# Harry Goldfischer (b.1879) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **1st cousin 4x removed · also 1st cousin 5x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** **Born** 05/18/1879 **Died** 11/14/1956 — [[Bayonne]] **Parents** [[Zev Wolf Goldfischer (b.1845)]] · [[Leah Starr]] **Spouse** [[Mary Stecker (b.1882)]] **Children** [[Solomon Goldfischer (b.1907)]] · [[Lenore Marge Goldfischer (b.1910)]] · [[Sydney Goldfischer (b.1912)]] · [[Louis Goldfischer (b.1912)]] **Siblings** [[Nathan Goldfischer (b.1862)]] · [[Aryeh Leib Goldfischer (b.1868)]] · [[Frimet Goldfischer (b.1876)]] · [[Samuel Goldfischer (b.1882)]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **1st cousin 4x removed** — [[Harry Goldfischer (b.1879)]] → [[Zev Wolf Goldfischer (b.1845)]] → [[József Goldfischer (b.1825)]] → [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] → [[Yosef Goldfischer (b.1899)]] → [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **1st cousin 5x removed** — [[Harry Goldfischer (b.1879)]] → [[Zev Wolf Goldfischer (b.1845)]] → [[József Goldfischer (b.1825)]] → [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] → [[Shalom Goldfischer (b.1878)]] → [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]] → [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I500722 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Harry Goldfischer was born 18 May 1879, a son of [[Zev Wolf Goldfischer (b.1845)]] and [[Leah Starr]].[^ged] He was one of at least five children in that household, with siblings [[Nathan Goldfischer (b.1862)]], [[Aryeh Leib Goldfischer (b.1868)]], [[Frimet Goldfischer (b.1876)]] and [[Samuel Goldfischer (b.1882)]].[^ged] His father belonged to the wider Goldfischer family that the Bernstein tree traces back through [[József Goldfischer (b.1825)]]; the line intermarried, so Harry connects to the compiler's family along two separate paths.[^ged] By adulthood Harry had settled in the United States, where he married Mary Stecker (b. 1882).[^ged] The couple had four children: [[Solomon Goldfischer (b.1907)]], [[Lenore Marge Goldfischer (b.1910)]], and the twins (or near-twins) [[Sydney Goldfischer (b.1912)]] and [[Louis Goldfischer (b.1912)]].[^ged] The spacing of the births places the young family in America through the 1900s and 1910s; the absence of any recorded European birth for the children is consistent with Harry having emigrated as a young man, though no immigration or naturalization record is yet attached to the profile.[?] A notice in the Yiddish daily *Der Tog* (The Day) of 6 September 1946 lists Harry Goldfischer together with Solomon and William Goldfischer, though the context of the mention is unclear.[^dertog] Harry died 14 November 1956 at [[Bayonne]] (Bayonne, New Jersey), at the age of 77.[^ged] [^ged]: GEDCOM I500722, Bernstein tree (synced 2026-07-01); vital dates, parents, spouse, children and siblings as recorded in the MyHeritage biography on this profile. [^dertog]: *Der Tog*, 6 September 1946, p. 1, art. 50 — cited from MyHeritage in the MyHeritage biography note; National Library of Israel newspaper viewer (access-restricted, not yet read). https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/dertog/1946/09/06/01/article/50 ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions - *Der Tog*, 6 Sep 1946, p.1 art.50 — the NLI viewer returned HTTP 403 (access-restricted); **needs a browser pass** to read what the notice actually says about Harry, Solomon and William Goldfischer. https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/dertog/1946/09/06/01/article/50 - No immigration/naturalization or U.S. census record yet attached; emigration timing is inferred only from the children's American birth years. Needs a browser pass on U.S. records.