SPRINGBERG, Esther (Big Bubbe)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Chronic myocarditis
• Immigration: 23 Nov 1906, NY
• Census: 1915, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/10975556:2703?tid=&pid=&queryId=5265bb3e634f2dc6ea0f9784425ca534&_phsrc=zTw71&_phstart=successSource

Notes:

Her grandchildren called her Big Bubbe
One granddaughter, Ruth Sheinaus Asimov, said Big Bubbie was "loving, caring."
Discrepancy:
Esther's grave states that she was 76 at death;
her death certificate says that she was 65 and born in 1866.

Birth:
1915 Census says Esther was 59 on 6.1.1915

Esther married POLIANKOVSKY, Moishe Hersh about 1879 in Russia (Odessa?). Moishe (son of POLIANKOVSKY, Husband and UNKNOWN, Wife) was born about 1845 in Russia (near Odessa? Oriv?); died about 1905 in Russia (near Odessa?). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Never left Russia. His sister, Nettie, sent food to him and Froike but lost track of them during WWII, said Nettie's daughter, Ruth Sheinaus Asimov.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Polakoff
• Eye color: gray
• Hair color: dark brown
• Height: 6’0”
• Occupation: presser for a clothing manufacturer
• Occupation: In 1917: business agent
• Religion: Jewish
• Residence: Bx, New York
• Residence: Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
• Weight: 150 lbs
• Birth: 1882, Circuit Court of the US, Southern District of NY
• Immigration: 1903, on the vessel Fornasia (Furnessia) via Glasgow, Scotland
• Arrival: Sep 1903, NY, USA
• Naturalization: 1917
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 16, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 16, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 16, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1926, 320 E. 186 St. or E. 180th St., Bronx NY
• Residence: 1930, Bronx, Bronx, New York

Notes:

From his daughter, Marcelle Pollakoff London:
"In the Jewish religion, birthdays are (referred to as) so many days before or after, or in between, a holiday. So (Uncle Izzy's) fell on Valentine's Day one year, so that's the one he picked!
"He enjoyed being with people. He had all kinds of jokes to tell people. He was crazy about his granddaughter (Sue London).
"He came to the US because he didn't want to be a rabbi in Russia."

Izzy's niece, Ruth Sheinaus Asimov (daughter of Izzy’s younger sister Nettie) called her uncle "friendly."
Ruth's daughter, Nanette Asimov, also remembers him that way.

In her 1914 letters to fiance Louis Sheinaus, Nettie Pollakoff refers to her brother as Isidore, not Isaac.
But Izzy's daughter, Marcelle London, identified him as Isaac on his death certificate, and he is Isaac on census records.

Izzy also spelled his last name with one “l,” Polakoff. Others in the family spelled it with two, “Pollakoff,” which is how it appears on the grave of his mother, Esther Pollakoff.

Naturalization:
Or 1926?

Isaac married ROBINOVITCH, Mollie on 2 Jun 1917 in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA. Mollie (daughter of ROBINOVITCH, Sam and PENKAUROR, Sophie) was born about 1888; died in Aug 1973 in Bronx, New York, United States of America; was buried in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Queens, Otic Mohliva Lodge section. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 23 Nov 1906
• Arrival: 1907
• Immigration: 1907, From Russia to NY
• Residence: 1920, 705 South Second St. Brooklyn Assembly District 14, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 14, Kings, New York
• Naturalization: 1926
• Residence: 1930, 1382 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Notes:

Residence:
84 years later, Minnie's great-great nephew moved into an apt at 473 St. John's Pl. Brooklyn, NY

Minnie married MALY, Leon on 18 Apr 1911 in New York City. Leon (son of MALY, Selig and RABINOWITZ, Ester) was born in 1887 in Russia; died on 18 Jul 1954 in New York, NY; was buried in Mt. Hebrron Cemetary, Flushing. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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: Blood Type: O+
• Occupation: Elementary school teacher, ESL licence (PS 165 & 75 in Manhattan)

Marcelle married LONDON, Sidney on 31 May 1947 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Sidney (son of LONDON, Herman and ?, Sarah) was born on 22 Dec 1909 in Bronx, NY; died on 16 Jul 1956 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Beatty
• Occupation: kindergarten teacher
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 14, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1920, Brooklyn Assembly District 14, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1930, 1382 St. John's Pl. Brooklyn, Kings, New York
• Residence: 1936, 1196 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Notes:

Buried:
Block 15, Grave 3

Beatrice married SITKIN, Louis on 4 Apr 1936 in 1260 Ocean Ave. Brooklyn. Louis (son of SITKIN, Harry and KISLEFSKY, Rachel) was born on 14 May 1911 in Russia; died on 1 Sep 2005 in New York City. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Cornell (undergrad) + Columbia Law
• Obituary: From SF Chronicle, 17 Jan 2018 A celebration of life is planned for Saturday for Peter Sitkin, a pioneer of welfare rights and public interest lawyer, who died Dec. 29 at his home in Sonoma at age 77. Sitkin became a public interest lawyer when the practice of public interest law was relatively new. He worked for the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, a predecessor to Bay Area Legal Aid, serving people who couldn’t afford legal assistance, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sitkin was also a co-founder of the influential Public Advocates Inc., one of the nation’s first public interest law firms serving the poor. His early specialty was welfare rights, and he worked to expand those rights throughout the U.S. In 1969, while at the Legal Assistance Foundation, Sitkin successfully argued the case of Wheeler vs. Montgomery before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case helped to establish the right of welfare recipients to receive a hearing before their benefits could be terminated. Sitkin was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1940 on President Street, “the widest one-way street in Brooklyn,” he said, in an oral history. It was perfect for baseball; there was a sewer that made a good home plate. Sitkin was a lifelong baseball fan, heartbroken by the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles. When he moved to San Francisco, he transferred his allegiance to the Oakland A’s. He graduated from Cornell University and Columbia Law School with honors, and then moved to California to serve in the domestic Peace Corps in San Jose. His work with impoverished communities inspired his public advocacy, and led to his joining the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. Sitkin was deeply involved in the practice of meditation for many years. So much so, that he became the general counsel for SYDA Foundation, a nonprofit organization that preserves and promotes the teachings of Siddha yoga. “I was impressed with his overall legal philosophy,” said Robert Gnaizda, co-founder of Public Advocates Inc. “He had a different perspective, permeated by a Buddhist-like philosophy.” His daughter, Lisa Sitkin, said he was also known to be a bit of jokester, who would dress up as Santa Claus around Christmas, despite not celebrating the holiday. “He was exuberant, exasperating, kind, and wonderfully silly at times,” she said. She remembered him as a distracted driver who was inept with technology and in the kitchen (his specialities included steamed vegetables with melted cheese and grilled cheese with ketchup), but was deeply dedicated to serving others. “He really helped so many people,” she said. Steve Antler, a friend since just after law school, remembered building a house with Sitkin, when they both decided to move to the rural Mendocino County town of Comptche. “It was really the blind leading the blind, let me tell you, but Peter designed a whole house without really having a basis on how to build a house,” Antler said. “It turned out to be really nice.” Sitkin lived there for many years before moving back to the Bay Area and eventually to Sonoma County, where he lived with his wife, Barbara Strader Sitkin, until his death. In addition to his wife and his daughter, Lisa, he is survived by another daughter, Jennifer Sitkin Morgan; stepsons Brian Webb, Jason Strader and David Strader; two grandchildren, Benjamin and Alexandra; and Emily Loeb, his first wife and mother to Lisa and Jennifer. Saturday’s celebration of his life will begin at 3 p.m. at St. John’s Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, 2727 College Ave.
• Occupation: Lawyer

Notes:

Birth:
Sitkin was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1940 on President Street, “the widest one-way street in Brooklyn,”

Peter married MALSIN, Emily [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married PORZEL, Phillip F. [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]