Welcome to the Kossovo Site


#koss_1a: pupils of the "Tarbut" network's Hebrew day school in Kossovo (Kosov Polski) beside a display of their handicrafts.	#koss_1b: Pupils and teachers of the "Tarbut" network's Hebrew elementary school in Kossovo (Kosov Polski).	#koss_1c: Youngsters in a "Talmud Torah" in Kossovo (Kosov Polski), on a nature outing for the holiday of Lag B'Omer.

#koss_2a:A Few families in Kossovo, belarus in 1932. #1 Mechanin, #2 Jliwicka,#3 Kadeshvich,#4 Elovic from Karsnostav.#5 Yzchak Ratner.#.6 Hana Kaplan	#koss_2b:The Polish school in Kossovo in 1923 (between 1921- 1939 it was part of Poland)	#koss_3:Youth in Kossovo in 1917 ? (War Years)

#koss_4:A trip of "Poale-Zion" Zionist movement from Kossovo to Bitan in 1930	#koss_5:letter from the " Palestine central office "in Warsaw 1927 to Mina Illiwizka of Kossovo	#koss_6:Friends in Kossovo Belarus in 1920. First roe from left to right:Nisel Danmbrovski, Vira Rotford, Hayem Parizki, Faygel Iliwicki. Second roe Mina Ilwicki, Mose Himelfarb

#koss_7:Mina nee Iliwicki from Kossovo, Belarus	#koss_8	#koss_9:A group of friends from Kossovo Belarus who immigrate to Palestine the picture was taken in the 1930s. First roe from left to right: Abraham Rabinovich ,Yezchak Zur (Maroznik), Hayem Davidowski. Second roee the first from left to right Shmuel Zur (Maroznik) the first from right to left Yakov Kaerliz.

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#koss_13:	#koss_14: Karelitz, Avraham Yeshayahu (1878-1953)	#koss_15: An 80-year-old rabbi from Poland. Manahkem Mendl Szereszewski, former Rabbi in Kosowa, Poland. May 1926.

#koss_16: Zelman and Rachel Volansky with children: Gershel Volansky, Srol Volansky, Miriam Volansky Kraft, Leizer Kraft (Miriam's first born) and the two eldest children of Zelman and Rachel's eldest daughter, Sylvia Volansky Davidovsky (not in picture).Minnie and Isaac. Kossovo circa 1900... submitted by; Robert W. Kraft	#koss_17: Zelman ben (son of) Yankel Volansky, 1835-1915, and Yetta Rachel, c 1900. They owned a general store in Kossovo c.1875-1915. Their daughter, Miriam Volansky Kraft, 1869-1946, was my paternal grandmother. In 1906, she and her four children, at that time which included my father, Ansel, and her niece, Minnie Dovidovsky, immigrated to Boston where my grandfather, Abraham Kraft, had settled in 1905 having deserted the Russian Army. Their other children, Sylvia Volansky Dovidovsky, 1866-1902, Gershel, b.1872, a Hebrew teacher in Kossovo, and Srol, b.1874, all remained in Kossovo and as far as we know passed away there before the WW2. Sylvia Volansky Dovidovsky's eldest daughter, Minnie, b.1886, settled in New York and was joined later by her brother Isaac,1887-1980 and sisters Sore, 1895-1977 and Frume, 1896-1977 submitted by; Robert W. Kraft	#koss_18: The Szereszewski family of Slonim. Their brother was the Rabbi of Kossovo, Manahkem Mendl Szereszewski ( 1846- 1928) picture #15) Abraham Szereszewski was born in Slonim and travelled to Grochow (Grojec) just outside Warsaw where he met and married my grandmother, Esther. My father was born in Grojec and the family came to England when he was one. I am enclosing a family photo taken in Poland. My greatuncle, Zelig Szereszewski is second from the right (he emigrated to Israel early in the 20th Century). His half-brother Zvi-Chaim Bashist is the man with the grey beard. Louisa Spivack

#koss_19: The Abramovitz family of Kossovo. Parents; Gershon, born in 1890 to Avraham and Hinda and Nekhama Abramowicz nee Tzukerman was born in Rozana in 1893 to Avraham. Children; Yaakov Abramowicz was born in Kossow, Poland in 1930 , Zipora was born in Kosow Poleski, in 1914 . She married Yizhak Grinwald and lived in Warsaw with a daughter. Hinda Golubowicz nee Abramovitz was born in Kosow, 1919. She was married. Prior to WWII she lived in Pruzany, Poland. They all perished in the holocaust. Standing on the left, the only survivor of the family; Moshe ( born in 1917- passed away in Kfar Saba in 1997) <idaelevi@012.net.il>	#koss_20: idaelevi@012.net.il Moshe Abramovitz of Kossovo as a fighter in the Vilna area in 1942. He is standing third from the left.	#koss_21: The picture of the man sitting in the chair is of my great grandfather, Falk Iliwitski. I am named after him. We are Kohanim. Thank you, Peter Lewis Portland, Maine

#koss_22: my grandfather, George (Gershon) I.Lewis/ Iliwitski (?). The Hebrew spelling is aleph yuf lamed yud vav vav yud tzadi kof yud. My grandfather came to America before WWI. He passed away in the 1987.I have some photographs of the family in Poland, as well as a document from my great grandfather. The document was a letter from the Tarbut branch of Kosowie-pol. to my grandfather. The letter is addressed to Gershon ben Falk HaKohen. Slonim is written on the back of the pictures where the photographer was located	#koss_23: Kosovo credit: Peter Lewis	#koss_24: The Zionist group to which my grandfather belonged. My grandfather George (Gershon) I. Lewis/ Iliwitski is the one with arms folded in the middle row. Peter Lewis Portland, Maine

#koss_25: A photograph of my great grandparents Falk and Raizel Ilewicki holding a picture of my grandfather, Gershon Ilewicki. Peter Lewis	#koss_26:	#koss_27: