Today I want us 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? Probably 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 Nelka, 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 the beginning of March 1926.
Basia Jachet born in 1929
Szajndel Rysia 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
