{geni:about_me} Pessel [aka Josephina, Paulina], first wife of Simon Kohn-Zerkowitz, was likely born in Trebitsch, Moravia about 1760. However, she may have been related to Abraham Trenschiner of Trebic, and possibly was from a family that originated in Trencin, Hungary. She was deceased by 1794 when her husband, a widower, was married to his second wife, Eleonora [aka Elisabeth, Veronica]..