Hersh "Harry" Leib Königsberg

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Julien Grassen Barbe, 15 Sept 2013:

"1- my great grand-father Hersh Leib Königsberg was a shohet and came from the Cohen Königsberg branch who lived originally lived in Sieniawa and his area. The Königsbergs of this part of Galicia where Halberstam hassidim. They were friends with theses rebbes. All the men in the family were shohetim in Poland. People from the old generation used to say that it comes from the Middle Age and surely before. Shehita is like the avodah in the Jerusalem temple where the priests gave animals to Elohim.. I'm sure that Hersh was a knowledge man as a rabbi but I ignore if he was the leader of a kehila in Poland or in the US. I know that he lived on Delancey street and on Columbia street (Lower East Side) when he arrived in 1910. The Sedziszow synagogue was on Columbia street. "

"Recently, I discovered that my great grand father Hersh Leib Königsberg lived in the neighbourhood of the Sedziszow synagogue (N.Y. C., Lower East Side). "

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"Her (Bat Sheva Kraselnik born Königsberg) 's mom (Freide Reizel Weichselbaum) died at the age of 32 in Sedziszow and her father moved to New York and remarried a Chaja or Clara (maybe Gold or Goldberg). He passed away in 1938 and was burried in Mount Zion cemetery, Queens, as I understood. He was a "reverend" during several years in New York and then earned money as a clothes presser." Julien Grassen Barbe, 2014

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Given name(s) in US: Harry Louis

Alternate DOB: 1876

Hersh's 2nd wife used the name Clara (Koenigsberg, aka Konigsberg). She may have been Clara Mantel married 6-7-1921 New York, NY to "Harry L. Konigsberg" or Clara Goldberg married 12-9-1924 Brooklyn, NY or 12-20-1924 Brooklyn, NY (discrepant source data) to Harry Koenigsberg". Other data not sufficient to make determination.