Miriam Grósz Feldman · The Feig Family Archive

Great-great-grandmother · elder Grósz sister, married Elias (Eliyahu) Feldman in Jákó · after Eliyahu's death she moved in with her daughter Regina, son-in-law Lipot, and their growing family in Apagy · she shared a bed with her granddaughter Bobby until the deportations of May 1944 — Bobby's earliest, most intimate memory of family was sleeping next to her grandmother · age 82 when she was put on the train to Auschwitz · murdered at the ramp · per Irene's 2014 testimony, Ignácz Feldman was shot trying to help her stand · Confirmed via Ferenc Feldman's 1995 Shoah Foundation record (listed as "Feldman Molly, paternal grandmother, Auschwitz") · Ancestry's 1932 date is incorrect.

Bobby's maternal grandmother. The elder Grósz sister — Roza's older sister. Shared a bed with her granddaughter Bobby in Apagy from the time Elias died until the 1944 deportations; Bobby's earliest and most intimate memory of family was sleeping next to her grandmother. Age 82 when she was deported. Source: Chapter 8.

— Side note · From the family chapters · The family chapters —

— THE GRÓSZ HINGE — Two sisters from Jákó. The same parents. The fuse point of the whole family. Ferencz (Zvi Naftali) Grósz × Háni Berger · Jákó · 1830s–1894/1922 Amália Miriam Grósz elder sister · 1862–1930 m. ELIAS FELDMAN Roza (Sara Rochel) Grósz younger sister · 1871–1933 m. SAMUEL WEISZ FELDMAN children of Jákó Regina · Ignácz · Henry · Samuel · József · Bernát · Róza WEISZ children of Nyírbogát Lipot · Hanni · Regina · Sarah Szerena · Malvina · Giza · Esther · Dávid · Ignacz — FOUR COUSIN MARRIAGES — Regina Feldman ① × = Bobby's parents Lipot Weisz Ignácz Feldman ② × = Géza's parents · Hanni d. 1919 Hanni Weisz Ignácz Feldman (again) ③ × = Hanni's widower marries her sister · she d. 1929 Regina Weisz Henry / Samuel Feldman ④ × → Chicago · which Feldman? open Q Sarah Szerena Weisz — TWO BRANCHES, RE-MERGED INTO ONE — Bobby has six great-grandparents instead of eight

Two Grósz daughters of Jákó married into two adjacent families — Amália Miriam → Feldman, Roza → Weisz. Their grandchildren then married each other up to four times. Bobby has six great-grandparents instead of eight.

Two sisters from Jákó married into two adjacent families one generation apart. Amália Miriam Grósz (born 1862, the elder sister) married Elias Feldman and stayed in Jákó. Nine years later her younger sister Roza Grósz (born 1871, also called Sara Rochel) married Samuel Weisz on 8 May 1890 and moved fifteen kilometers north to Nyírbogát. The two sisters were the daughters of Ferencz (Herschel / Zvi Naftali) Grósz and Háni Berger.

— Side note · From the family chapters · Chapter FOUR —

Irene's mother Regina was, in her daughter's telling, a tzadeikes — a great cook and baker who always helped the poor. Regina's own mother, Irene's grandmother Miriam Grósz Feldman — a widow after her husband Elias (Eliyahu) Feldman died — lived with them in the Apagy house and shared Irene's bed. This was Irene's earliest, most intimate childhood — falling asleep next to her grandmother, the widow who had once been a Grósz daughter from Jákó. She gave her grandmother only the greatest respect, calling her by a name of affection. Confirmed now by Ferenc Feldman's 1995 USC Shoah Foundation record, which lists his paternal grandmother "Feldman Molly" as dying at Auschwitz in 1944 (the Ancestry tree's 1932 date is therefore wrong). Miriam Grósz Feldman was 82 when she was put on the train, and she was murdered at the Auschwitz ramp — matching exactly the testimony Irene gave her son Menachem in 2014: her grandmother, a widow who lived with them, was shot at the ramp when she could not stand.

— 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

Amália Miriam Grósz Feldman

Hebrew name

— not yet documented — +

Hungarian / nickname

"Molly" · "Mali Néni"

Religious lineage

— not yet documented — +

Birth

Born (civil)

1862

Born (Hebrew)

— not yet documented — +

Place of birth

Hungary

Time of birth

— not yet documented — +

Birth-order

— not yet documented — +

Family

Father

Ferencz (Herschel) Grósz

Mother

Háni Berger

Married

1880s · Jákó

Spouse

Elias Feldman (1860 – early 1900s)

Years married

— not yet documented — +

Children

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

Life

Trade / occupation

— not yet documented — +

Lived in

Jákó · Hungary · later moved in with daughter Regina in Apagy

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 1944

Liberated

— not yet documented — +

Death

Died (civil)

1944

Time of death

— not yet documented — +

Yahrzeit (Hebrew)

— not yet documented — +

Place of death

Auschwitz-Birkenau · murdered at the ramp

Cause of death

Murdered · per Bobby's 2014 testimony, Ignácz Feldman tried to help her stand when she could no longer

Age at death

82 years old

Place of burial

— not yet documented — +

Grave inscription

— not yet documented — +

Photographed

— not yet documented — +

— PHOTOGRAPHS —

Photographs

F · family photograph Apagy, c. 1922 · two households joined by marriage Two intermarried households photographed together in Apagy around 1922. On the left, Ignácz Feldman with his first wife Hanni Weisz (Lipot's sister) and their young children — Géza (in the middle chair) and the baby Ferenc in his father's arms. On the right, Lipot Weisz with his wife Regina Feldman (Ignácz's sister) and their son Imre. Standing in the center is Regina Weisz, Hanni's unmarried sister who would later become Ignácz's second wife. Seated front-center is Miriam Grósz Feldman, the matriarch — mother of both Ignácz and Regina Feldman. By 1944

F · family photograph Hanni Weisz Feldman Lipot's younger sister. She married her first cousin Ignácz "Nossen" Feldman — the marriage that bound the Weisz and Feldman lines a second time, since Roza Grósz and Miriam Grósz were already sisters. Hanni died in childbirth in 1929 at a young age. This photograph is the only image of her we have.

F · family photograph Imre Weisz with his Feldman cousins · late 1980s A late-1980s simcha. Center: Imre Weisz — Bobby's older brother, "Feter Isaac," who came out of Hungary in 1957. Right: Herbert "Hershel" Feldman — born 1930 in Chicago, the fourth and youngest son of Sam Feldman (Bobby's maternal uncle who crossed alone from Fiume in 1907 at age sixteen). Left: Sylvia Perlman — Herbert's wife, born around 1932 in Cook County, Illinois. Imre and Herbert are first cousins on the Feldman line: Imre's mother Regina and Herbert's father Sam were brother and sister, both children of Elias Feldman and Miriam Grósz of Apagy. The two cousins grew up on different continents and only met in