blei

  • Chaim Blei: Son of Seli from Debica

    Chaim-Efraim Blei was born in 1844 in Sadagora, just north of Czernowitz. Chaim’s father Shimon Dov ha-Levi (Levi tribe) Blei likely emigrated to the area from a town called Dembica, as the marriage record reads that the groom is “son… Continue reading

    Chaim Blei: Son of Seli from Debica
  • Samuel Blei—Czernowitz to Mittelbau-Dora

    Samuel Blei was born on May 9, 1901 to parents Salomon Selig Blei and Gusta Sandberg. His sister Ettel was my grandmother. Marriage to Freida Schneider Samuel married Freida Schneider in 1926. During the war, they lived at Fiakerhalter #2.… Continue reading

    Samuel Blei—Czernowitz to Mittelbau-Dora
  • Regina Blei Honigsberg

    Regina was born in 1900 or 1899 in Sadagora, and in 1921 married Filip Hoenigsberg. הויניגסברג She had three children with Filip: According to Yad Vashem, Carl was the son of Filip and Regina, born a year before they married. Regina… Continue reading

    Regina Blei Honigsberg
  • Ettel Blei and her Family

    My paternal grandmother, Ettel Blei, was born on 15 December 1902 in Sadagora, Bukowina, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her parents were named Gusta Sandberg and Salomon Selig Blei, with siblings (from oldest to youngest) Mina, Regina, Ettel, Samuel,… Continue reading

    Ettel Blei and her Family