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Emil Magaziner (Manuel)

Emil Magaziner (born Manuel) was Henry's younger brother, born in Humenne on 10 Jan 1843 or 1844. In the 1869 census, he was living in Humenne with his mother, Sari Ganzfried. Sari was widowed both by Emil and Henry's father Anchell and also by her second husband, Nahum Weiszberg. Sari was an innkeeper in Humenne, and Emil follwoed in her footsteps, becoming an innkeeper in Sátoraljaújhely (Ujhely), a town about 50 miles from Humenne.

In February 1871, Emil married Etelka Balkanyi in Kisvarda. Etelka was born in Kisvarda around 1850. They lived in Humenne until 1878, and had at least five children there. They then moved to Ujhely, where they had at least two more children, though those two did not survive infancy.

Emil was still living in 1891, when he was listed as an innkeeper in a Hungarian business directory, but I have found no record of him or Etelka after that time.

Children of Emil Magaziner and Etelka Balkanyi include:

21. Ruchel Magaziner (b: 4 DEC 1871; d: Holocaust)
22. Serena Magaziner (Sali) (b: 11 AUG 1873; d: BET 1930 AND 1958)
23. Anthony Balkany (Antal Magaziner; Antal Balkanyi) (b: 10 FEB 1875; d: 25 JUL 1958)
24. Lövi Balkanyi (Lövi Magaziner) (b: 24 JAN 1876)
25. Nandor Magaziner (Nuchern) (b: 11 MAR 1877; d: 26 SEP 1882)
26. Gyula Magaziner (b: 30 SEP 1878; d: 14 OCT 1878)
27. Jeno Magaziner (b: 26 MAR 1880; d: 9 APR 1880)

Generation #4

Ruchel Magaziner Nagy

Ruchel Magaziner was born on December 4, 1871 in Humenne. She is probably the 17-year-old Rosa Magaziner from Ujhely who visited New York in October 1888, though markings on the manifest seem to indicate that Rosa died in transit. Ruchel married Markusz Nagy some time before 1895. Markusz was born in Battyan, Hungary on February 28, 1866. They had a daughter.

Ruchel and Markusz perished in the Holocaust, but there is no record of their daugher's fate. She may be the Bela Nagy who came to America on the Finland in July, 1921, though some of the information on the manifest does not fit.

Children of Ruchel Magaziner and Markusz Nagy include:

1. Bela Nagy (b: 20 JUL 1895 in Sátoraljaújhely)

Serena Magaziner Schwartz (Sali Magaziner)

Sali Magaziner was born on August 11, 1873 in Humenne. In September 1889, at the age of 16, she emigrated alone from Ujhely to New York on the Augusta Victoria under the name Serena Magaziner.

In 1906, Serena was living in Philadelphia and working as a forelady when she married a much younger man, Isaac Louis Schwartz. On the marriage license, she claimed a date of birth of August 10, 1879. After the marriage, she claimed to be even younger than that. Isaac was born in Philadelphia on November 8, 1884, but he claimed to be born in 1880 on the marriage record. Isaac was the son of Austrian immigrants. He was working as a salesman at the time of the marriage, but rose to become a manager for S.F. Hayward & Co., a company that supplied firefighting equipment for fire departments. Serena and Isaac had two children.

When Serena's brother Anthony came to America, he used Serena as his contact in Philadelphia and identified her as his sister.

Isaac died in February 1972. It is not clear when Serena died, but it was after 1930 (when she appeared in the census) and probably before 1958 (when Anthony's obituary mentions surviving nieces and nephews, but not siblings). She may have died before 1942, because Isaac's WWII draft registration doesn't list her as a contact, but it doesn't list any contact person, so this may be an oversight.

Children of Serena Magaziner and Isaac Louis Schwartz include:

1. Ruth Schwartz (b: 1908 in Philadelphia)
2. Anthony Schwartz (b: 1912 in Philadelphia)

Anthony Balkany (Antal Magaziner; Antal Balkanyi)

Antal Magaziner was born on February 10, 1875 in Humenne. He worked as a portrait photographer in his own studio, and some examples of his work can be found on the Internet. Around 1900, he married Ida Fried, and they had two daughters. In 1903, between the births of his two daughters, he changed his surname to Balkanyi (his mother's maiden name) so the first daughter was born Magaziner and the second was born Balkanyi. Antal set up a studio in Debrecen, Hungary under the name Antal Balkanyi around that time.

In January 1914, Antal came to America, leaving his wife and daughters behind in Debrecen, Hungary. He still considered himself married at that time, but the wife and daughters never emigrated to America and Antal later identified himself as divorced. Antal came to Philadelphia on the S.S. Prinz Oskar. His contact in America was his sister Serena (identified on the manifest as "sister I Schwartz," because she was married to Isaac Schwartz by that time). In America, he went by Anthony Balkany. He initially settled in Detroit, Michigan, where he set up a photography studio. Later, Anthony moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he set up a photography studio. It is not clear whether Anthony knew that his second cousin, Elsa Ersi, also lived Bridgeport. She moved there shortly before Anthony died.

Anthony remained in touch with his daughters in Hungary. They visited him in Connecticut, along with their husbands and daughters (Anthony's granddaughters), in the early 1930s, and the picture of Anthony above comes from a family portrait taken at that time.

Anthony continued to work as a photographer until the late 1940s, when he was in his 70s. In Bridgeport, Anthony remarried to Emma Eisler, another Hungarian immigrant. Anthony died in Bridgeport on July 25, 1958, at the age of 83. He was buried at Lawncroft cemetery. He apparently converted to Christianity at some point, because his funeral was performed by a pastor at a United Congregational church. Anthony's obituary mentions that he is survived by nieces and nephews, but does not mention brothers and sisters. Emil's other children may have died before that time, or he could simply have lost touch with them.

Children of Anthony Balkany and Ida Fried include:

1. Roza Balkanyi (Regina Magaziner) (b: 1902 in Debrecen)
2. Edith Balkanyi (b: 1903 in Debrecen)

Lövi Balkanyi (Lövi Magaziner)

Lovi Magaziner was born in Humenne on January 24, 1876. Like his brother Anthony, he took his mother's maiden name as his surname in 1903. He apparently also used the first name Lajos. I have found no other record of him, but he probably died before 1958, when Anthony's obituary described him as being survived by nieces and nephews (but not by siblings).

Nandor Magaziner (Nuchern)

Nuchern Magaziner was born in Humenne on March 11, 1877. I assume he is the same person as Emil and Etelka's son Nandor Magaziner, who died in Ujhely on September 26, 1882. The death record does not state how old he was, but it does say that he was born in Humenne, so I assume they are the same person.