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The documents regarding the first generations of this family are not completely clear and are somewhat contradictory. See them here.  The chart on this page represents outr best understanding of the family.
Family structure and yahrzeit and burial information
Gen 1 Generation 2 Generation 3 Generation 4 Gen 5 Gen 6
Gen 7
Gen 8
Ryfke Pikholz
m. Gabriel Riss?		 Breine Riss  m. Abraham Aron Riss?

~1842-1933
buried in Vienna

 Wilhelm (Gabriel Wolf)

~1860-1925

 m. Regina Ritman lived in Vienna Berta (Breine)
 b. 1888, killed in Shoah		 m. Moritz Herzberg b. 1885, killed in Shoah
DAUGHTER (living) SON
SON
1
1
Hedy 1925-85 m. Ashley  no children
DAUGHTER (living) SON
SON
Frania 
b. 1885 Trembowla		 m. uncle Moritz
Lived in Bolivia		 Egon 1909-1972 no children
Bela no children
Rivka 1862-1919 m. Dawid Gottlieb 1861-1937 Breine 1889-89
Jente 1890-94
Rosa 1892- m. Dex DAUGHTER
Bertha 1894-1956 m. Ritter no children
Mila m. (in Budapest)
m.Katz in Sweden		 no children
Isidor (Israel Yehudah)
d.1937,
lived in Vienna		 m. Ernestine Itzkowitz 1876-1942 (killed in Shoah) Erwin (Baruch) 1897-1974 m. (wife living) SON living DAUGHTER
Elfryda b. 1899
Egon 1901-1964 lived in UK m. Margaret Freeman-Jones DAUGHTER
DAUGHTER
Devorah
b. 1874
Deported from Theresienstadt 1942		 m. Wolf Tennenbaum
m. Isidor Kleiner		 no children
Moritz
b. 1876		 m. niece Frania
(children above)
Josef
b. 1878-1938

Changed name from Pickholz to Riss in 1919 in Vienna

 m. Freida Beile Gottesman 
b. 1888

killed in Auschwitz

 Egon
1917-1989

Lived in Haifa

 Wife LIVING
and largely responsible for this chart		 DAUGHTER (living)
SON (Living)
SON (Living)
2
Beatrice
1919-2003		 m. Max Taft 1915-1994 no children
Rosche
b. 1882-1977
Lived in Vienna and later in Chicago and San Francisco California		 m. Salomon Zehner  Betty 1911-2001
Lived in San Francisco		 m. Henry Freund 1901-2000 SON (Living) DAUGHTER (Living)
SON (Living)
m. Charles Kerdemann 1882-1967

(Charles' first three children were from his first wife, but all the children were raised as a single family unit and are presented as such here.)

 Regina
Lived in New Zealand		 m. Lowinger SON (Living)
SON (Living)   DAUGHTER (Living)
DAUGHTER (Living)
Emily 1912-1972
Lived in Chicago		 m. Szachna Edelman 1905-1990 SON (Living) CHILD (Living)
DAUGHTER (Living) m. David Green 1923-1999 SON (Living) DAUGHTER (Living)
DAUGHTER (Living)
SON (Living) SON (Living)
DAUGHTER (Living)
SON (Living)

(If two descendants marry one another, both appear both as descendants and as spouses.)

  Descendants Spouses
 Generation 1
 1
 1 
 Generation 2
1
1
 Generation 3
 7 
9
 Generation 4
 17
15
 Generation 5
 20
17
 Generation 6
16
3 
 Generation 7
1 
 1 
 Generation 8
1 
  
T O T A L
64
 47

This list includes people for whom we know the yahrzeit or the cemetery.

Name Birth Surname
(if different)		 Hebrew Names K/
L/		 Yahrzeit Cemetery Life Span
Person Father Mother
Abraham Riss?   Avraham Aron       7-8 Teveth Vienna ~1842-1933
Wilhelm Riss Pikholz? Gabriel Wolf Avraham Aron Breine   3-4 Tammuz Vienna ~1860-1925
Hedy Ashley Herzberg     Breine   21-22 Kislev   1925-1985
Josef Riss Pikholz? Yosef Avraham Aron Breine   16-17 Tammuz Vienna 1878-1938
Francziska Riss Gottesman Freide Beile         (Auschwitz) 1888-1942
Egon Riss Pickholz Noah Yosef Freida Beile   27 First Adar Sede Yehoshua Haifa 1917-1989
Beatrice Taft Riss Batya Yosef Freida Beile   12-13 Tammuz Sede Yehoshua Haifa 1919-2003
Markus Taft           25-26 Teveth  Beth-El, Poughkeepsie NY 1915-1994
Isidor Riss Pikholz Israel Yehudah Avraham Aron Breine   29 Tammuz / 1 Av Vienna         -1937
Erwin Riss Pikholz Baruch Israel Yehudah Ernestine   10 Teveth Nuremberg 1897-1974
Egon Riss     Israel Yehudah Ernestine   7-8 Nisan   1901-1964
Rosa Kerdemann Pikholz/Riss Rosche Avraham Aron Breine   1 Elul Salem Mem, San Francisco 1882-1977
Charles Kerdemann   Chaim Avraham     17 Av Salem Mem, San Francisco 1882-1967
Betty Freund Zehner   Shelomo? Rosche   20-21 Iyyar Salem Mem, San Francisco 1911-2001
Henry Freund           7-8 Nisan Salem Mem, San Francisco 1901-2000
Emily Edelman Kerdemann Livia Eti Chaim Rosche   16 Tishrei 5733 Shalom Memorial, Palatine IL 1912-1972
Szachna Edelman   Szachana Gedalia     9 Sivan 5750 Shalom Memorial, Palatine IL 1905-1990
David Green   David Zeev     18-19 Shevat 5759 Shalom Memorial, Palatine IL  1923-1999
Regina Gottlieb Riss/Pikholz Rifka Avraham-Aron Breine   1-2 Tammuz Vienna 1862-1919
David Gottlieb           24-25 Iyyar  Vienna 1861-1937
Berta Ritter Gottlieb or Riss   David Rifka   27-28 Elul Vienna 1894-1956
Egon Riss     Moshe Frania   9-10 Heshvan Cochabamba Bolivia 1909-1972
Special thanks to Celia Male for her help with this family.

KNOWN HOLOCAUST VICTIMS FROM THIS FAMILY
If the name has a yellow background, there is a Page of Testimony at Yad VaShem
A darker yellow background means the person is mentioned on someone else's Page of Testimony.
If the information in the "Killed" column has a  grey background,  the person was in military service.
RESIDENCE BIRTH NAME M/F BIRTH FATHER MOTHER SPOUSE KILLED
Vienna Freide Beile Gottesman  F  28 Dec 1888     Josef Riss Auschwitz 1942 
Vienna Breine Riss F 4 May 1888 Wilhelm Riss Regina Reitman Moritz Herzberg Litzmanstadt 1941?
Brno Moritz Herzberg M 20 May 1885 Leib Hencia Breine Riss 1942?
Vienna Ernestine Itzkowitz F 24 Mar 1876     Isidor Riss Auschwitz 1942?
Vienna Dora Kleiner F 1874 Avraham-Aron Breine Wolf Tennenbaum, Isidor Kleiner Deported from Theresienstadt 1942

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