Isidor SCHNEIDER born May 27th 1888 in Lubaczow

My Heritage published, as free information, a list of Jews  who tried to emigrate  from Wien, Austria in 1938/1939, with scanned cards. This list  also include persons who were born in Lubaczow.

One was Isidor SCHNEIDER born May 27th 1888 in Lubaczow. 

But who were his parents?

Two men with the SCHNEIDER name have been located at the Lubaczow cemetery.

Fischel SCHNEIDER who died in 1915, was a Levite, born around 1855.

Chaim Samuel SCHNEIDER  who died in 1924, was not a Levite, born around 1858. From this we understand that these are two different families - one Levite, one Israel.

Could one of these two men have been the father of Isidor SCHNEIDER?

Isidor had moved to Austria in 1910, when he was around 22 years old.

In 1938/1939 , at the age of  50, his professions are listed as "Religionslehrer, Kantor , Privatlehrer"(Teacher of religion, cantor and private tutor/teacher).

His knowledge of languages is impressive - German, Hebrew, English, Polish, Ruthenian (Ukrainian) Latin and some Russian.

Isidor was married to Itta nee MONHEIT and the couple had two children:

Theodor SCHNEIDER born in 1919 in Wien, Austria

Lola SCHNEIDER born in 1924 in Wien, Austria

The first application was made in May 1938 and at that time the countries the family wanted to emigrate listed: England, France, USA, Canada, Palestine.

On another application from February 27th 1939 he wrote that he intends to go to Hungary.

On the third document from July 21th 1940, the new Nazi  law of adding Israel to male Jewish names and Sara to female Jewish names, is in force. The letter is addressed to Isidor Israel SCHNEIDER.

Could I find the names of Isidor SCHNEIDER's parents?

On Geni.com I found a profile for a Mr. SCHNEIDER born May 27th 1888 in Lubaczow. 

Here his father was listed as Chaim Samuel SCHNEIDER and his mother was Laja Hudes SCHNEIDER nee ZIEGELHEIM.

His wife was listed as Ida Itta SCHNEIDER nee MONHEIT, and their children were Theodore Teddy SCHNEIDER and Lola SPRINZELES nee SCHNEIDER.

With this information I returned to this website and found the grave of Chaim Samuel SCHNEIDER.

https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-7-grave-2-chaim-samuel-schneider.html

Surname	SCHNEIDER
Given name	Chaim Samuel
Date of death on gravestone	Evening of the month of Kislev 5685	ערב ראש חודש כסלו תרפ"ה
Date of death	Nov 25th 1924 ( Death register)
Hebrew name	Shmuel	שמואל
Father’s name	Moshe Yitzchak z”l Moses Izak SCHNEIDER	משה יצחק ז"ל
Kohen/Levi
Decoration	Bookcase	ארון ספרים
Notes	Group Two: Death Register 66 years old. Born ca 1858. Son of Moses Izak and Rachla SCHNEIDER. Recheck stone to look for the name "Chaim"  before  the name "Shmuel" חיים שמואל.

This means that Isidor's father was around 30 years old when Isidor was born and that he died two years after Isidor had moved to Austria.

I have not located the grave of Isidor's mother Laja (Lea) Hudes nee ZIEGELHEIM.

Last, Isidor is a KINNUI, not a Shem Kodesh. His Shem Kodesh was Isaak Yitzchak.

Additional info in records from Oleszyce

In a recent search for FALIK relatives from Cewkow near Oleszyce, I have used Gesher Galicia's search engine for Record Inventories and used the scanned images of old vital records located in different Polish archives.

Cewkow is listed in the Oleszyce records. 

As you may know, there are very few vital records from Lubaczow that have survived.

For Oleszyce it is a completely different situation. At the Przemysl State Archives there are vital records going back to 1814!

When I looked at these records,  I now and then saw that some of those listed, had been born in Lubaczow.

So now  I hope to add these names to this website, and see if their names connect to those already here on the website.

As an example, Ester STEINBRUCH nee KATZ is buried at Row 1, Grave 27. She was born around 1850 and died in 1929. Around 1875 she gave birth to a son named Chajm/Chaim Salomon STEINBRUCH.

This son married Male Bleiberg, 24 years old , in Oleszyce around 1900.

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

This 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 deceased 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

deceased father or deceased 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