Named in Hebrew as Miriam Mathilde, wife of Moshe HaLevi Reichenbach, and in the cemetery register as Mathilde Reichenbach née Loewenthal.
Her Hebrew gravestone gives both names by which the surviving record knows her: Miriam Mathilde. The cemetery register adds her maiden name, Loewenthal, and places her burial in plot VIII 5 of the Jewish cemetery at Klein Quenstedter Straße in Halberstadt.
The date line is read as 4 Tevet 5689. That date corresponds to 17 December 1928, exactly matching the cemetery register and resolving what had appeared to be a discrepancy when the first letter was provisionally read as resh.
The stone calls her the wife of R. Moshe HaLevi Reichenbach. The register places Moritz Reichenbach in the adjoining plot VIII 6 and records him as a merchant connected with Quedlinburg. It also records a child Paul, son of the Quedlinburg merchant Moritz Reichenbach, who died in 1904. Together, the Hebrew name, the register and the adjoining graves identify Moshe and Moritz as the same husband.
Known household
Recorded connections
- Moritz Reichenbach · Moshe HaLevi · husband · plot VIII 6
- Paul Reichenbach · child · died 18 October 1904 · plot D 2
Sources
Records and testimony
- Hebrew gravestone in the Jewish cemetery at Klein Quenstedter Straße, Halberstadt
- Halberstadt Jewish cemetery register supplied by Dr. Jutta Dick, Moses Mendelssohn Akademie
- Hebrew transcription and English translation supplied by Rabbi Daniel Dolph Reichenbach, 9 August 2026
Evidence note
Her marriage to Moshe HaLevi—Moritz Reichenbach—and their parentage of the child Paul are established. Their exact relationship to the principal Jacob–Adolf–Paul family line remains unresolved.