Photogalleries from descendants 

Bechayad   Freedman   Herr   Hillel   Igdal   Kruger   Olga   Roter   Steinberg

Hillel: part 1   part 2   part 3   part 4   part 5  Hana   Sam 

Rita Hillel, Israel    part 2

The Grevler ( Grevleris) family told by Rita Grevler Hillel, Israel:

     
Another sister of my father was: Rivel  Lapidot, nee  Grevler (  Hebrew name: Rivka, I’m named after her). She  went to Russia and  lived there for a while. She was married and had a son called  Levi Abrashka.  Her husband died and Rivel’s mother Gita Basha encouraged her to return to Rozalimas. There Rivel married an established widower  Yakov Lapidot who had four children. Yakov and Rivel had three more children.  Yakov Lapidot died of cancer before the war . The last known of Rivel was in the summer of 1941(Date ?), when she and her three younger children were seen walking to  the synagogue in Rozalimas,  from where they were taken to the forests…..

Children from left to right:

Abrashka - from the first marriage in Russia
Hyaintke,
Moshele,
Gitle

 

There are some things that I do recall from what my father told me:

My father's family were comfortable – My grandfather Ben Zion Grevler had a tannery. He  made shoes which he sold in his shop and later the family added other goods  to be sold as well. Rivel  worked as a cashier ( before she was married. and my father Asher used to help in the shop.

 
Photo in de tannery, my dad Asher is the centre back next to the young woman on the left.

 

My grandfather’s brothers had already emigrated to South Africa at the end of the nineteenth or in the beginning of the twentieth century. We think they were Max and Isaac.  My grandfather Ben Zion visited  South Africa in the 1880’s.  He considered emigration, but his wife Gita Basha was concerned about the availibility of kosher food and till she wasn’t assured about this, she didn’t want to emigrate.My grandparents died in the 1930's. 

 Ben Zion  Grevler and Gita Basha Kruger.

 

see also family tree kruger5


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