Drawn by hand around 1990, in English and Hebrew. It runs from Etta Levine of Neustadt, Lithuania, through the Timin and Fishbein families to Etta Rea and Yechezkel Vogel, their five sons and their grandchildren, with Yechezkel’s parents, Yitzchak Aharon and Sara Rotfogel.
The full page. Tap to open it larger.Close-up: “Etta requested that anyone named after her should not be given an English name.”
The family in Łódź, 1919
The Łódź address card of Yitzchak Aron Rotfogel, filled in when the family arrived from Klimontów in August 1919. It lists his wife Sura and their children Mojżesz, Frajda-Ruchla and Chaskiel. Łódź State Archive.
Address card, Łódź, 1919–21 (Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi 39/221/0/4.12/25018, image 5). Tap to open it larger. What it tells us →
From the Arolsen Archives
Records of Yechezkel’s survival and emigration, held by the Arolsen Archives (the former International Tracing Service).
Displaced-person registration card, March 7, 1947, front, signed “Heinrich Rotvogel.” Born 16.12.23; the card gives his birthplace as Labes, Pomerania, though Łódź was his home. Parents Isidor (Yitzchak Aharon) Rotvogel and Sara, written “Hörzmann” (Worcman). Trade: “Desinfacter” (disinfector). Destination: 1733 Moreland Ave., Baltimore. Arolsen Archives.The same card, back, stamped “SS Ernie Pyle,” April 8, 1947, the ship that brought him to America. Arolsen Archives.Buchenwald prisoner file, “Rotfogel, Chaskel,” no. 120640. Its 1919 birth year is a known error.Emigration list, SS Ernie Pyle from Bremerhaven, April 8, 1947.
