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Ms Eilat Shalom, My friend, Mr Porat, gave me an article's copy about Posval region's Jews in Lithuania from your Vashki Web-Site. I was very glad to read it I was most excited to see my Grand father's name; Avraham Hofenberg mentioned there, what for I'm thanking you very much. My parents were born in Vashki/ Shavli - Lithuania. They have made Aliya in 1924 - for reasons of ideology (Socialist Zionists). Mother Hayna neen Yatskan passed away in 1965. Father Yerakhmiel Hofenberg deceased in 1975. My mother as said above was born to the Yatskan family, a son of which went to Warsaw where he founded the "Haynt" the renowned Yiddish journal. I do not have details about the Yatskans but I'm ready to investigate my father history. His story is not necessarily a rabbinical one, but as a local workers' leader during the First World War. He unified and organized forced workers, under the German rule, in the circumstances of then and at the German rule of then, naturally. He established a dramatic band, which presented "The Kreutzer Sonata" on the stage. At the premiere he was offered N. Bialik's poetry volume with a dedication in Hebrew. As for my story: I, Hofenberg Shraga was born in Israel in March 11, 1927 and grew- up and experienced what the generation of native born Sabras in 1920s experienced. Incidentally, I served in the IDF in Eilat (Um Rash Rash) in 1950. Eilat was Streets free, Hotels free, traffic lights free, traffic at all free. Nothing! - Desert only. * With all due respect, Hofenberg Shraga., The Story of the Hofenberg Family from a phone call to Shraga on 8-26- 2003; My Father; Yerakhmiel Hofenberg was born in Vashki in 1894. He was the son of Ita and Rabbi Avraham Hofenberger, who was born in the Hebrew year of 5613 (1853). Rabbi Avraham Hofenberger attended the Mir Yeshiva for his primary studies. After graduating he moved to Kovno to learn from Rabbi Eliezer Gardan. The final studies he accomplished at the great and famous academy in Volozhin Eyts-Hayim Yeshiva. R' Aleksander Moyshe Shapiro ordained him as Rabbi in the Year of 5632 (1872). After six years in the Volozhin Yeshiva he received a teaching diploma from the genial Volozhin Yeshiva heads, the prodigious Hanaziv, from Reb Refoel Shapiro the later Yeshiva head and from Reb Hayim Soloveytshik. He was elected as the Vashki Rabbi in 5647 (1887). Here he served as the town Rabbi for 43 years. The small village Konstanove was named by the vicinity Jews as Vashki and under this name it remains. The shtetl was situated in the Birz district, some 40m Km. north to Ponivezh. Washki was a small village. Prior to the First World War Vashki was populated by 50 Jewish families. The linen trade and its export to England were their main occupation. There were also other typically Jewish employment and professions. Ita and Rabbi Avraham Hofenberger children; 1. Son ; Azriel Hofenberg was a writer of Yiddish plays. He moved to the states and lived with his sister; Sozka and her husband; Rabbi Eliezer Levin. He was never married. He wanted to make Aliah to Israel, but his brother Yerakhmiel, who lived in Israel suggested that he would have difficulties having his plays performed in Israel since David Ben Gurion (as many other leaders of the Yishuv) discouraged any attempts to institute the Yiddish culture in Eretz Israel. 2. Shmuel Hofenberg. Not much is known about him; he was never married and at one point immigrated to the states. He was a simple guy not typical to his illustrious Rabbinical family. He did not like life in the U.S. and returned to Lithuania were he later died. 3. Daughter; Rashka (Pinchasovitz) survived the holocaust in a camp (Shtatoff). The son in law of her brother Pinchas was able to find her in Germany after the war. She immigrated to Israel. 4. Daughter; Rivka was married to Naphtali Magid and lived in Crimea. She survived the war (escaped to Soviet Asia) and some of her family immigrated to Israel . 5. Daughter Sozka and husband; Rabbi Eliezer Levin had 104 Children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Most of the family is very religius and live in the states (established Talaz Yeshiva in Chicago and Yatid Neeman in Toronto) 6. son; Pinchas Hofenberg was a Hebrew teacher in Lithuania. He died of natural causes in ghetto Vilna during the war. His daughter lived in a kibbutz in Israel (Daphna?). The family found out about him from a female soldier in the IDF that served with Hofenberg Shraga and was a holocaust survivor and was prior to the war his student in the Tarbut school 7. Yerakhmiel Hofenberg (born in Vashki in 1894 died in Tel Aviv in 1975). Yerakhmiel Hofenberg left Lithuania for South Africa at age 17 c 1911. He lived there for about four years working in a market in Johannesburg. He returned to Lithuania just as World war 1 started. Per Shraga… His story is not necessarily a rabbinical one, but as a local workers' leader during the First World War in Novogrodok. He unified and organized forced workers, under the German rule, in the circumstances of then and at the German rule of then, naturally. He established a dramatic band, which presented "The Kreutzer Sonata" on the stage. At the premiere he was offered N. Bialik's poetry volume with a dedication in Hebrew. Why was he in Novogrodok far from Vashki and Lithuania? “….During the First World War the Russians exiled all the Jews of Vashki deep into Russia. Only few returned to the shtetl after war. This was the fate of most of small villages in west Lithuania. The Jews resettled themselves in bigger towns and did not return to their natal congregations. Cut of from their Yiddish home and their tradition they became secular….” We know that in 1919 he was in Novogrodok in in the early 1920s he returned to Lithuania (after more then a hundred years it became independent of Russia and experienced a “renaissance” period that for the first years included also the Jews as “equal citizens”) were he was a member of Zeirei Zion (Socialist Zionist movement) in 1924 he made Aliah to Israel with his wife. They had two children; Shoshana (Kalo) was born in 1924 and Shraga in 1927. Shoshana Z’’L studied with my fathers’ sister (Shoshana “Zoozi” nee Gordin Gefen Z’’L). They became best friends also with Tmima Livni Z’’L and Aliza Efron. Back to Rabbi Hofenberg and Vashki…. Prior to the Second World War 80 Jewish families lived in Vashki. Rabbi Hofenberg published his Book "Voice in the Heights" in 5658 (1898). The Rabbi passed away at the month of Nissan, 5689 (1929). His son in law; Rabbi Eliezer Levin (married to his daughter; Sozka) replaced him as the Vashki town Rabbi. He resettled to the States (1936? later Rabbi of Detroit and Cleveland) and was replaced by Rabbi Tsvi Yankilov. Rabbi Tsvi Yankilov and his congregation were annihilated by the Nazis. . - Sunday, July 27, 2003 at 10:38:12 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- July 24, 2003, Shalom Eilat, I knew that my friend; Shraga Hofenberg was born to a family from Lithuania. We meet (at least) once a week in the Tel Aviv swimming pool.. Last week he told me that his father came to Israel from a shtetl named Viaskay or maybe Vashko in the twenties. At home I entered your site, found VASHKI and printed out for him 10 page copy. Shraga was very proud and excited to find there some words about his Grandfather "Rabbi Avraham Hofenberg who was a rabbi for 48 years and died in 1929". At the next swimming meeting he brought me two books. One of them Bialik's poetry which was offered to his father Yerakhmiel Hofenberg in 1918 with a dedication in Hebrew, and a memory book written by Pinkhas Halevi Liphshits "YIKVEY BRAKHA", where his grandfather's picture and biography are printed. I'm sending you: Translation from Hebrew of Shraga Hofenberg's letter he wrote to you The "HAKDASHA" – dedication to Yerakhmiel Hofenberg, Shraga's father, scanned and translated from Hebrew. R' Avraham Hofenberg's (Shraga's Grand Father) scanned picture, with a shortened translation of his biography, In the dedication (2) they wrote "Agudat Hapoalim Hayivrim" which I translated as "The HEBREW Workers Society". The final stamp is written in Yiddish "YIDDISHER Arbeyter Ferrayn" which means "The YIDDISH Workers Society". With many thanks Moshe Porat. Shraga's letter to Eilat: Ms Eilat Shalom, My friend, Mr Porat, gave me an article's copy about Posval region's Jews in Lithuania from your Vashki Web-Site. I was very glad to read it I was most excited to see my Grand father's name; Avraham Hofenberg mentioned there, what for I'm thanking you very much. My parents were born in Shavli - Lithuania. They have made Aliya in 1924 - from idealistic reasons. Mother Hayna neen Yatskan passed away in 1965. Father Yerakhmiel Hofenberg deceased in 1975. My mother as said above was born to the Yatskan family, a son of which went to Warsaw where he founded the "Haynt" the renowned Yiddish journal. I do not have details about the Yatskans but I'm ready to investigate my father history. His story is not necessarily a rabbinical one, but as a local workers' leader during the First World War. He unified and organized forced workers, under the German rule, in the circumstances of then and at the German rule of then, naturally. He established a dramatic band, which presented "The Kreutzer Sonata" on the stage. At the premiere he was offered N. Bialik's poetry volume with a dedication in Hebrew. As for my story: I, Hofenberg Shraga was born in Israel and grew- up and experienced what the generation of native born Sabras in the 1920s experienced. Incidentally, I served in the IDF in Eilat (Um Rash Rash) in 1950. Eilat was Streets free, Hotels free, traffic lights free, traffic at all free. Nothing! - Desert only. * With all due respect, Hofenberg Shraga., Our eldest, the Rabbi Avraham Hofenberger, was born in the Hebrew year of 5613 (1853). He did his primary studies at the Mir Yeshiva. After graduating he moved to Kovno to learn from Rabbi Eliezer Gardan. The final studies he accomplished at the great and famous academy in Volozhin Eyts-Hayim Yeshiva. R' Aleksander Moyshe Shapiro ordained him as Rabbi in the Year of 5632 (1872). After six years in the Volozhin Yeshiva he received a teaching diploma from the genial Volozhin Yeshiva heads, the prodigious Hanaziv, from Reb Refoel Shapiro the later Yeshiva head and from Reb Hayim Soloveytshik. He was elected as the Vashki Rabbi in 5647 (1887). Here he served as the town Rabbi for 43 years. The small village Konstanove was named by the vicinity Jews as Vashki and under this name it remains. The shtetl was situated in the Birz district, some 40m Km. north to Ponivezh. Washki was a small village. Prior to the First World War Vashki was populated by 50 Jewish families. The linen trade and its export to England were their main occupation. There were also other typically Jewish employment and professions. During the First World War the Russians exiled all the Jews deep into Russia. Only few returned to the shtetl after war. This was the fate of most of small villages in Lithuania. The Jews resettled themselves in bigger towns and did not return to their natal congregations. It was a national tragedy as they cut of from their Yiddish home, their tradition and became secular. Prior to the Second World War 80 Jewish families lived in Vashki. Rabbi Hofenberg published his Book "Voice in the Heights" in 5658 (1898). The Rabbi passed away at the month of Nissan, 5689 (1929). Rabbi Eliezer Levin replaced him as the Vashki town Rabbi. He resettled to the States seven Years later and was replaced by Rabbi Tsvi Yankilov. Rabbi Tsvi Yankilov and his congregation were annihilated by the Nazis. . - Friday, July 25, 2003 at 07:36:31 (PDT) Lisette Datnow's Krugers are the same as Maureen (Segal) Bloom's, and are apparently not connected. Lisette is a cousin of Maureens. Regards Saul Lisette Datnow <shain@global.co.za> > Has Leah and Julius Kruger in tree, via Linkuva somehow > > Any narrative/bits of tree for the linliva website > would be good if you want to do some writing > See site at think that the name was definitely KRIGERIS > SI> (my dad told the story that > SI> when they got to the immigration authorities > SI> in SAfrica, they saw the name > SI> Krigeris, and the Afrikaners there changed it > SI> to a known S A name, KRUGER - > SI> We always had to explain that we weren't > SI> Afrikaners, but were Jewish. > SI> And the town/village that Elchanan (Charles) > SI> Kriegeris (Kruger) came from > SI> was definitely PAMUSHA, although Zorach (his > SI> father) may originally have > SI> come from Linkva, I don't know - maybe > SI> Enrique's mother knows? > SI> Regards, Rosaline Bak. Israel. > Subject: Fw: Zorach Krigeris Lithuania > > > SI> this is from my friend Maureen and is self > SI> -explanatory. But one thing to > SI> add, on the other side of her family her uncle > SI> Matus Segal was married to > SI> Golda Girs ( Hersch) in Linkuva. Golda was > SI> also a daughter of Noach and > SI> Grunja. had 3 children all killed in the > SI> shoah. One was Zippora. >hi saul - my kruger grandfather was from > SI> ponevez, kovno geburgen. we have > SI> a relative (beth krom in irvine ca) who has a > SI> good family tree and is keen > SI> on this stuff - looked up my mom by following > SI> kruger-links in s.a. my > SI> grandfather had 3 sisters and a brother on the > SI> east coast, while he came to > SI> the cape. we know all the relatives in the > SI> usa. this is a new connection, > SI> but kreeger/kreager/kriger are variations with > SI> probably many other family > SI> trees. > SI> thanks - and if they want beth's email, i'll send it on to them. > SI> love > SI> m > SI> *_* > SI> ----- Original Message ----- > SI> From: Saul Issroff > SI> To: Maureen Bloom > SI> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:57 AM > SI> Subject: Fw: Zorach Krigeris Lithuania > > > SI> dear Maureen > > SI> Do these Krugers connect with your family? > SI> Pamusha is virtually a suburb > SI> of Linkuva where yuorarembands and some others come from. > > SI> Saul > SI> ----- Original Message ----- > SI> From: Enrique Vainer > SI> To: saul issroff > SI> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:11 PM > SI> Subject: Zorach Krigeris Lithuania > > > SI> dear Saul, jag sameaj, I am sending part of > SI> a mail received from Rosaline > SI> Bach, she is a daughter of Charles Kruger zl, > SI> first cousin of my mother, > SI> she lives in Raanana and her email is > SI> bernardb@netvision.net.il > SI> best regards > SI> enrique > > SI> I wanted to tell you the details that I know > SI> about my grandfather, and > SI> grandmother, which is not too much (my > SI> father did not talk too much about > SI> the details - maybe he did not want to > SI> remember - he used to cry a lot > SI> when > SI> he spoke of "der Heim") > SI> Please pass on the message on my behalf to Saul Isaroff. > SI> My grandfather was ZORACH (BEN JOSEF) > SI> KRIGERIS- WE THINK HE DIED AT AGE > SI> 60. > SI> My grandmother was FEIGE REIZE KRIGERIS > SI> (NEE G(H)IRSCH))B- WE THINK SHE > SI> DIED AT AGE 55 (I am named after her > SI> Rosaline for the REISE part) > SI> They had six children: > SI> 1) Moshe David a son (my brother Morris > SI> David Kruger in SA is named after > SI> him - the DAVID part) - he died in SA > SI> though, not in Europe - shortly > SI> after > SI> his arrival in SA from TB or similar illness. > SI> 2) Freide Necha (a daughter who died in > SI> Pamusha at age 12 approximately) > SI> (my > SI> sister Marcelle Natalie in SA is named after her (the second name > SI> "Natalie" > SI> for the Necha part.) > SI> 3) David Lazar (a son who died in Pamusha at age 14 approximately) > SI> 4) Moosha (a daughter who died in Pamusha at > SI> age 18 approximately) - my > SI> sister's first name MARCELLE is after her. > SI> 5) JOSEPH - who is my uncle Joe (deceased) > SI> He was the first one that left > SI> Pamusha to go to SA, and then he sent for my > SI> father and the other brother > SI> (no. 1 above) > SI> 6) ELCHANAN (My late father Charlie - > SI> Charles Kruger) who arrived in SA > SI> and > SI> built his life there. > > SI> I don't have too much more information that > SI> is definite but I would > SI> appreciate it if you could pass on the above > SI> information to Saul. Hope > SI> that > SI> this will be of assistance. > SI> "Yashar Koach" to Mr. Issaroff. > > SI> Fondest love to you all, and keep in touch. > SI> Rosaline, Bernard and family, Israel > >Some information that I have;Last year I talked with the daughter of Dr. Moshe Kriger (his father;Chaim Zev Wolf Kriger was born in Linkova) . Her name is Nira Dan and she lives in Tel Aviv. My grandmothers' first cousin Rochale nee Kriger told me that when her father; Leib Kriger came back to Lithuania from is visit to Eretz Israel (1935)? He told her that he went to see Dr. Moshe Kriger and he was a second or third cousin of his. Moshe's father was Rabbi Chaim Zeev Wolf born in Linkova in 1858 and he was the son of Aharon. The family was from Linkova (18 kilometers from Vashki where our two Kriger brothers lived; Zusia Kriger born c 1850 and the grandfather of Sara nee Feldman's (Sara died in South Africa c 1995). Avida and her cousin Aliza (both born in South Africa) are cousins of Nira Dan. Raanan Volkani sister (Tamira Orshan) told me that they are relatives of Dr. moshe Kriger and she knew how. Their grandmother Sara nee Kriger also came from Linkova. Aliza told me that they said that her Great grandfather from Linkova was rich. I talked to a man who was born in Linkova Simon; CivjanSIM@aol.com He left Linkova in 1940. He told me that there was a Kriger family in the area of Linkova in a farming place name Punimosha about 6 kilometers from Linkova. he said that one son (Chanan Kriger?) went to South Africa. He also told me about our family (second cousin); Batia Koblantz. It was the family of the brother of Asne (Batia's mother) and they lived in Linkova. Batia herself was born in Birz. The brother's wife was Shprintza and the son was Israel Even. He told me that his family rented a home from them. he said that Israel was about 29 in 1940. He said that Israel was a hypochondriac. He was not married when he left in 1940. He thinks that the family perished. click for information about Dr. Moshe kriger and his father; http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pix/kriger/51302_1_b.gif I also received information from Roberta nee Kruger of South Africa. who was related to "our " Sara nee Feldman (Saras' grandfather was the brother of our Zusia kriger) She told me she has large 'Kruger" family in South Africa. I Some information that I have;Last year I talked with the daughter of Dr. Moshe Kriger (his father;Chaim Zev Wolf Kriger was born in Linkova) . Her name is Nira Dan and she lives in Tel Aviv. My grandmothers' first cousin Rochale nee Kriger told me that when her father; Leib Kriger came back from is visit to Israel (1935)? He told her that he went to see Dr. Moshe Kriger and he was a second or third cousin of his. Moshe's father was Rabbi Chaim Zeev Wolf born in Linkova in 1858 and he was the son of Aharon. The family was from Linkova (18 kilometers from Vashki where our two Kriger brothers lived; Zusia Kriger born c 1850 and Sara nee Feldman's (died in South Africa c 1995). Avida and her cousin Aliza (both born in South Africa) are cousins of Nira Dan. Raanan Volkani sister (Tamira Orshan) told me that they are relatives of Dr. moshe Kriger and she knew how. Their grandmother Sara nee Kriger also came from Linkova. Aliza told me that they said that her Great grandfather from Linkova was rich. I talked to a man who was born in Linkova Simon; CivjanSIM@aol.com He left Linkova in 1940. He told me that there was a Kriger family in the area of Linkova in a farming place name Punimosha about 6 kilometers from Linkova. he said that one son (Chanan Kriger?) went to South Africa. He also told me about our family (second cousin); Batia Koblantz. It was the family of the brother of Asne (Batia's mother) and they lived in Linkova. Batia herself was born in Birz. The brother's wife was Shprintza and the son was Israel Even. He told me that his family rented a home from them. he said that Israel was about 29 in 1940. He said that Israel was a hypochondriac. He was not married when he left in 1940. He thinks that the family perished. click for information about Dr. Moshe kriger and his father; http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pix/kriger/51302_1_b.gif I also received information from Roberta nee Kruger of South Africa. who was related to "our " Sara nee Feldman (Saras' grandfather was the brother of our Zusia kriger) She told me she has large 'Kruger" family in South Africa. I will find the information and write you I found an email from Roberta that tells that we (Krigers from the area of Linkova) are from the same Kriger family.....I am posting it here ...My father was for sure a first cousin of Yente Dina Singer. .....100%. I know that because he told me that Julius, Barney, Abraham and Yenta Dina were his first cousins, his uncle's children (perhaps she misunderstood what you meant because she herself was my father's second cousin) and the second thing that puzzles me is that she has forgotten the Kriger/ Feldman family (cousins of our Krigers, Eilat) . This is strange because I remember them coming to all the simches. She may have forgotten.....I will phone her to clarify this with her. For sure they were related to us, but as I said they were not from the same grandfather, but possibly the grandfather's brother. Now today I spoke to Roselyn Bak in Ra'anana and she told me that her father Charlie (that is possibly Chuna) came from Pamusa and that somewhere she had some information on this and she would look for it. His brother was Josel (Joe) who also came to South Africa, and their father was Zerach (or Zorach). Charlie and Joe were brothers and my father s first cousins as I explained to you in an earlier e-mail. Obviously, the other two brothers must have perished. This I will clarify with Roselyn also. http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pix/kriger/62703_2_b.gif From left to right; grandmother Ita Bluma (Berta) nee Josel, Cilah her daughter, Leo Kruger and my father Bernard Kruger, her sons and my grandfather Osche Kruger. picture taken in Riga. Roberta nee Kruger Jerushalmy I posted a note at safrica@lyris.jewishgen.org; Subj: Meir, Shimshon and Sara (Heiman) Feldman Date: 10/1/02 6:02:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: EilatGordn To: safrica@lyris.jewishgen.org Dina nee Kriger Feldman was a first cousin of my great grandmother; Asna nee Kriger Chait, (mother of Rachel nee Chait Shenker who died in Johannesburg c 1970). Dina nee Kriger Feldman is in the top picture with her husband and daughter; Sara at; http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/vashki/vas_images/41901_2_b.gif Dina and her husband perished in Lithuania. Three of their children left for South Africa. their daughter Sara married Leo Heiman, both died in 1997. Her brothers were Meir and Shimshon Feldman. they lived in Krugersdrop? one of them had two children; Dina (Diana?) and a son who was an attorney. Any information about the Feldman family would be greatly appreciated. Eilat Gordin Levitan Los Angeles The next day I received an email from Eddy Koonin via Jaci Milwid (the email is posted at the end of this note. here is the information I found by talking to the children of Shimshon Feldman and from my relative ; Rachel nee Kriger Broyde in Hertzelia. Dina nee Kriger was born in Vashki c 1879. Dina married Shaye Leib Feldman and moved to Ponuvitz. Dina and Shaye Lieb Feldmans' Children; 1. Daughter who died at a young age in Lithuania. 2. Chaya Felman who had a daughter ? Tamara. her great grandaughter visited Israel from Lithuania in 1992, she was 19 years old; She came to the hotel where her great aunt Sara Hyman was staying and Sara's second cousin, Rachel Broyde met her. she told me about the visit. 3. Shimshon Feldman ( 1904- 1981 Krugersdrop) came to South Africa at a young age with his brother Meir. Shimshons' Children; Harold Leon Feldman and wife; Coekie nee Friedman live in Krugersdorp, children; Dana Kassel + three children Carla Taitz Darren Feldman Dina nee Feldman and jack Klaff from Messina + 4 children 4. Meir Feldman (1908- 1979) in 1969 Meir went to visit his sister and family in Russia. Meir never married, he lived with his brother in Krugersdrop, South Africa. 5. Sara Feldman (1909- 1997 South Africa) Sara came to Palestine c 1930. sara married Leo Heiman and moved to South Africa in 1948. The family is related to Roberta nee Kruger formerly of South Africa (now in Jerusalem) .To: Jaci Milwid & family Subject: Re Feldmans Dear Jaci, I have done a bit of research for you on the Feldman family as requested. The two brothers did live in Krugersdorp and the one Shimshon did have two children named Dina and Harold. Dina married a Klaff from Messina and Harold is married to Coekie (Friedman)and they still live in Krugersdorp. Their address is No 4 Louis Trichardt Street Monument Krugersdorp 1739 Hope this info is of use to Eilat Gordon Levitan in L.A. I received the family tree from Nira nee Kriger Dan. It was done by Liora Poker of Kfar Ben Noon. The sources for the family tree; 1. memorial book for Eliezer Eliyahu Friedman from 1921. 2. an article by meir Volkani given by his daughter; Tamira nee Volkani. 3. an article by Tamira nee Volkani Orshan 4. Robert Mandelson for the Altshul family. 5. additional Rubin family info; Odeda Etzion, Aviva Rubin Asnin 6. additional Kriger family info; Chananel Bniyahu Krieger, Nira Dan, Raanana (Rina) Rabinski, Ilana Hartman. 7. additional Vilkanski family info; Odeda Etzion and others. 8. additional Milikovski family info; Dov Shefer, Rivka nee Sternfeld Chayut. 9. additional Feybelson info; Aluf (General?) Orel, Rachel Rabinovitz. 10. additional Friedman family info; Gidon Friedman, Yael Ha'elion, Bilha Elisha, Leviha Amior. the tree starts with; a. Yekutiel Katz Rapa the Original Rapoport family started from him c 1367 (source 1) He escaped "Ashkenaz" to Porto in Italy Rapa- of Porto= Rapoport . b. Next is Moshe Hacohen Rapa; he was a doctor in Venice he died in 1490. c. c 1544 Yekutiel/ Yechiel Rapa who was also known as the "Gaon" Yechiel . He had a printing house in Venice. His name is found on some old books. d. Arye Leib Cahana Rapoport; He was Av Beit Din Zedek in Prague. e. Yisrael Yechiel (1581- 1605) he wrote chapters in the books "Eitan Haezrachi" and "Pinkas Kraka". f. Avraham Hacohen Rapa Porto (1581-1631) g. Mordechai MLuzek (from Luzek) Av Beit Din Zedek of Luzek and Stifan. h. Menachem Man Hacohen Rapa ; Kraka? i. Avraham Rapa; Av Beit Din Zedek of Shidlova j. Beyla (daughter of i. Avraham Rapa) married "Hanagid Mordechai" who was the grandson and great grandson of; Rabbi Mordechai son ofyona Av Beit Din Hovanov and Hagaon Yechiel Michal Av Beit Din Nomirov who was killed in 1620 ? k. Zvi Hirsh Av Beit din Lisinka, Kiev region. was killed in 1768 by Kozaks led by Gunta. He had a family tree that went all the way back to David and his son Shfatya. before he died he gave his sons an order to burry the family tree with him and not to name anyone for him in eight generations. l. There his a little story about the sons; Three heroes; One banged a boulder of silver into the house and another into the table. The second was able to catch the wagon wheel of a fast running wagon pulled by four strong horses andturn it over. The third son did not show signs of heroism but when they attempted to take him to be killed they could not move him. They (The three sons) put the family tree in the grave of their father and fought the Haidmaks and later moved from the Ukraine to Zamut and settled in Plongian and Plotel and from there they went to Kalm. There are some empty "boxes" here and then; Pesach Gutman Yosef Rav Leyzer Eliezer (1772- 1831)Av Beit Din Kalm. corrected engineering mistakes that they made when the build the Shlosberg palace on a mountain neat Vilna. Originally he was from Plotel.from him it is starting to brunch out.He was the father of the well known Rabbi Izik of Kalm the was the father of Sheina Elka who married Dov Berzig Altchul ( you called him Berl?). the Volkani, Kriger, Friedman, feibelson, Kark, Rubin and others have brunches on the tree. . JEWISH FARMERS OF KOVNO GUBERNIA SEPTEMBER, 1881 In 1882, a book was published containing an alphabetical list of 7,246 farmers, who legally owned land in Kovno Gubernia as of September, 1881. The names of 62 Jews, involving 53 estates, were included. This calculates to 0.70% of legal farm land owners who were Jewish. This is a good indication of the restrictions against Jews owning large tracts of farm land in Lithuania under the Tsars. Unfortunately, one page of the original record is missing. It contains some of the surnames beginning with the letter "B". The list includes the following information; Name of land owner, Name of Estate, Location, Date of ownership, Description and size of land, Other sources of income on the land (mill, lake for fishing, etc.), Who lives on the estate (owner or someone else - no names given), Name of place where the owner lives. (In some cases, the owner lived elsewhere). INDEX OF NAMES AVRAKH, Eliya son of Itsik BERENSHTEYN, Sender son of Naftel BERENSHTEYN, Itsik son of Eber BERENSHTEYN, Leyba son of Eber BERZ, Berko son of Zelman BERMAN, Yankel son of Aria BRAUER, Itsik Berel son of Orel BRENER, Vulf and Saul sons of Eliash DUNIO, Mikhel son of Vulf EDEYKIN, Joseph son of Genokh EDELSHTEYN, Mordkhel son of Itsik GEFEN, Shlomo son of David Girsh GIRSHOVICH, Abram son of Mordkhel GIFEN, Abram son of Gish GOLDBERG, Daria daughter of Stanislav and Wilhelm, Edward & German sons of Pavel. GORDON, Chaim son of Mendel GORDON, Leyba son of Yankel GORDON, Leyba son of Meyer IZRAILEVICH, Yankel son of Israel IOFE, Ginda daughter of Gevel KLIATSKO, Leyba son of Movsha KRINTSMAN, Peisach died (his heirs are the owners) LEYBOVICH, Leyba son of Yosel LENTZNER, Gavril son of Zakhar LENTZNER, Leyba son of Gavril (Gabriel) LIPIANSKY, Shmerko son of Abram LIT, Girsh son of Itsik MARGOLIN, Chajya Ester daughter of ? MATUZAN, Girsh son of Motel MORES, Venyamin son of Shmuel NEVAKHOVICH, Bale (Beyle?) (this is a woman) POBILINSKY, Khatskel son of David POZHERNOV, Iosel son of Leyba RONDER, Abel son of Yankel ROZENTAL, Benjamin son of Fishel RUBIN, Abel son of Ruvin SAI, Abram & Notel sons of Yosel SESITSKY, Zelman son of Yankel SHILIANSKY, Iosel son of Movsha SHTEYN, Mordchel & Leizer sons of Sakhman SOMESTSKY, Shimel son of Srol STUNCH, Eliash son of Zelman TODES, Rocha daughter of Enokh UZHEP, Berel son of Kivel VILENCHUK, Tevel son of Iosel VILENCHUK, Khasa daughter of Sholom YAFORA, Sora daughter of Abram YAKOB, Yankel son of Moishe, and Zelik Leibe – son of Mair YUDELEVICH, Shlioma son of Chaim ZAKS, Girsh son of Orel ZHMUTSKY, Srol son of Itsik ZISLE, Fonel & Nachum sons of Itsik. Also, Girsh son of Leib If you would like to receive the complete information from the original record, pertaining to any of the above names, send a check in the amount of $10 USD, per surname or property owner, to: Kaunas Regional Archives, Maironio 28a, LT3000, Kaunas, Lithuania. Email address: v.gircyte@turbodsl.lt Howard Margol . - Thursday, July 03, 2003 at 19:46:46 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reading pages that bleed By Yehoshua Sobol http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=307210&contrassID=2&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y "The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1941" by Herman Kruk, edited and introduction by Benjamin Harshav, translated by Barbara Harshav, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Yale University Press, 732 pages, $45 When Herman Kruk's diary came into my hands at the beginning of the 1980s, I was thankful to my grandmother, may she rest in peace, for having taught me to read Yiddish. This document has influenced my life more than any other book I have read to this day, because it destroyed and refashioned for me the story of Jewish existence on the brink of extinction and made the writing of the plays "Ghetto," "Man" and "In the Basement" inevitable for me. Kruk's journal is not a work of literature. It is far more than that. He reported with unparalleled accuracy, in real time, from within an event unparalleled in its horror and terror. Kruk knows that he is documenting the last days of Jewish Vilna, the destruction of the glorious Yiddish culture, to which he dedicated his life as a cultural activist in the Bund, and he documents the last spurt of life and the final death pangs and expiration with a pen as sharp and as accurate as a surgeon's scalpel, in sparing language and in a restrained and matter-of-fact style. In this dry chronicle, which documents the process of the destruction of Jewish life in the Jerusalem of Lithuania, is a journal that was written daily. Kruk began to keep the diary in the night between June 23 and 24, 1941, a few days after the German invasion of Lithuania, and continued to write and document the events in the ghetto until the last day of its existence, in mid-September, 1943. After the ghetto was destroyed, Kruk continued to keep the diary in his new place of exile, the concentration camp at Kaluga, Estonia, until the day he was executed along with most of the prisoners at the camp on September 19, 1944, a few hours before the camp was liberated by an armored force of the Red Army. In the printed version in Yiddish the diary is strangely truncated on July 14, 1943, the eve of that tragic day when the leaders of the underground in the Vilna Ghetto decided to hand over Yitzhak Wittenberg, the commander of the underground, to the Gestapo in order to save the entire ghetto from destruction. In the Yiddish version that was published in New York by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in 1961, no explanation was given for why the diary was cut off at this point. Now, with the publication of the English translation of the journal by Barbara Harshav and the scrupulous scientific editing by Prof. Benjamin Harshav, the veil over this mystery is lifted somewhat. According to the editor, someone decided to hide the pages concerning the Wittenberg affair for fear that the publication of Kruk's version could provide the Soviet authorities with a reason to blame the Resistance leaders from the Zionist movements for handing the communist Wittenberg over to the Nazis. This could imply that whoever made the decision to omit the pages that touch upon the Wittenberg affair did this because those pages contained information to the effect that Wittenberg had not exactly decided to turn himself in, but rather his colleagues in the leadership decided that he had to do this in order to lift the threat of the German ultimatum to wipe out the ghetto.According to Harshav, the omitted pages of the journal were lost or destroyed. This affair can testify to the extent to which Kruk's diary contained explosive material concerning the life of the ghetto, and the extent to which his frank and uncompromising writing is essential to this very day for the understanding of this episode and event. Kruk documents the testimony of an 11-year-old girl, Yudis Trojak, who crawled out of a death pit full of corpses and was saved by a Lithuanian farmer who took it upon himself to return to the ghetto, where she provides the first description of the mass executions in the Ponar Forest. Thus, thanks to the documentation and exact dating by Kruk, it turns out that only on Thursday, September 4, 1941 -approximately two and a half months after the start of the executions at Ponar, about 10 kilometers from Vilna - the first word of what was really happening there came to the ghetto. Kruk, who took the testimony from the wounded girl at the ghetto hospital, is strict with her: "When I asked her how she could see the pit with blindfolded eyes, she laughed cunningly: `I adjusted the cloth like this so I could see ... There in the pit lay a lot of dead bodies, whole mountains of them!'" Kruk record this shocking testimony verbatim, and does not forget to record the naughty laugh of the wounded girl who said she inherited the bullet from her mother. This is Kruk's style, chilling and astounding in its precision, and this is only one of the virtues of the diary. With the same stylistic dryness and precision, Kruk documents an orgy in the offices of the Judenrat on New Year's Eve, 1942, and reports on the Jewish girls who have good relationships with the Germans, and even mentions the name of one of them, a former worker in a pharmacy, Ms.Lili Reszanska. And he adds: "This is a local detail I considered it necessary to note." Who is Lili Reszanska? It turns out that at the time he was writing these things down in the journal, she worked in the Jewish police in the ghetto and was one of the few Jews who walked around without the obligatory yellow star. Kruk, who had been a communist in his youth, left the party after he was bitterly disappointed by its negative attitude toward Yiddish culture. In the 1920s he joined the Bund, the anti-Zionist Jewish workers' party that upheld the integration of the Jewish proletariat in the socialist revolution, and demanded Jewish cultural autonomy in the framework of the socialist regime that would arise after the victory of the revolution in every country. In the Bund, Kruk became a cultural activist. He lived with his wife in Warsaw, but spent a great deal of his time traveling through Poland and Lithuania on missions for the party. He initiated and nurtured scores (and there are those who say hundreds) of cultural centers and Yiddish libraries in locales where there was a Jewish population. `The ghetto has everything!' With the occupation of Warsaw by the Germans, the leadership of the Bund decided to send some of its activists to Vilna, which was under Soviet rule. When Hitler broke the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and declared war on Russia, the German army captured Lithuania by storm. Kruk tried to flee occupied Vilna in the direction of the lines of the Red Army that was retreating in panic, but the advance of the German army was faster and Kruk found his way to freedom blocked. He returned to Vilna and began to write his journal, which became a monumental chronicle of life in the ghetto in all its aspects and nuances: the Judenrat's policy, jazz and classical music concerts and astonishing cultural activities that took place in impossible conditions, the establishment of a theater, the flourishing commercial life that regressed a thousand years, as he says, when a woman who needs a candle goes out into the ghetto street and cries out, "Who has a candle to sell?" - and at the same time, the opening of a "fine restaurant" (a gutte fresseriana), where it was possible to get lunch for the price of 180 to 240 rubles and drink Schnapps and eat goose just like before the war, "as if nothing had happened." And as if this were not enough, Kruk reports that "recently the police discovered a bordello. A bordello with three women. In short, the ghetto has everything!" Kruk's greatness lies in the fact that in a kind story of daily trivia that accumulate into his diary, seemingly without any selective principle and certainly without any self-censorship, an astonishing mosaic emerges, amazing in its richness and probing in its insights about what is happening in the ghetto, about the many facets of the struggle for survival against the Nazi genocide project and about the significance of artistic creativity and cultural life in preserving the human spark in the midst of the increasing destruction. Thus Kruk documents the establishment of the theater in the ghetto about three weeks after the terrible wave of executions in which about 40,000 of the 70,000 Jews of Vilna were taken out and shot in the killing pits at Ponar. Kruk, who himself was opposed to the establishment of the theater under those circumstances, and even coined the slogan "You don't make theater in a graveyard," documents with full objectivity the first concert on the theater's stage and with intellectual integrity praises the level of the actors and musicians. Kruk admits his fears that the theatrical event would wound the sensitivities of the mourning public and bring disgrace to the ghetto had been unfounded. He also acknowledges that the income from the performance, totaling 4,000 rubles, was allocated entirely to charitable purposes, under the slogan "There must be no hungry person in the ghetto." This was the slogan of the head of the Jewish police, Yaakov Gens from the Betar movement and Kruk's political rival - who initiated the establishment of the theater..... - Sunday, June 22, 2003 at 17:48:45 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rezekne Sobornaya, house of GROBOWSKY, apt. 3 GILKOV, Moisey Leiba 38 Wilkomir d., Kovno pr. Onikshti, Wilkomir d.,Kovno pr. Tenant by Salman GORDIN GORDIN, Salman Morduch age; 36 Rezekne Drisa, Vitebsk pr. GORDIN, Beila Josel 36 Rezekne Drisa, Vitebsk pr. Wife of Salman Rezekne B.Nikolayevskaya, house of RIWOSCH, apt.4 GORDIN, Gilka Morduch 31 Rezekne Drisa, Vitebsk pr. GORDIN, Braina Jankel 28 Dauagavpils Drisa, Vitebsk pr. Wife of Gilka GORDIN, Morduch David 61 Drisa, Vitebsk pr. Drisa, Vitebsk pr. Father of Gilka LIEBGOTT, Kelna Seimesch Nurse 14 Rezekne Rezekne Krustpils Bolshaya, house of SPUNGIN, apt.2 GORDIN, Jankel Itzik Cattle-dealer 30 Krustpils Krustpils GORDIN, Sora Elka Jankel 25 Krustpils Krustpils Wife of Jakel; Maiden Name SPUNGIN LEWIN, Dweira Genoch 30 Krustpils Vilnius d., Vilnius pr. Wife of Israil Itzik LEWIN, Israil Itzik Josel Small trader 30 Vilnius d., Vilnius pr. Vilnius d., Vilnius pr MELLER, Sora Riva Abram 28 Glazmanka Gonushishki, Novo-Alexandrovsk d., Kovno pr. Wife of Benzian MELLER, Benzian Haim Shoemaker 31 Krustpils Gonushishki, Novo-Alexandrovsk d., Kovno pr. SPUNGIN, Golda Jankel 18 Krustpils Krustpils Sister of Sora Elka TABAK, Tewia Josel Pupil of shoemaker 13 Glazmanka Birsen/Birzhay, Ponewjez d., Rezekne Naberezhnaya 15 2706-1-156 GORDIN, Hawa Liba 35 Ludza Rezekne Wife of Moisey; Maiden Name JORSCH GORDIN, Moisey Meyer Doctor's assistant 53 Rezekne Rezekne JORSCH, Leiser Shop-assistant 24 Ludza Ludza Brother of Hawa-Liba GORDIN MELTZER, Haja Gilem 20 Vilani, Rezekne d. Vilani, Rezekne d. Rezekne Naberezhnaya 18-1 2706-1-156 GORDIN, Riva Dwera Rezekne Naberezhnaya 18-1 2706-1-156 Trader 53 Rezekne d. Rezekne Widow of Ruvin Rezekne Nizhne Zamkovaya 3-1 2706-1-157 BRESLAU, Morduch Abram Joiner, apprentice 25 Rezekne Rezekne GORDIN, Elia Leiba Joiner, apprentice 19 Dauagavpils Vilna pr. KUKLA, Schlema Jankel Pupil of joiner 15 Rezekne Rezekne SCHUSTERMANN, Jankel Josel Joiner 65 Rezekne Rezekne SCHUSTERMANN, Mowscha Jankel Furniture-dealer 26 Rezekne Rezekne SCHUSTERMANN, Rocha Mowscha 50 Rezekne Rezekne Wife of Jankel SCHUSTERMANN, Haja Leiba 21 Rezekne Rezekne Wife of Mowscha AddressFond Number Name PatronymicOccupation AgeBirthplace Place of Origin Comments Rezekne Nizhne Zamkovaya 3-6 2706-1-157 GORDIN, Naum David Shop-assistant 50 Drisa, Vitebsk pr. Drisa, Vitebsk pr. GORDIN, Michla Nachman 53 Rezekne Drisa, Vitebsk pr. Wife of Naum GORDIN, Salman Ahron 37-1900 Drisa, Vitebsk p. Moskovskaya 50, Riga 51/3 1900-5630 GORDIN, Freida Wife of Salman Drisa, Vitebsk p. Moskovskaya 50, Riga 51/3 1900-5630 GORDIN, Benjamin Schepschel 59-1900 Skopiszki, Novo-Alexandrovsk d., Kovno p. Moskovskaya 42, Riga 51/3 1900-5709 GORDIN, Esther 57-1900 Wife of Benjamin Skopiszki, Novo-Alexandrovsk d., Kovno p. Moskovskaya 42, Riga 51/3 1900-5709 GORDIN, Haim Scholom Mowscha 22-1900 Rezekne On departure, Riga 51/5 1900-7631 DRITZ GORDIN Rivka Haim 21-1913 Wife of Reuvin Gutman Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Abram Kalman 39-1876 Brother of Scholom Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Abram Salman 30-1885 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Abram Wulff 38-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Abram Josel Berka 19-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Baska 1868 First wife of Leib Leiser; date of death also given as 1878 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Beines Leiba Leiser 1-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Berka Jossel 53-1882 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Buscha/Bertha Mowscha Wife of Itzik Mendel Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Eida 39-1876 Wife of Salman Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Esther Mowscha 25-1898 Wife of Gerschen Mendel Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Esther 49-1909 Second wife of Abram Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Eta Lea Mowscha Wife of Schlioma Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Freida Josel 44-1876 Wife of Marcus Meyer Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Fruma Rivka 27-1883 Second wife of Leib Leise Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Gerschen Mendel Abram 14-1888 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Gerschon Josel 34-1876 To Kraslava in 1877 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Ginda Meyer Israel 18-1897 Second wife of Leiba Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN SLOSSBERG / SCHLOSSBERG Golda Frada Itzik 22-1892 Wife of Jankel Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Haika 1872 Wife of Kalman Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Haim Josel 26-1876 To Kraslava in 1877 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Haim Leiba Leiser 8-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Haja 68-1882 Mother of Scholom, widow Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Hana 29-1876 Wife of Jankel Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants & Family List 4936 GORDIN Hana Bascha Nochim 24-1890 Wife of Hlawna Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Hawa Mowscha 49-1899 Wife of Schmerka Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Hlawna Juda 23-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Ida 25-1894 Wife of Itzik Jankel Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Ita Muscha 35-1882 Wife of Scholom Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Itzik Kalman b. 1865 Grandson of Juda Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Itzik Leiba Leiser 16-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Itzik Salman 35-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Itzik Jankel Berka 9-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Itzik Mendel Kalman 6-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Jankel Leiba Leiser 11-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Jankel Salman 30-1876 Daugavpils merchant Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants & Family List 4936 GORDIN Jechonon Josel 24-1876 To Kraslava in 1877 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Josel Itzik 50-1876 To Kraslava in 1877 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Juda Itzik 63-1876 1881 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Kalman Juda 39-1876 1875 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Kalman Leiba Leiser 17-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Kalman Schmuil 48-1858 1858 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Keila Lea Scholom 20-1892 Wife of Itzik Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Lea Abram Wife of Lipman Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Leib Leiser Kalman 45-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Leiba Abram 19-1876 1914 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Liba 36-1876 Wife of Kalman Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Liba 19-1882 Wife of Raphal Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Lipman Gabriel Daugavpils merchant Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Lyuba 32-1885 Wife of Abram Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Malka 26-1876 Wife of Schewel Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Marcus Meyer Lipman 44-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Michail Leiba Leiser 3-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Morduch Josel 21-1876 To Kraslava in 1877 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Mowscha Michel 39-1876 Daugavpils merchant of 2nd guild Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Muska 26-1876 died First wife of Scholom Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Peretz Salman 28-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Raphal Abram 21-1876 1904 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Rocha Morduch 34-1876 Wife of Itzik Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Rocha 54-1876 Wife of Salman Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Roska 51-1876 Wife of Josel; to Kraslava in 1877 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Rubin Jankel 20-1885 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Salman Michel 53-1876 Daugavpils merchant Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Salman Juda 41-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Scheina 41-1876 Wife of Abram Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Scheina 45-1876 Wife of Berka Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Scheina Ginda 38-1876 Wife of Mowscha Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Schewel Juda 31-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Schlioma Leiba Leiser 14-1883 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Schmerka Kalman 27-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Scholom Kalman 30-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Schora David 18-1894 Wife of Wulff Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Simka 31-1897 Wife of Kalman, son of Leiba Leiser Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Slowa 28-1894 Second wife of Scholom Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Sora Leiba 24-1876 Wife of Peretz Daugavpils Daugavpils Merchants 4936 GORDIN Sora Beila 51-1888 died First wife of Abram Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Sora Saidla 26-1882 Wife of Abram Josel Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 GORDIN Wulff Abram 8-1876 Daugavpils Daugavpils Family List 4936 Surname Given Name Patronymic Occupation Year Column # TownVolost UyezdGubernia GORDIN Khonon Movsh. Bakery 1911 401 Dagda Dvinsk Vitebsk GORDIN Stasia Zalm. GroceryGoods 1911 410 Liutsin Liutsin Vitebsk GORDIN Itsko Mikh. GroceryGoods 1911 412 Korsovka Liutsin Vitebsk GORDIN Iank. Peis. GroceryGoods 1911 413 Markovo Liutsin Vitebsk GORDIN Iank. Peis. Flax 1911 414 Markovo Liutsin Vitebsk GORDIN Mend. Shliom. Textiles 1911 422 Polotsk Polotsk Vitebsk GORDIN Ekh. Ios. Furniture 1911 422 Polotsk Polotsk Vitebsk GORDIN Aba Ruv. Bath House 1911 426 Rezhitsa Rezhitsa Vitebsk GORDIN Ab. Ruv. Leather Goods 1911 427 Rezhitsa Rezhitsa Vitebsk GORDIN Zelda Faiv. Flour 1911 428 Rezhitsa Rezhitsa Vitebsk GORDIN Goda Gersh. Flour 1911 434 Sebezh Sebezh 2 -119 GORDIN Ruven Jaunjelgava 1907 Eligibility 4 Vitebsk . - Wednesday, June 18, 2003 at 00:13:41 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ , May 19, 2003 at 11:42:48 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: BIPESQUIRE To: EilatGordn hi there My family comes from Posvol, which was a small town do you have any of these names in your family tree for the relatives from this town BERLIN MOWSOWITZ KRETZMER FRIDMAN LEV thank you very much BERN POLLOCK . - Wednesday, May 07, 2003 at 15:34:51 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Division C: Jewish Thought Psychological and Behavioral Factors as Reflections of Culture Chairperson: Philip Wexler Shva Salhoov (H)The Study of Interconnections between Biblical and Rabbinical Sources in Light of Ritual Theory . - Friday, May 02, 2003 at 23:44:08 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) has added about 387,000 names to its list of Jews who had insurance policies prior to the Shoah and claims on those policies were never paid. Most, but not all, of these policies were issued by German insurers, but some came from other companies in Europe. You have until September 30, 2003 to file a claim for payment of these policies. If you believe you or an ancestor has a valid claim, even if the name you are claiming for is not on the list, you need to present your information to ICHEIC. Information on how to do this is presented in a wide variety of languages on their web site, http://www.icheic.org. This site is being updated periodically, so if you think you might be entitled to file a claim, bookmark it and keep checking back. I have no further information on this site or the commission. Please contact them directly with your questions and interests. Chuck Weinstein in Commack, NY cweinstein@jewishgen.org I found the name of my grandfather; Last Name First Name Last Known Residence Birth Year Where Policy was Issued Insurance Company Gordin Salomon Germany List B Search Results Sample http://www.icheic.org/components/search_results.php My grandfather left Germany in 1933 with my grandmother Leja/ Lola nee Chait and their children; Dr. Sylvan/ Sali Gordin (My father) and Shoshana/ Zoozi nee Gordin Gefen. The family settled in Tel Aviv. Eilat Gordin Levitan - Thursday, May 01, 2003 at 22:54:43 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=288850&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Shva is the wife of Eran Gordin (great grandson of Asna nee Kriger and Yehuda Chait of Vashki) Ha'aretz - Article Friday, May 02, 2003 Nisan 30, 5763 Hi Eilat, Today I read your writing about my mother and it was very emotional for me. I feel that you really captured the essence of my mother's life. Nava. - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 22:59:20 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Central events of Holocaust Remembrance Day Monday, April 28 20:00 - Official opening ceremony, Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 20:00 - Lighting of torches and memorial ceremony, Massua amphitheater, Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak Tuesday, April 29 10:00 - Siren 10:02 - Wreath-laying ceremony, Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 10:30-12:30 - "Unto Every Person There is a Name" - recitation of names of Holocaust victims at Yad Vashem and at the Knesset; another ceremony of name recitation will begin at 9 A.M. and continue until nightfall at Beit Wohlin, Givatayim 13:00 - Main memorial ceremony, Hall of Remembrance, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 19:30 - Closing ceremony, amphitheater of the Ghetto Fighters' House, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot. Mourners march at Auschwitz, mark ghetto uprising By Reuters OSWIECIM, Poland - High school students joined Holocaust survivors from around the world in Poland on Tuesday to mourn Jews killed at the Auschwitz death camp and mark the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule 60 years ago. President Moshe Katsav and his Polish counterpart, Aleksander Kwasniewski, led 3,000 people in the "March of the Living" through Auschwitz's gate, bearing the infamous German inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free), to the nearby twin camp at Birkenau. "With the sun, birds singing and blue sky you can't really imagine that these heinous crimes happened here," said Avishai Nalka, 16, a high school student from Ashdod. "I only saw this place in black-and-white history films, now I see it in color." More than a million people, mostly Jews, died in the gas chambers or from disease and starvation at Auschwitz, the German name for Oswiecim, during World War Two. Six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust. Poland's pre-war Jewish community of 3.5 million was reduced to 300,000. Organizers of the march, which was part of Holocaust Remembrance Day, said there were fewer marchers than in recent years due to security concerns over the recent war in Iraq. The event also marked the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which has become a symbol of Jewish resistance against rule by Nazi Germany. On April 19, 1943, Jewish fighters launched a desperate last stand against German occupying forces to resist looming deportations to death camps. They held off the Nazis for several weeks with homemade explosives. Also marching was Norman Frejman, 72, who as a child survived the Warsaw Ghetto, deportation to the Majdanek death camp and slave labor in Germany. "God wanted me to survive: All my family perished either in the Warsaw Ghetto or in the camps. I am getting old, so I had to come here to see it once again. This is hallowed ground, because the ashes of Jews are scattered here," he said. "I also wanted to attend the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. This is very near to me," said Frejman, who left for the United States after the war and lives in Florida. Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on a different day each year because it is linked to the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, when the uprising began. In Israel, sirens brought the country to a standstill for a two-minute silence and flags were at half-mast for the memorial. . - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 08:57:50 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.thejewishexchange.com/images/holidays/yomhashoah/sixmillion.html?source=tea Jewish Exchange Holocaust Presentation (IsraelNN.com) The Jewish Exchange offers Internet viewers a Holocaust Day presentation, a time for reflection - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 07:54:41 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My wife's grandfather, Koppel LEVIN, married Liebe RUBINSTEIN, daughter or Faivel Manne RUBINSTEIN. Their children were Bella LEVIN (m. Louis FREEDMAN, lived in Cape Town), Anuta LEVIN (m. Naftoli RUTENBERG, lived in Johannesburg), Geina Hannah LEVIN ('Janie', m. 1. AVIV, 2. KASSEL, lived in Cape Town), Masha LEVIN (m. UPNITZKI, lived where?-had a son, Koppel), Yascha (unmarried, migrated to and died in Israel) and Sonia (m. RI-GORODETSKY, moved to Russia: either she or he was a dentist). The South African descendants are all lodged with the Family Tree of the Jewish People. Does anyone know anything of Koppel LEVIN or Liebe RUBINSTEIN or her parents, of Panevysz, or of this UPNITZKI or this RI-GORODETSKY? My research has, so far, been fruitless. Peter ARNOLD (AMOILS/AMOLS/AMOLSKY/SIEFF/ZIV/BERELOWITZ/RUTENBERG) Dr Peter Arnold . - Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 18:36:28 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: naomile@012.net.il To: jro2000@012.net.il CC: EilatGordn@aol.com Dear Roberta, My mother's sister; Rochale nee Kriger Broide, told me that Dina Feldman (Sara's mother) was a first cousin of my grand father Leib Kriger/Kruger & of your grandfather ( what was his name ? ). I hope to hear from you before you go on vacation. Yours, Naomi Levin . - Monday, April 21, 2003 at 10:49:18 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maryland State Archives MARYLAND INDEXES (Death Record, BC, Index) 1943-1949 Max Highstein 06/11/1945 G-29697 CR 48,274. Baltimore City Death Index Highstein, PhD, Gabrielle - Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Health Mrs.Norman Highstein Class of 1950 the goucher college chemistry department Current Psi Chi Members Sarah Highstein mHighs6026@aol.com CLASS OF 2004 Psychology @ Muhlenberg College - Muhlenberg College Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew St. Allentown, PA MalloryMallory Highstein THE ISLAND LAKER Mallory Highstein HIGHSTEIN, MINDY 5210 # 3.5 USTA Middle States Section - Usaleaguetennis - 3/14/2003 10:33:36 AM I've seen a hacked version of drive setup 1.3.1 which does this as well called Drive Setup 1.3.1+. Lokke Highstein lo-ki@pinsky.com Music Advisor Lokke Highstein (New York-based DJ and musician Lo-Ki Warm Up 2002 "Music for Winter Exhibitions" is made possible in part by The Recording Academy and the 45th Annual GRAMMY Awards and is organized by Anthony Huberman and Lokke Highstein Shelby Highstein Residence: E Brunswick, NJ Birthplace: Unknown Age: Unknown Height: Unknown Plays: Unknown Coaching: Unknown The Central Jersey Hotshots under-12 girls’ soccer team took first place in their flight of the Piscataway Annual Fall Classic last weekend Charles & Mindy Highstein Girl Scouts of Delaware-Raritan . - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 21:28:18 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JENE HIGHSTEIN (grandson of Civia nee Kriger and Max Highstein of Vashki) Born in Baltimore, MD 1942 Lives and works in New York, NY and Salem, NY SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2001 "Ulrich Wellmann, Ann Ledy, Jene Highstein," Stark Gallery, New York“ "Jene Highstein: Two Rooms with Ten Doors,” Art Museum, University of Memphis, TN 2000 "Jene Highstein Recent Sculpture and Drawings," Grant Selwyn fine Arts, L.A. "Room with Ten Doors," University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT "A Gentle Cut," set design for dance performance, ELD Dance Company, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. 1999 Stark Gallery/Crosby Street Project Space, New York Pamela Auchincloss/Project Space, New York "Byen Viso," set design for dance performance, ELD Dance Company, premiere at Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden "Three Lives and Something" and "Stalling into Elation," set design for Nina Winthrop and Dancers, St. Marks Church In The Bowery, NY 1998 "Jene Highstein," Todd Gallery, London, UK "Stairway to Heaven," Jene Highstein Sculpture and Drawing, Anders Tonberg gallery, Lund, Sweden "Jene Highstein Sculpture and Drawings," Hill Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI "Room," Contemporary Culture, Dallas, TX "Jene Highstein," Stark Gallery, New York SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY City of Lincoln, Lincoln, NE Collection Panza di Biumo, Varese, Italy Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI Grove Isle Sculpture Garden, Miami, FL Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA Musee Plein Air, Paris, France Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden , Govenor State University, University Park, IL New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA David and Alfred Smart Museum, Chicago, IL Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Victoria and Albert Museum, London Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 19:05:34 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Great Grandson of Asna nee kriger and Yehuda chait of Vashki ; Gil Paley "It'll definitely help us here," agreed Gil Paley, co-owner of the Diamond Exchange, a few stores down from JahneBarnes at the Outlet Mall. He also hopes for a new airport, not just for new business but because it would shave minutes or hours from his bi-weekly commute from Los Angeles. Between flying into busy McCarran and taking the shuttle to Primm, his commute is almost as long as driving from Los Angeles, Paley said. Great Grandson of Asna nee kriger and Yehuda chait of Vashki ; Gil Paley "It'll definitely help us here," agreed Gil Paley, co-owner of the Diamond Exchange, a few stores down from JahneBarnes at the Outlet Mall. He also hopes for a new airport, not just for new business but because it would shave minutes or hours from his bi-weekly commute from Los Angeles. Between flying into busy McCarran and taking the shuttle to Primm, his commute is almost as long as driving from Los Angeles, Paley said. http://eilatgordinlevitan.com/vashki/vas_images/41901_17_b.gif - Saturday, April 19, 2003 at 18:59:16 (PDT) |