Marie (Mieze) Fürstenheim

Marie (called Mieze) Fürstenheim was born in Berlin on 13 October 1890 as the youngest of four children of the merchant Salomon Kaufmann (born 1853) and Wilhelmine Kaufmann, née Salomon (born 1859). Her siblings were Antonie (born 1882), Hans Abraham (born 1885) and Margarete (born 1886).

In 1913 Mieze Kaufmann married the doctor Kurt Fürstenheim in Berlin. The marriage ended in divorce in 1928 and the couple had no children. In the 1930s, Mieze Fürstenheim is listed in the Berlin address books as a piano teacher; she lived at Mommsenstraße 51.

Mieze Fürstenheim was persecuted as Jewish in Nazi Germany. On 14 November 1941, she and her sister Margarete Bergmann, née Kaufmann, were deported from Berlin to the Minsk Ghetto. Both were murdered there in the same year. Her sister Antonie Singer, née Kaufmann, had already died in Berlin in 1934; her son Gerhard Singer (born 1908) was able to emigrate to the United States and thus survived the Shoah. He died in Switzerland in 1989. Hans Kaufmann had married Alice Alma Charlotte Winkler in Berlin in 1919. As far as is known, the couple had no children. Mieze Fürstenheim's brother Hans Kaufmann was imprisoned in the Luckau prison in Brandenburg from 1939 and murdered there on 6 February 1942.

The marks of provenance and objects connected to Mieze Fürstenheim are listed here in the co-operative provenance database Looted Cultural Assets.

If you have information that may be helpful in returning these objects, please get in touch.