Stuttgart, Württemberg

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.

S-025 images 0104-0105 and 0173-0174 record official findings based on ITS Arolsen and Israelite community evidence: compulsory Jewish-star wearing from 19 September 1941, deportation to Theresienstadt on 23 August 1942 (with a separate claimant account giving 22 August), transfer to Auschwitz on 16 May 1944 on transport Ea 1933, and disappearance thereafter. The authority treated the transport as a death transport, inferred death soon after arrival, and fixed 31 May 1944 under section 180(2) BEG. S-072 independently preserves the same broad sequence.

The Stuttgart civil death entry explicitly names Karoline as née Schweizer, widow of merchant Emil Einstein, and records her birth as 7 November 1854 at Altdorf bei Ettenheim; these identifiers distinguish her from the cemetery namesake candidates.

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.

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.

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.

Josephine's sworn declaration and petition independently identify Siegfried Schwarzschild as her husband and report their Stuttgart marriage. The Stuttgart memorial biography independently names the same couple.

S-025 image 0090 contains the compensation authority's occupational findings. Image 0086 independently reports the Israelite community's recollection that his Koenigstrasse travel bureau operated successfully. Images 0005-0074 are surviving bank ledgers, and counsel's images 0133-0136 connect account 44613 to Siegfried and account 44111 to the Jewish emigration office travel bureau. The authority accepted persecution-related occupational loss but did not accept counsel's requested higher earnings classification.

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.

The signed decisions and payment records in S-025 directly record the awards. Images 0089-0091 award DM 4,784 for 65 months of occupational loss from 1 January 1939 through the statutory death date. Images 0103-0105 award DM 4,800 for 32 full months of Jewish-star restriction and imprisonment from 19 September 1941 through 31 May 1944. Images 0172-0176 award a DM 14,760 capital payment, DM 12,031 pension arrears, and DM 207 monthly from October 1958. Later images document periodic statutory recalculations and closure after Josephine's 13 July 1980 death.

The cemetery index and Stuttgart civil death entry agree exactly on name, birth date, death date, and city; the death entry additionally identifies her as née Schweizer and widow of merchant Emil Einstein.

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.