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Hajdúdorog and Hajdúnánás

Szender, Engel & Fried

Mád · Újfehértó · Makó · Nagykároly · Hajdúdorog · Hajdúnánás

Szerén (Sarah Leah) Szender, wife of Rav Shmaya Wiesner, was born at Hajdúnánás on 29 April 1894, the daughter of Herman (Tzvi Aryeh) Szender, a merchant, and Jetti (Etel) Glück. Herman and Jetti were married at Nyírbátor on 21 March 1893; the original register entry names both sets of parents. Her sister Margit was born at Hajdúnánás in 1914.

Herman was born at Hajdúdorog in 1869, the son of Mendel (Menachem, Emánuel) Szender (c.1825–1913) and Kati Engel. Mendel’s parents were Lajos (Leib) Szender — R’ Tzvi Aryeh of Dorog, now Probable (high) from three sources — and Róza Klein — Mendel’s 1913 civil death entry names both as his parents, and his wife as Engel Katalin (Proven). Whether Róza is the “Szender Róza, 84, born at Mád” who died at Újfehértó in 1876 is only Possible and is kept separate.

Kati Engel was the daughter of Jakab (Yaakov Koppel) Engel, innkeeper of Hajdúdorog, born at Makó about 1812, and Klára Fried, born at Nagykároly about 1818. A new generation: Alei Zikaron 64 (2023) names Koppel’s parents as R’ Yoshe (Yehoshua) Engel and Gitel (Probable) — the same note gives dates for Mendel and Kati that match the civil records exactly. It replaces an earlier guess, Gábor Engel and Borbála Ignatz of Makó, now demoted.

Mendel’s brother R’ Dávid Szender, a shochet of Hajdúdorog who died in Jerusalem in 1897, had a son Sámuel, born at Szentmihály in 1861. A Shmuel son of David Szender, aged 71, was buried at Košice in 1932, and his stone there was restored in 2026 (Probable that they are the same man). Herman himself also made straw hats: a 1912 statistical yearbook lists his straw-hat works at Hajdúnánás, founded 1907, with 25 employees.

Grades: Proven, Probable, Possible — exactly as the research gives them.

New research · 23 October 2026

Newly found records

  • Mendel (Emánuel) Szender’s civil death entry (Hajdúdorog, 3 October 1913, no. 238, aged 88) names his parents as the late Szender Lajos and the late Klein Róza, and his wife as Engel Katalin, so Róza née Klein is now on the tree as his mother. Whether she is the Róza Szender who died at Újfehértó in 1876 is still only Possible. Hajdúdorog civil deaths 1913, no. 238, p. 40 (registered 4 Oct 1913; FamilySearch, Hungary Civil Registration 1895–1980, Hajdú › Hajdúdorog › Deaths 1913–1914, image 44 of 128, ark 3:1:33S7-9TX2-WCJ; read on the original). Proven
  • Farkas, Szerén and Ilona Stark (Szender) are also named on the list of the 228 buried at St. Pölten from Hofamt Priel, 2–3 May 1945, published by the Institute for Jewish History in Austria (injoest.ac.at). Farkas and Szerén's burial there is now Proven; for Ilona the list supports her Probable burial. Proven
  • Béla (Gedalia) Szender: the 1953 resolution gives his alien file number, A-6440207. Proven
  • Civil death records naming “Engel Jakab and Fried Klára” as parents now exist for four of their children: Kati Szender (1914), Hani Krausz (1916), Rezi Eisenberger (1916) and Ignácz (1923). Hani and Ignácz move from Probable to Proven, and Kati's link to her parents now has its own source. Proven
  • Ignácz Engel married Róza Glücklich at Hajdúnánás in 1868; they had at least seven children at Hajdúdorog: Piroska, Sámuel, Berta (who married Herman Stark), Jakab, Lipót, Regina and Farkas. Piroska and Jakab died in 1944. Proven
  • Cecilia (Czili) Engel married Mózes Reichmann; their son Menachem Emánuel Reichmann, a merchant born at Hajdúdorog, married Malka Friedman at Kurityán on 13 February 1894. Proven
  • Ilona Stark née Szender, b. 1906: her 1928 marriage and her 1946 death registration both name her parents, Farkas Szender and Szeréna Lindenfeld. Proven
  • Farkas (Wolf) Szender, born at Hajdúdorog on 23 May 1878, was the youngest son of Mendel (Emánuel) Szender and Kati Engel, and a brother of Herman Szender: his own birth entry and his 1903 marriage entry both name those parents. A merchant of Hajdúdorog, he became engaged in May 1903 to Szeréna, daughter of Márton Lindenfeld of Nyíradony (Debreczeni Ujság, 24 May 1903), and they married that October. Proven
  • Farkas and Szerén Szender died at Hofamt Priel, near Persenbeug in Lower Austria, in the night of 2–3 May 1945. They lie in the mass grave of the 228 victims of Hofamt Priel in the New Jewish Cemetery of St. Pölten, where their names are on the stone set in 2015 (burial Proven: they are named on the list of the 228 buried there, published by the Institute for Jewish History in Austria). Proven
  • Their daughter Ilona Stark née Szender died with them at Hofamt Priel on 2 May 1945 and lies in the same grave at St. Pölten (the same burial list names “Stark Ilona”). Their son Béla was born at Hajdúdorog on 3 Aug 1904 (Proven). Probable
  • More of Herman's brothers and sisters, read in the Hajdúdorog birth register: Czili (b. 15 Jul 1867; later wife of Péter Rothmann, Probable) and Ignácz (b. 20 Dec 1871). Hani (Anna), who married the merchant Antal Izsák, died at Hajdúdorog on 27 Oct 1908; her brother Farkas reported her death. Her son Mór Izsák (b. 1902; Probable) was reported missing in January 1943. Proven
  • c.1819: Jakab (Koppel) Engel, about 7, is brought from Makó to Hajdúdorog by his elder brother (1848 census remark); the family’s 1848 census household 108 with Klára Fried and children Katalin, Hani, Cecilia, a daughter and Ignácz. Izrael Fried of Nagykároly as possible kin of Klára. Probable
  • Daniel Fried of Nagykároly, father of Adolph Fried of Cleveland — possibly a brother or cousin of Klára Fried. Possible
  • Kati Szender’s sisters Rezi Eisenberger, Eda and Róza Roth née Engel join the tree from their own records. Proven
  • Sámuel Szender, son of Dávid Szender and Ester, was born at Szentmihály on 8 December 1861 (Jewish birth register, entry 10, read on the original). Proven (record)
  • He is very probably R’ Shmuel Szender of Košice: the city’s burial index lists “Szender Samuel, 71”, buried in the Jewish cemetery on 28 March 1932 (20 Adar II 5692), and the new plaque on his restored stone reads “R’ Shmuel ben David Sender”. The stone and its 2026 restoration are shown on [the Schuck–Adler family site](https://schuckadler.com/#p-kosice) (photographs there; not copied here). Probable
  • “Szender Herman”, straw-hat factory at Hajdúnánás, founded 1907, 25 employees — from the 1912 statistical yearbook of Hungarian towns, as tabulated in Szabó Magdolna’s doctoral dissertation (ELTE 2008), p. 69; he is among the makers again in 1922 (p. 70). That he is our Herman: Probable. Proven as printed
  • Szerén’s brother Béla (Adalbert) Szender, 1911–2002, joins the tree. A 1953 resolution of Congress favouring suspension of deportation lists “Szender, Bela or Bela Aldebert Szender or Gedalia Szender” ([67 Stat. p. B39](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-67/pdf/STATUTE-67-PgB36.pdf)); that this is him is Probable — the same name form appears on his 1954 naturalization — and it gives his Hebrew name, Gedalia. Proven as printed
  • Sol (Zalman) Sender of Chicago, son of Rabbi Moshe Aharon (Morris) Sender and grandson of Dávid Szender, Mendel Szender’s brother, died on 15 October 1955 (erev Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan 5716), aged 43, as his stone at Waldheim Cemetery reads. Proven (gravestone)

Leads still being checked

These are possibilities only. They are not on the tree until a record proves them.

  • Was R’ Shmuel of Košice the “Sam Szender” of Jaklovce (Jekelfalva, near Gelnica) whose children Dawid (b. 1901) and Serena sailed to New York in 1920 to their brother Herman Szender, 470 East 10th Street? Jaklovce is about 30 km from Košice; no record yet joins them. Possible
  • A public online tree gives Samuel Szender (1861–1932) a wife Zissel Rivka Kunstlinger and a son Herman Leo Szender, later Sander (1885–1947, New York), married to Bertha Kinstlinger. Not yet checked against a birth, census, naturalization or death record, and kept apart from the Košice Shmuel until one is found. The same tree names Samuel’s mother as Breindel, which does not fit his 1861 birth entry (mother Ester). Possible
  • “özv. Szender Hermanné” (a widow, 1920s) and “Szender Hermanné” (1944 list of sequestered businesses, straw hats) at Hajdúnánás: kept as separate mentions until a record says who each was. Possible

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