For members and friends of the Cohen-Korntabak Family
Our grandparents Nisel (Nathan) and Essie (liberman) b. 16 July 1884 Korntabak lived in Piatka. Nisel was 5 years older.b. 1879
I believe they were orphaned so I don't have anything further back. Nisel died during the first year of my parents marriage. So I never met him. But I knew my Bubba well.
She died after my Bar-Mitzvah around 1959. Nisel was born in 1879. Essie in 1884.
Nisel had 3 sisters who I think were older than him and were married and living in Piatka too. (Chana Schechtman, Gitel Gorodetsky, Lifsche Greenberg). They all came to America. But this is the special story about my line: Nisel left Essie in 1912 and arrives in Philadelphia Nov 13 1912 from Bremen, Germany which he left Oct 31st 1912 on board the Breslau to work as tailor and send money to Essie. Essie was left to raise 4 kids and she was 3 months pregnant with my Dad. Essie told us she didn't want to tell Nisel she was pregnant because otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the "Goldene Medina.". Essie raised the kids-oldest about 10, youngest 2 and then my father in 1913 during terrible years in Ukraine: pogroms, starvation, WW1, Russian revolution, Communism. Somehow she got out and arrives with the family in Ellis island 1921. Nisel meets my father first time age 7. Read more
Our grandparents Nisel (Nathan) and Essie (liberman) b. 16 July 1884 Korntabak lived in Piatka. Nisel was 5 years older.b. 1879
I believe they were orphaned so I don't have anything further back. Nisel died during the first year of my parents marriage. So I never met him. But I knew my Bubba well.
She died after my Bar-Mitzvah around 1959. Nisel was born in 1879. Essie in 1884.
Nisel had 3 sisters who I think were older than him and were married and living in Piatka too. (Chana Schechtman, Gitel Gorodetsky, Lifsche Greenberg). They all came to America. But this is the special story about my line: Nisel left Essie in 1912 and arrives in Philadelphia Nov 13 1912 from Bremen, Germany which he left Oct 31st 1912 on board the Breslau to work as tailor and send money to Essie. Essie was left to raise 4 kids and she was 3 months pregnant with my Dad. Essie told us she didn't want to tell Nisel she was pregnant because otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the "Goldene Medina.". Essie raised the kids-oldest about 10, youngest 2 and then my father in 1913 during terrible years in Ukraine: pogroms, starvation, WW1, Russian revolution, Communism. Somehow she got out and arrives with the family in Ellis island 1921. Nisel meets my father first time age 7. Read more