Abisch Billig

Brody, Austria-Hungary

1892 - 1981

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Profile

Personal & Family

Name in US
Abe Billig

Name at Birth
Abisch, Adolf

Yiddish Name
Abish ben Yehuda

Date of Birth

01/07/1892

Country of Birth
Austria-Hungary

City of Birth

Brody

Sibling(s)

One of 7 siblings:

Gustie Billig (Heinrich Mayer)

Nesche Billig (Philip Schattner)
(1901 Brody – 1991 Birmingham, AL)

Spouse(s)

Cheine Gittel “Gusti” Silber
(December 15, 1895 Brody – October 7, 1940 Vienna)
Married August 1931, Vienna

Amalia Marta Hanfling Roth
(June 15, 1892 Rudnik, Poland – October 16, 1979 New York, NY)
Married 1954 in New York

Children

Rita Billig (William Glanz)
(March 18, 1933 Vienna, Austria – September 23, 2000 Grand Rapids, MI)

Ernst Billig (Dr. Nancy Laura Slifkin Scher)
(March 30, 1935 Vienna, Austria – )

Religious Identity (Prewar)
Jewish

Religious Identity (Postwar)
Jewish

Dates Lived in Alabama

1947-1948

Alabama City(s) of Residence
Birmingham

Date and City of Death
03/23/1981, New York, NY

City of Burial / Cemetery
West Babylon, NY / Beth Moses Cemetery

Holocaust

Camp(s) / Year(s)

Fled to Switzerland after Kristallnacht arrest and held in internment camps for duration of the war:

Felsberg Internment Camp (east of Lucerne)
Thalheim Internment Camp (north of Lucerne)

Other Experiences

Abish’s arrival in Birmingham and reunion with his children after the war was featured on the front page of the Birmingham Post, February 26, 1947

Immigration & Postwar

Year / Ship to US / Arrival City
February 24, 1947 / SS Noordam / New York, NY