October 6th 1915

We already know that a large number of the Jews in Lubaczow died in the year of 1915.
One of the dates that stand out in this tragic connection is October 6th 1915.
Why are so many persons listed in the death register on this particular day?
Was it part of the warfare or was there some epidemic?  I do not know.

One of those listed here, Arje PRICKER, is listed as a Russian soldier - so we understand he was a Russian Jewish soldier.

Here is the list , not always with all the data

APISDORF               Chaja                        55y
BAUMÖHL
BAUMÖHL               Isak Josef                   1y

BEGLEIBTER           Feiga                         60y

BOGNER                 Perla                         35y

DRUK                     Syma                        60y
DRUK                     Leib                          45y

DRUK                     Małka                        70y
FALIK                     Laja                          80y
FISCHLER               Mirla                         70y
FORST                    Leib                         35y
FRÄNKEL                 Moses                     14y

FRÄNKEL                Elaser                      78y

FRÄNKEL                                                18y

FRÄNKEL                Isak                          6y

GABEL                    Rifka                         75y

GÄRTEL                  Laja                          60y

HALPERN                Moses  Samson          3m

HASS                     Feiga                        65y

HERZBERG              Dawid                     35y

HIRSCHEL               Cywia                      68y

KAMERMAN             Syma                      75y

KATZ                      Ire                          60y

KIRSCHENBAUM      Hersch Kune            80y

KIRSCHENBAUM      Udla                       75y

KLAPER                  Chajem Majer         70y
KLAPPER                 Lieba                     70y
KORN                     Isak                       60y
LANGER                  Isser                     30y
MAJER                    Rachla                  35y
MAJER                    Sprinca                 80y
MAJERAN                Samuel Dawid       70y
MELER                    Rifka                     35y
MOND                    Chaja Tauba          90y
MOSEL                   Pesza                    45y
MÜLLER                  Efroim                 70y
NUSSBAUM                                       70y        
PRICKER                 Arje
REISLER                 Feiga                    65y
REISLER                 Leib                      65y
ROTTER                  Chajem Majer       50y
SALZBERG              Chaja                   65y
SAUERBRUN           Markus                60y
SCHNEK                 Salomon Leib      45y
SCHÄCHTER           Simszon             95y
SPINDEL                Paja                    68y
STRASBERG           Ita Keiła            60y
TEMER                   Josef Leib          70y
WALDER                Scheindla           2y
WEITZENBLUTH                             65y
ZIEGELHEIM          Chaja                 65y
ZIEGELHEIM          Nesza                75y
NN                        Pesze Lieba        70y

World War One: Battles around Lubaczow in the summer of 1915. Diseases

The year 1915 became an extreme year in Lubaczow.

230 deaths were registered that year  -  a huge number considering a Jewish population of perhaps 1700.

Looking at the list of those who died in Lubaczow in 1915, it is likely that the fighting between the Germans and the Russians in this area took its toll on the civilian population

From  the 1929 Swedish Encyclopedia ( Nordisk Familjebok) :

"During the World War the 11th German Army (von Mackensen) broke through the stronghold of the Russians between Lubaczow and Jaworow on June 12th to June 15th 1915."

In the book Almanac of World War I by David F. Burg, L. Edward Purcell you should read the description for June 13th 1915 to get an impression of the violent battles in this part of Galicja. I did a simple Google search for "Lubaczow 1915" and could read the relevant passage on Google books.

"רחל בת אפרים "מתה בעת מלחמה מן כלי תותח

Rachel daughter of Efraim "died during the war of a rocket"

But how many of the 230 persons died of  some kind of epidemic disease? We do not know. 

This is a select list of graves from 1915.

We must remember that children usually did not get any gravestones. Around a third of those who died were 16 years old or younger.

As none of these graves have the family name inscribed, a definite identification  must be taken very carefully.

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DATE OF DEATH	NAME OF DECEASED	NAME OF FATHER	NOTES
May 24th 1915	Malka Malka HOFFMAN married BLEICH 38 years old	Shmuel HaKohen Samuel HOFFMAN	Row 2, Grave 67
May 31st 1915	Simcha  Benjamin Benjamin GABEL  80 years old	…….. Jakob GABEL	Row 9, Grave 8
July 4th 1915	Aharon Zeindel  Aron Sindel KNOPF 60 years old	Shabtai Yehushua Szabsa KNOPF	Row 4, Grave 36
July 15th  1915	Fishel Meir  Fischel SCHNEIDER 50 years old	Josef HaLevi Josef SCHNEIDER	Row 18, Grave 53
July 15th 1915	Sara Keila  Sara GLANZBERG nee REICH 38 years old	Yaakov Shlomo Salamon REICH	Row 18, Grave 52
July 15th 1915	Malka Pesha  Malka Pesza ROSENBACH nee SCHIKLER 50 years old	Shraga HaLevi Feibusz Lewi SCHIKLER	Row 14, Grave 3
July 16th 1915	Avraham  Abraham HERZBERG  45 years old	…….. Rachmiel HERZBERG	Row 3, Grave 20
(July 20th 1915?)	Chana Dvora  Chana Dwojra HERZBERG nee TENZER 35 years old	……. Pinkas TENZER	Row 18, Grave 47
July 18th 1915	Moshe  Moses Lipa  ENTENBERG 30 years old	Elazar? Eliasz ENTENBERG	Row 19, Grave 44
July 20th 1915	Gitel Gitla ZIEGELHEIM nee KATZ 60 years old	Aharon David Dawid KATZ	Row18, Grave 46
July 20th 1915	Zalman Josef Selman GEMS  40 years old	Mordechai Arie Markus GEMS	Row 19, Grave 52
July 23rd 1915	Yitzchak  Izak KORMAN 58 years old	Moshe Josef Moses Josef KORMAN	Row 20, Grave 43
Aug 1st  1915	Simcha  Simche ROSENBACH 17 years old	Natan Natan ROSENBACH	Row 20, Grave 49
Aug 1st 1915	Pesha  Pesia KRAEMMERMAN nee BRYNER 38 years old	Shlomo Salamon BRYNER	Row 20, Grave 49
August 10th 1915	Moshe David  Moses Dawid LEHRER 80 years old	Efraim Fishel Fischel LEHRER	Row 11, Grave 6
Dec 13th 1915	Chaia  Chaja APISDORF nee STEINBROCH  55 years old	Yaakov Jakob STEINBROCH	Row 13, Grave 3

Moshe David LEHRER , 80 years old, son of Fischel LEHRER,  died on August 10th 1915.

Selman GEMS, son of Markus GEMS, died on July 20th 1915.

Here is a list of family names of those who died in 1915, taken from the civilian death register:

ABEND
APISDORF
ARAK
BACH
BART
BAUMÖHL
BEER
BEGLEIBTER
BENDELMAN
BIENENFELD
BIENENSTEIN
BLANK
BOGNER
BRAND
BRÜNER
BÄCKER
DORNER
DRUK
DRUKER
ENTENBERG
FALIK
FELL
FISCHLER
FISCHMAN
FLIESSER
FORST
FRIEDMAN
FRÄNKEL
FUCHS
GABEL
GARFINKEL
GELBER
GEMS
GLANZBERG
GOTTLIEB
GROSSMAN
GRUNWALD
GRÜNROK
GÄRTEL
GÄRTNER
HALPERN
HAMER
HAS
HASS
HERZBERG
HIRSCHEL
HOFFMAN
HOLZ
IGEL
JUNIUS
KALCHMAN
KAMERMAN
KATZ
KAUFMAN
KELCZ
KIRSCHENBAUM
KLAPER
KLAPPER
KNOPF
KORMAN
KORN
KRAUT
KRESEN
KRUG
KRÄMERMAN
KÖNIG
LANGER
LEFLER
LEHRER
LEMPEL
LICHTER
MAGER
MAJER
MAJERAN
MAUTNER
MEILER
MELER
MELLER
MESSER
MOND
MOSEL
MÜLER
MÜLLER
NADEL
NUSSBAUM
PECH
POTASZNIK
PRICKER
REBENSAFT
REINFELD
REISLER
RETTIG
RICHTER
RISS
ROSENBACH
ROTTER
SALANDER
SALZBERG
SATLER
SAUER
SAUERBRUN
SCHIKLER
SCHMIDT
SCHMUKLER
SCHNEIDER
SCHNEK
SCHOR
SCHÄCHTER
SENZ
SILBERMAN
SPIELMAN
SPINDEL
STEINBERG
STELZER
STERN
STERNLICHT
STRASBERG
TEMER
TEMPELMAN
TEPPICH
TISSER
WACHSMAN
WALDER
WEINRAD
WEISER
WEISSBERG
WEITZENBLUTH
WIDMAN
WILZER
WURZEL
ZIEGELHEIM

ZIMERMAN

Mendel Lehrer from the Pages of Testimony

There are more than 600 Pages of Testimony for Holocaust victims from Lubaczow submitted by Mendel LEHRER who in 1957 lived in Bazel Street, Tel Aviv.

On one hand I am grateful for all the Pages he submitted. On the other hand I understand the limitations of one person trying to remember that many persons from his hometown.

I also wanted to make the connection between him and his ancestors buried at the cemetery in Lubaczow.

From the Pages of Testimony I found that his parents were Mordechai Zeew LEHRER and Tauba Rifka LEHRER nee KORN.
Mordechai Zeew appears as Markus Wolf in other records.
Mendel had a married brother named Fiszel Fischel LEHRER.

His paternal grandparents were  Moses Dawid LEHRER born ca 1835, who died in 1915, and  Chana LEHRER nee KOENIG, born ca 1849, who died in 1925.

Moses Dawid LEHRER is buried on Row 10, Grave 4 = Row 11, Grave 6.
http://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.no/2015/03/row-10-grave-4-moses-dawid-lehrer.html

Chana LEHRER nee KOENIG is buried on Row 7, Grave 4.
http://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.no/2015/03/row-7-grave-4-chana-lehrer-nee-koenig.html

On Mendel LEHRER's Pages for his close family, we see that he was married to Feiga nee STEINBRUCH, born ca 1910,  and they had a four year old daughter named Reizel. He listed both Feiga and Reizel as murdered in Holocaust, and wrote that he himself was in Eretz Israel.

For his brother Fiszel Fischel LEHRER , he wrote that Fiszel was around 40 years old, a merchant,  when he was murdered and that Fischel's wife and children were in Eretz Israel.

My theory at this point is that Mendel LEHRER may have left Lubaczow around 1936/1937, hoping to obtain certificates for his family to come to Eretz Israel.