Dear Czernowitzers
In these difficult days, I am very much aware that my great-grandparents,
almost the last of my family to live in Czernowitz, died there of the flu
epidemic: Chaim Hersch Siederer, quilt-maker, in 1917, and Ruchel Zlate
Siederer (nee Riemer) in 1918. My grandfather Israel Moses (Moritz) had
emigrated to London in late 1907 and was joined by a younger brother Ignatz.
As Austria-Hungary was on the 'wrong' side of World War 1, they were
interned by the British authorities on the Isle of Man. Another brother,
Max (Mendel) had emigrated to New York with his wife Ester Nerlinger, having
been married in Czernowitz in 1913.
After the war, Ignatz returned to Czernowitz to discover that their parents
had died. They are buried in the Jewish cemetery. Ignatz and the youngest
brother, Koloman, moved to Vienna, where they both married. They had to
flee from there before World War 2. An older sister Perl (Pepie) somehow
found her way to Israel in 1939 with her husband Leon (Chaim Leib)
Goldenberg a daughter Ernestine and son-in-law, but I do not know the story.
Her other daughter Bertha Bleier and Bertha's son Erich eventually escaped
via London to Israel. Bertha's husband Erich was taken by the Nazis. Only
one sister, Gusta, remained in Czernowitz in the Roumanian era, and
eventually had to flee to London where she died in 1945.
Descendants of the family live in London, New York, New Jersey, California,
and Israel, having moved through voluntary or forced migration. But the flu
epidemic, the historical forerunner of the current corona virus, was
responsible for the deaths of the earlier generation. I would be glad to
hear from any other relatives.
Nigel Siederer
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