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| The sole photo we have of Feiga |
Called by Grandkids:
Likely Bubbe. I know she lived in Frankfurt at the end of her life, so at the
very least, she knew my grandfather and most of his siblings before her death.
Birth: about 1870
Death: about
1929, Frankfurt, Germany
Spouse: Benzion
Kresch
Marriage: unknown
Children: Naftali
Mendel, Dora, Minna, and possibly two or more unnamed
Parents: unknown
Siblings: unknown
About: I know
only a little more about Feiga because of a few extra documents and because we
have photos of her, not to mention the fact that Grumpy knew her as a boy. But
truly, it's not a whole lot more in the larger scheme of things. I do not know
for certain where Feiga was born, though I suspect she may have been born in
the same town as her daughter, Czudek, Galicia. She married Benzion sometime in
the late 1800s, and they had at least three children there, though I assume she
lived there until moving to Frankfurt to be closer to her daughters after her
husband's death.
Feiga was able to attend at least one of her childrens'
weddings, as she is listed on Dora's wedding invitation to Alex in 1919. Beyond
that, I know little more. She died in the late 1929s, shortly before things
began to get bad for Jews in Germany. I know that three of her children
survived the Nazi regime, though I speculate that any others likely died in the
camps, or even before, during the round-up of Jews in the German-controlled
areas. Her descendants now live in the US and Israel, and we may also have
distant relations somewhere in South America, where Mendel's family escaped to
right at the beginning of the war.
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