Ascher Family home movies: vacationing in Bad Saarow

Ascher Family home movies: vacationing in Bad Saarow 

Werner David was born in Berlin on September 4, 1903. He died in Berlin on January 17, 1989. He was the son of Albert David and Berta (Betty) David (geb. Weinberg) of Berlin. His father was a prominent banker and member of the Berlin Stock Exchange. Until his immigration to Palestine in 1938, Werner David was also a banker at his father's bank and was also a member of the Berlin Stock Exchange. He won many prizes in motorcycle, automobile, and boat races. He never married and had no children. His address in Berlin was Wilmersdorf, Prinzregentenstr. 6. Werner David was an old and close family friend of the Ascher family. He left Berlin with the Ascher family and lived with them for most of his life after immigrating to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. He and Hans Ascher were business partners, first in Palestine/Israel where they owned an operated a taxi company, and later in Los Angeles, where they owned and operated a gas station. Hans Ascher (1902-1973) was employed by his father-in-law Paul Lande (1869-1936) and his uncle Carl Jaroczynksi (1874-1955) in the knitting factory"Felix Lande - Strumpf Strickerei, Tricotagen und Strickgarn Fabrik" Carl encouraged Hans to pursue his partner's daughter Ilse (1908-1982) after he was brought into the business. Ilse married Hans in Berlin on October 27, 1928. Before immigrating to Palestine in 1938, the Aschers often went on holiday to Saarow-Pieskow, near Berlin, with their children Wolfgang (1930-1992) and Gabriele (b. 1936). In Palestine, they settled in Ramat-Gan with Werner David (1903-1989), a close family friend who filmed most of these home movies, where they owned and operated a taxi company for 20 years. In 1959, Hans and Ilse moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. Wolfgang immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, and after graduating from high school in New York, served in the U.S. Air Force. He changed his name to Robert William Asher after becoming a U.S. citizen and had two children with his wife Marie Freidin. Gabriele served in the Israeli Army before immigrating to the U.S. in 1957. She married Joseph Michels in 1959, had two children, and lives in State College, PA. 

Ascher Family home movies: vacationing in Bad Saarow