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latest: Alex Rosenstein [*1820]
Father of Sarah Zwirn, nee Feintuch [*1892]
Husband of Esther Feintuch, nee Hauptmann [*1855]
Marcus Feintuch family (1919-1925)
Lasurick Mawurisch (1919-1921)
Jacob and Adolf Kupferstein, Colonial goods,coal and produce (approx. 1906-1910)
Marcus Leo Feintuch, tradesman (1914-1915)
Marcus Leo Feintuch was born 1859. His hometown was Kalusz (Kalusch, Kalush) which at that time belonged to the Habsburg Monarchy. The small town at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains had a large Jewish community, which at times made up more than half of the population.
Marcus Feintuch married Esther Hauptmann, who came from the Galician town of Bukaczowce, north of Kalusz. It seems that the couple initially lived there and started a family. Their daughter Sara was born in Bukaczowce in 1892, and they may have had other children.
In January 1914, Marcus Feintuch left Bukaczowce and Galicia behind and moved to Lüneburg, without his family. In the town"s registration records, he is listed as a salesman. In the early years, he moved frequently, always staying in places where other immigrants from Galicia already lived and worked—in Papenstraße, where Adolf Kupferstein had his business, then at Rübekuhle 25 with the family of Adolf Abraham Klein, and finally at Auf dem Kauf 1 with the family of Karl Meer. Feintuch probably also worked for some of these Lüneburg merchants.
In 1917, Marcus Feintuch"s wife Esther came from Vienna to Lüneburg to join her husband, together with their daughter Sara. In 1919, the three moved to Wandfärberstraße and remained there for several years until they moved again, this time to Salzbrücker Straße, as tenants of the Hirsch Lengel family.
Marcus" daughter Sara worked as a peddler. She got married to Tobias Zwirn, a merchant from Hanover, In May 1925, she gave birth to a daughter in Lüneburg. A few days later, Sara died in childbirth. In November 2025, Marcus Leo Feintuch also died. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lüneburg, where the family had recently laid their daughter Sara to rest.
Sources and info:
https://jgaliciabukovina.net/110669/community/kalush