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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
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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
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Centrala Evreilor (CE)
Prior to 1942, there were multiple Jewish organizations in Romania. On December 9, 1940, one of these, the Union of Jewish Communities of Romania submitted a twenty-six-page appeal to Marshal Antonescu, summarizing the abuses thirty-nine Jewish communities had experienced during… Continue reading
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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
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Samuel Schmatnik to Samuel AlRoy
Early Life Samuel was born in Sadagora (then in Austria) on 30 May, 1897. His parents’ names were Joel ben Schmuel Schmatnik and Rosa (Gittel) Engler. His siblings were Rifka, Sabine, Sigmund, Jenny, Judah, and Mordechai Aron. Samuel married Etel/Esther Blei/Bley… Continue reading
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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
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