Salomon Benjamin LATZ m. XX ?? (is his wife's identity known?) ** Brainchen LATZ m. R. Eleasar ZUELZ **** Rosalie ZUELZ m. Hirsch FREUND ****** Wilhelm Salomon FREUND m. Clara IMMERWAHR ******** Walther FREUND m2. Ellinor BACH ********** Gabrielle FREUND m. Hans FALK ************ Stephen FALK m. Elizabeth OTWELL

The name of Salomon Benjamin LATZ' daughter, who was married to R. Eleasar ZUELZ (d.1827), seems to be "Brainchen". She is listed in ?The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835?: Page Town Family Name and Given Name Profession Date of Naturalization 75 Posen Zilz, Wtw, Brainchen Lazarus Kaufmannswittwe 6-7-1834

Hirsch FREUND (ben Jakob) (ca.1777-1863) lived in the town of Schmiegel (Posen) until the 1830s when he moved to Breslau. My family was in Breslau from that time until the 1930s. Hirsch's wife was Rosalie ZUELZ (ca.1800-1849). Their son Wilhelm Salomon FREUND (1831-1915) was a very successful lawyer in Breslau. He was president of the Breslau city council for several decades. He was made an honorary citizen of Breslau in 1901, only the second Jew to receive that honor. His wife Clara IMMERWAHR (1845-1914) was from a wealthy family in Breslau, and before that Brieg and Kreuzburg in Upper Silesia. (Clara's niece was the Clara HABER, geb. IMMERWAHR who was the first wife of Prof. Dr. Fritz HABER, Nobel Laureate (1918, Chemistry).) Wilhelm Salomon FREUND and Clara's oldest son was Dr. Walther FREUND, a pediatrician in Breslau. In his second marriage, in 1922, he married Ellinor BACH (from a different BACH family than Doron's). My mother Gabrielle was born in 1923.

My father's family was also from Breslau. He was born there in 1919. My mother was sent to school in Switzerland in 1936 and was there until 1948 when she emigrated to the States (Chicago). My father went to England in 1936 or 1937. In 1940, he was interned as an "enemy alien". After being detained on the Isle of Man, he was deported to a camp in Canada. After getting out and getting his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at McGill University in Montreal, he went to Chicago. There, he met my mother in 1950; they were married about 10 weeks later. My father spent his career in cancer research.

I am a patent and trademark attorney in Philadelphia, working for the specialty chemical company Rohm and Haas Company. My wife Liz is an artist and graphic designer. Genealogy is my true passion, and has been a significant preoccupation (obsession?) for the last 10 years. (I am 43.) My oldest brother Ray is a biostatistician and programmer. My middle brother Don is a psychiatrist.

I mentioned earlier that I have portraits of R. Eleasar ZUELZ and [probably] Brainchen LATZ. I would be glad to send you photos of those portraits. I would very much like to get a high resolution digital photo of the painting of Salomon Benjamin LATZ -- both to include on my in-development website (www.familymemory.org), and to print out in as large a format as possible for framing!

I have a slight concern that R. Eleasar ZUELZ could have been married more than once. If that is the case, it would be possible that Brainchen is his second wife, and that it was an earlier wife who was the LATZ. However, for the time being, since there is no evidence of other marriages, I will assume that my LATZ connection is correct -- and that we are 5th cousins by that route.

All the best, your putative cousin, Stephen

Stephen T. Falk 140 West Wayne Avenue Wayne, PA 19087-4019 USA sfalk81162@aol.com