Elisabethe (Elzbieta) Cohn

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Wife Elisabethe (Elzbieta) Cohn

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           Born: Jun 10, 1870 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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           Died: Jul 24, 1935 - Lemberg/Lwow, Ukraine
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         Father: Isaac (Izydor) Cohn
         Mother: Laura (Lea) Thom

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General Notes: Wife - Elisabethe (Elzbieta) Cohn

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She converted to Catholicism, in secret, when she was 15, being baptiz ed by her piano teacher. Four years later she told her mother. She e ntered the Benedictine Abbey in Lemberg in 1890, along with her pian o teacher. When she entered The monastery she was advised to keep he r Jewish birth a secret so she was know as "Maria Kaliska." She too k the religious name of Sr. Izydora. In 1922 she was elected abbess o f the community. Mother Izydora wrote a short, unpublished autobiogra phy. In 1946 her community moved from Lwow (Lvov) to Krzeszow in Sile sia, now part of Poland.

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Sources

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1. Tachna.GED. Source Medium: Other

2. y.FTW. Source Medium: Other

3. Yonash.FTW. Source Medium: Other

4. JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OP Volunteers, comp, Poland, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, Marriages, 1798-1939 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 200 8;). Specific source information is provided with each record. This JRI-Pol and data is provided in partnership with JewishGen.org. JRI-Poland is an independent orga nization and its database is hosted by JewishGen.