# Yosef Goldfischer (b.1899) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **2x great-grandfather · also 3x great-grand-uncle *(2 ancestral lines)*** ![[I500038.jpg|220]] **Born** 08/17/1899 — [[Berezovo]] **Died** 02/1985 — [[Brooklyn]] **Parents** [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] · [[Szasza Simonovitz (b.1876)]] **Spouse** [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]] **Children** [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] · [[Duvid Goldfischer (b.1926)]] · [[Yaakov Goldfischer (b.1927)]] · [[Soshe Goldfischer (b.1929)]] · [[Eliezer Goldfischer (b.1941)]] · [[Etta Malia Goldfischer (b.1941)]] **Siblings** [[Yutta Goldfischer (b.1902)]] · [[Shalom Goldfischer (b.1878)]] · [[Avraham Baruch Itzkowitz (b.1894)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500038_1.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_2.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_3.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_4.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_5.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_6.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_7.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_8.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_9.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_10.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_11.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_12.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_13.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_14.jpg|180]] ![[I500038_15.jpg|180]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **2x great-grandfather** — [[Yosef Goldfischer (b.1899)]] → [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **3x great-grand-uncle** — [[Yosef Goldfischer (b.1899)]] → [[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 I500038 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Yosef Goldfischer — "Zaidy Yossel," also Josef, in the family — was born on 17 August 1899 in [[Berezovo]], in the Carpathian borderland of what was then Austria-Hungary, a son of [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] and [[Szasza Simonovitz (b.1876)]].[^birth] He was the "Zaidy Yossel" of the family's Goldfischer memories — the son who, after his father's death, had a German painter render Jakob's one small photograph in colour to hang in the family's Berlin dining room.[^berlin] For a time in the interwar years he lived in **Berlin**: he is listed there in the *Jüdisches Adressbuch für Groß-Berlin* and the city directory of 1931–1932.[^berlin] He married **[[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]]** — "Bubby Maryam" — and the couple had a large family: [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]], [[Duvid Goldfischer (b.1926)]], [[Yaakov Goldfischer (b.1927)]], [[Soshe Goldfischer (b.1929)]], and the younger [[Eliezer Goldfischer (b.1941)]] and [[Etta Malia Goldfischer (b.1941)]].[^family] Like so many of Berlin's Jews, the family left Germany; Yosef ended his life in the United States, dying in [[Brooklyn]] in February 1985.[^death] Through his son [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] his line runs down to Ozzy.[^kin] [^birth]: Born 17 August 1899, [[Berezovo]] (frontmatter; GEDCOM/MyHeritage). Son of [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] and [[Szasza Simonovitz (b.1876)]]; alternate given names Josef / Yossel. [^berlin]: Berlin residence, interwar years: listed in the *Jüdisches Adressbuch für Groß-Berlin*, 1931/1932 issue, and the Berlin 1932 city directory (address-book images on the profile; digitised at the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, e.g. https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/15849352_1932/439/ and https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/34039536_1931_1932/241/). The "Zaidy Yossel" who commissioned the colour painting of his late father [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] for the Berlin family dining room (family recollection on Jakob's profile). [^family]: Wife [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]] ("Bubby Maryam"); children per the GEDCOM/MyHeritage record: [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]], [[Duvid Goldfischer (b.1926)]], [[Yaakov Goldfischer (b.1927)]], [[Soshe Goldfischer (b.1929)]], [[Eliezer Goldfischer (b.1941)]], [[Etta Malia Goldfischer (b.1941)]]. [^death]: Died February 1985, [[Brooklyn]], New York (GEDCOM/MyHeritage). [^kin]: Direct line to Ozzy via [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]]. (He also relates as a 3x great-grand-uncle through the intermarried Goldfischer line — see the paths on this profile.) ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **Berlin interwar residence** documented by the *Jüdisches Adressbuch für Groß-Berlin* (1931/1932) and the 1932 Berlin directory (ZLB digitised images on the profile). "Zaidy Yossel" of the Goldfischer family recollections (see [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]]). - Born Berezovo 1899, son of [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] + [[Szasza Simonovitz (b.1876)]]; m. [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]]; emigrated (Berlin → USA); d. Brooklyn 1985. Direct-line son [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]]. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Read the Berlin address-book entries directly** (ZLB viewer, [1932](https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/15849352_1932/439/) and [1931/1932](https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/34039536_1931_1932/241/)) to transcribe his Berlin address/occupation and add to Evidence. - **Emigration path** — when and how the family left Berlin for the USA (a manifest / naturalization record) is not yet attached.