Stepan Neuman

This is me, Stepan Neuman, next to the gravestone of my grandmother Roza Preusz-Gorowitz, who died in 1939, in the Jewish cemetery in Uzhgorod. In the 1950s I had the names of 15 of our dear ones who had perished in concentration camps during the Holocaust engraved on this gravestone. I sent one photo to my younger brother Frank Newman in Australia. This photo was taken in Uzhgorod in 1989.

My grandfather was married twice. His wife died leaving six sons. They were all born in Uzhgorod, but I don’t know the years of their birth, except for Moricz Preusz, who was born in 1880. As for the others, I will just tell their names: Andor, Lajos, Marton, Jakab and Viktor Preusz.

My grandfather remarried. His second wife was Roza, my grandmother, nee Gorowitz. Her Jewish name was Reizl. My grandmother was younger than my grandfather; she was born in the 1860s. They had four daughters. My mother, Eva Neuman, nee Preusz, was born in 1894. After my mother her sisters Romola and Magda were born.

My grandmother Roza was a slim woman of average height. She had a beautiful, biblical type face. My mother looked like my grandmother in her youth. My grandmother wore a wig and long black gowns.