Huterer in Lwow in 1937
written by logan on May 01, 2007

There were also Huterers living in Lwow in 1937, according to the business directory searchable at www.kalter.org/search:

Huterer K., rowery/sportowe artykuly, sykstuska 19, tel. 107-83 [image 921 and image 923]
Huterer M. H., fabryka skrzyn, sw. Marcina 33, tel. 275-42 [image 923]

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written by Guest on April 20, 2006

It is not clear what the connection is – if there is a connection – but my grandfather was also named Simon Hutterer. My grandfather was born in 1883, and lived in Bielsko Biala before coming to the United States in 1901 to join his brother, Fred Hutterer, in Kansas City. I do not know the name of my greatgrandparents – Simon's parents – and I do not know exactly where my grandfather, Simon, was born, although Ellis Island records list his nationality as Austrian, and my mother and aunt say that he came from Austria. My mother's other sister told me more than 30 years ago that her father came from Czechoslovakia. I don't recall what town she mentioned. (When my grandfather left Europe, Czechoslovakia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, I think.) In his 1924 atlas, my grandfather marked the following places : Krakow, Bielitz ( Bielsko Biala today), Lyslowitz ( location?), Konigshutte (Chorzow today) , Beuthen (Bytom today) , Rybynk(location?) in Poland, and Opava in Czechoslovakia. There's also a big, penciled "X" south, southeast of Bielitz, just across the Czech border.

Since I first saw them, I have assumed that those marks indicate where his relatives and friends lived. The only place in Europe that my mother remembers her father mentioning was Oswiecim.

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written by rsapirstein on April 20, 2006

My grandmother was Pauline Hutterer Tamar, born in Tarnow, and who grew up in Starzawa, Poland (then Austria), now Ukraine, near Chyrov. She moved to Vienna in the '20s, then New York City in 1940. I was always told her father's (Max) large family was from Oswiecim. My grandmother's family was in the lumber business and owned a sawmill on the Czech/Ukrainian frontier, near and in Przemysl, in Galicia. She had two brothers and a sister. Her sister's son, George Salton (Lucian Salzmann), is the writer of a Holocaust memoir, The 23rd Psalm, recalling his childhood and experiences in the concentration camps. We have Hutterer relatives in the Midwest, Florida, and New York. I know of one missing child who was entrusted to a non-Jewish couple, and whose fate we have not heard of in all these years. Hutterers, please contact us via my email, rsapirstein!nyc.rr.com. Replace the exclamation point with an "at" symbol - a spam prevention measure. After sixty plus years, deep scars remain where our missing loved ones were torn from us, reaching through generations. (I was born 1964.) I am the family historian. I maintain an archive of prewar family photos.

I am not able to post a picture here, but have several of the Max Hutterer family in the '30s. My grandmother's brothers were Benek and Hennek Hutter

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written by rsapirstein on April 20, 2006

I am the grandson of Pauline Hutterer Tamar, born in Tarnow in 1902. Her father was from a large family from Oswiecim. She had two brothers and a sister. One of her brothers, Benek or Heinek may have had a son, although I'm not sure. They lived in a milltown, Starzawa, in Galicia, near the Czech and Ukrainian borders, near Przemysl. She moved to VIenna during the First World War, and to New York in 1940. I may be able to find a family tree we drew up, and I have a few family photos and letters dating from before the war, in Polish, which may shed some light, althought my grandmother stated to me that the language was coded to circumvent censors. More family information in George Salton's childhood and concentration camp memoir, The 23rd Psalm, published by Univ WIsconsin Press. He is my grandmother's sister's son. Reach me via e-mail, "rsapirstein!nyc.rr.com" replace the ! with the at (a mechanism to prevent spam)

I hope this may help your search, and we would certainly welcome contact with any and all missing family members.
Many scars remain etched in our psyches, missing people still remembered, across generations.

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written by Erika Tamar on April 20, 2006

I am Erika Tamar ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). My mother was Pauline Hutterer and my son Ray Sapirstein has already sent you what we know.
There were many branches of the Hutterer family, it's not that common a name and I think that we're related, though I can't know how closely or distantly.I contacted my cousin Geroge Salton, mentioned in Ray's message to you (his mother was Anja Hutterer), and this his response. Of course, he is guessing - we don't have any definite knowledge.

Erika: I clearly don't know if he is a relative of ours but can think of a possibility that may fit his story. Our mothers'' brother Henry married a woman Nadzia a year or two before the war. They lived in Sosnowiec in western Poland. When the Germans attacked Poland in 1939, Henry and Nadzia, Benek and grandmother moved east away from the front and came to stay with us in Tyczyn. Nadzia was pregnant then but had a miscarriage shortly after coming to Tyczyn.

Henry and mother and grandmother tried to cheer her by telling that she will be able to have another baby soon. First Benek moved east and the Germans occupied Tyczyn, Henry, Nadzia and grandmother (still in 1939) moved east to the part of Poland then occupied by the Russians. They settled in the town of Turka where Benek and Henry worked in a hospital. (Turka was part of Galicia and after the war became a part of Ukraine.) With the German imposed restrictions on us there was little contact between us and the family living now in Turka. We knew that they were there until the German attack of Russia in June of 1941. We never heard from them again. We did, however, hear that the Germans carried out mass executions of Jews in the Turka area in the fall of 1941.

Could Nadzia have had a child in 1940 - 1941 that she left with some gentiles before the executions? I cannot be sure.