Chaja Peper-Gurke

Lodz, 16 June 1894 – Sobibor, 16 July 1943

Reached the age of 49 years

Occupation: Shopkeeper

Photos

International Institute of Social History, Part of the archives of the Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkers Bond

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On 1 Mar 2006
Chaja Gurke
International Institute of Social History, Part of the archives of the Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkers Bond

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Redactie Joods Monument
On 28 Feb 2006
Chaja Gurke, at the time of her first marriage to Abraham Moisze Bialek. On this picture she was photographed with her two children Szaja from1921 and Esther from 1923. Photo made May 1926 in Antwerp.

Source: the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 162818

Placed by
Redactie Joods Monument
On 7 Apr 2020
With: Szaja Bialek, Esther van Thijn-Bialek

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Biography 10 Apr 2020

About Chaja Gurke, her children Szaja, Esther and Herman Bialek and her 2nd spouse Eliazer Joachim Peper.

Chaja Gurke was born in Lodz in Poland on 16 June 1894 as the daughter of Berel Gurke and Perl Opatoiski. She married in Lodz on 20 April the 25-year old Abram Moisze Bialek from Pajeczno, a butcher and later also cook, a son of Judka Bialek and Sura Lieberman. After their wedding, they left for Antwerp where they stayed shortly in the Mercatorstraat 70, but returned to Lodz where two children wer…