Moses Family

Dr. Salli Moses (b. 1861) and his wife Luise (née Rothschild b. 1871) lived with their daughter, art historian Dr. Elisabeth Moses (b. 1894), in Elisenstrasse 3. They were a highly cultured family rooted in Jewish religious traditions. Every year, for example, they celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) with a small hut built on the balcony of their house.

As a consequence of Nazi racial ideology, Elisabeth Moses was dismissed from her job by the City of Cologne at the end of May 1933. In 1934 she emigrated to the USA, followed in 1937 by her brother and parents. Salli and Luise Moses died there only a few years later, while their two children pursued careers in the USA: Elisabeth as an art historian at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, Paul as an internationally known expert in speech problems and specialist in the illnesses of singers‘ throats (Maurice Chevalier and Barbara Streisand were among his patients, to name a few) and professor at Stanford University in California.