The
tall man in the top row with the full sideburns is Moishe Slomovic. He
is my great uncle, brother to my grandfather,Isruel Slomovic. He is
the father of the bride. I was startled by the similarities of these
two men in comparing facial and body images even with the
realization that they are only 6 years apart, the elder
being my grandfather.
The mother of the bride is third
from the left in the bottom row. Her name is Chaya Rosenthal. I was
informed by a family member that Chaya had 16 children {some multiple
births, twins, triplets.} It is unknown as to how many survived
infancy. The children all took the mother's maiden name for reasons
unknown at this time. There are at least three stories,none really
confimed.
There are visitors from America
in the wedding photo. To the left of the bride: Pearl Rosenthal
Farkash, sister to Chaya and to the right of the groom, another sister
to Chaya, Goldie Rosenthal Loeb. The others in the photo are unknowns
except for the tall young man on the far right. He is Itzick
Rosenthal{Irving} son of Moishe and Chaya. He ended up being the sole
survivor of his immediate family.
Chaya
and
Moishe
were
both victims of the Holocaust in 1941{according
to the Cental Database of Shoah Victims' Names} and were murdered
http://www.yadvashem.org/ somewhere near Kamenets Podulsk
as were their neighbors and
family from Chumalovo and other surrounding
shtetles.
In 1941, many young Jewish
men were forced into the Hungarian Slave Labor Battalions and Itzick
was one of them. He was sent to Nyikolajevka, a slave labor camp
in the Ukraine. He left his family, never to see them again. Many young
Jewish young men were forced into the Hungarian Slave Labor Battalions.
Itzick survived by overpowering a guard [according to family] He
returned to Chumalovo to find that his wife, child, and the rest of his
family were gone. Somehow, he was able to make it to Budapest where he
went into hiding. He eventually remarried, had 3 children and the
family immigrated to the USA In the 1950's.
