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Anna Mottek is my paternal Great Grandmother's cousin. She was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1875. She is named in my GGM's will.

My GGM's married name is Anna Oelsner maiden name HIRSCH]; she fled Nazi Germany to London where she died in 1943.

I have found her Alien Registration Form which confirms her details. Also a couple of Electoral Register entries for 1948 and 1949 in Crossfield Road, London where my GGM was living at the time. She is recorded in the 1939 Register.

All good so far! But I can see some entries for her on Ancestry but I don't have a worldwide subscription and I hope that someone can PLEASE help me.

1. There are birth records for her in Hesse, Germany.
2. She is listed as Anna Mottek-Oelsner on a passenger list from Hamburg.
3. After about 1949, she vanishes. No UK record of her death. I am wondering whether she left the UK after her cousin, my GGM, died and emigrated abroad??

Thank you in advance.
:-)

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in the UK, World War II Alien Internees, 1939-1945

Name: Anna Mottek
Gender: Female
Nationality: German
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1875
Birth Place: Frankfurt, Germany
123 king henrys rd nw7

widow
teacher

Hesse, Germany, Marriages, 1849-1930

Name: Anna Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Age: 30
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1875
Marriage Date: 4 Apr 1906
Marriage Place: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt am Main
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Spouse: Salome Fritz Mottek

Name: Anna Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1875
Birth Place: Frankfurt, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt a.M., Standesbuecher vor 1876
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner

Name: Anna Mottek-Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Ethnicity/Nationality: Deutschland (German)
Marital status: verheiratet (Married)
Departure Age: 59
Birth Date: abt 1875
Residence Place: Berlin, Deutschland
Departure Date: 4 Jul 1934
Departure Place: Hamburg, Deutschland (Germany)
Destination: Berlin
Arrival Place: Le Havre; Southampton; Cobh; New York
Occupation: Lehrerin
Ship Name: Manhattan
Shipping Line: United States Lines Hamburg
Ship Type: Dampfschiff
Accommodation: Sonstiges
Volume: 373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 428
Household Members:
Name

Anna Oelsner

in the Berlin, Germany, Deaths, 1874-1955

Name: Anna Oelsner
Maiden Name: Oelsner
Spouse: Salomon Mottek
Comments: C

Name: Salomon Mottek
Age: 51
Birth Date: abt 1869
Death Date: 12 Sep 1920
Civil Registration Office: Berlin XII a
Death Place: Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland (Germany)
Spouse: Anna Oelsner
Certificate Number: 1863
Notes: Zum Erstregister erklärtes Zweitregister

Anna
Last name Mottek
Gender Female
Age 73
Birth year 1876
Occupation Teacher -----------------
Departure year 1949
Departure day 6
Departure month 10
Departure port Liverpool
Destination port Valparaiso
Destination Valparaiso
Country Chile
Destination country Chile
Ship name Reina Del Pacifico
Ship official number 162339
Ship master's first name J
Ship master's last name White-House
Shipping line The Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Ship destination port The West Coast South America

Gro Death Abroad Indices (1966 To 1994)
Archive reference DABR
Volume C (CONSULAR)
War -
Record set British Armed Forces And Overseas Deaths And Burials
First name(s) Anna
Sex Female
Last name Mottek
Death year 1972
Birth year 1876
Type Consular/Overseas
Country Chile
Place Santiago
Page 80
Age AGED 96
Birth date ? ? 1876
Registration year -
Branch of service -
Decoration -
Records year range 1972
Line number 34
Archive
General Register Office

parents

Name: Ludwig Oelsner
Age: 78
Birth Date: abt 1832
Death Date: 24 Mrz 1910 (24 Mar 1910)
Death Place: Frankfurt, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt I
Father: Wolf Oelsner
Mother: Friederike Oelsner
Certificate Number: 325

Name: Emilie Oelsner
Maiden Name: Jaffe
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Age: 81
Birth Date: abt 1844
Death Date: 9 Jan 1925
Civil Registration Office: Berlin XIIa
Death Place: Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland (Germany)
Certificate Number: 53

Oooh, thank you all.

Need to digest this.

:-D :-D

anna's sister

Name: Wilhelmine Oelsner
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 28. Aug 1868 (28 Aug 1868)
Birth Place: Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preussen, Germany
Residence Place: Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany
Father:
Phil. Ludwig Oelsner
Mother:
Emilie Jaffe
FHL Film Number: 342035


sadly
Name: Wilhemina Oelsener
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1868
Death Date: 1942
Death Place: Czechoslovakia
Cause of Death: Holocaust-related
Relationship: Extended Family Members
Role: Relative of Interviewee
Household:
Name Relationship
Edgar Smith Father
Florence Goldsmith Mother
Ilse Goldsmith Sister
Lenore Goldsmith Ex-Wife
Hilda Pearl Goldsmith Wife
Erich Metz Uncle (Maternal) (Uncle)
Gerda Bernheimer Aunt
Peter Metz Cousin (Maternal) (Cousin)
Wilhemina Oelsener Extended Family Members
Margie* Plotke* Sister-in-law
Walter Goldsmith Self (Head)

Name: Wilhelmine Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Age: 31
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1868
Marriage Date: 4 Okt 1899 (4 Oct 1899)
Marriage Place: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt am Main
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Spouse: Josef Metz
Certificate Number: 1964

Name: Wilhelmine Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Age: 31
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1868
Marriage Date: 4 Okt 1899 (4 Oct 1899)
Marriage Place: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt am Main
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Spouse: Josef Metz
Certificate Number: 1964

son
H Edgar A Metz
Arrival Date: 20 Oct 1938
Birth Date: abt 1901
Last Permanent Address: Germany
Other Last Permanent Address: Berlin
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality: German;Hebrew (German)
Place of Origin: Germany
Friend's Name: Henry Lipmanson
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Port of Arrival: New York, New York, USA
Ship Name: Europa

Name: Harrÿ Edgar Alexander Metz
Gender: männlich (Male)
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1901
Birth Place: Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Berlin I, II
Father: Joseph Metz
Mother: Wilhelmine Metz

Name: Edgar Metz
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 49
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1901
Birth Place: Berlin
Death Date: 27 Oct 1950
Death Place: Lansdowne, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Joseph Metz
Mother: Wilhelmena Oelsner
Certificate Number: 84258

Added detail in case of interest -

Maddie posted the Alien Internees record. As well as the details Maddie posted, the image also says she was a "private teacher of German".

The heading on the document is "Female Enemy Alien - Exemption from Internment - Refugee".
The record is dated 19/12/39, and says "Decision of tribunal: exempt from internment."
It also says she did not want to be repatriated, and that she was a "refugee form Nazi opression".

sister
me: Julie Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Birth Date: 24 Okt 1871 (24 Oct 1871)
Birth Place: Frankfurt, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt a.M., Standesbuecher vor 1876
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Certificate Number: 2058

Name: Julie Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Age: 28
Birth Date: 24 Okt 1871 (24 Oct 1871)
Marriage Date: 6 Sep 1900
Marriage Place: Frankfurt, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt I
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Spouse: Alfred Gudeman
Certificate Number: 1773

in the Czechoslovakia, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records, 1938-1945 (USHMM)
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Name: Julia Gudemann
[Julia Celsner]
Age: 73
Birth Date: abt 1871
Date: 29 Feb 1944
Place: Terezín
Residence: Berlin

Name: Julie Gudemann
Birth Date: 24 Oct 1871
Death Date: 19 Sep 1942
Death Place: Terezin (Theresienstadt), Okres Litoměřice, Ústecký (Usti nad Labem), Czech Republic
Cemetery: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Burial or Cremation Place: Terezin (Theresienstadt), Okres Litoměřice, Ústecký (Usti nad Labem), Czech Republic

Name: Alfred Gudemann
Birth Date: 26 Aug 1862
Birth Place: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States of America
Death Date: 9 Sep 1942
Death Place: Terezin (Theresienstadt), Okres Litoměřice, Ústecký (Usti nad Labem), Czech Republic
Cemetery: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Burial or Cremation Place: Terezin (Theresienstadt), Okres Litoměřice, Ústecký (Usti nad Labem), Czech Republic

in the U.S., Jewish Transmigration Bureau Deposit Cards, 1939-1954 (JDC)
Beneficiary: Alfred Gudeman
Accompanied By: Julia Gudeman;Margaret Gudeman
Depositors: Theodore L Gudeman
Location: Berlin
Source: Roll 07 - Alphabetical Index to Case Beneficiaries, F-K


Name: Friederike Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Birth Date: 4 Mai 1866 (4 May 1866)
Birth Place: Frankfurt, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt a.M., Standesbuecher vor 1876
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Certificate Number: 696

Name: Friederike Oelsner
Gender: weiblich (Female)
Age: 37
Birth Date: 4 Mai 1866 (4 May 1866)
Marriage Date: 12 Jun 1903
Marriage Place: Frankfurt am Main, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt am Main
Father: Ludwig Oelsner
Mother: Emilie Oelsner
Spouse: Heinrich Kahn
Certificate Number: 854

1901
Name: Frieda Kahn
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1867
Relation to Head: Wife
Gender: Female
Spouse: Henry Kahn
Birth Place: Mains, Germany
Civil Parish: Paddington
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Ecclesiastical parish: St Saviour
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration District: Paddington
Sub-registration District: St Mary, Paddington
ED, institution, or vessel: 34
Neighbors:
Piece: 9
Folio: 20
Page Number: 31
Household Schedule Number: 213
Household Members:
Name Age
Henry Kahn 45
Frieda Kahn 34
Alice Kahn 11
Harriet Kahn 9
Rosie Kahn 7

Name: Frieda Kahn
Death Age: 68
Birth Date: abt 1866
Registration Date: Jul 1934
[Aug 1934]
[Sep 1934]
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Hampstead
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 533

KAHN, ROSIE OELSNER
GRO Reference: 1894 J Quarter in PADDINGTON Volume 01A Page 16

Thank you again.

I had a dread that some of this family had met their fates in one of the Concentration Camps. Sadly, that is the case. :-( :-(

its so said but i thought you might want to know

maddie

Sadly, theirs is not the first time in our family.
:-( :-(

Is it possible please to see whether this chap had a brother HERMANN OELSNER?

Name: Ludwig Oelsner
Age: 78
Birth Date: abt 1832
Death Date: 24 Mrz 1910 (24 Mar 1910)
Death Place: Frankfurt, Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany)
Civil Registration Office: Frankfurt I
Father: Wolf Oelsner
Mother: Friederike Oelsner
Certificate Number: 325

This would tie up a loose end.

Thank you.

I went back to the 1939 Register for Anna Mottek to explore where she was living at the time and there is also an ELSA MOTTEK born 1909 at the same address!

I am guessing that Elsa is Anna's daughter?

But I cannot find any trace of her before or after 1939. Any eagle eyes out there, please?

Thank you.

Posting 1939 for our reference:

Elsa Mottek
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name: Elsa Mottek [Elsa Schuliefter]
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 2 Apr 1909
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 123 King Henry's Road
Residence Place: Hampstead, London, England
Occupation: Secretary, Translator, and Interpreter For 4 Languages
Line Number: 25
Schedule Number: 9
Sub Schedule Number: 2
Enumeration District: AKBR
Borough: Hampstead
Registration district: 8/1
Household Members Age
Anna Mottek 64 - 31 July 1875
Elsa Mottek 30


The surname transcribed as Schuliefter is written as Schufftert on the image, and then corrected in red to Schueftan.
There's another note only partially visible -- a date 30.1.194(3 ?) (5 ?)

Can't see a marriage in the UK.

The ages would suggest that Elsa is Anna's daughter - but not necessarily.

Elsa Wilhelmine Mottek
in the UK, World War II Alien Internees, 1939-1945
Name: Elsa Wilhelmine Mottek
Gender: Female
Nationality: German
Birth Date: 2 Apr 1909
Birth Place: Berlin, Germany

Address: 123 King Henry's Road, W3

Secretary, employed at Bloomsbury House.

Exempted from internment, 19/12/1939

Anna and Elsa at 50 Harben Road:

Elsa Mottck
in the London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
Name: Elsa Mottck
Electoral Date: 1939
Street Address: 50 1'laistowe-J [ Harben Road on image ]
Ward or Division/Constituency: Hampstead
County or Borough: Camden, England

Not sure about this one -

Elise Mottek
in the London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965
Name: Elise Mottek
Electoral Date: 1952
Street Address: 83 Flat, Greencroft Gardens
Ward or Division/Constituency: Hampstead
County or Borough: Camden, England

Elsa Wichelmine
Last name Mottek
Birth year 1909
Birth place Berlin
Residence town 123 King Henry's Road N W 3
Nationality German
Soldier Number -
Series Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index, 1939-1947
Document details Internees at Liberty in the UK, Mot-My
Year range 1939-1942
Conflict Second World War
Archive
The National Archives
Archive reference HO 396/63

same address as anna

in the Jewish Holocaust Survivor names printed in "Sharit Ha-Platah", 1946

Name: Elsa W. Schuftan
Birth Year: 1909
Prior Residence: England
Page: 295
Line: 141

Thank you. Yes, I am considering that Elsa is Anna's daughter.

Please could kind Maddie go back and see if Ludwig Oelsner shares the same parents as Hermann Oelsner? HO is my Great Grandfather; here are his burial records:-

“The burial book of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt notes March 11 1923 the burial of Just[izrat] Dr. Herm. Oelsner. He lived Schumannstr. 62 and was buried on the cemetery Rat-Beil-Strasse, grave no. 80-512 B.”

:-)

Elsa W
Last name Schueftan
Gender Female
Age 35
Birth year 1910
Occupation Secretary
Departure year 1945
Departure day 19
Departure month 2
Departure port Cardiff
Destination port Buenos Aires
Destination Buenos Aires
Country Argentina
Destination country Argentina
Ship name Groix
Ship master's first name L D
Ship master's last name Ducheane
Shipping line Blue Star
Ship destination port Buenos Aires
Ship destination country Argentina
Ship registered tonnage 6136
Number of passengers 118
Record set Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
Category Travel & migration

2 crossfield road nw3
secretary