Was there a man named Szama Abraham (WEINRATH?) who died before 1925?

 his is just a theory:

As you may have seen from my last post, I have been wondering if Samuel

WEINRATH originally came from Lubaczow. There was another WEINRATH family in 

Lubaczow but could they have been distant relatives. After the Holocaust that family

often used a different spelling of the family name.

Today, looking through the birth registers for Lubaczow, I found some information

that made me wonder if Samuel WEINRATH had a sister named Biene WEINRATH.

In his first marriage to Rozalia Reisel, Samuel had no sons, so he could not honor

 any of his male ancestors by passing on their given name.

In his second marriage to Chaja Tauba , he named his first son Szama Abraham

WEINRATH. Szama Abraham was born in 1926.

The year before, in 1925, another Szama Abraham was born in Lubaczow to

Boruch KRAUTSZTENGIEL (KRAUTSTENGEL? KRAUTSTÄNGEL?) and Biene

WEINRATH. 

Could it be that Samuel and Biene were brother and sister, and that their father or

grandfather was Szama Abraham (WEINRATH?) and that he had died before

1925?

Boruch and Biene had a daughter in 1927, a daughter they named Malka Reisel.

Then Boruch and Biene may have left Lubaczow as I see no other traces of

this family  there.

The KRAUTSTENGIEL  family name is very rare, but from birth index books in the

Przemysl ID project of Gesher Galicia, this name can be found in Sanok.

Back then, you may have gone from Lubaczow to Sanok by taking the train to

Jaroslaw, then to Rzeszow and then south to Sanok.

Does  this theory have some logic?

Samuel Weinrath and his family

Today I would like to remember Samuel WEINRATH and his family.

Who were his parents? His grandparents?

When was Samuel born? Around 1885- 1890?

Was he originally from Lubaczow? Perhaps not.

We know that he met Rozalia Reisel  GOTTLIEB  and they got married,

but probably not in Lubaczow.

Rozalia was born around 1891 in Rawa Ruska to Pinchas and Alta GOTTLIEB.

In 1919, when Rozalia was around 28 years old, she gave birth to their daughter,

Necha Cyrla, nicknamed "Nelka" or "Nella", in Rawa Ruska.

In 1926 Rozalia died, only 35 years old. She was buried in Lubaczow where you

still can see her gravestone. 

Samuel was left with their daughter, only six or seven, so he did what most

widower would do at that time, he quickly remarried.

His second wife was Chaja Tauba FELD r. LAUB. Where did she come from?

Where did they marry? We don't know, so far.

Chaja Tauba and Samuel WEINRATH settled in Lubaczow. Their five children

were born in Lubaczow:

Szama Abraham born in 1926. He must have been born towards the end of 1926,                                               as his father's first wife had died  in of March 1926.

Basia Jachet born in 1929

Szajndel Rysza born in 1931

Szymon Jozef born 1934

Rifka Ita born in 1936.

During these years Samuel's oldest daughter from his first marriage, Necha  Nella

Nelka, lived in what must have been quite  a busy and crowded home, till she

moved to Jaworow to go to the gymnasium. The gymnasium in Poland at that

time, as far as I  understand, is middle school and high school. Later Necha

married Jozef HILFERDING and she moved to Lwow.

Samuel and Chaja Taube and their five young children lived back in Lubaczow.

In September 1939 when the German Army invaded Poland these children

were aged four to ten.

After about a month the German Army left, and then the occupation by the USSR

started. 

How did Samuel and Chaja Taube manage everyday life in Lubaczow with five

children, under the Soviet rule?

In the summer of 1941 the German army was back in Lubaczow, and as we now

know, the situation of the Jews detoriated till the last Jews were murdered in

January 1943.

How long did Samuel, his wife and their five children stay alive in that situation?

We don't know.

So when you visit the Jewish cemetery in Lubaczow and find Rozalia Reisel

WEINRATH's gravestone from 1926, please remember those family members who

never got a gravestone because they were murdered in the Holocaust:

Samuel WEINRATH

Chaja Taube WEINRATH nee FELD r. LAUB

Necha Nella HILFERDING nee WEINRATH

Jozef HILFERDING

Szama Abraham WEINRATH

Basia Jachet WEINRATH

Szajndel Rysia WEINRATH

Szymon Jozef WEINRATH

Rifka Ita WEINRATH

Any corrections or additions to this blogpost will be greatly appreciated.

Majer and Rachel Lea WALZER - greatgrandparents of Alejandra WALZER MOSKOVIC

Alejandra WALZER MOSKOVIC, now working in Spain, has roots in Lubaczow. She visited Lubaczow some years ago with her father Isidore WALZER z"l. Her father died this year.

Alejandra's grandfather Rafal Rafael WALZER  emigrated from Lubaczow to Argentina back in 1925. Rafal's parents were Majer WALZER and Rachel Lea WALZER nee WALZER.

Majer and Rachel Lea were first cousins.

Majer was the son of  Izrael Israel WALZER and Rachel Lea the daughter of Izrael's brother Bernard Dov WALZER.

Majer and Rachel Lea were both murdered in the Holocaust. 

Alejandra is writing a book about her search for her family history, a search she has no idea what the end result will be.

Perhaps you have any information that will help her?

Kolel Galicja in Jerusalem and their connection to Lubaczow

Imagine living in Lubaczow from the year 1830 forward, and though you and your family could not, for so many reasons, go to Jerusalem to be a Thora scholar,  you wanted to support those from Galicja who had gone there. 

                      The Charities of Rabbi Meir Baal Haness - Kolel

”Chibas Yerusholayim” (Jerusalem) of Galicia

“Founded in the year 5590(1830) by the Gaonim & the Tzadikim of Galicia to

 support & strengthen the Yishuv in our Holy Land”

Despite the harsh conditions in the Holy Land,  those Galicjan scholars stayed there with their families, dedicating their lives to studying the Holy Scriptures.

So back in Lubaczow and in other places in Galicja, families kept small boxes - pushke - in their homes, adding money that would be sent to Kolel Galicja in Jerusalem to support those who lived there . Money needed to support families, widows, orphans, supporting young women to get married. A few times a year, a trusted local person would walk to the different Jewish families and collect the money in those metal boxes, and then send the money to Jerusalem.

Each donation noted with the name of the donor and the money donated.

Once I met Shlomo Helsinger, originally from Lubaczow, in Kfar Saba. Through his amazing memory, he looked at the list and described how the collector had walked from one home to the other, first floor, second floor, crossing the street, sometimes noting that so and so family was poor and could not give any more. He had the map of Jewish Lubaczow in his head - after close to 60 years since he left Lubaczow.

Kolel Galicja, still exists on Mea Shearim Street 120 in Jerusalem. I have been fortunate to visit a few times. It is like walking back in time, sensing history.          

In their archives they have some of the donor lists from the 1920's and 1930's. For Lubaczow the lists were from 1930's.

If your family came from Lubaczow, lived there in the 1930's and would be likely to support the religious students living in Jerusalem, and you are visiting Jerusalem, it may be worth making an appointment for a visit to Kolel Galicja. Dress appropriately!

In this donors' lists from Lubaczow,  I decided to add the given names of the female donors:

ALTMAN

BELZ

BOGNER

FISCHLER  Kreinze   

FRAENKEL

GOTLIEB  Rachel

GROSS

HALPER  Ester

HERZBERG  Ester  

HOFFMAN

KNOPF

KONIG  Lea

KREMERMAN

MUELLER

REINFELD Hendel  

RETTIG

ROST

SCHMIDT Scheindel

TEMPELMAN

WEINROTH/WEINRATH

Three of these women appear on the Yizkor list for Lubaczow, so it is most likely they were murdered during the Holocaust:

FISCHLER  Kreinze   

HERZBERG  Ester  

REINFELD Hendel   

Kolel Galicja's website in Hebrew  https://www.hibat.org/

An example of donors' lists from Bukowsko:

https://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bukowsko/charity.htm

Alejandra Walzer Moskovic pays respect to Bogdan's grave in Oleczyce

 

Rivka GETZ and her family members visited Lubaczow back in 2014

 

 

January 2014

Rivka Getz:

How sad and what a loss for humanity.  

When our family came for a brief visit to Lubaczow to visit our grandfathers' graves,  Bogdan was right there, helping out in his kind manner.  He actually volunteered to drive us to  Oleszyce to that cemetery, which he had also cared for.  

He was a really good person and will be missed.  Our condolences to his family.

Rivka, her sister Miriam and many family members came to Lubaczow in January 2014 as you can read about in this post.

https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-1-grave-17-moshe-koenig.html

Our dear friend Bogdan Lisze z"l has died

 With sadness we announce that our dear friend

      Bogdan Lisze

suddenly died in Stuttgart, Germany on July 27th 2024.

He was buried in Oleszyce , Poland on August 12th 2024.

Bogdan has been such a crucial person for making us all remember the Jews who once lived in Lubaczow and for initiating the transformation  of the Jewish cemetery in Lubaczow  into what it is today.