Miksa Neumann and Ottilie Polacsek had at least five children, four of whom lived to adulthood.  The first may have been a son Ludvik, who was born in Szobrancz on 13 October 1864.  Although no other records for Ludvik have come to light, he probably died before 1901 when his nephew Lajos (the Hungarian version of Ludvik), Viktor’s second oldest son, was born.  Rosza, whom some records also identify as Terez, was born 23 January 1866.  My grandfather Viktor (Avigdor Avraham ben Meier haLevi) was born 20 November 1868, a sister Josefina (Jozsa) on 28 August 1871 and Markus (Marci) on 20 August 1883. 

Because women typically gave birth every two years and five would have been an unusually small number of children, it is likely that Ottilie gave birth to another child between November, 1868, and August, 1871 and at least two others between 1871 and 1883.  The three-year gap between Viktor and Josefina suggests that a child born in 1870 died as an infant.

The Szobrancz birth records identify two other women who might have been born to Miksa and Ottilie.  Although it would have been unusual to give a daughter the same name as her mother, records of births in Szobrancz mention Eidel Neuman, probably born about 1870, who married Fulop Steif from Garanas (Gereny?), now Horjani, Ukraine.  The records also include Hani Neuman, born in Szobrancz, who married David Moskovits from Lasztomer.  David might have also been related to my grandmother Hermina Moskovits.

In 1886, Rosza married Simon Zicherman, son of Izak Zicherman and Regi Krukk.  Regi’s father may have been Farkas Kruk, a merchant born in Szobrancz in 1828 who was living in Ungvar at the time of the 1848 Census.  There were no birth records  in Szobrancz for children born to Rosza and Simon and no other information has yet come to light about this family.

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