Selma Wilkowitsch

Selma WILKOWITSCH, née JELLINEK: b. Eibenschütz - d. after 1939, USA

Information initially thanks to relative Claudia Stevens. Selma is once mentioned in a newspaper article on her prominent husband Armin WILKOWITZ as acting accountant for some organisation of which he had charge in Eger (Cheb), where he was a celebrated Oberkantor for about 40 years.

In Medical Doctors from Vienna (genteam.at):

• Last Name Jellinek
• First Name Selma
• Date of Birth 1893
• Birth Parisch Eibenschitz,Mähren
• Profession Medizinstudent
• Religion j
• Source 134-0777
• Nationalien Date 1918/19

Notice of engagement for Armin WILKOWITSCH & Selma JELLINEK appeared in Neue Freie Presse, 1899-09-23, Seite 20

And cf. also ...

Passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at New York, 1897-1942; index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at New York, June 16, 1897- June 30, 1902 ; index (soundex) to passenger lists of vessels arriving at New York, July 1, 1902-July 1, 1948:

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Selma Wilkowitsch Immigration 1930 New York

• Female 62 (born Ivančice, 1868) Czech. Departed from Sister Zeni Pollak of Olomouc, Englova 6. Destination was son Fred, 601 W. 164th St., New York (Page 2 of ship's Manifest).
• President Harding

Armin Wilkowitsch Immigration 1930 New York

• Male 68 (born Kalwarya, Lithuania, 1862) Czech
• President Harding. (Armin Wilkowitsch is marked "disappeared at sea" on the arriving ship's Manifest.)

Notes from C. Stevens: "Selma married Wilkowitz, cantor at Eger who committed suicide by jumping overboard on way to U.S.; wife Selma arrived, however."