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Category: Translation - Hungarian
Approval Date: 7/13/2025 2:02 PM
Family Surname: Herman Kohn
Country: Hungary
Town: Balassagyarmat
Date of Image: 1875

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The highlighted entry. Specifically Fathers name and identifying details

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7/13/2025 6:50 PM

Hello,
This is in German. The headers for the second page are missing so I’ve had to make some guesses.

No. 28

Name of Decedent: Herrmann Kohn [“Hersch” written in Hebrew]

Death: 11 September 1875 [Hebrew date listed afterward]

Birthplace: [blank]

Occupation: [looks like “Pot Aschensieder,” meaning something like “pot-ash boiler”]

Sex: Male

Marital Status: Widower

Legitimacy: [blank]

Birthdate: 1797

[Presumably residence?]: Balassagyarmat, Gerstengasse 356

[Burial?]: Balassagyarmat

Cause of death: old age/debility

7/13/2025 8:58 PM

Gerstengasse is "Barley street", which is _árpa_ in Hungarian, and if I'm reading the old (circa 1848) map correctly (https://maps.hungaricana.hu/hu/MOLTerkeptar/8697/view/?bbox=-47%2C-3905%2C4297%2C-2135), it's now Árpád street, which goes north from the main street between the cultural center and the Aldi supermarket. (It looks to me like number 356 is now either a tennis court or a plumbing supply store.)

The entire earlier film of the Balassagyarmat Jewish register has just the left-hand half of the column headers (if that), and the later film corresponds with the switch to Hungarian pre-printed registers, which have things arranged differently, but I found a fairly similar (except pre-printed and bilingual) format in Szügy (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS87-3985-H?cat=261211&i=498&lang=en), and it agrees that the right-hand page's columns are place of death, place of burial, cause of death, and remarks.

7/14/2025 5:55 PM

two observations:
The name written in Hebrew letters is Hersh which is the popular Yiddish sobriquet for the Hebrew name Tzvi.
The name Tzvi means a deer or gazelle, mentioned 12 times in the Torah, Books of the prophets, Yeshayahu, Yirmiyahu, Yecheskel and Daniel. Hersh or Hersch is a deer in german and in Yiddish.

The Jewish date of death says 12th of Elul, in the 5635 year since the world was created. The 12th of Elul began at sunset Saturday evening (at the conclusion of the Sabbath) and ended Sunday evening Sept 12. Being as the civil date of death was Sept 11, He must have passed away sometime between Sunset Sept 11 and midnight.

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