Moritz (Morris) and Elkeh (Annie) (Pieniek / Tobias) Lewis
Moritz (Morris) Lewis (b. Poland 1866, d. St. Louis 1946)
Elkeh (Annie) Pieniek Lewis (b. Golub-Dobrzyn 1880? 1885? 1900?, d. St, Louis 1960 )
1893 - Immigration (According to 1920 census)
1910 - Living with Becky and Morris Sachs, listed as divorced.
1920 - Living with Becky and Morris Sachs.
1921 - Arrival in New York on S.S. Lapland?
1921 - Marriage
​
"Annie, the fifth child of David Eleazer and Rana Temera, also lived in St. Louis. She was married to a Mr. Lewis, a baker by trade. She was widowed for many years and like Becky, we also have not heard about Annie. It is only presumed at this time that they have passed away. These sisters were very close to each other in Saint Louis."
​
"The Pieniek Roots" by David Joshua Pieniek and David Leon Skop, written in 1982.
Elkeh (Annie) was the sixth child of David Eleazer and Rana Temera.
Annie immigrated to the U.S. in 1893 or 1895. (The 1910 and 1920 censuses differ regarding her year of birth and year of immigration.) By 1910 she was married (possibly to Hymen Frank in 1901), divorced, and living with her sister Becky Sachs. Anna and Moritz were married in 1921.
A ship's manifest of the S.S. Lapland arriving on February 7, 1921 records Anna Pieniek, aged 21, from Dobrzyn, occupation: tailoress, father: E. (Eleazer?) Pieniek. It is possible that Annie had returned to Dobrzyn and then came back to America. (Possibly her listing in the 1920 census at the home of Becky and Morris Sacks was based on her permanent address and not her physical presence.)
Moritz Lewis was born in Poland in 1866. He was a baker. According to the 1900 census he emigrated to the U.S. with his wife Rosa and daughter Yetta. In Missouri they had four children. Rosa died in 1920, and Moritz remarried the same year. In 1930 three adult children are listed living with Moritz and Annie.
Annie was a tailoress. They had no children together.
Interestingly, Moritz was buried next to his first wife, Rosa. Annie's gravestone, in the same cemetery, was built in the same style as the other Lewises.
​
- Uri Ladell
