Individual Details

Hillel Turkel

(3 Dec 1877 - 31 Aug 1941)

Events

Alt name	3 Dec 1877	Hillel Türkel
Birth	3 Dec 1877	Podwoloczyska, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Marriage	20 Apr 1908	Podwoloczyska, Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary - Freida Frime Segal
Residence	Bef 1923	Vienna, Austria
Alt name	1923	Hillel Tuerkel
Departure	Dec 1923	Bremen, Germany
Arrival	19 Dec 1923	SS Yorck - Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany, Ellis Island, New York, New York, United States
NaturalizationDeclaration	1924	Ohio, United States
Occupation	1930	Egg Dealer - Ohio, United States
Residence	1930	1930 Census - Beechwood Avenue, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Property	Bef 1940	Berlin, Germany
Residence	1940	1940 Census - Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Death	31 Aug 1941	Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
Burial	Aft 31 Aug 1941	3824 Ridge Road Cemetery Number 2, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

Families

Spouse	Freida Frime Segal (1879 - 1963)
Child	Simon Türkel (1900 - 1984)
Child	Dr. Heinrich "Henry" Türkel (1903 - 1992)
Child	George Turkel (1905 - 1996)
Child	Malvina "Malwisia" Turkel (1910 - 2001)

Father	Dov Beryl Bernhard Joseph "Beryl" Turkel (1849 - 1932)
Mother	Esther Spacierer (1847 - 1917)
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 Births

Marriage

Podwoloczyska PSA AGAD Marriages 1886-1915; Syg 2665, p8 , Akt 12 http://agadd.home.net.pl/metrykalia/300/sygn.%202665/images/1_300_0_0_2665_0007.jpg | See also record that comes from the Podwoloczyska Jewish Births (1877-1893, 1901) (1901-1910) database, fond 300, signature 2661, page(s) 313, 314, record number 26. The original records are held in The Central Archives of Historical Records (AGAD), Warsaw and were added to this search engine on 4 August 2019. An image of this record can also be viewed on AGAD microfilm #106485.The Gesher Galicia unique record ID is GG-Podwoloczyska-Births-507

Arrival

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957; eMail 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.

Residence

Street Address: Beechwood Avenue; 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 Status

Property

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.

Death

Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1938-2018

Burial

Ridge Road Cemetery Number 2, Brooklyn, Ohio, United States

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016).

2. 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.

3. , Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020), Visual History Archive: The Holocaust.

4. 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.

5. Ancestry.com, Ohio, U.S., Naturalization Petition and Record Books, 1888-1946 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), The National Archives At Washington, D.c.; Washington, D.c.; ARC Title: Naturalization Petition and Record Books For the U.S. District Court For the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, Cleveland, 1907-1946; NAI: M1995; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States; Record Group Number: 21.

6. Ancestry.com, New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1923; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 6; Page Number: 56.

7. Ancestry.com, Ohio, U.S., Naturalization Petition and Record Books, 1888-1946 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), The National Archives At Washington, D.c.; Washington, D.c.; ARC Title: Naturalization Petition and Record Books For the U.S. District Court For the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, Cleveland, 1907-1946; NAI: M1995; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States; Record Group Number: 21.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. , Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020), Visual History Archive: The Holocaust.