Susie Bayer

From Adolph Mechner's memoir: "I have to tell something interesting about my great-grandmother. Her name was Jettie Koenig. She was born in Safed in Palestine, which belonged then to Turkey. She was therefore, as born in Palestine, a Sabra. Her first husband’s name was Nadler. My grandmother was born in Jerusalem and she was therefore also a Sabra. Her maiden name was Susie Nadler. When her husband died, my great-grandmother later remarried, a man whose name was Konig and he also died in Palestine. Both my great-grandmother and my grandmother came then to Czernowitz, where my grandmother married my grandfather. My grandfather’s name was Isiel Leib Bayer...

"About my grandmother, I don’t know too much although I remember her very well. I don’t remember that she ever hugged and kissed me or the other children, perhaps because she did not feel well and was always in pain. I remember that I had seen her once quite excited when my grandparents and my mother were discussing something. I did not understand about what they were talking, but I found out later what it was. My mother was already a widow for many years, and there was a man who loved her, and who came often to visit us, a Mr. Druckmann. What they were discussing then was the marriage of my mother with this Mr. Druckmann, and my grandmother and maybe also my grandfather were very much against it. The reason was probably that he was an employee of the Light and Power Company of Czernowitz and that he had a small income. Also probably that he was not a businessman and that they wanted for my mother a man who would one day take over my grandfather’s business. Anyway, the whole thing came to naught. My grandmother was very sick for a long time and doctors came very often to the house and examined her, mostly her liver area. We children were told that she had fallen down from a window sill and injured her liver. But I later learned that she had leukemia. ... I remember that one evening we three children were led into my grandmother’s room, where she lied in bed, fully conscious, and that we went to her bed, one by one, and kissed her hand. The next morning she was dead. She had died at the age of 54. There was a big funeral and hundreds of people walked behind her coffin. After the death of my grandmother, my mother and we three children moved into the apartment of my grandfather and our apartment was rented to a Polish family." http://www.mechnerzieglerfamily.com/memoirs/adolph-mechner/chapter-....

cf. notice of thanks for sympathies following death of Susie BAYER, viewable courtesy of:

ANNO, Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung, 1904-11-29, Seite 8

http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=cer&datum=19041129&seite...