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Jozsef Cvi (Tzvi?) Gänsler 16/03/1872 - 23/02/1917 Jozsef Cvi Gänsler was born on 16th March 1872 in Nagybecskerek, currently known as Zrenjanin, and is located in Serbia. He was one of three children known to have been born to Simon Gänsler and Mathild Reitzer. He married Eszter Klein on March 5th 1893 in a religious ceremony in Vienna in Austria and it was here in 1895 that the happy couple had their first child Leon. Three other children followed in 1896, 1898 and 1902. Another celebration of the marriage, a civil ceremony this time took place on 16.6.1912 in Budapest in the VII district. It is believed that this was required by their children - especially Leo as he was known by this time, because he had reached the age at which he was to be called up into the Austro Hungarian Monarchy's armed forces. Jozsef was a "kereskedö segéd" Literally translated, this means commercial assistant or a salesman. Another relative has advised, that he was a clerk and salesman at a shoe store. By the time of his death he seems to have changed jobs as he was listed as a Textile Merchant. Jozsef was 21 years old when he married Eszter; she was only 17. According to the records that have been retrieved from the Jewish archives in Vienna, they had been married for two years before Leon their first son was born. A fact, that emerges from Jozsef's documentation, is that when he died in 1917 in ROZAJ and was buried in the Military Cemetery, following a "szivszédüles" he was a translator for the military. He thus probably spoke a number of the Balkan (read Yugo-Slav) languages, German and Hungarian, possibly Italian). The Austrian Kriegsarchiv has undertaken a search for information about his military circumstances and this is what they found:
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