PERSONAL FAMILY HISTORY

  • Ahnentafel - Direct Ancestors

  • My Family Tree

  • Affiliated Surnames

  • Ancestral Occupational Outline

  • Zachor — We Remember (listing of Shoah victims)

  • Notable Ancestors: I have an ancestor who built church clocks in Wisconsin, an ancestor who knit layettes for German royalty, and several ancestors who were either doctors or teachers in sixteenth and seventeenth century France and Germany. Several ancestors fought valiantly in wars, including the Civil War, the Seven Weeks War, the Franco-Prussian War, and World War Two.

  • Notable Relatives: My most notable relatives include the castellan Wolf Eisenbart (16th century), early medicine man Johannes Andreas Eisenbarth (1663-1727) and U.S. Olympic wrestler Ed Don George (1905-1985). I am a first cousin, twice removed of MaryKnoll missionary Father George Hirschboeck (1922-1993), a first cousin, three times removed of the composer of the "32nd Division March" song, Theodore Steinmetz (1880-1951), and a second cousin, twice removed of John Steinmetz (1931-1980), founder of the successful 1950s barbershop quartet "The Four Teens". I'm also cousins with the late Rabbi Moshe Klig (1846-unknown) of Hrubieszow, Rabbi Yaakov Peretz Zysberg (1847-unknown) of Lublin, his son Rabbi Alter Reuven Zysberg (1872-1942), Rabbi Pinchas Biterman (1885-1942) of Horodlo, Rabbi Szmul Ber Uszer Kac (1905-Holocaust) of Chelm, Zionist pioneers Aizik Finger (1905-1945) and his son Mikhael Finger Drori (1920-1998), pianista Guta Zajfen (1906-Holocaust), Rabbi Kiwa Biterman (1918-Holocaust) of Bialystok, Yiddish actor Szymon Szurmiej, Jewish partisan leader Chaim Feferkorn, international humanitarian Sister Mary Mercy (1903-1986), former Dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin John S. Hirschboeck (1916-1990), attorney Jay Sekulow, mathematician Melvin Dresher (1911-1992), President of the Mexican College of Orthopedics and Traumatology Dr. José Cymet Ramirez, Professor of Medicine at the Technion Dr. Haim Bitterman, Major League Baseball umpires John Hirschbeck and Mark Hirschbeck, former Minnesota Twins outfielder J.T. Bruett, actor Michael Biehn from the movie “Terminator”, and "Marilyn Manson" drummer Jason Sutter.

  • Remember Jewish Lublin — Poland

  • Remember Jewish Volhynia/Wolyn — Ukraine

"I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off." -- Isaiah 56.5


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