The Aaron Rosen Family

L to R: Toba, Lillian, Aaron, Harry taken about 1922

Aaron’s Polish birth certificate says he was born in Plonsk Poland on May 8, 1889. His twin sister Nysla was born the same day. Nysla died in 1899. We believe Aaron was named for his mother’s father, the late Aron Budka, who had died before his parents, Sender and Laja, were married. Aaron married Tauba Devorah German on 16 December 1909 in Plonsk. See their marriage certificate. Soon after he was married, Aron left Plonsk for the United States because the Russian Army was coming to take him against his will. He was able to see his son Harry being born and then left the following month.

Thanks to the new American Family Immigration History Center website, we know that Aron left Hamburg Germany on November 8, 1910 sailing on the SS Batavia and arrived at the Port of New York on November 23, 1910. He listed as his contact in NYC an uncle named Charles Askin. His occupation was “dressmaker.” He worked in NYC until he earned enough money to send for his wife and young son Harry. Aaron continued to work as a tailor and lived in NJ with his family.

He was taken ill during the great “Spanish Flu” Influenza Epidemic of 1918. He lay ill for weeks on the verge of death. He recovered, but that epidemic killed 20 million people maybe more.

He often sent money to his family in Poland and asked them to join him in the USA. They all refused. After World War Two all contact was lost with the family and they were presumed lost in the Holocaust.

Aron had a sister, Sura Frajdla who married Fiskel Jagoda in December 5, 1912. I have not been able to trace Sura, but by 1942, Fiskel had married “Shaindla Rosen” and he died with his 22 year old son Mosiek in Auschwitz.

Aron had another sister, Shaindla Rifka, who was born March 12, 1898. I wonder if she is the same person Fiskel Jagoda was married to. If so, Sura would have died around 1920

Aron became sick with kidney failure and pneumonia and died on November 14, 1941 at the age of 51. He is buried with his wife in Hebrew Cemetery in Newark NJ.

Aaron’s Death Certificate