Kantrowitz family

Susan Kantrowitz Benesch

Chaim Kantrowitz. My grandfather's identical twin. He was not permitted to emigrate to the United States because of a club foot.

Across the top  (maiden names): Ida Okin, Bertha Okin, Sophie Kantrowitz, Esther Okin

Seated: Jacob Sussman (married Ida), Cherya (Jenny) Greenfest (Married Reuven Okin- mother of Ida, Bertha and Esther), Samuel Kantrowitz

Children: Manny Friedland the son of Jacob's sister Annie, Morris Sussman, Then Harry, Jack (baby) Cele and Ralph Kantrowitz.

Note: Bertha Okin later married Louis Kantrowitz, Samuels' brother. The descendants of these two brother-sister marriages are double cousin

See family chart below:

	Shmuel Kantrowitz of Puchovich  m. Henya
		Nacha Meir (Oscar Levine) m. Mirke
			Samuel
			Anita
		Sophie m. Isadore Jaffe
			Shirley m. Herman Kahn
				Lynn
				Larry
			Rhoda m.Ordover
				Sarah	Rachel
					Gus
			Faye m Horace (Bob) Zimmerman
				Jon m.Dorothy
				Matt M Shelly	Melissa
		Fannie m. Goldman
			Goldie
			Alex
		Chaim (Russia) (Zalman’s twin)
			Henya
		Albert m. Mattie
			Lewis
			Frederick  m. Pauline Steinberg
Greenfest	Chernya m.	Louis Kantrowitz m. Bertha Okin of Dukor
	Reuven		Shirley m. Larry Gursky
	Okin			Robert	Mara m. Ben Turchin
				m Carol	Adam
				Lorraine m.	Michael
				Robert Baron	Joshua.
			Ruth m Henry Glantz
				Jonathan m Arlene
					Eric
				Sandy m.Lisa
					Daniel
					Ryan
			Norman m. Eleanor
				Lisa Beth m.
				Steven Poser
					Alana
					Kenny
				Susan Joy m. Mark Yale Meyers
					Jack
					Max
				Paul Scott m Elaine Daniels
					Jessica
					Rachel
					Jacob
		Zalman (Samuel) m Esther Okin of Dukor
				Jonathan	Bethany m
			Ralph	m. Vicki	Jason Kutz
			Kantrowitz
			m.		Ralph m.
			Beatrice		Su-Lin Carbonelli
				Deborah m.	Daniel
				Becker	m. Melissa
					Ben Shine
				Matthew	Jessica
				m. Chris	David
			Cecile M. Fred Israel
				Richard m Harriet
					Susan Emily
					m.  Steven
					Mollohan
					Eric Steven
					m  Susan
					Johnson
					Karen Esther
					m. Brian
					Mollohan
				David	Adam
				m. Karen	Geoffrey
				Judith	Sarah Israel
			Harry
			Abraham m Gertrude Handleman
				Susan	Jacob
				m Howard Benesch
				Daniel
			Jacob (Jack) m. Judith Weis
				Seth m. Patricia (Patty)
					Audrey
				Ashley m Joseph Juliano
					Tony
					Kathy
		Ida Okin m.	Morris	Paul
		Jacob Sussman		Bruce	Brooke
					Samantha
			Leo	Jay

Deb Becker

Our Kantrowitz clan. Front row is Samuel and Esther Kantrowitz. Behind them, all their children: Abe, Ralph, Cele, Jake, Harry. Glaring into the sun, they look like quite a formidable bunch, don't they? They did have quite fierce intelligences--but I remember their gentleness, loyalty, kindness and laughter the most

Susan Kantrowitz Benesch

Brothers of my grandfather with their wives

Everyone is dressed for a simcha. I wonder where they were going. Nuchameyer met Mirka on the boat emigrating from Russia. They went to Cuba first because of quotas in the USA. Nuchamayer had to change his last name to Mirka's name in order to emigrate to Cuba. Otherwise, he would have been sent back to Russia. Eventually, they settled in Springfield. I can vaguely remember visiting with family in Springfield when I was a munchkin.

Louis' wife Bertha was also the sister of my Bubbie Esther Kantrowitz.

Kantrowitz family; Mother, sister, brothers, wives at Dick Israel's wedding:

My parents on a date:

All the 2020 comparisons  to the Spanish flu remind me that's why our  family moved from Newark to Bridgeport. 

891 Hancock Avenue Bridgeport  -The family residence during World War II. Around the corner from 

Adath Yeshurun (Butler Avenue)- my grandfather's synagogue, my father's synagogue and my synagogue from a very young age until 1993 went it closed. Great High Holy day memories.

From Susan:

The Kantrowitz Family moved around a lot. They lived on Prairie Avenue and Gallatin Street in Providence too.The Army-Navy store was on Weybosset Street. Family always had a border named Frank Dean too. Frank moved with them from Providence to Bridgeport and back. 

My dad attended McKinley and Waltersville Schools in Bridgeport and graduated from Peace Street School and Technical High School in Providence. Uncle Jack graduated from  Warren Harding High School.

Uncle Harry's liquor store, (and Bubbe's) Campbell avenue, West Haven. Sodas for the nieces and nephews (Orange Nehi for me). Voting for Miss Rheingold -

Bubbe and Harry' apartment - West Haven - Every Sunday afternoon. NY Giants football on TV, wonderful holiday feasts.

Jack, Judy, Seth. Ashley home - West Haven - the only place I ever slept away from home (and then only twice?) except 3 weeks in summer camp when I was 14, until I went away to college.

Jack was the builder of this house on Riverside Drive in Fairfield.

Office of our family pediatrician - Me, Deb, Matthew AND Bethany and Rick.

Very moving experience visiting the cemetery in West Haven - Bubbe used to tell us during our annual visits -"Someday I will be there."