The Timeline

This page is derived, not chosen. Every event on it is assembled from a structured record already published here, and nothing has been written for the timeline. If a record carries a year, it is on the page. Deciding which of these are the fixed points of this family — and writing the sentences that say why — is work this archive has not done yet, and a page it can cut down is easier than a page it must start.

On the Gedenkbuch entries. 7 of these events are deportations and deaths recorded in the German federal memorial book, rendered from the record's own words with nothing added. One of the four people named there, Georg Leibholz, is documented in the Gedenkbuch and is held by this archive not to be a brother of the others; he is shown with that said rather than left off or quietly counted in.

This archive has given two reasons for that, and only one of them has weakened. The reason usually written down is birthplace: Georg was born at Hammerstein in West Prussia and Jacob, Samuel and Oskar at Schubin in Posen. That reason has largely gone. On 20 September 2026 this archive established that Sally Leibholz, the father of the three, was himself born at Hammerstein, and that the memorial book's fifty cluster on Kreis Schlochau rather than on Posen — so Hammerstein is the home and Schubin is the move, and a Hammerstein birth no longer puts a man outside this family.

The second reason stands, and it is the stronger one. Georg was born on 7 June 1884 and Jacob on 8 August 1884, two months apart. Two men born two months apart are not brothers, and the point survives the one-year discrepancy in Georg's record — a second source gives 7 June 1885, which leaves ten months and the same conclusion. Georg is kept out of this family on arithmetic, not on absence of proof. What the Hammerstein finding changed is that he is almost certainly kin of some other degree: a second, West Prussian Leibholz line, which is where Hans Israel Leibholz of Preußisch Friedland and Irmgard Shtern, who calls herself Georg's niece, belong.