---
title: "Aida Smud"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/
lang: en
work: "The Smud Family: A Jewish Family History from Ludza, Latvia to Entre Ríos, Argentina"
author: "Mateo Smud"
licence: CC0-1.0
summary: "Born in Berdyansk in the last week of July 1904, she was only six months old when she crossed the Atlantic. She was the last of the three siblings to die, and one of the voices that told much of what we know today."
---
# Aida Smud

**Evidence status: documented.** Born in Berdyansk in the last week of July 1904, she was only six months old when she crossed the Atlantic. She was the last of the three siblings to die, and one of the voices that told much of what we know today.

1904 – 1992 · Crossed the Atlantic at six months old

## Other spellings

Eide

## Summary

- Born: last week of July 1904, Berdyansk
- Died: 1992, aged eighty-eight
- Married: Pablo Freiberg, October 1926

## Family

- Father: Felix Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/
- Mother: Malke Noel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/malke-noel/
- Married: Pablo Freiberg

## What is known

In the December 1904 immigration register she appears as Eide, six months old. She was the only one of the three who never really got to know her father.

She lived in the home of Alejandro and Isabel. In October 1926 she married Pablo Freiberg, a nephew of Elías Loyber's wife and an employee of Alejandro's store.

She died in 1992, aged eighty-eight. She was the last of the three siblings to die, and one of the voices that told Rubén much of what we know today.

## Photographs

![Studio portrait of the Smud family: Ester Malka seated, in a dark dress with a lace front; beside her Aida, in a light dress; Marcos and Alejandro in short suits and bows, one of them holding a cane; and Felix standing, his hand on one of his sons' shoulder.](https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/fotos/felix-smud-ester-malka-y-familia.jpg)

**Felix Smud and Ester Malka with their children.** Felix Smud and Ester Malka with their three children: the girl is Aida; the two boys are Alejandro and Marcos (Meyer), though it is not known which is which. Undated. (documented.)

## Parentage, version by version

- What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — mother: Malke Noel — documented. Eide, aged 6 months, travels with “Malke Noel de Smud” and the other children.
- What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — father: Felix Smud — compatible with the documents. The register does not name the father: Malke travels as “de Smud”, Felix's wife, and the family always gave him as the father.
- Chaim Freedman, February 2020 (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-february-2020/) — father: Avraham Zhmood/Smud; mother: not named — CONTRADICTED by a document. Daughter of that Avraham, died 1990. She travelled in 1904 with Malke and her brothers, Felix's sons.

## Surname variants

- Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/smud/

## In the timeline

- 1904 — The war with Japan and Aida's birth
- August 1904 — Malke leaves Berdyansk with the three children
- 23 December 1904 — The ship docks in Buenos Aires
- c. 1908 — Malke returns to Russia with Aida
- c. 1915 — Malke dies and the siblings move to Entre Ríos
- 1926 — The store opposite the station
- 1992 — Aida dies, the last of the three
- 1996 — Rubén types three pages

## Places

- Berdyansk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/berdyansk/
- Buenos Aires — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/buenos-aires/
- Maciá — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/macia/
- Bremen — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/bremen/

## Where this comes from

- The 1904 immigration register (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#registro-inmigracion-1904
- Rubén's document, October 1996 (family memory) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/ruben-1996/

## In FamilySearch's collaborative tree (not a source)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR6D-BSL

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The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt