Marie worked at her father's shoe store.

Susan was married and divorced.She is a practicing lawyer.She remarrie d in the 80's and lives in the Washinton DC area.

Family later adopts the name HEROLD

Klaire was deported to Izbica on the 24th of March 1942 , together wit h her husband Max. Exact date of death unknown.

Claire, Leo's wife, was a cousin of the three Sichel sisters (the wiv es of Max and David). On the 23rd of March 1942, the 58 year old Klara Katzenberger was dep orted to Izbica am Wieprzkreis Krasnystaw district Lublin. Izbica was a transit camp, just a few miles away from the Belzec death -camp with its gas chambers. The exact date of her death is unknown.

Abraham and Yette had a house in Schluechtern.In this house they live d upstairs, beneath lived Karolina Sichel, and downstairs was the stor e .

Dr. Max Sichel (onkel Max) studied medicine , and became a successfu l doctor in Chemnitz. He was a zionist , maybe the first in the family, and made one or tw o journeys to Palestine.In the early thirties, he immigrated to Palest ine , and lived in jerusalem.

Siegmund Sichel worked in the family leather-goods store in Schluechte rn, together with Abraham and Yette Sichel.

Samuel Sofer moved to Canada and settled in Montreal. He married his f iancee from Bialystok, Ida Slutsky (Silver). They had three children , Seymore, Rose Eta (my mother, Etka Rochel), and Hershey (named afte r the grandfather referenced on your web site). Seymore Sofer had 3 c hildren, Stephen, Susan and Richard. Rose married Reuben Lightstone, a nd they had 6 children: Alexander, Leslie, Bertha, Leonard, Libbie, an d Sam (me). And these children have had many more children as well, ex panding the family further.

He died as a result of forced service in the army.