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SCHWARTZ Herman


Betty & Jerry's wedding in Kispest on 30 Aug 1936
SCHWARTZ Herman (beared) is sitting to the right of the groom

 

Vital Statistics
Name SCHWARTZ Herman[7]
Occupation Occupation: Farm or lumber business in village of Tiszaszalka. Later president of temple in Kispest.[7] Small land owner[24] 
Parents Shlomo Tzvi (Salamon[14]) SCHWARZ and Sara[15] ADLER[24]
Born Tiszaszalka, Bereg, Hungary, October 1861[24]; alternate 1: 1878[15] alternate2: abt. 1852[7] (92 at time of death around summer 1944))
Residence Tiszaszalka, Kispest, Subotica
Married UNGAR Sarolta[3]. Died in kitchen fire.[3]
Son SCHWARTZ Lajos* (Louis) (father of SCHWARTZ Lloyd).[3] Louis was the first SCHWARTZ to come to America. Later, in the late 30's, he helped his brother Jerry come to America too.[2] Eldest.
Son SCHWARTZ Miklos.[3] Farmer in Janoshalma (Hungarian countryside). Miklos has a beautiful wife named Margaret and three children: Vera (abt. 1920), Paul (abt. 1923) and Peter (abt. 1940). Paul later worked his Uncle Jeno's store in Budapest. Miklos, his wife and 3 children all died in the camps.
Son SZEKELY SCHWARTZ Sandor (1892/93)
Daughter SCHWARTZ Hanika. Husband KELLNER Kalman (accountant). Children: KELLNER Imre (abt. 1920) & KELLNER George (Gyuri) (polio) (abt. 1924)[3b]. Kalman & Imre died in Russian labor camps. George died in his mothers arms of TB in the Budapest Ghetto.[3] Honika survived and after the war Hanika worked as a cook in the Jewish public kitchen in Kazinczy u. Budapest.  She remarried Izidor Ysrael RUCKMANN (of Miskolc) in Hungary[3] and moved to Israel where she died.[3]died Her son Gyuri was buried in the Jewish cemetery of Kozma u., Budapest, lot #22, row #46, grave #22).  Izidor RUCKMANN submitted many pages of testimony on this family to yadvashem.
Widowed
Married FISCHMAN Hani. As was the custom, SCHWARTZ Herman quickly remarried to FISCHMANN Hanni after his first wife died in a kitchen fire.[3]
Son SCHWARTZ Kalman. Hanni lost her first baby (in childbirth or before). Kalman was her first to survive. She held him particularly dear.[4]
Son SCHWARTZ Joseph* (Jerry) (1912)
Son SCHWARTZ Ferenc (aka SARLO Feri) (b. 3 March 1901, second husband of FISCHMANN SARLO Cecilia. Both are burried at Groman Motuaries in Los Angeles. In 1956, Jerry arranged for Feri & Cila to come out from Hungary too.[2]
Son SCHWARTZ Jeno. Married Rozsi with daughter Gyorgy (abt. 1838?) (possibly Ildiko?). All never returned from camps. Jeno owned a market in Budapest. He was a good businessman, easy going & generous.[7]
Son SCHWARTZ Bela. Merchant of food market in Kispest. Married Lili with sons Karoly (abt. 1932) and Ocsi (abt. 1933) (nickname). All 4 never returned from camps.[7]
Son SCHWARTZ Ervin (b. 25 May 1915 in Budapest V[13]) Died in the war. Youngest male. Unmarried.[10] Worked in Jerry Schwartz's market in Budapest. Drafted into regular army. Wore uniform, but not entitled to carry firearms (Forced-Labor company 109/3[26]). Detailed to clear minefields. Died/buried in Plotava (Ukraine?) on 27 Oct 1942 of pneumonia[26]. (Alternate [erroneous]: Died in Ukraine probably in Jan 1945 at the battle of Kiev at age 28 or 29.[7])
Son SCHWARTZ Erzsebet Eliseva Esther Bozsi (Budapest? abt. 1907-Auschwitz, 1944)[22]; second marriage to WEISZ Jeno (b. Subotica 1905; d. Munkaszogalat, Ukraine, 1944), merchant[21][23]; daughters: Magda (Subotica, 1931-1944)[18][20], Zsuzsa (Subotica, 1937-1944)[17][19], Rene (Subotica, 1935-1944)[16].   [Possible alternate: Ildiko + possible 2nd daughter (Gyorgy?)]; Lived in Subotica, Yugoslavia. All perished in Auschwitz, 1944. (Erzebet was the youngest sister.)[7] WEISZ Jeno was a brother of WEISZ Lazslo who married FISCHMANN Sari.[10]
Died Auschwitz, 1944[15].  Herman & Hani moved from Kispest to live with their daughter Erzsebet in Subotica, Yugoslavia because they thought it was safer. They were taken away with Erzsebet's family. Herman died in the wagon while being taken away to the camps at age 92. Hani had to stay with him in the wagon and no doubt later died in the camps.[7]

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Sources:

[1] Geneology prepared by BANYAI Frank and LINHARDT Agnes
[2] Oral history from FISCHMANN Eva on 10 August 1997
[3] Oral history from SZEKELY Otto on 14 September 1997
[3b} Otto Szekely revision e-mail 1/26/03
[4] Oral history from Marika HORNSTEIN on 23 Feb 1998
[5] Mezoladany Jewish birth/marriage/death register 1876-1885
[6] Frank SARLO death certificate
[7] Eva Wolpe 5/98 & 6/98 + photo identification 6/00.
[8] Joseph SCHWARTZ memorial notice 6/13/97
[9] Video interview w/ Jerry SCHWARTZ around 1987.
[10] Yoli FISCHMANN 6/98 (oral).
[11] Mentok Jewish birth/marriage/death register (same as [5])
[12] Tree sketched by Tommy Szekely for Peter Linhardt.
[13] Listed as died in W.W.II Hungarian Military Death Database at http://www.netlap.hu/vasarnapiujsag/els.htm
[14] Father of Herman listed as Salamon in copy of chart prepared by Tamas Szekely & Pete Linhardt before 1997.  Unverified.
[15] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, SCHWARZ Herman (1878), by Yisrael Rikman, 10 Jan 1957
[16] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, WEISS Rene (1935), by Klara Veis Kern
[17] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, VAJS Zuzu (1937), Zrtvr Rata 1941-1945
[18] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, VAJS Magda (1831), Zrtvr Rata 1941-1945
[19] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, WEISS Zsuzsa (1937), by Klara Veis Kern, 3 Oct 1991
[20] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, WEISS Magda (1931), by Klara Veis Kern, 3 Oct 1991
[21] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, WEISS Jeno (1905), by Klara Veis Kern, 3 Oct 1991
[22] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, WEISZ Esther (1907), by Frantziska Veis, sister-in-law, 19 Dec 1956[22] Yadvashem.org, [23] Yadvashem.org, Page of Testimony, WEISZ Yeno (1905), by Frantziska Mandel, sister, 19 Dec 1956
[24] Szabolcs Achives, Mezoladany records, marriage record of Herman Schwartz & Hani Fischman, 18 March 1897
[25] email from Otto Szekely, 7/24/05
[26] http://www.hadifogoly.adatbanyaszat.hu/search.php?search=1&vez=SCHWARCZ&ker=&szul=&m=on&o=on&s=on&t=on&k=on&x=38&y=7

Személyes adatok

Név name Schwarcz Ervin
Anyja neve mother Fischman Hani
Születési idő birdth date 1915.05.25.
Lakóhely residence Bp., V. Budapest, District V
Alakulat 109/3. táb. mu. szd. camp work battalion (tabor munkas szazad)
Rendfokozat rank kmsz. Assistant labor serviceman (kisegito munka szolgalatos)
Halál időpontja date of death 1942.10.27.
Halál helye place of death Plotava
Halál oka cause of death tüdőgyulladás  Pneumonia
Temetés helye place of burial Plotava
Sírjelszám grave
II. sor. 4. sír.

 

29 January 2006; pml