Edwin Israel Bader (1891 - 1973)

Born 23 Mar 1891 in Pohrlitz, Moravia

Husband of Lillian Margarete Sara (Stern) Bader — married about 1919 in Vienna, Austria

Descendants

Died 30 May 1973 at age 82 in Queens, New York City, New York, United States

Biography

Edwin Bader has Jewish Roots.

Edwin is the grandfather of Ray Kurzweil.

Edwin Bader was born in 1891 in Pohrlitz, Nikolsburg, Mähren [Pohorelice, Tschechische Republik]. He graduated from the Medical School at the University of Vienna on 29 Jan 1916 with a Doctorate in Medicine. He was a physician until the Nazi regime revoked his degree and forced he and his family to flee the country, first to London and then to the United States in 1940.

He became a naturalized citizen in 1945.

His wife Lily died in 1959. He eventually remarried to a Gerda Simon, according to his obituary. No definitive information could be found to narrow down the several results for that name in New York - some are natively born in the United States, at least one appears to have also been an escapee of the Nazis.

In 1971 he received an award for 25 years of service from the Flushing Hospital and Medical Center. He appears to have died of a heart attack in 1973, at the Parsons Hospital, in Queens. No burial information was found.

Sources

• Germany, Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by Nazi Regime, 1935-1944. (translated) "First Name: Edwin, Middle Name: Israel, Last Name: Bader, Born: 23.3.1891 in Pohrlitz, Nicholsburg, Profession: medical doctor, Last Known Residence: Vienna I, Wipplingerstr. 31. The German nationality was declared lost by an announcement dated 14.7.1941, published in Volume 165 of the Deutschen Reichsanzeigers and Preussischen Staatsanzeigers on 18.7.1941."
• Border Crossing into United States at St. Albans, Vermont, pg 610. "Passengers from the S.S. Antonia departing from Liverpool England, August 1940: Edwin Bader, Male, married, 47, physician, can read and write German & English, stateless, Race: Hebrew, born in Czechoslovakia, Pohrlitz/Pohořelice; Lilli Bader, Female, married, 46, housewife, can read and write German & English, stateless, Race: Hebrew, born in Vienna, Germany (Austria); Hannah Bader, Female, single, 19, student, can read and write German & English, stateless, Race: Hebrew, born in Vienna, Germany (Austria); Doris Bader, Female, single, 16, student, can read and write German & English, stateless, Race: Hebrew, born in Vienna, Germany (Austria)."
• United States Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995. "Name: Edwin Winston Bader, Age: 54, Date of admission: 4 Dec 1945 by the U.S. District Court of Brooklyn, New York, #6610583"
• Claims Retribution Tribunal, 8 April 2004 (PDF) contains statements declaring Edwin Bader died in 1975 in New York. It also contains additional possible relatives.
• https://www.nytimes.com/1973/05/31/archives/dr-edwin-bader.html says that Dr. Edwin Bader died in 1973 of a heart attack. The wife mentioned there is his second wife, and the children's names match.

Research Notes

• Gerda Simon (1910-1991) is one possibility for the second wife, who matches one of the NY-born options. Have asked the PM for corroboration, since it is a GEDCOM import for now.
• https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/categories/bmd_death/?name=gerda_simon+bader&event=1973_new+york-usa_35&gender=f&spouse=Edwin+Israel_Bader shows a number of other options. Gerda Simon Bader (born Bundheim) has a particularly synchonous timeline as she was also widowed in the 1950s, but no confirmation.