Category: Frieda Jacobsohn

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Frieda’s birthday 7.7

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Husband and son (and teddy-bear) at table.
Letter from Fritz to Frieda on her first birthday in Tel Aviv, 1934
Frieda’s husband and son arranging Sukka at their first home in Tel-Aviv, mid 1930s
Shmuel (Frieda’s son, my father) arranges “farm” with small wooden figurines brought from Berlin. 25 Beit Yoseph st., Tel Aviv, mid 1930s
Husband and son (and teddy-bear) at table.
At the table, 25 Beit Yoseph st., Tel Aviv. Photo: Frieda Mayer jacobsohn. This photo was recently published in the book/catalog “Lift”
Olim cards (entering immigration cards), Haifa, 8.11.1933. “Mayer” was first written by the clerk as in Yiddish spelling, then corrected to “Meir” as it remained since in Hebrew documents. It took me years to embrace the German spelling “Mayer” again.
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Frieda’s birthday 7.7.1892

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Frieda (age 2?) and her elder brother Fritz, c. 1894
Frieda (age 3?) with her elder brother Fritz, c. 1895?
Frieda and her brothers. Frieda was born just a few days before Walter Benjamin (15.7.1892). While reading Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood around 1900”, I read also on my grandmother’s childhood There are childhood photos of Benjamin and his siblings taken at the very same “Globus Atelier” in Berlin. http://www.historia-viva.net/en/grafiken/03_5_wb_geschwister.jpg
Frieda at 10, her photo on postcard, 1902. Postcard from her brother Fritz.
Frieda Jacobsohn (center) with fellow art students, 1910s
Frieda and her brothers and their mother, Ernestine
Frieda and her brothers with parents, before 1915

Self portrait, Frieda Jacobsohn, before 1915
Ramot Hashavim, Israel
Clinic signs, Tel-Aviv

Frieda and Fritz Mayer, c. 1920
Ktuba – Jewish marriage document, 14.10.1920
Verein Jüdischer Studenten, Berlin im K.J.V. Invitation for foundation celebration, 27.6.1920
October 1933, before leaving Berlin to Palestine
Letter from Fritz to Frieda on her first birthday in Tel Aviv, 1934
Letter from Fritz to Frieda for their 17th anniversary.
Shmuel’s 13th birthday, 1937, Tel-Aviv.

1957. Grandmother Frieda, my mother and I.
Silent creative, nourishing communication.