Surname Pollack possibly Romanian

[alison300]

Thanks garstonite.  I have never come across that site before so will take a good look.  And thanks too for the 1906 marriage entry which I will follow-up. 

it never occured to me the name was Romanian until I noticed the comment on his MIC; his medals were never sent out by the authorities as his NoK were thought to be in Romania.

Forgot to mention, the birth cert. clearly gives Sender as the middle name.

[JohninSussex]

Pollack is not a Romanian surname, in the sense that it comes from that language (e.g. Romanian does not use the letter K), although someone with that name might have lived in that country.

Polak or Polák is the ordinary Polish and Czech word for a Pole, and quite a normal surname which would be spelled Pollack in German (and English too).   It doesn't help to think of people living in Central Europe as having a modern nationality, as borders continually changed, the Austro-Hungarian (hence German language) influence was great, and so on.

"Bencovici" is a very distinctively Romanian spelling of a name (which might be Polish, Czech, Serb/Croat originally, Benković or similar).  And Sender as a middle name might be the surname of another relative.

[Bookbox]

And Sender as a middle name might be the surname of another relative.

Sender is a common enough first name in Ashkenazi Jewish families, as a Yiddish derivation from the Russian name Aleksandr.

[alison300]

Thank you John and Bookbox for educating me - I doubt now I'll discover any more about him which is a shame.