Adella / Adele / Adela Kucera / Engel

Adele divorced KUCERA, widowed ENGEL, née PISK: b. 22 Sept 1889, Wien - d. 25 Nov 1940, Haifa, "Patria" disaster

Details from IKG-Wien birth registration, viewable courtesy of genteam.at:

• Last Name Pisk
• First Name Adele (Adella)
• First Name Father Sigmund
• Last Name Mother Heilig
• First Name Mother Hanni
• Location Wien
• Book M 1889-90 Volume M
• Date 22.09.1889 No. 1597
• Father: Sigmund PISK, “Kaufmann aus Nikolsburg, Mähren”
• Mother: Johanna, née HEILIG
• Witnesses: Sigmund HERSCHL & Alois DORN

1889.09.22 - Adella PISK - IKG-Wien BR: Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911; pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-25807-3906-34

Portrait of Michael & Adele ENGEL - and her gravestone in Haifa -thanks to granddaughter Claudia STEVENS who also provides the following lovely little details:

" ... my father told me about his early life before coming to Vienna for schooling as a small boy - how his mother Adela, widowed before his birth, ran a small inn and tavern in Kostice near the border with Austria, frequented by tradesmen and peasants. His beloved grandmother (Johanna Heilig), Sigmund Pisk's wife, had a farm near Rabensburg in Austria, where my father, his sisters and little cousins would spend summers. He remembers it as a place where there was always plenty to eat. As a boy in Vienna, an "orphan" of WWI, he was very poor. "

(pip - August 2016)

cf. eg.

Patria disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster

The Patria disaster was the sinking on 25 November 1940 by the Haganah of a French-built ocean liner, the 11,885-ton SS Patria, in the port of Haifa, killing 267 people and injuring 172.[1]

At the time of the sinking, Patria was carrying about 1,800 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe whom the British authorities were deporting from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius because they lacked entry permits. Zionist organizations opposed the deportation, and the underground paramilitary Haganah group planted a bomb intended to disable the ship to prevent it from leaving Haifa.

The Haganah claims to have miscalculated the effects of the explosion. The bomb blew the steel frame off one full side of the ship and the ship sank in less than 16 minutes, trapping hundreds in the hold. The British allowed the survivors to remain in Palestine on humanitarian grounds. Who was responsible and the true reason why Patria sank remained controversial mysteries until 1957, when Munya Mardor, the person who planted the bomb, published a book about his experiences.[2]

(pip - August 2016)