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Chop Family Photographs

~ Chop Jewish Family Photographs ~
To be inclusive, we contacted all of the Chop researchers with an e-mail address listed in JewishGen (as of 28 June 2010). We asked each person contacted for family photographs or anything else to make the Chop shtetl web pages in JewishGen's KehilaLinks more interesting for all current and future researchers. Our sincere appreciation is expressed to all who responded.
Below, you will find photographs of families that once lived in Chop. In most cases, the photographs you see survived the Holocaust only because they were mailed to relatives in the United States and elsewhere.
If you a family photograph to contribute, click HERE to contact me.

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WEISZ (VEISZ) family c. 1930 Photo: Courtesy of Pamela WEISBERGER Z"L, USA Seated, left to right: Kati (Katalin) (née Klein) WEISZ, Cheskel WEISZ and unknown. Standing, left to right: unknown, unknown, unknown and unknown If you can identify anyone above, click HERE to contact me.	Unknown couple c. unknown Photo: Courtesy of Pamela WEISBERGER Z"L, USA If you can identify anyone above, click HERE to contact me.

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POLACHEK family c. unknown Photo: Courtesy of Joanna WOGULIS, USA Seated, left to right: Grandma Barbara (née ANEIS) POLACHEK and Grandpa Arthur POLACHEK Standing, left to right: Elsie, Bertha, Esther, Irene (my mother), Monroe and Frank	Ungvár Jewish soccer team (UTK) in Csap 1939 Photo: Copyright ©1997 Association of Jews from Uzhorod and Vicinity, Inc. (Defeated Csap S.E. team 4-2) Left to right: unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Buju KOPELMAN, Besc UNKNOWN, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Dugo WEINBERGER and Rudi VAGO If you can identify anyone above, click HERE to contact me.

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WOLF family 1 c. unknown Photo: Courtesy of Yael Wolf PORTUGHEIS, Israel Front row, left to right: Josef WOLF, Zigmond WOLF and Alexander WOLF Second row, left to right: Seren (née BLUM) and Jakob WOLF	WOLF family 2 c. unknown Photo: Courtesy of Yael Wolf PORTUGHEIS, Israel Front row, left to right: Zigmond WOLF and Miklosh WOLF Second row, left to right: Jakob and Seren (née BLUM) WOLF

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Renate and Sylvia SCHONBERG I c. 1939-1941 Photo: Courtesy of USHMM, Washington, D.C. Renate and Sylvia SCHONBERG II c. 1944 Photo: Courtesy of USHMM, Washington, D.C.

Renate SCHONBERG (now WINSTON) is the daughter of Sandor and Hela (WEINBERG) SCHOMBERG. She was born March 14, 1937, in Ungvár, Transcarpathia. Renate had one younger sister, Sylvia (b. 1938). The SCHONBERG family owned an oil refinery in Čop. In April 1944, after the Germans began deporting Jews from Hungarian-controlled Transcarpathia, Renate's parents obtained false papers for the girls in the names of Erzsebet and Katalin LAKATOS. Their nanny, Frantiska PRVA, agreed to take the girls to another location where they would not be recognized as Jews and take care of them. They moved to the small village of Lajosmizse near Budapest, where they remained until the end of the war. Renate's parents perished in Auschwitz. After the liberation, her aunt Bella ZWIEBEL, who had survived the war with her son, Imre, in Romania, found the girls. She took them and their nanny to her hometown of Nyiregyhaza, where they remained until 1946. At that time Bella was able to secure exit visas and took them all to Prague. After reaching the Czech capital, Frantiska decided to return home rather than to continue with them to the West. From Prague, Bella and the girls made their way to Stockholm. Bella received her American visa in 1947 and emigrated ahead of the children. After she left, Renate and Sylvia lived with a Jewish family by the name of HIRSCHFELDT. The girls were very happy in Sweden and would have been pleased to remain, but Bella wanted to be near them. Unable to obtain visas to America, Renate and Sylvia went first to Canada, where they lived with a Jewish family for a year-and-a-half before joining Bella in the United States.

~ Interview Videos ~
Below you will find an interview conducted of an individual who once lived in Chop. If you have an interview to add, click HERE to contact me.
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Compiled and created by: Marshall J. KATZ with assistance from Association of Jews from Uzhorod and Vicinity, Inc. Anita (née LEIBOWITZ) STIEGLITZ USHMM, Washington, D.C. Amos Israel ZEZMER, France and the following JewishGen members/descendants and contributors of Chop Jewish families: Yael Wolf PORTUGHEIS, Israel Pamela WEISBERGER Z"L, USA Joanna WOGULIS, USA

Updated: 24 July 2020

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