Moniek (Morris, Moishe) Pieniek

Moniek (Morris, Moishe) was born in 1914.¹ Moniek (Morris, Moishe)'s father was Yisrael Meyer Pieniek and his mother was Baila Konskovolsky. His paternal grandparents were David Eleazer (Layzer) Pieniek and Rana Temara Braun; his maternal grandparents are ? Konskovolsky and <Unknown>. He had two brothers and two sisters, named David Joshua, Heinich (Hanoch) (Henry), Miriam (Manya) and Baila. He was the fourth oldest of the five children. He had two half-brothers and four half-sisters, named Shloyma, Yitzchak Yakov, Yita (Itta), Esther (Estera), Chaya Leah and Rana. He died due to a medical problem at the age of 48 in 1962.²

General Notes
- Before the war had shoe store in Lodz. He and his wife fought with the Russian partisans in Lithuania. Wife was killed in the forests. He fell sick with TB, went to a Hospice in Lugano, Switzerland where he later died.
  
  "Moishe survived the war as a "partizaner" in the Russian or French underground. Moishe contracted TB and moved to Lugano, Switzerland after the war. I had the good fortune of meeting him when he visited us in Jamaica, Queens in the early 1950's. He was an exceptionally warm and engaging human being, handsome, somewhat short with a mustache and a magnificent head of black hair (he reminded me a bit of Charlie Chaplain." Toby Pieniek