Jewish Gem's Genealogy: Mining for Your Elusive Ancestors: 2024

Saturday, May 11, 2024

National Historical Archives of Belarus [NIAB]: Jewish Population

F. 2640, op. 1

#399. Classification of an Ilyino-Velizhsky district resident. YESELSON Dovid Zalmanov, Velizhsky resident, to the family of his father, Zalman Erakhmielev, a resident of the Illyinsky Jewish community.

#403 Regarding the enrollment of the Polotsk resident, GERSHITZ Israel Dovidov [aka Alexander, & according to the 10th national census-Srul] among the townsmen of Gostoshel community, Kiev district.

#408. Case regarding the classification of a Kreslavka, Dinaburg U. tradesman, SANDLER Evel-Leyba Pershev & his family. They missed the 10th national census of the Kreslavka community.

#413. Case regarding the enrollment of ILYASHEVICH Iosel Ioselevich & his wife, KOTLYAR Gershon Meerov & his wife, GLANTERSHCHIKA Enta, & KHITRIN Sora. They missed the 10th national census for the Dinaburg community. The 1887 revision census-Ilyashevich I.I., Kotlyar G.M., Glantershchika M.E., Khitrin L.B., i.d. 207.

#414. Case regarding a resident from the village of Yanovichi, Vitebsk Uz., tradesman GUDOVICH Yuda Abramov & his family, on the Vitebsk community family list for 1874, i.d., 2-3.

#415. Case regarding the assignment of Veniamin-Dovid, son of Vitebsk resident, Gershen Vulfov GUREVICH, to the family of Vitebsk tradesman, KITAEV Zalman Aronov, who adopted him.

#417. Classification case of of an Osvei, Drissensky district resident. Rezhitsa citizen, Aron Yuda BERKOV and his family to the Drissen tradesman community.

#428. Regarding the enrollment of KHRAPKOV Shmuil Davydov, a Vitebsk resident of the Gorodoksky community, and his son, Moshchi, also a Vitebsk resident of Gorodoksy, as members of the Vitebsk community. 1887 Revision census, pp. 7-10.

#429. Classification of the Polotsk tradesman, Iofe Iokhil TSALKOV & his family as Polotsk merchants of the 2nd guild.

#430. Classification of a resident of the city of Velizh as a tradesman of the metro station Kolyshki, Vitebsk, RAIKHLIN Yoselya Zalmanova, with her family, to the Velizh community. 1887 Family List, pp. 2-3.

#431. Case regarding the inclusion of residents of the city of Dinaburg who missed the 10th national census to the Dinaburg community: GINZBURG Shevel Elyevich, EPSHTEYN Berku Chaimov, SHTEIN Zalman Shliomovich & their wives, Simon LEIBOV, gymnasium student & his family, BESHKIN Rivka, MELLER Renu, BRYN Sora, BIRKGAN Sora, FETEROVICH Gnesyu-Mozgovoy Zalmanov, MANOFIS Rivka.

#432. Case regarding classification of the residents of Livenhof Dinaburg: tradesman of the Dinaburg community FAINSHTEYN Movshi Khaimov & the Jacobstadt community, LEVINSHTEYN Yankel Khatskelev, with their families.

#435. Case of classifying a tradesman of the Lyntup Jewish community of Sventsyansk, Vilna, KHARMATSI A.L. with his family to the Dinaburg community.

#436. Assignment of the Polotsk tradesman RIVLIN Sh. Ya. to the family of the father of the Polotsk 2nd guild merchant, RIVLIN Ya.-sh. I.

#438. Inclusion of the member of the Plis Jewish community of Disna, Vilna, GINZBURG S.-P.S. regarding the inclusion in the Lepel community.

#443. Case of the inclusion of the Lepel tradesman, SHEFTEL N.-L.H.-I. with his famly. They missed the 10th national census to the Lepel community.

#445. Regarding the assignment of a merchant resident of the Rudnya Orsha, Mogilev Prov. community: TSUKERMAN B.M. with his family to the Vitebsk community.

#446. Case of classifying a resident of the Chashnik metropolitan area, a tradesman of the Chashnitsky community of Lepel: GELMAN Ely Elyev, with his family to the Vitebsk community. 1874 Family List of the tradesman Gelman E.E., pp. 2-3.

#450. The city of Dinaburg, Vyshkovsky tradesman of the Dinaburg district, ULMAN G.A., with his family, classifying them to the Dinaburg community.

#451. Case of expulsion from the merchant class of Chaim Dovidov-Isaac, son of the 2nd guild merchant, GUREVICH of Rezhitsa, a student of the St. Petersburg University.

#452. Case of classifying a resident of the city of Dinaburg as a tradesman of the Postavy community of Disna, Vilna province. TSEPLOVICH Avsey Itsykova, with his family, in the Dinaburg community.

#454. Case concerning the addition to the family of Shmuil Yudelev VALERSHTEIN,a Dinaburg tradesman, of a foster boy, BRUMBERG Movsha Abramov, son of a widow, a tradesman of the Sventsyansk community in Vilna province. Ents BRUMBERG.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

MIRRER YESHIVA: LIST OF ESCAPEES FROM VILNA TO JAPAN DURING THE HOLOCAUST

BACKGROUND:

"The Mir yeshiva's escape..."--An article

https://judaicaused.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-mir-yeshivas-escape-to-shanghai-new.html

A 10-page list of yeshiva escapees is available at:

https://search.archives.jdc.org/multimedia/Documents/Names%20Databank/Japan%20Emigration%20Lists/Set%20II%20Yeshiva/Additional%20Links/Complete_AR33-44_00053_00858.pdf

The list includes Names, Date & Place of Birth, Citizenship, Relatives (Names, Addresses, Relationships)

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

1896-97 TARNOW: SOME STUDENTS LISTED IN THE SCHOOL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL SECONDARY SCHOOL

[possibly Jewish]

i. 63

Class IA

KORETZ Leon, MAHLER Salomon, MUSCHEL Alter [There were two bank account holders, Chaim Gutman Muschel & Mujer Muschel in the wine business in Tarnow. Were they related to Alter?] WASSERMANN Efraim

Class IB

HERZBAUM Aleksan., OWIDE Samuel, BOLEK Adolf, BORUCH Franciszek, FINKELSTEIN Teodor, KRONENBERG Michal, MUNZ Leon

Class IC

BORUCH Jedrzej, ADLER Izak, BEIM Hirsch, JUDA Henryk, JUDA Maurycy

i. 64

Class IIA

LUDWIN Michal, SPAN Samuel,

ZINS Mojzesz[note: there is a "Majer Ehrlich Zins" on the Tarnow Judenrat List of Nov 2 1942. He died in March, 1942. Wife was Sprinca. Was he a relative of Mojzesz? Also, a "Mina Zins" had a 1938 checking account in the Tarnow Postal Savings Bank. Was she a relative?]

Class IIB

MENASCHE Samuel, BERNSTEIN Samuel, CHILL Samuel, KAPELLNER Izak [listed in Wikipedia, "List of Victims of Nazism" & Jewishgen.org Tarnow Yizkor]

Class IIIA

ARZT Chaim, CHUDY Feliks, DINSTAG Szymon, GESCHWIND Emanuel,

GOLDBERG Salomon [according to a bank account holder list of 1938, Salomon became an attorney],

KRANZLER Izak

i. 65

Class IIIB

HEUMANN Salomon, KARGOL Leon, KLEIN Dawid, REICH Samuel

Class IVA

RAUCHWERK Baruch, RAUCH Zygmunt, MILLET Abraham

Class IVB

MARKOWICZ Jozef, MANDEL Izak, PROKESCH Abraham, SEIDEN Hirsch [note he was on the Tarnow Judenrat List of November 2 1942. His son was listed as Zygmund. Hirsch died Feb. 2 1942]

Class VA

BIENENSTOCK Maksym, HOFFMANN Juliusz, SZANCER Bruno, WEISS Salomon

Class VB

EDELSTEIN Efraim, PELIKAN Feitel

i. 66

Class VIIA

SALOMON Fryderyk, SIMCHE Maurycy, ZIMERMAN Maurycy

Class VIIB

BAUMFELD Gustaw, KROCH Salomon

Class VIII

BROMBERG Gustaw, BRODER Chaskel, OBERLEDER Mojzesz, SALOMON Maksymilian, SCHORNSTEIN Idel

Friday, April 5, 2024

1865 MOGILEV PROVINCIAL GAZETTE: ANNOUNCEMENT NOTES

1865 BELARUS: MOGILEV PROVINCIAL GAZETTE

ISSUE 6

i. 3

Bykhov district court:

December-- Zalman Mordukhov SHEINMAN, sold a wooden house with a building, located in the city of Bkhov on Bobruiskaya St, to Bykov resident, Hiller/Giller Leyvikov GOLD for 200 R.

House built by Bykhov resident, Mendel Neukhov LANDO, sold for 300 R.

i.4

Mogilev city police dept.

was searching for owners of horses taken from Mogilev tradesman, Leiba KAGAN, a black gelding, 19 yrs old, black tail.

i. 5

Regarding a lawsuit regarding the violation of the contract for hiring workers--peasants for tying & cutting timber. Names mentioned: Elyu Khaimov GUREVICH, Rechitsky 3rd guild merchant; Elyu GINZBURG. Gurevich sued the members of the Yamninsky rural administration for damages.

i. 6

Chausy district court:

Auction deadline was set for 22 Feb for a legal re-auction sale of a wooden house & land which had belonged to the Chaussky tradesman Itsk Yusilev RASKIN, valued at 36 R. In the claim, his nephew, Dovyd RASKIN set value as 40 R.

i. 7

Buyout Contracts

Minsk Provincial Govt announced an auction to be held on 19 July 1865 of property (stone house, wooden outbuildings & land) which had belonged to Minsk tradesman, Borukh Itskov RYVKIN, who had died.

ISSUE 7

i. 10

Called to court, Leib Simonov SHMERLING, for a hearing related to a decision on a case regarding a house, involving tradesman Ruvin OLKHOVSKY

ISSUE 8

i. 15

Regarding Inability to Pay Fees: Appeals

The Chaussky city magistrate announced that a Jewish farmer from a village in the Goretsky district, Izroil Lazarev SHESTAKOV, declared himself insolvent to pay appeal fees of 3 R., 60 kop. when he transferred his case for audit from the magistrate to the chamber of the criminal court. The case was about beatings he suffered by a Jew named DIAMONT.

Calls, Auctions, Houses, Estate Sales, etc.

Mogilev chamber of civil court summoned Movshe Aryev GOLOSOVKER to appear.

i. 17

1 Mar 1865, Vitebsk provincial govt: auction for sale of house in part 1 of the city of Vitebsk, quarter 1, #405 Bibkin Lane, valued at 660 R. The house, with its buildings, belonged to the widow of Abram ZALMUNIKOV, Rivka Abramova, & to his children, Zalman & Simon ZALMUNIKOV. It was sold to pay off various arrears, collections, & private debts, totaling 34 6 R 74 kop, with interest. (also i 24)

ISSUE 9

i. 20

Regarding Losses

The Mogilev City Duma searched for the passport lost by Yankel Getselev BALTER, issued to him from the Duma on 24 Nov 1864, #2365, for a period of one year. His features were: 47 yrs old, ave. height, hair & eyebrows brown & grey, grey eyes, "moderate nose & mouth, ordinary chin", clean face, grey beard hair.

Mstislavl district police dept looked for a ticket lost by private Aizik Fridmanov RAIKHLIN, issued to him 15 Sept 1864 by the Mogilev provincial battalion, for 6 months, under an "incapacity", article 1, in order to recover his health.

i. 22

Count Yuliy Feliksov Strutinsky & his ex-wife, Friderika Bogdanova, were indebted to many & various persons, including: Berdichev 3rd guild merchant Khatskel ZILBERSTEYN, Orsha townsman Yankel Dovydov RAPOPORT, Zhitomir merchant's son, Yusel-Meer Pinkhusov VANSHTEIN, Kiev merchant Alexander GORNSHTYN, Berdichev Jew Sholom Gershenov BASSIS, Berdichev merchants Chaim & Zalman NEHAMKIS, Starokonstan-Tinovsky resident Abo Meerov TSUKERMAN. Court decision 9 Dec 1864.

i. 23

Simon Shaev IDELMANT summoned to appear in the Mogilev civil court chamber to hear court's decision on his case involving a house, with tradesman Ruvin OLKHOVSKY.

i.24

On 8 March, a house, located in the city of Mogilev, was to be sold by the Mogilev district court at public auction. Part of the land belonged to Mogilev tradesman, Meer Shmerkov TSOTKIN, who failed to pay bills of 7000 R, in a timely manner. This was recorded by the Kharkov office, having been presented by Tsotkin to the Warsaw 1st guild of the merchant Mordukh MINKIN. It was valued at 60 R.

ISSUE 10

i.26

22 December, Sale of house in city of Mstislavl by resident Benyumin Movshov, SHAPIRO to Goretsky resident Yusil Smugelev GENODIY for 250 R.

The Orsha district court announced that the 1865 letter issued by the 2nd guild merchant, Shmuil Aizikov GESHELZON, to the Goretsky local citizen, Izroel Yankelevish PEYSAKHZON, after the death of the priest Piotrovsky, was declared void on 18 Jan 1865.

i.27

Cherikov City Magistrate summoned Cherikov townspeople Zalman LEYVIKOV & his wife Genya Girshova ROSINBERKHOV, Ita Gitlya Shlemova LIBERMANOVA, Yesel Khaim Girshov LIBERMAN, Zalman Zalmonov ROSINBERKH, merchant Mordukh Leybov FRIDBURG, or their attorneys, or, in the event of death, their heirs, in the case of debts owed to various persons from the deceased Cherikov citizen Girsha Abramov LIBERMAN. The hearing of the decision occurred 21 Oct 1864.

i. 30

The Mogilev provincial govt. ordered an auction on the 13 March, with rebidding on the following 3 days, for the sale of furniture by Yudki GUREVICH, valued at 11 R 50 kup.

i. 31

Minsk provincial govt. announced the pending estate sale of landowner Vladislav Iosifov Polonsky with some exceptions:

--Land & forest for permanent use by the peasants

--To Yankel CHERTOV, a Minsk Jew, 1500 R

--To Jewish townsmen of Minsk: Srol Itskov POLYAK, 2000 R, Abel Shevelovich GOLDBERG & Movsha Shmuilov Topaz, 1,000 R, Yankel CHERTOV, 600 R, Elle Yankelev KUGELY 1800 R, Abram Vulfovich FREYNKEL 500 R, Aizik Abramov LESNIK 755 R, Abram Elev PREIS 1200 R, Yusel Izrelyuvich TSUKERMAN 9, Itsk Beniyaminov BENZMAN 360 R, Shai Shmuilov MORSHAK 1825 R, Koidanovsky Jew Srol Yuselev GUTNER 775 R,

Sunday, March 31, 2024

WHO ARE THEY? ARE THESES YOUR RELATIVES? [23+]

WHO ARE THEY?: ARE THESE YOUR RELATIVES? (#23)

GITEL ABRAHAMA ELIASZ

Birth: 1903 Wilno

Jakob [son??]: born 1938

She had resided in Krakow.

1942 Statement: Medical doctor in Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic [Tajikistan].

1926-28 Photos: Self & family. Krakow.

1929 Medical Certificate

1957 Work Certificate: The Presidium of the National Council Poviat for Health in Olesnica certified that the medical doctor, Gitel Eliasz, had been employed in the Regional Specialist Clinic--Gynecology Clinic in Oleksy, 15 July 1949-31 December 1952.

It was her own decision to leave her position.

SZYJA ABRAMA GRINBAUM: 1932 Polish Passport [to Palestine--1933 Immigration]

Birth: 1907 Zamosc

Single

Occupation: Artisan/Craftsman

Residence: Zamosc

1933 Czechoslovakia Visa

Other Visas

Letter [in Polish]--unknown translation-- Do you know??

18 Nov1829 Construction & Engineering Contract between the Podolsk State Chamber and the Kamenetz Jewish contractor, AYZIK ZANLIND [variously spelled as Isaic, Isaik, Sinland].

The contract referred to construction on the prison castle in the city of Litin.

Names mentioned in the contract:

--Moishe-Narman Gdalevic, 3rd Guild Kamenetz resident, and wife, Haya Gluzmanov

--David-Meier[David Meer] Landsberg, merchant

1930-31 Czech Tourist Club Card: JULIUS LOWRY/LOURY

DAVID ROBSAYC: 1947 British Passport

Birth: Berlin, 14 Jan 1927

Residence: Tel-Aviv

Occupation: Clerk

1927 Certificate of Palestinian Citizenship Order: ARIEH TOISTER

Citizenship Granted: 13 April 1927 (former national of Spain)

Birth: Tibarias, Palestine; 1902

Occupation: Mechanic

Marital: Single

1917 Petrograd Polytechnic Institute of Peter the Great Certificate: SAMUIL VULFOVICH ZELKINDS (or Velkinds)

Student: Electromechanical Dept.

Date: 19 September 1917

1944 British Palestine Passport: SELEMAN SHARABI

Birth: Sanaa Yemen; 1922

Residence: Holon

Occupation: Driver

Sunday, January 28, 2024

1920-1938 Stanistawow Poland [Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine]

APPLICATIONS FOR OBTAINING PASSPORTS BY JEWISH RESIDENTS

[US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM]:

Identifier: irn34982 or

Accession Number: 2008.12,

RG Number: RG-31.064M.

F. 6, O. 3

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34982

Languages: Polish, German, English, Russian, Czech

116,398 JPEG Images; 11 microfilm digitized reels

From Archive: Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Ivano-Frankivskoi Oblasti [State Archives of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region]

The records are downloadable & are arranged alphabetically in the order of the Russian alphabet.

According to USHMM, the passports enabled travel abroad for business, medical treatment, or pleasure. The applications were reviewed & approved by the Stanislawow County Executive Office, 1918-1938. Typically, they included correspondence with foreign embassies/consulates, original passports, government officials, official documents & certificates, etc.