GOLDBERGS/TEICHMANS
Malka (Goldberg) & Yehoshua Teichman. Children from left: Ann (Chana), Sam, Bertha (Bluma), Joe, Max, Rose (Raizel)
Hannah (Chana Resnick) & Shmuel Goldberg
Hannah Goldberg
Had 4 children:
- Fischel,
- Isadore,
- Lena, and
- Malka (Amelia).
The Goldbergs hailed from Vienna. Janet’s Aunt Sue refrained from telling Janet that Janet’s maternal grandfather (Yehoshua Teichman) was from Lithuania because it was such a scandal! When Malka married her Lithuanian Jewish husband, Hannah sat shiva.
Chana’s sister was Sallie Resnick Lewis, who had 3 children. Her daughter Sarah, along with Sarah’s second husband, Charlie Frank, had Helene Kratz, mother of Sallie Kratz and Ricky Kratz.
Isadore Goldberg
Isadore Goldberg
Isadore left Baltimore to help fight in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia about 1917.
He was killed there, leaving behind one son in the US. See Chaim Gamzu.
Malka lost her brother Isadore about the same time that she lost her husband Yehoshua and daughter Bertha to the flu epidemic of 1918-20 (and her sister Lena’s daughter Ann died of the same flu). Malka never recovered from the shock of losing her brother. She had not wanted him to go to Russia. When he died, she would mumble the same things over and over and no one could understand her.
Fischel Goldberg
Fischel and his wife had no children, When his brother Isadore was killed, he adopted Isadore’s little son as his own and eventually sent him to the Sorbonne in Paris for his education. See Chaim Gamzu.
Lena (Goldberg) Gilman
Lena (Goldberg) Gilman
Lena was known as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty. She married Jacob Gilman and they had 6 daughters (the “Gilman Girls”):
- Miriam: m Raymond Jacobs. Two sons: Bobby and Gilman. Bobby married Anita and had two daughters: Joyce and Linda. Gilman committed suicide in his late 30s.
- Ethel: m Morris Blumenthal. They moved to Chevy Chase, MD, and had two sons: Harvey, who was hospitalized with meningitis from age 14, and Lester, who became a surgeon.
- Sylvia: m Paul Tillis. No children
- Re (Rebecca): m Ben Brown; moved to McKeesport, PA. Two sons: Bert (m Joanne?) & Steve (m. Cecie)
- Ann (d, flu epidemic of 1918-20)
- Sue: m Ben Greenberg (accountant for govt. of Liberia); lived in Manhattan. Adopted Carolyn, who died of smoke-inhalation complications from going to the World Trade Center to treat victims during 9/11.
The Gilmans lived next to Malka and her family in East Baltimore. When Lena or Malka had to go out, the other sister nursed the baby.
Jacob had done very well and liked to take his wife and daughters for a ride in an open-aired car around the neighborhood to show them off, as they were very beautiful.
Re (Rebecca) Gilman
Malka (Amelia) (Goldberg) Teichman
Malka Teichman
b Vienna? d Baltimore 1944
Malka married Yehoshua Teichman and had 6 children:
- Ann (Chana)
- Max
- Samuel
- Bertha (Bluma)
- Rose (Raizel)
- Joe
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Malka
As Malka lived near Baltimore port, she would meet Jewish immigrants off the ship and take them home and find them a place to live. Malka started Baltimore’s Hebrew Free Loan Association.
Malka (as well as Janet’s paternal grandparents Jennie and Max) spoke Yiddish. Janet assumed that when you get older, you automatically begin to speak Yiddish!
Malka, as well as Jennie and Max, were Shomer Shabbat. Of Malka’s 6 children, Rose (Janet’s mother) is the only one to have Jewish children!
Malka in chair
Bertha (Bluma) Teichman
Bertha (Bluma) had tuberculosis; she died in the flu epidemic of 1918-20. Janet says she heard there was no family who didn’t lose a family member during the flu epidemic of 1918-20. (Wikipedia says 50-100 million people died worldwide.) Janet’s Hebrew middle name is Bluma after her.
Hirshout Children
Janet thinks Malka for a time took in the 3 Hirshout children (Ida, Paul, and Rose) who were orphaned by the flu. They were not relatives but came to visit a lot.
Catonsville House
Teichmans’ house–Catonsville, MD
When Yehoshua and his daughter Bertha first contracted this flu, the family moved out of the city to Catonsville hoping the clean air would help, but they both died.
Malka’s family was the only Jewish family in Catonsville.
First Floor
The left side of the Catonsville house’s front porch in this photo was enclosed with a front and side wall of windows to make a solarium for Yehoshua, but he died soon after they moved there. The middle porch section in this photo had planters, which Annette now has, in which Malka grew ferns and begonias. Malka had such a green thumb that when she would pinch back sections of the begonias to make them grow better and she would toss the pieces off the porch, they would root and grow new begonias!
Second Floor
In this photo, the turret-shaped Victorian-style room on the left was Max’s room. The window to its right was Malka’s room.
Third Floor
The third floor had two large feather mattresses for guests to sleep.
Ann Goldberg & Max Goldberg
Ann (l) & Rose
Ann never married.
Max Teichman
Max Teichman
Max never married. He was a ticket-taker for horse races, and obese.
Samuel Teichman
Sam
Samuel, who had very blue eyes (perhaps the only one in the family because Rose’s were hazel), sold laundry services. He married a non-Jewish woman with 3 children and Malka sat shiva. Samuel had a son, Russel.
Uncle Joe and his car
Joe Teichman
Joe
Joe, who after WWII did very well selling appliances and who had a terrible drinking problem, also married a non-Jewish woman but didn’t tell his mother so she wouldn’t sit shiva again.
Janet calls Joe’s photo with his car (right) her “Bonnie and Clyde photo.”
Lisa adds: Uncle Joe visited us a few times. He was the only one who could beat me at checkers!
Arthur Teichman
Diane editing here:
On the Teichman side, Yehoshua seems to have had a brother Arthur, according to Mark’s Family Tree. He was likely the famous dance school chain head, Arthur Murray.
Although we thought Yehoshua was from LIthuania, which is why his mother-in-law Hannah sat shiva for her daughter Malka, Mark’s family tree says Yehoshua was from Vienna, and Wikipedia says Arthur Murray was born in Galicia! If Yehoshua and Arthur were indeed brothers, we now have Yehoshua’s mother’s and father’s names, the year when Yehoshua came to the US, and the name of their ship. Here is Wikipedia (Diane added bold):
Arthur Murray was born in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, in 1895 as Moses Teichman. In August 1897, he was brought to America by his mother Sarah on the S.S. Friesland, and landed at Ellis Island. They settled in Ludlow Street, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with his father, Abraham Teichmann….At the outbreak of World War I, under the pressure of the anti-German sentiment prevalent in the U.S., Murray changed his last name of Teichman to a less German-sounding name….On April 24, 1925, Murray married his famous dance partner, Kathryn Kohnfelder….Arthur and Kathryn Murray had twin daughters, Jane and Phyllis. On June 4, 1951, Jane married Dr. Henry Heimlich who became famous for the Heimlich maneuver in 1974. Phyllis married educator Edward Irvine “Ted” McDowell.
Eva Teichman
Yehoshua had a relative, Eva Teichman (Mark’s Family Tree says she may have been his niece), who survived a concentration camp and came to live with Philip and Rose Segall’s family. Janet remembers Eva well from Eva’s staying at their house.
Chaim Gamzu
Chaim Gamzu and 3 others at Tel Aviv Art Museum opening, 1935
As we said above, Chaim was raised by his uncle Fischel when his father Isadore died in Russia. Fischel sent Chaim to study at the Sorbonne. Chaim later made aliya, changed his name from Goldberg to Gamzu, and became an art and music critic as well as head of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Shuli, our neighbor in Tzahala in 1972-3, told Mom that Gamzu’s name had become a Hebrew verb, lig’mayz, to mean “to devastate with criticism”!
Gamzu is pictured in this 1935 shot of the Tel Aviv Art Museum’s opening. I can’t tell which one he is, can you?
Chaim’s sister married a judge in Jerusalem.
Rose Teichman Segall
Rose at her wedding, Catonsville
Rose portrait in dark room
Rose must have had a very good memory. One day, she interviewed for a job requiring shorthand. Since she didn’t know shorthand, she scribbled notes in Hebrew and pretended it was shorthand. She must have memorized what she needed to type out later because she got the job!
From Lisa:
Rose & vegetable garden, Catonsville
Rose was renowned for her rose and flower garden behind her house. She had an incredible green thumb.
Rose on beach
When Janet was around 6 or 7 years old, she was very sickly and missed a year of school. Rose could not find anything in conventional medicine to help her, so she started learning about Christian Science. That is how she learned about health foods, and that was what helped Janet get well.
Other kids would go to their grandparents and get candy or sweets. Rose would offer her grandchildren carrot-beet-celery juice. We used to go over sometimes for sleepovers on Saturday nights and watch the Lawrence Welk show with them.
Everyone in the family except Rose knew that Mark used to hang glide. After he broke his nose doing it one day, Rose saw him and asked what happened. Mark told her he had walked into a door!
Rose had a massive heart attack around 1970. She asked Joanne to bring her Vitamin E and took it behind the doctor’s back during her hospital stay. The doctor was amazed that she survived. She attributed it to the Vitamin E. She never regained her former strength, though. Death from heart disease at an early age ran in her family. I think one or two of her siblings died of heart attacks by their 40s, so it was a miracle that she lived to 75. She died in 1973 of a heart attack, Phillip died in 1975. I was told that Rose was 75 when she died, although it seems that she was the same age or older than Phillip and didn’t want anyone to know. I think they were both 30 when they married. He died 2 years later than she did of a stroke and I think he was 78.
Rose married Phillip Segall and had three children:
- Janet
- Joanne
- Mark
Rose, Janet, step
Rose & Janet
Janet
Janet (middle) and 2 friends having tea party w/ dolls in Druid Hill Park
Rose, Janet, Joanne, Mark
Janet, Joanne, doll
