Yad Vashem has a Page of Testimony that states Geyna ZHERDIN born in Preili in 1910 to Yankel and Tuba. She was a merchant6 and single. She was murdered in the Shoah. Her war time address was Brivibass Iela 11/1. Date of death 9 August 1941. The page was submitted by Shmuyel LATINSKIY dated 12 January 2013.
Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony state that Yankel Zherdin born in Preili, Latvia in 1972. He was a merchant married to Tuba.He was murdered in the Shoah. The Page of Testimony was submitted by his community member Shmuyel LATVINSKIY 12 January 2013
It also contains a list of people murdered in Preili. The list is date 27 July 1941
Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony submitted by his nephew Harry KAUFMAN. The mixture of the KAUFMAN / KIKMAN surnames from Zbojna indicates that this was a direct member of our family
Sally always corrected people if they called him Solly and Zena was embarrassed having a father called Sally. The Yiddish name Tzalle, which is what I am sure was Solly's Jewish name in Germany, it is derived from the bible and is the truncated version of the name of the man who built the Ark for the Torah.
He was the youngest of five children. His sister and her daughter killed by nazi's in WWII
His siblings dispersed to USA and England
When Solly joined the Federation of Synagogues Burial Society in 1947 he gave his age as 31 years. He was infact 42 years old. It was common practice for the age of people joining the burial society to be understated as the subscription was age related.
Ziv STERN data on Ancestry.com shows the following:-
a) In 1885 Meyer lived in Nowogrod
b)21 July 1886 he departed from Hamburg
c) In 1886 he arrived in New York.
d) Ziv notes the conflict between the departure of Meyer and the birth of Sarah. The birth of Chana Feige creates a bigger question.
e) Address in 1916 was 239 Broome Street, Manhattan
