The signature in the header
above
is that of Samson Nathan Eisendrath
(from the year 1840)
Visits to Europe since the 1920s
For more than a century members of the US branch of the family maintained connections to Dorsten and Germany through visits, donations and in 1933 also political protest against the anti-Semitism of the Nazis (click here to discover more)
In 1910 and 1922 the family members from the USA were involved in the security and restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Dorsten which dates back to 1815: their donations paid for the installation of a fence and a gate.
(Pic.:Dorsten Cemetery gate)
One example of the contacts is Louis Eisendrath from Chicago (b. 1853 in Dorsten) and great-grandson of Samson Nathan and Julia Eisendrath. In summer 1921 he visited Dorsten and even met a few people who recognised him almost fifty years after he emigrated.
(Pic.: Louis Eisendrath and his wife Hannah, 1898)
In 1925 Joseph L. Eisendrath (1880-1961) and his wife Laura, daughter Blanche and son Joseph went on a trip to Europe and visited, among other places, the Hofbräuhaus in Munich.
(Pic: Joseph L. Eisendrath’s family in Munich, 1925)
And from 2001-2003 donations from the Eisendrath family allowed work to be carried out on vulnerable gravestones which were in urgent need of restoration (click here to discover more)
In 2010 nearly 60 members of the worldwide Eisendrath community here commemorated their ancestors and the family members murdered in the Holocaust.
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(Pic.: Louis Eisendrath and his wife Hannah, 1898)
