Amalia Freud

Amalia Malka Nathansohn Freud - (18 August 1835 – 12 September 1930) was the third wife of Jacob Freud and mother of Sigmund Freud. She was born Amalia Nathansohn in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to Jacob Nathanson and Sarah Wilenz and later grew up in Odessa, Kherson Governorate where her mother came from (both cities located in modern-day Ukraine).

Amalia Freud died in Vienna, First Austrian Republic at the age of 95 because of tuberculosis.

On 6 May 1856, when Freud was 20 years old, she gave birth to her first child, Sigmund Schlomo,[3] a famous neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who would die on 23 September 1939.

Her other children are not as renowned as their elder brother. They are enumerated below in the consecutive order of birth.

Julius (born in April 1857, died in December that year)

Anna (born on 31 December 1858,[4] died on 11 March 1955)

Regine Debora (Rosa) (born on 21 March 1860, deported to Treblinka on 23 September 1942)

Marie (Mitzi) (born on 22 March 1861, deported to Treblinka 23 September 1942)

Esther Adolfine (Dolfi) (born on 23 July 1862 – died on 5 February 1943 in Theresienstadt)

Pauline Regine (Pauli) (born on 3 May 1864, deported to Treblinka on 23 September 1942)

Alexander Gotthold Efraim (born on 19 April 1866, died on 23 April 1943)[5]