# Meta Baum (b.1893) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔴 **Dahne — Sarah's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **wife's 2x great-grandmother** **Born** 05/30/1893 — [[Kassel]] **Died** 08/13/1974 — [[Brooklyn]] **Parents** [[Albert Baum (b.1867)]] · [[Henrietta Rothschild (b.1868)]] **Spouse** [[Jonas Phillip Bernstein (b.1893)]] **Children** [[Sidney Raphael Bernstein (b.1921)]] · [[Freida Juliet Bernstein (b.1924)]] · [[Rita Bernstein (b.1925)]] · [[Jerome Bernstein (b.1929)]] **Siblings** [[Jesse Baum (b.1904)]] *GEDCOM I142725153696 · Dahne tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Meta Baum was born 30 May 1893 in [[Kassel]], Germany, the daughter of [[Albert Baum (b.1867)]] and [[Henrietta Rothschild (b.1868)]].[^auto] She was also recorded under the name Mindel. Her brother [[Jesse Baum (b.1904)]] was born about a decade later. She married [[Jonas Phillip Bernstein (b.1893)]], her exact contemporary (both born in 1893). The couple had four children: [[Sidney Raphael Bernstein (b.1921)]], [[Freida Juliet Bernstein (b.1924)]], [[Rita Bernstein (b.1925)]], and [[Jerome Bernstein (b.1929)]], born across the 1920s.[^auto] Census records trace her working life: as a single young woman she was listed as an "Operator" — likely a garment-trade machine operator[?] — in the household of her parents, and after marriage she was recorded successively as engaged in "Housework" and as a "Housewife," consistently as wife and head-of-household's spouse.[^census] Meta died 13 August 1974 in [[Brooklyn]], at age 81.[^auto] [^auto]: Vitals, parents, spouse, children, and sibling per the synced GEDCOM record (Dahne tree, I142725153696). [^census]: Occupation and household-relation details ("Operator," "Housework," "Housewife," "Wife") from MyHeritage census abstracts summarized in the MyHeritage biography block; individual census years/places not specified in the source. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions