A month after I met Alli Bak Itzkowitz for the first time, she passed away.
Alli was my mother Raele (Ray) Zeldin Rabinowitz’s first cousin.
They never met!
When Alli and I met in North Dallas in July, we shared stories, laughed, held hands and exchanged Yiddish rhymes
Here are photos from my visit:
A family dinner held on 20 July 2017
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Part of the Zeldin family tree that Marny printed.
Alli and her son Gene
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Meet Alli Bak Itzkowitz
A young Alli
Here is my relationship chart to Alli, my mother’s first cousin and the last of her ZELDIN generation. They never met.
Allis’ paternal Bak grandparents – Leib and Naomi
Alli’s dad, Avram BakAlli and her late husband JuliusAlli’s sister Luba & husband JashaAlli’s family. The mother Sonia in the frontAlli’s family in Memel, LithuaniaAlli, Morris Back and Harry BockMy mum, Ray and my grandfather Socher ZeldinBack of the photoGene & Vicki with their daughter, Marny and her husband Cody
Alli is a Holocaust Survivor and has  her  testimony recorded  at USHMM as well as the Spielberg Foundation.
The USHMM link is here:
Oral history interview with Alli Itzkowitz – Collections Search – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
I also met my second cousins Steven, Lawrence and David Bock and the extended Bock and Itzkowitz families.
My visit to Southfork Ranch
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Only 3 hours 15 minutes from Perth to Sydney, but 15 and a half hours to Dallas!
I left Perth at 5:15 am and arrived in Dallas at 2pm the same day. Â A 13 hour time change!
A nice and warm 38C – Â 100F Â day in Dallas.
My first time here, and the first time I’m meeting my Texas family.
I was met  at the Dallas – Fort Worth Airport by Gene Itzkowitz, my second cousin on our mothers’ sides. Gene and his wife, Vicki are hosting me here in Dallas.
This must be Texas!
Alli and her younger son Gene
Here is my relationship chart to Alli, my mother’s first cousin and the last of her ZELDIN generation. They never met.
Allis’ paternal Bak grandparents – Leib and Naomi
Alli’s dad, Avram BakAlli and her late husband JuliusAlli’s sister Luba & husband JashaAlli’s family. The mother Sonia in the frontAlli’s family in Memel, LithuaniaAlli, Morris Back and Harry BockMy mum, Ray and my grandfather Socher ZeldinBack of the photoGene & Vicki with their daughter, Marny and her husband Cody
Alli is a Holocaust Survivor and has  her  testimony recorded  at USHMM as well as the Spielberg Foundation.
The USHMM link is here:
Oral history interview with Alli Itzkowitz – Collections Search – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
