When Elizabeth Jane Schwarz was born in 1922, in Cass, North Dakota, United States, her father, Berthold Joseph Schwarz, was 35 and her mother, Laura Ellen Brown, was 30. She lived in Ransom, North Dakota, United States in 1935 and Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States in 1940. She died on 2 October 2008, at the age of 86, and was buried in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Gunter, Heinz, Wolfgang, Gerhard, Manfred, Klaus, Bernhard, Ernst.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Schwartz . This surname is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see 2 below) and where it was often applied as a translation into German of Slavic cognates like Czech and Slovak Černý (see Cerny 1), Slovenian Černe (see Cerne 1). It is also found in some western European countries, notably in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and the Netherlands.
Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Švarc (see Swartz 2) and Polish Szwarc , surnames of German origin (see above).
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