Ludwik Szczekacz
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Few are translations or abridgments of facts related to general education.
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Berek Szczekacz and Chana Szmidt
Berek Szczekacz and Chana Szmidt had 12 children. Searching for Birth, Marriage, Death records (BMD) brings us occasionally to meet living family members. I admit, getting to know new blood related family members is the most exciting part of doing genealogy. Lately I met Yoram Shachar, one of Berek and Chana’s great, greatgrandchild about whom I haven’t heard until Dec 15, 2019. The meeting has prompted me to create pages for the descendants of Berek Szczekacz, our mutual great, great grandfather. The released page will introduce you to the 12 children and to their children. Currently there are only two documented stories, about Layzer Ludwig Szczekacz and about Frajdla Szczekacz. The stories about Yoram Shachar, Samuel Szczekacz (The artist, Shmuel Tzur), the many Shakter’s descendants and others will follow soon.
Release Nov 9, 2019
Yosef Kaluzynski and Chana nee Sznajderman
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Fajgla Kaluzynski and Wolf Szperling
The Holocaust Had no Mercy for the Szperling Family
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A Telephone call from Australia to Californiaswept Jane and me into a research in the Czech Republic. Several families appeared for a moment and then disappeared during the Holocaust. Very few suvivors, many Yad Vashem testimony pages and research in the Czech Republic declared Jane, Dov Kuflik, his sister, Idit, and the five grandchildren of Josef Arieli, my self included, are 3rd cousins. Jane, Dov and his sister, Idit, are 2nd cousins.
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The following story is about Dawid Sznajderman, the son of Abram Moshe Sznajderman and Ajdla Koenigsberg, who survived the tumultuous time of WWII.
Marek Kaluzynski was son of my great grandfather, Abram Kaluzynski, and his second wife, Chaja Dzialoszynska.
Marek’s mother, Chaja, died around 1912 in Czestochowa, leaving his father with five young children;
the youngest, Sara, was two years old. Marek was fourteen years old.
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LUDWIG SZCZEKACZ
- 1 -PrologueJanuary 18, 2014, the following message from Jane Nevezie popped in the email box.
"My maternal grandmother was Hilda (Hinde) Szczekacz, born c1891 in, I believe, Czechoslovakia. She married Hermann (Chaim Hirsch) Glaser and they lived together with their children Leo, Edith (my mother) & Slavek in Doubrava, Moravia, Cz.
Could we be related? I am attempting to gather information for my family history. Szczekacz is not a common name, so I am hoping there is a family connection and maybe information. I would be most grateful to hear from you. Many thanks and regards, Jane." Of course, I murmured to myself, of course we are relatives. I had never heard about Jane, or about Hilda Szczekacz before. But, as I’ve said every time I research the roots of the Szczekacz family, the surname Szczekacz is a unique name, not because its meaning in Polish is “Barking Dog,” but because all the Jewish people who bear the surname “Szczekacz” are blood related. Their roots were mostly in Czestochowa, Radomsko, and small settlements around these towns. Some families wandered to Lodz and its neighboring settlements. Of course, we have always to think about the wanderer Jew who reached over the whole world. “Hilda Szczekacz was born in Czechoslovakia,” I said to myself. “Who was her father, and how and when did he come to live in Czechoslovakia?" Jane was very enthusiastic about finding a relative, and she sent me a fascinating story she wrote in December 2014 for ‘Kingstone, Leading the Jewish Community in South London’.
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Photos from the places that Jane's family lived
Oswiecim
Bielsko-Biala Jewish Cemetery founded in 1849
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My mother was Edith Glaser, born on 19th December, 1912, in Doubrava. Her parents were Chaim Hirsch 16/08/1871 (Hermann, birthplace unknown), - 1942, and Hildegarde Glaser b.15/06/1891(Hilda, nee Szczekacz, birthplace unknown), - d.1942. My maternal grandparents had a mixed business in Doubrava until the early 1930s, after which they moved to Ostrava. While I believe that the family of my father was not orthodox Jews, my mother’s family were. My maternal grandparents ended up in Treblinka, from which they never returned. Edith, my mother, could leave Czechoslovakia in late 1939, in an Eichmann approved transport, and migrated to Palestine (and permitted to land unhindered by the British), arriving early 1940. She met my father in 1942, and they were married in November of that year in Tel Aviv. My mother also had two brothers, Leo (born Ostrava 07/07/1911- died Prague 01/02/1984), who had completed his medical studies by the outbreak of war, only to become a dentist after the war. He lived in Prague on his return from what I think was a labor camp and passed away there. I found his grave in the new cemetery when I visited Prague in July 2013. When the Communists took over in 1949, Leo severed all contact with my mother in the West. Leo never married or had a family. Edith's younger brother was known as Slavek, born Doubrava 30/01/1914 - died Melbourne 19/12/1993. As for me, I am a semi-retired secondary school teacher who does relief teaching when it is available. The rest of my time is spent fussing over my family. I married my husband Kevin in a little synagogue in Hastings, New Zealand, in 1977. (End of Jane Nevezie’s Story) Comments: Maybe Edith was in Niska and when she reached Israel she landed in Atlit. Comment: Ostrava Remember her City, The Story of the Jews of Ostrava. Format of albums in the book: History of the Jews of Ostrava, Ostrava Kindergarten, Ostrava, the expulsion of Nisko, Ostrava during the occupation, and more.
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- 7 -Hilda Szczekacz RecordsJane sent me birth records of her mother, Edith Glaser, and her mother’s brother Leo Glaser. The records, always invaluable resources, have details about additional family members: Hilda SZCZEKACZ, Jane’s grandmother, and Herman Glaser, Hilda’s husband.
Edith Glaser Birth Record.
“Here is the entry of my mother’s birth, Edith, on the 18th or 19th December 1912. You will notice that it gives also details of her mother, Hilda SZCZEKACZ: Hilda’s birth date and place, as well as the date of her marriage to Hermann Glaser - 17th April 1910." The image of the record is difficult to read.
Translation of the record:
Edith Glaser, Birth Date: born 18 December 1912, Edith’s father: Chaim Hirsch Glaser, merchant, born in Gromiec district Chrzanow, 16 August 1871, Edith’s mother: Hilda nee Szoz?kacz born in Holleschau district Bielitz, 15 June 1891, married 17 April 1910. The translation is by Traude Trieble (traude.triebel@inode.at)
Jane sent me also the birth entry for Hilda Glaser nee Szczekacz’s oldest child, Leo, Hebrew name Leiser. Leo Glaser Birth Record
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- 8 - A different version of Leo Glass Birth Record.
Summary of the Translation of Leo’s birth record:
Leo’s Date of Birth: 7.7.1911 Leo’s Place of Birth: Doubrava c 373 Child Name: Layser Leo Leo’s Father: Chaim Hirsch Glaser, born on 16.8.1871 in Gromiec, Poland Leo’s Mother: Hilda roz. Szczekacz born on 15.6.1891
Witnesses: Ignac Szczekacz, Ruzena Bornsteinova Helper in childbirth: Brzuskulova
According to Jane, her mother, Edith, and her mother’s siblings, Leo and Slavek, were born in Doubrava. Leo’s record, indeed, shows Doubrava as his birth place. The witnesses in the records are Ignatz Szczekacz and Ruzena Borensteinova. Ignatz seems to be another mysterious Szcekacz in Czechoslovakia, and I’m unsure who Borensteinova is and how she is related to the family. Leo Glaser’s birth details were obtained by Traude Trieble, a researcher contacted by Jane.
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- 9 - Data Summary for Jane’s AncestorsJane’s paternal/Wachsmann side:
Father: Oskar Chaim Wachsmann - born in Ostrava, Czech Rep. on 27th June, 1901. Died in Melbourne, 23rd December 1970. Grandfather: Heinrich (Jindrich) Wachsmann - date and place of birth unknown. Died before the war. Grandmother: Johannah (Janinia, nee Gronner) Wachsmann - date of birth unknown, place of birth probably Oszwiecim, Poland. She died during the Holocaust. Father’s siblings: 1. sister Erna; 2. sister Grete. They were both younger than Edith’s father. They perished in the Holocaust. The younger one appears to have been in her early 20s at the outbreak of war. The older one was married to a man with a family name of either Offner or Orlan, and they had a son who was fifteen years old at the outbreak of the war. They all perished in the Holocaust. As Oskar lived part of his childhood in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, it is possible that his sisters were born in Poland and that Jane’s paternal grandfather died there.
Family Background on Jane’s Maternal Side/Chaim Hirsh Glaser and Hilda nee Szczekacz:From Jane: “My mother's family were observant Jews who kept kosher and I believe also Shabbat. My grandfather, Chaim Hirsh Glaser, had a mixed business store. (I have a photo, but when I went there was only vacant fields in its place). My mother, Edith Glaser, told me that my grandfather first established himself as a good provider before getting married, so he was twenty years older than my grandmother, Hilda Szczekacz. Our first assumption was that maybe my grandfather knew my grandmother's family, her father, one of her brothers, or some other family member, and he took her to Czechoslovakia when they married. Maybe they used a matchmaker; I really don't know. What I do know is my grandmother came from a family of either six or eight children, and my mother used to visit her grandmother in Poland. Also, I know my mother, her mother, and her grandmother were very good cake bakers, and, luckily, I too have the golden touch (as well as number of family recipes that were handed down at least four generations) because any cakes I bake are very good.” The letter Jane wrote to her researcher, Traude, brings out more details about her grandmother Hilda Glaser nee SZCZEKACZ:
Mother: Edith (Raisel, nee Glaser) Wachsmann - born Doubrava, Czech Rep. on 19th December, 1912. Died in Melbourne on 15th March, 1986. Jane sent me a photo of her mother Edith Glaser Wachsmann at age 72 in January, 1985.
Edith Wachsman nee Glaser
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- 10 - Jane tells: “My mother, Edith Glaser, managed to leave Czechoslovakia on an Eichmann-sanctioned transport at the end of 1939, landing in Palestine in early 1940; the British permitted it to off load its passengers in Athlit. She remained in Palestine till early 1943, having met and married my father in 1942 in Tel Aviv. They spent the rest of the war in Cairo, Egypt, and then went to Aden. After that, they moved to British Arabia where my father resumed his position working for Bata shoes, who sent him there from Czechoslovakia in 1939. I was born in Aden in 1947.”
Grandfather: Hermann (Chaim Hirsch) Glaser - date of birth 16th August, 1871, possibly in Doubrava. Died in Treblinka, 1942. Grandmother: Hilda (Hinde, nee Szczekacz) - born 15th June, 1891 in Holesov (Holleschau), Czech Rep. Died in Treblinka, 1942.
Jane’s grandmother, Hilda Szczekacz Glaser. Hilda is perhaps in her mid to late twenties.
Jane’s grandmother Hilda Szczekacz Glaser. The photo was taken when she was probably in her mid-forties. She was only fifty-one when she perished in Treblinka in 1942.
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- 11 - Edith’s Siblings:1. brother Leo, born 7th July, 1911 in Doubrava, Czech Rep. Died 1st February, 1984 in Prague.
Leo Glaser in 1980 2. brother Slavek (Sigfried/Vieteslav), born on January 30, 1914 in Doubrava, Czech Rep. Died 19th December, 1993 in Melbourne.”
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- 12 - The prior data was provided by Jane, and from here on we tried together to solve the mystery of our relationship through the Szczekacz family. Jane’s story provided some data to summarize one generation of her Szczekacz-Glaser ancestors. We still had a long way to go before we could link Hilda Szczekacz to the Szczekacz family tree.
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- 13 - The Family Branch of Jane’s Great-Grandfather, Ludwik Szczekacz - First Attempt to Create Family BranchGetting information from genealogy websites is an ongoing process. Researchers update these websites, frequently. Every search yields more new data. Searching the sites of Jewishgen, JRI-Poland and CRARG for SZCZEKACZ, I found data from the following towns: Birth places: Skoczow, Dziedzice Living places: Bielsko-Biala, Dziedice, Lwow, Holeszow (The source of the data for Holeszow is: Monitor Polski Court Announcements
The family data appears in the following tables: The first table is split into two table to make it easier to read. Table Part 1:
Table Part 2:
The reference record to all the data is:
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- 14 - In the above table according to the columns of the father and mother , we can build a tree of the descendants of Ludwig Szczekacz, that lived in Skoczow:
The Szczekacz family branch, above, which we have just created, doesn’t have Hilda Szczekacz among Ludwig Szczekacz's children.
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- 15 - The Family Branch of Jane’s Great-Grandfather - Second Attempt to Create Family BranchAmong my old files I found that several years ago, I got from JRI-Poland a list of Skoczow school records for the children of Ludwig Szczekacz:
In the school data,g Szczekacz, who might be the same person as the one in the previous data of Monitor Polski Court Announcements, has six children in school. The last list does not include Ludwig’s two children: Henryk, born in 1876(?), and Roza, born in 1888 (or before), who probably weren’t in school in the listed years. To account for the difference, we had also to consider the fact that the Monitor Polski Court Announcements list was provided by Jerzy and Izydor ENGEL. They were looking for family members after the war and probably filled the application forms from memory without having real records. Later we found that they were not blood related to the SZCZEKACZ. As we’ll see later, they were related through marriage and might have made some mistakes. The school list does include Hilda Szczekacz, Jane’s maternal grandmother, and Ignatz Szczekacz. We encountered Ignatz Szczekacz before as a witness to the birth of Hilda’s son Leo. The family branch of Jane’s great-grandparents now includes the following eight children Layzer Ludwik Szczekacz and Berta Robinson had the following children (The birth dates are not carved in stone):
i. ROZA SZCZEKACZ was born on 12 Dec, 1888 in Skoczow. She married BERNARD BORENSTEIN.
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- 16 -Linking the family branch of Ludwik Szczekacz to my family tree
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BEREK SZCZEKACZ was born on 18 Feb, 1829 in Czestochowa, Poland. He died on 19 Mar, 1909 in Czestochowa, Poland. He married Chana Szmidt, daughter of Lejbus Szmidt and Rajzla Fuks, in Zarki, Poland. She was born on 11 Apr, 1830 in Zarki, Poland. She died on 12 Jan, 1899 in Czestochowa Poland. Berek Szczekacz and Chana Szmidt had 12 children:
1. CHAYA SORA2 SZCZEKACZ was born on 02 Apr, 1849 in Zarki, Poland. She married Mortka Wolf Herman, son of Abram Herman and Hana Rotenberg, on 19 Mar, 1870 in Czestochowa, Poland. He was born about 1846 in Janow. He died before 1899.
2. RYWKA SZCZEKACZ was born on 21 Sep, 1850 in Czestochowa, Poland. She died on 13 Aug, 1855 in Czestochowa, Poland.
3. BAYLA SZCZEKACZ was born on 04 Feb, 1853 in Czestochowa, Poland. She married Abram Lewel Besser, son of Icek Besser and Ryfka Girtman, on 14 Jun, 1875 in Czestochowa, Poland. He was born about 1856 in Klobuck, Poland. He died after 1889.
4. ABRAM MAJER SZCZEKACZ was born on 18 Sep, 1854 in Czestochowa, Poland. He married Mirla Maria Blum on 10 Jun, 1878 in Czestochowa, Poland. She was born on 05 Sep, 1856 in Czestochowa, Poland.
5. LAYZER SZCZEKACZ was born on 11 Oct, 1856 in Czestochowa, Poland.
6. UNNAMED SZCZEKACZ was born on 29 Aug, 1858 in Czestochowa, Poland. She died on 29 Aug, 1858 in Czestochowa, Poland.
7. MICHAL SZCZEKACZ was born on 09 Aug, 1859 in Czestochowa, Poland. He married (1) BRANDLA DYMANT, daughter of Abram Dymant and Sura Bajla Fiszman, on 11 Nov, 1899 in Czestochowa, Poland. She was born on 20 Jul, 1873 in Janow, Poland. She died on 04 Dec, 1927. He married (2) RUCHLA KAM, daughter of Abram Kam and Laja Glauber, on 09 Apr, 1883 in Czestochowa, Poland. She was born about 1863. She died before Nov 1899 in Czestochowa, Poland.
8. ZENWIL SZCZEKACZ was born on 13 Jul, 1861 in Czestochowa, Poland. He married Estera Wiatrak, daughter of Mordka Wiatrak and Itka Erenfrid, on 16 Jan 1882 in Czestochowa, Poland. She was born on 05 Apr, 1855 in Zarki, Poland.
9. FRAJDLA SZCZEKACZ was born on 13 Oct, 1865 in Czestochowa, Poland. She died on 01 May, 1894 in Czestochowa, Poland. She married Abraham Kaluzynski, son of Majer Kaluzynski and Laja Dresler, on 19 Feb, 1883 in Czestochowa, Poland. He was born on 13 Feb 1865 in Klomnice. He died about 1942 in the Holocaust.
10. NACHMAN SZCZEKACZ was born on 01 Jun, 1868 in Czestochowa, Poland.
11. CYLKA SZCZEKACZ was born on 11 Apr, 1871 in Czestochowa, Poland. She died on 16 Mar, 1874 in Czestochowa, Poland.
12. ESTERA SZCZEKACZ was born on 21 Nov, 1873 in Czestochowa, Poland. She died on 07 Mar, 1874 in Czestochowa, Poland.
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- 18 - At this stage, it is an assumption that Layzer Szczekacz is our mysterious Ludwig. If Layzer and Ludwig are the same person, we have more questions and assumptions:
To verify these assumptions, I wish we could find following records:
Unfortunately, it was difficult to get Birth, Marriage, and Death Records for the residents of the town where Ludwik Szczekacz and his family lived.
Yad Vashem Testimony pages provided more information: Ignatz Szczekacz is Hilda’s brother according to the school list. According to Yad Vashem testimony pages, he was married to Rela Lavon. The applicants in one of the above tables are Jerzy and Isydor Engel. According to Yad Vashem they might related to Ignatz’s wife Rela Lavon. As you'll see below, in the Shlomo Labin Family Tree, Rela’s sister was married to Engel.
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- 19 - The TownsThe towns where the family of Ludwig SZCZEKACZ lived are in south Poland and the Czech Republic. These towns are not far from the southern border of Poland, unlike the other SZCZEKACZ families that lived in Czestochowa, Radomsko, Lodz, and in many small villages around these towns.
The towns appear to be: Czech Republic:
Poland:
In the map below you can see in a red square the town Ostrava in the Czech Republic and Bielsko-Biala in Poland. The distance between the two towns is about 87km. The town Skoczow is between these two towns. The town Goleszow is between Skoczow and Cieszyn. (See the map below.) All these towns are in the same area whether in Poland or the Czech Republic.
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South Poland Map. Click on View Large Image to see a full map
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Ludwik Szczekacz 's children lived mostly in Bielsko Biala, Ostrava and in the vilages between them (marked by red rectangle).
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- 23 - Research by Tomasz JankowskiRecords and information for the Czech towns can be found in the site: http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/czechguide.html The site has some information about Jewish records in the Czech Republic, but I found it difficult to search. We decided that the easiest way to continue was with a researcher in Ostrava. Using the advice of friend and maybe relative, Walter S. Elias, who researched the Szacher tree, I contacted Tomasz Jankowski to help me with the many mysteries and questions I have raised about Ludwig Szczekacz. We decided to try the records of Skoczow, where Ludwik Szczekacz lived and raised his children. Tomasz Jankowski extracted the following 1900 Skoczow Census records, and it give us a list of Ludwig Szczekacz family members:
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- 24 - The records, in the table above, tell us that Ludwig Szczekacz was brn in Czestochowa on the 22nd of October in 1856, he married to Bertha, they had eight children, and his occupation was an independent grain trader. His wife, Bertha, was from Ustron, Bielitz, Silesia. Goleszow and UstronThe book Where Once We Walked by Garry Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack places the village, Ustron, in Poland 94 km SW of Krakow 49 43’/18 48’. In 1920 the Jewish population was 120 (according to Pinkas Hakehillot: Poland – Vol. III, Western Galicia and Silesia). The Virtual Shtetl page for Ustron tells that in 1804 the town became a health resort. Many Jewish clients were attracted to the health resort. In September 1939 Ustron was occupied by the German army, and in October 1939 all the Jews were moved to Bielsk-Biala and Niska. Ustron’s town website tells about the Memorial Day recognizing the Jewish community in Ustron and its beautiful synagogue in the past. One of our assumptions is that Ludwig Szczekacz may have been attracted to the health resort, and there he met Bertha Robinson and married her. Maybe they got married in the Ustron’s beautiful synagogue:
Ludwig and Bertha’s children were born in Goleszów. The book Where Once We Walked by Garry Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack places the village in Poland 94 km SW of Krakow 49 44’/18 45’. In 1920, the Jewish population in Goleszow was 44, according (Pinkas Hakehillot: Poland – Vol. III, Western Galicia and Silesia and Yad Vashem Archival Material). The coordinates to Ustron and Goleszow are almost the same; the two villages were in the same neighborhood. The history of Goleszow goes back to 1223. The town moved often from one political government to another. At the end of WWI it was under Polish control. In 1910, 52 Jews lived in Goleszów. During the 2nd World War, in September 1939 Goleszów was occupied by Germans. Since July 1942 till January 1945, the sub camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was located here. In "Golleschau" camp the average number of Jewish prisoners was 1,000. They worked in four quarries, the cement factory, in the cable car construction to Leszna Górna. The camp was liquidated in January 1945 when the Soviet Army entered Goleszów. The prisoners were evacuated west.in January 1945. In Goleszow, where the Auschwitz sub-camp, Golleschau, is located, there is a plaque commemorating 19 prisoners that were evacuated in January 1945, unveiled at Dębowiec Forest on February 22, 1949. There is an inscription: "There are 19 victims of the nameless Nazi terror murdered on the way after the evacuation of the Auschwitz prisoners on 22.2.1949." Goleszow, the sub camp of Auschwitz, appears also in the story of Schindler's list: "One of the most remarkable humanitarian acts performed by Oskar and Emilie Schindler involved the case of 120 Jewish male prisoners from Goleszow, a sub-camp of Auschwitz. The men had been working there in a quarry plant that belonged to the SS-operated company “German Earth and Stone Works.” With the approach of the Russian front in January 1945, they were evacuated from Goleszow and transported westward in sealed cattle-wagons, without food or water. At the end of a seven-day grueling journey in the dead of winter, the SS guards finally stationed the two sealed cattle-cars with their human cargo at the gates of Brunnlitz. Emilie Schindler was just in time to stop the SS camp commandant from sending the train back. Schindler, who had rushed back to the camp from some food-procuring errand outside, barely managed to convince the commandant that he desperately needed the people who were locked in the train for work...
The photo was taken by W.Knopik
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- 25 - SkoczowLudwig and his children didn’t stay in Goleszow; they moved to other towns in the region: Skoczow, Ostrava, Doubrova, Bielsko-Biała. The town Skoczow is in Cieszyn, Silesia, 53 miles WSW of Kraków, 10 miles W of Bielsko Biała. The Jewish Population was 266 in 1890, 247 in 1910. At the beginning of the 20th century, the town was under different governments:
The Virtual Shtetl site has more information about Skoczow. For Tomasz, getting the data was a result of searching through many sheets in the archives. The index to all the records where Ludwig Szczekacz appears shows that frequently his name was Ludwig, but the name Laizer appears also, just once. The following table was extracted from Skoczow Resident book and it describes the extended family.
Tomasz Jankowski summarized his research with following words: Dear Ruth, Sincerely yours, Tomasz.
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- 26 -Ludwik Layzer Szczekacz and Bertha Robinson’s FamilyWith the data accumulated so far, the branch of Ludwig Layzer Szczekacz is as follows: Layzer Ludwik Szczekacz was born on 11 October, 1856 in Czestochowa, Poland, to Berek Szczekacz (1829 - 1909) and Chana Szmidt (1830 - 1899). He died before 1910 in Goleszow, Bielsko, Silesia. Ludwik Szczekacz was grain trader. He married Berta Robinson. She was born in Ustron, Bielitz, Silesia. She died in 1935. Layzer Ludwik Szczekacz and Bertha Robinson had the following children. They spoke German with their children I. ROZA SZCZEKACZ
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- 29 - IV. HILDA SZCZEKACZ
V. KARL SZCZEKACZ
VI. IGNATZ SZCZEKACZ
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- 33 - Shlomo Labin Family Tree
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- 34 - Meszel Knopf FamilyThrough Zeev Knopf testimony pages we were able to built also the Knopf branch that is related to the Labin family through marriage.
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- 35 - VII. ADOLF SZCZEKACZAdolf Szczekacz was born on 06 May, 1895 in Goleszów, Bielsko, Silesia. He was married, his wife is unkown and it is also unknown if the couple had children.
The data exists in KRAMERIUS - the National Library of the Czech Republic Adolf Szczekacz from Skoczow was wounded during WWI.
I assumed that Adolf Szczekacz was wounded and not killed because his name appears in the Krakow, Poland Transportation Lists, 1940:
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- 36 - VIII. SALI SZCZEKACZSali Szczekacz was born on 19 Feb, 1890 in Goleszów, Bielsko, Silesia. She married UNKNOWN GRUNBAUM.
EpilogThis research was important for me not only because I love to solve these mysteries but also because Laizer - Ludwig Szczekacz was the brother of my great-grandmother Frajdla Szczekacz. Laizer and Frajdla were two of twelve siblings. In a separate essay, I will try to shed light on the other siblings of my paternal great-grandmother. |
- 37 - Vital Records for Towns or VillagesHow do we know which records exist for a town in Eastern Europe? The main source is the RTR Foundation database. The RTR foundation is a single online source for listings of archival inventories of the Jewish ancestral towns. The database includes the combined archival holdings in Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine (as well as selected archive holdings from archives in Russia, Latvia, and Romania). Also included are documents from civil registration offices in Poland (Urzad Stanu Cwyilnego offices) and civil registration offices in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova (ZAGS Offices); the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland); Pinkassim collection of the V. Vernadskyi Library (Kiev, Ukraine); Regional Museum (Ostrog, Ukraine) and the private collection of Rabbi Moishe Leib Kolesnik (Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine). For more details see the site . Tomasz Jakowski referred first to the fact that I could not find any records for towns in the Czech Republic. The RTR Foundation database do not lists files from the Czech Republic.
JRI-Poland list the following available data in the Polish state archive:
The data in the two tables include references to the same data, but in different formats. The data, unfortunately, wasn't indexed and is not available in JRI-Poland, usually the main source for our research.
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