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*Some of the information already added on Geni -- info. also provided by Susan L. Lubow, who also has a genealogy site & more family pictures on Picasaweb.com -- Last update: February 13, 2011
Nathan KUSSY Born: May 12, 1783 in Krasovice (Krashowitz), Bohemia, Czech. Residence: originated in France, settled in Prasne Ujezd, moved to Krasovice, later settled in Žihle (Scheles), Bohemia. Died: March 13, 1870 in Žihle buried in Rabštejn nad Střelou cemetery + Schadel Leah ZEIMER Born: abt. 1800 in Prague, Bohemia. Married: abt. 1820 Died: abt. 1873 in Žihle *geni
Note: Bernhart was a miller in Scheles. The youngest and wealthiest of the brothers, he died at the age of 100. On the occasion of his 100th anniversary celebration, Tomáš Mazaryk, President of Czechoslovakia, sent a congratulatory message
Note: Pilsen One of the most famous and oldest buildings in the historical heart of Pilsen from April to amend the sports and entertainment center, one of the biggest in the city. The massive building, which is from 1386 and is part of Peninsula and the weir on the river Mži, incurred four professional bowling, squash courts, aerobics rooms at a garden restaurant in the style of the ancient mill.. The architecture of historic mill remained in its original form,".. In 1883, and burned down three years later it zmodernizoval pilsen known businessman Hermann Kussi. Součástí areálu je od roku 1932 fungující malá vodní elektrárna. The area since 1932 operating small hydro.
*2nd Husband of Martha Kussi: Konrad GUTTENSTEIN Born: 1894 in Pilsen, Bohemia. Married: aft 1960 in England
Eliska (Elly) KUSSI Born: Mar 10, 1898 Died: 1944-1945 in Auschwitz concentration camp + Rudolf EISLER Born: Jun 2, 1884 in Matetice?? no hits, Czech. Died: Dec 25, 1943 in Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp
Note: Frank was born to a Czech Jewish family in Dresden, studied engineering at the University of Munich (1932) and earned an Ph.D. in electrcial engineering from University of Vienna in 1936. Nov 9, 1938 he was arrested by the Nazis and later released. He and his family fled Germany in late Aug. 1939, only to be trapped by the outbreak of war in Holland. Adelaide Kussy, a teacher and a member of the Dutch resistance assisted Frank and his family in Nazi-occupied Holland during the early 1940s. Frank, his brother Victor, and their mother were arrested by the Nazis in Nov. 1942 and sent to Westerbork camp. In Apr. 1943, they were transported to Terezín camp, where they slave labored until Sep. 1944. In Sep-Oct 1944, the Kussys were sent in boxcars to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Frank was the sole survivor in the family, and was at Birkenau and Gleiwitz (an Auschwitz sub-camp), until the Red Army liberated him at Blechammer (another sub-camp), in Jan 1945. Following the war, Adelaide and Frank reunited, returned to Dresden, East Germany, built a new life and family together, then migrated with their children to the USA during the early 1950's. Frank Kussy had a successful career as an engineer, authored several books, and served as a member of the International Executive Service Corps, consulting in Egypt and Zimbabwe. He has spoken of his Holocaust experiences at James Madison College and Michigan State University on several occasions and was the subject of a senior thesis, "My Grandfather's Stories" written by his granddaughter at James Madison College in 1998
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