ROW 1, GRAVE 2
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January 2014
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Photo: Bogdan Lisze
Surname
| RETTIG / RETIG | ||
Given name
| Mosze | ||
Date of death
on gravestone
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Elul 25th 5699
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כ"ה אלול תרצ"ט
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Date of death
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Sept 9th 1939
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Hebrew name
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Moshe Yehuda
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Father’s name
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Zeev Yitzchak z"l
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זאב יצחק ז"ל
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Kohen/Levi
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Decoration
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Crown and two lions
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כתר. אריות
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Notes
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Group One: Family name on gravestone
Group Five: Died after Dec 26th 1938
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נפטר בזמן הכיבוש הגרמני הראשון בספטמבר 1939
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From the Page of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem by a nephew of Moshe RETTIG, we learn that Mosze RETIG ( the nephew’s spelling), son of Yitzchak Wolf and Chaja Sara Retig, was born 1885 in Lubaczow and married to Rywka. The couple had six children. Mosze worked as a painter/varnisher.
His nephew listed him as a Holocaust victim, and I see two possible explanations:
- Because he died just after the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the relative who in 1957 submitted this Page, may not have known the exact circumstances of his death.
- His death, just after the war broke out, may have been the result of some war action.
In 1939 Mosze RETIG was around 54 years old. It is likely his children were all above the age of 18 as none are listed on the Pages of the parents. Perhaps most of them managed to emigrate in time?
On the Yizkor list for Lubaczow I once transcribed, the following persons with this family name are listed:
RETTIG Hersch, Abraham David, Naftali, Feige, Moshe, Abraham
Again, the friends and relatives who made the Yizkor list in Israel after the war, may not have known the exact date and the circumstances of of Moshe RETTIG’s death. But if they knew he died as a result of the German occupation, we understand they submitted a Page of Testimony.
On a business directory from 1929, there are two listings for RETTIG:
M. RETTIG Lakiernicy Varnisher or painter
R. RETTIG Rozne towary General store
The first listing must show Moshe RETTIG as a varnisher/painter. Was it his wife Rywka RETTIG who ran the general store?
The same nephew who submitted a Page for Mosze RETIG, also wrote one for Mosze’s older brother Abraham RETIG. He listed him as born in Przemysl in 1878, the son of Yitzchak Wolf and Chaia Sara RETIG. Abraham was married to Rywka and the couple had six children. He lived in Przemysl and worked as a baker.
A possible relative was David RETTIG, a rabbi, married with two children who was the director of an orphanage in Warszawa. David was the son of Naftali RETTIG and Feige nee KENIG/KOENIG, according to a nephew of David RETTIG who submitted the Page in 1999.
This David RETTIG, a rabbi, was born on Oct 11th 1904 in Lubaczow and married to Bella RETTIG nee SCHABSELBEN. They are both listed on a transport list from Posen on Dec 13th 1939 according to this website http://www.baza-nazwisk.de/
It is important to remember that names, both given names and family names can turn up with different spellings , like Moshe and Mosze and RETTIG and RETIG .
May 6th 2013
When I originally entered the data on this blog, I wondered if Moshe Rettig who died on Sept 9th 1939, had been a victim of war action.
Could it be that Mosze RETTIG had been wounded on Sept 7th and died on Sept 9th?
May 27th 2013
May 6th 2013
When I originally entered the data on this blog, I wondered if Moshe Rettig who died on Sept 9th 1939, had been a victim of war action.
On the website made by the students in Lubaczow and their teacher, there is a testimony by artist Marian Kopf (born 1923).
Marian Kopf has donated a series of paintings to the local museum in Lubaczow, many depicting Jewish life and death during the Second World War.
The testimony he wrote about the first years of that war is in Polish, a language I have limited knowledge of. I decided to use the automatic translation button on my computer and in this way was able to get a general impression.
On Sept 6th 1939 a German plane passed over Lubaczow, but did not attack the town.
On Sept 7th 1939 around three o’clock in the afternoon, the siren again sounded and several German planes started to circle over Lubaczow. The first bomb was dropped near the railway station and the second one closer to the Rynek. This first attack lasted for 15 to 20 minutes and then the planes flew off to bomb Cieszanow and Oleszyce. The planes returned and attacked a second time.
Here is a detail from one of Marion Kopf's paintings, showing the bombing of September 7th 1939.
Among those killed were both locals and refugees who were trying to escape to the east.
The wounded were taken to the hospital to be treated.
Could it be that Mosze RETTIG had been wounded on Sept 7th and died on Sept 9th?
May 27th 2013
On the top of the stone it says in Hebrew Moshe and then the family name is written in Hebrew letters with Yiddish spelling RESH AYIN TET YOD GIMEL Retig.
משה רעטיג
In this cemetery the family name is usually on the bottom of the stone - this is an exception.
If you look closer on the name of the father, clearer if you are actually standing there, there seems to have been a correction in stone of the first given name. My guess is that it was originally written Wolf, but as this was the Kinnui, the family wanted the two sacred names Zeev Yitzchak.
The nephew who wrote the Page of Testimony for Moshe RETIG, wrote that his father was Yitzchak Wolf RETIG.
Wolf = Zeev
Kinnui : Wolf
Shem Kodesh: Zeev
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