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The Gattegno Family
Write the Great Bookגטניו
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Gattegno lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Jewish family of Salonica. The Gattegno dynasty ran the Gattegno bank of Salonica and several schools of the Alliance israélite universelle; most of its members were deported in 1943.
Geographic origin: Salonique
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/gattegno">Gattegno — Zakhor</a>Citation
Gattegno — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/gattegnoVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin5
GategnoGatignoGatinhoGattegnioKattegno
עברית · Hebrew1
גטניו
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Notable figures
- 1.
Sam Gattegno
Banquier et dirigeant communautaire de Salonique
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Gattegno.
Search “Gattegno” on Yad VashemThe search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more
Works & texts (5)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
Salonique, 1736
Ṭirat Kesef
Abraham ben Benveniste Gatigno
Commentaire de Abraham ben Benveniste Gatigno. (Salonique, 1736)
Salonique, 1756
Ẓeror ha-Kesef
Abraham ben Benveniste Gatigno
Responsa de Abraham ben Benveniste Gatigno. (Salonique, 1756)
Smyrne, 1766
To'afot Re'em
Eliakim ben Isaac Gatigno
Livre de Eliakim ben Isaac Gatigno. (Smyrne, 1766)
Salonique, 1792
Bet Yiẓḥaḳ
Isaac ben Eliakim Gatigno
Livre de Isaac ben Eliakim Gatigno. (Salonique, 1792)
Salonique, 1872
Ẓel ha-Kesef
Abraham Gatigno
Livre de Abraham Gatigno. (Salonique, 1872)
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Communities crossed
Diaspora regions
GrèceFrance
The days of this book
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