OUR darling mother, Bella Codron, gave us everything. Not only did she give us life, but she showed us how to live it, always an unassuming yet powerful example of kindness, generosity and humility.
Not only did she give us love, but she showed us the importance of loving others, always looking for the good in others and being there for others.
She was a totally dedicated and devoted wife, mother, daughter, daughter in-law, aunt, sister and friend, who truly cared for and touched all who knew her.
Mum was a warm and caring person who loved being surrounded by her family and friends. She was truly a “people person”, gaining much joy and fulfilment from sharing in the lives of others, especially those of her immediate family. Read the full story
SYDNEY Benjamin OAM was born on September 13, 1912 and lived a full life until passing away on Wednesday June 24, 2009.
Syd was a family man, religious Jew, businessman, author, actor, photographer, charity worker, social organiser, teacher of public speaking in Rostrum, high-ranking Freemason, world traveller and fanatical Saints’ supporter, to name a few of his interests.
As president for 10 years of the Jewish Young People’s Association (JYPA), he introduced many to their future life partners. This was the major Jewish social club in the 1930s and 1940s, which attracted thousands to its events. It was at JYPA that he met his wife Belle. Read the full story
DR Simon Schnall, a well-respected and admired family doctor who dedicated his life to helping others, has passed away at the age of 56. He was one of the last of the old-fashioned solo GPs.
Simon was born in 1952 in Australia to Klara and Gershon Schnall, who migrated here after the Holocaust in 1950. His first language was Yiddish and he grew up in a traditional Jewish household with a very strong sense of Jewish identity. He always believed in donating and supporting Jewish charities and causes.
Simon’s intellectual abilities earned him a scholarship through Melbourne High. Unfortunately, both his parents passed away when he was just 18 years old, in 1971.
BEN Fink, who passed away aged 84 after a long illness, could safely be described as one of the founding fathers of the profession of consulting engineering in Australia.
Yet Ben came from relatively humble origins, born in Bialystok, Poland, and arriving with his family as a migrant from strife-torn Europe as a nine-year-old boy in 1933. He was the first in his family to learn to speak English on arrival and interpreted for his parents during regular family outings such as shopping. Read the full story
If you would like to trace someone, email Samantha Mimeran at the AJN with the details. And let us know if you succeed in tracking down your lost relative or friend.
New listings for week ending November 27, 2009: Baswitz/Baswick, Deutsch, Manasseh,Olivenshtein (Olivestone), Reppen/Rintels.
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AARONS
I have been doing some research on Barton Carter, a young American who worked to protect Spanish children in Puigcerda, Spain, for the Foster Parents Plan for Spanish Children.
I have come across the names of Sam Aarons and Esme dgers, both Australians, and both active in Spain in 1937-39.
I would appreciate any help in contacting Mark Aarons, who is Sam Aarons’ grandson, so that I might ask a few questions concerning his grandfather’s stay in Spain 1937-38, and whether he has any papers or diaries from that period of his life.
I AM searching for Stephan Baer, son of Paul Simon Baer and Gretel Kirchheimer, who were married in Sydney in 1940.
Gretel Kirchheimer came from Grombach, Baden, Germany in 1939.
She was a distant cousin of mine and I would like to reach Stephan for genealogical purposes. If he is not living any longer, I would appreciate information about any children.
I AM trying to find my relatives who emigrated to Sydney in 1948 from London, and prior to that from Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
The original surname was Baswitz, but I have found a burial record for Herbert Baswick, born May 9, 1911, died November 23, 1973 and buried at Rookwood Cemetery on December 20, 1973. He was married to Betty Czarlinski.
I am trying to locate their two daughters, Barbara Helen and Jennifer Claudette, who should still be alive as they were born in 1940 and 1944, but if they married, they will have different surnames now.
Herbert Baswitz/Baswick and his brother Heinz Baswitz were interned in Australia having arrived by sea on the Dunera.
WHEN Ezra Branitzky, a cousin of my grandmother, left Palestine around 1915 to come to Australia, we lost connection with him.
Ezra was born 1892 and probably changed his name in Australia to Bran or similar.
I know of one daughter, named Devorah. Any information on relatives and descendants would be appreciated.
MY grandfather’s younger brother, Maurice Moss, left Hull, England, for Australia in the early 1900s. In about 1915 he married Rebecca Lasker in Sydney. They had a daughter, Naomi Rose Moss.
Maurice is thought to have died in the 1950s and Naomi married Stephen Sato Beerman (or Beherman) in about 1956.
If anyone knows of Naomi and Stephen, please contact me.
MY name is Rosine Krovic and I live in Belgium. I would like to know whether one of my aunts, Dora Berkowicz, who lives in Melbourne, is still alive.
She is the sister of my mother, Therese Berkowicz, who unfortunately was exterminated in Auschwitz.
The last letter I received from her is dated April 1988. At that time, she lived at 16 Martin Road, Glen Iris, and she wrote that she was married to Mr Wise.
I AM looking for Leon/Leonard Cramer. He was born in the UK in the early 1920s and left to settle in Australia in 1950. His parents were Barry and Leah.
I’M seeking the descendents of Samuel John Defries, who was born in London in 1834 and died in Sydney in 1906, and Annie Defries (nee Williams), who died in Sydney in 1889.
Their children were:
Mary Agnes Defries; William Alexander Coleman Defries (married Annie Corrigan in 1884); Julia Flora Defries (married Frederick King Lea in 1887); Jonas (John) C S Defries; George Moss Defries; Samuel Henry Reginald Defries (married Sarah Rose Hannah Piccles in 1898); Leopold Hamlet Defries (married Essie Esther Lehman in 1910); Annie Gertrude Defries (married Leonard Lewis Davis Marks in 1902).
Julia Flora Lea was my great-great-grandmother and I would love to make contact with any other relations.
LOOKING for Boris/Yuri Engel, born 1943-1945 in Sinel’nikovo, Ukraine. His father’s name was Benjamin or Alexander Engel.
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
(03) 8327 7883 (case number 54319) Listed: July 22 2008
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FELLOWS
I AM trying to trace my own Jewish roots in Melbourne through the Fellows family.
I met the family once in 1956 and recently researched the surname through immigration records and believe they may have been Bertha Fellows, Enoch Fellows, John Fellows and Peter Fellows, who arrived in Melbourne from London on September 24, 1929.
I WOULD appreciate it if any descendants of Mania Kaczor Fox would contact me.
Mania, the daughter of Israel Kaczor and Sara Geszwind, migrated to Australia from Warsaw, Poland, in June 1938, arriving in Melbourne on the liner Oronsay.
In 1986, while living in the Montefiore Home for the Aged in Melbourne, Mania filed Yad Vashem “pages of testimony” for her siblings who were killed in the Holocaust.
HADASSAH LIPSIUS
Kew Gardens Hills
New York, USA lipsius@verizon.net Listed:May 8, 2009
FUCHS
PETR Erben from Prague and Israel is looking for his cousin Dr Emil Fuchs, who he thinks arrived in Melbourne around 1938 with his daughter.
MY name is Liat Naeh and I am looking for a long lost friend of my grandmother Suzy Luckas.
His name is Andrew, Andre or Andras Furst (or maybe it has changed) and he was born in Budapest around 1927, possibly on March 8.
My grandmother’s name at the time was Zuza (or Szusza) Gabor.
I only know that they were neighbours and good friends, and that around World War II, or perhaps only when the war was over, Andrew managed to move to Australia.
He came back to visit Budapest once after that.
I do realise that I know very little about this person, but my grandmother has recurrent dreams about him, and he is the subject of her paintings. I wish I could track him down for her.
MY mother Thomai’s maiden name is Marinos and she was born in Argos Orestikon, a small town about 12 kilometres outside of Kastoria, in north-western Greece.
I was born on December 23, 1963 and I was baptised as a Greek Orthodox Christian.
However, about five years ago I was stunned to find out that Kastoria possessed one of the largest Jewish communities of any city except Salonica (in Greece) until the Shoah.
It has been pointed out to me that the Portuguese Jews who forcibly converted to Christianity were called Marranos.
So I was wondering if anyone had any Jewish roots from Kastoria, Greece and could shed some light on the matter.
I AM looking for Harold and Alice Goldberg, who emigrated from Zimbabwe (still Rhodesia then) to Australia in the late ’70s. They would be in their early 60s today.
I WOULD like to find my cousin Michael Goodman (Werbitski), who migrated to Australia in the late 1950s. His father’s name was Issey and he was a baker who passed away in his mid-50s.
His mother’s name was Marge. His grandfather’s name was George and his grandmother was Sara. He had many uncles and aunts.
I am his cousin Cyril, my mother was Kitty and my father was Max.
AS part of genealogical research, I’m looking for my mother’s cousin, Sylvia Heid (born Poliacoff/Polacoff).
She was born in Constanta, Romania, in 1928. Sylvia married Leon Heid and they immigrated with their son Alfred to Australia on June 13, 1952.
Their last-known address (in October 1958) was 9 Small Street, Ryde, NSW. If you know the family, please forward my request to the family or contact me.
I’M tracing cousins of my grandparents who immigrated to Sydney around 1937-38 from Germany. My grandparents were Gerda (nee Josel) and Berthold Katz, and they left Berlin in 1937 for Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Berthold had a kosher butcher in Berlin, which was called Moritz Vogel. Any information would be appreciated.
I’M searching for descendants of my grandmother’s brother whose last name was Kazakevich and first name is not known.
The name may have been changed to Kass or Kaskwitz. He left Russia around 1917, going first to China and then to Australia.
There is a record of David Kazakevich, a Russian who sailed from Yokohama to Brisbane and arrived in Sydney in March 1918.
Any information about David Kazakevich would be appreciated.
I AM looking for Paul Kraus, born on October 20, 1944. I believe he was born in a forced labour camp near the village of Viehofen, Austria, and survived the war.
My grandfather, Dr Ernst Balog, was the doctor of the camp and also the unofficial leader of the inmates.
I have reason to believe that he migrated to Australia (as a young boy with his mother and elder brother), later became famous since he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, successfully survived the disease and wrote several books including Faith, Hope, Love & Laughter: How They Heal and A New Australian, a New Australia.
THE Australian Red Cross is seeking inforation on Wilhelm Krieger, born January 6, 1886 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. His father was Adolf Krieger and his mother was Fanny Storch.
If you have any information please contact the Australian Red Cross on (03) 8327 7883, citing case no. 53224
Listed: December 2, 2008
KRIEGER
I AM seeking information on behalf of a relative of Wilhelm and Olga Krieger, who arrived in Sydney on the SS Monkay in February 1947.
Both are listed as holding Palestinian nationality.
There is a record of a burial of Dr Siegmund Wilhelm Krieger in NSW in 1956, but he was not a relative.
THE Australian Red Cross is seeking inforation on Ruth Frieda Hildegard, nee Baum/Ponsong (adopted family) born on May 1, 1931 in Berlin, Germany.
Her son, Klaus Gerhard Wilhelm Kronewitz was born on May 3, 1955.
If you have any information please contact the Australian Red Cross on (03) 8327 7883, citing case no. 54964
Listed: December 8 2008
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LAZAR
WE are looking for Victoria (Pnime) Jordan (nee Lazar), born in Israel in 1958, and her sister Aviva Miller (nee Lazar), born in 1955 in Israel. They were last heard of in the 1970s in Australia.
Victoria and Aviva are the daughters of Ethel Soloduchinas, a Holocaust survivor who left Europe in 1948 for Israel.
At a later stage she moved to Australia with Victoria and her sister.
Salvation Army Tracing Service
Ring (03) 8878 4796 quoting reference number 09-8217 Miller Listed: January 27, 2009
LOSCHITZ
I AM trying to locate Gerda or Steffi Loschitz (their maiden names) or any of their descendants.
Their father, Felix Loschitz, was my mother’s uncle.
I believe that Gerda and Steffi were married to Heinz and Joe — I don’t know who was married to whom — and had children named Renee, Michael and Judy, and grandchildren Vicki and Gavin.
I AM interested in locating relatives of mine from Lodz, Poland, under the family name of Lipski. I live in Israel and immigrated here from San Francisco, California in 1993.
My grandmother was Dora Lipski who died some 15 years ago in San Francisco. Her married name was changed to Samuels. I am interested to know her family.
She immigrated to the US via Ellis Island, NY, in 1924 from Lodz, Poland and was 21 years old at the time. She left her entire family behind.
She came from a wealthy family whose father, Isadore, owned a very large textile factory in Lodz.
Three families from Lodz survived: one went to San Francisco (my grandma), the other Paris and the other Melbourne, Australia.
EARLIER this year I found out that I’m adopted. According to a certificate of interview from the Department of Human Services, my mother is listed as Ada Mandel, born 1909, in Coogee, NSW, formerly of 12 Robinsons Road, Surrey Hills, Victoria.
My birth name was Maurice Mandel and I was born on December 13, 1951, in Surrey Hills, Victoria.
Ada Mandel was 42 at time of my birth and she died on June 2, 1974, at Carlton Victoria, aged 64. She was living in Ringwood, Victoria, at the time.
Ada’s parents were Charles Coppel Mandel and Rachel (Morris) Mandel and her sisters were Sylvia and Enid Mandel (all deceased and buried at Springvale cemetery).
I would appreciate any assistance you may be able to give — my life has been a mystery.
I AM trying to track down Mrs Corris Manasseh or any of her relatives, including her son Ephraim. I believe she is related to the Hollywood costume designer Jack Orry-Kelly and has been in possession of the manuscript of his autobiography.
I believe the family was originally from Kiama, NSW, but are probably elsewhere in Australia by now.
I AM looking for children or friends of the late Franz Menzel and his wife Rachella (née Hoffmann).
Franz’s 94-year-old cousin Elisabeth remembers Franz and Rachella leaving Britain for Australia in 1947 and would like to find out about their lives since settling in Australia.
I believe that they may have lived with or were related to Abraham Jacob Hoffman, George Kraus, Misa Kraus and Edwin Menzel.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone with information.
I AM wondering if there is anyone in Australia who came from Linz in Austria before or after World War II who remembers a family named Metzl who ran a haberdashery business there.
I am keen to learn more about my great aunts and great uncles and their extended families.
I know Gustav and Ernestina perished in the Holocaust, but there was another brother, Fritz Georg, and a sister Franziska, about whom I can only find brief details.
The third sister, Ella, escaped to the USA and became my paternal grandmother.
OUR great-great-grandfather Benjamin Leon Miers arrived in Melbourne in 1853 with his mother and siblings. His mother, Jane Meyer (nee Woolf), a widow, married Samuel Flatau in England in 1837.
Samuel had arrived in Melbourne a year earlier in 1852.
Benjamin Miers married Frances Roberts in 1863 in Sydney. After Frances’ death in 1881, he married again in 1894 to Mary Sarah Crawford Bellamy.
His family lived in Melbourne from about 1866 until 1878, then in Sydney until Benjamin’s death in 1907.
SEEKING any information about Josefa Mutl, born in 1915 to Victor and Vally Winter (nee Tuschak) in Straznicein, Moravia.
She arrived in Melbourne on the SS Fairsea on August 18, 1950, with husband, Stan Mutl. Nationality on arrival was Czechoslovakian. They lived at one stage in Elwood, Victoria.
DID you know Marcel Novelton, who was born in Austria in 1914 and died in Sydney in 1999?
The Public Trustee of NSW is administering his estate and having difficulty tracing his family.
He was born in the Austrian village of Dobriach on August 23, 1914 and his parents were Polish Jews.
NSW Public Trustee
(02) 9240 0786 Listed: April 20, 2009
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OLIVENSHTEIN (OLIVESTONE)
I’M enquiring on behalf of my stepfather, Wolfe Olivestone, who lives in Israel and is in his late 70s. He comes from Warsaw, and most members of what was once his very large extended family died in the Warsaw Ghetto or the camps during World War II.
Wolfe recalls his father (Jeremiah) telling him that Jeremiah’s cousin emigrated to Australia in 1923. Wolfe does not know her first name or married name, only that her maiden name was Olivenshtein, possibly anglicised to Olivestone.
She would have been in her 20s or 30s when she came to Australia as she had young children at that time. The family moved to Sydney (or nearby) and had a farm.
The only other information Wolfe can recall is that his grandfather (Jeremiah’s father) was Alec, also known as Eli, and his wife was Miriam; and that Alec/Eli’s father was Velvul.
I AM seeking a family who arrived in Sydney from Germany in 1939. They were Walter Reppen, aged 51, his wife Johanna Reppen, aged 41 and their daughter, Anneliese, aged 11.
They had a permit to settle in New Zealand. Their only relative in Australia in 1939 was Walter’s brother-in-law, Max Rintels, who lived at 44 Bayswater Road, Sydney.
I AM searching for Frieda Rosenfeld, originally from Wien, Austria.
She was born on May 22, 1927, and immigrated to Belgium in 1938-39. She then fled with a group of children to southern France in May 1940 and was part of the children’s refugee colony at Seyre, France and at Chateau de La Hille, near Foix France.
I was part of that children’s colony (my name was originally Werner Rindsberg).
Survivors believe that after World War II she immigrated to Australia. Any information about her would be greatly appreciated.
MY brother and I are searching for members of a Dutch family named Rubens.
Our uncle, FLR van Dinther (Bart), had a fiancée, Lena Rubens, who was caught by the Germans in World War II and taken to Westerbork with her parents and two brothers.
Her father was Levij Rubens, born February 11, 1888, in Doetinchem. He was the son of Ruben Rubens and Judik Cohen.
He was married on April 2, 1913, in Rotterdam, to Rebekka den Arend, who was born on September 19, 1892, in Rotterdam. She was the daughter of Salomon den Arend and Leentje van Vlies (Rotterdam).
Their sons were Salomon Rubens (married Helena Adetje Pinchetti) who could have escaped from Westerbork.
From the administration of this camp we know that he was registered in Batavia (Indonesia) on July 17, 1946, and that he emigrated from that country to Australia in the 50s. He was born in 1914.
Their other son was Ruben Rubens (married Milly Schelvis) and we know from an aunt that he visited the Netherlands years ago, but she didn’t know in which country he lived.
He was born in 1917.
In the digital archive of our National Archive we found a R Rubens, born September 2, 1917, who arrived in Australia in 1953 and settled in Sydney.
Their daughters were Lena Rubens, born October 16, 1919, in Amsterdam, and Juda Rubens, born May 7, 1928. It seems the parents and two daughters were killed in Auschwitz on November 9, 1943.
Any information on this family would be appreciated.
MICHAEL Ruj (or Rue or Ruh) was my grandfather’s cousin’s son. He was born in Poland between 1912 and 1922, immigrated to Australia after World War II and settled in Melbourne.
In the early 1970s he exchanged letters with my grandfather, but the connection was lost.
His last known address (c. 1965) was 12 Westbury Street, St Kilda East.
He had a brother-in-law named A Dann at 24 McLachlan Street in Horsham and a close relative named Abram Chojnacki in the Melbourne metropolitan area.
I’d be grateful for any assistance in tracking Michael Ruj’s relatives.
I AM looking for Lily Samuels (maiden name) who was hidden as a child in France during the Holocaust.
Evelyn Chenkin was sent from the London Beth Din to find eight-year-old Lily and bring her back to England to be with her aunt in Muswell Hill, London.
Lily’s “adopted” family in France refused to give her back to her family in England after the war and as such, Evelyn was sent to find her.
It is believed that Lily emigrated to Australia with her husband and children. She would be about 70 years old now. MIRIAM HECHTMAN miriamhechtman@optusnet.com.au Listed: January 13, 2009
SCHNABL
A COUSIN of mine who lives in the US has recently been trying to contact a distant relation without success.
The name of the person she is looking to contact is Dorothea (”Dot”) Schnabl. Apparently she used to live at 14 Alva Avenue, Park Orchards, although it was a long time ago, approximately in 1978.
Any information about Dorothea would be appreciated.
THE Australian Red Cross is seeking inforation on Katherine (or Katherina) Schmidt, who was born on April 15, 1943 in Ansfelden, Austria, and her brother Anton/Tony, born on November 11, 1949 in Linz, Austria.
Their father Anton Schmidt died in July 1995 and mother Theresia Schmidt (nee Suler) died in 1954.
Their last known address was 128 Beaconsfield Parade, Northcote.
If you have any information please contact the Australian Red Cross on (03) 8327 7883, citing case no. 53130
Listed: Decermber 15 2008
SOLOMONS
I AM trying to find any living relatives of Simon Stanley Solomons, born in 1912 in Kensington, NSW.
He was the son of Reuben and Esther Solomons of Coogee, NSW.
He was killed on August 30, 1944 while serving with 166 Squadron while on a mine-laying operation over Stettin, Germany.
He is now buried at the Jewish cemetery in Malmo, Sweden.
I’m hoping to find some background information about him, and perhaps even a photo, for an article I’m writing for the local historical society yearbook.
MY name is Jorge Tachauer and I am the younger son of Dr Gabriel Tachauer, cousin of Ernest (Tachauer) Tarján from Rumania and Chile.
I would like to contact my relatives who are living in Melbourne. They are Mrs Edith Tarján, widow of my father’s cousin, Mr Ernest Tarján; Mrs Judith (Tarján) Braun, widow of Mr Braun, former mayor of some borough of the city; and their children, Dr Gary Braun, Dr Peter Braun and Dr Suzy Braun (a lawyer).
EMANUEL Van Praag left the United States around 1960 and resettled in Australia where he passed away in 1968. We have no records of him from the time he reached Australia.
Although never married, he had quite an extended family.
He was born in Holland on August 11, 1885, the last of 10 children born to Joseph Van Praag and Esther Blitz. He was brought to England as the “adopted son” of Jane (Jansje) Blitz and her husband Samuel Wurms (Worms).
I cannot connect Jansje and Esther, though it would seem logical that the two women were related.
Emanuel lived at 24 White’s Row, London, and emigrated to America to Boston Mass in 1907.
MY name is Steve Blum from New Jersey, USA, and I am trying to locate Jadwiga Warman, who submitted pages of testimony about my family in 1991 when she lived in Melbourne at 33 Teak Street, Caulfield South.
I’M seeking information about Martin Simon Wolff, born July 9, 1926, in Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.
He managed to escape the Netherlands during World War II with the help of Ruben (Ruut) Rubens and two others and is believed to have migrated to Australia.
THE Red Cross Tracing Service, which traces missing persons on behalf of relatives overseas, is looking for Janina Zwiesek (Zwieseck or Swizek) who was born on March 3, 1923, in Lublin, Poland.
She could have been born in 1925.
Please quote case number 54517 in any communication. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
INTERNATIONAL TRACING, REFUGEE & ASYLUM SEEKER SERVICES
Australian Red Cross
Tel: (03) 8327 7883. Listed: September 8 2008
FRANKIE Stein was a large man physically and even larger in stature. It is not possible for any one person or group of people to fully appreciate the impact that this truly fine fellow and special friend left on the people around him -– so large was the protective shadow he cast. Frank was born 51 years ago in Brisbane and from the age of seven was a fixture in Betar there, until he moved to Sydney in 1980, dedicating himself to both Betar and Hineni.
After a two-year stint back in the service of the community in Brisbane, in 1985 Frank made aliyah and settled in Jerusalem. In those early years he worked in a variety of jobs, but his favourite was being the live-in onsite manager of the Machon L’Madrichei Chutz La’aretz. Read the full story
JEAN Isaacs was a spirited woman with a giving, loving and generous heart. She enjoyed being around other people and lived with true determination. She shared in so many joyful, heartfelt moments, including many communal activities, events and celebrations with her family. Born as Jean Goldbloom in South Yarra, Melbourne on February 13, 1917, Jean was raised with three siblings -– Aleck, Freda, and Keith. Read the full story
BORN Helena Brumberg on March 14, 1913, in the town of Zgierz, Poland, Lena was the oldest child to Borys (Boruch) and Fajga Brumberg. She had a sister Julie and brother David. Lena received a thorough Jewish educational grounding. Hard work and application was a family trait. Lena’s mother, Fajga, ran a reputable and successful retail textile business. Read the full story
BORN in Györ, Hungary, in 1912 of Polish parents, Albert Scheinberg was a man of prescient vision, few words and great modesty. Albert loved his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, and was proud of his ever-increasing large family, which now totals 64 and spans five generations. The entire family met annually for his birthday, eventually needing a tennis court to stage the family photograph.
Albert was the second of five children, two of whom -– Esther and Leo -– died of the Spanish flu. His brother Dezsö drowned due to an anti-Semitic attack. Finding himself stateless in 1937, Albert decided that Europe was set on a path of bloodshed at the hands of the Nazis and left at the first opportunity for Australia, which was as far away from Europe as possible. Read the full story
NANNA was and always will be a true matriarch. Even as a kid, some of my best times were at Nanna’s house way out there on Bulleen Road. I remember these days with real happiness as they were so pure. That house for all of us seemed to be a safe haven. We always laughed when we were there and for me, that was the house we all really got to know one another as cousins and relatives.
Even now when we get together, without doubt, the stories start. We get on a roll and before you know it, we have gone back in time to a really nice, loving place. There are so many other things we can say about Nanna, 94-and-a-half years on this earth and a legacy I know we are all proud to be a part of. Read the full story
RUTH, YAEL AND DAVID CODRON
