Family
history
My
mother Haya Wierzbicki was born in Grojec Poland on 7th
May 1914. Her parents were Ben Zion Wierzbicki and Fajga Gayer. They had 6 children
(I know some of the names; sister Luba and brothers Aharon and Israel or Srulik).
Haya was the oldest. Father had a small grocery store. Haya joined a Jewish
youth movement (Habonim) and immigrated to Palestine in 1936.
Haya on boat to Palestine in 1936 (lower row 2nd from right)
Her
brother Aharon was the only survivor of the Holocaust. He served in the Polish army and became a war prisoner
after the Germans conquered Poland in 1939. He was not execute as were other
Jewish prisoners of war (because of his Polish name the Germans did not know he
was Jewish) and was sent to work in a farm in Germany. He escaped and joined
the partisans and then the Polish army in exile to fight the Germans. After the
war he stayed in the Polish army as an artillery officer. He immigrated to
Israel in 1956 with his 2 daughter and wife.
My
mother was seamstress and worked at home. She died in 1972 after being struck
by a car when crossing the street.
My
father Baruch (Bernard) Brock was
born in Fraunkirchen Austria on Nov 12 , 1907 to Itzhak Brock and Flora Deutsh.
He had 5 brothers and one sister. My grandfather
died before the Holocaust. My grandmother and one aunt were killed by the
Germans and the rest of my family survived.
My
father played soccer at the local town’s team and later with Hacoach Vienna. He
came to Palestine on a tourist visa in 1935.
The British made an error in his tourist visa and changed his last name to
Brook. He played in the Hapoel Haifa
soccer team and the Jewish Palestinian soccer team in the 1930th. He
was a soccer referee and a coach to the Hapoel Haifa youth team in the 1940th.
He meet my mother in 1936.
He
worked as a welder in Shemen factory in Haifa Israel until his death on 1966 from a heart
attack.
My mother's parents Feiga and Ben-Zion Wierzbicki
My mother's birth certificate from Grojec
My father's parents: Flora and Itzhak Brock
Brock family children document from Fraunkirchen Austria
Bernard Brock (first left knelling) with Fraunkirchen soccer team about 1930.
Bernard Brook in Shemen factory,1963, Haifa , Israel
Bernard Brock Soccer club membership in Fraunkirchen, Austria.
Bernard Brock Amatuer Soccer membership Card , Austria.
Itzhak Brook birth certificate Palestine 1941
Yad Vasem form about Faiga Gayer Wierzbizka (My grandmother)
Yad Vasem form about Faiga Gayer Wierzbizka (My grandmother) . Forms filled by my mother Chaya Wirzbizka Brook.
Yad Vasem form about Ben Zion Wierzbizka (My grandfather, my mother's father)
Yad Vasem form about Loba Wierzbizka (My aunt , my mother's sister)
Yad Vasem form about Israel Wierzbizka (My uncle , my mother's brother)
Family Trees
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