The first shop of Tobias and Cipra Sprecher in the Hemsterhuisstraat 199 in Den Haag in 1920. Tobias, Cipra and the little Isidor standing in front of the door.
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Tobias and Cipra Sprecher standing before their men's shop in Den Haag. On the right Cipra's sister Jetty Lips-Redner from Paris. Picture by Press photographer D.F. Smit from Den Haag.
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Tobias Sprecher and his wife Cipra Redner (l) and his sister Perla Hirschman (r). (picture made in the 1930 era)
Caused by an administrative complication in Poland, Tobias was surnamed with the maiden name of his mother, Sprecher, while his mother was married to Hirschhman
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Tobias Sprecher, also known as Theodor, was born in Sanok in Poland, where he was given the surname of his mother at birth, due to an administrative complication in the Polish Civil Registry, while his mother was married to a “Hirschmann”. Tobias was married to Cipra or Cilly Redner, who was born i…
In addition, a Jokos file (number 32419) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.
The official name of my grandfather was Theodor and his Jewish name was Tuvia (Tobias), born on 13 January 1891 in Sanok and killed 4 February 1945. It is possible that he had themselves registered in Germany and Holland officially as Tobias, based on the documents from the Jewish Congregation from …