Lina Klein · The Feig Family Archive

Great-grandmother (Laci's mother) · 8 yrs older than Emanuel · had Laci at 43 · daughter of Pinchas Goldstein, a Kohen, photographed in Tiszadob (image added v3.59) — which means both of Zeidy's parents come from Kohen lineage: his father Emanuel (HaKohen) and his mother Lina (Bas Kohen) · on the granite memorial plaque at the base of Zeidy's matzeiva her name is inscribed as Milkah bas Pinchas HaKohen · Page of Testimony

Zeidy's mother. Daughter of Pinchas Goldstein HaKohen of Tiszadob; her sister Gizella married Ferenc Büchler in the same village, and that Goldstein-Büchler connection continued postwar through Suzy Fischbein. Lina was murdered with her husband Emanuel at Auschwitz in May 1944. Source: Chapter 3.

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

Jewish synagogue birth register · Tiszadob · 1886 (entry 18)

Lina, born 19 October 1886, female, Jewish. Father Goldstein Péter, szatócs (small shopkeeper), of Tolcsva. Mother Krausz Róza, of Tiszadob. Midwife Andor Borbála. Naming day 22 October 1886.

Civil death register · Tiszadob · 1948 (entry 30)

Klein Emánuelné Goldstein Lina, age 57, Tiszadob — Auschwitz, murdered by violent means. The death was retroactively registered by court order Pk. 2061/1947-6 of the Tiszalöki district court, with declared date of death 15 June 1944. Family yahrzeit is observed on 6 Sivan (Shavuos), the community date for Klein-side Tiszadob deportees.

Photograph · Emanuel & Lina Klein

Lina (left) with her husband Emanuel. Outdoor portrait, undated. The only photograph of her in the archive.

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

Lina Klein (née Goldstein)

Hebrew name

מלכה · Malka (Milkah) bas Pinchas HaKohen

Hungarian / nickname

— not yet documented — +

Religious lineage

Bas Kohen — daughter of Pinchas Goldstein HaKohen of Tiszadob

Birth

Born (civil)

19 October 1886 (registered same day in the Tiszadob Jewish synagogue register, entry 18)

Born (Hebrew)

— not yet documented — +

Place of birth

Tiszadob (mother Krausz Róza was Tiszadob; father Goldstein Péter was originally from Tolcsva)

Time of birth

— not yet documented — +

Birth-order

Sister to Gizella Goldstein (also of Tiszadob, b. c. 1886, m. Ferenc Büchler) — both daughters' 1944 death entries list identical parents (Goldstein Péter + Krausz Róza), establishing the sister relationship. Birth-order between Lina and Gizella not yet determined.

Family

Father

Pinchas "Péter" Goldstein HaKohen

Mother

Rachel Hindi (רחל הינדי) — named on Zeidy's matzeivah plaque

Married

— not yet documented — +

Spouse

Emanuel Klein (Menachem HaKohen) of Tiszadob

Years married

— not yet documented — +

Children

4 · Ilona (Devorah) · Jenő (Eliyahu) · Avrohom Chaim (Lajos) · Laci (Mordechai Elazar)

Life

Trade / occupation

— not yet documented — +

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 Zeidy Laci's matzeiva in Deans, NJ: מלכה בת פינחס הכהן

Photographed

Yes — outdoor portrait with her husband Emanuel Klein 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 Lina Goldstein · birth record, 1886 Zeidy's mother, born 19 October 1886 in Tiszadob to Goldstein Péte. Midwife Andor Borbála. Naming day 22 October 1886. This is the Jewish synagogue register; her sister Gizella appears in the same registers a year or two later.

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