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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): Feige Golda Reich
Children: Naftali Mendel, Dora, Minna, Hiam (uncertain of the spelling at this time), Esther/Erna, Aaron
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. They had five children, and I now know all their names, if not the full details of their lives.. 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.
New Proofs I have found of Benzion:
4) I found a record for his son's marriage in 1919 that lists him and his wife. I don't believe this proves he was alive at the time. I think it is just listing them as his parents. I can't be certain, as it is in German, but it seems the most likely.
5) He is also listed in his daughter Dora's Social Security record.
6) And there is another listing of her on Dora's death record.
7) And one final record listing him is Mendel's immigration record to Brazil.
8) The final proof I have of him is actually the strongest. I was contacted by a woman who said she was his granddaughter, and therefore my grandfather's first cousin. She told me a little about what he was life, and gave me the names of all of his children, so I finally have all their names, though Haim vanished right after the First World War, so her father, who was the youngest, left her very little information about him.
Needed:
Like Alex's parents, I have no BMD information on Benzion, so I can only speculate at those dates. Unlike them, I don't even have speculations on 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. I have more information on his other children now, though still very little in comparison to Mendel and Dora. I do need to say that I discovered I was right to fear what I might find here, between Haim's disappearance after WWI, and the fact that we lost Esther. However, I am glad to say that out of my whole Jewish Branch of my family tree, the only person in my immediate ancestral family we lost to the Nazis was Esther, who did not manage to escape with her husband and children, though we do not know exactly what happened to her. She is listed on Yad Vaschem, in a record written up by her son.
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.
And really, for now, that's it. Despite almost tripling the number of records for Benzion, I still have so little about Benzion. Any help here finding more on him would be greatly appreciated.
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