Besides Hirsch Ringel in Nisko and Jakob Ringel in Hamburg, Schija had one other brother, Juda Leib Ringel, who like him lived in Berlin. 

Juda, a butcher, was married to Pessel Apfelbaum, originally from Rzeszow. They had seven children born between 1880 and 1898. Juda died the following year, in 1898, at age 40, when most of his children were still minors. 

It may be that Juda's brother in Berlin, our great-grandfather Schija Ringel, played a guardian role in the lives of the children.

As I mentioned, at least four of the children of Hirsch Ringel and Perl Jacoby were Holocaust victims, including Anna Chana Ringel, married to Leon Lazar Lieblich, who perished in Krakow.

However, Leon and their daughter Margot managed to escape together with Margot's husband Jerzy Dränger, and they were sheltered by a Polish gentile family. Margot lived in Antwerp after the war and in 1998 provided testimony about her experiences to the Shoah Foundation. 

An Australian Ringel cousin defends her research about the family presence in Nisko

The oldest Ringel brother, Hirsch, raised his family in Nisko on the River San, 50 miles north of the family base in Rzeszow, before he later joined the family exodus to Berlin. Nisko was the namesake location for an early Nazi deportation plan to settle Jews on a land reservation stretching from Nisko to Lublin.

The details of Rosa Ringel's 1908 London marriage, provided in a certificate obtained from the UK General Registry Office, are consistent with Betty Ringel's 1911 London marriage in key respects, with a few interesting differences. 

Rosa and her husband Meier Weistock established residence at separate addresses in the Whitechapel area before the marriage, whereas Berry and Pincus stayed at the same address.

Their nuptials took place in the same Whitechapel office without religious rites. 

Solid evidence of a Ringel family precedent for destination marriages in London

Deep Nostalgia photo animations of my grandparents Hermann and Elly Ringel.

I tried out the Deep Nostalgia photo animation technology with photos of my grandparents.

Walter invoked Helga's refugee story in a protest at the U.S. Supreme Court