Genealogy

My father – Ilie, or Eli, or Eliyahu, Flicker, was a dancer, painter and a professional furniture designer and maker. His workshop was at Eilat 32, Tel-Aviv. He was born Saturday Jan. 30, 4pm, 1926 at Strada Vântu 16, Iași, north-east Romania (death: Saturday Sept 10, 1994; 15 Shvat 5686, to 5 Tishrei 5755). 

His father, Gödel (born: Dec. 27, 1898; wife: Hannah, born 1899), served in the Austro-Hungarian army in his youth. Here is a copy from Feb. 18, 1923, of his original birth certificate from Dec. 29, 1898. Spelling in Romanian: Godel Flicher. The father, Avram, was 40 when Gödel was born, the mother, Sarah, was 35. Witnesses were David, 40, and Jacob Valdman, 59; they lived in apartments III, IV, V at the same address. Hannah died on March 12, 1986; her parents were Bat-Sheva and Isaac (Yitchack) Shmilovitch. Gödel was buried March 27, 1987. 

When Eli was one year old, his family moved to Bucharest, Strada Alexandru Moruzzi Voievod. At age 17, in 1942, a year after the Bucharest pogrom and the MV Struma was sunk, he immigrated from the Bucharest ghetto to the British Mandate of Palestine, bringing his parents and siblings: Avram, Milu, Leonard, (himself), Joseph, Aviva, Zigu, to join him within a year. He served in the British army during World War II (Jewish Brigade, Third Battalion, artillery), and in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Israeli War of Independence (1948), the Sinai campaign (1956), and the Six Day War (1967). A grandchild of his only sister – Aviva -- is Doron Matalon, Miss Israel 2014, 8th generation in Israel: Rabbi Aharon Matalon came in 1817. On the left is a photo from Sept. 8, 2016 of Doron, my mother and her son; on the right are Sarah and Eli Flicker in August 1953:

My mother at her first grandson's wedding:

My mother – Sarah – born Nov. 5, 1934 (Monday, like me) at home: 29 Dganya st., Neve Tzedek neighborhood of Tel-Aviv, to Moshe (Mosze) Zamek of Warsaw (birth: May 15, 1905; death: 1978), who immigrated -- illegally (first crossing the border to Romania) -- to Tel Aviv in 1921. Moshe served in the Jewish Brigade of the British army in WWII, in Egypt, Libya, Italy. After the war they moved to Yad-Eliyahu. According to records of the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, his ancestors known to be interred in Warsaw include: father Jankel (Yaakov), DoD (Date of Death) 7/23/1926 [and his brother Szaja (=Yeshaya) Ben Simcha, DoD 12/3/1935; sister Chaia Freida Bat Simcha, wife of David Maiden, DoD 2/18/1938; and sister Sara Shprintza Bat Simcha, wife of Shimshon Meir Maiden, DoD 5/13/1912], son of Simcha, DoD 3/11/1912 [and his wife Blima Bat Moshe, maiden name Sand, DoD 7/23/1913; and sister Miriam Dvora Bat Yehuda Leib, wife of Gabriel Maiden, DoD 11/1/1917], son of Yehuda Leib, DoD 12/13/1884 [and his wife Perel Bat Yaakov, DoD 2/3/1891; his brother Eliakim Getzel Ben Betzalel, DoD 8/16/1911; his wife Rachel Bat Henich, wife of Getzel, DoD 10/6/1916; his brother Tzvi Dov Ben Betzalel, DoD 12/2/1868; and his wife Dvora Bat Shlomo, wife of Tzvi Dov, maiden name: Prager, DoD 3/18/1864], son of Betzalel, whose wife was Nechama Bat Tzvi, wife of Betzalel, DoD 5/11/1871. Here are photos of Bracha Tylbor and Jankel-Yaakov Zamek, parents of Moshe Zamek:

According to writing engraved in Moshe Zamek’s tombstone, his mother: Bracha, and all his siblings: Leon, Shaya, Simcha, Paula, Rosa, perished in the Holocaust. 

Sarah’s mother, Esther, née Gdanski, was a sister of Avraham Eliezer (Leise) Gdanski -- an author and a coffeehouse and restaurant owner on Rothschild Boulevard corner of Hertzel st. in Tel-Aviv, and a hotel and a bakery shop at 26 Yavne st., Tel-Aviv. They came from Sosnowiec, some 40km from Oświęcim, Auschwitz in German. Their parents were Zvi Gdanski and Razel Bluma Lida, a 7th generation descendant of David ben Aryeh Leib of Lida (c. 1650 – 1696), appointed in 1682 the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam, who wrote works of rabbinic literature. According to Jewishencyclopedia:

``... his successor in Amsterdam was David Lida (formerly chief rabbi of Mayence), who came to Amsterdam in 1680. In the very first years of his rabbinate Lida engaged in a dispute with Nisan b. Judah Loeb, the brother-in-law of R. Wolf, then chief rabbi in Berlin, whose work he himself had published in Amsterdam. Lida left Amsterdam, but the Portuguese rabbinate interested itself in his behalf. Later he seems to have become suspected of Shabbethaism, and thus arrayed against himself not only the Ashkenazic authorities, but also the Portuguese. Then the "Wa'ad Arba' Araẓot" (Council of Four Lands) took up his cause, with the result that he made his peace with the Amsterdam congregation and returned there. He was appointed, with the approbation of the magistracy, as chief rabbi, for three years; but at the expiration of the term his contract was not renewed. He left Amsterdam, and went to Lemberg, where he died, 1696 (David Lida, "Beer 'Esek," 1684; responsa, "Ohel Ya'aḳob," Nos. 74-76; Jacob Emden's edition of the "Kiẓẓur Ẓiẓat Nobel Ẓebi," p. 59a, Altona, 1757; Buber, "Anshe Shem," p. 56). While he was in Amsterdam the notorious Eisenmenger visited him ("Entdecktes Judenthum," i. 843, Königsberg, 1711). Lida's successor was ..."

I myself was born in Kfar Saba, at the foothills of Samaria, during the long 19 years when Samaria was occupied by the English trained Arab Legion of Emir -- later "King" -- Abdullah of Transjordan, the latter was imported from Mecca in the Hejaz by the English Empire. A (then called "noble savage", current PC term is "refugee") marksman from the migrant-workers colony over the border could have easily taken out my mother (and me). 

As a young man, with sister, and with parents: