Latest Finds

27 October 2026 (night): the earliest records, 1789–1799 (possible links)

• Possible — Earliest records: Isaac Kohan of the Suczawa Jewish community, which then included the Jews of Sereth, paid the toleration tax in 1789 (family 117); his son Samuel Kohen was born on 4 June 1789. The records are Confirmed and the scans are in the documents archive; whether he is R’ Yitzchak Aizik HaKohen or either Aizik Katz of the Siret stones cannot be shown, since no father is named.
• Possible — “Isaac Kahan” was found lodging at Sereth on 26 February 1799 (record Confirmed); Likely the same man as Isaac Kohan of 1789.
• Possible — Michael Korber, Jewish farmer at Muschenitza (Mușenița), near Siret, on the 1797 tax list (record Confirmed): the original behind the 1807 lead on Reize Korber’s card.
• Possible — Meir son of Eliezer Katz, a Kohen, died at Siret on 8 Tevet 5554 (11 December 1793; filed by the cemetery survey under 1794): the oldest Kohen stone in Siret that could be family, a Possible brother of Aizik son of Eliezer Katz (d. 1828). Both Aizik Katz stones (1828, 1831) were re-checked: both carry the priestly hands.
• Possible — Ida Brand née Brecher (b. 1870, Naszód), daughter of Hersh and Mita, added under Brechers not yet connected, with the conflicts in her sources left open.
• Searched — the 1792 tax book does not cover Sereth; no family names in the 1797 and 1798 Sereth lists; the 1774 Moldavian census has head-counts only for Siret; no Sereth Kohen in Hebrew books before 1836 (the first Sereth subscriber list, 1836, is in the documents archive). Nothing open reaches the 1600s.

27 October 2026 (later): Chana Itte Knobler’s family, the Fränkels of Buczacz, Oher scans, the Bistrița Brechers

• Confirmed — Chana Itte Brecher née Knobler’s family: her parents Israel Feiwisch Knobler and Sure Judith Frenkel married civilly at Gura Humorului on 22 January 1888; her brothers and sisters Chaje Bruche (m. Dawid Zellermajer 1888), Schmiel Jacob (1880), Abraham (1883–1954), Berel (1885), Feige (wife of Hersch Berenstein) and an infant brother (1878); Moshe (1875–1942, Moghilev) is Likely a brother. Riwen Mordche Brecher was the witness at his nephew Isak Zellermajer’s birth in 1897. The list is on Israel Feiwisch Knobler’s card.
• Possible — Abraham Bercie (Bernhard) Fränkel of Zabłotów (c. 1855–1907), son of Leibisch and Lea Fränkel of Buczacz, may be Sure Judith’s brother: same parents’ names, same town. His marriage and death scans are in the documents archive.
• Confirmed — the original scans of Israel Oher’s 1906 marriage and Dawid Oher’s 1910 death, both naming their parents Schmil (Samuel) Eliasz Oher and Feige née Gartenberg. Elias Oher’s place is now given as a Possible son of Hersch and Chaja (so Chane Pessel’s brother), or a Possible younger brother or cousin of Hersch; both stay Possible.
• Possible — Isser Brecher’s mother Malke may be Machle Brecher, daughter of Shimon and Sure Malka Brecher of Suceava (see Brechers not yet connected).
• Possible — a lead on the Siret Korbers: Michael Korber of Mușenița on an 1807 list (note on Reize Korber’s card).
• Confirmed records, not linked to our family — the Bistrița Brechers: the deaths of Iosefa (Pepi) née Amen, wife of David the distiller (1898), and of Fany née Goldschläger, wife of Ruben Brecher of Bistrița (1905); the marriages of Johanna (Chaje) Brecher to Ede Heller (1903) and of Izabella Brecher to Mózes Stein (1906); Hersch of Naszód’s 1893 marriage to Lola Weinberger; and Dr József’s 1898 engagement to Amália Landau. Listed under Brechers not yet connected, with five register images.
• New pictures — the Great Synagogue of Buczacz (1921) and the town in the 1920s, the Jewish cemeteries of Buczacz, Banila, Gura Humorului and Siret, a second view of the Great Temple of Siret, and the Great Synagogue of Stryj (about 1900).

27 October 2026: Malka Frenkel’s gravestone, Jankel and Edel’s children, the Oher family of Chyrów, Siret and Maramureș

• Confirmed — Malka Frenkel, daughter of R’ Aryeh, died at Buczacz on 20 Nisan 5666, the 4th day of Chol HaMoed Pesach: 15 April 1906. Her gravestone (section BB, no. 29) is photographed in the documents archive. Her place in the family stays Possible.
• Confirmed — two more children of Jankel Wolf Brecher and Edel Fischler of Rădăuți: Chaje (born about 1889; later the wife of Mechel Bernstein) and Rubin Marcus, who used his mother’s surname as Rubin Markus Fischler and married Amalia Klotz on 26 August 1920. Edel’s parents were Chaim and Resi Gitel Fischler. Whose son Jankel himself was stays Possible.
• Confirmed records, Likely identity — the Oher family of Chyrów: Schmil (Samuel) Elias Oher and Feige née Gartenberg (about 1803–1889, died at Schodnica), with their children Josel, Leib, Dawid, Chaje, Isak and Israel (born about 1824–1851). That this Schmil Elias is the Elias of the 1837 deed is Likely; he is a Possible son of Hersch and Chaja (so Chane Pessel’s brother), or a Possible younger brother or cousin of Hersch.
• Likely — Chaim Yoel Brecher HaKohen is named on the Siret martyrs list.
• Possible — two Siret gravestones of a Kohen named Aizik: Aizik son of Eliezer (died 23 March 1828, stone C-80) and Aizik son of Dov (died 4 July 1831, Sanie no. 251). Either could be R’ Yitzchak Aizik HaKohen; both photographs are in the documents archive.
• Possible — Mendel Korber of Siret was possibly a brother of Reize Korber.
• Possible — the family of Hersch Ferencz of Kováskápolnok (his wife Ilona Novi, their daughter Czili, born 18 January 1864, and his parents Bernát and Róza) may be kin of Háni (Johanna) Ferencz. The records are Confirmed; the tie to Háni is not. Six register images are in the documents archive, three of them of other Ferencz families of the village, which no record ties to Háni.

27 October 2026: Margaret’s sister Gabriella, the Brechers of Sereth in Bistrița

• Likely — Gabriella (Gabriela) Farkas, b. 11 Jul 1914, Margaret Brecher’s sister, is now on the tree as Morris and Gizella Farkas’s daughter: she married Leonard A. Creizman in the Bronx on 28 Nov 1936 (certificate no. 10234; the record names her parents Morris and Gizella Weiss), married Rabbi Emanuel D. Rothenberg in Queens in 1987, and died at Monsey, New York, on 12 Aug 2013. Her children Gloria and Larry are named only.
• Confirmed — the Bistrița Jewish registers, read on the original scans: Roza and David (1838), children of Hoschia Brecher, merchant of Sereth, and Malke Adelstein of Buczacz, were born at Sereth and entered at Bistrița in 1889. With them, David the distiller’s and Ruben’s families and two other Eisig Brechers. This is a research note on Reuven Mordechai’s card, not part of the tree; the link to him is only Possible. Six register images are in the documents archive.
• Likely — Hoschia’s male line were Kohanim (“ha’kohen” on two grandsons’ entries of 1897 and 1899); he died between 1880 and 1893, very probably by 1886; his son Hersch was a distillery owner of Naszód; Roza was the wife of Süsse Rohrlich.
• Searched — Meir’s parents and siblings: no record found in the Hungarian, Bukovina and Romanian indexes, the burial registry, FamilySearch, the Siret epitaphs or the Chernivtsi archive lists; his descent from Eisig stays Likely (note on his card).
• Likely — Josef Brecher (b. 4 Aug 1874, Siret) finished the Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi gymnasium at Rădăuți in 1898/99 (the index entry Confirmed; that it is our Josef Likely).

26 October 2026: Dr Avraham Ovadia’s writings, David’s 1928 ship list, New York death records

• Confirmed — a second portrait of Dr Avraham Ovadia (Gottesdiener), printed above his memorial notice in Netiva, 7 May 1951, p. 18, is now in the gallery and on his page, beside the 1941 Bamishor portrait.
• Confirmed — four more installments of his essay series “Darkhei HaMusar BeYisrael”, printed in Bamishor after his death (1 Aug, 8 Aug, 22 Aug and 5 Sep 1941), signed “Dr A. Ovadia z"l”.
• Likely — his student Dov Knohl’s 1941 memorial essay: he directed the movement’s counselors’ camp in the Carpathians about 1931, lectured at the Torah va-Avodah conference in Galicia in 1932–33, and wrote three articles for the Lwów booklets “Alim”.
• Confirmed — David Brecher on the Vulcania’s 1928 list: calling “rabbi”, born at Sereth, non-quota visa no. 344 issued at Budapest on 22 Nov 1928; possibly granted as a minister of religion (Possible).
• Possible — the same list gives Esther’s birthplace as Sereth; her birthplace stays Felsőbánya, and the difference is on the list of dates the records disagree on.
• Confirmed — New York State death index certificate numbers: Eugene Brecher (Ramapo, 26 Oct 1961, no. 73848), Pauline Eilender (Flower Hill, 18 Sep 2005, no. 066710), Malka Wahrsager (no. 47570) and Morris Farkas (Long Beach, 29 Apr 1970, no. 29193).
• Searched — no child of Meir Brecher and Freide Frohner was registered in Kapnikbánya, Felsőbánya, Nagybánya or Sighet after civil registration began in 1895; any missing child was born before then.
• Likely — a 1937 late registration of the death of Juda Hersch Frenkel, aged 85, at Buczacz in 1916, very probably the man of the Frenkel stone BH-28; kinship to the family stays Possible (image in the gallery).

26 October 2026: R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf’s own account of 1916–17

• Confirmed — Katuv Yosher (Czernowitz 1925) read for the war years: R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf fled Banila from the Cossacks on 18 June 1916, by way of Krasna, Fălcău, Seletin, Șipot and Kirlibaba and over Mount Rotunda; stayed at Óradna (Rodna) from July 1916 and at Năsăud for about a year from September 1916; and came home to Banila in September 1917 to an empty house (pp. 4, 9–15). He was away about fifteen months, not “years”.
• Confirmed — four pages of Katuv Yosher (the preface and the pages on Kirlibaba, Óradna and Năsăud) are now in the gallery.
• Possible — the Otzar HaChochma booklist lists the same Katuv Yosher, by the same author, as Kraków 1902; the date cannot be right (the book tells of 1916–17), very likely a catalogue error.
• Possible — the year of his Parperaot LaMikraot: about 1930 on the site, 5699 [1938–39] in the Otzar HaChochma booklist; both kept under “Dates the records disagree on”.
• Possible — two family histories of the Safed Brechers say R’ Avraham of Safed was possibly the father of R’ Tzvi Hirsch Brecher of Safed; no record joins them, and they are not added to the tree.
• Possible — Diana Brecher’s 1906 Czernowitz marriage entry, read on the original, names the groom Aharon Kressel as a widower, son of the late Abraham Leib Kressel and Golde, of Tazlowice; the link to R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf stays Possible.
• Possible — a memorial list of Banila names a Yaakov-Zeev Brecher, possibly him (name and town only); added as a source on his page.

26 October 2026: Dr Ovadia’s books and two Szurdok weddings

• Confirmed — Dr Avraham Ovadia (Gottesdiener)’s portrait in the gallery is now the fuller crop from Bamishor, 29 August 1941, page 8, with his name printed above it.
• Confirmed — Dr Ovadia’s books, from library catalog records: his life of the Maharal of Prague (Jerusalem 1975 reprint, 195 pp.; Mossad HaRav Kook 2001, 269 pp.; first printed 1937–38, Likely) and his “Ketavim nivharim”, two volumes, Jerusalem 1942.
• Confirmed — a 1951 memorial notice in Netiva recalls Dr Ovadia as an educator of the Bnei Akiva and HaShomer HaDati youth movements and a leader of Torah va-Avodah and HaPoel HaMizrachi.
• Confirmed — Frajem (Frojim) Samuel Kupferman married Feiga Basch at Szurdok in 1919 (civil act 61, now in the gallery). The act names his parents as Izsák Kupferman and Chaja Rifka Lebovics, so Frajem is now Confirmed as Pesel’s full brother (raised with the family’s OK).
• Confirmed — the same act calls Izsák Kupferman “the late”, so he had died by late 1919.
• Likely — the first witness at that wedding, “Usher Brecher of Szurdok”, is R’ Asher Brecher, Frajem’s brother-in-law.
• Likely — “Mátyás Brecher of Kapnikbánya”, a witness at a Szurdok wedding on 3 November 1909 (act 19), is Meir’s son Markus (Mátyás), then living at Kapnikbánya.

26 October 2026: Beth Moses graves and Dr Ovadia’s obituary

• Confirmed — the Beth Moses Cemetery burial register gives the exact graves: Alex Brecher, Section 2, Block 18, Row 6, Grave 16, and Eugene Brecher, Grave 17, beside their father David (Grave 18) in the Yetev Lev D’Satmar plot. The register search is in the archives.
• Confirmed — Dr Avraham Ovadia (Gottesdiener)’s obituary in HaShahar, 18 Jun 1941: son of HaRav Gavriel HaKohen Gottesdiener, Rav of Chyrów; home at 25 Azza Street, Jerusalem; author of a book on the Maharal of Prague and of a finished book on R’ Eliyahu Mizrachi for Mossad HaRav Kook. It dates his aliyah to 1933; the site’s 1934 is kept beside it on the Conflicts list. Part of his essay appeared after his death in Bamishor, 29 Aug 1941.
• Possible — R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf Brecher of Banila may be the Jankel Wolf Brecher of Sereth whose daughter Diana (b. Unter-Stanestie, 10 Feb 1886; mother Libe née Rosenblatt) married Aharon Kressel at Czernowitz in 1906 (civil marriage); no record links them.
• Confirmed — Dr Avraham Ovadia (Gottesdiener)’s portrait, printed with his memorial essay in Bamishor, 29 August 1941, is now in the gallery and on his page.

26 October 2026: David Brecher’s petition for citizenship

• Confirmed — David Brecher’s petition for citizenship, no. 229724, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, sworn 23 March 1934 (already in the gallery), now written out: a neckwear manufacturer of 972 Fox Street, the Bronx; last foreign residence Budapest, Hungary; emigrated from Trieste on the Vulcania. His witnesses were Morris Chanales, salesman, of 864 Whitlock Avenue, and Sam Kaufman, painter, of 1070 Tiffany Street, each knowing him since 1 March 1929.
• Likely — the petition was filed with his certificate of arrival no. 2-208011 (one digit of the number is unclear).

26 October 2026: Samuel Eilender’s naturalization papers

• Confirmed — Samuel Eilender’s petition for naturalization, Supreme Court, Bronx County, no. 3671, filed 8 June 1915: a rabbi, living at 169 Brook Avenue, the Bronx; born 26 January 1877 at Máramarossziget; came from Hamburg on the Cleveland, arriving at New York 26 July 1909. Both pages are in the gallery, with his certificate of arrival and the Bronx copy of his 1910 declaration.
• Confirmed — the petition names his wife Rosa (Brecher) Eilender, born in Bukovina, Austria. This is the first record to give Bukovina as her birthplace; the site’s Kapnikbánya is kept beside it on the Conflicts list.
• Confirmed — it names their three children, all born in Hungary: Elmer (Alex), 18 April 1907, and the twins Josef and Freida, 6 April 1909. They are the same children already on the tree.
• Confirmed — he was admitted a citizen on 28 December 1915 and received certificate of naturalization no. 647339. His witnesses were Samuel Krotenberg (reading of the surname uncertain), livery stable keeper, of 509 East 136th Street, and Louis Dukat, barber, of 166 Brown Place.
• New conflicts, with both versions kept: his birthplace (Felsővisó or Máramarossziget), his arrival date (25 or 26 July 1909) and the date of his declaration (9 or 29 December 1910).

26 October 2026: Mollie Brecher’s brothers and sisters, and new American records

• Confirmed — Mollie Brecher’s father Selig Rudich’s 1920 naturalization petition names her brothers and sisters Bertha (1896), Minnie (1898), Yetta (1900), Louis (1902), Samuel (1904) and Isidore (1907); all are now on the tree. The petition is in the gallery.
• Confirmed — Harry Brecher signed as a witness at the wedding of Mollie’s sister Yetta Rudich and Louis Steff, Manhattan, 17 Apr 1921 (36 St Marks Place).
• Confirmed — Bertha Rudich married Chaim Szimon Lobel, butcher, in the Bronx, 31 Aug 1921; Louis Rudich married Lillian Shapiro in Brooklyn, 26 Feb 1928; Isidor Rudich died in Manhattan in 1920, aged 13 (certificates in the gallery).
• Confirmed — Selig Rudich and his daughter Ella arrived at New York on the Niagara, 23 Mar 1913 (both pages of the list in the gallery). Likely — Ella (Ethel) Shapiro died in Manhattan in 1919; Minnie very probably married Benjamin Feldman in 1921.
• Likely — Feige Rudich née Lobel appears as Babza, Babtze, Balza or Bertha in eight records; the 1920 petition gives 1 Jun 1866 as her birth, kept as a variant.
• Confirmed — Morris Farkas’s 1942 registration card names David Brecher of 1640 Topping Avenue as his contact, and gives Morris’s birth as 20 Nov 1887 at Gödényháza.
• Confirmed — Samuel Eilender’s 1918 draft card: 1034 Tiffany Street, the Bronx, born 28 Dec 1878, insurance agent for New York Life, wife Rose. Likely — the Eilender household in the 1915 New York State census.
• Confirmed — Solomon Farkas’s 1940 draft card: born 22 Sep 1915, living with his mother Gizella at 888 Fox Street (his grade on the site stays Likely). Likely — Aaron Farkas’s 1918 draft card, born 18 May 1876 (a variant).

26 October 2026: Pesel Kupferman’s family

• Confirmed — 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; his father Májer an innkeeper at Kapnikbánya; his mother Fáni Frohner already dead. The register page is in the gallery.
• Confirmed — Pesel was born at Szurdok on 10 Dec 1881 (her birth register; the 1902 marriage act says 1882, kept as a variant).
• Confirmed — a new sister, Szlova Kupferman, born at Szurdok on 6 May 1896; her birth act (in the gallery) gives their father Izsák as a grocer-merchant born at Kolomea, Galicia, about 1861, and their mother Háni as born at Szurdok about 1864.
• Likely — three more of Pesel’s brothers and sisters: Perel (1887), Chajem Leb (1891, named for his late grandfather) and Frajem Samuel (1894); Confirmed — József Jánkú (1898) and Amália (1900), from their own birth acts (see below).
• Likely — six more children of R’ Chaim Leib Lebovits: Iczik, Salamon, Szura, Roza, Joszef Jakob and Neche; his civil death entry, 11 Mar 1891, agrees with his stone (Confirmed).
• Confirmed — Samuel Eilender’s mother Eigye Katz died at Felsővisó on 18 Jan 1877, aged 36; Likely — three more of her children: Alter and Devojra (both died Dec 1867) and Reize (b. 1874).
• Likely — Jakob Fogel, born at Nagybánya in 1894, the eldest child of Mihály Fogel and Berta Klein; and the Nagybánya birth entry of “Sara”, daughter of Jakob Klein, 25 Dec 1886 — very probably Esther.
• Confirmed — Pesel’s brother József Jánkú (b. 1898) and sister Amália (b. 1900): their original birth acts name the same parents, Izsák Kupferman of Kolomea and Hánna Lebovits of Szurdok (both acts in the gallery). Amália married Pinkas Zelig Fruchter at Strâmtura on 14 May 1937 (margin note on her act).
• Likely — Pesel’s great-grandfather R’ Shmuel Leib (Shmuel Aryeh) Bach, also written Bak and Junger, died at Bárdfalu on 22 Dec 1889, aged 78 (the death entry Confirmed); he used both surnames, which explains “née Bach” and “née Junger” for his daughter Pessel. He was sandak at his great-grandson Volf Kupferman’s bris in May 1889.
• Likely — Pessel’s sister Chaje Szure Junger/Bak, who married Marku Tabak in 1887; so Mihai Tabak’s father very likely had a first family (now Likely, on Mihai’s page). Possible — Szluve Junger (d. 1894) was possibly Pessel’s mother; Zanvel Katz (d. 1890) was possibly Eigye Katz’s brother.

26 October 2026: stones, census sheets and citizenship papers

• Confirmed — Yute bat Baruch’s gravestone, K-51 in the Siret New Jewish Cemetery, re-read and now shown: “granddaughter of the Rav R’ Yaakov Zeev of Sereth”, died 26 Tevet 5674 (24 Jan 1914).
• Confirmed — Pessel (Perl) Brecher’s stone in Satu Mare (plot 16-01-20, beside Chaim Yehuda’s row): daughter of Eliezer, died 11 May 1941.
• Confirmed — Arthur S. Brecher died on 11 Feb 2021; he and his wife Laura Alma née Lyman (born 26 Oct 1932, died 31 May 2013) share one Brecher stone at Toledo Hebrew Cemetery, Ohio (that Laura is his wife stays Likely). The stone’s birth date for Arthur (30 Mar 1928) is noted as a variant.
• Confirmed — Todres (Theodor) Gottesdiener’s grave marker in Vienna (Gate IV 21/38/55); its birth year 1876 is noted as a variant of 4 Oct 1875.
• Confirmed — the first papers of Harry Brecher (21 Nov 1910, last residence Radautz) and Samuel Eilender (9 Dec 1910, last residence Kapnik), New York County.
• Confirmed — Leon Brecher’s 1942 draft card in Baltimore, and census sheets for Alex and Anna (1940, the Bronx), Harry and Mollie (1920, 1930) and Leon and Fannie (1930, 1940).
• Confirmed — the birth acts of Mathild, Blanka, József and Sándor Klein at Felsőbánya (1908–1913): every date on the site checked against the register.
• Likely — Lucille Schwartz, daughter of Charles Schwartz and Ida Brecher Schwartz (1940 census, Brooklyn); Possible — a son, Marvin Schwartz (index only).
• Likely — Morris Farkas’s grave at Beth Moses (Sinai Fraternal Order plot, the same society plot as Kallmann Wahrsager) and Aaron Farkas’s at Mount Hebron, Flushing.
• New pictures of the family’s towns: the synagogue of Nagybánya, the village of Szurdok (Strâmtura), Nagysomkút, Storozynetz about 1915, Moghilev’s synagogue and a Jewish cemetery of Satu Mare.

26 October 2026: the Glasbergs of Drohobycz

• Confirmed — three more children of Samuel Glasberg and Hinde née Wahrsager, Jacob Lische Wahrsager’s daughter: Keile Sara (born 1879, died 1880), Jacob Elische (born 1882, died 1890) and Chaja Lea (about 1867–1934); each entry names both parents (Drohobycz Jewish registers, AGAD Warsaw, fond 300, via JRI-Poland).
• Confirmed — Nusen Glasberg, Hinde’s son, married Beile Leichtmann of Gródek (civil marriage 1900, naming his parents); their children, born at Drohobycz: Majlach (1890–1907), Freuda (1892, died at three days; Likely), Henia (1893), Sara (1895), Moses (1897), Jakób Lische (1899), Chana Pessel (1902), Israel (1905; Likely) and Hinde (1909).
• Confirmed — Machle Glasberg was born in 1877 and married Markus Josef Neger at Drohobycz in 1901; their son Israel was born in 1906, and a daughter Lea Hinde in 1905 (Likely).
• Confirmed — Jossel Glasberg (recte Wahrsager), born about 1872, is a son of Samuel Glasberg and Hinde née Wahrsager: his 1901 marriage at Drohobycz names both parents (marriages 1901, akt 5, sygn. 2113; index row; image not viewed). He was listed before as a Possible lead.
• Still Possible — Lea Brecher (born 1918, Felsőbánya): the register page was re-read and the mother is entered as Frida Herskovics; no second record yet ties her to Markus and Frida, so she stays off the tree.

26 October 2026: Banila and Felsőbánya

• Likely — Ciarne and Israel, daughter and son of Isak (Yitzchak) Brecher of Banila and Dora née Haber: the August 1941 Storojineț ghetto register lists the four together at Malcinschi 13B, Ciarne and Israel born in Banila (sheet picture 490; transcription by Naftali Zloczower, pp. 5–6). The public catalog of Isak’s restitution file at the National Library of Israel (URO-TA-Pers-2247; closed, not read) also names his son Israel. Name and relation only.
• Confirmed — Izrael Áron Fogel, born 18 May 1904 in Felsőbánya, son of Mihály Fogel and Erzsébet (Berta) née Klein, Esther’s sister (birth act 91, Romanian National Archives, Maramureș).
• Confirmed — Zoltán Fogel, born 21 February 1907 in Felsőbánya, son of Mihály Fogel and Berta Klein (birth act 46); he died in May 1907 (death act 76/1907 in the margin; Likely).
• Confirmed — an unnamed son of Mihály and Berta Fogel, born and died 20 January 1906 in Felsőbánya (birth act 11).
• Likely — the Jakob Brecher of Gold’s Banila chapter, a Talmud scholar with a library of almost 5,000 volumes, is R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf; the chapter, told by Isaak Brecher of Givatayim, does not itself say how the two men were related.

25 October 2026, evening: R’ Aryeh’s full name

• Confirmed — The top ancestor of the line, the father of the Rav of Sereth, was R’ Aryeh Leibush of Stryj: his son signs a responsum “Yaakov Zeev Wolf, son of the late R’ Aryeh Leibush” (Chedvat Yaakov, 1938, scan p. 184, HebrewBooks.org no. 32333). Likely, he died before Elul 5572 (Aug 1812) (scan p. 177; the year rests on one letter). He is not the later Rav of Stryj R’ Aryeh Leibush Horowitz (1848–1909).

25 October 2026, evening: Ester Michla’s stone re-read

• Likely — Ester Michla (Siret stone K-52, d. 29 Aug 1870) is Confirmed as the daughter of the Rav of Sereth, R’ Yaakov Zeev; that she was Rivka’s sister and that her mother was Leah bat Yehuda is probable, not stated on the stone (tombstone record 229638).

25 October 2026, late afternoon: three wordings made more careful

• Likely — The Siret stone BC-17 (“Rivka called Ruvtse, daughter of HaRav R’ Yaakov Zeev”, an aged woman, d. 20 Elul 5650) is very probably our Rivka née Salzberger, but it gives no surname or husband, so it is no longer described as certainly hers.
• Likely — Zvi (Hersch) Brecher’s father Reuven Mordechai is Confirmed; his mother is very probably Rivka née Salzberger, inferred from the Chedvat Yaakov introduction and the Siret stones; no record names his mother.
• Date conflict — Leah bat Yehuda died on the second day of Shavuot 5604 (stone K-48), which is 25 May 1844 by calendar conversion; the tree had 26 May 1844. Both are shown under “Dates the records disagree on”.

25 October 2026, evening: Mickey and Margaret’s religious wedding, Margaret’s grandmother

• Confirmed — Mickey (Nicholas) Brecher and Margaret Farkas had a religious wedding on 1 April 1942 in the Bronx, performed by Rabbi Solomon Teitelbaum of 961 Simpson Street, on the same licence no. 8896, seven months after their civil wedding at the Borough Hall. Certificate and the signed affidavit in the gallery.
• Confirmed — Mary Weiss (Weisz) of Sevljuš (Nagyszőllős), Gizella Farkas’s mother and Margaret’s grandmother, is now on the tree, spelled as on the 1929 Aquitania manifest.
• Confirmed — Morris Farkas was already a U.S. citizen by August 1929 (his wife and children are entered as “Wife/Child of U.S.C.”).
• Raised to Confirmed — the 6 September 1929 Aquitania arrival of Gizela Farkas and her children, Margit (Margaret) among them.
• Confirmed (index) — Rădăuți Bernsteins: Ruchel Ziwie Bernstein died 10 Feb 1900, aged 58; Benjamin Hersch Bernstein married Rifke Pikholz in 1902; Abraham and Jakob Bernstein, fruit dealers in 1909, very probably his brothers (Likely). Their link to Lea Bernstein’s family stays Possible.
• Likely — Lea Brecher, died at Rădăuți 5 Apr 1920 aged 80 (civil death index), is very probably the Lea bat Yitshak of the cemetery; she is not linked to David Brecher of Siret, whose wife was Chaje Breier.
• Confirmed — Izrael Eilender (b. 23 Mar 1900, Nagybánya) died in April 1900, a few weeks old; his kinship stays Possible.
• Possible — Leib Zalman Frohner, died at Czernowitz aged 76, may be the Leib Frohner of the Sereth Bierpalast and a brother of Freide Frohner (lead only).

25 October 2026, midday: Esther’s stepmother, a Ferencz lead

• Confirmed — Mária Klein née Cziment (d. 29 Jan 1915, Felsőbánya, aged 65) was the wife of Herman Klein; her father was Salamon Cziment, now on the tree. As Esther’s stepmother she stays Likely.
• Possible — Háni (Johanna) Ferencz’s parents were possibly Hersch Ferencz of Kováskápolnok (c. 1822–1898), son of Bernát Ferencz and Róza Weisz, and his wife Lája. His death record is Confirmed; the link to Háni is a lead only and is not drawn on the tree. Page in the gallery.
• Possible — The “Rezi née Ferencz” at whose son’s bris Mihály Fogel was sandak in 1894 is Terézia Ferencz, wife of Izsák Grozinger of Giródtótfalu (record Confirmed); possibly a sister or niece of Háni.
• Checked — Eszter Eilender, mother of Izrael (b. 23 Mar 1900, Nagybánya), was not born at Felsővisó, so she is not Samuel Eilender’s sister Eszter; Izrael’s kinship to Samuel stays Possible.
• Searched — Meir Brecher’s death is not in the Kapnikbánya deaths 1907–20.

25 October 2026, morning: two Bronx weddings, the Banila rabbi’s second wife, Esther’s family

• Confirmed — Mickey (Nicholas) Brecher married Margaret Farkas on 26 August 1941 at the Borough Hall, Bronx (licence no. 8896). Her maiden name Farkas is now Confirmed, with her parents Morris Farkas and Gizella Weiss. Licence, certificate and index pages in the gallery.
• Confirmed — Kallmann (Charles) Wahrsager married Ruth Seltzer on 10 March 1946 at 1440 Plimpton Avenue, Bronx (licence no. 2106); her parents were Charles Seltzer and Sarah Rosenbaum. The witness “David Brecher” of Eugene’s address: Likely our David.
• Confirmed — Eugene (Jenő) Brecher became a citizen on 22 May 1944 (petition 379085); his witnesses were his father-in-law Israel Zelig and his brother-in-law Paul Friedman.
• Confirmed — The 1940 census pages of Eugene and Elizabeth Brecher (305 East Mount Eden Avenue) and of Lucy and Paul Friedman with Paul’s parents (Monroe Avenue, Bronx).
• Confirmed — The move to Monsey: Eugene’s and the Friedmans’ families were welcomed on Lenore Avenue on 16 August 1951. More Yeshiva of Spring Valley items for David, Eugene, Alex, Anne and Lucy, 1952–1967.
• Correction, Confirmed — Esther Brecher’s 1962 dinner was the Bais Yaakov High School’s fifth annual dinner, held as a testimonial to her, about Sunday 23 September 1962 (not its first, not October); Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik spoke.
• Confirmed — Exact Florida dates: Esther d. 1 Nov 1980, Paul Friedman d. 8 Apr 1983, Lucy Friedman d. 21 Dec 1984, all Dade County (Miami Beach).
• Likely — R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf of Banila’s second wife Etil was Ottilie (Ettel) Brecher née Weissbach; her death at Banila on 20 July 1928, aged 60, is Confirmed, and her husband gave the eulogy at her grave. Page in the gallery. Her five sons named in 1928 are a Possible lead only, not shown as the Rav’s sons.
• Likely — R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf was back in Banila by April 1925 (“a notable Talmudist”), not only by 1929; Banila, July 1941 (date and place).
• Correction, Unrelated — The 1869 Czernowitz firm “Rifka Brecher” belonged to Rifka, wife of the Czernowitz merchant Juda Brecher and mother of Dr Ignatz Brecher (Wiener Zeitung 1 May 1869; Czernowitzer Tagblatt 21 Apr 1907 and 29 Jun 1909) — not our Rivka.
• Confirmed / Likely — Rifka née Salzberger as Eisig’s mother: Confirmed (1890 register and the 1869 birth entry); the Siret stone BC-17 is very probably hers (it gives no surname or husband). As the daughter of the Rav R’ Yaakov Zeev: stays Likely (strong); the Chedvat Yaakov introduction does not print her name.
• Confirmed — Ch. Joel Brecher among the donors to Siret’s Passover-bread collection for the poor, April 1897. Page in the gallery.
• Map — Banila on the Siret (“Banila p. S.” on Sefer HaAdam, Likely) and Mihăileni, which now includes Sinăuții de Jos, Isak’s birthplace (Confirmed), are on the map; Kamenka and Tereblești placed (Likely).
• Likely — Esther’s brother Jenő (Yehuda Yekutiel) Klein, a painter of Felsőbánya and Szatmár, with his wife Szeréna Róth; their daughter Ilona born 1914 (birth act, Confirmed).
• Confirmed — Three more children of Esther’s sister Berta and Mihály Fogel: Ferencz (1899), Sámuel (1901) and Menyhért (1903), from their birth acts; Mihály’s death in 1915 and his second wife Paula. Pages in the gallery.
• Likely — Two sons of Markus (Mátyás) Brecher and Frida née Moskovics, Emanuel and Jenő, survived the war and were in Marosvásárhely in 1945–46.
• Confirmed — Hinde Wahrsager, daughter of Jacob Lische Wahrsager, and her Glasberg children of Drohobycz (Hersch 1863, Nusen 1865, Moses 1867, Machle).
• Possible — New leads: Feige Eilender’s infants at Felsővisó (1904, 1908); Izrael and Regina Eilender of Nagybánya; Eliaz Unger of Kniażpol; Jankel Gottesdiener of Chyrów (1853); Dr Josef Brecher and Leiser Brecher of Siret; Mancie Brecher (1890); Jankel Wolf Brecher’s children of Rădăuți (1881–1889); Mayer Brecher (1874).

25 October 2026: the Volovăț mill and R’ Yaakov Zeev’s notes

• Confirmed — R’ Yaakov Zeev’s own Torah notes survived only up to parashat Va’era, faded; his great-grandson copied what he could and printed it as Chedvat Yaakov (1938, introduction pp. 5–6).
• Confirmed — The Volovăț flour mill Eisig worked was newly built around 1866 and belonged to the imperial stud-farm estate at Rădăuți (Bukowina, 24 Oct 1866, p. 4). Page in the gallery.
• Confirmed — In August 1869 the stud farm took the Volovăț mill back from its lessee “Juda Brecher of Sereth” and offered it anew (Czernowitzer Zeitung, 31 Aug 1869, p. 4). How Juda was related to Eisig: Possible.
• Confirmed — Chaim Joel Brecher’s Kamenka firm closed in September 1909 (Czernowitzer Zeitung, 8 Oct 1909, p. 4).
• Confirmed — Exact register references added for Eisig’s and Lea’s deaths and their 1890 marriage (Rădăuți registers, vol. and page).
• Possible — Jankel Wolf (Yaakov Zeev) Brecher of Rădăuți, with children born 1881–1889, may be Eisig’s son Jankel. A lead only.
• Possible — Leo Brecher of Gura Humorului founded a Jewish social club there in 1911 with Ulrich Frohner, alongside Moses Knobler. Kinship unknown. Page in the gallery.
• Possible — Noah (or Nathan) Salzberger was Siret’s salaried religious adviser 1807–1833; possibly kin of Rivka née Salzberger.
• Possible — Two collateral leads: Chewed Faust née Korber of Siret (possibly Reize Frohner’s sister) and Benjamin Hersch Bernstein, born 1876 (possibly Lea’s nephew).

24 October 2026, morning: two printed pages re-read

• Confirmed — Chana Ruchama, wife of Zvi Brecher HaKohen, was a granddaughter of R’ Yaakov Zeev, Rav of Sereth, through one of his sons. Her own son writes in Chedvat Yaakov that he is “the son of his son’s daughter, and the son of his daughter’s son”, and names his mother Chana Ruchama (Chedvat Yaakov, introduction p. 6, HebrewBooks.org no. 32333).
• Likely — R’ Pinchas Shalom Friedman, almost certainly Paul Friedman, Lucy’s husband, is listed beside R’ Yosef and R’ Shimshon HaKohen Brecher among the Monsey subscribers to Shuva Yisrael II in 1958 (p. 157, HebrewBooks.org no. 2943).
• Possible — A second “David Brecher” appears in the Kolozsvár list of Mevaser Tov (1915), p. 105, on the same page as David Brecher of Felsőbánya. Not yet known whether he is the same man.

24 October 2026, after midnight: Eisig’s marriage entry and three more children

• Confirmed — Photographs of the Rădăuți Jewish civil registers are now in the gallery: Eisig Leib Brecher’s marriage to Lea Bernstein (15 March 1890), Eisig’s death (1911), Lea’s death (1916) and the 1869 birth of their son Riwen Mordche.
• Confirmed — In the marriage register, Eisig names five children born to him and Lea before the civil marriage: Mania (?) 34, Jankel 31, Abraham 26, Ruchel 23 and Riwen Mordche 21. Jankel, Ruchel and the eldest daughter are new on the tree, and Riwen Mordche’s parentage is now Confirmed.
• Confirmed — The same entry names Lea’s parents, Benjamin Hersch Bernstein and Chaje née Frenkel of Buczacz, and her birthplace, Czernowitz.
• Likely — Meir is not among the five children. His descent from Eisig stays Likely on the other records, and the conflict is now written into the Bukovina page.
• Corrected — Pepi Brecher (d. Rădăuți 1906) was the daughter of Feige Brecher of Siret, so she was not Eisig’s full sister.
• Possible — Benjámin Brecher of Nagybánya (born about 1884), father of Jenő (1917) and Izabella (1918), is added as a lead for Meir’s branch.
• Searched — Pinkas Brecher (1906), Mordko Hersch Brecher (1906) and Israel Brecher (1868) were traced in the Czernowitz papers: each belongs to another Brecher family.

23 October 2026, late night: Mickey’s album and the Rav of Sereth’s book

• Confirmed — Three more photographs from Nicholas (Mickey) Brecher’s wartime album at the Library of Congress are now in the gallery: the Quartermaster Section sign at the New York Port of Embarkation, a “Stars and Stripes” army newspaper office, and a monument with his Third Infantry Division’s badge.
• Confirmed — The album photo of Mickey from 1943 carries the autograph of the film comedian Joe E. Brown, who stands beside him; the caption now says so.
• Searched — All 245 pages of Chedvat Yaakov (Marghita, 1938) were read for the Rav of Sereth’s ancestry. The book has no approbations and names him only as “Yaakov Zeev ben Aryeh”, so R’ Aryeh of Stryj’s father is still unknown.
• Searched — A Siret stone of Zvi Hirsh, son of R’ Asher Zelig (died 14 Kislev 5639 = 10 December 1878, section E, no. 13) names no surname and shows no priestly sign, and his father is not a documented family member, so he is not linked to this tree.
• Searched — The 1765 Jewish census of Stryj and the wartime Siret community files (copies of the Suceava archive files at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) have no name lists online; both need a visit to the archives.

23 October 2026, night: the Czernowitz papers again

• Confirmed — Samuel Wahrsager of Chyrów, timber merchant: his firm entered in the commercial register in 1899, and a spa visit in 1894. Kinship to Elias still Possible.
• Confirmed record, kinship Possible — Josef Brecher, candidate lawyer in Siret, acted as a minor’s guardian in 1910.
• Possible — Feiwel Brecher of Theodorestie (engaged 1905) and Simche and Jossel Brecher, named together in a 1912 court notice; no kinship stated.
• Possible — Isser Brecher, b. 1890, of Wolczynetz near Siret, prisoner of war in Russia, 1916 list.
• Searched — no record found yet for the parents of HaRav Gavriel HaKohen Gottesdiener, or for the mothers of Reuven Mordechai Brecher and Rivka Salzberger. Nothing new goes on the tree.

23 October 2026, evening — the 1600s, second search

• Searched — A second search for a 1600s ancestor found none that records prove. The tree still stops at R’ Aryeh of Stryj, born before about 1745. Only documented generations go on the tree.
• Possible — Traditional lineage only: a printed biography (Dor De’ah, in Sefer Buczacz, 1956) calls R’ Avraham David Wahrman of Buczacz, whom R’ Asher Brecher called “my uncle”, “a shoot from the stock of the Maharsha” (R’ Shmuel Eliezer Eidels, died 1631). Two links are missing, so it is on the Meir Brecher & Freide Frohner page as a lead, not on the tree.
• Searched — Sefer Stryj and the Siret stones were read again for R’ Aryeh of Stryj’s father and for the fathers of the two Aizik Katz candidates. Nothing ties any earlier man to the family.

23 October 2026, late afternoon — how far back?

• Searched — The hunt for a 1600s ancestor: the earliest documented ancestor stays R’ Aryeh of Stryj, father of the Rav of Sereth, born before about 1745. No record names his father, so the documented chain stops in the mid-1700s (see The Older Brechers in Bukovina).
• Possible — Two Kohanim named Aizik in the Siret Old Cemetery (d. 1828 and d. 1831) are candidates for R’ Yitzchak Aizik HaKohen, father of Reuven Mordechai; neither can be chosen yet.
• Possible — R’ Asher’s “uncle”, R’ Avraham David Wahrman of Buczacz: his printed parentage is now on the Meir Brecher & Freide Frohner page as traditional kinship, unproven.
• Searched — Dr Avraham Ovadia’s 1935 book and the Banila rabbi’s six books were read for family lineage; none goes further back than what is on the tree.

23 October 2026, evening

• Confirmed — Dr Avraham Ovadia (born Avraham Gottesdiener in Chyrów) married Marjem Wachs at Sambor on 3 February 1922; she was born in 1898 at Seretce near Załoźce, a daughter of Chaim Wachs and Chaja Itta. Read on the original register scan (AGAD Warsaw).
• Confirmed — Two more sons of Esther’s sister Berta and Mihály Fogel: Sándor (born 24 November 1896) and Móricz (18 November 1897 – 1898), both in Felsőbánya; Mihály was born in Magyarkékes about 1868.
• Likely — Meir (Mayer) Brecher was a witness at Kapnikbánya weddings in 1904, 1905 and 1906.
• Possible — Háni Ferencz’s family may be the Ferenczes of Avasfelsőfalu: Herman Klein and Mihály Fogel each stood sandak for a Ferencz grandchild in Nagybánya in 1892 and 1894.
• Possible — Frohner and Korber families of Sereth (Siret), very probably Freide Frohner’s kin, are now listed as leads.
• Correction — The family book now carries Elias Wahrsager’s corrected death date (11 December 1954, Bronx); a Buczacz stone date on the Bukovina page was changed (that reading was corrected again on 27 October 2026: Malka Frenkel died 20 Nisan 5666 = 15 April 1906).

23 October 2026, afternoon

• Confirmed — Hannah Brecher Rudman’s gravestone in Baltimore names her father “R’ Yaakov Aryeh HaKohen”, the same Hebrew name as on Leon Brecher’s stone; photos of her stone, Albert Rudman’s and their BRECHER / RUDMAN family stone are in the gallery.
• Likely — Selig and Fagie Rudich, Mollie Brecher’s parents, rest in the Storojinetz (Strozynetzer) society plot at United Hebrew Cemetery, Staten Island, Section 4, Row 3, Graves 3–4 (Find a Grave gives Selig’s death as 24 Jul 1927; this site 23 Jul).
• Confirmed — Harry and Mollie Brecher’s exact graves at Montefiore: Block 76, Row 8L, Graves 1 and 2. Margaret Brecher’s graveside service: 14 January 2020, Lakeside Memorial Park, Miami.
• Likely — Paul and Sabina Schiff’s plot (Mount Moriah, Fairview NJ, section P, plot 2–3); Todres Gottesdiener’s last Vienna address; Charles B. Schwartz’s dates (born 1876, buried 6 Feb 1976, one outside source).
• Possible — a section conflict for Charles Wahrsager’s grave at Beth Moses (Find a Grave: Section 3; the cemetery search: Section 2), to be re-checked.
• Confirmed (places) — New town pictures: Felsőbánya’s main square and two Kapnikbánya postcards (early 1900s), the Satu Mare synagogue in 1914, and the synagogues of Gura Humorului, Rădăuți, Satu Mare and Sighet today.

23 October 2026, late morning

• Confirmed — Joseph (Joseph Ira) Brecher’s 1911 marriage certificate with Annie Rita Jaffe (parents Jacob W. Brecher and Bessie Rosenblatt) and Miriam Brecher née Langsner’s 1944 death certificate are now in the gallery.
• Likely — Margaret Brecher’s Farkas family: her father Morris Farkas, her mother Gizella née Weisz, her brother Solomon (d. 1955), and her uncle Aaron Farkas (1913 naturalization petition and 1942 death certificate naming Solomon Farkas and Goldie Fuchs), with the 1929 Aquitania manifest and two views of Nagyszőllős.
• Confirmed — Eight more Berlin address-book pages for Elias Wahrsager (1910, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916), Isidore Geldzahler’s 1940 draft card, a 1963 Orangetown Telegram notice naming Alex Brecher, and the 1898 Dominitz × Reich marriage record (its tie to the Wahrsagers is Possible).
• Likely — Two Mount Hebron grave markers of the Max Brecher family: Eva L. Brecher (1944) and Morris Brecher (1974).

23 October 2026, morning

• Confirmed — R’ Asher Brecher’s portrait: the Sighet memorial book (Sefer Marmarosh, 1983) prints his photograph in its Sighet chapter, p. 23, captioned “ר׳ אשר ברכר”. Linked, not copied (the book’s reuse terms are not stated): https://archive.org/details/nybc314151/page/n182/mode/1up
• Confirmed — the facing p. 22 in Hebrew with a translation: R’ Asher was head gabbai of the Kosov kloiz and his son R’ Yosef gave the shiur in Gemara and Tosafot (on the Meir Brecher page).
• Confirmed — portraits of baby Usher (Asher) Brecher, b. 1940, and his mother Minda, Nachum Ze’ev’s first wife, both of Grosswardein, from the same family submission as the portraits of R’ Asher’s family (in the gallery).
• Confirmed — the Chedvat Yaakov introduction in the editor’s own words: the Rav of Sereth died 15 Iyar 5604 “aged eighty”; the editor was “the son of his son’s daughter and the son of his daughter’s son”, and his parents were Zvi and Chana Ruchama (on the Older Brechers page).
• Possible — a pre-war photograph of “the Brecher family of Sighet” in a museum collection, not digitized and with no names; and two Siret stones, Hana daughter of Yitzchak Aizik (1795) and Sachne Hinde daughter of Yaakov Zeev, as leads.

23 October 2026, night

• Confirmed — 15 more of R’ Asher’s family on the tree, from every Brecher page of the memorial-record file: Nachum Ze’ev and Minda’s second child; Tema and Chaim Tabak’s other three children (four in all, among them Motti); Chaim Leib’s wife and their four children; Yosef (Yossel)’s two children, both born in Grosswardein; Yitzchak and Frimet’s three children; and Simcha Eliezer and Devora’s baby of about six months, who perished in the ghetto. No first names are recorded for any of them.
• Confirmed — Miriam Brecher’s parents, Marcus (Mortko, Mordechai) Langsner and Beile, of Mihăileni, are now on the tree (her children’s Rădăuți birth entries, 1891–1900, and her 1944 death certificate). Miriam was born 1 January 1874 (death certificate; Likely) and died a widow in Manhattan on 6 February 1944.
• Confirmed — Abraham (b. Rădăuți 1864) as son of Eisig Brecher and Lea née Bernstein, raised from Likely: four of his children’s Rădăuți birth entries say so. He died before February 1944.
• Confirmed — Feige Rachel (b. 5 Jul 1890) and Jakob (b. 13 Apr 1893), raised from Possible: their Nagybánya birth entries name Meir Brecher of Kapnikbánya and Freide née Frohner. Likely — a Chajim Juda born there on 8 Dec 1887 to Majer and Freide Brecher.
• Confirmed — Rosa Eilender née Brecher’s 1948 death certificate names her parents as Meyer Brecher and Frieda Froner; she was buried at Beth David Cemetery.
• Confirmed — Mordke, son of Abraham and Miriam, died at Rădăuți on 22 February 1898, aged eight months. Izrael, son of Miksa and Zali, died at Munkács on 4 February 1924 (raised from Likely).
• Confirmed — Devora née Josef’s card now names her parents, Shlomo Elazar Josef and Sima née Zoldan, and her brothers Hersh Dovid and Elya (Eli) Josef, born in Salish.
• Possible — A Rifka Brecher, daughter of an Abraham Brecher, died at Rădăuți on 18 May 1892, aged 14 months; she may be a daughter of Abraham and Miriam. A Toni Brecher, daughter of a Mordche Brecher, was born at Mănăstirea Humorului on 18 April 1906 and died there on 17 February 1907; she may be a daughter of Riwen Mordche and Chana Itte. Neither is on the tree.
• Possible — A second source for Josef Brecher, the lawyer of Siret: the 1962 history of the Jews of the Bukovina names “Candidate-Lawyer Joseph Brecher” among Siret’s Jewish lawyers.
• Resting Places page — now also lists Ruth and Kallmann (Charles) Wahrsager’s graves at Beth Moses, Margaret Brecher’s at Lakeside Memorial Park, and Rosa Eilender’s at Beth David.

22 October 2026, night

• Confirmed — R’ Asher’s family from memorial records read page by page: Chaim Leib (b. Sighet 1921, married, with children, d. 1945; a memorial record, item 15040134); Leah (b. Sighet, unmarried, Auschwitz); Simcha Eliezer with his wife Devora née Josef and their baby; Yosef in Oradea with his wife and two children; Yitzchak and Frimet with at least three children (Frimet: item 15040135); Tema’s son Motti.
• Confirmed — New on the tree: Nachum Ze’ev’s first wife Minda and their son Usher (Asher), b. Oradea 1940, who perished at Auschwitz with their family.
• Confirmed — Margaret Brecher’s Hebrew name was Mindel bat Moshe; her yahrzeit is 16 Tevet (d. 12 January 2020). Her daughter Susan is married to Jack Gluck.
• Likely — Fanny Gensler’s birthplace “Cebasti” / “Kobesty” is very likely Kabestie (Căbeşti), a village near Draczinetz in Bukovina.
• Confirmed — Correction: in 1946 Nachum Brecher was a board member of Agudath Israel in Oradea, not its chairman (Gershon Ulmann chaired the kibbutz committee).
• Likely — In 1946 David Brecher headed the Sighet youth committee of Agudath Israel.
• Confirmed — Siret stone AE-66: Ester Base bat Baruch, d. 8 November 1882 (a sister of Yute bat Baruch only Possible).
• Correction — Lázár (Simcha Eliezer) Brecher is no longer shown as living: he perished with his wife and baby.

22 October 2026, evening

• Confirmed — Ruth Wahrsager née Seltzer’s burial: Beth Moses Cemetery, Section 2, Block 26, Row 5, Grave 14; Kallmann (Charles) Wahrsager is in Row 7, Grave 13 (the cemetery’s own interment search).
• Possible — A second Gottesdiener family of Chyrów: Nuta (a shoemaker) and Sura née Mai, with son Hersch (b. 1873, married at Lesko 17 Aug 1914) and daughter Freida (b. 1878, mother of Abraham Peisach Nagel, b. Mościska 24 May 1906). Record scans in the gallery.
• Possible — Chaim Jona Wahrsager, son of Feiga, married at Przemyśl in January 1908; a struck-through “falso Dominitz” after his name ties him to the Dominitz–Wahrsager family.
• Possible — Samuel Gottesdiener, b. Lesko 13 Apr 1905, merchant in Chyrów, son of David and a mother née Spira — very probably Wolf Gottesdiener’s brother.
• Confirmed — Dr Avraham Ovadia’s birth is entered in the Chyrów birth register, vol. III, p. 80, no. 31 (1893); his father Gabryel was the “szkolnik” (synagogue official) of Chyrów.
• Likely — Correction: Jochwed Unger married Izak Sauer on 31 October 1920, not in December.
• Possible — More Wahrsager and Oher households of Chyrów are listed on the Wahrsager page as leads.

22 October 2026

• Likely — Mordche Schabse (Schabs) Oher upgraded from Possible to Likely son of Hersch and Chaja Oher, so Likely brother of Chane Pessel: the 1867 Chyrów voters' list has him at house 29, the Oher family house (with the 1837 deed).
• Confirmed — Dr Avraham Ovadia (Gottesdiener), Elias’s half-brother: National Library of Israel “Avraham son of Gavriel, 1893–1941”; Neve Ovadia at Kfar Etzion dedicated in his name 8 Sep 1946 (photo in the gallery); Netanya’s Ovadia Garden is named for him.
• Confirmed — The 1853 Chyrów cadastral map (Przemyśl archive) added to the gallery, with the Wahrsager (house 207), Oher (29) and Gottesdiener (36–37) houses.
• Possible — Jakob and Kolman Ungar at house no. 87, Dobromil, in an 1850 Dobromil town list in the official gazette (20–21 Dec 1850) — the right age to be Leib Unger’s father or uncles; no record links them.
• Possible — Wolf Gottesdiener (b. 9 Apr 1912 Chyrów, son of David Gottesdiener and Elka née Spira) added to the Chyrów Gottesdieners not yet linked.
• Confirmed — Correction: Elias Wahrsager died 11 December 1954 in the Bronx (17 Kislev 5715 on his stone; NYC death index); an earlier reading of the stone had given December 1955.
• Confirmed — HaRav Gavriel Gottesdiener is Elias’s father: Elias’s 1920 Canadian arrival card (S.S. Grampian) names “Gawriel Warsager, Chyrów” as nearest relative, so Gavriel was alive in late 1920. Elias was going to a brother-in-law at 41 Arcade St, Montreal (surname not legible).
• Confirmed — In Berlin the family registered as Gottesdiener: daughter Röschen, born 29 Apr 1908, “Gottesdiener recte Wahrsager” (died 1909); daughter Erna died as an infant in Berlin, 1916.
• Likely — Elias’s mother was a Wahrsager (called (Sara) Mindel in a family tree — name Possible); her parents were very probably Jacob Lische Wahrsager, merchant of Chyrów (house 207 in 1853), and Chane Pessel née Oher, who died at Drohobycz in 1898. Chane Pessel’s parents Hersch and Chaja Oher are Confirmed — four generations above Anne.
• Confirmed — Gavriel’s second wife Feiga Dominitz was the daughter of Abraham and Ester Dominitz of Chyrów (1882 birth of Leib Jojna Dominitz, certificate addressed to Elias in Berlin); their daughters Chana Marya (1885) and Bluma (1887) were born in Kraków.
• Likely — Malka’s father Leib (Leibisch) Unger died at Kniażpol on 3 Jan 1918, aged 66; he and Rifke lived in Chyrów about 1870 (Chaja Lea Unger’s 1915 Przemyśl marriage, “daughter of Leiba and Rywka Unger”, Confirmed).
• Likely — Sabina was probably born 1 Sep 1906 in Dobromil, not in Berlin.
• Confirmed — Abraham Gottesdiener of Kraków (1876–1920) was the son of Wello and Chana-Lea Gottesdiener of Chyrów, not of Gavriel.
• Possible — Gavriel’s father may have been a Todres Gottesdiener, died before 1874 (naming lead only).
• Confirmed — Leon (Jakob Leib) Brecher of Baltimore’s family: son Max Isaac Brecher (1921–2012) and daughter Hannah Brecher Rudman (1927–1986) with her husband Albert Rudman (1920–2003), all in Leon’s 1950 household; son Herman Brecher, MD; grandchildren Philip, Allan and Mark E. Brecher, Barbara Goldfarb and Caryn Tapper. 1950 census page in the gallery.
• Confirmed — Leon’s wife Fanny was born Gensler (1895–1984; upgraded by her daughter Hannah’s Social Security record); Likely — Max’s wife was Beatrice “Bessie” Canter (1926–2001).
• Likely — Harry (Hersch) Brecher of the Bronx’s family: wife Mollie (Rudich), daughter Sarah (b. c. 1919) and son Arthur S. Brecher (1928–2021), professor of chemistry at Bowling Green State University, who married Laura Lyman (d. 2013); his children Sharon Spencer and Benjamin Brecher. 1950 census page in the gallery.
• Likely — Harry and Mollie rest in the Independent Bukovinaer society plot at Montefiore; Harry’s mother Miriam (Langsner) Brecher in the Bukaczowce society plot at Mount Zion.
• Confirmed — Eugene (Jenő) Brecher’s four sons in 1950: Gerald, Harvey, Melvin and Benjamin.
• Likely — Charles B. Schwartz, Ida Brecher’s husband: born 1876, buried 6 Feb 1976 (interment date; death date not verified).
• Likely — the book Ohalim is dated Czernowitz 1925, so the earlier note that it holds a eulogy for Etil (d. 1928) is now marked unverified.
• Confirmed — Harry and Mollie Brecher’s four children: Rachel (b. c. 1917), Sarah, Ruth (b. c. 1923) and Arthur, in the 1930 and 1940 Bronx censuses; Rachel and Ruth were Possible before, and Arthur’s link (“Seymour” in 1930, “Otto” in 1940) is now Confirmed.
• Confirmed — Harry and Mollie married in Manhattan on 27 August 1915 (certificate 19380); Mollie’s parents were Selig Rudich and Feige Lobel.
• Confirmed — Fanny Gensler arrived at Ellis Island on the S.S. Rotterdam on 19 January 1921, with Chaim and Heine Gensler of Draczinetz.
• Confirmed — Chaim (Hyman) Gensler and Heine (Hannah, née Herzig) Gensler were Fanny’s parents (raised from Likely: the 1921 ship lists and her sister Dora’s 1911 Brooklyn marriage); her daughter Hannah Brecher Rudman was named for her grandmother Hannah (Heine) (family tradition, Likely).
• Confirmed — the “Jacob Brecher” of Siret on the same ship that day was Leon (raised from Likely by his naturalization file); Possible lead only — the “Marcus Brecher, Siret” he named may be his father Riwen Mordche.
• Confirmed — Leon’s and Harry’s Social Security records; Max’s draft card gives his birth as 29 June 1921 in Brooklyn.
• Likely — Rivka (Ruvtse) née Salzberger was the daughter of HaRav R’ Yaakov Zeev, Rav of Sereth: a Siret stone (BC-17) of an aged Rivka “daughter of HaRav R’ Yaakov Zeev” is very probably hers (no surname or husband on it), and her husband’s calls him son-in-law of “the Rav of this place”; no register names her father.
• Confirmed — Malka Unger’s parents were Leibisch (Aryeh Leib) and Rifke Unger, merchants of Dobromil (1893 Gródek birth of her niece Ciwie Goldberg); Chaja Lea as Malka’s sister is now Likely.
• Likely — Chaim Jakób Dominitz (b. c. 1899, Chyrów), son of HaRav Gavriel Gottesdiener and Feige Dominitz, married at Medenice in 1931: very probably Elias’s half-brother. Gavriel had died by 1931.
• Confirmed — Paul Schiff’s parents were Markus Schiff and [Genta?] née Brawer, which explains his arrival as “Josef Brawer”.
• Likely — R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf Brecher HaKohen of Banila: very probably a Holocaust victim, Banila, 1941.
• Possible leads — Nathan Salzberger (Sereth teacher 1807–1833), Sosye bat Yaakov Zeev (d. 1896, beside Rivka), and two Frenkel stones at Buczacz (1906, 1916).
• Confirmed — R’ Zvi (Hersch) Brecher HaKohen left for the Land of Israel on Sunday, 12 Menachem Av 5668 = 9 August 1908, as his son records; he died in Jerusalem about ten weeks later (25 Tishrei 5669).
• Confirmed — In 1916, as a refugee, R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf paid for “half-boots for my little daughter, bat sheva’”: a young daughter (her name, Bat-Sheva, or “aged seven” — the name is Possible).
• Confirmed — Holon gravestones of Yitzchak (Isak) Brecher HaKohen (d. 9 Kislev 5739 = 9 Dec 1978, “in his 84th year”) and Devorah (Dora) née Haber (d. 1 Iyar 5753 = 1993): Block 17, Area 1, Row 27, plots 1 and 2. Isak’s link to R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf stays Likely.
• Confirmed — R’ Asher Brecher’s grave, Sighet: register entry 1971, “Asher Brecher, [parents] Meir and Frida, 5701, HaKohen”, grave 57, row 2, block 2.
• Confirmed — Freide Brecher née Frohner’s grave, Sighet: register entry 1036, “Freida, [husband] Meir, Kohen, [father] Yosef, 5660”, grave 55, row 18, block 1.
• Confirmed — 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 — 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 — Alex (Shimshon) Brecher and Anne Wahrsager were married on 3 April 1938, 10 p.m., at Burnside Manor, 71–85 Burnside Avenue, Bronx, by Rabbi P. S. Rottenberg. Both sets of parents are named: David Brecher and Esther Klein; Elias Wahrsager and Mollie Unger.
• Confirmed — Eugene (Jenő) Brecher and Elizabeth Zelig: Brooklyn marriage licence no. 3272, 1 March 1938. Eugene born March 1911 in “Baia Sprie” (= Felsőbánya); Elizabeth born 19 June 1918 in Romania, daughter of Israel Zelig.
• Confirmed — Samuel (Sámuel) Klein was born 22 July 1877 at Nagysomkút, son of Hermann Klein and the late Háni Ferencz (1902 act). Esther Klein was born at Felsőbánya and lived at Nagy Ilonda before her 1906 marriage; David Brecher was then at Huszt, and Meir Brecher an innkeeper at Kapnikbánya. Johanna (Háni) Ferencz stays Likely as Esther’s mother.
• Likely — Michael Goldberg (b. 1915, Przemyśl), son of Shalom Goldberg and Lea née Unger — very probably Chaja Lea’s son and Anne’s first cousin: Holocaust victim, 1942, Bełżec.
• Likely — Chaja Lea (Unger) Goldberg: Holocaust victim, 5 January 1943, Lwów (the record gives her birth as 1870, Dobromil).
• Confirmed — Chaim Jakób Dominitz (Gottesdiener-Dominitz), son of Gavriel and Feige: Holocaust victim, date and place unknown. His link to Elias as half-brother stays Likely.
• Likely — Meilech (Emil) Gottesdiener, born 23 May 1902 at Kraków: Holocaust victim, 16 April 1942 (record of the French Ministry of Defence) (the record is Confirmed; that it is Todres’s son is Likely).
• Confirmed — Malka (Mollie) Wahrsager’s alien case file survives: A2342952, National Archives at Kansas City (entry 21 Sep 1927, New York); it gives her birth as 18 Mar 1879, a variant of 2 Mar 1880.
• Confirmed — Leon’s naturalization file: petition no. 9144, Baltimore, filed 2 March 1927 (wife Fanny, son Max; name changed to Leo Brecher; admitted 13 June 1927) and his Brooklyn declaration of 13 June 1922 (665 Sackman Street). Both in the gallery.
• Confirmed — Leon was born at Gura Humora (Gura Humorului), Bukovina, by the right-hand page of the 1921 ship list, and was going to his brother-in-law Josef Dulberg, 1614 East 5th Street, Brooklyn.
• Confirmed — Fanny’s sister Dora (Dara) Gensler married Joseph Dulberg in Brooklyn on 12 November 1911, naming her parents Hyman Gensler and Hanna Herzog; Dora and Joseph are added to the tree.
• Likely — Fanny’s birthplace “Cebasti” (1927) and “Kobesty” (1921) are the same village, not yet identified.
• Confirmed — Max’s birth: 21 June 1921 in his father’s petition, 29 June 1921 on his own draft card; both shown.
• Confirmed — Harry and Mollie with Rachel and Sarah in the 1920 Manhattan census; Likely — Rachel, Sarah and Ruth in the 1925 Bronx state census; Likely — Sarah is the Sarah N. Brecher of 1919–1992.
• Confirmed — Nicholas and Margaret Brecher’s children Susan, Marylin and Kenneth (1950 census).
• Confirmed (print), kinship Possible — Froim and Fischel Brecher of Suczawa, flood-relief donors, Lemberger Zeitung, 31 October 1845.
• Unrelated — the firm “Rifka Brecher”, mixed goods, Czernowitz, registered April 1869 with Juda Brecher as manager (Czernowitzer Zeitung, 27 April 1869), was the business of Rifka, wife of the Czernowitz merchant Juda Brecher and mother of Dr Ignatz Brecher (Wiener Zeitung, 1 May 1869; Czernowitzer Tagblatt, 21 Apr 1907 and 29 Jun 1909) — not our family.
• Likely — Elias Wahrsager’s mother was named Sura (Sara): the 1914 Vienna Stadttempel marriage of his brother Todres names their parents Gawriel Gottesdiener and Sura (Confirmed for Todres). Todres born 4 Oct 1875, Chyrów.
• Likely — HaRav Gavriel Gottesdiener died in 1922.
• Confirmed — Gavriel’s daughter Bluma married Hersch Karpel (Surkis) in Vienna, 7 Apr 1920; sons Gabriel and Emanuel.
• Likely — Chaja Oher, Chane Pessel’s mother, was née Binderman (Chyrów land register, 1823). Possible: Zelman Oher (1804) as Hersch’s father; Elias and Mordche Schabse Oher as Chane Pessel’s brothers.
• Confirmed — an older Chyrów Unger couple, Salamon and Marjema, parents of Debora Limmer (d. Drohobycz 1900); Possible parents of Malka’s father Leib.
• Confirmed — Malka’s niece Cilli Goldberg married in Vienna in 1921; son Manuel born 1922.
• Confirmed — 38 new pictures and documents for Anne’s lines: Elias’s 1926 naturalization petition (“Annchen, b. 1 Nov 1913”; Montreal → Vanceboro, Maine, Jan 1921), his 1921 border card and 1922 declaration, the 1927 S.S. Majestic list with Malka, Sabina, Kallmann and Anne, the 1930/1940/1950 census pages, the 1942 draft card, Paul Schiff’s 1934 papers and portrait, tax photos of 1702 Clay Ave, 953 Fox St, 136 East Broadway and Burnside Manor, the Grampian, Berlin, Chyrów, Dobromil, Kniażpol, Drohobycz and Przemyśl, and three maps.
• Confirmed — the family’s Bronx home 1930–1940 was 1035 Tiffany Street; Elias and Malka were at 1702 Clay Avenue in 1942–1950.

21 October 2026, evening

• Confirmed — R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf Brecher HaKohen of Banila’s first wife was Liba, in his own words (Refuot HaTugah 1902, p. 5; Katuv Yosher 1925, p. 41). Pictures in the gallery.
• Likely — Yitzchak (Isak) Brecher of Banila (1895–1978, Holon), son of Yaakov HaKohen and Liba, is very likely R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf’s son and now stands on the tree under him, with his wife Devorah (Dora) née Haber (d. 1993). His stone: “in his 84th year” (Likely reading); a plaque remembers “my sister Madi and my brother Reuven”. Stone record: https://billiongraves.com/grave/%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%97%D7%A7-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%A8/14333290
• Confirmed — Zvi son of Reuven Mordechai (d. Jerusalem 1908) left four sons and one daughter (Sefer HaAdam p. 59).
• Likely — “My kinsman Shmerl Salzberg, son of Zalman Yehuda” and his bride Malka Rudich, in R’ Yaakov Zeev Wolf’s wedding poem: very likely Rivka Salzberger’s family (Sefer HaAdam p. 60).
• Likely — Malka’s “friend L. Saffern” was very likely Lea (Yeta Leah) Safern, wife of R’ Zvi Hirsch Safern of Bolszowce, the Wahrsagers’ neighbours at Saarbrücker Straße 33; both later buried at Mount Zion, Queens (Hersch 26 Nov 1943, Lea Yetta 18 Jul 1967; burials Confirmed).
• Confirmed — “S. Safern, Saarbrücker Straße 33” on the Zeirei Mizrachi committee, Berlin Jewish yearbook 1926. Picture in the gallery.
• Likely — The Unbroken Chain, vol. 7, p. 612 indexes Gavriel HaCohen Gottesdiener with Feiga Dominitz, our Chyrów couple.
• Possible — Leads in the 1790s: Isaac Kahan of Sereth (c. 1799) and Eva Fronerin of Sadagura (1797, the Frohner surname). Pictures in the gallery.
• Confirmed (coverage) — The whole 1797–99 Bukovina Jewish tax file has no Brecher in it.
• Possible — Atilie (Etil) Brecher of Óradna, a native of Bukovina, housed refugees in World War I; listed under Brechers not yet connected.

21 October 2026

• Confirmed — A witness signature “Eisig Brecher” in the Rădăuți marriage register, 19 Nov 1902 — perhaps Eisig’s own handwriting Possible, leaning Likely that it is our Eisig. Picture in the gallery.
• Likely — Chaim Yehuda (Miksa) Brecher’s 1940 gravestone in Satu Mare names his father, R’ Meir HaKohen Brecher; his children Jenő, Zwi Hugo, Lázár and Béla from a survivors’ index. Picture in the gallery.
• Confirmed — David HaKohen Brecher, son of R’ Asher of Sighet, in his own printed dedications; his wife Bracha Sima, daughter of Shraga Rafael and Rachel Schwartz; R’ Asher’s household lost at Auschwitz.
• Likely — Pesel Kupferman’s mother’s family, the Lebovits of Strâmtura, back to R’ Yosef Yaakov Lebovits (b. 1815), with the 1891 stone of R’ Chaim Leib Lebovits.
• Likely — First photograph of Nachum Ze’ev (Farkas) Brecher, Oradea 1946; Kosov chassid in Bnei Brak, 1964.
• Likely — R’ David HaKohen Brecher: Felsőbánya subscriber with Yaakov Tzvi Klein, 1915; supporter of Shem Eliezer, New York 1954.
• Likely — R’ Shimshon (Alex) and R’ Yosef HaKohen Brecher, Monsey subscribers, 1958.
• Likely — R’ Asher Brecher, tavern keeper and shopkeeper at Strâmtura, 1924–25.
• Likely — Mickey Brecher’s business life: Plus Marketing (1952), Marketing Systems of America (1983), two packaging patents (1967, 1974), the Brevoni brand (1969).
• Confirmed — CBS Miami, 2010: Mickey’s war diary, Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
• Likely — Brecher Bros.: TOMMY TRAVELER (since 1944) and PICO (since 1949) trademarks, the 1948 four-in-one luggage set, the 1953 Steraject kit case.
• Confirmed — Saarbrücker Straße 33, Berlin: the Wahrsagers and the Saferns under one roof in 1914 and 1925; Hirsch Safern there in 1927; Maria Wahrsager there in 1931/32.
• Likely — Chaja Lea Unger of Chyrów (b. c. 1870), very probably Malka’s older sister, married at Przemyśl in 1915.
• Confirmed — Samuel and Moritz Wahrsager, timber merchants and estate owners of Chyrów, 1891–1904; Szmul Alexander in a Chyrów deed of 1823 Possible link.
• Likely — Reuven Mordechai Brecher (1942) and Chana Itte née Knobler (1941), Moghilev, Transnistria; Frida Moskovics b. 16 May 1896, daughter of Mózes Moskovics and Chaja née Dikker.
• Confirmed — Chedva, wife of Yehuda Aryeh (Leiby) Brecher, died about 2014.

Brechers not yet connected

No link to the family has been found for these; they are kept here in case one turns up.

• Atilie (Etil) Brecher of the village of Óradna (Rodna), a native of Bukovina, who opened her house free to Bukovina refugees in World War I (Katuv Yosher, Czernowitz 1925, p. 20) Possible (kinship); the record is Confirmed
• Roza Brecher, milliner of Siret, trade file of 1937 Confirmed (record)
• “Verlag Chaim Brecher”, publisher of picture postcards of Stulpikany (Stulpicani), Bukovina, before 1918 Confirmed (record)
• Dr. Israel Isac Brecher, physician, graduated in medicine at Bucharest 1930–31 Confirmed (record)
• Abraham Brecher (b. 24 Oct 1874) and Jakob Brecher, pupils of the Ober-Realschule in Czernowitz, 1890–95 Confirmed (record)
• Hersch Brecher, born in Sereth, and Dávid Brecher in a Naszód company, 1891 Confirmed (record)
• Froim Brecher and Fischel Brecher, Jewish donors of Suczawa (Suceava) to flood relief, Lemberger Zeitung, 31 Oct 1845, p. 668 Possible (kinship); the record is Confirmed
• Rifka Brecher, owner of a mixed-goods firm in Czernowitz, and Juda Brecher, its manager, commercial register, Czernowitzer Zeitung, 27 Apr 1869, p. 3 Possible (kinship); the record is Confirmed
• Dr. Isaac (I.) Brecher, eye doctor at the Social Insurance clinic in Rădăuţi in the 1930s, published eye-surgery and medical-folklore papers in 1935–37 and was later in Bucharest; he grew up in a Bukovina village. No record links him to our family. (Mişcarea Medicală Română 1936 nos. 3–4 and 11–12, 1937 nos. 11–12; History of the Jews in the Bukovina, vol. II, 1962) · the record is Confirmed
• Etie (Eti) Brecher, daughter of R’ Meir, is buried in the old Jewish cemetery of Buczacz; her stone’s dates are worn away. No record links her to our family. (Buchach Gravestone Photo Gallery, photos P1010394–95, link only) · the record is Confirmed
• “Miss Brecher”, first named of the nine candidates at the first matriculation exams of the Jewish upper school in Storozynetz, 1919; no first name or parents are given (History of the Jews in the Bukovina, vol. II, 1962) · the record is Confirmed
• Natan, son of R’ Zvi HaKohen, died 25 Kislev 5619 (2 December 1858), buried in the Siret New Jewish Cemetery (section O, stone 27). A Kohen (priestly hands on the stone). No surname is given and no record yet ties him to Zvi Hirsh HaKohen (d. 1841) of our family — family connection not established. (Jewish Galicia & Bukovina, Siret cemetery documentation 2022, link only) · the stone is Confirmed
• Efraim Dov Ber, son of R’ Avraham HaKohen, died 19 Elul 5645 (30 August 1885), Siret New Jewish Cemetery, stone C-40. A Kohen; no surname on the stone and no record ties him to our family. (Jewish Galicia & Bukovina, link only) · the stone is Confirmed
• Avraham David, son of Yitzchak HaKohen, died 20 Kislev 5669 (14 December 1908), Siret New Jewish Cemetery, stone R-38. A Kohen; no surname and no record ties him to our family. (Jewish Galicia & Bukovina, link only) · the stone is Confirmed
• Isser Brecher of Siret, born 10 July 1890 at Sereth (Volcineț), merchant, son of David Meth of Sereth and Malke Brecher of Volcineț, whose surname he carried; married Rosa Surkes at Vicovu de Sus on 16 August 1921. Children in the civil births: Jacob (very probably “Kopel”) 1922, Malke 1927 and Chaim Schaje 1928; a son Hersch Melech is also named. The identification is Likely; his kinship to our family is not known (Radautz Vital Records Index, Vicovu de Sus marriages 1921, no. 13) Possible — Added 27 October 2026 (evening): his mother Malke may be Machle Brecher (b. Suceava 20 Jul 1863), daughter of Shimon and Sure Malka Brecher of Suceava and Sereth, who had children in 1880–87 with a Dawid Meth (b. 1848; they married civilly on 17 Jan 1906 and he died on 20 Jan 1906); Isser’s birth in July 1890 fits that run. Against it: the names Malke and Machle differ, and Isser was born at Volcineț, not Suceava. No record ties this Shimon to the Kohen Brechers of the tree (JewishGen Romania–Bukovina births, marriages and deaths indexes, Suceava) Possible
• The family of Brecher Dávid (David the distiller) of Bistrița, from the original civil registers (a household of the Bistrița Brechers; no link to our family is proven): his wife Iosefa (Josefa, known as Pepi) née Amen, born at Sereth, died at Bistrița on 19 November 1898, aged 59; her parents were the late Márk Amen, merchant of Sereth, and Róza Groper (Bistrița civil deaths 1898, act 239). Their daughter Johanna (Chaje), born at Bistrița on 22 September 1873, legally divorced from Mór Rosenberger, married Ede (Izsák) Heller of Nagyvárad, born there 9 July 1861, son of Hermann Heller and the late Rozi Gross, at Bistrița on 7 April 1903; the record names her parents as Brecher Dávid, spirits-factory owner of Bistrița, and his late wife née Amen (Bistrița civil marriages 1903, act 34). Register images in the documents archive. (Romanian National Archives, Bistrița-Năsăud County Service, https://descopera.arhivelenationale.ro/cota/?cid=9464644 and ?cid=9464641) Confirmed (records); kinship Possible
• The family of Ruben Brecher of Bistrița, merchant — not Reuven Mordechai Brecher HaKohen of our tree: his wife Fany née Goldschläger, born at Botoșani, died at Bistrița on 6 July 1905, aged 64; her father was the late Mendel Goldschläger of Botoșani (Bistrița civil deaths 1905, act 169). Their daughter Izabella Brecher married Mózes Stein of Kissebes, born at Galgó on 22 May 1876, son of Izrael Stein, at Bistrița on 7 October 1906; the record names her parents as Ruben Brecher, house owner of Bistrița, and the late Fanni (Feige) née Goldschläger (Bistrița civil marriages 1906, act 85). Register images in the documents archive. (Romanian National Archives, Bistrița-Năsăud County Service, https://descopera.arhivelenationale.ro/cota/?cid=9464647 and ?cid=9464642) Confirmed (records); kinship Possible
• Brecher Hersch of Naszód (Năsăud), distiller, born at Sereth, aged 47 and a widower, son of the late Hoschia Brecher, distiller, and Munia, married Lola Weinberger of Kolozsvár, aged 42 and a widow, daughter of the late Pál Weinberger and Jozefa Heller, at Kolozsvár (Cluj) on 21 November 1893. Kept apart from every other Hersch Brecher record. Register image in the documents archive. (Romanian National Archives, Cluj, https://descopera.arhivelenationale.ro/cota/?cid=13907026) Confirmed (record); kinship Possible
• Dr Brecher József, lawyer at Bistrița (Besztercze-Naszód county), engaged to Amália, daughter of M. Gyula Landau, wholesale merchant of Brody (Magyar Polgár, Kolozsvár, 30 August 1898, p. 5, https://dspace.bcucluj.ro/handle/123456789/127586). An engagement notice, not a marriage record; his parents are not named Confirmed (record); kinship Possible
• Ida Brand née Brecher, born 1870 at Naszód (Năsăud), daughter of Hersh and Mita Brecher; lived at Erfurt and Budapest; died 1945. From a memorial record kept by her family, which is a later family account rather than a civil record. Left open: that record names her husband Moshe, while other sources name Max (Miksa) Brand; and it gives Bergen-Belsen as the place of death, while the transport and death lists give Tröbitz. Whether her father is Hersch Brecher of Naszód, of the Bistrița Brechers above, is not established Possible