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Krakow
POLAND

 




 

Photo title: Molly and Mary Hochberg
Date of photo: cir 1901
Place of residence: Krakow, Poland

Family Surnames: HOCHBERG, FINKELSTEIN, BLEYFEDER, HORLAND, GINSBURG


Malvina (Molly), pictured left, came to NY first to marry her first cousin Charlie Finkelstein around 1910. They lived in Brooklyn, New York for a few years, and had two sons-- Abe whose name was changed to Robert, and Joseph. Miriam came into Ellis Island in 1914 and stayed with the Finkelsteins until she got on her own two feet.  Molly and Charlie moved to Cleveland, Ohio where his ladies wear business flourished.  Charlie died in New York while on the road while showing his line of ready-to-wear clothing. Molly remarried years later and moved to California where she lived the rest of her life. Molly died in her late eighties. Miriam (Mary), pictured right, married Isadore Bleyfeder, gave birth to three daughters and a son who died as an infant. After Isadore's death, Mary remarried Jack Horland, and many years after Jack's death she married Irving Ginsburg.  Mary died in her early sixties in New Jersey from a blood clot.

 

Mary nee Hochberg,
1950s




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