Family genealogy
Moshe AroKronental and his wife Sura Sternis
my great-grandparents
Moshe-Aron Kronental was born in Warsaw in 1859.
He died in 1933 in Paris, where he had followed his children.
He left Warsaw in 1925, accompanied by his last son still in Poland.
Everything is written in Hebrew on his tombstone:
Moshe Aron, son of Mordechai (Mordka) Kronental, the date of his death is written in Hebrew (month and day of the Hebrew calendar) in 1933.
In Hebrew or Yiddish, top left, "Amicale de Belleville". I cannot decipher the heading on the right.
I know his profession, not exactky, he was "merchant"..
He was wearing the traditional clothes of the Hasidic people (who are devoted to religion).
Was he a rabbi in Warsaw? Was he a religious man with a profession of "merchant"? A mystery!
However, his wife, Sura, also came from a traditional background, but rather petit-bourgeois and above all a musician.
The ancestors of Moshe-Aron
His parents were named Mordechai (with the diminutive of Mordka) born in 1821 (I do not know his date of death) and his wife Hinda Guelblum born in 1826.
They were married in 1847 in Warsaw.
Mordka's parents were Herszek Kronental and Dwora (no surname).
They must have been born between 1790 and 1800.
I don't know if they were already from Warsaw or if they came from another city in Poland or Russia?
The brothers and sisters of Moshe-Aron
Mordka and Hinda had five recorded children:
The eldest, Szmul, was born in 1848 and died in 1854.
Laca born in 1852: no further information.
Jonas was born and died in 1855.
Bella-Szyfra Kronental, (1880- died before 1929) but I have no civil status information, she married Jachek Glajchman.
They will have at least one daughter recorded, because she was known to my mother: Meryem (Marie) Glajchman (1901-1983). It is thanks to the existence of Marie Parchewski that I was able to reconstruct this branch.
And of course Moshe-Aron , whom I couldn't find in the Warsaw archives.
It was in his death certificate in Paris that I was able to find the names of his parents.
I have no photos of Moshe-Aron's parents and grandparents.
During my research, I made contact with an American lineage descended from Kronental of Warsaw.
Beyond the first names that are found in our two parallel branches, from generation to generation, since the 1800s, I know nothing of the possible links between us.
Are we related?
If that were the case, it would be on the same level as Herszek: a brother?
The DNA evidence is inconclusive at this stage.
The children of Moshe Aron and Sura
and Grandma's brothers and sisters
Sura and Moshe-Aron Kronental had 5 recorded children.
Perhaps 7 if I can find any trace of a Rosa and a Salomon Kronental.
It seems that my grandmother was the eldest.
His first younger brother Itzack, known as Itchè Kronental, was born in 1885, two years after his grandmother.
He emigrated with his family and Moshe-Aron to Paris in 1925. (see the story of Uncle Itche).
Via Genealogy Indexer, I have just found alongside Sabina, as an employee in 1916, a Rosa Kronental and also a Salomon Kronental as a Jewish merchant, in 1910.
Uncle Max's first child was named Solomon.
The third child would in fact be Chana.
The personal information on JRI Poland was inaccurate.
The death certificate, translated from Cyrillic, places his death on June 4, 1894.
She was 6 years and 6 months old. Her birth was at the end of 1887.
Sabina Scheindle : I found her grave in the large Okopowa cemetery in Warsaw.
It states: the date of her death 1920 and her age at death 26 years. I therefore assume that she was born in 1894.
I don't know what she died of in Warsaw. Perhaps the Spanish flu epidemic that was sweeping across Europe.
My grandfather's mother also died in 1920.
Another enigma that remains unsolved to this day.
While sorting through her own photos with my mother's first cousin, Madeleine Kronental, Max's daughter, she showed me one with "Rosa, pianist, Dad's sister" written on the back.
We don't know wether his sentence was dictated by Max to Daniel - in which case Rosa would be Max's aunt- or wether Daniel Wrote it himself, when refering to Max's sister.
Here is the portrait in question.
Who was this Rosa Kronental?
Since Warsaw's civil registry is limited, it is difficult to verify.
Naom, the genealogist from Warsaw, had found one who was giving a concert advertised in a newspaper.
The only Rosa I found was born in 1864 and died at 74 years old in 1938. She was married to a Bercholc.
The inscription on the back, "Daddy's sister," could refer to either Max's sister or Moshe Aron's sister. If it is Rosa, given that the dates are close to Moshe Aron's birth, she could be Max's aunt who gave him piano lessons.