Sunday, April 10, 2011

Yitta Schwatz died last month at 93 years old. She had around 2,000 living descendants. Yitta had 15 kids then they had her 200 grandchildren, which had even more of her great grandchildren. She had 7 siblings herself and decided at a young age that she would like to have a large family. Together her and her husband Joseph raised their 15 kids. Yitta was a stay at home mom while her husband provided for the large family of 17. Yitta was also a survivor of the Holocaust and took in refugees during the war-time. She has the largest surviving family from the holocaust now.
Her husband was a furniture sales man on Lee Avenue and she tended to the family. She had to make home-made bread everyday and had little money for nice appliances. She made around 12 pounds of home-made bread each day to feed her family. 
Can you imagine taking care of 15 children by yourself? You would have to pay for food, schooling, and clothing while also cleaning the house, doing laundry and chores, attending things like sporting events for them, all that jazz. But Yitta did it! She was a loving mother and will be greatly missed by her 2,000 descendants. 

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