tennenwurcel Family History & Genealogy

Jacob was born in Lublin(?) Poland and had four sons Eliezer, Shmuel Chaim and Yechiel (Chil in Polish?). Among them were Moshe, who is in the middle of the picture listed and eleven others. Jacob died sometime around March 1897 in Jerusalem. Yechiel had seven children: four sons, three daughters. The sons Itzchak, Herschel, Simcha, and Moshe. The daughters: Rivka Chaya, Chava. Moshe Tenne root (? Tenenwurcel) had a child: Jakov (or Jakub or Ya'akov). He was our father. Moshe Mother was Kreindel. His wife was (at least officially) Rachel Feingold or Fajngold in Polish. Jacob started our his career as a dentist (?) and then became a lawyer (?) until eventually established grainaries. He became very wealthy and upon his later years in life, about three years before he passed on into heaven, he embarked on a pilgrimate to Jerusalem where he then donated his entire fortune (~9 billion) to help establish Mea Shearim מאה שערים in Jerusalem by puchasing the land in 1894 and establishing a trust that the rest of his money would go to the poor Jews who live in Jerusalem coming from Poland.

Son of Jacob Tennenwurcel

Jacob grew up with his daddy Moshe. He had very wise stories to tell to people at various gatherings. Jacob studied at the Yeshiva where he took a trip with a postman type job to Kiev to deliver a parcel. He met his future wife, Pnina, at a letter store in Kiev, Ukraine and stayed there for three months getting to know Pnina. World War II broke out and Jacob was called to serve in the Russian army where he left Pnina in Kiev. As the Germans rolled through Europe, Jacob fought in Russia to hold back the Germans and spoke of how he would drink vodka at night in the bitter cold nights to stay alive. After the war, where many of his family members were brutally murdered in death camps, he returned to Kiev to try and find Pnina where he eventually did and they married soon after. Jacob and his wife Pnina spent two years in Russia at refugee camps where they eventually immigrated to Israel after the war. They had four children together, Moses, Yechiel, Yosi, and Hayuta. He passed in Ontario, Canada where he was hit by a drunk driver crossing the road.

Pnina, or commonly known by her family later in life as Bubby, or Ima, was a very devoted mother to her four children Moses, Yechiel, Yosi, and Hayuta as well as to her six grandchildren Philip, Daniel, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Sheldon, and Dianne. She was raised in Kiev, Ukraine in a household with little money but a lot of love. During world war II, her entire family was butchered by the german army in death camps and her dad of starvation in a gulag. She would later seldom recall to her family that she barely made it out of a death camp herself. Before entering the camp, her dad died in a gulag in Kiev from famine where Jewish people were being kept before the death camps were completely built. She later was forced into a death camp and spent time there until hearing from a german guard speaking Russian that her "bunk" where she was staying, meaning all the people inside, would be executed the following day. She asked her fiend to go with her and they made an escape attempt early the next morning by asking the guard to go to the bathroom. When he said yes and looked away, she and her friend made a run for it to the nearby forest. The guard say and started shooting mid way where a bullet caught her friend in the head where she died immediately but Pnina made it to the forest where spent three years eating various bugs, mushrooms, and insects to stay alive during the ending days of the war. She would later further recall that she would spend time freezing outside in the death camp and that they would have to stand on bodies of dead people outside in the camp to stay alive. It brought her a lot of pain to talk about it because her entire family were murdered there. After the war, she eventually reunited with her love Jacob from before the war and they got married. The two of them moved to Israel eventually after a refugee camp and then Canada after that after the 1972 war in Israel. During her and her husband's time in Israel she worked as a chef cooking delicious cakes and cookies. Later in life after she moved in with her oldest son Moses in Houston TX where she eventually passed in around 2010 to heart failure in Ben Taub Hospital with her family at the approximate age of 82. She suffered many tragedies in life and overcame many hardships. During her time with her oldest son Moses she would often go to the Oak Forest Baptist church in Oak Forest Neighborhood and feed her grandchildren and family with delicious home cooked meals. She is dearly missed by her family and friends.

Moshe Tennenwurcel (Tenne) was born in 1947. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Moshe Tennenwurcel (Tenne).

Michael Yechiel Tennenwurcel (Tennen) was born in 1949 in Jerusalem, Jerusalem District Israel to Jacob Tennenwurcel and Pnina Tennenwurcel, and has siblings Hayuta Fingold, Joe Tennen, and Moshe Tennenwurcel (Tenne). Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Michael Yechiel Tennenwurcel (Tennen).