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5. Aharon Levit (Arye Lev ) was born in 1876 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . He died on Oct 22 1955 in Russia, Makhachkala (Petrovsk-Port), Dagestan. He was buried in Russia Vladikavkaz (Ordzhouikidze).
Lived in Daghestan Buynaksk.
Information from family letters (correspondence between Yosef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
He had the following children:
6. Duba Levit (Arye Lev ) was born on May 5 1878 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . She died on May 30 1934.
Lived with her Daughter Sara in Leningrad.
Information from family letters (correspondence between Yosef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
She had the following children:
+ 23 F i Sara was born in 1903. She died in 1967.
7. Emanuel Levit [see pictures] (Arye Lev ) was born on 3 Nov 1882 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan. He died on Apr 5 1942 in USA New York NY.
Information about the dates came from Miriam Levit, Herbert Levit second wife.
According to Simcha Levit when he lived in Vienna he was a wealthy man. He owned fashion salon with a lot of tailors and two models.
From Vienna he emigrate to USA.
Emanuel married Ernestine [see pictures]. Ernestine was born on Oct 3 1880. She died on Dec 6 1969 in USA Burbank Los Angles CA.
Information came from Miriam Levit, Herbert Levit second wife.
Emanuel and Ernestine had the following children:
24 F i Olga (Olly) Levit [see pictures] was born on Jun 3 1912 in Austria Viena. She died on Aug 20 1976 in USA Burbank Los Angles CA.
Information came from Miriam Levit, Herbert Levit second wife.
On 1945 she lived on 775 Lexington Avenue, New York City.Olga married Charlie Kuta on Aug 1 1945.
He was was mechanic engineer.Olga and Charlie Kuta had no children.
+ 25 M ii Herbert Levit was born on Oct 4 1919. He died on Dec 31 2003. + 26 F iii Rene Levit was born on Oct 4 1919 . She died on Jan 1 1999.
8. Yeshayaho Levit (Arye Lev ) was born in 1883 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan. He died on Aug 2 1941 in Israel Tel Aviv. He was buried in Israel Nahalat Yitzhak (bloc 2 site 32 line 8 no. 2).
He got certificate for his family to immigrate to the Israel on March 1925.
In Israel he became the only producer of refrigerators in Israel. Levit’s Refrigerators were known at that time.
Yeshayaho married Ida Weinstein. Ida was born in 1890. She died on 6 Aug 1951. She was buried in Israel Nahalat Yitzhak (bloc 2 site 30 line 8 no. 1).
They had the following children:
+ 27 F i Sara Levit was born on Feb 21 1909. She died in 1971. + 28 M ii Itzhak Levit was born in 1911. He died in 1968. + 29 M iii Emanuel Levit was born on Apr 7 1914. He died on Apr 7 1982. + 30 F iv Zivia Gerta Levit was born on Mar 20 1920. She died on Oct 22 1998.
9. Olga (Golda) Levit [see picture] (Arye Lev ) was born in 1885 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan. She died on Jan 27 1957.
She had children and grandchildren and lived on Moscow.
She and her husband Lev died at advanced age.The first Information came from family letters (correspondence between Josef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
On August 2010 I got information and photos from Andrei Marcon (Olga's great grandson).
Olga married Label Aaron Aryeh (Leo) BRONER [see picture]. Label was born on Feb 13 1883 in Russia, Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), North Osetia. He died on Aug 3 1961 in Russia Moscow.
Lived in Moscow
Label and Olga had the following children:
+ 31 M i David (Dodia) BRONER was born on Apr 30 1906. He died in 1982. + 32 F ii Hennrieta (Genia) BRONER was born on Jun 22 1907. She died on Aug 12 1992. 33 M iii Reuben BRONER was born in 1910. He died in 1935 in Russia, Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), North Osetia.
10. Niura Levit (Arye Lev ) was born in 1887 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . She died on Apr 1 1948.
Niura lived in Russia Ossetia.
Information from family letters (correspondence between Yosef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
She had the following children:
+ 34 M i Boris. + 35 F ii Unknown. 36 F iii Dina.
She was married a doctor.
Information form family letters (correspondence between Josef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
11. Υosef-Halevi Levit [see pictures] (Arye Lev ) was born on Dec 14 1889 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . He died on Sep 2 1969 in Israel Tel-Aviv. He was buried in Israel Holon (bloc 13 site 7 line 30 no. 2).
Yosef Levit (my grandfather) left Kavkaz with his family (wife and 2 children) twice. The first time was in 1918. On the way they were robbed of all their possessions. They wandered for several months across Russia, via Moscow - where they all got sick with Malaria, and his wife (Ester, my grandmother) had Pneumonia.
He wandered on Moscow’s streets seeking for food (starvation was all around). At last, they reached Kharkov, then, the capital of Ukraine. They all lived in one room, which was actually a big kitchen. Yosef made his living by making imitation of honey and shoe spread. Eventually he decided to return to Kavkaz.
Back at his hometown he found position in a national trade/commercial company and his economic conditions were improved but he still longed for the West.
He took his sister Reiza and traveled to Vienna to his brothers Emanuel and Akim. He was very impressed with the life there, so he left his sister with brothers and returned home to find a way to bring all his family to Vienna.
At first, the family moved to Kharkov, this time to a better apartment with more luxuries (carpets, piano, etc..). Yosef was the representative of the company in Kharkov. The family stayed there for about three years.
They fled abroad with phony passport on the name of Kenigsberg (a tailor from Poltava in Ukraine that emigrated to Uruguay. (In those days, small industrialists were allowed to emigrate, the trip to Uruguay was fully paid).
The family arrived to Riga where Yeshayahou (another brother) lived, waiting for more than a year to get a visa to the USA. He was broke and probably had no chance of getting it.
Yosef succeeded in arranging two certificates for his family and Yeshayahou’s family to immigrate to the Israel. This was on March 1925.
The two families arrived to Vienna and were welcomed by Emanuel. They heard rumors that the economic situation in Israel was tough, so they decided that Yeshayahou’s family will go first and will inform the others from there. Yeshayahou was a welder and could not find work in Vienna. (Later on, he became the only producer of refrigerators in Israel. Levit’s Refrigerators were known at that time).
Yosef decided to stay for some time in Vienna under the name of Kenigsberg.
He wrote a drama and a short story book. Some of his stories were published in the Zionist newspaper. He worked as illegal employee in Akim’s printing house , his brother, but most of his income came from private lessons that Simcha (his son, my uncle ) gave.
Yosef and Ester immigrated to Israel on October 1934.
Simcha and Lia immigrated on December 1934.
Υosef-Halevi married Ester Emmy Shmajewitch [see pictures] daughter of Izeek Shmajewitch and Frida Rivka Shamjewitch. Ester was born on Oct 23 1891 in Russia, Makhachkala (Petrovsk-Port), Dagestan . She died on Jan 31 1981 in Israel Tel Aviv. She was buried on Feb 1 1981 in Israel Holon (bloc 13 site 7 line 30 no. 1).
Her mother died when she was still young.
She managed the house during the long period of her mother illness when she was still at school.
Υosef-Halevi and Ester had the following children:
37 M i Unknown Levit was born in 1911/1912 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . He died in 1911/1912. + 38 M ii Simcha Levit was born on Feb 1 1913. He died in 1988. + 39 F iii Lia (Lea) Levit was born on May 9 1915. She died on Mar 1 2001. 40 M iv Grisha Levit was born in 1920 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . He died in 1920 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan.
12. Eva Levit (Arye Lev ) was born on Feb 1 1891 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . She died on Mar 1 1969.
Eva lived Near Moscow in Mamontovka.
Information from family letters (correspondence between Yosef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
Eva married Shmuel (Mulla) Risin. Shmuel was born in 1880 in Russia, Makhachkala (Petrovsk-Port), Dagestan . He died in Jan 1966 in Russia Mamontovka (near Moscow). He was buried in Russia Mamontovka (near Moscow).
Shmuel and Eva had the following children:
13. Akim Chaim Levit [see pictures] (Arye Lev ) was born on Apr 5 1893 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan. He died on Sep 1 1965 in Austria Viena.
After he graduated school at Timir-Cham-Shura Akim emigrated to Viena.
He learned structural engineering at the Institute of Technology in Vienna. His studies were interrupted due to World War I. I am not sure if he ever graduated.
In 1921 he established a Chess section as he was not allowed to join the German Chess section. He was an excellent Chess player and took Austria championship several times.
In 1923 he got Austrian citizenship.
That same year he became the owner of the printing press and a publishing house “Victoria Druckerei Singer & Lewit”. They had 2 fast printing machines and 20,000 kilograms of lead letters (!) . The publishing house was specialized in Judaica and Chess literature.
In 1923 he published the chess newspaper the “Wienen Schachzeitung”.
Until 1936 he was the only owner of the publishing house but in 1937 he sold half.
In February 1938 he ended editing the book “Der Talmud im Feuer der Jahrhunderte” (The Talmud in the Fire of the Centuries) (It was written by Tadeusz Zaderecki a Christian Polish and was translated to German by Mina Safier). (It can be bought even today for 43 Euro).
On March 15th 1938 Akim was arrested by the police and on July 15th 1938 was sent to Dachau (block 15). On the Sep 1st 1938 he was transferred to KZ Buchenwald.
In Buchenwald he worked at braking rocks which caused him heart problems and a chronic ophthalmic disease because of his work with lime. (At one place it was written that he worked at Pathology so maybe the lime was used for covering the dead bodies).
He was released on May 15th 1945 in very poor health.
He had chronic problems with his feet having often exposed to freezing weather in the camp. May be he suffered from Trench foot. He was hospitalized several times during the years 1945 and 1955 but wasn’t cured.
He got radiation treatments for his ophthalmic problems also without success.
In 1959 he suffered 2 heart attacks.
When he was arrested his printing press and a publishing house were given to the Aryans. The machines were sent abroad and the plant was transformed into a carpentry workshop.
After the war, the compensations that Akim got constituted only 1% of the value of his business in spite of the fact that he got the highest amount ascribed by law.
It is not known when he joined the KPO (Austrian communist party) but as speaker of Russian he had great influence in the Soviet Government in Austria after the war.
Between 1945 and mid 1949 he was one of the associates in the newspaper “Neuen Weges” (New Way) and the director of the publishing house “Volksstimme” (the voice of the people).
After leaving KPO he established the publishing house Alve.
Only after his death in 1965 the fact that he was a hero of the resistance in Buchenwald became known. He was member of the political resistance and due to his perfect control of Russian he had contact with the Russian prisoners.
In October 1944 he was brought to the Gestapo Bunker were he was tortured for 3 months but kept his silence thus saving a lot of members of the resistance.
Akim married Leopoldina Ester Schneider [see pictures] daughter of George Schneider and Theresia Schneider on Feb 14 1923 in Austria Viena. Leopoldina was born on Nov 15 1898 in Austria Viena. She died on Oct 27 1984 in Austria Viena.
She converted to Judaism in order to marry Akim.
Details from Ikg-Wien (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien) and from his son Leon.
Akim and Leopoldina had the following children:
+ 43 F i Adina Gertrude Levit was born on Jul 21 1925. She died on Dec 24 2000. + 44 M ii Leonard Lewit was born on Feb 8 1927.
14. Riva Levit (Arye Lev ) was born in 1895 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan.
Lived on Rostov (south of Russia).
He was storage manager of conserves factory.
Chaim and Riva had the following children:
45 M i Emanuel (Ema).
15. Milla (Emillia) Levit (Arye Lev ) was born on Jul 23 1897 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan. She died on Feb 8 1980.
Milla and her family lived on Baku Azerbaijan.
As most of his family lived beyond the Iron Curtain, Yosef Levit corresponded with Milla (1945 - 1966) and she updated him about the rest of the family.
Milla married Itzhak (Issa) family name unknown.. Itzhak was born in 1895.
They had the following children:
46 F i Tatiana (Tania) [see picture] was born in 1938 in Azerbaijan Baku. She died on Feb 1 1966 in Azerbaijan Baku.
On the back of the picture sent to Yosef and Ester Levit, Tania wrote "To my dear uncle and aunt from Tania. 30.12.61 Baku Azerbaijan".
Tania had Schizophrenia and she was hospitalized for some years .
Yosef Levit her uncle from Israel sent her medications that were not available in Baku on several occasions.
Information form family letters (correspondence between Josef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
16. Reiza Levit (Arye Lev) was born on Jul 24 1899 in Russia, Buynaksk (Temir-Khan-Shura), Dagestan . She died in 1941. The cause of death was Holocaust.
The family lived in Vienna, IX.,Währingerstr. Soon after 1938 all jews had to move to some defined districts in Vienna, so the family Tennenbaum moved to Akim's flat in the 1st district, like some other jewish families.
All four Tennenbaum`s were taken to Auschwitz.On Yad Vashem memorial site the names of Reiza (written- Resi) Herbert and Arthur are found.
Their adress in the war was: WIEN 1, NEUTORGASSE 6/4
They were exiled from Wien to Minsk on 28/11/1941.
This information is based on a list of victims from Austria found in the Namentliche Erfassung der oesterreichischen Holocaustopfer, Dokumentationsarchiv des oesterreichischen Widerstandes (Documentation Centre for Austrian Resistance), Wien.
Reiza married Isak Tennenbaum. Isak died in 1941.
He was exiled by the Nazis to Lublin from where he fled to Levov Poland. Then he disappeared.
There is no record with his name on Yad Vashem site.Information from family letters (correspondence between Yosef Levit and his family that remained in Russia (Milla, Niura and Natan) from 1945 to 1969.
Isak and Reiza had the following children:
47 M i Herbert Tennenbaum [see pictures] was born on Nov 29 1928 in Austria Wien. He died in 1941 in Auschwitz. The cause of death was Holocaust. 48 M ii Arthur Tennenbaum [see pictures] was born on Feb 23 1932 in Austria Wien. He died in 1941 in Auschwitz. The cause of death was Holocaust.
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