ANNIE ‘NICKY’ SHAPIRO and NATHAN ‘NAT’ BEERMAN

were married on 29 December 1940 at the Great Synagogue, Commercial Rd. Their wedding night was spent at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch but had to take cover in an air-raid shelter due to a bombing raid. Nicky was born at the London Hospital Whitechapel in 1913 – her mother was from Kiev and her […]

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SYLVIA SWIRSKY and MOSES ‘MO’ BLOK

were married on 18 December 1932 at the Stamford Hill Beit Hamedrash Synagogue. Sylvia was born in Kirsanov, Lithuania in 1908 and came to the UK with her parents, Abraham & Udice, in 1912. Mo was born in Groningen, Holland in 1908. He joined the family sack business & as part of his training came […]

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