| Philip: Lipkovics/Lipkovits | Philip Stuehler-Walter
53177 Bonn
Germany
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Dear Genners,
first of all please apologize this message by an absolutely unknown stranger. But please be also sure that this is no spam, advertisement or anything similar. Nevertheless you should read this to the end because it might be, we`re relatives! If you mean I am still an unknown stranger after reading this message, just kick it into the dustbin ;-)
My name is Philip and I live in Bonn/Germany. I try to get in contact to “the lost (jewish) part” of my family in the U.S. since the year 2000 – until now unfortunally without succes. But the years of researching the ancestors brang some more informations about the Lipkovits – family, than I had before!
From my point of view the central and beginning person is my greatgrandfather
Bernat Abram Lipkovits,
born 1870 in Hungary (I think it has been in Kosice, which is part of slovakia now and has been called Kassa [or in german: Kaschau] before), died 05.08.1905 in Berlin/Germany.
His parents have been
Isaak Lipkovits and Hani Friedmann from Hungary.
Bernat Abram has been the owner of a trading company for good wines and liqueurs in Berlin. He has been married to
Klara Grindel (she`s been not jewish, what is the reason wyh we all are not jewish today).
They had three daughters:
Lipkovics, Irma (my grandmum !), * Berlin/Germany 13.08.1899, Marburg/Germany 23.09.1972
oo Johannes Klein, Marburg/Germany 1973
Lipkovics, Edith, * Berlin/Germany 1900, Greece 1986(?)
oo Dr. Alexander Wamwetzos, * Greece
Lipkovics, Margot, * Berlin/Germany 1902, Greece 1985
My grandmum spend some time from 1923 to 1926 in the U.S. for working as an english teacher and for visiting the family. After about 1930 the contact to the amrican part of the family broke down, I don`t know why. But I`ve got a photo-album here about the time of my grandmum in the U.S. with some of the following people being photographed.
Some of the brothers and sisters of Bernat Abram emigrated to the U.S. arround the turn of the 19th / 20th century and in the early years of the 20th century. It`s been – as far as I know by now - the following people:
Lipkowitz, Jacob * Hungary 1872, New York 1920 – 1930
oo Tini Jakobson, * Hungary 1875
My mum told me that my grandmum often told stories about “uncle Jake”. He and Tinnie had the following children:
Lipkowitz, Ruth * New York 1902
Lipkowitz, Hattie * New York 1903
Lipkowitz, Arthur * New York 1908
There has been at least one sister who emigrated to the U.S.
Lipkovits, Mollie, * Hungary 1876
oo Jacob Weiss
As it seems, Jacob Weiss has been the first adress for all the Lipkovits`in New York coming in from Europe. In 1923 his adress has been
185 Lexington Ave.
New York
According to the stories I heard, Jacob Weiss has been “uncle Jacob” as my grandmum has called him.
Children of Mollie Lipkovits and Jacob Weiss:
Weiss, Henrietta, * New York 1898
Weiss, Sadie, * New York 1900
oo (?) Kramer
daughter of them: Kramer, Regina, * New York 1921
Weiss, Milton, Boxer, * New York 1902
Weiss, Jeanette, * New York 1904
Weiss, Rose S., * New York 1909(?)
One further brother of Bernat Abram emigrating to the U.S. has been
Lipkovits, Josef, Insurance Agent, * Hungary 1882
oo Fannie * 1885
Children of Josef and Fannie Lipkovits:
Lipkovits, Helen, * Conneticut 1909
Lipkovits, Ruth, * New York 1911
Lipkovits, Gertrude, * New York 1914
Lipkovits, Irving, * Conneticut 1915
Lipkovits, Frank, * Conneticut 1918
And there have been the following people:
Lipkowitz, Moses, * Hungary 1886
Lipkovitz, Mov (?), * Hungary
Lipkovits, Hani (?), * Hungary
Please note that the last three people are not confirmed to be ancestors of “my” Lipkovits – family. They are only suspected to be so.
At the Ellis-Island-Documents you can find a Josef Lipkovits coming from Tiba/Hungary. He arrived at the US at 21th of May in 1903 at the age of 21 coming from Hamburg onboard the ship Pennsylvania. According to the ship manifest his first destination also has been his brother in law Jacob Weiss in NY. But it might be the he is the same Josef Lipkovits as mentioned before.
Further „suspect“ persons according to the Ellis-Island-documents are the following people:
Terczia Lipkovits from Kelenfatah/Hungary, arrived at the 5th of September in 1911 at the age of 31 onboard the ship „Kronprinz Wilhelm“ from Bremen.
Destination: her husband Lorenz Lipkovits, 1 R FD Spaginaw (?)/Mich (?)
With her on board has been her daughter Pauline Lipkovits, six years old.
I don`t know what happened to the part of the family which stayed in Europe during the war and the shoah, but I presume that most of them have been mudered by the nazis. I only know about one “uncle Emil” who stayed in Kosice and has been a professor at one of the universities there after the war. It seems that he renamed himself into “Lany” or “Lanyi” or “Lipkovits-Lanyi” or anything similar. If you take a look at the yad vashem database of shoah-victims, there are quite a lot of “Lipkovits” coming from Kosice. But as I don´t know anything about this part of the family I´m not able to say definitely if one of them or even who is one of “my” Lipkovits.
Here in Europe of course are some more family-members than only myself and there is still contact to the greek part of the family.
So if any of the names before sounds familiar to you or even is one of your ancestors, please contact me.
Until this I keep
with the warmest regards from Germany,
Philip
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