Re: Krech surname and Jewish roots?
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In reply to:
Re: Krech's in Minnesota
8/22/00
Dear all-
My Krech's (my father's side) emigrated from E. Europe to Pennsylvania.I am extremely curious about our last name because I was told it was shortened by the Ellis Island officials when my grandfather came on a boat with his parents to the US from Germany.
I was just in Israel and visited the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. I too saw the name Krech and the number of Krech's who were killed during the Holocaust.If you research databases on Jewish Genealogy-the name Krech and all other sorts of names like Krechel and Krechman and Krechevsky come up as Jewish by birth and/or through marriage.
My Krech's are dark haired with blue/green eyes with high cheekbones and non-stocky.I know that my grandparents lived in Poland, Germany and Romania.I am still doing research, but would appreciate any suggestions to the following:
1) If your Krech names were shortened, what were they originally (for example David Krech the psychologist was actually born Isadore Krechevsky)
2) Do you know anything else about the Krech family and our possible link to Judiasm?My Krech family is a mixture of Catholic and Protestant-but there is much I still don't know.
Thank you to all-I really enjoyed reading your comments.
Laura