Peake - Stiles - Person Sheet
Peake - Stiles - Person Sheet
NameRella (Reli) KRAUS 100
BirthApr 27, 1910
DeathDec 13, 1987
OccupationHousewife
FatherHerman KRAUS (-1912)
MotherCharlotte STARK (ca1880-1917)
Misc. Notes
Married 4 times.

Married her first cousin, Zoltan Herskowitz, widower of her sister, Freida Kraus.

Miss Hungary, 1928. Holocaust survivor.100

She was involved in a love triangle where one of her suitors, who wasn’t Jewish, shot her and her Jewish fiance because he, the non-Jewish suitor, could not marry her. The fiance died, and she survived to marry another young man from Belgium, where she went to live.

She and her daughter, Sarah, were sent to Dachau Concentration Camp, where Sarah, age 12, was killed and cremated.

After liberation she married Franz Bross, whom she met in a displaced person camp, and immigrated to Americas with the help of Blanche Krause.

Lived in Hungary, Belgium and the US.100
Spouses
Death1944
OccupationBusinessman, Restaurant Owner; Jewelry Store Owner.
Misc. Notes
He was forced into the Russian Army and killed by the Germans in Russia in 1944 during WWII.100
ChildrenCharekah (Sarah) (ca1933-ca1945)
BirthMar 17, 1913, Poland
DeathFeb 4, 1967
Marriage1946100
Divorce
ChildrenLeslie (1950-)
BirthApr 15, 1901
DeathMar 2, 1964
OccupationGarment Worker
FatherYonkus HERSKOVITZ (-ca1915)
MotherSarah (Serena) STARK (ca1880-1964)
Misc. Notes
Prohibited from marrying his first cousin, Freida Kraus, but did it anyway by coming to the US. Later married her sister, Rella Kraus.
Marriage1954100
DivorceApr 19, 1956
BirthApr 21, 1910
DeathDec 6, 1981
OccupationImporter
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