Leopold or Leib Herzenberg

Abt 1885 - 1945  (60 years)

• Name	Leopold or Leib Herzenberg
  Birth	Abt 1885	Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Sep 1945	Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
  Burial	Westpark Cemetery, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
  Person ID	I4213	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Itzig or Isaac Herzenberg,   b. Abt 1855, Pilten, Latvia d. Liepaja (Libau), Courland, Latvia
  Mother	Theresa or Tauba Miriam Bernitz,   b. 1 Apr 1860, Aizpute, Latvia
  Marriage	8 Feb 1883	Aizpute, Latvia
  Family ID	F1945	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Raisel,   b. Bef 1905, of, , South Africa d. Sep 1931, of, , South Africa (Age > 26 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1924	of, , South Africa
  Children	1. Annie Herzenberg   d. 1977   2. Benny Herzenberg   d. 1988, , , South Africa
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. Website of Peter Bruce Herzenberg of London, England (since relocated to South Africa). Website is no longer functioning as of 7 Aug 2007. Copies of much of his data from the website in my possession. He indicates references by codes, which pertain to the original source and file held in his database, which I have not seen. I have no key to the sources except HL is Leonardo Herzenberg, HG is Gail Herzenberg, PC is probably Piltene Cemetery records, LA is probably Latvian Archives, FA is probably Aleksandrs Feigmanis (Latvian researcher hired by Harold Hodes), and YL is Len Yodaiken (Israeli researcher hired by Harold Hodes); however, he lists the main researchers and their contributions in a lengthy report which I include in full in the notes of the earliest Herzenberg of this database. In regards to this individual: Names include Leopold, Leo, or Leib bar Avraham. HW notes b. 1883 and d. 8 Sep 1945, bur. Westpark Cem., Jo'burg SA loc. D784. 2. Email dated 4 Dec 2011 from Lucille Maitino, granddau. of Rudolf Herzenberg : "My Mom had told me many stories of Cecelia Dorothea (Odes) Herzenberg and how she died of a burst appendix when my Mom was only 23. Cecelia (Odes) Herzenberg died when she was only 45 (5/30/1937) and her husband Rudolf died 3 weeks later of a broken heart. (6/22/1937). I know my Grandfather Rudolf had 2 brothers and 2 sisters, Herman, Leo, Bertha and Clara. I know my Grandfather Rudolf's father was Isaac, and that Isaac had a brother Daniel. I know Daniel had a son Israel and that Israel had 2 sons and 2 daughters, Sammy, Allen, Sybil and Irene. I know many of the cousins from these." 3. Email dated 8 Dec 2011 from Lucille Maitino, granddau. of Rudolf Herzenberg : "My Grandfather Rudolf siblings, Herman married Paula?, had two children Taube & Gerald. Brother Leo went off to war, Bertha stayed in Latvia, Clara married Serjay Ismailoff, then Louis Larsen, and then Irwin Orton. I am not sure of dates, but she lived in many countries, the longest Shanghai, then NYC, New York, as that is where Irwin died late 1960's. Clara died in 1979." BIRTH: 1. Place is only an unsubstantiated guess by Kerry Petersen. DEATH: 1. Ancestry.com's "JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register (JOWBR)": "Leopold Herzenberg, b. abt 1884, d. 8 Sep 1945, age 61, burial cemetery in South Africa."