Simon Goldschmidt was born on October 5, 1876, as second of five children of the couple Löb junior Goldschmidt and his second wife Clara, née Ring.
In his first marriage with Jettchen, née Blumenstiel his father had seven children. Just like his father and grandfather Simon Goldschmidt became the head of the synagogue in Heubach titled Mayor of the Jews. Together with Isaak Adler he was member of the warriors association. He is identified on the picture which shows the consecration of the flag in 1899. Together with Leopold Adler, Hermann Adler and Simon Katz, he represented the Jewish community for example in the cause of the closing down the Jewish school in 1924. According to oral reports he was part of the community representation. He was a cattle trader and ran this business temporarily with his later son-in-law Moritz Goldschmidt. On a picture published in the Chronicle of Heubach his daughter Malli is shown at the spinning parlor at teacher Euler's home.
In 1937 Simon Goldschmidt had to transact the selling of the synagogue to the Heubach community. It was assured that the building should be used in a dignified way. According to the report of the son-in-law the equipment was taken to the synagogue in Schlüchtern. There it was destroyed in the Pogrom Night.
In November 1937 Simon Goldschmidt moved to Fulda with his wife and his daughter Malli. While both children succeeded to emigrate to Israel Simon Goldschmidt (sixty-five) and his wife Selma were deported to Zamość with the last transport from Fulda. The date of his death is unknown.
Source Material:
Standesamt Kalbach (Register Office Kalbach),
Stadtarchiv Fulda (Municipal Archives Fulda),
Gedenkbuch. Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden
unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft
(Memorial Book. Victims of the Persecution of the
Jewish People during the Nazi Terror Regime in Germany 1933 1945)
in Deutschland 1933-1945
Chronicle Heubach,
Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (Hessian Record-Office Marburg)