Konrad  Schwartz

Konrad Schwartz

• Death Notes
  • Konrad Schwartz, his wife Tererya (ex-Pfeiffer) and their 5 children were small  farmers in Novi Slankamen, currently Serbian region, but they seem to be Croatian (Catholic) and  they have germany native-speakers.
    He knew that Brazil's Government was encouraging the immigration to Brazil, offering shared land which could be paid off by future work.
    A  issued was posted  in the police wall. 10 families of Novi Slankamen went to Brazil in the same ship from Amsterdan, they arrived in Brazil in the last months of 1924.
    Konrad and Tererya took  4  of their 5 children with them. Their oldest daughter Elizabeth  Harder (ex-Turk), 18 years old, had immigrated  directly to New York from Le Havre port in Dec, 20th 1920, with her Husband Peter Turk (23). They lived in Granite City, Illinois, USA.
    It was a time to immigration from balkans, many relatives had immigrated to USA (Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas) and Canada,  the few who stayed in Europe  immigrated to Austria after War II.
    After they arrived, they realized the Brazilian's Government would not keep its word, Konrad took a difficult decision; to go back to Novi Slankamen, leaving only the 2 oldest children in Brazil. But with the trip he had spent great amount of money and the life in Europe had become much more difficult. In May 22th, 1929 he got a authorization  to go back  to Brazil, on June 7th, he got a visa in in Brazil consulade in Vienna and so, they arrived back in Santos, in June, 27th, 1929.
    

• General Notes
  • His decision  to immigrate from Yugoslavia (Croatia or Serbia?) to Brazil  would determine the destination of 4 of their 5  descendants. He was 48 years old in 1924 when he arrived in Brazil, with a lot of hope,  but their life in Brazil was not ease then he decided to go  back to europe again leaving a couple of children in Brazil  carring with him  his wife and 2 small children Adam and Konrad... but the life in Europe  had became terrible (1929 economic collapse) then he decided to move  to Brazil again in 1931, where he died.
    

Konrad 's family

Wife's Pictures

Tererya Schwartz