Notes for LUBA (LENA) GOLDMAN BLEICHER:

"I often heard that Luba was the youngest of 22! I never asked my mother, Rose, was that of several mothers/wives of one of the Carmel/Bleicher [sic?] men who were silk and woolen merchants to the Czar, which is why Luba had had such a wonderful education, spoke so many languages, had many privileges, had access to her father's and grandfather's patron's dacha, library, etc..." -- Naomi Siegel, 2002

"Luba, my mother always stressed, was a privileged girl who rejected other suitors presented to her, waited until age 21(!) to marry her choice: Abraham, a scholar (yeshivah-bucher), a cousin. Few girls then waited to that age... and got the man the man they wanted." -- Naomi Siegel (2002)

"Grandmother Lena spoke several languages and during the passage from Europe around 1903, she helped the ship's staff in dealing with the people in steerage. The family did not arrive on the ship together. Uncle Bob Bleicher and Ben Carmell?? were left behind in England to earn money to pay for their own passge." Arthur Bleecher, 2001

"Grandmother Lena bore 16 children, 5 of whom died in infancy." Arthur Bleecher, 2001

 

      
Abraham, Luba, ? Daughter, David Bleicher                   Ben Carmell, Abraham and Luba Bleicher, Max Gelbert

      
Luba Lena Goldman Bleicher                                                       Luba Lena Goldman Bleicher and Children