My great-grandfather, Chaim Hersch Siederer, made quilts and bedcovers as
his trade in Czernowitz. He would have been doing this from mid-1880s to
his death from the flu epidemic in 1917 or 1918.
His youngest son, Koloman (Kubi) picked up this trade and ran a similar
business in Vienna before WW2. Kubi escaped eventually to New York where he
took up the trade there. My cousins remember him making quilts in the early
1950s.
My grandfather, Moritz Siederer, trained as a hairdresser and chiropodist at
the Czernowitz technical college. Somewhere in the family papers, we have
his diploma in hairdressing, chiropody and wigmaking. He emigrated to
London in 1908, aged 21, and was a hairdresser and chiropodist all his life.
Another brother, Ignatz, was also a hairdresser. At some stage he operated
as such in Vienna, and picked it up again when he eventually escaped to
London.
Nigel Siederer
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