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George’s Tale
As 2024 ends, I am beginning a set of writings — with links to earlier writings related to my life. Things will be added on — not necessarily — in chronological order — though I’ll try to tie things together in relative time area.
The basics:
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Born: Ann Arbor, Michigan — 1951 — am 73 years old as I begin my writing:
Father: (Menachem) Imanuel Marx — born: June 29, 1918 — Berlin Germany — Died: November 13, 1964 — Lafayette, Indiana — Friday the 13th , when I was 13 years old
https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/11/remembering-day.html
Paternal Grandfather: Moses Marx (1885–1973) Born Germany, lived in the U.S., moved to Jerusalem in 1963
Paternal Great-Grandfather — George Marx –
https://jewsineastprussia.de/catalog-konigsberg-05/
One of the pictures there — is of my grandfather (lower left corner 1892 — age 7 — also two of the younger girls — in the picture one — Esther (Marx) Agnon- was the wife of SY (Shai) Agnon — Israel’s first Nobel Laureate — (1966 — Literature)
Mother — Mildred (Malkala) (“Ketty”) — nee Kesten — Marx and then Heimlich (I’m omitting my step-father in this writing) — (May 3, 1927 — September 19, 2014) — family background — Russian and Polish Jewish
