Emanuel Klein · The Feig Family Archive

Great-grandfather (Laci's father) · Kohen, Hebrew name Menachem (after whom Tatty/Menachem Feig was named) — the family tradition that placed an earlier Menachem at the Klein patriarch generation was a misreading of the becher inscription (corrected v4.37); who the original Menachem in the family was remains open · Tatty (Menachem Feig) named in turn for him · Yad Vashem status "missing" · Page of Testimony

Zeidy's father. Grandson of the Klein patriarch Mordechai Elazar Klein, son of the Mád Yeshiva Rebbi Yitzchok Yosef Klein. Murdered with his wife Lina at Auschwitz in May 1944. Only two of their four children — Jenő and Laci — survived. Source: Chapter 3.

— Side note · From the v5.35 page · From the registers in Tiszadob —

Civil death register · Tiszadob · 1948 (entry 29)

Klein Emánuel, thalmudista (Talmud scholar/teacher), age 57, Tiszadob — Auschwitz. Parents: néhai Klein József + néhai Schönberg Dinkó. Two notes worth lifting out: by 1944 his civil occupation had shifted from kereskedő (merchant, per his children's 1912–1914 birth records) to thalmudista — he had moved from commerce to learning. And his parents' names are here civilly confirmed, matching the matzeivah plaque on Zeidy's stone.

Photograph · Emanuel & Lina Klein

Emanuel (right) with his wife Lina. Outdoor portrait, undated. The only photograph of him in the archive.

Civil birth register of his son Lajos · Tiszadob · 1914 (entry 155)

Emanuel signs in person ("Klein Emánuel s.k.") as Lajos's father — kereskedő (merchant), age 25, of Tiszadob. The last entry of the 1914 Tiszadob register.

Civil birth register of his son Jenő · Tiszadob · 1913 (entry 99)

Emanuel signs in person again as Jenő's father — keresk. segéd (merchant's clerk), age 26, of Tiszadob. The occupation upgrade between 1913 (clerk) and 1914 (merchant) shows a career step in the family business.

Civil birth register of his daughter Ilona · Tiszadob · 1912 (entry 106)

Emanuel signs as Ilona's father — kereskedő (merchant), age 25.

Hungarian civil and Jewish-community registers, photographed by family researchers. Click any image to view full size.

— 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

Emanuel Klein

Hebrew name

Menachem ben Yitzchak Yosef HaKohen

Hungarian / nickname

Emanuel · Menachem

Religious lineage

Kohen — son of Yitzchok Yosef Klein, the Mád Yeshiva Rebbi

Hebrew name (full, sourced)

מנחם ב"ר יצחק יוסף הכהן · Menachem ben Yitzchok Yosef HaKohen — confirmed by Zeidy's matzeivah plaque · died 1st of Shavuos 5704 (6 Sivan 5704 = 1944) at Auschwitz

Birth

Born (civil)

— not yet documented — +

Born (Hebrew)

— not yet documented — +

Place of birth

— not yet documented — +

Time of birth

— not yet documented — +

Birth-order

— not yet documented — +

Family

Father

Klein József (Yitzchok Yosef HaKohen) — civilly confirmed by the 1948 death registration of Emanuel, which lists his parents as "néhai Klein József + néhai Schönberg Dinkó"

Mother

Schönberg Dinkó (Devorah Klein) — civilly confirmed by the 1948 death registration

Married

— not yet documented — +

Spouse

Lina Goldstein (Malka bas Pinchas HaKohen) of Tiszadob

Years married

— not yet documented — +

Children

4 · Ilona · Jenő · Avrohom Chaim · Laci

Life

Trade / occupation

Kereskedő (merchant) per his three children's 1912, 1913, and 1914 civil birth registers in Tiszadob; by 1944 recorded as 'thalmudista' (Talmud scholar/teacher) on the 1948 retroactive death registration — by then his civil occupation had shifted from commerce to learning

Lived in

Tiszadob, Hungary

Immigration

Arrived NYC

— not yet documented — +

Naturalized

— not yet documented — +

Petition number

— not yet documented — +

Alien Reg. No.

— not yet documented — +

Shoah

Camp survival

No · murdered at Auschwitz May 1944

Liberated

— not yet documented — +

Death

Died (civil)

15 June 1944 — Hungarian court-assigned date per Tiszalöki district court 1948, order Pk. 2061/1947-6 (retroactive registration). Family yahrzeit observed 6 Sivan (Shavuos) — Klein-side community date for Tiszadob deportees.

Time of death

— not yet documented — +

Yahrzeit (Hebrew)

— not yet documented — +

Place of death

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Cause of death

Murdered at Auschwitz — recorded as 'Erőszak utján való megsemmisítés' (annihilation by violent means) in the 1948 civil death registration

Age at death

57 (per 1948 civil death registration)

Place of burial

Auschwitz — no grave; commemorated on the granite memorial plaque at the base of Zeidy Laci's matzeiva at Washington Cemetery, Deans NJ

Grave inscription

Memorialized on the granite plaque at the base of his son Zeidy's matzeiva in Deans, NJ: מנחם בן יצחק יוסף הכהן

Photographed

Yes — outdoor portrait with his wife Lina in Tiszadob, undated (likely 1920s–1930s)

— PHOTOGRAPHS —

Photographs

F · family photograph Pinchas Goldstein · Zeidy's maternal grandfather Pinchas Goldstein — Zeidy's maternal grandfather,. He was a Kohen , which means both of Zeidy's parents come from Kohen lineage: his father Emanuel (HaKohen) and his mother Lina (Bas Kohen, daughter of Pinchas HaKohen). On the granite memorial plaque at the base of Zeidy's matzeiva, Lina's name is inscribed as Milkah bas Pinchas HaKohen .

F · family photograph Emanuel & Lina Klein · Zeidy's parents Emanuel and Lina Klein — Zeidy Laci's parents — photographe. Both were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944 and murdered there. Their names rest on the granite plaque at the base of Zeidy's matzeiva in Deans, NJ — Menachem ben Yitzchak Yosef HaKohen , and Milkah bas Pinchas HaKohen .

F · family photograph Emanuel & Lina Klein · outdoor portrait Lina (left, in a head-covering and bow-tied blouse) with h. The only photograph of the two of them together in the archive.

F · family record Ilona Klein · birth record, 1912 Emanuel and Lina's eldest child, born 7 August 1912 in Tiszadob. Father Klein Emánuel, kereskedő (merchant), age 25; mother Goldstein Lina, age 26. Ilona is registered as "leány, izr." (female, Jewish). She would be murdered with her parents at Auschwitz in 1944, age 31.

F · family photograph Bobby and Zeidy at Menachem and Frumie's wedding Bobby (Irene Weisz Feig) and Zeidy (Sam · Laci ·. Bobby was the surviving daughter of Apagy — born to Lipot and Regina in 1926, taken to Auschwitz at 18, Bergen-Belsen after, recovery in Sweden, Brooklyn in 1950. Zeidy was the surviving son of Tiszadob — born to Emanuel and Lina (Milkah bas Pinchas) HaKohen on 25 December 1922, survived Auschwitz; his parents and his older sister Ilona were murdered on 6 Sivan 1944, married Bobby in Brooklyn in 1952. Their son's wedding. The second generation past the rupture, beginning a third.

F · family photograph Tatty and Zeidy — Long Beach, late 1990 Tatty (Menachem Feig) on the left, beside his father Zeidy. Zeidy was 67 here — forty-six years after the Tiszadob deportation that killed his parents Emanuel and Lina (Milkah bas Pinchas) HaKohen on 6 Sivan 1944, and his sister Ilona. He had eight more years to live. The continuity of a Tiszadob Kohen line that almost ended in 1944, photographed in a Long Island living room.

The shape of their life

The paper trail

Family

Photographs