Friday, July 18, 2025

Was there a man named Szama Abraham (WEINRATH?) who died before 1925?

 his is just a theory:

As you may have seen from my last post, I have been wondering if Samuel

WEINRATH originally came from Lubaczow. There was another WEINRATH family in 

Lubaczow but could they have been distant relatives. After the Holocaust that family

often used a different spelling of the family name.

Today, looking through the birth registers for Lubaczow, I found some information

that made me wonder if Samuel WEINRATH had a sister named Biene WEINRATH.


In his first marriage to Rozalia Reisel, Samuel had no sons, so he could not honor

 any of his male ancestors by passing on their given name.

In his second marriage to Chaja Tauba , he named his first son Szama Abraham

WEINRATH. Szama Abraham was born in 1926.

The year before, in 1925, another Szama Abraham was born in Lubaczow to

Boruch KRAUTSZTENGIEL (KRAUTSTENGEL? KRAUTSTĂ„NGEL?) and Biene

WEINRATH. 

Could it be that Samuel and Biene were brother and sister, and that their father or

grandfather was Szama Abraham (WEINRATH?) and that he had died before

1925?


Boruch and Biene had a daughter in 1927, a daughter they named Malka Reisel.

Then Boruch and Biene may have left Lubaczow as I see no other traces of

this family  there.

The KRAUTSTENGIEL  family name is very rare, but from birth index books in the

Przemysl ID project of Gesher Galicia, this name can be found in Sanok.


Back then, you may have gone from Lubaczow to Sanok by taking the train to

Jaroslaw, then to Rzeszow and then south to Sanok.


Does  this theory have some logic?




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