Welcome. And what a great story!!
Shelley
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Rachel Niedermayer
<rsniedermayer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am new the group and I looking for information on my father's side of the
> family who were from Czernowitz, or to be more precise, Kotzman.
>
> My great grandfather, Herman (Chaim ben Meir) Niedermayer (c.1889-1977),
> had a falling out with his father over his remarriage. As was the custom at
> the time, my great great grandfather married his sister-in-law with the
> expectation that an aunt would be a better stepmother than a stranger.
> However, she was 18 and Herman was 16 - he didn't like being bossed around
> by someone he considered his own age!
>
> The solution to this problem, my great great grandfather thought, was to
> send him to America to look into expanding the business. He thought this
> would give him time to cool down. He bought him a first class round trip
> ticket on the Pennsylvania (1909).
>
> On arriving in New York, Herman did three things- immediately sold his
> return ticket, hunted down the Leitners from Kotzman who were already
> established [whose daughter, Clara (Chaya), he liked and would become my
> great grandmother], and lied about his age to join the Army so his father
> couldn't drag him back home (served 1910-1916).
>
> Somehow this didn't lead to a warm relationship between the two sides of
> the Niedermayer family.
>
> I looking for any information about my great great grandfather,
> Mayer/Meyer/Meir Niedermayer (c.1865-unknown) and either of his wives and
> children. I am also interested in the Leitner side, the oldest of whom I
> know the names of were Morris/Moritz (Moshe Meir ben Tzvi Uvadya) Leitner
> (1861-1931) and his wife Bertha (Baila bat Yeshua Nisan, 1869-1947).
>
> Thanks for any help in advance,
>
> Rachel Niedermayer
>
>
>
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