Meir Brecher & Freide Frohner

New research · 27 October 2026

Newly found records

• Samuel Eilender’s First World War draft card, the Bronx, 12 Sep 1918: 1034 Tiffany Street, born 28 Dec 1878, a naturalized citizen, agent for the New York Life Insurance Co.; nearest relative his wife Rose. Confirmed — WWI draft registration cards, NARA M1509 (FamilySearch 1:1:W74X-FMW2)
• The Eilenders in the 1915 New York State census, the Bronx: Samuel 37, Rose, and Alex (“Alemer”) 8, Frieda 6 and Joseph 6. Likely — NYS census 1915, Bronx, A.D. 30, E.D. 38, p. 98 (FamilySearch index 1:1:K9XG-Y3K)
• R’ Asher and Pesel’s civil marriage at Szurdok, 8 Jul 1902 (act 29), read in full: Asher an innkeeper of Kapnikbánya, born at Sereth in 1877, son of Májer Brecher, innkeeper of Kapnikbánya, and the late Fáni Frohner; Pepi Kupfermann born at Szurdok on 10 December (1882 on the act; 10 Dec 1881 in her birth register), daughter of the late Izsák Kupfermann and Háni Lebovics. Pesel’s birth is now Confirmed. Confirmed — Strâmtura civil marriages 1902, act 29 (Romanian National Archives, Maramureș); JewishGen Máramaros births Book 564, p. 88 row 13
• A new sister of Pesel: Szlova Kupferman, born at Szurdok on 6 May 1896. Her birth act gives their father Izsák as a grocer-merchant born at Kolomea, Galicia, about 1861 (his death act says Kosów, kept as a variant), and their mother Háni as born at Szurdok about 1864. Three more siblings from the Szurdok register — Perel (1887), Chajem Leb (1891) and Frajem Samuel (1894) — are Likely; József Jánkú (1898) and Amália (1900) are Confirmed from their own birth acts. Confirmed — Strâmtura civil marriages 1902 act 29 and births 1896 act 47 (Romanian National Archives, Maramureș); JewishGen Máramaros Vital Records index
• Six more children of R’ Chaim Leib Lebovits, Chaya Rivka’s brothers and half-sisters, all born at Szurdok: Iczik (1873) and Salamon (1875) with his first wife Pessel; Szura (1881), Roza (1883), Joszef Jakob (1887) and Neche (1889) with his second wife Szilke Dub. His civil death entry (11 Mar 1891, aged 49, “spouse of Szilke Dub”) agrees with his stone (Confirmed). Likely — JewishGen Máramaros Vital Records index (births Books 564, 1100, 1101; marriages Books 31 and 235; deaths Book 1107)
• Samuel Eilender’s mother Eigye Katz died at Felsővisó on 18 Jan 1877, aged 36, ten days after his birth. Two older children of the family, Alter (6) and Devojra (4), died there in December 1867, and a daughter Reize was born in Oct 1874 (these three Likely). Confirmed — JewishGen Máramaros Vital Records index, Felsővisó deaths Book 569 and births Book 565
• Pessel (Perl) Brecher’s stone in the Orthodox cemetery of Satu Mare, plot 16-01-20, in the same row as her husband Chaim Yehuda: daughter of Eliezer, died 11 May 1941. Confirmed — szatmar.us Satu Mare Orthodox cemetery register, row ‘Brecher Perl’
• Samuel Eilender’s declaration of intention, New York County, 9 Dec 1910: born at Felső Visó 26 Jan 1877, last residence Kapnik, arrived 26 Jul 1909 on the Cleveland. Confirmed — New York County declaration of intention no. 24099 (FamilySearch)
• Benjámin Brecher, an agent, was 34 when his daughter Izabella was born in Nagybánya on 21 November 1918; her mother was Berta Sarfstein, also 34. A son, Jenő, was born there on 24 August 1917. Benjámin was born about 1884, which would fit Meir’s family, but the register gives neither his birthplace nor his parents. Possible — Nagybánya civil birth registers 1917 and 1918 (Maramureș county branch of the Romanian National Archives, online name index and register images)
• The online name indexes of the civil registers of Kapnikbánya (births and marriages 1895–1909), Felsőbánya (from 1895) and Nagybánya (1895–1920) were read for Brecher, Frohner and Eilender. Every Brecher entry in Kapnik and Felsőbánya is already on the site; Nagybánya adds only Benjámin Brecher’s two children. Meir’s death was not found. Searched — Romanian National Archives, Maramureș county branch, online register indexes
• Mayer (Meir) Brecher was a witness at three civil weddings of Kapnikbánya families registered in the Nagybánya district: 20 March 1904, 6 August 1905 and 28 January 1906 — he was still living in Kapnikbánya then. Likely — JewishGen Máramaros Vital Records, Marriages, Nagybánya district, 1904–1906 (Romanian National Archives, Baia Mare branch)
• A portrait of R’ Asher Brecher exists: the Sighet memorial book prints his photograph in its Sighet chapter, p. 23, captioned “ר׳ אשר ברכר” (R’ Asher Brecher). It is the only known photograph of him. The book’s reuse terms are not stated, so the portrait is not copied here; it can be seen on the scanned page: https://archive.org/details/nybc314151/page/n182/mode/1up Confirmed — Sefer Marmarosh (Tel Aviv: Bet Marmarosh, 1983), Sighet chapter p. 23, Yiddish Book Center collection on the Internet Archive (nybc314151, leaf n182)
• The facing page, p. 22, in the memorial book’s own words: “קלויז של חסידי קאסוב. גבאי ראשי היה ר׳ אשר ברכר ובנו ר׳ יוסף היה מגיד שיעור בגמרא ותוספות.” — “The kloiz of the Kosov chassidim. Its head gabbai was R’ Asher Brecher, and his son R’ Yosef gave the shiur in Gemara and Tosafot.” The page goes on: the printers, the Rosenthal brothers, prayed there, and the Kosov Rebbe (author of Leket Ani) came to Sighet often. Scanned page: https://archive.org/details/nybc314151/page/n181/mode/1up Confirmed — Sefer Marmarosh (Tel Aviv, 1983), Sighet chapter p. 22, Internet Archive nybc314151, leaf n181
• Devora née Josef, wife of Simcha Eliezer: daughter of Shlomo Elazar Josef and Sima née Zoldan; her brothers were Hersh Dovid and Elya (Eli) Josef, born in Salish (memorial records). Confirmed — Holocaust victims’ central names database, a memorial record, archive file 25052022_9244, pages 55–56
• Izrael died at Munkács on 4 February 1924, aged two and a half; his parents are named as Miksa Brecher and Zali née Grunberg, of Szatmár (Munkács death register) — raised from Likely. Confirmed — JewishGen “Subcarpathia and Vicinity Deaths”, State Archives of Zakarpattia, Fund 1606, Opus 15, Delo 121, entry 1924-44
• Rosa died in Brooklyn on 7 July 1948 and was buried at Beth David Cemetery; 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)
• Feige Rachel (b. Nagybánya, 5 Jul 1890) and Jakob (b. Nagybánya, 13 Apr 1893) were children of Meir Brecher of Kapnikbánya and Freide née Frohner (Nagybánya birth register, Romanian National Archives, Baia Mare) — raised from Possible. A Chajim Juda born there on 8 Dec 1887 to Majer and Freide Brecher is Likely their son; that he is the later Chaim Yehuda (Miksa) stays Possible. Confirmed — JewishGen Máramaros Vital Records, Births (Romanian National Archives, Baia Mare branch), Nagybánya register book 39, entries 34-20, 50-17, 22-35
• R’ Asher’s grandchildren, from every Brecher page of the memorial-record file: Nachum Ze’ev and Minda had at least two children, among them Usher (Asher), born in Grosswardein in 1940; Tema and Chaim Tabak had four children, among them Motti; Chaim Leib’s wife and their four children perished with him; Yosef (Yossel), his wife and their two children, both born in Grosswardein, perished; Yitzchak and Frimet’s three children perished at Auschwitz with their parents; Simcha Eliezer and Devora’s only child, a baby of about six months, perished in the ghetto. None of the children’s first names is recorded; each now has a place on the tree. Confirmed — Holocaust victims’ central names database, a memorial record, archive file 25052022_9244, pages 11–38 and 46–47
• R’ Asher’s family, from memorial records read page by page (every page names the parents “Usha” and “Pessel”; Pessel’s own page gives her father as Yitzchok): Chaim Leib Brecher, born in Sighet in 1921, married, with children, died 1945 (a memorial record, item 15040134); Leah, born in Sighet, unmarried, perished at Auschwitz; Simcha Eliezer (Lázár), born in Sighet, perished with his wife Devora née Josef (daughter of Shlomo Elazar Josef and Sima née Zoldan) and their baby; Yosef, living in Grosswardein (Oradea), perished with his wife and two children; Yitzchak and Frimet perished with at least three children (Frimet: a memorial record, item 15040135); Tema (Temtcha) and her husband Chaim Tabak perished with their children, among them son Motti; Freida, married, with children. Confirmed — Holocaust victims’ central names database, archive file 25052022_9244 (filled in 2020 by a family member), pages read one by one
• Nachum Ze’ev’s first wife, Minda, and their children perished at Auschwitz — among them Usher (Asher), born in Grosswardein (Oradea) in 1940 and named for his grandfather R’ Asher (memorial records). Confirmed — Holocaust victims’ central names database, archive file 25052022_9244 (filled in 2020 by a family member), pages read one by one, pages 13 and 11
• Correction: in 1946 Nachum Brecher was a board member of Agudath Israel in Oradea; the report names Gershon Ulmann as chairman of the kibbutz committee there. Confirmed — Agudath Israel Romania report (1946) p. 25, HebrewBooks.org 37049
• In 1946 David Brecher headed the list of the Sighet youth committee of Agudath Israel (the listing is certain; that he is David b. 1923, R’ Asher’s surviving son, is Likely). Likely — Agudath Israel Romania report (1946) p. 36, HebrewBooks.org 37049
• R’ Asher’s son David HaKohen Brecher placed two printed dedications naming his parents, “R’ Asher ben R’ Meir HaKohen of Sighet and Pessel bat R’ Yitzchak”. His wife was Bracha Sima, daughter of Shraga Rafael ben Avraham David and Rachel Schwartz. Confirmed — Likutei Chaver ben Chaim vol. 11 (reprint) p. 256, HebrewBooks.org no. 20787; Divrei Yoel II (New York 1982) p. 415, HebrewBooks.org no. 20339
• The same memorial lists R’ Asher’s household who perished at Auschwitz: Pessel; Freida and her family, Yitzchak and his family, Yosef and his family, Simcha Eliezer and his family, the young Chaim Yehuda and the unmarried Leah, and Tema with her husband R’ Chaim — and Bracha Sima’s parents and their children Miriam, Tzvi, Yosef Mordechai, Leah and Mindel. Confirmed — Likutei Chaver ben Chaim vol. 11 (reprint) p. 256, HebrewBooks.org no. 20787
• Chaim Yehuda (Miksa) Brecher’s gravestone in Satu Mare (1940), with the priestly hands of a Kohen, reads “son of R’ Meir HaKohen Brecher”, aged 52 — so he is now Likely Meir’s son (was Possible). A survivors’ index names his children Jenő (Eugen), Zwi Hugo, Lázár Szimha László and Béla Adalbert, and his second wife’s maiden name, Kesztenbaum. Likely — szatmar.us Satu Mare Jewish database: Orthodox cemetery index (plot 16-01-01a) and survivors’ index
• R’ Asher Brecher is listed as a tavern keeper and a shopkeeper (mixed goods) at Strâmtura in the 1924–25 national directory. Likely — Anuarul Socec al României Mari 1924–25, Maramureș county, Strâmtura
• Pesel Kupferman’s mother was Chaya Rivka Lebovits (b. 1864), daughter of R’ Chaim Leib Lebovits of Strâmtura (d. 11 Mar 1891) and granddaughter of R’ Yosef Yaakov Lebovits (b. 1815), a chassid of the Kosov rebbe who moved to Safed in 1868. Likely — Shmuel Yosef HaKohen Brecher, Alei Zikaron no. 39 (2017), pp. 67–71
• Nachum Ze’ev Brecher (Farkas, son of R’ Asher) sat on the Oradea board of Agudath Israel in 1946, with a printed portrait — the first known photograph of him; in Bnei Brak about 1964 he was among the Kosov chassidim. Likely — Agudath Israel Romania report (Oradea 1946) p. 25, HebrewBooks.org no. 37049; Maayan HaChasidut vol. 1 p. 25, HebrewBooks.org no. 28214
• Yosef Brecher of Sighet, son of R’ Asher, had his engagement greeting printed in Leket Sheshana, Satu Mare, 1939. Likely — Leket Sheshana (Satu Mare 1939) p. 34, HebrewBooks.org no. 12962
• Markus Brecher’s wife Frida was born 16 May 1896 at Taraczköz (Teresva), daughter of Mózes Moskovics and Chaja née Dikker; they married there on 27 Feb 1918. Likely — JewishGen Hungary Database, Máramaros marriages, Teresva 1907–1925, Fund 1606, Opus 11, Delo 478, p. 77
• R’ Asher Brecher’s grave, Sighet: register entry 1971, “Asher Brecher, [parents] Meir and Frida, 5701, HaKohen”, grave 57, row 2, block 2. Confirmed — Sighet burial register (rebuilt 1972), sighet.org PAGE11
• Freide Brecher née Frohner’s grave, Sighet: register entry 1036, “Freida, [husband] Meir, Kohen, [father] Yosef, 5660”, grave 55, row 18, block 1. Confirmed — Sighet burial register, sighet.org PAGE34
• R’ Asher’s will tells his sons to say daily the words “of my uncle the Rav R’ Avraham David of Buczacz” (author of Daat Kedoshim). That he makes the claim is Confirmed; the actual kinship is Possible (the rabbi died in 1840). The will (p. 3, 1933) also shows a daughter still unmarried in 1933. Confirmed — R’ Asher Brecher’s printed will (Sighet, 1930s) pp. 3, 15, HebrewBooks.org no. 34687
• Pessel (Perl) Brecher, d. 11 May 1941, Satu Mare: her father was Eliezer (parcel/row/place 16-01-20, in the row of Chaim Yehuda Brecher). Confirmed — Satu Mare Orthodox cemetery catalogue, szatmar.us
• Two sons of Markus (Mátyás) Brecher and Frida née Moskovics appear in the 1945–46 lists: Emanuel (born at Brașov) and Jenő, both of Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș), both survived the war. The lists give the mother as Frida and as née Moskovits; no record names the father. (Not the same man as Jenő/Eugene Brecher, David’s son.) Likely — Holocaust memorial records, items 12759366, 7619416 and 7619518 (1945 list of Jews from Romania; card file of survivors returning to Hungary, 1945–46)
• Meir Brecher’s death is not in the Kapnikbánya deaths 1907–20 either, so the Kapnik deaths are now read from 1895 to 1920. Nagybánya town deaths after 1906 are not online, so a death there (he was in Nagybánya in 1913) cannot be checked this way. The Dobromil Unger rows in the Jewish records indexes add nothing beyond what the site already has. Searched — Romanian National Archives, Maramureș, Kapnikbánya deaths 1907–20 index (unit 13914907); JRI-Poland, Dobromil
• Pesel’s brother József Jánkú (b. 4 Jun 1898) and sister Amália (b. 5 Aug 1900): their original civil birth acts at Szurdok name their father Izsák Kupferman, merchant, born at Kolomea, Galicia, and their mother Hánna Lebovits, born at Szurdok — the same parents as Pesel. A margin note on Amália’s act records her marriage to Pinkas Zelig Fruchter at Strâmtura on 14 May 1937 (act 23/1937). Both acts are in the gallery. Confirmed — Strâmtura civil births 1898 act 49 and 1900 act 75 (Romanian National Archives, Maramureș, MM-F-00743, units 00458 image 144 and 00459 image 39)
• Pesel’s great-grandfather: R’ Shmuel Leib (Shmuel Aryeh) Bach, also written Bak and Junger, died at Bárdfalu (Berbești) on 22 Dec 1889, aged 78 (the death entry is Confirmed). He used both surnames, which explains why his daughter Pessel Lebovits is “née Bach” in one source and “née Junger” in another. He was sandak at his great-grandson Volf Kupferman’s bris at Szurdok in May 1889. His wife Szluve died a widow at Bárdfalu on 22 May 1894, aged 75 — possibly Pessel’s mother. Likely — JewishGen Hungary Database, Máramaros Vital Records (index of the original registers, Romanian National Archives, Baia Mare branch), Bárdfalu deaths 1889 Book 1107 p. 4 row 15, 1894 Book 1107 p. 10 row 2; Szurdok births 1889 Book 1101
• Pessel’s sister Chaje Szure Junger (also Bak) married Marku Tabak at Bárdfalu on 24 Feb 1887 (her parents Smiel Leb and Szluve); she died there in 1894. Marku Tabak was very likely the later father of Mihai Tabak, Tema Brecher’s husband (a note on Mihai’s page). Likely — JewishGen Hungary Database, Máramaros Vital Records (index of the original registers, Romanian National Archives, Baia Mare branch), Bárdfalu marriages 1887, Book 1104 p. 2 row 2
• Samuel Eilender’s naturalization file, Bronx County, petition no. 3671 (1915): Rosa (Brecher) Eilender born in Bukovina, Austria; the children Elmer (Alex), 18 Apr 1907, and the twins Josef and Freida, 6 Apr 1909, born in Hungary; the family at 169 Brook Avenue; Samuel a rabbi, a citizen from 28 Dec 1915 (certificate no. 647339). Confirmed — Petition for Naturalization no. 3671 (vol. 15), Supreme Court, Bronx County, filed 8 Jun 1915, with certificate of arrival no. 814011 and declaration of intention no. 24099 (Bronx County Clerk – NY State Unified Court System naturalization records, viewed online 26 Oct 2026)
• Searched, nothing found: the civil birth indexes of Kapnikbánya (Oct 1895–1909), Felsőbánya and Nagybánya (Oct 1895–1920) and Máramarossziget (Oct 1895–1912) were read whole, and no child of Meir Brecher and Freide Frohner was registered after civil registration began in October 1895. The only Brecher births there are ones already on the site. Any missing child of theirs would have been born before 1895. No Brecher death or second marriage of Meir was found in the same towns’ registers to about 1910–1920, so his death is still not found. Confirmed — Romanian National Archives, Maramureș County Branch, civil registers, fond MM-F-00743, unit name indexes read on descopera.arhivelenationale.ro (27 Oct 2026)
• Searched, nothing found (October 2026): no record yet names Meir’s parents, siblings or death. Checked: every Brecher row in the JewishGen Hungarian births, marriages and deaths (204 rows), the Bukovina births, deaths and marriages (271 rows) and the Romania vital records; the burial registry for Bukovina, Transylvania, Maramureș and Hungary; FamilySearch (Brecher with Sereth/Siret, Osias Brecher, Majer Brecher with Baia Mare); all 510 Brecher entries in the GeneaSearch Bukovina indexes (which include no Siret registers), all 1,475 Siret epitaphs, the Chernivtsi archive lists on Wikimedia Commons (none covers Siret or Storozhynets births) and the Storozynetz gymnasium roster 1911–14. The Czernowitz Meier Brecher whose sons were born 1878–1898 was a different man (his wife was Ruchel). His descent from Eisig stays Likely; the Kohen Brechers of Sereth in Bistrița (see Reuven Mordechai’s card) are a Possible collateral branch only. Confirmed — JewishGen databases and burial registry, read 27 Oct 2026; FamilySearch historical records; GeneaSearch Czernowitz/Bukovina indexes; Siret epitaph documentation; Chernivtsi archive (DAChO) fond 1 lists on Wikimedia Commons

Leads still being checked

These are possibilities only. They are not on the tree until a record proves them.

• Pessel Lebovits’s mother was possibly Szluve Junger (d. Bárdfalu 1894, aged 75), the wife of her father R’ Shmuel Leib Bak/Junger; no record names Pessel’s mother (Possible; JewishGen Máramaros deaths, Bárdfalu, Book 1107). Possible
• Hers and Szimon Lebovits of Szurdok each named a son Chajem Leb soon after R’ Chaim Leib died in 1891, so they were possibly his brothers or other close kin (Possible; JewishGen Máramaros deaths Book 1107). Possible
• Zanvel Katz, merchant of Felsővisó (d. 30 May 1890, aged 45), Samuel Eilender’s sandak, was possibly Eigye Katz’s younger brother (Possible; JewishGen Máramaros deaths Book 557, births Book 565). Possible
• Freide’s Frohner and Korber kin in Siret: Salomon Leib Frohner, a businessman of Sereth, and Chaje Sure née Gutmann had a son Uscher (born in Sereth about 1878) and a daughter Hudie, married in Sereth in 1901; a Moses Hersch Korber and Taube née Fischler, and a Mendel and Beile Korber, were also of Sereth. Freide’s parents were József Frohner and Reize née Korber of Siret, so these are very probably relatives, but no record links them yet (Possible; JewishGen Bukovina births, Putna 1903 and others). Possible
• Benjamin (Benő) Brecher, born about 1885, and Berta née Scharfstein had daughters Frida (5 May 1911) and Aranka (3 May 1912, died five days later) in Nagybánya, where Meir’s family lived. His parents are not given (Possible kin; JewishGen Máramaros births, Nagybánya, Inventory 1480, Book 20). Possible
• The 18th-century host R’ Yitzchak (Itzik) of Strâmtura (b. 1763) may stand above the Lebovits line through his son-in-law R’ Binyamin Abba (d. 1852) — the author’s own suggestion, disputed (Possible). Possible
• A pre-war photograph of “the Brecher family of Sighet” is held, not digitized, in the Brecher family collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (accession 2008.379), donated in Brooklyn in 2006 by David and Bernice Brecher. The record does not name the people in it; whether they are R’ Asher’s family is Possible (right surname and town). Possible
• Traditional kinship, unproven: R’ Asher’s “my uncle the Rav R’ Avraham David of Buczacz” is R’ Avraham David Wahrman (1771–1840). His published biographies name his parents, R’ Asher Anshel son of R’ David Wahrman of Nadwórna and Rachel daughter of R’ Avraham Rachlis, and his father-in-law, R’ Zvi Hirsh Kara, rav of Buczacz. If the kinship runs through the Buczacz side of the family (Lea Bernstein’s parents, Benjamin Hersch Bernstein and Chaje Frenkel), it would join the family to those 18th-century rabbis, but no record shows how they were related (Possible at most; Encyclopaedia Judaica, “Wahrmann, Abraham David ben Asher Anschel”; R’ Asher’s will, p. 15). Possible
• Traditional lineage, unproven (1600s): Y. Kamelhar’s Dor De’ah, reprinted in Sefer Buczacz (Tel Aviv, 1956), p. 74, opens its life of R’ Avraham David Wahrman with “ויצא חוטר מגזע המהרש"א” (“a shoot came forth from the stock of the Maharsha”). The Maharsha is R’ Shmuel Eliezer Eidels (1555–1631), rabbi of Lublin, Tykocin and Ostroh. The same page names the rabbi’s parents as R’ Asher Anshel and Rechil of Nadwórna. This is the only 1600s name found above anyone tied to this family, and it is not on the tree. Two links are missing: how R’ Asher Brecher’s family was related to the rabbi (his will says only “my uncle”), and every generation between the Maharsha and the Wahrmans, which the book does not name or say whether it runs through the father or the mother. Many families claim descent from the Maharsha. Possible at most (Sefer Buczacz p. 74, English translation on JewishGen; daat.ac.il, “R’ Avraham David of Buczacz”). Possible
• Jenő Brecher, born at Nagybánya on 24 Aug 1917, son of Benjámin Brecher (already a Possible lead for this line): a list of persecuted persons gives the same birth date and 18 Jul 1944, Mauthausen (date and place only). Possible. Possible
• Two infant children of a Feige Eilender, wool carder, of Felsővisó, Samuel Eilender’s home village: Rifke, died 21 Nov 1904 aged about two months (death act 162), and Elias, died 20 Oct 1908 aged 2 (death act 180); no father entered. Feige is the only one of the name in the county index, and the name Elias recalls Samuel’s father Elia, so she is possibly Samuel’s sister Feiga (b. 1870): records Confirmed, kinship Possible. Pages in the gallery. Possible
• Izrael (b. 23 Mar 1900, act 102) and Regina (b. 7 Mar 1901, act 73) Eilender, born at Nagybánya to Eszter Eilender, a cook; both births reported by Mrs Jakab Klein née Borcsa Eilender. Izrael died in April 1900, a few weeks old (margin note on his birth act, death register no. 101). Records Confirmed; kinship to Samuel Eilender Possible only. This Jakab Klein of Nagybánya is not Esther’s father Jakab Hers Klein of Felsőbánya. On Izrael’s act Eszter’s birthplace is not Felsővisó (it reads “Kolozser…”, most likely Kolozsvár), so she is not Samuel’s sister Eszter, born at Felsővisó in December 1867, though the ages match; that sister’s death in 1868 stands. Page in the gallery. Possible
• Leib Zalman Frohner died at Czernowitz aged 76, living at 26 Strada Sf. Treimi (Czernowitz civil death records, vol. 4, no. 770, Romanian-era register, 1919–1940; the record itself is Confirmed in the index). He may be the “Leib Frohner” who kept the Bierpalast hotel in Sereth, and his age would fit a brother of Freide Frohner — Possible only. Possible
• PENDING — Lea Brecher, born 21 December 1918 at Felsőbánya (Kereszt utca), birth act 93: father Mátyás Brecher, wood merchant, 32; mother Frida Herskovics, 21. Re-read on the register page on 26 October 2026: the mother’s surname is clearly Herskovics, and there is no margin note. The father fits Markus (Mátyás) Brecher, and the mother’s age fits his wife Frida née Moskovics (born May 1896), but no second record ties Lea to them yet, so she stays Possible and off the tree (Baia Sprie births 1907–1919, act 93, unit MM-F-00743-2-00621, image 310, Romanian National Archives, Maramureș). Possible
• Michael Korber of Mușenița, near Siret, on an 1807 list of Jewish peasants of Bukovina (Reifer 1938, p. 109, not yet seen): a possible forebear of Reize Korber and the Siret Korbers (Possible). Possible