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69..Gittel Geffen, elder sister to Tuvia Geffen, and her husband, Aharon David Katz. Gittel was born in 1867 at Uu-Jann, Kovno district. Aharon David Katz, son to Israel Katz, born in 1866, born in Uu-Jann, Kovno district.The Katz family was poor, and when Aharon David married Gittel, Josef Geffen gave him a stock of wood to start his own business. He lost all the wood in a flood and that was the end of the story. He remained religious through his life, and died during the WW2 in Moscow around 1942. ...Photo Courtesy of Sergey Engel |