Friday, April 10, 2026

LEMPEL - a Levite family

 This is an attempt to collect  information about one LEMPEL family from Lubaczow.

A couple named  Isak and Sara LEMPEL must have been born around 1800 - 1810.

Isak LEMPEL was a Levite.

Samuel LEMPEL was born in 1837 and died in 1917. His gravestone  is located on Row 19, Grave 56. Hopefully  the gravestone can be photographed in the future, showing he was a Levite.

That means that Samuel's son Hersz LEMPEL born in 1878 also was a Levite as were Hersz' three sons -  Abraham Abisch LEMPEL born in 1917, Samuel LEMPEL born in 1920 and Izak in 1925.

Abraham Abisch and his brother Samuel also  had at least three sisters - Tyle Chane born in 1915, Chana Lea born in 1922 and Brancia in 1924.

Ashkenazi tradition is to name a child after a deceased relative. In this case, Samuel born in 1920 was named after his paternal grandfather Samuel LEMPEL who had died in 1917. Izak LEMPEL born in 1925 was perhaps named after his paternal greatgrandfather Izak LEMPEL.

Looking for Pages of Testimony for "Lempel, Lubaczow" I discovered that Abraham Abisch LEMPEL born in 1920  had been commemorated by his niece in Haifa in 1999 as a Holocaust victim, as had  the  mother of the siblings, the wife of Hersz  LEMPEL - Tauba Nesza LEMPEL nee FEDER born in 1891, listed on another Page of Testimony.

Here comes a puzzle. Isak and Sara LEMPEL had at least another son, Dawid LEMPEL. But that Dawid was born around  1856 and died in 1916. If  the mother was born around 1800 - 1810, she may have given birth at the age of 46 or a little older. Possible?

 Dawid married Malka TENENBAUM and they had at least two daughters:

1. Gitla LEMPEL was born 1878. She married Josef Leib MEILER.

2. Rucza LEMPEL was born in 1883. In 1918 she married Markus REIS and they had at least three children - Chana born 1920, Feiga born 1924 and Dawid in 1925. Again we see that the grandson Dawid LEMPEL born in 1925 was named after his deceased paternal grandfather Dawid LEMPEL who had died in 1916.


Is this correct?






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