Talk:Antoinette Flegenheim/@comment-92.206.113.119-20120428162941

I have been researching her life for the last ten years. Berta Antoinia Wendt was born in Himmelpfort (close to Berlin). Birthdate is May 11, 1863. She married Alfred Flegenheimer but changed her name in Flegenheim after her husband died. They had lived in Manhattan. By marriage she was very wealthy and travelled back and forth from New York to Europe/Berlin. In Charlottenburg - in 1912 an independent city near Berlin and now part of it - she had a large apartment in Windscheidstraße 41.

In Manhattan she lived at the Dorilton which still exists.

A report about it is to be found at the magazin of the German Titanic-Society "Der Navigator".

She married shortly after the catastrophy an Englishman Paul Elliot Whitehurst and the Berlin directory shows his name at the Windscheid-address.

During WW I she lived some time in The Hague - probably already divorced from her second husband. After this war she went to Munich where she lived at Nibelungenstraße. By marriage she still was a British subject and she left Munich without giving an address when the United Kingdom declared war on the German Empire in 1939. Maybe the 76 year old woman went to England where her brother-in-law Fellner lived. He committed suicide also in 1939!