ROW 43, GRAVE 5: Berko POTASZNIK

ROW 43, GRAVE 5

Surname	POTASZNIK	פטאשניק
Given name	Berko
Date of death on gravestone	Nisan  5698	ניסן תרצ"ח
Date of death	April 4th 1938 (Death register)
Hebrew name	Berish	בעריש
Father’s nameMorde	Mordechai HaLevi Markus Potasznik	פטאשניק הלוי
Kohen/Levi	Levi	לוי
Decoration	Pitcher	קנקן
Notes	Group One:Family name on gravestone

The only Page of Testimony I found for “Potasznik, Lubaczow” was submitted in 1955 by Shlomo Helsinger whom I knew. He wrote  that his sister Sara Helsinger was married to Jakob Potasznik. Jakob Potasznik was born in Nowa Grobla and was the son of Shimon Potasznik. He wrote that Jakob Potasznik was murdered in the Lubaczow ghetto in 1943.

Nowa Grobla is a village 14 km south east of Lubaczow.

Looking for for Pages for  “Potasznik, Nowa Grobla” there were several Pages relating to the children of Mordechai and Ester Potasznik/Potaschnik:

1. Moses Wolf Potasznik, born 1882, a disabled veteran of  WWI (he had lost his leg), married, lived in Jaroslaw, in Krakow during the war, shot in the Krakow ghetto. At least one daughter survived.

2. Jakob Potasznik, born ca 1890 in Nowa Grobla, married, a merchant in wood

3. Mendel Potasznik, born around 1890 – 1900 in Nowa Grobla, single,  lived in France during the war.

If Berish Potasznik who died in Lubaczow in 1938 was the son of Mordechai and Ester Potasnik, then he may have been an additional brother of the three brothers  listed above.