The Feig Family

Family memory describes Rachel Hindi Goldstein as Pinchas’s second wife — “buried in Tiszadob together with his (2nd) wife Rochel.” But the surviving documentary record shows only one woman: Krausz Róza / Krausz Rachel / Krausz Rácsi — multiple Hungarian and Yiddish name-forms of a single person who appears as Lina’s mother in 1886, as Gizella’s mother in the 1948 retroactive death record, and as Pinchas’s wife at her 1926 death and again at his 1927 death.

Three possibilities remain open:

• One wife only. “Rachel” and “Róza” and “Rácsi” are the same person under different name-forms. The family memory of a “second wife” could be a generational misremembering. Lina would then be a child of this single marriage.
• Two wives, Rochel as Lina’s mother. If Pinchas had an earlier (lost) wife and Rachel was his second, Rachel may still have been Lina’s mother — the 1886 register lists Krausz Róza as Lina’s mother either way.
• Two wives, Rochel NOT Lina’s mother. Less likely given the 1886 register, but possible if “Krausz Róza” on Lina’s birth record was the first wife and Rachel a later marriage. This would mean Rachel was Lina’s stepmother, not biological mother — and would require correction of several archive entries.

What we still need: a Tiszadob marriage register entry for Pinchas (any earlier marriage would appear there); the matzeivah inscription in the Tiszadob cemetery in higher resolution, which may name an earlier wife; and Hungarian census records for the Goldstein household across multiple years to see whether a different wife appears earlier.

The 1948 Tiszadob retroactive death register page that carries the Klein-Büchler-Goldstein entries (numbers 26–30) also contains, as entry 25, Heisz Ervin Ede, age 10, schoolboy, of Tiszadob — murdered at Auschwitz on the same court-assigned date (15 June 1944). His parents are listed as néhai Heisz Sándor and néhai Frank Ilona: both already deceased.

His entry is registered under a different court order: Tiszalöki Pk. 1402/1947 — not Pk. 2061/1947-6 (the Klein-Büchler-Goldstein order). So the cases were filed by different surviving relatives. But the entries sit side by side on the page, in the same village register, with the same death date.

Open question: was Heisz Ervin Ede related to the family — nephew, cousin, in-law — or simply a fellow Tiszadob Jewish child whose death was registered the same week?

What we still need: Hungarian census or community records identifying the Heisz family of Tiszadob and their relationship (if any) to the Goldstein-Klein-Büchler households; Page of Testimony at Yad Vashem, if filed.

Rachel Krausz Goldstein’s 1926 Tiszadob civil death record names her parents as néhai Krausz Ábrahám (father — already in the archive as Avraham Kraus) and a deceased mother whose family name reads clearly as Fischler — but whose given name is handwritten in cursive at a resolution too low to settle.

The given name appears to be Tömöri (or possibly Tömör, Tönöri, or a similar form). Tömöri is an unusual Hungarian name; this could equally be a Hungarianization of a Yiddish name like Temer or Tamar.

What we still need: a higher-resolution photograph of the 1926 death register, entry 15, parents column. The current scan (added to the archive in v5.55) is sufficient for the family name (“Fischler”) but not the given name.

After his wife Devorah Klein predeceased him, Yitzchok Yosef moved in with his daughter-in-law Gitty Engelman, where he passed away and was buried — we believe in Mád.

Family tradition holds that the hilltop cemetery where he was buried was later cleared for a railroad project. The matzeivah is no longer in place. This is a family-told account and has not been independently confirmed.

What we still need:

• Independent confirmation of the cemetery clearance — municipal records, railway history, JewishGen Hungary archives
• Identity of Gitty Engelman’s Klein husband (one of Yitzchok Yosef’s sons; whether or how she is connected to the Engelman family Shulem Moshe Engelman married into in 1970s Brooklyn)
• Photograph of the cemetery site, if anything remains

Avraham Chaim HaKohen — Devorah Klein’s father — emigrated to Eretz Yisroel. We know it happened; we don’t yet know when or where.

What we still need: approximate year of aliyah, port of departure, settlement city, year and place of death, and whether descendants remain in Israel today.