Chaim Menachem / Mendy / Emanuel Herskovich

Killed on the Battle Front in Lanciano on 27 Nissan 5704 - April 20, 1944

When Nonno-Yosef-Josi Zeitlin was circa 7-8 years old (1922-3) he stayed over all week by his uncle & aunt Sandor & Freida Hershkovic who lived far from where the Zeitlins lived in Zagreb. He would sleep with his cousin Mendy in one bed. On Friday Josi's older brother (2 years older?) Milan would pick him up and take him home by Tramway. Uncle Herskovic was already wealthy at the time and hired a private Melamed-Teacher of Religious Studies for his kids at home, that's why Josi Z. stayed by them. The Melamed was R' Yosko Markovic (later lived in Toronto, he's a brother of the Markovic from Boro Park Brooklyn 14th Ave & 54th St - in the Crystal business) who was Uncle Sandor's sister Mrs. Knaker's son in law. The Jewish School in Zagreb didn't teach Jewish Studies - Yiddishkeit (they did have 5 minutes of so called "religion") and they didn't allow to sit in class with a Yarmulka on the head. Yosef-Josi Z. would attend the secular studies there and would meet his brother Milan and sister Renee there. The Zeitlin kids would exchange their lunches, Yosef craved for the bread with Lekvar from home & they craved for Zemel-Buns with "something in it" from the Herskovic home.