Amalia Nathansohn Freud (18 Aug 1835-12 Sep 1930) was the second (or possibly third) wife of Jacob Freud and mother of Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

. She was born Amalia Nathansohn in Brody

Brody

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, Galicia, now in Ukraine

Ukraine

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, and grew up in Odessa

Odessa

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.

Amalia was 21 years of age when she gave birth to Sigmund Freud (named Sigismund).

Amalia went on to give birth to seven more children - Julius, Anna, Rosa, Marie, Adolfine, Paula and Alexander, born in the following order:

• Julius in April 1857- December 1857
• Anna on December 31, 1858-March 11,1955
• Regine Debora (Rosa) March 21, 1860 - deported to Treblinka September 23,1942
• Maria (Mitzi) March 22, 1861- deported to Treblinka September 23,1942
• Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) July 23, 1862- Theresienstadt February 5, 1943
• Pauline Regine (Pauli) May 3, 1864-deported to Treblinka September 23,1942
• Alexander Gotthold Efraim April 19, 1866-April 23,1943 .

Freud

Amalia Freud died at the age of 95 from tuberculosis.

External links

• Freud and his mother Amalia, in her apartment in Vienna, May 5, 1926