Menachem Feig · The Feig Family Archive

— Side note · From the v5.35 page · What the archive holds —

Tatty and Zeidy — Long Beach, late 1990

Tatty (Menachem Feig) on the left, beside his father Zeidy (Sam "Laci" Feig), photographed at the family home at 33 West Walnut St, Long Beach, NY in late 1990. 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.

Three generations of Feigs — 33 West Walnut Street, 1990

Three generations under one roof at the Feig home on 33 West Walnut St, Long Beach, NY, in 1990. Tatty (Menachem) stands at the top, holding his infant son Eli. To his right is Zeidy (Sam · Laci · the surviving son of Tiszadob), smiling. Below them, Bobby (Irene Weisz Feig, surviving daughter of Apagy) is seated with two of her older grandsons — Yitz (Yitzchak Yosef) and Yehudah Leib. Of the four older people in this photograph, two are Holocaust survivors: Bobby (Bergen-Belsen, then recovery in Sweden) and Zeidy (Tiszadob — survived Auschwitz). Every grandchild visible here exists because they both made it through.

Tatty's wedding — Bobby and Zeidy with their son

Tatty (Menachem Feig) in the center, on the day of his marriage to Fruma, flanked by his parents — Bobby (Irene Weisz) on the left in lavender, Zeidy (Sam · Laci · Mordechai Elazar HaKohen) on the right. This is the wedding that produced Eli and his six siblings: Yitzchak Yosef, Yehudah Leib, Eliyahu Shaul, Mordechai, Michal, and Aryeh. The chuppah that continued both broken lines — Tiszadob through Zeidy, Apagy through Bobby — into the next generation.