E mails from PREKERS
Or about Prekers
November 14, 2000
Hi Israel,
Thanks for your invitation to your Website. It's really interesting and
it made me wonder about what I know about my family-roots. I can tell
you: I dont know that much, but I will ask my father.
It's very
astonishing to me, there are so many Prekers on this planet. And as a
German - born in 1959 - I'm ashamed about what has happend to your
family.
I will try my best to get some informations for you.
Best wishes & Liebe Gr??e
Andreas Preker-Frank
alfa@sektor-21.de
August 26, 2000
Hi,
My name is Alex Studnicki and I am from Studnicki family mentioned in one of the e-mails as relatives to Juda Preker. Actually we were not relatives, but close friends. My sister Anna Berne sent you an e-mail explaining our background. I live in Israel, in Kiryat Bialik near Haifa and if you want to hear details other then my sister told you, feel free to e-mail me.
I saw the picture of Juda and, bad as it is, I recognized him right away.
Thank you for keeping your web page, which is also part of my life.
Alex
I've watching your site. I do appreciated what have you done for Debica as the Jewish Man. I'm. living in Debica now , and I was lived in the some house with Jewish men named Juda Preker over 25 years.
I was found old film and made the picture in which he is there. I sand you this pictures, maybe he was your relative. This is men which is sitting at the corner of home. This picture was done in about 1960 year.
He had relatives in Krakow ,which left Poland in 1968 to Israel , they named Studniccy.
I don't know where they stayed in Israel now.
Best regards
warch@box43.gnet.pl
February 27, 2000
Hi,
I have seen your website for Preker.
My wife's father was Leon Preger (Chaim Eleazer ben Tzvi Moshe) and we
believe he was born around the turn of the century in Poland, possibly
Krakow or Kalisch, but we are not really sure. His family
may well have been in the leather business.
Between WW1 and WW2 he was a translator on various cruise ships and just
after WW2 he married Bronia Gross who had lived in Vienna, but was born
in Poland. They married in London, where they remained. Leon died in
1970, his wife and daughter (my wife) are alive and well.
Leon had at least two brothers, Avraham and Pinchas, who after the war
lived in Israel. One of them had a son called Alex, who we think had
many businesses including a bank in South America. We are, however,
sure that there were several other brothers and sisters. He was part of
a very large family.
Could there be any connection?
It is interesting that Preger and Preker sound VERY much alike and
spelling is really not so important. It is also interesting that both
names have 'e' as the third letter, which is very unusual, it is almost
always an 'a'.
It is also very exciting to hear that your family was in the leather
business- what exactly did they do. Leon's wife is still alive. She
says that Leon said his family had a 'leather factory' but she does not
know what it produced.
Did you have anyone in Israel called Avraham or Pinchas. As I said,
Leon's brother Avraham had a son called Alex, now we remember he also
had a son called Gershon. Alex and Gershon would be pretty old by now,
probably around 70. I think that Alex called himself Pereg in Israel.
Does any of this fit in anywhere?
I was your website, it is very impressive and I enjoyed looking at it.
Jack Katz
London, England
August 13, 1999
Dear Israel,
My name is Anna Berne and I was born right after the war, in Lancut.
My
mother comes from Pustkow, which is a village near Debica. Her maiden name
is Hollander. I lived in Poland till 1964, and all through my childhood a
man named Judka Preker was part of my life. My mother inherited some land
near Debica nad Judka took care of it for her. We lived far from Debica,
and Judka lived in Debica. He was a single man, and I did not know much
about him - but my mother does. She now lives in Haifa.
If you think that
Judka might have been your relative, I will let you know how to get in
touch with my mother. Good luck!
Anna
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Dr. Anna Berne
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
201 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
tel: (212) 620-3665
fax: (212) 620-3600
Wed, 3 Sep 1997
Dear Yisroel,
You asked me to find the reference in Hamelitz issue 260 from 1894 for the
above.
On page 6, top of the middle column, there is a list of donations from
Koshidar (called Kaisadorys today). A donation of 18 kopeks was made by
Yosef Proker (Pay Resh Aleph Kuf Ayin Resh). The donations were collected by
Shmuel Tkotz and Elchanan Kanowitz.
Jeff Maynard
JMMNutel@aol.com
Fri, 12 Sep 1997
Shalom Israel Preker,
I found your informative Dembitz Web page today, and enjoyed reading
through it.
Both sides of my father's family come from that area in Galitsia, and
were raised in nearby towns like Yaslo and Ropshitz. My father's great
grandfather (Yosef Schild, born approximately 1865) came from Dembitz and
moved to Yaslo. My father was born in a dorf between Dembitz and
Ropshitz in 1911.
More of interest to you, my grandfather's mother was Roisa Leah Preker,
sibling of Mindel Preker. I estimate that Roisa Leah was born around
1860. I'm sorry that I can't provide any further details about either
Preker; my father and all others from my family born in Poland died over
a decade ago.
If you recognize the siblings Roisa Leah and Mindel Preker, and have
further information about them, I'd appreciate hearing from you. They
are not listed in the index of Sefer Dembitz (Tel Aviv, 1960).
Im ata makir et hashemot "Roisa Leah ve Mindel Preker, hayiti rotzeh
lishmo'a mimkha al ha'inyan hazeh.
L'hatzlakha.
Harvey Spiro
hspiro@juno.com
Mon, 14 Jul 1997
Dear Israel,
My name is Joseph Prekker and I was born in Szczecin, Poland in 1965.
My father's name is Leon Prekker and he was born in Nizni Tagil, USSR in
1936. His father and my grandfather was named Jozef Prekker and born in
Debica, Poland around 1907. We never met him because he perished in a
Russian concentration camp during WWII. He left his family in Debica and
went to Russia around 1930-32. He was a mechanical engineer and schooled
in Poland. We are not sure of the original spelling of our surname.
Jozef was the youngest of approximately 10 brothers and 1 sister in
Debica.
Untill now, we believed that all the family perished when the Nazis came
to Poland except for Abraham Precker, who was one of Jozef's older
brothers and Samuel Lauber whose mother was one of Jozef's sisters.
Abraham and Samuel past away peacefully in the U.S. during the last 20
years. Abraham Precker escaped the Nazi's and fled to Russia in 1939.
Abraham married in Poland and had three children whom he never found
after the war. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1946 from Russia. He looked
for his family, but was unsuccesful.
Before Abraham and Samuel passed away they told us that the Prekker's in
Debica were well off and owned property and a business. Many of the
children were well educated and attended Universities. Samuel attended
Medical School before WWII started and returned to Debica when the war
began. He was placed in Aushwitz concentration camp throughout the war.
He married after the war and immigrated to the U.S. in 1950 from
Austria. He is survived by two daughters. His daughters may know the
names of the grandparents.
We feel that our families are related and look forward to hearing from
you. Please e-mail us with more detailed information so that we may
solve this puzzle.
Sincerely, Joseph Prekker,
Phone # 912-638-3316
Leon Prekker, Phone # 914-944-0351
joep@thebest.net
Dear Israel,
Thanks for your email. Sorry it has taken so long to reply but I have been
away on a scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands.
I am a marine
biologist by profession and have been living on the Great Barrier Reef of
Australia for the past 15 years.
My husband was transferred to Brisbane
(the capital city of Queensland) where he is a lecturer at the University
of Queensland. Most of my family live in Canada.
Best wishes,
Myriam
Myriam Preker
321 Pullenvale Road
Pullenvale Qld 4069
Australia
Tel: (07) 3374 0478
e-mail:
M.Preker@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Dear Israel,
I've studied your homepage with great interest.
I can only trace my
families history back over the past four to five generations including
mine. All these Prekers have been living in the Ruhrgebiet, which is the
major mining area in West Germany.
It is a fact that many people have come
from Poland to work in the mines beginning and middle of the past century.
Recently a friend of mine brought to my attention an article in the "ZEIT
magazine", which is a supplement to a German weekly newspaper. According to
that article the name Preker comes from the German dialect word "Danker"
(literally translated "Ansprecher" in German). Apparently these people
where kind of heralds or messengers travelling from village to village and
proclaiming whatever. I havent actually seen the article myself nor do I
know the exact publishing date, but it might be worth checking for you.
They have a web page (http://eunet.bda.de/bda/int/zeit/index.html). I made a
keyword search with "Preker" with no results.
I will also ask my parents, but I doubt they know more than I do.
Good luck for your studies and and all the best.
Pascal
_________________________________________
Pascal Preker
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
513 Paranassus Av.
San Francisco, California 94143-0448
Phone: +1-415-476 4705
Fax: +1-415-502 4315
email: Pascal@itsa.ucsf.edu
shalom
I was surprised to hear form you.
I thought that preker was an obscure
name. My father was from Ropsiche (dont know correct spelling). his
father was Benyamin Preker. he has a brother in Haifa , Chaim Preker
on Trumpeldor Street. He may have more information.
Keep me posted.
Saul Preker
USA
uwsafari@interaccess.com
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