Levy with her brother Ludwig Einstein and her sister Josephine Stone at 3897 Clay Street. Josephine's federal naturalization file preserves her Stuttgart birth date, Einstein Schwarzschild entry name, and court-ordered Stone surname; her California death index independently preserves the same birth date and her mother's maiden name as Schweitzer. Together these records provide the direct identity bridge required by RQ-005.
Two passenger manifests document the continuous 1939 route, and two federal censuses independently repeat the same San Francisco sibling household and address a decade apart.
Ludwig's naturalization file and draft card establish the same Stuttgart-born man, with the exact birth date 26 July 1880, at 3897 Clay Street. The 1940 and 1950 censuses directly call him Melita Levy's brother, and the 1950 census also calls Josephine Stone their sister. C-019 independently bridges Melita to Auguste, while C-009 establishes Auguste and Josephine as daughters of Emil Einstein and Karoline/Caroline Schweizer. The California death index matches Ludwig's exact birth date and reports his mother's maiden name as Schweitzer and father's surname as Einstein. Ludwig's 1939 manifests also name cousins in the Laupheim Einstein network and at 3800 Washington Street in San Francisco. Josephine independently named the same San Francisco cousin, Corinne Koshland; Corinne's signed passport uses the maiden name Schweitzer, and the likely Laupheim cousin Benno Nördlinger was a son of Pauline Einstein. This convergence makes the parentage and sibling relationship highly likely.