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Alexandru Kohn
Reghina got married to Alexandru Steiner, a trader, and they had three children: Iosif, Alexandru and Irina.
Gizella was married to Emanuel Schwartz, the Neolog rabbi from Sebis [5].
Sarolta married a Mr. Haas, who was a driver, and they had two children: Bandi, a trader, and Caterina, a housewife.
He was enrolled in the army at the age of 17, in 1913. My father has told me that he fought at Monte Cassino, Italy during World War I with the Austrian-Hungarian Army. [Editor’s note: Monte Cassino was not a theater of operations during World War I, but rather World War II; the interviewee’s father more likely served at the Isonzo front.] Shortly thereafter he lived in Budapest with the army until the communist revolution of Bela Kun [3]. I don’t know exactly when he came home to Romania, but he told me that the Romanian troops – for Romania was on the side of France and England – had entered Budapest [4] and defeated the troops of Bela Kun. This enabled him to return to Romania.
My father completed four grades of school and two years of apprenticeship.
His mother tongue was Hungarian.
They didn’t have animals and the garden was very small, with a few fruit trees and assorted flowers.
In those times the trade was a mixed one. My grandparents sold everything, from nails, to bread, shoes, brandy and other spirits. They also ran an inn.
The house that my grandparents owned in Sebis wasn’t any different from the other houses in the village. It was a simple middle class home, complete with a shop, a store and two or three rooms.
My paternal grandmother, Netty Kohn – nee Blau – also lived in Sebis, and she had a brother in England. She met Grandpa there.
I know only that he had a brother in Vienna who was a supplier to the court of Emperor Franz Joseph [2] and a sister who worked in the fur trade in England.
I know only that he had a brother in Vienna who was a supplier to the court of Emperor Franz Joseph [2] and a sister who worked in the fur trade in England.
Later he worked as a trader.
He finished four grades and did his army service with the Austrian-Hungarian Army.
My paternal grandfather, Alexandru Kohn, was born in Vienna. His mother tongue was Hungarian because at that time Hungary constituted a principle part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Iosif, who was born in 1906, had a tinsmith workshop, as I have already mentioned.
My mother finished high school, and, before getting married, she worked as a cashier in Chisineu Cris.
My mother, who was in better financial shape than Grandfather, supported her parents because Grandpa’s business never went particularly well. Farming depended on the seasons and the weather. In times of drought, things were particularly difficult. In those times irrigation didn’t quite exist, meaning that agriculture hinged very much on nature.
My grandparents went to Chisineu Cris because it was considered a town, one with a significant Jewish community and a synagogue. Sintea Mare had neither of these things.
My grandparents went to Chisineu Cris because it was considered a town, one with a significant Jewish community and a synagogue. Sintea Mare had neither of these things.
Grandfather leased a tract of land from a baron and managed an estate; that’s how he could eventually afford to buy land in Sintea Mare [49 km northeast of Arad]. What I remember of the house in Sintea Mare is that my grandfather did the farming and my uncle Iosif, my mother’s brother, had a tinsmith workshop in the house.
Grandfather finished seven grades – finishing the agricultural school – and became a tenant farmer. [Editor’s note: at the time of the grandfather’s childhood, the first six grades of school were compulsory. It is probable that he finished sixth grade and possibly spent some additional time at an agrarian school of some sort.] Grandfather leased a tract of land from a baron and managed an estate; that’s how he could eventually afford to buy land in Sintea Mare [49 km northeast of Arad].
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Before WW2
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My grandfather did his army service in the Austrian-Hungarian Army [1].
His other brother was Ervin Schillinger. I do have a photo of him, which was originally a greeting sent from Italy to my grandparents for Pesach in 1917. It is written on the back of the photo that it was sent while Ervin was in the army.
He grew up with both German and Hungarian as a mother tongue.
He wasn’t interested in politics, but he was religious.
Great-grandpa helped one of his grandsons, who would become Doctor Schillinger, finance his studies and finish university. To his great astonishment, this doctor became the first Jew in the Schillinger family to marry a non-Jewish woman. A great scandal came out of this, and great-grandfather, as he was an authoritarian character, forbade his grandson to ever visit him again, disowned him and sat shivah for him. I know that great-grandfather wanted to maintain tradition by all means.
He was sort of an autocrat. He was well to do, owned some 60 hectares of land, and was very much concerned about his offspring, both his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
What I remember about my great-grandparents from my mother’s side, whose family name was Schillinger, is that my great-grandfather was very religious.