Lightly colorized via Photohop Beta on 7/29/23 by PAD

The Fulda City Archives (stadtarchiv@fulda.de) contain the digitally recorded and transcribed Jewish registration cards from around 1850 to 1950, including those for Karoline Hess, born. March 12, 1884, Schluchter district. It shows that she moved from Hintersteinau, where she was born, to Fulda on April 22th, 1903. For Fulda there are two addresses: Mittelstrasse 18 and Löhestr. 23. On January 1st, 1906 at the age of 22 she signed off for New York, where she married 4 years later. Hintersteinau is a village near Fulda, now belonging to Schlüchtern, about 30 minutes in the south from Fulda.