Dr. Fritz Mayer – wanderer2web

Dinning at home in Tel Aviv, 1933/2020

Posted on May 19, 2020May 20, 2020 by wanderer2web

Round table and one of two Thonet chairs, in my new residency in Tel-Aviv, March 2020.
Yes, just during the beginning of corona-days.

The furnitures came from Berlin in 1933 in a ‘lift’ with my grandparents’ belongings.

The photo in iPad: My father, 9 years old (and his Teddy…) with my grandfather, dinning in Tel-Aviv, 1933. Photo by my grandmother, the photographer Frieda Mayer.

Frieda’s husband and son, Tel Aviv, mid 1930s

Frieda’s birthday 7.7

Posted on July 7, 2019June 14, 2022 by wanderer2web

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

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.

Berlin stories, Frieda Jacobsohn, Tel Aviv stories

Frieda’s birthday 7.7.1892

Posted on July 6, 2018February 25, 2019 by wanderer2web

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

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartell_J%C3%BCdischer_Verbindungen#cite_ref-11

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.

Berlin stories, Frieda's View

Prenzlauer Str. 46, Berlin

Posted on May 21, 2018February 17, 2019 by wanderer2web

Dr. Fritz Mayer, Dermatology clinic. Was also residence of the family until c. 1930.

Berlin1932map_card3 Prenzlauer Str. 46 (today Karl-Libknecht-Str.) before corner Wadzeck Str. , in Berlin map, 1932. After the law against Jewish physicians was published (31.3.1933), and “Jude” was written on Dr. Fritz Mayer’s clinic, the family (at that time living in Baumeisterstr. 1, Fridenau) left Germany, to Erez Israel (Mandatory Palestine at that time). Here, at the same corner in 2010: building site of RAMADA Hotel, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 32, (Now: H2 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz).

PrenzlauerStrasse46_RamadaBerlin2010 Watch video on finding my grandfather’s medical clinic until 1933 (2010. HEB. ENG sub-titles will be added in future): HighRes video or LowRes video

Rivka-2528-09 Rivka-2533-06 Ramada Hotel (H2 Hotel), Berlin. 2015.