Rezekne
(This is in dedication to Vivian Pass [Z'L], daughter of Morris Pass
[1925-2009])
Studio I.I Rogolev. Rizhitza. Photo taken in about 1900 (click on the photo to enlarge)
This is the family of Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner.
Seated her Great Grandparents. Her Great Grandfather's name is unknown. His wife was Basya Pass.
In the back row are: from the left (Chia)Esther, born in 1878 and Noime Pas (Pass as the name was in the USA). Esther was Esther Rechtschafner's paternal Grandmother. Ester Pass, born in ca 1880, and her siblings left Rezekne at about the turn of the last century. She died in New York. Their brother Moshe is not on the picture. The photo below is him later.
Seated her Great Grandparents. Her Great Grandfather's name is unknown. His wife was Basya Pass.
In the back row are: from the left (Chia)Esther, born in 1878 and Noime Pas (Pass as the name was in the USA). Esther was Esther Rechtschafner's paternal Grandmother. Ester Pass, born in ca 1880, and her siblings left Rezekne at about the turn of the last century. She died in New York. Their brother Moshe is not on the picture. The photo below is him later.
Basya Pass
Photostudio G. Kliatzkin. Dvinsk. Taken after 1893.
Photostudio G. Kliatzkin. Dvinsk. Taken after 1893.
Basya Pass was Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner's Great Grandmother.
Morris( Maurice) Pass
This picture was taken in Capetown, South Africa in 1903. Click on the photo to enlarge
Morris( he always used the name "Maurice"
went to South Africa, as did many Latvian Jews at that time.This was his first stop . He worked
in a shoe shop. He earned money and sent it to his family. The parents
and the 2 daughters Nomi & Esther immigrated to New York. Nomi
married Simon Bleckman and Esther married Harry Herschman. (See Herschman
family). This was at the turn of the last century. He saved a bit more
money and went to England, where he again worked in a shoe shop. Then
he earned more money and went to New York to join his family. There, he
opened up his own shoe shop. He and his immediate family moved to
California. The economic situation of the entire family improved and
some of the descendents became millionaires. They were/are all very
cultured and big Zionists.He is Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner's
Great uncle and also the Grandfather of Melissa and Lynn Omerberg.
Maurice (who died in the 1940s) married Rachel (Rae) Plotkin and had three children, all now deceased: Herbert, Shirley and Vivian. They moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s. Herbert had two daughters, Helen and Maureen Pass; Shirley married Bernard Smith; and Vivian married Julian Omerberg and had two kids, Melissa and Lynn Omerberg Barrett.
Maurice (who died in the 1940s) married Rachel (Rae) Plotkin and had three children, all now deceased: Herbert, Shirley and Vivian. They moved to Los Angeles in the early 1940s. Herbert had two daughters, Helen and Maureen Pass; Shirley married Bernard Smith; and Vivian married Julian Omerberg and had two kids, Melissa and Lynn Omerberg Barrett.
From esther's site and click here for more info.