Notes:
1 These words are underlined in red crayon, indicating a passage considered by Marie Gärtner for inclusion in the Gedenkbuch. The ‘hard blow’ is the death of the Simons’ eldest daughter, Emilie Simon at Christmas the previous year. In the end, the Gedenkbuch makes no mention of this tragic event.
2 This is probably on of the two elder Lewald brothers, Beer Markus or David Markus Lewald, father of the writer Fanny Lewald. They lived in Königsberg. The two younger Lewald brothers, Karl Samuel Lewald and Friedrich Jakob Lewald, had moved to Breslau following the marriage of their sister Minna Simon See also Fanny Lewald, Meine Lebensgeschichte, Erster Teil (Berlin: Janke, 1861), p 19.