[Cz-L] Seeking Genealogical Info about Leopold, Betti and Hendrich Friedmann of Czernowitz

Title: Seeking Genealogical Info about my Great Grandfather Friedmann of
Czernowitz

Good morning! I am seeking genealogical information or Vital Statistic
Records for my great-grandfather originally from the Czernowitz/Chernivtsi
area date range 1870-1910. Through DNA testing we found out that our
great-grandfather most likely changed his identity when as a young boy he
ran away to New York City, USA sometime between 1896-1905. His original
identity most likely was; Heinrich or Hendrick Friedmann, baker, born about
13 March 1878-88, son of Leopold Friedman and Betti Piasetski Friedmann from
Czernowitz, Radautz, Bukovina, Austria (now Chernivtsi Ukraine, I believe)
the family may have moved to Vienna around 1915. My great grandfather was
5'6" tall, 156 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes, with fair vision (needed
glasses).

We found more information and family lore from our DNA cousin: If we are
related through a Ggrandfather, it has to be through the maternal side, as
far as the names go.(I am 97% Ashkenazi.) My Grandmother, who came from
Vienna and moved to New York in about 1905, had two or three sisters, but
only one brother:

Hendrick Friedmann, who for some unknown reason, was kicked out of his home
in Vienna by his father, Leopold. Hendrick promptly left for New York.
According to my mother, the family never heard from him again. However,
since his sisters, Bobbie and Sally also moved to New York, it is possible
that he had some contact with one or both of his sisters, but not my
grandmother, Dora. The parents never came to the United States from Vienna,
and my grandmother never saw them after she left Austria, but we know the
father corresponded with his daughters (which is how we know they were
living in Czernowitz, Austria in 1910 by the return address of Czernowitz).
My grandmother (who, by the way, to this day was the best baker I have ever
met: coffee cake; strudel, apple pie, etc.) Hendrick and Dora were close in
age, my mother is not sure if it was by a year or three. So if Dora was
born in 1888, Hendrick could not have been born until 1889...if he got
kicked out when he was 16, then it was about 1905....if he was born in
1890, it could have been 1906 before he came to the U.S. Hendrick was
kicked out at 16 or 17 and my mother does not have any clue why, and she
doesn't think he was given any money. She claims he was never heard from
again, as far as she recalls from my Grandma. (But since his sister Bobby
was in the Bronx already, it is possible Hendrick stayed with her for a
while until he got on his feet...just a conjecture on my part.) The Girls:
Bobbie, Sally, Amelia and Dora. Only one moved to New York, and that was
Bobbie. One stayed in Vienna (and had her ear cut off to acquire a diamond
earring by a Nazi) and that was Sally, and one who moved to Argentina:
Amelia. Bobbie lived in the Bronx with her husband and they had three
children: (As far as my Mom knows, all three children stayed in New York.)
Sally stayed in Vienna and married and had children. Amelia moved to
Argentina, married and had children.

I have searched online and found a few New York City immigration or
passenger Records for the Friedmann's from Czernowitz. But, cannot find any
birth, marriage, death, or census records of them in Austria now Ukraine. I
would very much appreciate any suggestions of where to start my research.
Thank you in advance for considering my request. Sincerely,

Noreen

Boston, MA, USA

noreenf_at_verizon.net
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