Elias Feldman · The Feig Family Archive

Great-great-grandfather · Regina's father · death date unknown

The patriarch of the Feldman line of Jákó. Bobby's maternal great-grandfather. His Hebrew name was Eliyahu — the name carried forward by his great-great-grandson Eliyahu Shaul Feig. After Elias's death (early 1900s), his widow Miriam moved in with their daughter Regina and son-in-law Lipot in Apagy, where she shared a bed with her granddaughter Bobby until the deportations of 1944. Source: Chapter 8.

— THE FACTS WE’VE GATHERED —

The shape of their life

From civil records, family memory, and primary sources. Empty rows are research targets.

Identity

Civil name

Elias Feldman

Hebrew name

Eliyahu

Hungarian / nickname

Elias · Éliás

Religious lineage

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Birth

Born (civil)

1860

Born (Hebrew)

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Place of birth

Jákó, Szabolcs-Szatmár County, Hungary

Time of birth

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Birth-order

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Family

Father

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Mother

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Married

1880s · Jákó

Spouse

Amália Miriam Grósz ("Mali Néni")

Years married

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Children

8 · József · Samuel (Sam) · Regina · Bernát · Ignácz · Henry "Hymie" · Sarah · Róza

Life

Trade / occupation

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Lived in

Jákó · Hungary

Immigration

Arrived NYC

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Naturalized

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Petition number

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Alien Reg. No.

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Shoah

Camp survival

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Liberated

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Death

Died (civil)

early 1900s · approximate · before the war

Time of death

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Yahrzeit (Hebrew)

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Place of death

Jákó, Hungary

Cause of death

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Age at death

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Place of burial

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Grave inscription

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Photographed

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