Appendix B - Sarah Schenirer’s Family Tree
Summary
Zalel (Bezalel) Schenirer Born in Tarnow. Worked in a shop owned by his wife.
Rozalia (Róża) Lack Born in Kraków, where her family had lived for a few generations; a shopkeeper.
Lea Schenirer Sarah's eldest sibling. Did not work outside the home.
Juda (Yehuda) Schenirer Lived in Tarnów, strictly religious. Made a living as a merchant.
Aaron ( Jurek) Schenirer Lived in Leipzig until he was deported by the Germans in 1938 and returned to Kraków, where his family found him work in a bakelite factory. Traditionally religious.
Helena (Chaya) Schenirer Lived in Kraków and worked as a Hebrew teacher. Her husband had a metal goods warehouse on Mostowa Street. Orthodox but rather modern.
Szymon (Shimon) Schenirer Lived in Kraków. From 1935 to 1939 he served on the rabbinical court.
Jakub (Yaakov) Schenirer Fought in the Austrian army in the First World War and later in the Polish army. Subsequently worked at Holzer's Bank on Getrudy Street in Kraków. Married in 1925. Died suddenly of meningitis. Attended synagogue only on Jewish festivals but kept a kosher home.
Matylda (Mania) Schenirer Lived in Kraków and worked as a secretary in a brick factory in Bonarka.
Abraham (Romek) Schenirer Lived in Kraków, worked in a bank, and was completely secular. Married with four children, in 1934 he left for Berlin to undergo surgery, taking his family with him. The operation was unsuccessful; he died and was buried in Berlin. One of his daughters, Anni, survived the war in an orphanage in Germany. Her cousin Tulo Schenirer discovered this, and made contact with her in 1967.
Tulo Schenirer Born in Kraków. Displaced to the Kraków ghetto in 1941, he was later held in concentration camps in Płaszow, Mauthausen, and Linz III, a satellite camp of Mauthausen. In 1945 he returned to Poland and studied urban planning and engineering. In 1959 he emigrated to Israel, marrying Rita Wachs in December of that year. Rita was born in Lwow, but survived the war on false identity papers in Skierniewice in central Poland, together with her mother; her father had managed to flee to Hungary. After the war the family was reunited, and in 1949 they emigrated to Israel. Tulo and Rita had two children.
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- Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov MovementA Revolution in the Name of Tradition, pp. 381 - 386Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2019