This version: Oct. 22, 2024 [Thanks to Gil Zeilberger].
Hedwig (nee Bach) Zeilberger was born on July 7, 1890. She grew up in the village of Unsleben, Bavaria, Germany. At 1914, she married Heinrich Zeilberger (1886-1915), a cantorial student. (their photo ca. 1914).
He was drafted to the German army shortly after, and was killed before his son Yehuda Heinz Zeilberger (1915-1994) was born.
After Hedwig became a widow, she helped out in the family business of horse-trading, as a bookkeeper, as well as taking care of her six younger siblings.
On Nov. 22, 1937 she arrived, on board of the ship Galil, to Israel [see List of new immigrants (in the ship Galil), sent to me by Gil Zeilberger] and lived in an apartment in Tel-Aviv that was part of an apartment building owned by her brother Victor. She served as resident manager until roughly 1965. Then she moved to an old-age home, where she died on June 20, 1975 (11 Tamuz 5735). She is buried in the Darom Cemetery (Holon/Bat Yam) in Gush 4, Ezor 1, Shura 28, makom 25. gravestone [thanks to Gil Zeilberger, May 31, 2023].
She was very kind and generous and a great baker. She enjoyed reading. Like many German Jews (`Yekes') who immigrated to Israel in their middle age, she never completely mastered Hebrew, managing very well with her German and fluent English, in a then predominantly German speaking neighborhood of Tel-Aviv around Ben-Yehuda Street.
Her parents are: Gabriel (1862-1921) and Mina Bach (c.1870-c. 1947) .
Her husband was Heinrich Zeilberger (1890-1915)
Her only son was: Yehuda Heinz Zeilberger (1915-1993).
