Jaffe / Sesel


Dora Jaffe, daughter of Eliash Jaffe of Kupiskis, was born in Kupiskis in 1861. She married Jacob Joshua Sesel of Ukmerge and they had a number of children. One of those was Annie Sesel, born 1887 in Kupiskis. She left Kupiskis and on August 21, 1909 in Heilbron, Orange Free State, South Africa, married Morris Lotzof, who was born in 1879, in Lutzen, Latvia. The couple had three children: Rae Lotzof Mayer, Jacob "Siki" Lotzof, and Leah Lotzof Bloch.




The Lotzof Family,1928-29, Heilbron, South Africa:  Left to right: Morris, Annie, Rae, Jacob, Leah

(Photo courtesy of Rika Meyerowitz, daughter of Jacob Lotzof, and family info courtesy of Paul Cheifitz)

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