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KORNITZER Family Tree

Gitl SOFER (b. 1815 Pressbourg d. Vienna) daughter of Rabbi Moshe Sofer (Chatam SOFER) married Rabbi Eliyahu Elias KORNITZER (b. Subatisht, d. Vienna) son of Mendel Menachem KORNITZER.

Samuel KORNITZER married Rachel BILITZER. Two children.
Moshe KORNITZER married Sarah GESTETNER who died giving birth to her daughter Sharl Rosalia KORNITZER.
Moshe KORNITZER remarried Sarah GREENWALD.
- Amram KORNITZER
  - Avraham KORNITZER.
    - Moshe KORNITZER lives in Petah Tikva. Sons: Avraham KORNITZER, Wilhelm (Wolf Leib) KORNITZER, Shimon KORNITZER, Shmuel KORNITZER, Eliyahu KORNITZER (disappeared in Finland during World War 2) and Josef KORNITZER (disappeared in Budapest at the liberation by the Soviet Army).
- Eliyahu Elias KORNITZER (b. Budapest or Vienna?, d. 1930 Mattersdorf) married Bertha ROSENFELD (b. 1872 Atzgerdorf d. UK).
  - Sidonie (Sidi) KORNITZER (d. around 1942 Holocaust) married Harry BLUM (buried Israel)
    - Nathan-Hans BLUM married Sara.
      - Judy Jehidith BLUM judygopher@yahoo.com married Asher GOPHER.
      - Rachel BLUM
      - Yael BLUM married COHEN
    - Hedy BLUM (d. Holocaust)
  - Mathilde KORNITZER (b. 1899 Atzgerdorf, d. 4 Apr. 1943 shot during liquidation of the Zloczov ghetto, Poland Lvov Holocaust) m. Sam FRISCHWASSER (1900 Poland-1989 Kirkland, WA)
    - Alex (FRISCHWASSER) WATERS (b. 3 Jan. 1927 Vienna, d. 28 July 2006 Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Washington) first married Evelyn Eva HEILBRUNN (d. 27 May 1998 Kirkland, Washington). They changed their name from FRISCHWASSER to WATERS just before the birth of their twin children. Contact: Evelyn's second cousin Marion SCHMITZ zb4ms at juno.com
      - Miriam Leslie WATERS (twin b. 22 May 1956) m. Bradley Paul SILVERNAIL (b. 1952). Children: (1) Amy Alana SILVERNAIL (b. 1982); (2) Jeffrey Paul SILVERNAIL (b. 1984)
      - Alan WATERS (twin b. 22 May 1956, d. 2 Oct. 1973 Santa Barbara, California)
      Alex remarried (22 June 2006 Kirkland, Washington) to Patricia MITCHELL p.m.mitchell@gmail.com
    - Erich FRISCHWASSER (b. 1929, d. 4 Apr. 1943 shot during liquidation of the Zlocov ghetto, Holocaust)
  - Grete KORNITZER (d. Holocaust) married Joseph REISMAN (d. Holocaust)
  - Leopold KORNITZER married Frieda. Two daughters: Miriam KORNITZER and Rena KORNITZER. Two grand children.
  - Sally KORNITZER m. SOLOMON. (From Akiva Eger Family book, but according to Hanna Rand–Ron this is wrong.)
  - Johanna KORNITZER m. EISLER. 2 children, 3 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren. (From Akiva Eger Family book, but according to Hanna Rand–Ron this is wrong.)
  - David KORNITZER. (From Akiva Eger Family book, but according to Hanna Rand–Ron this is wrong.)
  - Helena KORNITZER m. Marcus Samuel "Emil" RAND.
    - Hanna RAND hannaron1@gmail.com married George Moshe RON. They live in Haifa, Israel. Thanks to Hanna for information on this branch of the family.
  - Amram KORNITZER. (From Akiva Eger Family book, but according to Hanna Rand–Ron this is wrong.)
  - Julius KORNITZER. 2 chidren, 4 grandchildren. (From Akiva Eger Family book, but according to Hanna Rand–Ron this is wrong.)
- Zisel KORNITZER (died Holocaust) married Jehuda KAUFMAN
- Sharl Rosalia KORNITZER (d. 1941 Sárvár, Hungary) married Abraham SCHWARTZ (b. 1872 Sárvár, Hungary , d. 15.July.1944 Holocaust). He was the son of Tibel Antal SCHWARTZ and of Theresa GASTETTER, both died in Sárvár, Hungary.
  - Pinchas Paul SCHWARTZ (b. 1898, d. 1947 Budapest, Hungary) married Irena GANSEL (d. Jerusalem, Israel)
    - Erika Hana SCHWARTZ (1929-1999 Tel-Aviv, Israel) married Joseph FROMER
    - Ervin Shmuel SCHWARTZ (d. Holocaust) married Frida SCHWEIZER
    - Liana Shoshana SCHWARTZ married Prof. Michael PORE. shosh41@gmail.com
  - Zalman SCHWARTZ (b. 1904) married Trush, Both died Holocaust.
    - Robert SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
    - Andi SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
    - Imre SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
  - Itzhak SCHWARTZ (d. Shervur, Hungary) married Rosi KNEPLER. Both died Holocaust.
    - Hana SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
    - Risle SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
    - Sarah SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
    - Solomon SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust)
  - Teri SCHWARTZ (d. Holocaust) married Jehuda LUK (buried in Bnei Brak, Israel)
    - Alice LOK married Moshe CAHANA (d.). See www.alicelokcahana.com/ for here collection of Holocaust art. Alice LOK lives in Houston, Texas. Contact: Grandchild Kitra CAHANA kitra.cahana@gmail.com
    - Edith LUK (died Holocaust)
    - Oci LUK (died Holocaust)
    - Emy LUK (died Holocaust)
  - Reta SCHWARTZ (d. Vienna, Austria) married Philip GLUCK (d. London UK)
    - Ernesti GLUCK (d. Holocaust)
  - Jolan SCHWARTZ (died Holocaust) married Bela WOLFSTEIN (d. 1946 Holocaust)
    - Isidor WOLFSTEIN (died Holocaust)
    - Jehudith WOLFSTEIN (died Holocaust)
    - Neomi WOLFSTEIN (died Holocaust)
    - Ervin WOLFSTEIN (died Holocaust)
  - Monzi Miriam SCHWARTZ (buried Jerusalem, Israel) married Meir HERMAN (buried Jerusalem, Israel)
    - Moshe HERMAN married Shifra ROT
    - Jehudith HERMAN married Dr. Baruch BEN-DOR
    - Menachem HERMAN (buried Sgula Pethach Tikva, Israel) married Levia KLEIN.
  - Shmuel SCHWARETZ (buried Jerusalem, Israel) married Nehana Neli STEPHANSKI (buried Jerusalem, Israel)
    - Jacob SCHWARTZ married Feigale MOSKOWITZ live in Brooklyn New York, USA
- Gisela Gizi Genndel KORNITZER (buried Jerusalem, Israel) married Moshe Nahum TZOBEL (buried Jerusalem, Israel). Daughter: Sarah Shari TZOBEL married WEISS. Live in Jerusalem.
Akiba KORNITZER (b. 1850 d. 1892) Abad Cracow married Resel SOFER the daughter of Shimon "Michtav Sofer". Eight children.
- Yoseph Nechemya KORNITZER (b. 12 Dec 1880, d. 28 Apr 1933) married Breindel Blanka KLEIN
  - Shmuel Shmelka KORNITZER (b. 1904, d. 11 Mar 1940 Auschwitz, Poland) married Chaya Perel TURKEL (b. 1904 Vienna, Austria, d. 1942 Plaszow, Poland)
    - Chaya KORNITZER married Naftali KAPLAN
    - Yaakov Moshe KORNITZER
    - Yosef Nechemya KORNITZER
    - Chana Sheindel KORNITZER
    - Miriam KORNITZER
  - Miriam Reizel KORNITZER married Menachem Zvi EISENSTADT
  - Akiva KORNITZER
  - Dvora Gittel KORNITZER married Matityahu KATZ<
    - Yosef Nechemya KATZ
  - Yisrael Shalom KORNITZER
  - Chana Shiendel KORNITZER (d. 8 Nov 1985) married Shabsi FRANKEL
  - Chaya Sara KORNITZER married Shlomo SHAPIRA
  - Shimon KORNITZER married Sala (b. 1911-d. 1998)
- Aharon Binyamin Zeev KORNITZER (d. 31 Mar 1932) married Rosa STERNGLANTZ
  - Reizel KORNITZER married Shlomo MANGEL
    - Renya MANGEL married Moshe SHTERNLICHT. Children: Irit SHTERNLICHT and son: Nati SHTERNLICHT (d.)
    - Henik MANGEL
  - Frieda KORNITZER married Baruch Moshe LAST
    - Carl LAST (b. 12 Apr. 1926, d. 30 Apr. 2009) married Marion ROTHSCHILD (b. 24 Jul. 1931, Berlin, Germany, d. 4 May 2009 Jerusalem, Israel)
      - Shoshana LAST married Shimon LEBOWITZ shimonleb at gmail dot com. Thanks for Shimon for information on this branch of the family tree.
        
        Elisheva LEBOWITZ married R. SASON
        
        Avigayil Hedva LEBOWITZ married E. ANSBACHER. Children: Amitai Mordechai ANSBACHER, Nachala ANSBACHER, Benaya ANSBACHER and Tzuriya Hava ANSBACHER
        
        Nisan Baruch LEBOWITZ married Rachel. Children: Hallel LEBOWITZ and Tamar Hava LEBOWITZ
        
        Nachshon Nechemya LEBOWITZ
        
        Yissachar Tzvi LEBOWITZ
        
        Zerach Netanel LEBOWITZ
        
        Tzofiya Batya LEBOWITZ
        
        Geula Sara LEBOWITZ
      - Mimi LAST married Moshe Chaim DELMAN
        
        Amy DELMAN
        
        Rina DELMAN
        
        Pnina DELMAN
      - Benjie Binyamin Zev LAST married Sheryl DUMAN
        
        Daniella LAST
        
        Tamara Rachel LAST
        
        Avi Avraham Baruch Moshe LAST
        
        Alexandra Shira LAST
        
        David Shlomo LAST
  - Akiva KORNITZER
  - Miriam Manya KORNITZER (d. Bnei Brak, Israel) married Yakov GROSS
    - Akiva GROSS married R.
    - Helen GROSS married Jack JUCKER (d. 18 Mar. 2010)
      - Arlene JUCKER married Ronald Abraham
      - Renee JUCKER married Ellie SCHONBRUN. Children: Dov SCHONBRUN and Michelle SCHONBRUN
  Aharon Binyamin Zeev KORNITZER (d. 31 Mar 1932) remarried Devorah KLEINBLATT. Devorah had previous married GOLDBERG and had a daughter Pertcha GOLDBERG from that marriage.
  - Sarah KORNITZER married Haim STEMMER
    - Armand STEMMER married Ronit. Children: Haim STEMMER, Micky STEMMER, Yair STEMMER
    - Dorothy STEMMER married David HOFFMAN
      - Natalie HOFFMAN married E. SCHEINER
      - Motti HOFFMAN
      - Akiva HOFFMAN
  - Shlomo KORNITZER
  - Chaya Esther KORNITZER married Pesach LANGSAM.
    Chaya Esther KORNITZER remarried Hirsch Zvi WAGSCHALL
  - Moshe Jehoshua KORNITZER married Faye.
    - Binyomin Zeev Velvy KORNITZER married E
    - Shalom Akiva Shulem KORNITZER married N
  - Gisela Gitel KORNITZER married Naftaly SPALTER (two daughters)
Menachem (Emanuel) KORNITZER (b. 1846/1847, d. 1888/1889) married Edel (Adele) WEIL or WEISS (b. 1855/1856 Krakow, d. 16 May 1922).
- Eliezer (Ludwig) KORNITZER (b. 1873 Vienna)
- Gitel (Gisela) KORNITZER (b. 1874 Vienna) . Named after her grandmother (Chasam Sofer's daughter) who died shortly before Gisela's birth.
- Eliyahu (Elias) KORNITZER (b. 1875 Vienna, died young)
- Shmuel (Samuel) KORNITZER (b. 1876 Vienna) married Ernestina Fanta (b. 1880, d. 1942)
- Zisel (Sophie) KORNITZER (b. 1878 Vienna, d. Paris 1960's). She married Nissim Menachem (Max) MENASSE (b. 1871 Vienna, d. about 1933 Paris).
  - Rudolf MENASSE (b. 1898)
  - Blanca MENASSE (b. 1900)
  - Lucie MENASSE (b. 1902, d. 1980's) married (1927 Paris) Avraham (Albert) CARASSO
    - Moshe (Pierre) CARASSO (b. 1929). He married Rivka (Roberta) CARASSO.
      - Daniel Albert (Daniel Avraham) CARASSO (b. 1961 New York, lives Ramat Bet Shemesh Israel) dcar@netvision.net.il. He married Yehudis (Judith) STEINHARDT. Children: Yehoshua CARASSO (b. 1993), Rivka CARASSO (b. 1994), Leah CARASSO (b. 1996), Aharon CARASSO (b. 1999), Menucha CARASSO (b. 2001), Yichiel CARASSO (b. 2005). Thanks to Daniel for information on this branch of the family tree.
      - Douglas CARASSO (b. 1963 New York)
      - David CARASSO (b. 1967)
    - Roger CARASSO (b. 1931)
  - Stella MENASSE (b. 1904)
- Reizel (Rosa) KORNITZER (b. 1879) married Mark EISENBERGER (b. 1869, d. 1935). Sons: Egon EISENBERGER (b. 1906, d. 1920) and Walter EISENBERG (b. 1914)
- Shimon (Simon) KORNITZER (b. 1883) married to unknown, divorced 1914. Shimon remarried (1949 Tel Aviv) Reizel (Rosa) ORENSTEIN (b. 1892).
- Menachem (Emanuel) KORNITZER (b. 1889 following death of his father, moved to New York in 1920's) He married Alice BYK (b. 1902)
Wolf Leib (Zeev Arieh) KORNITZER married Pearl WILD (Budapest).
- Eliyahu (Elie) KORNITZER (b. 1865 Sobotiste, Slovakia)
- Moshe KORNITZER (b. 1872 Sered, Slovakia, d. 1943 Antwerp, Belgium) m. Malka KRENGEL
  - Ernestine KORNITZER (b. 1901 Antwerp Belgium, d. 1982 Tel Aviv, Israel) married Joseph BRISCH
    - Pnina BRISCH (b. 1932 Antwerp ) married Avraham GOFER (GOLDMANN) (b. 1924 Warsaw)
      - Anat GOFER (b. 1959) married Israel FINKELSTEIN (b. 1959)
      - Joseph GOFER (b. 1962 Tel-Aviv)
      - Assaf GOFER (b. 1971 Tel Aviv)
    - Bat Sheva Charlotte BRISCH (b. 1936 Antwerp Belgium)
  - Charlie KORNITZER (b. 1902, d. 1918)
  - Mathilda Tilly KORNITZER (b. 1905 Antwerp Belgium, d. 1994 Antwerp Belgium) married Jacques KLAPHOLTZ (deported in 1942)
    Mathilda Tilly KORNITZER remarried Isaac STACHELBERG
  - Akiva Jaques KORNITZER (b. Antwerp Belgium d. 1943 Holocaust)
  - Natan KORNITZER (b. 1906 Antwerp, Belgium, d. 1991 Antwerp, Belgium) married Mechla KNOBLAUCH
    - Prof. Marcel David KORNITZER (b. 7 Apr. 1937 Antwerp, Belgium) bmkornitzer@bezeqint.net m. Blanche HOLLANDER. They live in Jerusalem.
      - Raphael KORNITZER married Naama ALUFI. Aviv KORNITZER, Noa KORNITZER and Nitsan KORNITZER
      - Daniel KORNITZER married Sara SELIG. Sons: Noam KORNITZER, Gil KORNITZER and Uri KORNITZER
      - Emmanuel KORNITZER marrie Linda LEON. Children: Yael KORNITZER, Michal KORNITZER, Yotam KORNITZER and Gidon KORNITZER
- David KORNITZER (b. 1872 Sered) married Franciska BURGER (both deported from Bratislava)
  - Olga KORNITZER (d. 1995 Budapest, Hungary) married KLEIN
    - Edith KLEIN married ZADOR. one son
    - Magda KLEIN (d. 2005) married STRENFELD. Daughter Judith STERNFELD
  - Sarah KORNITZER (d. 1959 Budapest, Hungary)
  - Rosa KORNITZER (died young)
- Rachel KORNITZER married Zvi NIEDERMANN.
- Ernestine KORNITZER (died in Theresienstadt)
Sara KORNITZER (Vienna) married R. Itzchak Eliyahu SCHICK. Four children.
Shlomo KORNITZER (died young)

Gitl SOFER remarried R. Salman SPITZER (Abak Schiffschul).

Jitl SPITZER
Sarah SPITZER
Malka Esther SPITZER (d. 1931 Pressburg) married R. Shimon Itzchak Leib SOFER (1849-1944). She was his third wife.

Information on this page contributed by David Peter John LEWIN david@lewinsdlondon.org.uk, Alisa SHARON alisa_Sharon at yahoo.com, Jack NIHOM NIHOMJ at aol.com and Gary PALGON GMPalgon at Yahoo.com

Daniel E. LOEB, eMail: loeb17@gmail.com