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Name: Benzion
Kresch
Birth: unknown
Death: before
1919
Marriage: Before
1890
Location(s): Czudek,
Galicia (Poland); Czendei, Galicia (Poland) (location not found)
Relation to me: Benzion
Kresch is my paternal grandfather's maternal grandfather, which makes him 5th
generation before me.
Alias(es): none
known
Parents: unknown
Spouse(s): FeigeGolda Reich
Children: Naftali
Mendel, Dora, Minna, ?, ?
Other Family: No
other direct family known.
Details:
I know very little about Benzion. He lived and died in
Galicia, and made a living as a teacher of some sort, but I do not know what
sort of teacher. He and his wife likely lived in Czudek most of their married
lives, as I know at least two of their children were born there. I have heard
from a family relation that they may have had as many as five children, but I
am still uncertain of the names of their other two children at this time. As
for his death, I found a report on Jewish Gen about an attack on the town
shortly before his daughter left for Frankfurt, so it is possible he may have
died in that attack, or because of it.
Other than that, I know nothing about the man, other than my
great grandmother named her eldest child for him.
Proof:
1) Like
the other branch of my Jewish heritage, I got all my information originally
from my grandfather, who never met his grandparents except for his grandmother
Feige. Up until recently, that information was all I had on Benzion.
2) Benzion
is also in the Hillinger Family book. It mentions Benzion was a teacher, and at
least two place names: Czudek and Czendei in Galicia. Unfortunately, I don't
know where Czendei might be, but I have at least found Czudek on a map.
3) The
last bit of information I have on Benzion is one of the most recent records I
have found: his son's immigration record to Brazil. He is only mentioned on it,
but it gives Mendel's birth as Czudek, so that is confirmed, at least.
Needed:
Like Alex's parents, I have no BMD information on Benzion,
so I can only speculate at those dates. I have no clue where to even start
looking for information on him, given he lived in Galicia around the time when
Jews were under attack by the gentiles around them. Likely few records existed
even before the Nazis came to power, and the ones that did likely didn't after
their regime.
I would also love better records about his children. I was
lucky enough to find Mendel, and I know a great deal about Dora's life, but
Minna I have only a couple of photos and a story of how the two sisters came to
Frankfurt together from Czudek. Of the other children, I have nothing at all,
though I fear that they likely went the way of so many Jews in their
area—Trablinka, or similar. To be honest, it scares me to find out, so it stops
me from looking. Until the next time I try, of course.
Even more, I would love to know about his parents, siblings,
and the people he came from. Was he an only child? Was his father a teacher
too? What kind of life did they lead? I tend to speculate that he was from the
vague Rzeszów area, just north of where Czudek is located in Poland, but as of
yet, I have no real proof he was from Galicia at all, and he could have just
settled there because Rzeszów was a center for Jewish learning at the time.
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