SPRINZA GOLDSFARB - My Granny

Sprinza Goldesfarb

Widow Immigrant Sprinza

In June 1907, Sprinza Goldsfarb, the mother of my Mom's father, Hersh Goldsfarb, took her three daughters: Otilia (Ethel), Zussie (Sophie), Mina (Minnie)- the last two still small girls, and left Roumania to embark on the Noordam ship in the dutch port of Rotterdam, towards the unknown. It was the year of the big wave of immigration from Europe to America.

What a courage ! She was then a widow of about 50, with no money and no profession. Her sons ( except my grandfather Hersh who stayed behind in Roumania, and Solomon who, apparently, was already in New York) were to join her later ( Sam followed her a year later, Benjamin and David six-seven years later).

In America, her first name Sprinza became 'Sabina' and the family name lost the consonant 's' in the process of integration in the american society, - becoming 'Goldfarb'. She lived among her children in New -York, Detroit, Cleveland.

Sabina, passed away, in the year of the big economic recession- May 1929, and was burried in the Beth Moses cemetery, Roseville, Mi 48066.

שפרינצה האלמנה

שפרינצה סבתא רבא ממוצא אוקראיני היתה

ב-1907 עם שלושת בנותיה לאמריקה היגרה

בניה יצאו בעקבותיה מרומניה ליבשת הגדולה

ורק אחד, סבי הרש, נותר בסווני עם המשפחה

ניו-יורק העיר היתה התחנה הראשונה

ובהמשך בקליבלנד ובדטרויט התגוררה

עובדת ומסייעת לילדיה כמיטב יכולתה

ב-1929 ,במדינת מיצ'יגאן נפטרה

Curajoasa mea strabunica

Sprinza strabunica mea

Originara din Ukraina era

In 1907, vaduva cu trei fete

A plecat norocul sa-l incerce

In America cea indepartata

Ce promitea o mai buna soarta

La-nceput, la New York a locuit

Apoi la Cleveland si Detroit a trait

Ajuta la copii, lucra la ce se putea

Dorul de Hersh cand si cand o napadea

In 1929, in statul Michigan a decedat

Si acolo corpul neinsufletit inmormantat