Geri Levine (geri@levinecorp.com)

Nearly 80 percent of the world's Jews can trace their roots to
Poland where Jewish presence predates the Holocaust by
almost 1000 years. Now, the Museum of the History of Polish
Jews, a center for education and culture, dedicated to
preserving the lasting legacy of Jewish life in Poland is to be
opened in Warsaw in 2011.

Located in what was the heart of the Warsaw Jewish Quarter
and opposite the Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising, the Museum, using the latest research and
innovative exhibition design will immerse visitors in the world
of Polish Jews end encourage exploration through a wide
range of media, documents and artifacts.

The Museum's representative will present the plans of the
eight core exhibition galleries which trace Jewish history in
Poland from 966 A.D. until the present, and discuss the
initiatives undertaken by Jewish communities around the
world to support the Museum.

Don't miss what will be a most interesting presentation.
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Stanley Diamond
Executive Director
On behalf of The Board of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

The only leads I have are that Jankel was originally from Piotrkow
(b. 1795) , but moved to the Przedborz area to marry and enhance his
rabbinic studies. An internet source about Jews of Warsaw says that
there were indeed two wealthy Jews living there and originally from
Piotrkow. Their names were Josel Jankel and Szmul, and they lived
slightly before the era of surnames (around 1800). I thought there
might be a connection, though if they were "my" Jankel's relatives,
they'd be significantly older (and possibly no longer living by the
1860's).

I'd appreciate it if someone who has information regarding wealthy
Jews of Warsaw from 19th century could contact me, or also contact me
if you have specific information about the Josel Jankel and Szmul
mentioned above.

I know its a long shot...

Thank you.

Steve Bloom

My mother's maternal grandpearents were Nechuma-Szejna Morlender (born 1884 in siedlce, died 1926 in Warsawa) and Boruch-Lejb Galperyn/Halperin. they were Married in 1902 in Siedlce and had 3 children:

1. Yehoshua Halperin (born 1903 in warsaw, died 1965 in Tel Aviv, Israel) married Rochel Begin (sister of late israeli PM Menahem Begin) and were parents of Ari (Born Warsawa 1938 - Died 1942 in Brest Ghetto, Belarus) and Emanuel (Born 1943 in Toshkent, Uzbekistan).

2. Yehudit/Judita (born April 4th 1904 in Warsawa, died February 1973 in Jerusalem, Israel) before WW2 she was an athlete and married Arno Erb, who died during the war. she married Asher Gil (Gilipter) after immigrating to Israel.
3. My grandmother: Lija ( Lea, or Lola) Halperin (born June 10th 1909 in Warsawa, died December 20th 1951 in Raanana, Israel). Lola was married on September 8th 1935 in Jerusalem to my grandfather Bronislaw Sztraubaum who changed his name to Dov Tibbon (Born July 1st 1907 in Warsawa, died March 23rd 1972 in Jerusalem) . They had 2 children: Ari Tibbon and Nava-Meira.
Rochel nee Begin (at an old age) recalled:
1. Boruch-Leijb Halperyn had a brother named Chaim and sisters named Brunia, Frenia & Ester (who's married name was Weinsztock and had a son Lolek and a daughter Reginka). another brother or sister of Boruch-Lejb's had a son Tadeusz and a daughter Sala.

2. Boruch-Lejb Galperyn was somehow a relative (cousin or brother-in-law, we think) of an Aharon Goldberg from Pinsk, Belarus (son of Nachum & Mirlya Alta Goldberg, father of Natan, Avraham & Gunia) who was given custody of Lola and her brother and sister when their pearents died).

3. in 1916, during the battle on Verdan in WW1, Yehoshua Halperin was in France studying french with a female relative of his who's last name was Farber. we have no idea who she was or how they were related.

4. Nechuma-Szejna Morlender's father died when she was young and her widowed mother married a widow named either Eliahu or Szmuel Barg. mr. Barg had a daughter called Frejda Lipshitz (born 1877 in siedlce -
died 1962 in Jerusalem, Israel) and MAYBE a set of twins called Gersz Wulf and Dawid from his first wife, and with Nuchuma-Szejna's mother he had twins and MAYBE a dauhter named Helena.

5. Nechuma-Szejna Morlender is believed to be a grand daughter of Chaim Boruch Izrael MUHRENLANDER (1819-1890), chief Rabbi of Warsawa and author of "birkat Chaim" book, and a decendant of the REMA (Rabbi
Moses Isserles)

On her Paternal side My mother's grandpearents were Meir Sztraubaun & Rozelia-Rachel Himelfarb (died August 22nd 1966 in Warsawa). they had 7 children:
1. Stanislaw Yshayahu (Stach) - changed his last name to Olecki, married Dora Biderman and had a son Sevek (Simcha) Tibbon and a Daughter Zula (Shoshana) Reich.
2. my grandfather Bronislaw Sztraubaum/ Dov Tibbon
3. Anna sztraubaum (born Dec. 24th 1912 Warsawa, died May 19th 1990 in Warsawa).
4. Helena (Hella) Sztraubaum (died Dec. 20th 1968 in Warsawa).
5. Alexander (Olek) - changed his last name to Olecki, married Irena (Irka) Berman (sister of communists Adolf & Jakub Berman) and had 2 daughters: Ania & Gusha.
6. Balla Szpyzman-Pavlovski, married Pinchas-Pyoter Szpyzman-Pavlovski and had 1 son: Ludvig "Bogush" elieazer Pavlovski (26.12.1938-21.7.1991)
7. Paula Kolek (1917-1940) was married to a man who turned her to the Nazis.

we know nothing else about the Sztraubaum - himelfarb families and cant seem to find Ania & Gusha Olecki.
if any of you finds anything familiar or just knows better where to search for other information I would be so greatful...

Thanx in advance,
Mattan Segev,
Jerusalem, Israel.

Poland's capital on Wednesday marked the completion of a massive
restoration project that marks the borders of the former Jewish Ghetto
that was walled in by Nazis occupiers during World War II.

The mayor of Warsaw, along with the minister of culture, inaugurated
the project that included 21 new information points along the
boundaries of the former Jewish Ghetto. The project also placed a
beige line, labeled "Ghetto Wall," along the city streets that
outlined the furthest reaches of the Ghetto's borders.

The line snakes along sidewalks and around apartments and offices,
broken only when it reaches roads or tram lines.
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Paid for by the city of Warsaw and the Ministry of Culture, the
project was launched last year by a team of historians.

"When you ask people in Warsaw about the Ghetto, they can tell you
about it and have an idea of where it was," said Tomasz Merta of the
Ministry of Culture. "But in reality, nobody could tell you how big it
was and how it was a huge prison in the heart of the city."

Varsovians can now easily find the line running along several major
streets near downtown and curling around what is now the Jewish
Cemetery.

"Now it's here, and we can see it and touch it. And it's very
difficult to remember, because of how hurtful it was," Merta said,
"but at least now we can remember. This is our responsibility."

Nazi officials cut off the Jewish Ghetto from the rest of the city on
November 16, 1940. At its broadest circumference, the Ghetto wall
enclosed 307 hectares.

Some 360,000 Warsaw Jews and 90,000 from other towns were forced into
the ghetto, according to the city of Warsaw. Some 100,000 people died
of hunger.

"It's not only important to Warsaw, but it's a universal lesson about
memory," Merta said.

The inauguration ceremony included a bus tour that took people along
the former borders and stopped at the information points that marked
important sites or events in the Ghetto's history.

A crowd of project officials, local residents and historians went
along for the trip. Older residents recalled the disquiet in the city
when the wall was first built.

"Nobody was sure if their house would lay in the Ghetto, or where the
borders would be," said historian Jan Jagielski, author of a book
about the Ghetto. "Walls had been built earlier, and people were
worried that there would be a ghetto. From November 16, people
couldn't leave."

Jagielski lead a group of mostly elderly women through a park and
wondered at how modern Warsaw sits atop borders that are gone but not
forgotten.

"This is all real and unreal," he said. "That we're here walking,
through these streets."