The Rosner & Freund Families
ר׳ חיים יצחק ומרת חיה רוזנר ע״ה
A family history from Papi and Babi
Czernowitz · Bukovina · Sighet · Kroli · Satu Mare · Kisvárda · Brooklyn
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Rosner & Freund
The family of Papi and Babi — Chaim Yitzchak Rosner of Czernowitz and Chaya (Eva) Rosner née Freund of Satu Mare — and the lines behind them.
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- generations back from the five daughters
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Their story
Papi, born in Cernăuți in 1930 and raised in Tel Aviv, and Babi, born in Satu Mare in 1931, the only daughter of her family to survive the war, married in Brooklyn in 1951. They lived some twenty years in São Paulo and then in Boro Park, and rest side by side at Beth Moses.
Behind them stand four lines: the Rosners of Vilaucea in Bukovina; the Pachts and Steigmans of Câmpulung and Vatra Dornei; the Freunds of Sighet, Kroli and Satmar, with the Sterns and Seltenreichs of Kurima and Zboró; and the Brauns and Kaufmans of Kisvárda and Varannó. Many of them perished in 1941–1945; their names are kept on the memorial page.
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A narrated history of the family, told for the five daughters of Papi and Babi: Papi and Babi themselves, with a few of Babi's own words; the Rosners of Vilaucea and Czernowitz; Pacht and Steigman of the Bukovina; the Freunds of Satu Mare and Sighet, back through Kroli to Pápa and Veszprém in the 1700s; the Sterns and Seltenreichs of Kurima and Zboró; Braun and Kaufman of Kisvárda and Zemplén; their resting places; and a remembrance. The original records and photographs appear on screen with their credits; subtitles are burned in.
The family lines
Papi & Babi
Cernăuți · Tel Aviv · Satu Mare · Switzerland · Brooklyn · São Paulo · Boro Park Read the family → Vilaucea, Czernowitz and Tel AvivThe Rosners
Vilaucea · Vășcăuți · Cernăuți · Gura Humorului · Banila · Zadova · Tel Aviv · Brooklyn · São Paulo Read the family → Anna’s family — Câmpulung, Vatra Dornei and RădăuțiPacht & Steigman
Câmpulung Moldovenesc · Vatra Dornei · Seletin · Sadova · Rădăuți · Czernowitz · Tel Aviv · Holon · Paris Read the family → Sender Freund, Reb Chaim and the older Freunds of Sighet and KroliThe Freunds
Kurima · Sighet · Nagykároly (Carei) · Satu Mare · Nyíregyháza · Jerusalem Read the family → Babi’s mother Chana and her familyBraun & Kaufman
Kisvárda · Varannó (Vranov) · Csaholc · Szatmárnémeti Read the family → Beth Moses, Bnei Brak, Jerusalem and Satu MareResting Places
New York · Bnei Brak · Jerusalem · Holon · Satu Mare Read the family →From the records
Highlights
- Tel Aviv, July 1941: Zeidi refused an extortion gang’s demand for 1,000 pounds, and they set off a bomb at his apartment door on Zamenhof Street — nobody was hurt Confirmed
- R’ Yisrael Freund’s Hunyad found: Bánffyhunyad (Huedin), where a 1937 paper called him “an excellent and famous Talmudist” Confirmed
- Back to the generation born in the later 1600s: R’ Yaakov, father of R’ Shlomo Zalman of Veszprém, at the top of an unbroken chain of documents (his birth date is an estimate, c. 1665–1700), and Yutel’s family of Pápa, up to R’ Pinchas Zelig, Rav of Pápa (d. 1772) Likely
- Babi’s uncle József Braun survived: Budapest 1944, New York 1948, died in Brooklyn in 1986 Confirmed
- A new great-great-grandaunt: Hani Kaufman, Ignácz’s sister, married at Tótkajna in 1859 — the original names her parents Manes and Zipra Kaufman Confirmed
- Babi’s grandmother Fáni (Feige) Braun née Kaufman: buried at Kisvárda, died in April 1925 (Iyar 5685) Likely
- Fáni Kaufman’s parents found — Ignácz Kaufman and Hani Szakmári, in her 1896 marriage at Varannó Confirmed
- Reb Chaim Freund’s 1884 wedding to Chaja Stern at his father’s house in Sighet — both fathers signed as witnesses Likely
- The Sterns of Kurima a generation further back, to Jakob (Anshel) Stern of Sztropkó, born about 1800 Likely
- Babi’s family in the framed photograph: her parents Sender and Chana Freund and all seven brothers and sisters, named on the print Confirmed
- Zeidi and Anna’s photographs from their 1941 Palestine citizenship file Confirmed
- The 1921 Waschkoutz register: Zeidi and his four brothers and sisters, children of Freide Reiner of Vilaucea Confirmed
- Sender Freund’s birth at Kurima, 1893, to Chaim Freund of Sighet and Chaja Stern Confirmed
- Chana Braun’s birth in Kisvárda, 1899, and the Braun tailors back to Márkus Braun Confirmed
- Reb Chaim Freund, head of the Satmar community, who brought R’ Yoel Teitelbaum to Satmar in 1928 Likely
How to read this site
Every person and every record carries a label. Confirmed: the record itself was read and names the person. Likely: one good record or a careful index supports it, or several records agree without one that says it outright. Possible: the identity or the family link fits by name, place and date but is not yet proven. Where records disagree, both are shown.
A living record
Everything here rests on original records — civil and Jewish registers, passenger lists, census sheets, gravestones, memorial records and the family’s own photographs — and new finds will be added as they are read. Living members of the family appear by name and relation only. The tree starts from Papi and Babi’s five daughters, shown by name only; later generations are not shown.