Rosie Regine (Alta Rivka) Friedman

Rosie was born Regine Zimmermann in 1867 in the Austro-Hungariam empire in a town called Michalovce, which is now in modern day Slovakia. They were a Jewish family and spoke German.

On Feb 5, 1884, Regine, age 17, married David Friedman. (He was 23). Five weeks later, her mother Lina died (March 13, 1884).

Regine and David left to New York. At the dock, her father asked her to take her 5 year old brother Louis with her, since his new wife was not good to him. She agreed, and raised him in America like a son.

Regine went by Rosie in New York. They settled in "the suburbs" of Brooklyn. Rosie owned and operated a grocery store in Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn. Her husband David learned in yeshiva. In addition to raising Louis, Rosie and David had two daughters of their own: Lena (named for her mother) and Charlotte.

In their later years, Rosie and David moved in with Lena to help take care of the grandchildren (Irving and Hilda) when their father, Lena's husband, died suddenly of a heart attack at age 47.

David passed away first, and Rosie lived to about 78 with Lena and her children. Hilda remembered that Rosie took her driving around Brooklyn to deliver furniture and clothing to Jewish refugees from Europe. She was generous and trying to be helpful, but the refugees were mostly shocked by their plight and unable to even thank them.

Rosie worried about Hilda's husband who was fighting in the US army during WW2. When she learned of his injury in the Battle of the Bulge, she said, "Thank Gd [now I know he'll come home,] now I can die." She died a few months later.

Hilda's son Larry remembers that after the war, Lena was sending money back to family in Europe, possibly to Rosie's step-mother Ester and/or half sister Minka who survived but suffered many losses in the Holocaust.

Hometown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michalovce

1900 census: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10131-32803780/rosa-frie... see also next page

1910 census: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10132-146987068/rose-fri...

Death Record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WTZ-4LD