Judy Schreiber - February 1, 2013
Family Background
Okay, and well uh, why don't we hear your--what happened uh, but before, what was your uh, uh, father's name?
My dad's name was Nachman Tevlovichova and my mother's name um, was Ethel Ethela.
Ethela?
Yeah in, in Czech.
And what did your father do for a living?
Uh, I think he was employed when I was real little as a basket weaver of some kind and a broom maker. He--I, I recall them telling me that's what he did just before the war.
Okay. And your mother, what did she do?
She was housewife.
Okay.
Took care of my dad.
Okay. And any other uh, brothers and sisters?
Yes, I have a younger sister, Eva, who was born after the war. And I have a younger brother, Irv, who was born in the United States in Louisville, Kentucky.
Uh-huh. And where was Eva born?
Eva was born shortly after the war in Prague and uh, we left when she was still an infant.
Mm-hm, okay. And how man... how many would you say were in the whole family, the extended family? Grandparents, uncles, cousins?
Everybody died.
Oh.
Uh, the only remaining uh, living relative that I recall ever meeting was my mother's brother, her uh, her maiden name was Eilender, E-I-L-E-N-D-E-R. And her brother survived the war and um, I went to see him after the war, like for a week or so vacation. He lost his whole family, his wife and I don't know how many children, I think five or so, but he remarried and that's when I went to visit them.
Mm-hm.
So I remember him as a relative.
Mm-hm. This is your mother's brother?
My mother's brother and he had two daughters that survived the war uh, they were my cousins. Um, one of them still lives in Europe.
Hm.
I remember uh, seeing them right after the war and the other one lives in Israel.
Hm, okay. So uh, what was his name, your mother's brother?
Uh, I just remember him as uncle Leib.
Uncle...
Leib.
Leib.
L-E-I-B.
Okay.
But his, his maiden name would have been Eilender like my uh, I mean, his name would have been like my mom's.
Got it. Okay so, oh and your mother, so your mother's maiden name was Eilender?
Yes.
Okay, E-I-L-A-N-D-E-R.
E-I-L-E-N-D-E-R.
E.
Mm-hm.
Okay, Eilender, okay good. Okay so, and so who survived the Holocaust was basically your parents, yourself, and your uncle and his two daughters?
My uncle and his two daughters and uh, my dad was a twin and his twin left Europe before the war, so she was in Israel throughout the war. But the rest of whoever uh, my dad had left, which wasn't very many people uh, also died.
Okay. And, and going back a moment...
Mm-hm.
How many were, would you estimate, in the whole extended family before the war, uh?
Uh, you mean like counting grandparents or something like that?
Grandparents, uncles, first cousins.
Um, pro...probably about twenty-five or so.
Okay.
I know my mom came from a fairly large family.
Mm-hm.
And uh, they uh, quite a few of her brothers and whatever were married and they perished, their children perished. My mother's sisters perished.
Oh my.
So uh, my grandparents, nobody came out.
I see.
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