Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy

Leopold or Leib Herzenberg

Male Abt 1885 - 1945  (~ 60 years)


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  • Name Leopold or Leib Herzenberg 
    Born Abt 1885  Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 8 Sep 1945  Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Westpark Cemetery, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4206  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Itzig or Isaac Herzenberg,   b. Abt 1855, Pilten, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Theresa or Tauba Miriam Bernitz,   b. 1 Apr 1860, Aizpute, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 8 Feb 1883  Aizpute, Latvia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1890  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Raisel,   b. Bef 1905, of, , South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1931, of, , South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 26 years) 
    Married Bef 1924  of, , South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Annie Herzenberg,   d. 1977
     2. Benny Herzenberg,   d. 1988, , , South Africa Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F187  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. He indicates references by codes, which pertain to the original source and file held in his database, which I have not seen. I have no key to the sources except HL is Leonardo Herzenberg, HG is Gail Herzenberg, PC is probably Piltene Cemetery records, LA is probably Latvian Archives, FA is probably Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes), and YL is Len Yodaiken (Israeli researcher hired by Harold Hodes); however, he lists the main researchers and their contributions in a lengthy report which I include in full in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg of this database. In regards to this individual:
      Names include Leopold, Leo, or Leib bar Avraham.
      HW notes b. 1883 and d. 8 Sep 1945, bur. Westpark Cem., Jo'burg SA loc. D784.

      2. Email dated 4 Dec 2011 from Lucille Maitino, granddau. of Rudolf Herzenberg :
      "My Mom had told me many stories of Cecelia Dorothea (Odes) Herzenberg and how she died of a burst appendix when my Mom was only 23. Cecelia (Odes) Herzenberg died when she was only 45 (5/30/1937) and her husband Rudolf died 3 weeks later of a broken heart. (6/22/1937).
      I know my Grandfather Rudolf had 2 brothers and 2 sisters, Herman, Leo, Bertha and Clara. I know my Grandfather Rudolf's father was Isaac, and that Isaac had a brother Daniel. I know Daniel had a son Israel and that Israel had 2 sons and 2 daughters, Sammy, Allen, Sybil and Irene. I know many of the cousins from these."

      3. Email dated 8 Dec 2011 from Lucille Maitino, granddau. of Rudolf Herzenberg :
      "My Grandfather Rudolf siblings, Herman married Paula?, had two children Taube & Gerald. Brother Leo went off to war, Bertha stayed in Latvia, Clara married Serjay Ismailoff, then Louis Larsen, and then Irwin Orton. I am not sure of dates, but she lived in many countries, the longest Shanghai, then NYC, New York, as that is where Irwin died late 1960's. Clara died in 1979."

      BIRTH:
      1. Place is only an unsubstantiated guess by Kerry Petersen.

      DEATH:
      1. Ancestry.com's "JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register (JOWBR)":
      "Leopold Herzenberg, b. abt 1884, d. 8 Sep 1945, age 61, burial cemetery in South Africa."