Rachel (Feinger) Esrikman (1903)

Ancestors

Biography

Rachel Feinger was born on November 2nd, 1903, in Mamuret in the Ottoman Empire (now Elâzığ, Turkey.) She was the daughter of Leib Feinger and Beila (or Rebecca) Braunstein. The family emigrated to Paris, France, between 1910 and 1912.

In the early 1920s, Rachel lived with her parents at 43, rue de Montreuil, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. She worked as a seamstress. In 1923, she married Haim Boruch Bension Esrikman, a Polish immigrant. The civil wedding took place on May 29th at noon, in the 11th arrondissement's townhall. The witnesses were Salomon Fingher, cutter, and Lazar Silny, lessor. Rachel's parents were both present.^[1] The religious wedding took place on June 3rd, at 4:15, in the Nazareth synagogue, in the 3rd arrondissement.^[2]

Mrs Esrikman was naturalized French on April 1^st 1948.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Acte n° 1341, registre des mariages du 11e arrondissement de Paris, 1923, cote 11M 519, Paris Archives, vue 14/31
2. ↑ Mariages de la communauté israélite de Paris, L'univers israélite n° 37, 1^er juin 1923, p. 3 (Lien Retronews)
3. ↑ Naturalisation | Les naturalisations entre 1900 et 1963. FEINGER épouse ESRIKMAN, Naissance le 02 novembre 1903, Manoury (Turquie), Naturalisation le 01 avril 1948, France. Source: Journal Officiel n° 88, 11 avril 1948, p. 27 - Numéro de décret : 3635-48, (Lien Retronews).