Michael Goldstein
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Over the past three weeks, I have laboriously worked on databasing more
than 12,000 burials within all of the thirty-eight Minsker society burial
plots that are located in New York and New Jersey. These are all of them.
There is now a unique surnames list for the combined Minsk plots on my
website within the Cemetery Project. You can access this list directly at
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/cp-minsk.htm. Any requests sent to me for
more information on burials of a name found on my list (i.e. a gravestone
photo) should be sent to me with the words "Minsk Lookup" in the Subject
field. Include your e-mail address with your request. I can only supply
you with a specific surname, given name, cemetery name, and most
importantly, gravestone photograph. Be patient for a response, as I expect
many requests.

I had chosen to work on the Minsker society burials because I realized
that there are at least a couple of thousand Minsker researchers out there
that could find this information useful.

Just some reminders. Realize, of course, that not everyone buried in a
Minsker plot came from there. Also, many who are buried in a Minsker plot
might have lived at one time in the towns surrounding Minsk, and not
necessarily in Minsk itself. Some of the societies who own these plots
were established as early as 1880.

I have also started to work on Pinsk and Grodno unique surnames lists.
These lists should also be on my website within the week, albeit
incomplete. Please wait til these two lists are posted before making
requests for Pinsk or Grodno burials.

I hope that these lists will be useful to many of you who are researching
your family members who once lived in Belarus. This was a monumental
undertaking for me, but I feel my efforts will be quite worthwhile. I now
have listings for nearly 100,000 burials in the New York-New Jersey metro
area!

Best,
Steven Lasky
New York
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
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I recently found an old brief family history. Here is the translation
from the original Yiddish:

Pinchas SCHREIBMAN, a sofer lived in 1770 in Lubishev Russia-Poland, in
Minsk Gubernia.
Pinchas had 3 sons : Yehuda Leib, Zavel and Avraham Ber Singer.
Zavel's grandchildren are in Philadelphia under the names SCHREIBMAN and
FISHMAN.
Avraham Ber's grandchildren live in New York under the name SINGER.
Yehuda Leib had 3 sons and 1 daughter: Avraham Michel, Moshe Schmuel,
Yeshayahu Lubashevsky and Sara Mindel.
Yehuda Leib was born in 17788 and died in 1883. Avraham Michel's son,
Yitchak Isaac, left to London in 1885 or 1890.
Yeshayahu Lubashevsky had children and grandchildren under the name
LUBASHEVSKY in New York and Pinsk.
Moshe Schmuel was born in 1836 and died in 1881.
Does this fit anyone's family history?
Andrew Meyers
Queens, NY
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It has just come to my attention that David Arthur CROLL, a well respected
Jewish policitican in Windsor and Toronto Canada is related to my extended
BEGUN - KROLL family from the Pinsk, Minsk, Krugloye, Teterin and Mogilev
areas of Belarus. David Croll's father was Hillel Cross and he had a
brother Cecil Croll, a lawyer, all from Toronto area.

I would like to make contact with anyone who knows about this family and/or
descendents. My goal is to find Hillel's parent's names to be able to link
them conclusively to my large Kroll family who emigrated to Brooklyn and the
Bronx.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Diane Jacobs
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I am searching for the Meltzer family from Minsk or Pinsk. My grandfather's
name was Abraham Meltzer, born in 1875. He came to the United States with
his wife Sarah, and 3 children: Beila, David and Phillip. The family says
they came about 1902, however, I can't find them on any ship's lists. They
also had another son,Adolf, born in 1910. Abraham's brother Joseph, born in
1868 also came about 1902. Any help would be appreciated.

Susan Meltzer Gonzalez
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I have only recently discovered that my great-grandparents came from
Pinsk. They were known in America as FIALCO, FIALCOW and FIALKOW.

My great-grandfather's name was Yehoshua Mordechai son of Yisrael,
HaCohain FIALKOV, born around 1862. I have a marriage contract he
made with Yaakov son of Yisrael, HaCohain FIALKOV to marry his
daughter Chasha, born around 1871. It appears that my great-
grandparents were cousins. Yehoshua Mordechai had a brother whose
name in America was Benjamin. Yehoshua Mordechai became Marcus
FIALCO in America and his brother became Benjamin FIALKOW and sometime
between 1910 and 1920 became Ben FALK. Marcus and Ben lived in
Cincinnati, Ohio.

I have been doing research in Latvia for another family branch for a
while, but I am completely new to research in Belarus. Any
information, data or advice you could pass along would be deeply
appreciated.

Bruce Dumes
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I'm searching for lost members of the Pollack family. Abraham Pollack
may have been born in Volkovitz or Pinsk, Poland. The family story
states that he went to Palestine to work the land sometime in the late
1880's. He was later diagnosed with malaria and was sent to England for
treatment. He met his wife, Sarah, in England where they married. They
had three children, Jacob (Jack), Israel (Walter), and Jean (Jennie). I
believe they lived in Hull, England for a while as evidenced by the
family pictures I have from a photography studio in Hull.

Abraham may have had a sister that stayed behind in England. I've been
told that there was an editor for a London newspaper in the 1970's with
the surname Pollack that was also a family member.

Abraham, Sarah and their children emigrated to the US in 1916 and
settled in the Bronx. I would appreciate if anyone with information on
this Pollack family contact me privately by email.

Thanks.

Monroe Ginsburg
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have now put online photographs of the Pinsk
Holocaust memorial that stands proudly at the Beth
Abraham Cemetery in New Jersey. There are also
photographs of the names that are inscribed on the
memorial that you can look at. I am hoping that
someone will transcribe these Hebrew names into
English for me so that I may list them for folks who
visit the page and do not read Hebrew. The photos with
the names are in thumbnail form, so just left-click on
them to see the regular-sized images. There is also a
webpage that displays the memorial for Baranavichy in
Belarus. There will be a page for a Shereshevo
memorial soon.
On my site I also have a unique surnames list from two
of the fourteen extant Pinsk society plots in New York
and New Jersey. This list will only tell you if
someone with a particular surname is buried in these
two Pinsk plots. If you need more info about anyone on
the surname list, please let me know.
The URL to my site is listed under my name below. All
that I have mentioned above can be accessed via my
museum's Site Map page and its Cemetery Project main
page.

Regards,
Steve Lasky
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
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My husband's grandmother was Anna PIKMAN/PICKMAH who was one of 10 children
born to ZelikMy husband's grandmother was Anna Pikman/Pickman who was one of 10
children born to Zelik PIKMAN and his wife Goldie. Anna was from a small
town which no longer exists - it was Pohost/Pogost and was near Pinsk. Zelik
was a teacher and among his students were the SHMIDMANS (who were related to
Anna somehow).

Anna was born in 1895 and came to New York in 1911 to live with her aunt and
uncle (the "KARTELLS"). She had a brother & sister who had already moved to
New York, but I don't know their given names. The sister married a man named
WEISS and they had a son Lou in 1918. The sister then died during the flu
epidemic in 1919 and the baby went to live with Anna who was by then
married and
living in Brooklyn (1920 census).

We're told that Anna had two brothers who disappeared during World War I.

Has anyone heard of a teacher named Zelik PIKMAN? Or related to this family?
And who are the SHMIDMANS? My husband's uncle mentioned them, but don't
know anything about them.

I have checked the website - JGFF and the Belarus database but the only thing
I have found is Zelik PIKMAN on the 1906 voting list in Pinsk - I believe it
was the same Zelik, but no way to know for sure at this point.

LaVerne Markart
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To all who have volunteered to help with the Pinsk Ghetto List, and to
those of you in the Belarus SIG who are interested in our progress...

After some recent correspondence and phone conversations with Michael
Haley Goldman at the Holocaust Museum, I received today in the mail a
package containing photocopies of the Pinsk Ghetto List. We are ready
to begin. If you have volunteered to help with the list and haven't
sent me your "land mail" (as opposed to email) address, please do so
now. If you can't remember if you sent it to me, go ahead and resend.
I will be speaking to Mr. Goldman, hopefully this week before Shabbat,
in order to get any last minute instructions, and will then begin
mailing out the lists to the volunteers to begin the encoding.

Mr. Goldman had previously sent me a sample page from the list, which I
attach here.

Linda S. Birnbaum
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Talking with a second cousin I learned a little more about the family of
my grandfather Isaac PLOTNIK, from PINSK (now Belarus). So now is the
time to share this information with you, maybe someone out there has
any knowledge or a hint that can assist me.
Here goes: My grandfather had three brothers and a sister (Mordechai
Michael, David, Baruch Mendel and Slava/Sylvia respectively) My request
for help regards two of his brothers.

David PLOTNIK, was a carpenter. He moved from Pinsk to Vilna. He had two
sons, Ephraim (that emmigrated to the US and was the only to survive the
Holocaust) and Menashe.

Baruch Mendel PLOTNIK, owned a candy store in Pinsk. He was married but
we do not know for sure the name of his wife, nor if they had any
children. He (and probably his family too) perished in the Holocaust.

Many thanks in advance to everyone for any comment.

Mario Schejtman

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After finally discovering the names of my maternal Grandparents, from
Svarycewicze,[near Pinsk], Belarus. I have been unable to go back any
further. My Mother said that her Grandfather was a Rabbi, but not which
Grandfather ! Her parents' names were : Shaindle MODACK and Isaac DRYZUN.My
question to the group is : Does anyone know of a book , or list of Rabbis
in Belarus, covering the time-period
1850-1920 ?

Evelyn Doberstein

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From Pinsk: About Weizmann, Shertock, Golda, Moshe Kol, Gvati, Meshel, the Torah
Tmimah, George Weiss .....etc........ I heard

by David Ben-Gurion, Hanan Sever, Baruch Azaniah

Dear Friend,

I was born in Pinsk in 1926. My name is Caplan (Kaplan) Avraham (Meyer). I was sent to Russia in 1939 and after the war I was living in Russia. I immigrated to Canada in 1980 and I reside in Canada at present. I was told that all my family was killed by Nazis. Some of my other relatives probably survived.
Is there any database that provides information on families from Pinsk; live, killed or dead?

Can you please direct me to this information source.


With kind regards,

Myer Kaplan

Shalom,
You asked about looking for relatives from Pinsk.
Sadly there are 242 reports in Yad Vashem of Kaplans from Pinsk ( some of them for the same persons since the reports are by relatives, from the Yizkor book for Pinsk and from the Soviet list of those Persecuted
A few samples:
Kaplan Jcchak

Jcchak Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1884 to Moshe. He was married to Yenta nee Rubakha. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Ghetto. Jcchak perished in Pinsk, Ghetto. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-Jan-1956 by his nephew Leon Volinitz of Tel Aviv
Caplan David

David Caplan was born in Pinsk in 1921 to Yaakov and Etel. He was a carpenter and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. David perished in 1942 in Pinsk, Camp. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 28-Aug-1956 by his relative Boxer Yehudit of Israel
Kaplan Szyju

Szyju Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1904 to Eliahu and Khana. He was a ???? ???? ????? ???????? and married to Nekhama. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. Szyju perished in 1943 in Pinsk, Camp. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 23-Aug-1956 by his sister bigon Rachel

Judes Kolodny nee Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1885 to Sara. She was a housewife and married to Mordekhai. Prior to WWII she lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war she was in Pinsk, Poland. Judes perished in Pinsk, Ghetto. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 23-Jan-1956 by her son

Kaplan Mejer

Mejer Kaplan was born in Pinsk. He was married to Ita nee Muzikant. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. Mejer perished in Pinsk, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 09-Sep-1956 by his cousin Vorshinsky Sarah of Tel Aviv

Kaplan Cheskel

Cheskel Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1929 to Meir and Ida nee Muzikant. He was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. Cheskel perished in Pinsk, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his sister malka Grosmark
Kaplan Smeel

Smeel Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1897. He was a factory director and married to Neshka. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. Smeel perished in Pinsk, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his niece Malka Grosmark of Herzelia
Kaplan Eli

Eli Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1926 to Meir and Ida nee Muzikant. He was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk, Poland. During the war he was in Pinsk, Poland. Eli perished in Pinsk, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his sister Malka Grosmark
Kaplan Izsak

Izsak Kaplan was born in Pinsk in 1894 to Eliezer and Guta. He was a pharmacist. During the war he was in Beregszasz, Czechoslovakia. Izsak perished in 1941 in Kaminic Podoly, Ukraine (USSR). This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 09-May-1955 by his sister-in-law. More Details...

Results of search for victims whose family name (including synonyms) is 'Kaplan' , and whose location (including synonyms) is 'Pinsk' :
Displaying 1 - 15 of 242

The list with no details:
Place of Residence (or Place of Birth)
Name Town District Region Country Birth Date Source
Ajzenberg Sara nee Kaplan PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1896 Page of Testimony
Caplan Etel PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1904 Page of Testimony
Caplan David PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1921 Page of Testimony
Caplan Gherson PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1922 Page of Testimony
Caplan Jacov PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1901 Page of Testimony
Kolodny Judes nee Kaplan PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1885 Page of Testimony
Lemkovitz PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND List of victims from Yizkor books
Nachtiegal Janta nee Kaplan MALNIC POLAND Page of Testimony
Mirski Malka nee Kaplan PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1880 Page of Testimony
Funt Naomi KAMIEN KOSHIRSK KAMIEN KOSZYRSKI POLESIE POLAND 1885 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Moshe PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Eliezer PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1901 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Nekhama PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1935 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Yaakov PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1937 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Yisrael PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1902 Page of Testimony

Kaplan Khana LENIN LUNINIEC POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony
Kaplan Jchiel PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1924 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Elijahu PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1924 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Chana PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1910 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Leizer PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1901 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Eliahu PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1924 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Chawa PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony
Kaplan A PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony
Kaplan Ch PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony
Kaplan Israel PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1895 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Fibel PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony
Kaplan Leja PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1892 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Batia PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony
Kaplan Szyju PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1904 Page of Testimony
Kaplan Nechama PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND 1904

Page of Testimony

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Subject: KANTOR and Reb Chaim of Volozhin
From: yoni and rivka benari <yrcdi@netvision.net.il>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:34:49 +0200
X-Message-Number: 1

There exist a persistent family tradition that we are somehow
descendants of Reb. Chaim of Volozhin or his extended family. My
gggrandfather, Shlomo KANTOR of Pinsk was married to a Sarah Hinde
daughter of Yosef (Chazan of Pinsk). According to our tradition,
either Sarah Hinde or mother was orphaned at a young age and Reb.
Itzaleh, Reb. Chaim's son was her unterfirer (accompanyment) to her
chupa a position usually carried out by the parents of the bride.

I read that Reb. Itzaleh's daughter and Son-in-law R' Shmuel LANDAU
both died at a young age leaving a small orphaned daughter. I've
tried to follow this thread but after some research think that its
not my line as similiar as the story sounds.

If the above details regarding Sarah Hinde and Yosef sound familiar
to anybody I'd be happy to hear. I heard several years ago that a
group of Reb. Chaim's descendants are researching R' Chaim's family.
I am not referring to a two vol. book put out by a Jerusalem Rabbi
(his name slips my mind now) some 8-10 years ago but something more
recent. Has anyone heard of this project?

Thank you
Yoni Ben-Ari

Maureen Piasecki (cimabello@gmail) on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 22:26:22
Message: Thank you - I am researching my Irish Immigrants 1949 story and
happened on yours - so alike we are, so unique we are.

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Mara Turecaite (sendasmile23@yahoo.com) on Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 21:28:49
Message: On photo 63 is pictured my uncle Simon Bloch, sitting is Yakov Ratner
(a father of schoolmate). I thing his daughter Khaya is living currently in
Canada.
Mara