Wedding picture of Max and Anna Hecht. Lodz, Poland, 1909. See notes.

On the left side is the Hechtkopf family. On the right side is the Herszkowicz family. Standing in the middle is Anna and Max Hecthkopf-Hecht. Seated on the right in front of Max are Anna’s parents, Malka and Lajzer Herszkowicz. Seated on the left in front of Anna are Max’s father and step mother, Avraham Hechtkopf and his second wife (not Max’s mother who had died). Standing in back of Max are Anna’s brothers, Max and Alex Herszkowicz, Beryl Jakubowicz (Anna's brother in law) and his wife Idesa/Yehudis (Anna's sister). Seated in front of Anna’s parents are Anna’s brothers, Abraham Abe Hershkowitz Hersh and Maurice Herszkowicz. The bearded man in the back and the older woman next to him were "cousin from the country." (WHO ARE THEY?) The two young girls that are seated are Max's sisters. Their names are non known.

Gene adds interesting information about the Herszkowicz brothers, Max, Alex, Abe and Maurice. All four boys served during World War I in very different ways. Max was in Lodz, Poland and was drafted by the Russian Czar. He spent the war in the Russian army in Vladivostok, Russia’s largest port city on the Pacific. Alex was at the University of Berlin and became a lieutenant in the German Kaiser’s army. Abe was already in Kansas City, MO. He joined the US Army and went to France with Harry Truman. Gene’s father, Maurice, was graduating from school in Lodz, Poland. Three years later he ended up in the Polish army.