Rose and Sidney Jacoby
Rosa (Rose) Burdo was born in Vilna, Poland and her husband, Sidney (Zelig) Jacoby (Jakubowicz), was born in Radomsko, Poland and raised in Katowicz, Poland. Sidney had a wife, Broche, and three children, Sara, Yankel, and Rose, before the war. He was also an accomplished boxer in B臋dzin, Poland. Sidney lost almost his entire extended family in the Holocaust, including Broche, Sara, and Yankel. His daughter Rose survived, but has since passed away. Sidney endured Flossenb眉rg, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, from which he was liberated. Sidney survived the war because he was forced to bake for the Nazis.
He met Rosa Burdo, daughter of Bella and Israel Burdo, who had been liberated from Stutthoff Concentration Camp. After the war, Rosa and Sidney met in the Schwandorf displaced persons camp, where they married in 1946, and had their first child, David, who was named after his paternal grandfather in 1947. Rosa was the only survivor of her family. Rosa had three brothers, Itzak, Velvel, Schmuel, and five sisters, Shulamit, Zelda, Sarah, Shayna, and Hanelah. All of Rosa鈥檚 siblings were murdered during the Holocaust. After the war, Sidney and his business partner opened a bakery in Munich, Germany. Rosa wanted to move to the United States and Sidney sold the bakery in 1949.
They came to the United States in 1950, and spent months in New York before buying a chicken farm in Cardiff, New Jersey later that year, which they operated until 1961. They had their second child, Irving, in South Jersey in 1951. In 1961, they bought a second farm on English Creek Road, in McKee City, NJ and kept the poultry farming business until they sold the property and moved to Ventnor in 1967.
Sidney was a hard worker and had a scholarly disposition. Rose was a homemaker and active in community affairs. Both Rose and Sidney spoke multiple languages, and usually conversed in Yiddish. Sidney was part of an influential core of Holocaust Survivors in Egg Harbor Township who founded the Jewish Farmers Congregation, also known as the McKee City Synagogue, of which Sidney was the first president. After retiring from the poultry business, Sidney worked as a reparations agent, helping other Holocaust Survivors navigate the application process for reparations from the German Government. Sidney Jacoby passed away in 1975 and Rose in 2006.
