Telegrams from Krakow: 1908
In 1908, the wedding of Jacques MAHLER and Anja MARGULIES took place in
Berlin. Since the bride was from Krakow, and the groom - who was born in Krakow
- was from Antwerp, they married halfway, in Berlin. They received hundreds of
telegrams from family and friends, most of them from Krakow and Brunn (Neu
Bruen). These sentimental telegrams were bound in two leather books. Years
later, they were saved by a neighbor when the Germans threw them away after
deporting the family to Auschwitz. Their son managed to retrieve these two books
after the war.
These telegrams are of genealogic importance in that they provide a date - 1908 - at which the sender was
known to be alive.
The telegrams contain many names of Krakauers, among them several doctors and
lawyers. Many of the Antwerp names are also originally from Krakow. There are
also a few original KKL telegrams - one of them from Emil Margulies the well
known Zionist.
(Data kindly provided by Charles Mahler, Antwerp, grandson of the marriage couple.)
