Amalia Freud
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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
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

.

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.

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