Max Freizeit (great-uncle)...
Maksas, son of Avraham Nissan Freizeit and Chaya Einachovski, was born January 1893 and lived with his parents and siblings in Augustow, Poland. After WW1 he left Poland to avoid conscription into the Russian Army and, accompanied by his younger brother Shmuel, traveled to England. During the two year journey via Germany and Belgium he acquired a Lithuanian passport changing his name to Max Freizeit.
Max arrived in England September 1920 and took up residence with his sister at Stocks Street in Cheetham, Manchester and for two months was engaged as a Hebrew teacher at the Talmudical College in Cheetham Hill Road. Later that same year he moved to London where he taught Hebrew for a further five years. In August 1925 he took up residence at Bury New Road and entered the business of Harry Ziment, a woollen merchant. In 1928 Max started his own woollen business purchased for £1,000 from his dowry following his marriage to Harry's daughter Minnie in August 1925 at the Roumanian Synagogue in Salford. They had one son - Neville (b.1927).
In November 1933, he was granted UK citizenship.
Max died in May 1980 in Manchester.
This branch of the family tree includes the following family names - Waxman.
CLICK TO GO BACK