Rose was the daughter of Avraham Yakov Reifer (c.1886-c.1920) and Rivka nee Fallik (c.1886-1918), and the sister of Pinkas Falik (1909-1985), Eda Scherzer (1912-2005), and Louis Wolff (1915-1989), and of Mala Sieger (1911-c.1942) and Hania Reifer (1917-1945), who were murdered in the Holocaust.
She was born in Gawluszowice (near Mielec) in what was then the Austrian crownland of Galicia and is now southeastern Poland. In about 1922, after the deaths of both of her parents, she went to live with her father's sister, Rivka Lehr, near Cernauti, Romania -- now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, but still known to many of its former residents as "Czernowitz."
Rose immigrated to the U.S. in April 1938 and in June 1941, she married Carl Stern, whom she had met in an English class for the foreign born. They lived briefly in Brooklyn, then many years in Washington Heights (northern Manhattan). In 1967 Rose, by then widowed, moved to Forest Hills (Queens) to be near her one daughter and later, the two granddaughters she so adored.
In 1978, Rose returned to Czernowitz to see Pinkas and Eda for the first time in 40 years.
Rose worked for almost 20 years as a salesperson in the Career Shop in Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue store.
* Both Rose and her brother Pinkas used their mother's surname because their parent's religious marriage was not recognized by civil authorities -- a common occurrence among Galician Jews.
She was born in Gawluszowice (near Mielec) in what was then the Austrian crownland of Galicia and is now southeastern Poland. In about 1922, after the deaths of both of her parents, she went to live with her father's sister, Rivka Lehr, near Cernauti, Romania -- now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, but still known to many of its former residents as "Czernowitz."
Rose immigrated to the U.S. in April 1938 and in June 1941, she married Carl Stern, whom she had met in an English class for the foreign born. They lived briefly in Brooklyn, then many years in Washington Heights (northern Manhattan). In 1967 Rose, by then widowed, moved to Forest Hills (Queens) to be near her one daughter and later, the two granddaughters she so adored.
In 1978, Rose returned to Czernowitz to see Pinkas and Eda for the first time in 40 years.
Rose worked for almost 20 years as a salesperson in the Career Shop in Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue store.
* Both Rose and her brother Pinkas used their mother's surname because their parent's religious marriage was not recognized by civil authorities -- a common occurrence among Galician Jews.
Rose was the daughter of Avraham Yakov Reifer (c.1886-c.1920) and Rivka nee Fallik (c.1886-1918), and the sister of Pinkas Falik (1909-1985), Eda Scherzer (1912-2005), and Louis Wolff (1915-1989), and of Mala Sieger (1911-c.1942) and Hania Reifer (1917-1945), who were murdered in the Holocaust.
She was born in Gawluszowice (near Mielec) in what was then the Austrian crownland of Galicia and is now southeastern Poland. In about 1922, after the deaths of both of her parents, she went to live with her father's sister, Rivka Lehr, near Cernauti, Romania -- now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, but still known to many of its former residents as "Czernowitz."
Rose immigrated to the U.S. in April 1938 and in June 1941, she married Carl Stern, whom she had met in an English class for the foreign born. They lived briefly in Brooklyn, then many years in Washington Heights (northern Manhattan). In 1967 Rose, by then widowed, moved to Forest Hills (Queens) to be near her one daughter and later, the two granddaughters she so adored.
In 1978, Rose returned to Czernowitz to see Pinkas and Eda for the first time in 40 years.
Rose worked for almost 20 years as a salesperson in the Career Shop in Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue store.
* Both Rose and her brother Pinkas used their mother's surname because their parent's religious marriage was not recognized by civil authorities -- a common occurrence among Galician Jews.
She was born in Gawluszowice (near Mielec) in what was then the Austrian crownland of Galicia and is now southeastern Poland. In about 1922, after the deaths of both of her parents, she went to live with her father's sister, Rivka Lehr, near Cernauti, Romania -- now Chernivtsi, Ukraine, but still known to many of its former residents as "Czernowitz."
Rose immigrated to the U.S. in April 1938 and in June 1941, she married Carl Stern, whom she had met in an English class for the foreign born. They lived briefly in Brooklyn, then many years in Washington Heights (northern Manhattan). In 1967 Rose, by then widowed, moved to Forest Hills (Queens) to be near her one daughter and later, the two granddaughters she so adored.
In 1978, Rose returned to Czernowitz to see Pinkas and Eda for the first time in 40 years.
Rose worked for almost 20 years as a salesperson in the Career Shop in Lord & Taylor's Fifth Avenue store.
* Both Rose and her brother Pinkas used their mother's surname because their parent's religious marriage was not recognized by civil authorities -- a common occurrence among Galician Jews.
Inscription
Reizel bat R'Avraham Yakov ha Levi
Family Members
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