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Reinach, Berta née Oppenheimer

Berta Oppenheimer was born in Hemsbach on October 8, 1887.

Her parents were the master butcher Isaac Oppenheimer (1847 - 1914) from Hemsbach and his wife Jeanette née Sommerfeld (1854 - 1917).

Bertha married the master baker Leopold Reinach (1885 - 1972) from Sinsheim on August 21, 1912 in Hemsbach.

They had two children, Kurt Karl (*1915) und Ilse Irene Jeanette (*1919).

They had to sell the bakery in 1935 and moved to Heidelberg.

Berta and Leopold escaped to New York in 1939, where Karl had arrived in 1937 and Ilse in 1938.

Bertha Reinach died in New York on September 19, 1974.