Elizabeth (Betty) Harder (Turk)
Elizabeth, known as Betty, was born on October 3rd, 1902 in
Novi Slankamen, Yugoslavia.
1 Betty's father was
Konrad Schwartz and her mother was
Tererya Pfeiffer Schwartz. Her paternal grandparents were
Heinrich Schwartz and
Margareta Stekel Schwartz. She had three brothers and a sister, named
Miguel,
Adão,
Conrado and
Annita. She was the oldest of the five children. She died from cancer at the age of 64 on January 7th, 1967 in
Chicago. The funeral took place on January 11th, 1967 in
Chicago and was arranged by Island Lake Funeral Home.
2 2
General Notes
Name: Elizabeth Turk
Arrival Date: 20 Dec 1920
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Port of Departure: Le Havre
Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: slovakian
Ship Name: La Savoie
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She arrived in 1920, 20th Dec on New York Port from Le Havre with her Husband Peter Turk. She was only 18 years old.
She used to live in Chicago, Illinois (USA).
In 1952 she visited her sister Annita Schwartz in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They loved each other so strongly but their life was definitively separeted by their father's decision to immigrate to Brazil and her decision to immigrate to USA.
She did not speak portuguese so she was not able to communicate with the Brazilian relatives, except for her sister Annita
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