POLLAKOFF, Annette (Nettie) C.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Color/Complexion: “Sallow”
• Hair color: “Reddish”
• Height: 5’4”
• Occupation: Milliner
• Birth: Abt 1889, Oriv, Ukraine
• Immigration: 23 Nov 1906, age 17
• Residence: 1940, 190-20 111th Ave. Queens, NY

Notes:

Nettie, who came to the US at age 14, was good at math and had wonderful, thick hair, said her daughter, Ruth. "She was a good seemstress and knitter." Back in Russia, she knitted two pairs of booties for her German Shepherd, "Tzigane," which meant Gypsy in Yiddish or Russian. The dog went out with the booties, and came back without them. "My mother never forgot that," Ruth said.

Nettie was part of the Scheiner clan "tho her last name was Pollakoff," said Ruth. Her half-sister, Kayla, married a Scheiner. And "Abe's family (Nettie's in-laws) knew the Scheiner family in Europe, and when they came here, they lived near each other."

Nettie lived on Ludlow in Manhattan when she first arrived. She worked as a hat-maker and went to high school at night, Ruth said.

From Nettie's niece, Marcelle Pollakoff London: "How we got to Pollakoff from Polliankofsky is that there was a cousin named Max Pollakoff who took (Nettie's brother) Izzy off the boat when he came to America under the name Pollakoff."

OBITUARY: Dec. 7, 1955 Newsday

Physical Description:
Height: 5'4'' Eyes: bluish gray. Hair: chestnut brown

Immigration:
“Milliner”

Died:
Cerebral hemmorage
Nettie took a lot of aspirin to treat painful arthritis. She fell into a coma during the honeymoon of her daughter, Ruth, who returned immediately with Stanley. Nettie died days later, but never woke up.

Annette married SHEINAUS, Louis (Foff) Pinkas on 21 Mar 1917 in 68 St. Marks Pl. Manhattan. Louis (son of SHEINAUS, Abraham and OREL, Frima (Little Bubbe) (Fannie)) was born on 11 May 1892 in Russia (Kishinev, Moldava), then Roumania; died in Oct 1979 in Larchmont, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Physical Description: Hair Clr: Brown
• Military: Bronze Star, WWII, 1st Lt. Radio Officer, Signal Corps, 76th Div, 45-man platoon
• Occupation: Pharmacist, with Bristol, Meyers & Co. in NJ
• Residence: New York, Queens, New York
• Residence: Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 18, Kings, New York
• Military: 1941, WW II 1st Lieutenant, Signal Corps
• Military: 8 Apr 1941, Jamaica, New York

Notes:

Military:
Enlisted

Died:
The residence’s name changed in 2019

Harold married SELMAN, Rita on 18 Jun 1949 in NYC Free Synagogue, 65th St? NY. Rita (daughter of SELMAN, Irving and DRILLICK, Anna) was born on 26 Oct 1927 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA; died on 11 May 2020 in New Jersey, USA; was cremated in 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Physical Description: Height: 5'9'' Weight: 1 Eye Clr: brown Hair Clr: brown and straight
• Education: PS 118 (grades 1-8 on 109th Ave, Hollis);
• Education: Almost 4 years at Queens College, Flushing, NY
• Education: BA in fine art, ceramics concentration, Hofstra University, (1980?)
• Occupation: Mother
• Residence: 190-20 111th Ave. Hollis, Queens, NY
• Cause of Death: Pneumonia
• Occupation: 1942, Draftsman with the Signal Corp., Eatontown, NJ

Notes:

Talented artist--inherited this gift from her father, Louis (Foff), and her grandfather, Abraham.
enjoyed making pottery on a wheel, painting and sculpting.

At PS 118, where Ruth attended school from grades 1-8 from (about 1928 to about 1936), she and her brother, Harold, and other children planted the trees behind the school on 109th Ave. In 2004, they were still there.

"The earliest movie I went to was King Kong. I remember covering my eyes, I was so scared. I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. I went with my (older) brother (Harold)."

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84835476/ruth-sheinaus-poem-age-8/

Residence:
Where Ruth Sheinaus lived from 1925 or '26 until about 1941.

Ruth married SALZ, Norman (Buddy) on 25 Dec 1941 in NY, and was divorced in 1951. Norman (son of SALZ, Simon and SPIEGELMAN, Eva) was born on 14 Mar 1920; died on 13 May 1976. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married ASIMOV, Stanley on 26 Nov 1955 in NY. Stanley (son of ASIMOV, Judah and BERMAN, Anna (Hana) Rachel) was born on 25 Jul 1929 in 501 New Lots Ave. Brooklyn, NY; died on 16 Aug 1995 in Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, NY; was cremated in 1995 in NYC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married STAVITSKY, Gail Ph.D [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eric married LEE, Jacalyn Devida [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eric married HENSCHEL, Deborah Anne [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nanette married SPINDOLA, Julio [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nanette married BYRNE, Hugh Drennan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judah married HOVEY, Joe [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]