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Dear Nigel,=20
I regret not to be able to give you any information about your family membe=
rs who lived in Cz unti 1945 - I too left in April 1945 but to Romania, and=
Erev Yom Kippur boarded to Hagnnah vessel "The Jewish State" on my illegal=
way to Palestine (via Cyprus interning camps).=20
The reason =C2=A0I am responding is the very interesting name of your grand=
-fathers youngest brother - Koloman. Your great-grandparents chose this not=
very common Hungarian first name, that several years later was attributed =
by the Hungarian Jewish operetta composer, Emerich Kalman, to one of the fu=
nny suitors of Countess Maritsa, who prided himself before her that he is t=
he only Koloman Szupan in all Hungary. The highly entertaining and funny op=
eretta was first produced in 1924 on the Vienna stage, but quickly reached =
Cz, and was one of the favorites of Cz's operetta and opera loving Jewry, w=
ith everybody singing the various arias for more than a decade, although it=
was already in Romanian hands, just as with the other operettas by Kalman =
and other composers.
Hag Sameah=20
Mordecai Lapidot
Givatayim, Israel
> 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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