[Cz-L] Kurz family

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:09:15 -0400 (EDT)
To: CZERNOWITZ-L_at_cornell.edu
Reply-to: mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu

Dear Czernowitzers,

I received a letter inquiring about the Kurz family from Strojinetz, which I
am copying below, if any of you have information which would be helpful to
Zvi Kurz, please write directly to him. His Email address is below.

> My grandfather Kurz Meier (Leib) was born in Wiznitz 1906,
> His mother's name was Feige , and his father's name was Moishe (Moses). Meier
> had twelve brothers and sisters . As far as I know one sister was named
> Papy survived the holocaust and came to Israel. (During the 70's we
>lost touch
>
> My grandfather had married Klara Chaia to the house of Klinger of Strojinetz
> born in 1907 , her mother was called Shprina to the house of Sommer, her
> father Moishe owned a little farm on the river bank .She had two more
> brothers , Jacob and Zvi Hersh who was murdered in the Holocaust
>,even though
> he had the permit to stay in strozinich and maintain his job as a blacksmith
> he chose to be together with his family , he was shot to death along the way.
>
> My father Moishe (Moses) was born in the year 1940 , they used to live in
> Neuwald Str. in Strojinetz . My grandfather worked as a baker , and
> grandmother sold milk products in the city of Czernowitz . During the war
> they were sent to Bershad Transnistria and there they were forced to do hard
> labor in a Concentration Camp. After the war they came back to Strojinetz
> and from there they went to Bucharest there they had met again
> following immigration in an illegal immigrant ship called: "Pen York and pen
> Kresent", they had been arrested in the island of Cyprus by the
>British army ,
> and finally they had reached their final destination Haifa , Israel in 1948 .
> Meier continued his work as a baker in " Ahdoot Bakery" in Haifa. Meier
> Kurz died at 1975 at the age of 69 , Klara (Klinger) kurz diseased in 1992 at
> the age of 85 .
>
> Written by the grandchild Kurz Zvika now lives in "Nesher " near haifa .
> P.O. BOX : 5546
> Email Add . Zvikurz18_at_walla.com

> from there
Received on 2005-08-20 09:20:04

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