Lazar Herbst

Lazar Herbst, was a widower who had been married to a local girl (her name is unknown). Lazar had a son by his first marriage, Yisrael Yoel Herbst, who married Lena Fisch; their son, Nat Herbst, came to New York in 1902. Nat married Yetta Blatt and the couple moved to Forest Hills, New York.

Lazar then married Hinda Chiah and had one child, Breindl. Hinda died at the age of twenty-four and Lazar married Hinda's older sister, Sarah. They lived in Sedziszow. Breindl was brought up as the daughter of Sarah and Lazar.Breindl later married her mother's brother Toivia.

Lazar, a grain merchant, was in comfortable circumstances. During World War I, Austrian

soldiers were quartered in their home. When daughter Rose Herbst was a teenager, before

World War I, she was very impressed when her well-to—do uncle Michael Tenzer

came to visit from America. He was well dressed and seemed a shining example of the

land of opportunity. Shortly thereafter, Rose herself came to the United States. After she

had established herself, she helped to bring over her sister Sabina and her two brothers,

Max (in 1914) and Sidney (in 1920). Her sister Leah married Abraham Landau and lived first in Sans, then in Strasbourg, France, where they moved in 1919.

Several members of the Herbst and Fisch families intermarried with members of the Tenzer family. They all became one big family, and many summered at Pine Brook and Caldwell, New Jersey. At one time, Isaac Fisch, his two sons, Alex and Sam, worked for Michael Tenzer. Michael loaned Isaac Fisch money and the two became partners in a farm in Pine Brook, New Jersey.

One of Isaac's daughters, Rae, married into the Konner family. The Konners owned a garage in Pine Brook, then branched out; their grandsons then operated several automobile dealerships in northern New Jersey. Stanley Batkin remembers their weekly automobile trips to Pine Brook during the summer when he was a child from the age of five until the age of ten. They always stopped at the Konners to repair their tires——two flat tires were par for the course on a trip in those days.