The results of my previous research on Fuks family from Brzeziny can be viewed below. Any further information on the families of Moshe, Aron, Fiszel, Zelman, Szmul and Mendel Fuks will be highly appeciated.
Moszek (Moshe) Leib FUKS
tailor
b. 13 May 1889
d. 5 May 1942 ( just before the liquidation of the Brzeziny ghetto)
x 15 May 1911 Chana Rywka Goldwasser (b. 25 Jun 1891 in Głowno, died after 1935)
Address :
1919-1932 Kościuszki Str 17, Brzeziny
1932 -1934 Lasockich Str 2
1934-1940 ?
On the 6 May 1940 Moszek, his wife and children (apart from Liba Ruchla) were relocated to Brzeziny ghetto.
They lived at Mittelstrasse 7 ( Polish name of the street – Staszica 7 ). There they shared a flat with the family of his brother Aron.
Children :
Fiszel Josek
*4 Aug 1912, most probably died or left Brzeziny before 1935
Liba Ruchla
*14 May 1914 +Aug 1943
tailor
married to Chaim FLAMHOLC
Had 3 children : Jankiel, Lipman Lajser, Anschel ( birth dates not known, most probably all three were deported to Kulmhof death camp right after the liquidation of Brzeziny ghetto )
Whole family of Liba Ruchla lived in Brzeziny ghetto at Litzmannstaedter strasse 7.
The only person from the family that for certain survived the liquidation of Brzeziny ghetto is Liba Ruchla.
She was transported to Litzmannstadt ghetto (on 14 Jul 1942 ) and lived at Hamburger str 11/41( Strażacka Street), then Muhlgasse 36/34 and Insel strasse 23.
Died of typhus in August 1943 ( Litzmannstadt ghetto hospital records)
Sura
*20 Sep 1916 +1918
Icek Hersz
* 5 Aug 1919 +?
Abram
*1921 +1923
Chaja Ajdla
15 Feb1925 +?
In Litzmannstadt ghetto lived at Siegfried str 6/33
Uryn Szlama
*1927 +?
Chaim Pinkas
* 1929 +?
Rywka
died before 1940 ?
Nusen
*+?
Cyjna
* 8 Jan 1932 +?
Aron FUKS
orchardist, tailor
* 24 Aug 1891
+after 31 May 1942
x 26 Dec 1911 Chaja Bem (*13 Mar 1891)
Address :
1935 Kościuszki Str 19
1940-1942 Staszica (Mittelstrasse) 7 / Brzeziny ghetto
On 8 Aug 1940 Aron and his family were relocated to Brzeziny ghetto. He lived there with his father-in-law, Bem Szlama, Salcia (Aron’s granddaughter ), Bem Bernek (some relative)
31 May 1942 – Transported with wife(?) and some children to Litzmannstadt ghetto. Lived at Hamburger str 11/41.
Children :
Benjamin
* 12 Jul 1913
Szajndel
*13 Aug 1916,
left Brzeziny or died before 1935
Perla Rywka
*23 May 1919 +2 Aug 1944 ( in Litzmannstadt Ghetto)
Tailor, sent to Łódź ghetto on 31 May 1942, lived Hamburger str 11/41
Blima
*14 May 1922 or 1924
tailor, sent to Łódź ghetto on 31 May 1942, lived at Hamburger str 11/41
Liba Łaja
* 12 Dec 1925
sent to Litzmannstadt Ghetto, lived there at Hamburger str 11/41.
Transported to Kulmhof (Chełmno ) death camp on 10 Sep 1942 ( ghetto card notice : 10/09/1942 / AUSG )
Fajga Tauba
*18 Aug 1930
tailor, sent to Łódź ghetto on 31 May 1941, lived at Hamburger str 11/41
Sala or Sara
* 27 Jan 1935
Mendel FUKS
cottage tailor
b. 1893
x Chana Rywka Wistenberg ( died before 1935)
x2 Chaja Krajndla
Address :
1893 – 1933 – Kościuszki str 7
1933 – 1934 – Piłsudskiego 24
1934 – 1942 Lasockich 5, during the war renamed for Deutsche strasse. Within the ghetto area.
The family lived in Brzeziny ghetto until its liquidation.
Children :
Abram Chil
*10 Apr 1918 +1926
Icek Hersz
*3 Apr 1920 +before 1935 or left Brzeziny
Szoel
* 1920 + between Nov and Dec 1941 or left family in that time
Matel
* 1923
Chana
*1926
Rajzla or Rejza
* 1928
Relocated to Litzmannstadt Ghetto, lived there at Rembrandt str 7.
Sent to Kulmhof/Chełmno death camp on 30 Jun 1944, transport number : 169 347 ( one of the last transports from the ghetto )
Binem
*1930
In Łódź ghetto lived at Runde Gasse 4 / 42
Sent to Kulmhof/Chełmno death camp on 7 Sep 1942 ( ghetto card notice : 07/09/1942 / AUSG )
to Chełmno
Jakub Jozef
* 1939
Zelman FUKS
b. 16 Sep 1895
x Chana Liba Badower ( b. 1 Oct 1902 ), marriage 7 Mar 1920, immigrated to France in 1936 ( with the daughter ?)
Child :
Frajda (Freindla) Rymka (Rywka)
* 18 Apr 1921
tailor,
In Łódź ghetto lived at Muhl Gasse 11/ 18
On 10 Mar 1944 she was transported out of the ghetto, most probably to another camp ? ( ghetto ID card notice : 10/03/1944 / AG
Szmul FUKS
b. 25 Oct 1897
x Łaja Dwojra Papierman (b.18.03.1894) in Jeżów
Lived in Jeżów, village close to Brzeziny
Children :
Icek Hersz
* 17 Jun 1923 in Jeżów
Szy….
*17 Mar 1927 +1928 in Jeżów
Fiszel FUKS
wadding manufacturer
b. 27 Jan 1901
d. after 11 Nov 1941 (last time recorded)
x Rywka Rojza Szniter ( b. 18 Oct 1899 ), marriage in 1923
Address :
Lasockich str 4, stayed there when the ghetto was set up. All listed below were in Brzeziny ghetto, most probably until its liquidation.
Children :
Ruchla Łaja
* 12 Jan 1925
Litzmannstadt ghetto address : Lustige Gasse 4/16
Her Ghetto ID card with photo and signature is in Ghetto Archive in Łódz. Her worker number 78073, worked in Strohschuh Abteilung at Sulzfelderstr 88. Her occupation : Strohschuhnäherin. Started working : 05-Jun-42
Sent to Chełmno/ Kulmhof camp on 03 Jul 1944, transport number 368
Itta
* 5 Apr 1928
Address in Łódź ghetto : Lustige Gasse 8/10, from May 1943 Lustige Gasse 4
Sent to Chełmno/ Kulmhof on 3 Jul 1944, transport number 367
Luba
* 6 Jan 1930
Dawid Icek
* ???
Additional info :
* or b. – symbol for birth
+ or d. – symbol for death
x – – symbol for marriage
Place of birth/death – if not stated then in Brzeziny
Litzmannstadt – German name for Łódź
Loewenstadt – German name for Brzeziny
Kulmhof – German name for a death camp located in Chełmno
Most of streets in Brzeziny and Łódź were also renamed, thus occasionally double names
appear
Collected info based on :
– civil register of Jewish inhabitants of Brzeziny (1935 ) / State Archive in Tomaszów
– Loewenstadt ghetto nutritional cards (1941 ) / State Archive in Tomaszów
– Litzmannstadt Ghetto Archive – incomplete transport list to/from the ghetto, ghetto ID cards / State Archive in Łódź
– civil records of Brzeziny citizens of Mosaic faith – between 1814 – 1897 / State Archives in Grodzisk, Tomaszów, Łódź
by Jakub Czupryński
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