Betty Levine was born in Whitechapel in August 1925, one of three sisters. Her father was Lithuanian and mother English. Betty went to school in Ely in Cambridgeshire & then trained as a nurse at Redhill County Hospital followed by a period at the Women’s Hospital in Soho Square. She was also employed as a […]
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were married on 21 January 1940 at Stepney Orthodox Synagogue with the reception at the Embassy Ballrooms in Bow E3. Both Kate & Alf were born in 1910 in the UK. Kate’s parents came from Vilnius, Lithuania & Alf’s from Poland. In WWII, Alf joined the Army and was based in the UK. He subsequently […]
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at his Barmitzvah in April 1938 with his sister Sylvia and parents, Alec and Rachel (née Kafitz). At the time, the family lived at Wellington Ave, Stamford Hill and Monty attended Tottenham Grammer School. The Hubbersgilt family came to the UK in 1901 from Vitebsk in Lithuania with Alec being brought over 9 years later […]
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were married on 14 January 1934 at Philpot Street Synagogue in Whitechapel. At the time of their marriage, both Esther & Henry were hairdressers. Esther’s parents both came from Poland in the late 1890’s – her father was described as a ‘journeyman tailor’. Henry’s father, born in Kupiskis, Lithuania, was a lithographic printer.
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born in 1888 in Minsk, Russia & Soloman Shulman, born in 1880 in Lithuania, were wedding guests in 1932. The couple were married in 1903 at Stepney Green Synagogue & lived in Columbia Road E2 in a flat above their shoe shop. Rent on the shop was £1/week paid to the Church. Later moved to […]
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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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