Seeking background information about Szyfra WALDER nee KANNER of Poland

[Joseph Scott Walder jswalder@comcast.net]

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I am trying to find any information about the background and ancestry of my
great-grandmother Szyfra/Shifra WALDER nee KANNER. She came to the United
States in 1927, presumably after the death of her husband, Meyer WALDER. An
annotation on the passenger manifest describes her as "senile". I have the
following information about her:

(1) She died in 1940 at age 75, thus her birthdate would have been about
1865. One can infer her mother's birthdate was probably no later than 1845.

(2) The inscription on her headstone gives her father's name as Avraham
Yehoshua HaKohen. In contrast, according to a page in the Antwerp police
dossier of her son Hersz, Szyfra's parents were named Osias and Freida.

(3) Szyfra's place of origin is not known.

(4) A story passed on by one of Szyfra's sons is that she met her husband,
Meyer WALDER, in Warsaw in 1883, where she was supposedly a tutor for two
children. Meyer had been previously married; he first wife died in
childbirth.

(5) Szyfra evidently moved to the Galician town of Narol after marriage.
Few records from Narol have survived, and none pertinent to my search.

(6) Meyer WALDER may have come from Lwow; he certainly had a family
background there.

I've done the sort of searches one might expect on JewishGen and Gesher
Galicia but come up with nothing. In particular, I have found nothing
pertinent in searches for Avraham or Osias KANNER.

Any suggestions for how to proceed would be much appreciated.

Joseph WALDER
Portland, Oregon, USA
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