Sunday, March 8, 2015

ROW 4, GRAVE 13: Josef HELLSINGER / HELSINGER

ROW 4, GRAVE 13






Surname
HELSINGER  or HELLSINGER
 הלזינגר
Given name
Josef

Date of death
on gravestone
 Av 23rd 5690
כג אב תר"צ 
Date of death
Aug 17th 1930 ( Death register)

Hebrew name
Josef Elchanan
יוסף אלחנן 
Father’s name
 Yitzchak Yaakov z"l
Izak HELLSINGER
 יצחק יעקב ז"ל
Kohen/Levi


Decoration
 Bookcase
ארון ספרים 
Notes
Father of Shlomo Helsinger .

60 years old. Born ca 1870

Married to Chana nee HARTMAN who was murdered in the Holocaust.

Group Two: Death register
 האב של שלמה הלזינגר

One of very moving experiences around this project was meeting Shlomo Helsinger z"l, born 1917, who lived in Kfar Saba, Israel.

He told me that his father, a Sofer (scribe),  died the year he himself had his Bar Mitzvah.

When I found this grave I  knew I had to tell him right away. So with the help of my  mobile phone  I phoned Shlomo in Israel, and read him the text on the stone, standing next to it. I had brought two stones from Israel and put one on his father's gravestone.


Shlomo himself had left Lubaczow in the spring of 1941 when he was drafted into the Red Army. His mother and sisters cried when he left.

Before Shlomo was born in 1917, an older brother had fallen in World War I. It was clear what the fear of his family was.


Shlomo survived and moved to Israel , but his mother, his sisters and their  families all became victims of Holocaust.


They were, as far as I was able to understand:


Josef Helsinger's wife Chana HELSINGER nee HARTMAN, born  around 1880 in Lubaczow, daughter of Samuel and Szajndel HARTMAN.

Chana HELSINGER gave birth to eight children - two sons and six daughters. After her oldest son , name unknown to us, died in the First World War, she gave birth to Shlomo in 1917. 

Her six daughters were:

Rechel Frimet LUDEN nee HELSINGER, born 1900, 
              married  Salomon Dawid Shlomo LUDEN in 1923, 
              mother  of 
              Samuel Jakob LUDEN born 1924
              Mindel LUDEN born 1926
              Josef LUDEN (born ca 1939)
              The family lived in Tomaszow.

Sara HELSINGER , married to Jakob Potasznik

Mala Malka LUDEN nee HELSINGER born 1909, 
              married to Chaim Shmuel  LUDEN.
              Children?
              Lived in Tomaszow.

Rachela HELSINGER, born 1910, married

Feiga Zipora EGERT nee  HELSINGER born 1912, 
              married to  Mordechai Moti EGERT

Matla HELSINGER , born 1915


Josef HELSINGER also had a  brother named Avraham Aharon HELSINGER who was married to Sara.

              Their children: Yaakov HELSINGER,married
                                    Mindla HELSINGER, married
                                    Szymon HELSINGER, married, father of two children, one    
                                    named  Israel HELSINGER.
All these  became victims of Holocaust.

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