Saturday, March 31, 2018

1876-1914 OLITA (ALYTUS): A FEW JEWISH NAMES


1876-1914 OLITA (ALYTUS): LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE--A FEW JEWISH NAMES FROM THE CITY OF OLITA
(Surnameindex)


f. 1014, 2, d.217—1876-1914 Metric of the Jewish Society of the City of Olita


Brevdo
Che Rnevich
Chupovich
Dargion
Darshan
Deich
Elperin
Elpern
Evelson
Falk
Feinberg
Felman
Genden
Gendin
Gerkovsky
Golomb
Gron
Gutman
Kagan
Kagin
Kapan
Kaplan
Katsovich
Katz
Khabas
Khastovich
Khazanovich
Kheshs
Kiyachko
Komarinsky
Koptsiowski
Kovarsky
Lampert
Leib
Lidsky
Livshin
Lyatskovich
Lyubetsky
Matis
Milevsky
Mishevich
Nemonaetsky
Nemonaitsky
Niselevich
Pekar
Prudovsky
Rabinovich
Reitbord
Samunishsky
Samunsky
Schwarzbord
Shapiro
Shcherbak
Sherman
Shubovich
Skirnevsky
Slonnik
Sluchak
Sukhovolsky
Suster
Titov
Tomor
Treger
Tsukerman
Tswing Bernstein
Ubershtein
Yablonsky
Zachepinsky
Zakovich
Zetel

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Tarnow:Not to Be Forgotten-- Do You Know This Family??

Does anyone recognize the name, Frieda BALSAM or Frejda BALSAM (also known as Beile)? Frejda/Beile was the second wife of my great uncle, Tobias GUTTMANN. Beile died in 1927.
Frieda Balsam was born in 1929, so she may have been somehow related to Beile. Do you know the relationship?? Her photo is from USHMM/Vienna Museum of Natural History Collection, found in the USHMM Photo Archives. The mug shot was taken by the Nazis of individuals in the Tarnow Ghetto, in about Spring, 1942. The Guttman & Balsam families were from Tarnow.

The following is a USHMM description, in part, of the Nazis purpose for taking the mugshots & doing research studies, that was provided with the photos:

"The Institut fuer deutsche Ostarbeit (Institute for German Work in the East or IdO) was a Nazi research institute established in Krakow during the German occupation whose mission was to gather information and make evaluations about Poland's population and resources and their potential for exploitation. Among its tasks was the research and identification of 'racial types' in Poland in order to help devise and implement a plan to restructure Polish society along racial lines. It was believed that such a restructuring would foster 'Germanness,' eliminate 'racial mixing' and otherwise help 'secure the military victory and political leadership of the German people' in occupied Poland... The Institut fuer deutsche Ostarbeit (Institute for German Work in the East or IdO) was a Nazi research institute established in Krakow during the German occupation whose mission was to gather information and make evaluations about Poland's population and resources and their potential for exploitation. Among its tasks was the research and identification of 'racial types' in Poland in order to help devise and implement a plan to restructure Polish society along racial lines. It was believed that such a restructuring would foster 'Germanness,' eliminate 'racial mixing' and otherwise help 'secure the military victory and political leadership of the German people' in occupied Poland.
The Tarnow study was a joint project of the IdO and Dr. Dora Kahlich-Koenner, a racial anthropologist from the Anthropology Institute of the University of Vienna. Kahlich-Koenner, who was at this time involved in a study of full and racially-mixed Jews living in Vienna, sought to examine a large group of Jews from Poland, the ancestral homeland of most Viennese Jews, in order to gather comparative material for her Viennese investigation. The Tarnow racial study was conducted between March 23 and April 2, 1942, only a few months prior to the mass deportation of Jews from the ghetto...."





Friday, March 23, 2018

1882 Vladislav/Kudirkos Naumiestis: Some Jewish Names

1882 VLADISLAV/ VLADISLAVOV (KUDIRKOS NAUMIESTIS)—SOME JEWISH NAMES
(surname index)

Lithuanian State Historical Archive
f. 1218, 1, d. 399. “1881-1884 The Metrics of the Jewish Society of Vladislav”

Shinberg
Shindel
Shmuilovich
Bromberg
Blumberg
Blum
Varshavsky
Goldberg
Davlsky
Johansburg
Kaplan
Lurie
Pinkinsky
Prager
Pilnstein
Poborets
Palenbaum
Peterson
Ioselantes
Kagan
Kabaker
Kovensky
Kaminsky
Lumynsky
Brown
Gotenstein
Gerzon
Grozinsky
Lozervich
Aronson
Levinson
Mingheim
Melikind
Am
Altmuhler
Vinitzky
Weimstein
Herzel
Grosman
Goldenstein
Gerberg
Zyman
Zylaberman
Ioffe
Iontef
Liechtenstein
Mishtovsky
Matlyavsky
Meerovich
Mehring
Oppenheim
Ritelzon
Radin
Rosa
Rotenberg
Rosberg
Rose 
Rosenthal
Rozenson
Rozenfeld
Segal
Salansky
Tobias
Taubman
Telmich
Urvich
Frimman
Frank
Finkelstein
Vogel
Mannheim
Neimark
Olvitsky
Ochron
Burenstein
Schneiderovich
Blumsteist
Balsham
Brumberg
Berkmann
Panovsky
The worker
Feinberg
Chernyavsky
Yankovsky
Rosinsky
Solomin