Henryk [Izrael Hersz] Tzwi Herszenberg

"Henryk [Izrael Hersz], the third of the artistically gifted Hirszenberg brothers, was born on 7 June 1885. In 1906, he served the military service. Around 1907, he married Olga Marta Rote, born 19 August 1872 in the Saxon Marienburg to from the Lutheran family. According to a certificate issued 23 August 1922, Izrael Hersz was baptized in the Evangelical church of St. Trinity in Łódź and used the name Henryk. They had a daughter, Beatrice [Beatrysa] (b. 20 March 1910). Beatrysa Hirszenberg was a conservator of works of art and interpreter of the German language. In the 1960s, she worked at the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok, and also in the Laboratory of Conservation of Monuments in Toruń. At the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Henryk probably was in Russia, and illegally crossed the border to return to Poland in 1921. After the divorce, announced on 7 June 1928, he returned to Judaism on 3 February 1930 and to the names Izrael Hersz. He married for the second time in the 1930s, this time to Bela Olszer. Their daughter Ofra was born 24 November 1932. In 1936, Henryk left for Palestine, and in 1937 brought the family there. They settled in Tel Aviv, where Henryk died in 1955."