Kalman Shlomo Strelinger

The family on my father's side comes from Moravia [Mahren], actually, as I found out later, from Streling, near Olmutz. The following confirms this: when I was a 9-year old boy, I had the opportunity to ask the youngest brother of my grandfather, Salman Strelinger, about this matter. He revealed to me that his ancestors, and thus mine also, emigrated from Moravia to Svaty Mikulas around 1730. That the place from which they came was Streling. I base on the following: During WWI, about 1916, at a garrison in Bosnia, a first lieutenant reported to a colonel of a regiment - the first lieutenant, an engineer as a civilian, was a descendant of my great-grandfather of the fourth generation. He [the first lieutenant] was received by the colonel's adjutant, who was also called Strelinger and whose family still in those days resided in Streling in Moravia.

A descendant of those of my ancestors who came to reside in Svaty Mikulas was -??- Strelinger. He died in Mikulas and was also buried there — and probably also his wife. They had 2 sons that I know of. The one came to reside in Jassenova Comitat Orava (Slovensko). The other came to reside in Mala Stiavnica, near Ruzomberok. This was my ancestor, and he died young [friihzeitig]. He was named Kalman and was the grandfather of my father, that is my great- grandfather. He was buried in Svaty Mikulas, where the Jews from all of Liptau were buried, since a Jewish community [Gemeinde] did not yet exist in Ruzomberok. He [Kalman] left behind his wife Anna (yiddish: Hindi) with 9 small children — seven boys and two girls.

by Dr. Samuel Strelinger, Budapest, 1948.