Second cousin — reconnected with the family in 2026. Daughter of Esther & David Schon. Born 28 June 1949 in Chicago (confirmed via her father David Schon's 1949 naturalization petition). She was about seven months old when Bobby arrived in February 1950 — the baby cousin Bobby described in her 2014 interview. Sandra attended Bobby & Samuel's wedding on 21 Aug 1952 (she has the wedding photograph in her possession). She remembers Tatty as a toddler and met him again around 2005 with her own children. She has been researching this family's genealogy since 2010 and has been to Hungary twice on research trips. She is married, has two married sons (one studying to become a rabbi), and six grandchildren. She stayed in close touch with Aunt Rivka and spoke with her once or twice a year until Rivka's passing in 2024.
Aunt Esther's daughter — Bobby's second cousin. About seven months old when Irene arrived in Chicago in February 1950 and stayed with Esther and David Schon. Sandra is the keeper of much of the Chicago-side family memory; many of the dates and sources in this archive that come from the American side passed through Sandra at some point. Source: Chapter 7.
On 15 December 1980, Sandra's mother — Aunt Esther — sat down in Chicago at age 75 and wrote her a four-page handwritten letter beginning "My darling daughter Sandra — this is written by your mother, for you to know your roots, of which you can be very very proud, as I am." That letter is the founding document of this entire archive. Sandra preserved it.
Second cousin — reconnected with the family in 2026. Daughter of Esther & David Schon. Born 28 June 1949 in Chicago (confirmed via her father David Schon's 1949 naturalization petition). She was about seven months old when Bobby arrived in February 1950 — the baby cousin Bobby described in her 2014 interview. Sandra attended Bobby & Samuel's wedding on 21 Aug 1952 (she has the wedding photograph in her possession). She remembers Tatty as a toddler and met him again around 2005 with her own children. She has been researching this family's genealogy since 2010 and has been to Hungary twice on research trips. She is married, has two married sons (one studying to become a rabbi), and six grandchildren. She stayed in close touch with Aunt Rivka and spoke with her once or twice a year until Rivka's passing in 2024.
Aunt Esther's daughter — Bobby's second cousin. About seven months old when Irene arrived in Chicago in February 1950 and stayed with Esther and David Schon. Sandra is the keeper of much of the Chicago-side family memory; many of the dates and sources in this archive that come from the American side passed through Sandra at some point. Source: Chapter 7.
— THE WRITER —
"My darling daughter Sandra — this is written by your mother, for you to know your roots, of which you can be very very proud, as I am."
From Esther Weisz Schon's December 1980 letter to her daughter Sandra.
From civil records, family memory, and primary sources. Empty rows are research targets.
The generations they stood between.
The Klein × Weisz Archive is a multi-generational record of two Hungarian Jewish lines, joined by Bobby and Laci’s marriage in 1952.
