Hebrew:
'אלטמן,חיים-שמואל,אסתר-אטל, אלימלך, יעקב,שרה, חייפ-צבי, נתן, חנה, חנוך, מוטל ומשפ
English transcription:
ALTMAN Chaim-Shmuel, Ester-Etel, Elimelech, Jacob, Sara, Chaim-Zvi, Nathan, Chana, Chanoch, Motel and family.
Likely versions of writing these names back in Lubaczow:
ALTMAN Chaim
ALTMAN Ester
ALTMAN Elimelech / Meilech
ALTMAN Jakob / Jakub
ALTMAN Sara
ALTMAN Chaim Hersz / Chaim Hersz
ALTMAN Nathan / Nusyn
ALTHMAN Chana
ALTMAN Chanoch
ALTMAN Motel (Mordechai?)
No relatives seem to have submitted Pages of Testimony to Yad Vashem for this family.
There is one Page of Testimony submitted for Chaim ALTMAN, a merchant, married to Ester Etil, by community member M. Lerer.
Could the family have moved away from Lubaczow before the Holocaust?
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
YIZKOR list from 1954: ADLER
Hebrew:
'אדלר, מנדל, חנלה, צבי, דוד-שמואל, אלקה,מאיר ומשפ
English transcription:
ADLER Mendel, Channale, Zvi, David-Shmuel, Elka, Meir and family
Likely versions used back in Lubaczow:
ADLER Mendel (Menachem?)
ADLER Chana / Chana'le
ADLER Cwi
ADLER Dawid Samuel
ADLER Elka
ADLER Majer
Mendel ADLER died in 1933.
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-2-grave-14-mendel-adler.html
Note: The fact that Mendel BOGNER is on the Yizkor list and died in 1933, is one of the reasons I believe the Yizkor list also includes names of persons who died before the Holocaust. In this case, relatives in Israel in the 1950's had no possibility to visit Mendel BOGNER's grave in Lubaczow and would commemorate him in Israel during the Lubaczow Landsmanschaft meetings. Do you agree?
When did Chana ADLER die?
Cwi ADLER's Page of Testimony was submitted by a relative named Scheindel ADLER.
David Shmuel ADLER's Page of Testimony was submitted by the same relative, Scheindel ADLER.
David ADLER's second Page of Testimony was submitted by his brother-in-law Shlomo ADLER and includes the names of the three children of David and Elka ADLER - Moshe ADLER ,Yehuda Zvi ADLER and Mindel ADLER.
Elka ADLER nee LEVI's Page of Testimony was submitted by her relative Scheindel ADLER.
Elki ADLER nee LEVI's Page of Testimony was submitted by her brother Shlomo LEVI.
Majer ADLER's Page of Testimony was submitted by his cousin Shlomo ADLER.
Keila DORNER nee ADLER was a daughter of Mendel and Channale ADLER. She is listed under DORNER on the YIZKOR list with her husband and one of their sons.
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-11grave-1-keila-dorner-nee-adler.html
Sunday, June 30, 2019
YIZKOR list from 1954. Religious leaders mentioned.
My own translation of this is:
The honest and pious
Zaddikim and Chassidim,
the men, women and children of the holy community
of the town Lubaczow in Eastern Galicia
May Their Souls Be Bound Up In The Bond Of Life
Merciful God in Heaven, grant
Perfect repose in the wings of the Schechina
of the holy and pure persons as the firmament
the skies will light
the souls of the illustrious and famous rabbis
great in Torah who served on the chair of the rabbinate
for many years in the holy community of Lubaczow:
Rabbi Shmuel-Nachum Nathansohn
Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Teomim- Frenkel
Rabbi Yekutiel Schor
Rabbi Levi- Yitzchak Schor
Rabbi Bezalel Glanzberg Mu"Z ( Moreh Zedek)
Rabbi Issachar-Dov Rokach and Rabbi Shalom Rokach, descendants of the late Belzer rabbi.
When remembering these holy persons, we also remember those who died a natural death. May we never, with God's help, forget their names and memory.
HOLOCAUST
Out of the rabbis mentioned above, we know from Pages of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem that two were murdered in the Holocaust:
Rabbi Levi-Yitzchak SCHOR and Rabbi Shalom ROKACH.
Possible leads for further research.
NATHANSOHN
From JRI Poland, we learn that Simche/Symche NATHANSOHN, born 1871, from Lubaczow, son of Samuel and Pesie NATHANSOHN, married Siesel GOLDBERG in Stryj in 1898.
TEOMIM -FRÄNKEL
The wife of Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel TEOMIM-FRENKEL , Rebbetzin Beila, died in 1908 and is buried in this cemetery, but we have not located the rabbi's grave.
SCHOR
It is possible that Rabbi Yekutiel SCHOR is buried on Row 1, Grave 18, next to Moshe KOENIG. It is difficult to read the text on that particular gravestone. Hopefully a future visitor will be able to verify if this is Rabbi Yekutiel SCHOR's grave.
GLANZBERG
The family name GLANZBERG appears, so far,
1. in the Lubaczow Yizkor list:
GLANZBERG, Leib, Eisig and family.
2. the death of Sara Keila GLANZBERG nee REICH, wife of Eisig GLANZBERG.
She died in 1915 in Lubaczow at the age of 38. Born ca 1877.
3. In 1910, in Zborow, Israel Leibisch GLANZBERG,born 1884,(son of Zallel GLANZBERG and Golda FRÄNKEL from Lubaczow) married Beile KAUFMANN, born 1891, (daughter of Mendel and Reizel KAUFMANN).
4. In Uhnov in 1895 Riwka GLANZBERG and her husband Uscher Sender MARGULIES had twins, though only one twin survived - the daughter Beile. Riwka GLANZBERG is listed as the daughter of Zallel and Golda GLANZBERG from Lubaczow.
ROKACH
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-2-grave-20-rabbi-sacher-ber-isachar.html
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-2-grave-21-rebbetzin-chana-osnat.html
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-8-grave-7-sara-rokach.html
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-2-grave-19-isachar-dov-rokach.html
The following graves in the cemetery, have connections to rabbis and rabbinical families:
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/08/rabbis-and-rabbinical-families.html
YIZKOR list from 1954. An Introduction.
According to "Where Once We Walked," there were 1, 715 Jews in Lubaczow before the Holocaust.
I once translated a one-page Yizkor list for Lubaczow. The list, containing close to 860 persons, was finished in 1954, a project of the Israeli Lubaczower Landsmanschaft and its chairman, the late Uri Roth. The scribe who wrote the one-page list was the late Samuel S. Lieberman from Tel Aviv, originally from Cieszanow.
The list gives no indication of age or of internal family relationships ( parents, children, siblings, spouses ) of the victims. The words "and family" in the list seem to indicate there were additional family members whose names were forgotten or not known.
Because the names have been translated from Hebrew and the print in our copy was tiny, the spelling must be taken with much caution. Please send any corrections you can find to me: efloersheim (at) gmail.com
My initial impression was that these names were the names of persons murdered in the Holocaust. Later I have understood that this is not always the case.
1. Some of the religious leaders had died long before the Holocaust.
2. Some had died in the late thirties, even in the 1920's.
3. WWII broke out in September 1939. Some had died between September 1939 and December 1940, during the Soviet occupation.
Relatives who had managed to escape to Eretz Israel before the Holocaust and those Holocaust survivors who managed to get to Israel after the war, knew they had no possibility to go to Lubaczow to their family graves. There were of course no graves for those relatives who had been murdered in the Holocaust.
These members of the Israeli Lubaczower Landsmanschaft would get together and needed a way to commemorate their relatives without visiting the Lubaczow Jewish cemetery and without any graves for those murdered during the Holocaust.
I also believe they wanted to honor those religious leaders who had led and influenced their lives back in Lubaczow.
My theory today is that the Yizkor list composed in 1954 in Tel Aviv had three purposes,:
1. to give at least some of the relatives in Israel a symbolic way of commemorating their deceased family members buried in Lubaczow.
2. to honor the religious leaders they had back in Lubaczow
3. to commemorate their murdered relatives and friends. This may have been the main purpose.
I once translated a one-page Yizkor list for Lubaczow. The list, containing close to 860 persons, was finished in 1954, a project of the Israeli Lubaczower Landsmanschaft and its chairman, the late Uri Roth. The scribe who wrote the one-page list was the late Samuel S. Lieberman from Tel Aviv, originally from Cieszanow.
The list gives no indication of age or of internal family relationships ( parents, children, siblings, spouses ) of the victims. The words "and family" in the list seem to indicate there were additional family members whose names were forgotten or not known.
Because the names have been translated from Hebrew and the print in our copy was tiny, the spelling must be taken with much caution. Please send any corrections you can find to me: efloersheim (at) gmail.com
My initial impression was that these names were the names of persons murdered in the Holocaust. Later I have understood that this is not always the case.
1. Some of the religious leaders had died long before the Holocaust.
2. Some had died in the late thirties, even in the 1920's.
3. WWII broke out in September 1939. Some had died between September 1939 and December 1940, during the Soviet occupation.
Relatives who had managed to escape to Eretz Israel before the Holocaust and those Holocaust survivors who managed to get to Israel after the war, knew they had no possibility to go to Lubaczow to their family graves. There were of course no graves for those relatives who had been murdered in the Holocaust.
These members of the Israeli Lubaczower Landsmanschaft would get together and needed a way to commemorate their relatives without visiting the Lubaczow Jewish cemetery and without any graves for those murdered during the Holocaust.
I also believe they wanted to honor those religious leaders who had led and influenced their lives back in Lubaczow.
My theory today is that the Yizkor list composed in 1954 in Tel Aviv had three purposes,:
1. to give at least some of the relatives in Israel a symbolic way of commemorating their deceased family members buried in Lubaczow.
2. to honor the religious leaders they had back in Lubaczow
3. to commemorate their murdered relatives and friends. This may have been the main purpose.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Three sons of Jozef and Chaja KATZ
My last blogpost was about the family of Berl KATZ.
The parents of Berl KATZ were Josef / Jozef KATZ and his wife Chaja nee RINDLER.
A rough estimate would give Jozef and Chaja's birth years around 1840 - 1845, and their year of wedding around 1863 - 1868.
From the fact that Berl named his oldest son Josef when he was born in 1904, we understand that Berl's father had died before 1904.
From the fact that their son Berl named his daughter born in 1914 Chaja, we understand that Chaja KATZ nee RINDLER had died before 1914.
The three sons we have found so far, all lived around Lubaczow , in Basznia, but had completely different fates.
Their youngest son, Hersch (Zvi) KATZ, was born around 1889, and died, 26 years old in 1915. 1915 was the year that so many died in Lubaczow.
Their son Berl KATZ was born in 1874, was first married to Malka. After Malka's death in 1915, Berl married Chaja. Berl was murdered in the Holocaust.
Their son Izrael / Israel KATZ was born either in 1864 or around 1869. He died in June 1936, either 67 or 72 years old.
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-2-grave-4-izrael-katz.html
The parents of Berl KATZ were Josef / Jozef KATZ and his wife Chaja nee RINDLER.
A rough estimate would give Jozef and Chaja's birth years around 1840 - 1845, and their year of wedding around 1863 - 1868.
From the fact that Berl named his oldest son Josef when he was born in 1904, we understand that Berl's father had died before 1904.
From the fact that their son Berl named his daughter born in 1914 Chaja, we understand that Chaja KATZ nee RINDLER had died before 1914.
The three sons we have found so far, all lived around Lubaczow , in Basznia, but had completely different fates.
Their youngest son, Hersch (Zvi) KATZ, was born around 1889, and died, 26 years old in 1915. 1915 was the year that so many died in Lubaczow.
Their son Berl KATZ was born in 1874, was first married to Malka. After Malka's death in 1915, Berl married Chaja. Berl was murdered in the Holocaust.
Their son Izrael / Israel KATZ was born either in 1864 or around 1869. He died in June 1936, either 67 or 72 years old.
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-2-grave-4-izrael-katz.html
Saturday, March 16, 2019
The Berl KATZ family
A letter from Argentina and then an email from a grandson caused me to look closer at the family of Berl KATZ.
Berl KATZ was born in 1874 and was married twice.
His first wife Malka LUDNER/ LUDMER , died in 1915, only 32 years old.
Berl KATZ' son from his first marriage, Mendel KATZ, born in 1911, managed to emigrate to Argentina in 1939. Mendel's brother Rajmiel/Rachmiel KATZ, born 1909, was already in Argentina.
So we now know that the two brothers Rajmiel/Rachmiel and Mendel KATZ survived by escaping to Argentina.
Can you help Mendel KATZ' daughter find out what happened to the other siblings of her father?
Rachmiel KATZ submitted Pages of Testimony for the following three in 1979, one with his sister, though the handwriting is not so clear:
1. His father Berl KATZ
2. His stepmother Chaja KATZ
3. His brother Tobias KATZ
Berl KATZ was born in 1874 and was married twice.
His first wife Malka LUDNER/ LUDMER , died in 1915, only 32 years old.
With Malka he had the following children:
Jozef KATZ born 1905
Tobias Jakob KATZ born 1907
Rachmiel KATZ born 1909
Mendel KATZ born 1911
Chaja KATZ born 1914
In 1923 he married his second wife Chaja GOLDSTEIN.
With Chaja he had the following children:
In 1923 he married his second wife Chaja GOLDSTEIN.
With Chaja he had the following children:
The twins Hersz and Moses Rabon KATZ born in 1923. Moses died as a baby.
Rachel KATZ born 1926
Chaim Lazar KATZ born 1928
Ester Sara KATZ born 1932. Sara Ester died as a baby.
Berl KATZ' son from his first marriage, Mendel KATZ, born in 1911, managed to emigrate to Argentina in 1939. Mendel's brother Rajmiel/Rachmiel KATZ, born 1909, was already in Argentina.
So we now know that the two brothers Rajmiel/Rachmiel and Mendel KATZ survived by escaping to Argentina.
We also know that their sister Chaja, born in 1914, survived the Holocaust.
Can you help Mendel KATZ' daughter find out what happened to the other siblings of her father?
Rachmiel KATZ submitted Pages of Testimony for the following three in 1979, one with his sister, though the handwriting is not so clear:
1. His father Berl KATZ
2. His stepmother Chaja KATZ
3. His brother Tobias KATZ
(Please correct me, if I am wrong.)
Josef KATZ
There is a Page for Josef KATZ born 1907 in Basnia Dolne, married to Eidel and with two young children, Yecheskel 11 and Zlata, 3 years old. They were in Wielkie Oczy during the war. There is no name of the parents of this Josef KATZ, so it is not quite clear if this is Berl and Malka's oldest son who was born in 1905.
Is this Josef KATZ on that Page of Testimony, indeed the son of Berl KATZ?
Josef KATZ
There is a Page for Josef KATZ born 1907 in Basnia Dolne, married to Eidel and with two young children, Yecheskel 11 and Zlata, 3 years old. They were in Wielkie Oczy during the war. There is no name of the parents of this Josef KATZ, so it is not quite clear if this is Berl and Malka's oldest son who was born in 1905.
Is this Josef KATZ on that Page of Testimony, indeed the son of Berl KATZ?
Friday, June 1, 2018
SPIELMAN FAMILY
Following an enquiry from a relative, here is a list of those who died in Lubaczow during the years August 1914 to December 1938.
For the children who died in 1915 there are no gravestones. This seems to have been a local custom. Was there originally a special part of the cemetery where the children were buried? I don't know.
Some background information about the year 1915 in Lubaczow
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2016/03/world-war-one-battles-around-lubaczow.html
Some of the graves of grownups have been located, but not all.
Pajsach SPIELMAN was two months old when he died in March 1915.
His parents were Salomon and Rachel SPIELMAN.
Hena SPIELMAN was 6 years old when she died in 1915.
Her parents were Izak and Itta SPIELMAN.
Gitla SPIELMAN was 4 years when she died in 1915.
Her parents were Hersch and itta SPIELMAN.
Itta SPIELMAN nee TEPPICH was born in 1884 and died in 1915.
Rosa SPIELMAN nee SCHAECHTER was born ca 1876 and died in 1921.
She was the daughter of Hersz and Rojza SCHAECHTER.
Her grave
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-18-grave-28-rosa-spielman-nee.html
Izak SPIELMAN was born ca 1860 and died in 1922.
He was the son of Moses and Gitla SPIELMAN.
His grave
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-23-grave-18-izak-isak-spielman.html
Josef SPIELMAN was born ca 1871 and died in 1926.
Ruchla SPIELMAN nee ZIMERMAN was born ca 1861 and died in 1931.
Her parents were Hersz and Gitla ZIMERMAN.
Her grave
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-1-grave-35-ruchla-spielman-nee.html
In the 1929 Business directory there are two tailors listed
S. SPIELMAN
M. SPIELMANN
For the children who died in 1915 there are no gravestones. This seems to have been a local custom. Was there originally a special part of the cemetery where the children were buried? I don't know.
Some background information about the year 1915 in Lubaczow
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2016/03/world-war-one-battles-around-lubaczow.html
Some of the graves of grownups have been located, but not all.
Pajsach SPIELMAN was two months old when he died in March 1915.
His parents were Salomon and Rachel SPIELMAN.
Hena SPIELMAN was 6 years old when she died in 1915.
Her parents were Izak and Itta SPIELMAN.
Gitla SPIELMAN was 4 years when she died in 1915.
Her parents were Hersch and itta SPIELMAN.
Itta SPIELMAN nee TEPPICH was born in 1884 and died in 1915.
Rosa SPIELMAN nee SCHAECHTER was born ca 1876 and died in 1921.
She was the daughter of Hersz and Rojza SCHAECHTER.
Her grave
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-18-grave-28-rosa-spielman-nee.html
Izak SPIELMAN was born ca 1860 and died in 1922.
He was the son of Moses and Gitla SPIELMAN.
His grave
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-23-grave-18-izak-isak-spielman.html
Josef SPIELMAN was born ca 1871 and died in 1926.
Ruchla SPIELMAN nee ZIMERMAN was born ca 1861 and died in 1931.
Her parents were Hersz and Gitla ZIMERMAN.
Her grave
https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/02/row-1-grave-35-ruchla-spielman-nee.html
In the 1929 Business directory there are two tailors listed
S. SPIELMAN
M. SPIELMANN
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