Bogdan Lisze z"l cleaned the Jewish cemetery, again and again, over the years

This is part of my observations after my first to visits to the cemetery in 2002 and 2003:

"Despite Bogdan Lisze's attempt to clean the cemetery before my first visit, part of the cemetery was a real jungle. 

The part that he had cleaned in 2002, was covered again with bushes when I came back in 2003."

From the blogpost

https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/01/why-start-new-blog-in-2015.html

Bogdan Lisze z"l as the photographer - a thank you I posted back in 2015

Bogdan has been dedicated to the Jewish cemetery in Lubaczow for many, many years, long before I met him. It is hard to imagine how my own visits to Lubaczow without his help and resources. 

He lives in this area, and he often visits the cemetery, and he has made both drawings and taken beautiful photos of the gravestones. 

During my own visits I have always been in a hurry, and my photos are more like snapshots.
You can see from Bogdan's photos how he has cleaned and prepared the stones, before taking great care to get as clear a photo as possible. Impressive!

Bogdan has agreed to let me add his photos to the blog. He wrote that his son Alexander Olek Lisze has helped him with some of the photos.

If you use the top left corner of the blog and write Photos: Bogdan Lisze , you will find his photos.

Thank you, Bogdan!

A visit in 2015 by the Bard family from England

 

Photo: Bogdan Lisze

Read the story here:

https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/09/located-by-relatives-grave-of-lea-bard.html

Kosha Pakman from Israel remembers Bogdan z"l

For Kosha Pakman from Israel it was important to visit Lubaczow with his son in 2017 and honor the grave of his ancestor Simcha Benjamin GABEL (1835 - 1915).

Photo: Kosha Pakman

Seen with Kosha Pakman's eyes,  this visit was possible because of my documentation of the cemetery.

Seen with my eyes, the documentation of the cemetery would not have been possible without Bogdan, and I hope to show that in additional posts.

Here is the link to Simcha Benjamin GABEL's grave:

https://jewishcemeterylubaczow2015.blogspot.com/2015/03/row-9-grave-7-benjamin-gabel.html

Alejandra Walzer Moskowic from Argentina remembers Bogdan z"l

I met Bogdan Lisze thanks to Eva Floersheim when I travelled to Lubaczow with my father in 2014 to see the place where my grandparents had been born and from which they emigrated to Argentina during the interwar period, leaving behind most of the family, unaware of the horror that awaited them.

Bogdan impressed me in a resounding way. I didn´t know that there could be people like him. His uniqueness was driven by respect and passion, It was a passion for knowledge moved by a deep conviction: getting to know can be a way of doing justice. Tzedek, tzedek tirdof. Bogdan´s ethics was deeply alike to the spirit of our people.

During our stay in Lubaczow we visited the city, the museum, we had lunch at the lake and on the second day he opened for us the doors of his house and the boxes of the documents he treasured. We were allowed to see the signature of my great-grandfather Meyer Walzer. It sounds small but for us it was huge . My father and I hug each other with joy.

At the time Bogdan was studying Hebrew with some cassettes while driving his car. He always smiled to us and also comforted me when I couldn't hold back my tears in the Ghetto area. He was a little younger than me, but he made me feel as a well-protected child at that moment.

I was convinced we would see each other again one day, but now I know that it won't happen.

As Jews we should honor people like Bogdan in the highest possible way and I, being a secular person, will say kaddish for him once I finish this text.

A Tzadik have passed away, may the enormous and beautiful heavens welcome his soul with tenderness.

Photos Alejandra sent from the trip back in 2014.

 

Hirschel families in Lubaczow and in Nowy Sacz

 Imagine a family story insisting that the bride and bridegroom who married  before WWII  actually were cousins. First cousins? Second cousins? Or not cousins at all?

If all the family members had survived, they would of course have solved this quite easily, giving us the details, but so many family members were murdered and among the Holocaust survivors most have by now died of old age, including the bridegroom.

Let us present the bride and bridegroom and perhaps somebody out there will be able to give us the information needed. One possibility is through a family branch that settled in Brazil around 1926.

The bride

Scheindel / Szajndel "Sabina" HIRSCHEL born 1912 ( according to a Nowy Sacz census), probably in Lubaczow. Her parents were Jakob Jankiel HIRSCHEL and his wife Chana or Chava or Eva or Sara KAUFMAN (STEINBERG?) .

The bridegroom

Israel "Zygmunt"  HIRSCHEL  born in  1910 (according to Nowy Sacz census) and probably in Nowy Sacz. His parents were Majer Meir HIRSCHEL and Rifka Ryfka HIRSCHEL. His father had a soap business in Nowy Sacz and he himself is listed as a tailor. 

The couple lived in Lubaczow before the war.

The couple lived in Nowy Sacz during the Holocaust

During the war, according to a Page of Testimony, they lived in Nowy Sacz with their little daughter.

Scheindel and Israel's daughter

Their daughter Mala or Malia (spelling?) was born around 1935, probably in Nowy Sacz.

The Holocaust

Scheindel Sabina  and their daughter Mala Malia HIRSCHEL were  murdered in Holocaust.

Israel survived the Holocaust, started a new family and named his two  children  after his parents - Meir and Rivka.

Is it possible that the two grandfathers Majer HIRSCHEL and Jakob HIRSCHEL were brothers? They seem to be more or less the same age, and therefore are most likely from the same generation.

What do we know about Jakob Jankiel HIRSCHEL from Lubaczow? His father was Aron Aharon HIRSCHEL and his mother may have been Szerze Scherze HIRSCHEL.

What do we know about Majer HIRSCHEL from Nowy Sacz? According to a Page of Testimony submitted by his son Israel Zygmunt  HIRSCHEL ( the bridegroom), Majer's parents were Wolf and Rifka HIRSCHEL.

If Majer and Jankiel are from the same generation, they are not brothers, but perhaps cousins?

This means that the bride and bridegroom Scheindel Sabina and Israel Zygmunt HIRSCHEL perhaps were second cousins, but not first cousins.

Do you have another solution?