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{{short description|Antwerp-born Schreiber-Sofer (9 February 1912 – 21 January 2009); Ellador director; Heathland Road / USA–Belgium shuttle}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Simon Schreiber
| native_name = Shimon Simcha Schreiber-Sofer
| birth_date = 9 February 1912
| birth_place = Antwerp, Belgium
| death_date = 21 January 2009
| death_place = Antwerp, Belgium
| resting_place = Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem
| nationality = Belgian-born; listed Stateless (1954–55) then USA (1960); CH nationality USA
| occupation = Business / dealer; company director
| known_for = [[Ellador Limited]]; Schreiber-Sofer / Pressburg descent
| parents = [[Akiva Dov Schreiber-Sofer]] (1878–1942); [[Sarah Chaya Preiss]] / Prys (1890–1942)
}}

'''Simon Schreiber''' (Hebrew: Shimon Simcha Schreiber-Sofer; 9 February 1912, Antwerp – 21 January 2009, Antwerp) was a Belgian-born Orthodox businessman who used London addresses on Heathland Road, N16, shuttled to New York in the 1950s, and sat as a director of the Zucker-line charity company [[Ellador Limited]] until the week of his death. Family trees style him a descendant of the [[Chatam Sofer]] / Pressburg Schreiber-Sofer line. He was buried at Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem, on 27 January 2009.<ref name="MH">MyHeritage / Geni index entries for Shimon Simcha Schreiber-Sofer, birth 9 February 1912 Antwerp; death 21 January 2009 Antwerp; burial 27 January 2009 Har HaMenuchot.</ref><ref name="CHoff">[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01562872/officers ELLADOR LIMITED officers], Companies House: SCHREIBER, Simon, date of birth February 1912, nationality Usa, correspondence Bleek Hofsh 115, 2200 Antwerp; resigned 29 January 2009.</ref>

He is the proved senior generation on the [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949) / [[Helen Zucker]] / [[Ellador Limited]] board. He is '''not''' proved as father of the 1986 Old Bailey pair [[David Schreiber]] (August 1952) and [[Emanuel Schreiber]], nor of [[Osias Schreiber]]. Those men share a Stamford Hill district and a surname; they do not share an officer ID or a civil-index parent line with this Simon.

== Lineage and rite ==

Trees give parents as [[Akiva Dov Schreiber-Sofer]] (born 20 July 1878, Belno / Gostynin, Poland; resident Antwerp; died 10 September 1942, Auschwitz) and [[Sarah Chaya]] “Prys” / Preiss / Preiss-Schreiber (c. 1890–1942). A wartime Jodenregister card for a related [[Mirjam Schreiber]] (The Hague, 10 August 1916) names Akiba Beer of Gostynus (20 July 1878) and Sarah Prys of Würzburg, and traces a grandfather Joel of Mattersdorf — the Sofer/Schreiber toponyms of the Pressburg orbit.<ref name="MH"/><ref name="Joden">Jodenregister card, Mirjam Schreiber, Den Haag 10 August 1916, parents Akiba Beer and Sarah Prys (user scan).</ref>

The family style is '''Schreiber-Sofer''': the surname of [[Moses Sofer]] (Chatam Sofer, 1762–1839) of Pressburg. That dynasty is Hungarian / Pressburg Orthodoxy — opposition to Reform, Pressburg yeshiva, later Erlau and Jerusalem branches — not a Hasidic court in the Ger or Satmar sense. Antwerp’s Haredi street may have put him next to Hasidic neighbours; the documents call him Sofer, not a Ger or Satmar rebbe’s chasid.<ref name="YIVO">[https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article.aspx/Sofer_Family Sofer Family], YIVO Encyclopedia.</ref>

Siblings named on open trees include Chava / Eva Schreiber and Miriam Taub (Schreiber). A brother Yoel / Joel Schreiber also appears on Geni; do not collapse him with [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949) without a certificate.<ref name="MH"/>

== Marriages and children ==

Open Geni / MyHeritage give two wives:

* first, [[Esther Yehudis Kohn]] (née Schmidt);
* second, [[Chana Miriam Herman]] (born 1921 in some trees), daughter of Rabbi [[Shmuel Yaakov Herman]], a Paris shochet.

A half-sibling tagged Hershtik (Schreiber) sits on the first-marriage side. Trees credit five children of the second marriage, mostly private. One Geni card of a child of Shimon Simcha and Chana Miriam lists that child’s own children as Benedikt (Schreiber) and Hamburger (Schreiber).<ref name="GeniPriv">Geni private profile (user scan): child of Rabbi Shimon Simcha Schreiber-Sofer and Chana Miriam Schreiber-Sofer; parent of Benedikt (Schreiber) and Hamburger (Schreiber).</ref>

That matches the [[Ellador Limited]] next generation: [[Rachel Benedikt]] (July 1975) and [[Chavi Hamburger]] (April 1978), daughters of [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949) and [[Helen Zucker]]. Working identification: this Simon is the father (or, if the private card is one generation off, the grandfather) of the Ellador chair. Passenger lists already mark him married by March 1955; [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949) requires a marriage before that birth, so the first wife is the 1940s mother unless a certificate says otherwise.

== Nationality and the US oddity ==

Belgian-born (Antwerp vreemdelingendossiers R15600 and R25988, Berchem, 9 February 1912).<ref name="Antwerp">FelixArchief vreemdelingendossiers 968#15600 and 968#25988, Schreiber Simon, 09/02/1912, geboorteplaats Antwerpen / locatie Berchem.</ref> On UK incoming lists he is '''State-less''' (1954) with last residence USA and future “Foreign Countries”; on the March 1955 outgoing ''America'' he is Stateless, last permanent residence Belgium, intended future USA. By the 2 March 1960 incoming ''United States'' he is nationality '''U S A''', last and future USA. Companies House later files nationality Usa and an Antwerp correspondence address.<ref name="Pass1954"/><ref name="Pass1955"/><ref name="Pass1960"/><ref name="CHoff"/>

The sequence is stateless Holocaust-generation paper, then a US passport used on the Atlantic run, while the house and the grave stay European (Heathland Road; died Antwerp; buried Jerusalem). It does not make his UK sons “Americans” on Companies House; [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949) files British. [[Emanuel Schreiber]]’s 1985 “US citizen” press tag is a different man.

== Timeline of movements ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Place / ship
! What the record says
|-
| 9 February 1912
| Antwerp
| Birth. Belgian vreemdelingendossier later repeats Antwerpen / Berchem.<ref name="Antwerp"/>
|-
| 1942
| Auschwitz
| Parents [[Akiva Dov Schreiber-Sofer]] and [[Sarah Chaya Preiss]] killed.<ref name="MH"/>
|-
| 12 July 1954
| RMS ''Mauretania'', New York → Southampton
| Age 42, Business, '''State-less''', last residence USA, future Foreign Countries, UK address '''26 Heathland Road, London N16'''.<ref name="Pass1954">Britain and Ireland Incoming Passenger Lists, Simon Schreiber, 12 July 1954, ''Mauretania'', BT 26/1313/88.</ref>
|-
| 14 March 1955
| SS ''America'', Southampton → New York (entry struck)
| DOB 9 February 1912, married, Business, 6 Heathland Road N16 on the paired outgoing clip; Stateless; Belgium / USA columns.<ref name="Pass1955">Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890–1960, Simon Schreiber, 14 March 1955, ''America''; and 17 March 1955, ''United States''.</ref>
|-
| 17 March 1955
| SS ''United States'', Southampton → New York
| Same man, married, Business, age 43.<ref name="Pass1955"/>
|-
| 2 March 1960
| SS ''United States'', New York → Southampton
| Dealer, married, nationality '''USA''', last and future USA, UK address '''6 Heathland Road, London'''.<ref name="Pass1960">Incoming Passenger Lists, Simon Schreiber, 2 March 1960, ''United States'', BT 26/1448/48.</ref>
|-
| before 19 September 1992 – 29 January 2009
| [[Ellador Limited]] (01562872)
| Director; Antwerp address on the CH row; resigned eight days after death.<ref name="CHoff"/>
|-
| 21 / 27 January 2009
| Antwerp / Jerusalem
| Death in Antwerp; burial Har HaMenuchot.<ref name="MH"/>
|}

Heathland Road is Stamford Hill, a short walk from [[147 Stamford Hill]], not the same building. Occupation moves from “Business” to “Dealer” — consistent with Antwerp diamond-quarter trade; a later Belgian company [[Schreiber Diamonds]] BV (Schupstraat) exists but is not proved as his personal vehicle on these scans.

== [[Ellador Limited]] ==

Incorporated 20 May 1981; charity 283202. Simon is the only USA / Antwerp officer on that file. The living board is the Zucker-line children and in-laws of [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949): [[Rivka Schreiber]] (November 1971), [[Jacob Schreiber]] (June 1974), [[Rachel Benedikt]], [[Chavi Hamburger]], [[Yisroel Schreiber]], [[Sara Reisner]]. That is the documentary hook from this Simon into the UK company set. Objects allow work “in the United Kingdom and abroad”; burial in Jerusalem is personal, not a Commission country-list for Ellador.<ref name="CHoff"/>

== See also ==

* [[Joel Schreiber]] (March 1949)
* [[Helen Schreiber]]
* [[Ellador Limited]]
* [[Schreiber family]]
* [[David Schreiber]] (August 1952) — do not merge
* [[Emanuel Schreiber]] — do not merge
* [[Osias Schreiber]] — do not merge

== Notes ==
<references/>

[[Category:Schreiber family]]
[[Category:Belgian Jews]]
[[Category:Antwerp]]
[[Category:Stamford Hill]]
[[Category:Company directors]]

Simon Schreiber - Revision history

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