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| Hannah Leah (Annie) Goldstein |
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| Name: Hannah Leah (Annie) Goldstein DOB: January 15th 1911 DOD: 7th November 1982 Spouse: Mattie Children: Judy and Rochelle Birthplace: Liverpool (29 Pembroke Place) Occupation: |
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| Hannah Leah (Annie), the second child and eldest daughter of Percy and Bertha Galkoff, was born and raised at 29 Pembroke Place, Liverpool - 'over the shop': "P. Galkoff, Kosher Butcher". Although Annie was a bright student, girls were not encouraged in those days to further their education, and she left school at sixteen to 'help in the shop'. In October 1934, she married Matthew (Mattie) Goldstein, also of Liverpool and they made their home in Childwall. Their elder daughter, Judith, was born in June 193 7 at the Central Nursing Home, Rodney Street. In November 1940 during the Battle of Britain, tragedy struck the family when Mattie's mother and father and youngest brother and sister were killed when a bomb hit a public shelter. Annie and Mattie's home was also damaged by enemy action and they evacuated to Hesketh Bank, then to Churchtown, Southport, and finally settled in their permanent home in Balmoral Drive. In July 1943, two years before the end of the war, their younger daughter, Rochelle, was born in Southport Infirmary. Percy and Bertha Galkoff were now also living in Southport and Annie kept in daily contact with them. Her family was the highest priority in her life and all her time, care and worries were devoted to their welfare. Of a quiet, retiring nature, Annie was happiest involved in domestic activities, with a special fondness for reading, sewing and knitting. Some of her knitted children's clothes have been passed down through three generations! She was a very supportive wife to Mattie in all his business and communal affairs. In 1964, Judith and her husband, with two small children, emigrated to Israel and Annie and Mattie visited them regularly until Mattie's sudden death in 1974 at age sixty-five. Annie continued to visit her family in Israel until she succumbed to cancer in 1977 and was able to make only one more visit before she died in 1982, three months after the wedding of her eldest granddaughter. She bore her years of illness with great strength and dignity and was never heard to complain. Annie did not survive to become a great-grandmother, but her offspring number four grandchildren and - to date - seventeen great-grandchildren, all residing in Israel. |
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