Individual Details

Aharon Yeroham Fischel Tierkel and his family arrived at Ellis Island in the United States on August 1, 1893 on the German ship Meier after a long immigration from the small village of Moliv, in the Ukraine. Fischel made the decision that the continued violence against the Jews in the Ukraine was not sustainable for raising his family. It was then with his wife Rachel, son David, and daughters Sura, Emma, and Ethel set off for a better life. They tried Heidelberg, Germany for a few years, where David, the eldest child, enrolled in the University, but found that Jews were not as welcome in Germany either. The family then set off for the land of opportunity, The United States. After arriving at Ellis Island on a hot August day in 1893, the Tierkel family eventually settled in Philadelphia, where a large Eastern-European Jewish population was thriving.

Birth	1839	Moliv / Mogilev (Mahilyow), Galicia, Austria-Hungary, Mogilev, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (Ukraine)
Immigration	1 Aug 1893	from Bremen, Germany, ship: Meier, Ellis Island, New York, New York, United States
Residence	1908	327 Manton, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Death	Bet 1920 and 1930	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Census	1920	Jewish Sheltering Home
Residence	1920	315-317 South 3rd Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Spouse	Ruchel Leah Fucks (1843 - 1911)
Child	Sarah Rose Tierkel (1871 - 1962)
Child	David Baer Tierkel (1876 - 1948)
Child	Emma Tierkel (1878 - )
Child	Ethel Tierkel (1891 - 1967)