Individual Details
Hillel Turkel
(3 Dec 1877 - 31 Aug 1941)
Events
| Birth | 3 Dec 1877 | Podwoloczyska, Galicia, Austria-Hungary |  | ||
| Marriage | 20 Apr 1899 | Podwoloczycka, Galicia, Austria-Hungary - Freida "Frime" Segal | |||
| Marriage | 20 Apr 1908 | Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary - Freida "Frime" Segal | |  | |
| Residence | Bef 1923 | Vienna (Wien), Austria | | ||
| Arrival | 19 Dec 1923 | SS Yorck - Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany, Elis Island, New York, United States | | | |
| Census | 1930 | Beechwood Ave, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Census | 1940 | Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Death | 31 Aug 1941 | Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Alt name | Hillel Türkel | | |||
| Alt name | Hillel Turkel | | |||
| Alt name | Hillel Tuerkel | ||||
| Occupation | Egg Dealer - Ohio, United States | | |||
| Property | Berlin, Germany | |
Families
| Spouse | Freida "Frime" Segal (1879 - 1963) |
| Child | Simon Türkel (1900 - 1984) |
| Child | Dr. Heinrich "Henry" Türkel (1903 - 1992) |
| Child | George "Georg" Turkel (1905 - 1996) |
| Child | Malvina "Malwisia" Turkel (1910 - 2001) |
| Father | Bernhard Joseph "Beryl" Turkel (1849 - 1932) |
| Mother | Esther Spacierer (1850 - 1924) |
| Sibling | Clara Chaya "Claire" Terkel (1869 - 1937) |
| Sibling | Moshe Issac "Jim" Türkel (1873 - 1933) |
| Sibling | William Turkel (1879 - 1930) |
| Sibling | Sarah Miriam "Sadie" Turkel (1888 - 1946) |
Notes
Birth
Podwoloczyska PSA AGAD BirthsMarriage
Podwoloczyska PSA AGAD Marriages 1886-1915; Syg 2665, p8 , Akt 12http://agadd.home.net.pl/metrykalia/300/sygn.%202665/images/1_300_0_0_2665_0007.jpgArrival
mail of WCT 11/12/1998:Hillel originally wanted to immigrate to Palestina.
However at the insistence of Beryl and William he agreed in 1923 (1922?) to visit USA first.
Census
Street Address: Beechwood Ave.; Age: 54; Able To Speak English: Yes; Attended School: No; Can Read Write: Yes; Class of Worker: Employer; Enumeration District: 0562; HomeOwnership: Rented; Is Employed: Yes; Language Spoken: German; LiveOnFarm: No; Naturalization StatusProperty
WCT note about Hillel's Berlin Apartment Building:The apartment building that Hillel once owned in Berlin is interesting because it a) represents one of Hillel's early and better investments b) was not confiscated by the Nazis and it survived the intensive Allied air bombardments of Berlin and c) explains why George travelled to Berlin so frequently during which visits he was able to stay with family members and/or make continuation trips to Lemberg, and once even to Tarnapol and Podwoloczyska.
To protect himself against the extreme inflation which ensued after WWI, Hillel used some of his stock market gains in 1918 or 1920 to buy the property shown in these photos at "Berlin S036, Manteuffel Strasse 102." There were 43 apartment units/tenants. The building was in two sections one set behind the other. Also there were two street level stores, one being a "Fleisherie" or "Meat Store" and the other a Beleuehtung." Hillel provided George a "Foilmacht" or "Affidavit" (more likely a "Power of Attorney") certified by the German Consulate in the USA so he could go to Berlin several times a month to pay taxes, collect rents etc. Before he left Vienna in 1938, George hung a large sign painted on a wooden board on the foyer wall which said "Hillel Turkel, Cleveland Ohio." During WWII the Nazis did not take over the building because it was a "foreign building," that is, it was owned by a foreigner as Hillel was by that time considered. After the War the building ended up in the American Zone where private ownership continued to be protected whereas most property in the Russian Zone was confiscated.
Endnotes
1. Podwoloczyska PSA AGAD Marriages 1886-1915; Syg 2665, p8 , Akt 12.
2. , Podwoloczyska PSA AGAD Marriages 1886-1915; Syg 2665, p8 , Akt 12 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
3. Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Year: 1940; Census Place: Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03049; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 18-43.
4. Ancestry.com, New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Database online. Year: 1923; Arrival: , ; Microfilm serial: T715; Microfilm roll: T715_3430; Line: 27; List number: ..
5. Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Year: 1940; Census Place: Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03049; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 18-43.
6. Ancestry.com and Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Deaths, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Database online. Certificate: ; Volume:.
7. Private Communication.
8. , Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020), Visual History Archive: The Holocaust.
9. Ancestry.com, Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016).
10. Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Year: 1940; Census Place: Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03049; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 18-43.
11. , Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020), Visual History Archive: The Holocaust.
12. Ancestry.com, Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016).
13. Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Year: 1940; Census Place: Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03049; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 18-43.
14. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002), Year: 1930; Census Place: Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio; Page: 19B; Enumeration District: 0562; FHL microfilm: 2341517.