Chana Zak
In the earlier family chart
d.1941 ·
Family chart sources: Green marks people and relationships in the earlier family chart. Amber marks proposed people or relationships that have not yet been reviewed. The source labels are the evidence labels in that chart, not a new verification.
- Source wording
- Chana Zak
- Source evidence
- Documentary record
- Source reference
- F-31, F-43, F-76
Records and original documents
- F-31 - Rav Avraham Abba Zak held the Alsedziai seat from 1890 until he was murdered on 7 Elul 5701, Saturday 30…
- F-43 - The Zak siblings. R' Shimon Zak's own memoir calls himself הבן היחיד במשפחתנו , the only son in our family,…
- F-76 - What became of the sisters who stayed: Yad Vashem, searched under the married names, and R' Shimon Zak's own…
Open sources and page references
- HaTzofe, 23 August 1946, p.4: original article at the National Library of Israel (machine OCR, not letter-exact)
- HaTzofe, 23 August 1946: original page 4 viewer
- Pinkas Hakehillot Lita, Alsedziai
- HaTzofe, 23 August 1946
- R' Shimon Zak, B'Nesivei Chayav, in R' Moshe Shmuel V'Doro, New York 1964, pp.15 to 22, also published as HaDoar, 18 October 1963
- Avraham Aba Zak, Page of Testimony by Rut Asher, with photograph
- Avraham Aba Zakas, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, son
- Avraham Aba Zak, Record of murdered persons, Yad Vashem item 9441109, collection O.41.3
- Chana Horovitz Hurvitz née Zak, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, brother
- Dvora Levinson née Zak, Page of Testimony by Sara Etkin Levinson, stepdaughter
- Josef Levinsohn, Page of Testimony by R' Shimon Zak, brother-in-law
- Joselis Levinzonas, list of Jewish deportees from Alsėdžiai, 8 August 1941
- Sara Etkin Levinson, survivor, Pages of Testimony
- Yad Vashem search, Zak at Alsėdžiai (three results)
- R' Shimon Zak's own gravestone, Gravez
- Yad Vashem Names database entries for the Zak family, with the handwritten pages (Shapiro records page)
Research note: Murdered with her father; her brother Shimon's Page of Testimony gives her married name Horovitz-Hurvitz and her death at Telz. No Alsėdžiai birth record found for her, F-74.
Parents
- Rav Avraham Abba ZakPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-31, F-43, F-76
- Leah (Leia) FainPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-31, F-43, F-76
Spouse(s)
- Rav Sholom Tuvia HurwitzPerson in the earlier family chart Proposed relationship; not yet reviewedSource: F-31, F-43, F-76