Family Tree Collection | Main index A-Z | Total index | Names | Index places | Alexander Duparc Collection |
Family page |
Julius Kurzig, birth 1857, died 1909
to: Henriette Englaender, daughter of David Englaender and Lina Landsberger |
1) Paul Kurtzig, birth 25 OKT 1899 Grunberg, died 24 Nov 1948 K. Jehoshua
to:
Thea Dauphine Alice Simons, birth 4 MEI 1909 's-Gravenhage, died 4 FebR 2006 Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States, occupation: tuinarchitecte 1st marriage 2nd marriage, daughter of Lodewijk Simons and Sophia Alice Frederika Ornstein When Thea was a young woman she decided to go to Palestine with the notion of building a Jewish homeland. She told her father, who was the Treasurer of the Hague, "I am going to Palestine to build a Jewish homeland." Her father retorted: "Thea, wh y don't you wait until things quite down." If she had waited until things quieted down, she would never have gone. She did go in the late 1920s. (Miriam knows more of this history). As told to Michael Kurtzig on a visit by Thea and Miriam Bythine r to our home in Falls Church, Virginia in the 1980s. |