Beth Moses, Beth David, Lakeside Memorial Park and Har HaMenuchot
Resting Places
New York · Florida · Jerusalem
New research · 23 October 2026
Newly found records
New grave photos: Hannah Brecher Rudman and Albert Rudman, Shaarei Tfiloh, Baltimore (plots K-478 and K-477), with their BRECHER / RUDMAN family stone. Exact graves found for Harry and Mollie Brecher (Montefiore, Block 76, Row 8L, Graves 1–2) and, Likely, Selig and Fagie Rudich (United Hebrew, Staten Island, Section 4, Row 3, Graves 3–4). Confirmed— Find a Grave memorials 126944465, 126944464, 158155543, 158155549, 279681403, 279681399
Ruth Wahrsager née Seltzer rests in Beth Moses Cemetery (Wellwood), Section 2, Block 26, Row 5, Grave 14; Kallmann (Charles) Wahrsager lies in Row 7, Grave 13 of the same block, both in the Sinai Fraternal Order plot. Confirmed— Wellwood–Beth Moses Cemetery interment search (https://wellwoodbethmoses.com/search/), read 22 Oct 2026 and again 24 Oct 2026
Margaret Brecher (Mindel bat Moshe), wife of Nicholas (Mickey) Brecher, rests in Lakeside Memorial Park, Miami; her yahrzeit falls on 16 Tevet. Likely— obituary; 1950 census; Young Israel Congregation (Surfside/Bal Harbour) newsletter
Rosa (Rose) Eilender née Brecher was buried at Beth David Cemetery in July 1948, beside her husband Samuel; her death certificate names her parents as Meyer Brecher and Frieda Froner. Confirmed— New York City death certificate, Kings County, 1948, no. 14036 (NYC Municipal Archives)
Resting Places
Beth Moses, Beth David, Lakeside Memorial Park and Har HaMenuchot
David Brecher and his sons Eugene and Alex rest side by side in Beth Moses Cemetery, West Babylon, Long Island, in the plot of Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar — Section 2, Block 18, Row 6: David in Grave 18, Eugene in Grave 17 and Alex in Grave 16, as the cemetery’s own burial register records; Alex’s son Meir rests in the same cemetery, in another section. Esther Brecher, her daughter Lucy and son-in-law Paul Friedman, and Anne’s parents Elias and Malka Wahrsager rest in Lakeside Memorial Park, Florida. Samuel and Rose Eilender rest in Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, New York. Yehuda Aryeh Brecher is buried on Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem, and Freidy’s husband Chaim Shaul Schondorf in Wellwood Cemetery, West Babylon. The stones of Alex and Anne are reproduced in Part I.
Confirmed R’ Yosef ben R’ Dovid HaKohen Brecher — Eugene — who died 15 Cheshvan 5722 (26 October 1961). Beth Moses Cemetery, West Babylon, New York, beside his father and his brother Alex.Family collectionConfirmed Esther Sheindel bat Yaakov Tzvi, wife of R’ Dovid HaKohen Brecher, who died on the Sabbath of Chayei Sarah, 22 Cheshvan 5741 (1 November 1980). Lakeside Memorial Park, Florida.Family collectionConfirmed Esther Brecher’s bronze marker, 1887–1980. Lakeside Memorial Park.Family collectionConfirmed Shifra Chana bat R’ Dovid HaKohen, wife of Pinchas Shalom Friedman — Lucy Friedman née Brecher — died 22 December 1984. Lakeside Memorial Park.Family collectionConfirmed Pinchas Shalom ben Yosef Efraim Friedman — Paul Friedman, Lucy’s husband — who died on the eve of the Sabbath, 24 Nisan 5743 (April 1983). Lakeside Memorial Park.Family collectionConfirmed Yechiel Mechel ben R’ Dovid HaKohen — Nicholas Brecher — 21 November 1915 to 18 October 2014. He served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1945.Family collectionConfirmed Elisha son of R’ Gavriel HaKohen Wahrsager — Elias Wahrsager — died 17 Kislev 5715 (11 December 1954). Lakeside Memorial Park.Family collectionConfirmed Malka bat Aryeh Leib, wife of Elisha Wahrsager, died 3 Tammuz 5723 (25 June 1963). Lakeside Memorial Park.Family collectionConfirmed Malka Wahrsager’s gravestone (detail): 3 Tammuz 5723, that is 25 June 1963.Gravestone; New York State death indexConfirmed The family row at Lakeside Memorial Park, Florida: Malka Wahrsager, Paul and Lucy Friedman, and Elias Wahrsager.Family collectionConfirmed Samuel Eilender, husband of Rosa Brecher, 1880–1937. Beth David Cemetery, Elmont, New York.Find a Grave, memorial 245798842Confirmed R’ Meir ben R’ Shimshon HaKohen Brecher — Meir (Myron), son of Alex and Anne — who died 9 Tevet 5780 (5/6 January 2020). Beth Moses Cemetery, West Babylon, New York, Section 2, Block 21, Row 12, Grave 10 (Brotherhood of America plot).Family collectionConfirmed R’ Yehuda Aryeh ben R’ Shimshon HaKohen Brecher, son of Alex and Anne, died 17 Kislev 5772 (13 December 2011). Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem.Family collectionConfirmed The gravestone of Chaim Shaul Schondorf, son of Elazar HaLevi, husband of Freidy Brecher, who died on Simchat Torah, 23 Tishrei 5771 (1 October 2010). Wellwood Cemetery, West Babylon, New York.Find a Grave, memorial 245098163; Wellwood Cemetery records
Confirmed A printed dedication by her grandson in Likutei Perushei HaRishonim (1981), in memory of his grandmother Esther Sheindel, daughter of R’ Zvi, of the Brecher family, who died on 22 Cheshvan 5741 (1 November 1980).Likutei Perushei HaRishonim, 1981, dedication page
Emigrants from Bănila pe Ceremuș (Banila on the Cheremosh, most likely, not the rabbi’s Banila on the Siret) and its neighbouring village of Ispas bought their own burial plot on Long Island, under the name of the First Banilla–Ispaser Bukowiner society. One Brecher lies there: Mae (Mina) Brecher, daughter of Yeshaya HaKohen, 1903–1989. Where she belongs in the family is not yet known.
Confirmed The gate of the plot of the First Banilla–Ispaser Bukowiner society — the burial society of emigrants from Banila and its neighbour Ispas — at Wellwood Cemetery, Long Island.Wellwood Cemetery, West Babylon, New York (photograph via Find a Grave)Likely The stone of Mae (Mina) Brecher, daughter of Yeshaya HaKohen, 25 December 1903 – 8 October 1989, in the Banilla–Ispaser society plot at Wellwood Cemetery.Find a Grave memorial 253499656; Wellwood Cemetery register, interment W60999
Labels — Confirmed, Likely, Possible — exactly as the family book gives them. Tap any picture to enlarge it.