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Looking for - ACKERFELD, Adela
Born
22 April , 1919 Bedzin , Poland
Parents
Michalina
Last place during war
Krakow

Looking for - AFTERGUTT, AFTERGUT, AFTEGUT, Anna
Born
Around 1926 Krakow? , Poland
Parents
Aftegut, Aftergutt, Aftergut, Bernard & Gustawa Malinowska, Aftergutt, Aftergut
Relatives
brother, Mieczyslaw
Last place during war
Warsaw Ghetto

ALEXANDER, George - Survivor
Other names
Jerzy Aleksandrowicz
Born
27 June , 1925 Paris , France
Parents
Aleksandrowicz, Maksymilian & Rubin, Salomea
Last place during war
Krakow, Poland

Looking for - ARZEWSKA, Bronislawa
Born
1919 Krakow , Poland
I remember
Bronislawa left with her family to the USA in late 1958.

She is being sought by her Polish rescuer, Mr. Ryczko, who would like to resume their correspondence which had been cut off in 1970.

Looking for - BACKER, Meiloch
Born
19 January , Around 1909 Myslenice , Poland
Parents
Juda & Sala
Relatives
Izaak Samuel, Jozef
Last place during war
Krakow, Lwow, Z.S.S.R.
I remember
His brothers lived in Cracow after the war on Dietla street, thet probably emigrated to USA in 1947. Probably Meiloch died in Cleveland on 28.09.2003 but I don't exactly know anything about it and no one can tell me.

Looking for - BAZES, Malvina
Other names
Malka
Born
23 September, Around 1933 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Bazes, Maurycy & Stamberger, Gisela
Last place during war
Warsaw

BECK, Kuba - Survivor
Born
Krakow , Poland

Looking for - BIRKENBAUM FAMILY, Shlomo
Born
28 February , Around 1909 Nowy Sacz , Poland
Parents
Chaim Itzak & Scheindel, Birkenbaum maiden name Goldwa
Relatives
Ester, Melech (or Elimelech), Rozalia, Lena, Celia
I remember
Looking for anyone who knew my family. My father was Shlomo the eldest child and only known survivor. Scheindel was originally from Krakow. Ester lived in Gorlice for a while. Chaim had an ironworks business.

BORAKS, Irene - Survivor
Other names
Blau, Felskablau, Irka, Irushka
Born
25 June , 1925 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Blau, Naftali Hirsch & Goldnadel Blau, Eva
Relatives
Kasek (Carlos), Rosalia, Franja

BRANDES, Dosha (dora) - Survivor
Other names
Faiman, Dora
Born
5 May , 1918 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Brandes, Sam
Relatives
Morris

BRANDMANN, Olga - Survivor, searching my identity
Born
13 December , 1892 Uh Brod , Austro-Hungarian empire
Parents
Thorsch, Jacob & Thorsch, Ida
Relatives
Egon Brandmann was her son
Last place during war
Krakow
I remember
Max her husband and Hanna brn Rothstein were all ordered to assemble with my aunt Olga in Krakow at a train station on Mogaliska Street on January 31 1941 and never heard of again.

Looking for - BRANDSTATTER, Any Connection To Ones With This Surname
Born
Krakow, Tarnow, Brezsko , Poland
Parents
My grandfather- Brandstatter,Shulim & My grandmother- Brandstatter, Malka nee
Relatives
Weissman (Brandstatter), Esther-perished along with her children
Last place during war
Krakow and Soviet Union
I remember
Looking for info on Mr. Marian Milewski (Australia)

BRANDSTATTER, Salek And Esther (frajdenreich) - Survivor
Born
23 April , 1918 Brzesko , Poland
Parents
Brandstatter, Shulim & Malka Sterngast-Fink Brandstatter
Relatives
Esther Brandstatter Weissman-perished with children along with other brothers and sister
Last place during war
Krakow and Russia
DP Camp in Germany
I remember
Does anyone have info on Mosher Weissman who became Marian Mielwski and went to Australia?
He survived and has family info I would cherish.

BRZESKA, Hela - Survivor
Other names
Helen Beck (married name)
Born
Proszowice/Krakow , Poland

BRZESKA, Rachel - Survivor
Other names
Figowicz (married name)
Born
Proszowice/Krakow , Poland

BRZESKA, Cela - Survivor
Other names
Lewin (married name)
Born
Proszowice/Krakow , Poland

BRZESKA, Mila - Survivor
Other names
Miriam Mandel (married name)
Born
Proszowice/Krakow , Poland

Looking for - BUCHANBAUM, Any
Born
krakow , Poland

Looking for - CIEZAK FAMILY OF HELENA LEONIA
Born
Molejowa (Krakow) , Poland
Parents
Ciezak, Stanislaw & Merick, Julia
Relatives
nine brothers and sisters (names unknown)
Last place during war
The family was working the fields on their farm nor far from Krakow, Poland
I remember
I am looking for the family of Helena Leonia Ciezak born 12/17/19. Her father was Stanislaw Ciezak. Her mother was Julia Merick. She had nine brothers and sisters. The family is Catholic. The family was last seen by Helen working their farm. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 she believes her parents and brothers and sisters were killed when everyone tried to hide. Helen was found and sent to Dachau, there she spent the next five years. After the war she was sent to a displaced persons camp in the Rheine-Gellendorf region of Germany. In 1952 after seven years of living in the Rheine-Gellendorf Camp she and I immigrated to the United States. She passed away thinking everyone in her family was killed. I am her daughter and the only known living member of her family. It is my hope someone from her family survived without my mother's knowledge.

Looking for - CYCOWICZ, Chayah Bashka
Born
1929 byalistok , poland
Parents
Cycowicz,Awiezer & Cycowicz,Esther
Relatives
Ahuva(Liebe) Hannah, Bella, Rachel, Moshe, Itzhak
Last place during war
tykocin
I remember
According to a family story [my aunt Hannah who survived Aushwitz heard that story when she returned to Byalistok after liberation] she managed to escape the liquidation of the Tykocin community and ran away from the burinig synagogue.
In April 1988, on a trip to Poland [the first March of Life] my mother thought she recognized her in a nun in Krakow. I was a witness to this and saw the nun who looked exacly like my brother, but became frightened and disappeared in the streets of Krakow.
Internet Page
rivaav@int.gov.il

Looking for - DABROWSKI, Stanislaw, Anthony
Born
26 July , Around 1923 Rzepienik , Poland
Parents
Dabrowski , Walter & Skrobisz, Anna (Marie)
Relatives
Frances (sister), Sonny (nephew), Tad (Ted) Brother, Barbara (Sister)
Last place during war
In a labour camp in Germany.
I remember
Nine children in family, grew up on a farm near Krakow, captured by the Germans at 16 years on the way to the store

Looking for - DURCHFORT, Chesko
Born
Podgorze , Poland
Relatives
Daughter: Rachel
I remember
Chesko and Rachel and other members of the Durchfort family lived in ul. Czarniekiago 4, Podgorze (13 km SE of Krakow, Poland).

FAIMAN, Dora - Survivor
Other names
maiden name Brandes, Dosha
Born
18 May , 1918 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Brandes, Sam & Helen
Relatives
Morris

FASTMAN, Ezriel - Survivor
Other names
Ezriel Horowitz
Born
Around 1911 Drohobycz (Drogobych) , Poland
Parents
Fastman, Shlomo Zalman & Fastman nee, Katzenellenbogen Mirel
Relatives
Siblings - Yosef, Moshe, Miriam and Yehudis
Last place during war
Was taken from Krakow ghetto to Slave Labor Camps-
Plashov, Skagist, Dachau, Buchenvald and others
until liberated in Bergen Belsen
I remember
Born in Drohobycz,Lemberg and moved to Krakow in about 1915. Family remained in Drohobycz - Tennenbaum, Bocher, Fastman. Lived in Krakow on Yosefa Street as a child.Later lived on Agnieszki Street and had coffee grinding business. Davened in the Belz shebel. Was taken away from family and sent to one slave labor camp after another. His brother Yosef left Krakow to Russia with a Chasidic group. His brother Moshe died in Skagist. I am looking for anyone who remembers family members or knows of their whereabouts.

Looking for - FASTMAN, Yosef
Born
Around 1915 KRAKOW , POLAND
Parents
Fastman, Solomon (Shlomo Zalman) & Fastman, Mirel
Relatives
Brothers: Ezriel & Moshe, Sisters: Miriam & Yocheved
Last place during war
Krakow ghetto. Probably left with Chasidish group to Russia.
I remember
Lived in Krakow on 22 Josefa Street. Father had
a spice business.

Looking for - FRENKEL, Any
Parents
Frenkel, Moshe & Frenkel nee Abbe, Rivka
I remember
Searching for their two children born in the 1930's in Krakow, Poland. The family lived in Krakow.

Looking for - GELBIER, Halina
Born
1938 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Gelbier, Aron & Gelbier nee Fortgang, Rozali
I remember
The mother and her daughter fled eastwards by train together with sister in law and her daughter. When the niece died, the two women buried her and the train left with little Halina on board! Later the mother found that Halina stayed in an orphanage in Pachte Arl Tashkent till Mrs. Stachnova took her from there in 1941. According to a certificate issued by the Polish authorities in 1953, Halina died of typhus in 1944. Is this true?

Looking for - GELLER, Chana (anna)
Other names
CHANA FASTMAN OR CHANA HOROWITZ
Born
Around 1914 TRZEBINA , POLAND
Last place during war
KRAKOW, POLAND
I remember
Lived in Krakow. Married to Ezriel Fastman. They also used the name Horowitz in the ghetto. They had a son. Husband had a coffee grinding business. Looking for any family members of Chana or anyone who remembers them.

GLATTSTEIN, Zygmund - Survivor
Other names
Simche
Born
15 June , 1896 Lemberg (Lvov) , Austro-Hungary
Parents
Glattstein, Shlomo Shimon & Glattstein, Rachel Wolf
Relatives
Norbert, Emil and Ignatz Glattstein, Brothers. Felicia (Fella, Feiga) Glattstein (daughter) and Yisroel (Jerzyk) Glattstein (son). Leona (Lola, Liby) Seligman Glattstein, wife.
Last place during war
Lvov
I remember
My father escaped from the Lvov ghetto shortly before it was liquidated and was hidden in the home of Maria Kurpita in Lvov. After liberation, he moved to Krakow (1945), France (1948) and the U.S. (1952). He is now deceased.

Looking for - GRABKOWITZ, Unknown
Born
Poland
Last place during war
Town was Brzostek, Galicia (near Tarnow & Krakow)
I remember
this was my grandfather's family... Schlomo Tsvi...... Rivkah..... plus a daughter and son-in-law and baby. They were last seen and heard from in Auschwitz.... November 1941

Looking for - GRABOWSKI, Unknown
Other names
ziggy
Born
Around 1920 breslau , germany
Last place during war
Auschwitz
Buna-Monovitz chemical factory
liberation in 1945 went to Krakow with the French group
I remember
My father, Marcel Wajnsztajn (now Wainstain, from Paris, is looking for a friend he met in Buna-Monovitz chemical factory, where he was sent as inmates from Auschwitz KZ.
After they were liberated in 1945 by the Soviet army, my father and his friend spent a while in a Krakow military barrack. Then my father went to Odessa with all the French group, from where they came back to Marseilles by boat, but his friend, who had joined the group of French in Krakow, could not follow them further on, being a German born Jew.
His name was : Ziggi Grabowski, he was born in Breslau, Germany, circa 1920-1922. My father never heard of him any more.

GRYNBERG, Lucia - Survivor
Other names
Anna Novak, Anna Gromek
Born
30 April , Around 1921 Krakow , Poland

Looking for - HELLER, Carolina And Maria
Born
Carolina - born in Zbaraz, Maria in Krak, Poland
Parents
Heller, Ignacy
Relatives
Zygmund (brother of Maria), Adolf, (father of Maria - Husband to Carolina), Marian (Uncle)
Last place during war
Krakow

Looking for - HIRSCHFELD, Samuel
Born
27 February , 1919 Radlow , Poland
Parents
Hirschfeld, Markus & Grossbard, Rozalia
Last place during war
Krakow Ghetto Survivor

HOFFMAN, George - Survivor
Other names
Jerzy , Jurek
Born
29 November , Around 1933 Katowice , Poland
Parents
Hoffman, Viktor & Hoffman, Estera Natalia
Relatives
Stefa Portnoy, cousin
Last place during war
Krakow
I remember
Child survivor; Krakow ghetto, Plaszow.
Rabbi Schonfeld transport to London 1947

Looking for - HONIG, Bronislaw, Bronus
Born
8 October , 1935 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Honig, David & Honig, Rose
I remember
The parents and Bronus were sent to Plaszow after the liquidation of the Ghetto in Krakow. Here the parents managed to smuggle their son out to a female non-Jewish co worker, probably with the family name Jarosh. This woman would take Bronus to a street corner to allow the parents to see their son on their way between their workplace and the Plaszow camp. The last time they saw him was in Sept. 1943. After the war the father went back to Krakow to search for his son. The apartment was empty, as if the woman and Bronus had moved out. "Rogowicz" has some connection to this story. The parents died two years ago, but Bronus' sister Barbara who was born after the war, hopes to find her lost brother or to know what happened to him.

HOROWITZ, Jakob - Survivor
Other names
Jacob, Kuba
Born
22 April , Around 1920 Przemysl , Poland
Parents
Horowitz, Jakob & Bretmahl, Raisa
Last place during war
krakow, alsace, dachau, plazsow
I remember
Jakob was born on the day his father died,hence the same name.His father may have been a pawnbroker or jewler. Jakob worked as an electrician in Plaszow. He was active in Zionist orgs. in Poland and a soccer player. After the war he married Vera Friedmann and lived for a time in Feldafing before emigrating to the US. Looking for any info about his family. Aparently there was a Rabbi on his father's side. Also an aunt Bronia who live in NY in the 60's.

ISZAJEWICZ, Masha - Survivor
Born
1 February , 1919 Zawiercie , Poland
Parents
Iszajewicz, Nachum & Mortenfeld, Shaindel
Relatives
Husband: Samuel Urich, Brother: Moshe Ben Ishai
Last place during war
Lvov, Krakow
I remember
She gave birth to a boy in Lvov in 1941, the child was taken from her by the Nazis in 1943 from the Lvov ghetto.

KANNER, Henry - Survivor
Born
23 June , 1901 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Kanner, Israel & Kanner, Josephine
Relatives
sisters,, Rachel, Anna, Bronia
Last place during war
Mauthausen

Looking for - KATZ, Margit Miriam
Born
December , 1924 Kushnitsa , Ukraine
Parents
Katz, Avraham
Relatives
Katz nee Gruenberg, Dvojre
I remember
The family lived in Kushnitsa, Ukraine. In April 1944 Margit was in Tunyog, Hungary. She was taken to the Mateszalka Ghetto (Hungary) and the to the Plaszow camp near Krakow, Poland. Here she was reunited with her sisters. Then to Birkenau, Gephartzdorf; and finally to Georgental where they were freed by the Red Army on May 7 or 8 1945. After the war, Margit was hospitalized in Bucharest. According to the Red Cross, she was released from this hospital on Sept 24 1945. Her sisters never found her again.

Looking for - KIRSCHENBAUM, KIRSZENBAUM, Izaak
Born
20 April , 1900 Baranow , Poland
Parents
Kirschenbaum.Yoel & Weinreb.Shifra
Relatives
Ernest, Regina married Goldwasser,brother Mosche who emmigrated to Buenos Aires, son Pinechas who propably died in Auschwitz
Last place during war
Samarkand
I remember
All family were from Krakow. Izaak worked as dentist in Zakopane before the Holocaust.His address was Koscieliska 2, Zakopane.Survived in Russia together with his brother Ernest (Eljas).Izaak had 11 brothers and sisters.After the war he lived in Legnica, Poland and worked as dentist.

KIRSHBAUM/ KIRSZBAUM, Szulim - Survivor
Born
13 June , 1917 krakow , poland
Parents
kirshbaum, itzhak & kirshbaum, regina (rivka)
Relatives
irena, hennek, carola
Last place during war
siberia

Looking for - KLEIN, Itzek
Born
Around 1924 krakow , poland
Last place during war
was in auschwitz/ survived
I remember
met at auschwitz main camp. He became a doctor after the war and moved to Chicago. His parents operated a Ladies hat factory at krakow before the war.

Looking for - KLUGER, Jonas
Born
1927 Dobczyce-Krakow , Poland
Parents
Kluger, Benjamin & Kluger, Yocheved
Relatives
Brothers: Izhak, Benek Sisters: Pola, Zofia
I remember
on survivors list presentd in the Jewish museum in Warsaw.

Looking for - KLUGER, Zofia
Born
1921 Dobczyce-Krakow , Poland
Parents
Kluger, Benjamin & Kluger, Yocheved
Relatives
Brother: Izhak, Benek, Jonas Sisters: Pola
I remember
Listed on the survivor list presented in the Jewish Museum in Warsaw

Looking for - KLUGER, Jonas And Zofia
Born
Dobczyce, Krakow , Poland
Parents
Kluger, Benjamin & Kluger, Jocheved
I remember
Jonas born 1927, Zofia born 1921. Their brothers and sister living in Israel found out in 1996 that Jonas and Zofia survived the war, and they are now trying to find them. Jonas supposedly still lives in Poland. Zofia probably left Poland in 1961.

Looking for - KNELLER, KELLER,GELLER, Rozia
Other names
On the document where my birth was registered no name was given to me, but i was always called ROZIA
Born
14 April , 1939 Kraków, ul.Zyblikiewicza no.5. appartmen, Poland
Parents
KNELLER , ALTER & KNELLER,CHANNA, GENA. born 24.01.1904
Relatives
Abracham GELLER lived in Krakow at ul. Wilga 18 and
Last place during war
All members of my family GELLER have lived in Chemnitz, Germany. They were deported 28 October 1938 and went to Poland,Krakow at the following addresses: 1 st adress: ul. Ditla 37, appartment 2
2 nd adress: ul Zyblikiewicza 5 appartm. 22 from 15.01.1939 to 5.10.1939.
3rd adress: ul.Wrzesinska 3 ,appartment 6
Ghetto SOSNOWIEC and afterwards to Tarnow.
There first name where:Chaim,Blima,Gelle Rivka,Sara,Isak,Chana,Berta,Rosa,Julian,Hinda-everyone
with the second name GELLER.
They were all killed in June 1942 in Tarnow.
I remember
All members of the family GELLER came from Mszana Dolna near Nowy Targ and are decendants after:
SHULEM GELLER 1865-1942 and his wife ZYRL TZILA, AMSTERDAM 1866-1942.
2 members of my family were also said to have joined an army unit outside Poland.
Internet Page
agency@post4.tele.dk

Looking for - KORALL, Pinchas
Born
Krakow , Poland
Parents
Korall, Moshe Jakow & Korall nee Czegowski, Chana- from Skomni
Relatives
Wife: Lea Korall nee Zalter from Kalawaria
I remember
This family traded in corrals for generations.

Looking for - LANDAU, Sara
Born
Krakow , Poland
Relatives
cousin: Cyril Landau Rosenbluth
Last place during war
Blazowa, Przemysl, Rzeszow
I remember
Have not heard from since Holocaust

Looking for - LAUFER, Rozalia
Other names
Rozsi, Rozsa, Rachel, Amora?
Born
19 February , Around 1922 Debrecen , Hungary
Parents
Rabbi Laufer, Moses (Moshe) & Gitta Weiszblum
Relatives
Laszlo Laufer, Niklos Laufer, Fülop Laufer, Anna, Jozsef, Melchiades, Pinkasz, Marton
Last place during war
imprisioned in fall 1944 in Debrecen, sent on to Auschwitz with the family in early fall, and then sent on to Bergen Belsen. Listed in some survivor lists as having survived Bergen Belsen with her sister Anna (Hannah?, Chani) Laufer.
I remember
Her brother, Rabbi Laszlo Laufer of New York is trying to locate Rozsi (and his other sister Anna) or find out any information about them.

Rozsi had blond hair and green-bluish eyes. Rozsi(Rozsa), like her sister Anna, might have changed her birthyear to 1928 (in some survivor lists). There was only one Laufer family in Debrecen at that time. An uncle, brother of Moshe Laufer, changed his last name to Leifer, so there was a Leifer family in Debrecen who might have had children still with the last name Laufer.

Rozsi was raised in a religious family, a known rabbinical family. Her father was Rabbi Moses Laufer in Debrecen. Her grandfather on her father's side was Rabbi Josef Laufer. The grandfathers had come from Poland where several Laufer families lived before the war who, in fact, might have been distant relatives.

Traces of someone like Rozsi showed up on lists in Poland (her nationality is then given as Polish, maybe she was trying to locate relatives? Krakow, Dabrowa, Lwow, ), Germany, and maybe at a German hospital in July 1945: Krankenanstalt Klinikum, Wuppertal Barmen, where her sister Anna Laufer seemed to have been treated.
There is a trace of a Roza (Rifka) Laufer in Solingen (Germany), in Heidenheim (a displaced person camp in Germany), and a Rachela Laufer in Lodz. There is also a trace of a Rosa Laufer in Jersualem, Romema Cafe Magen, as of 1948.

The family was imprisioned in 1944 and sent on to Auschwitz in summer or early fall of 1944. From there, three brothers were sent to DAchau, Mühldorf. Rozsi, together with her sister Anna, was sent on to Bergen Belsen.
Two older brothers who had also been sent to Bergen Belsen were liberated through a Suiss transport in 1944, which paid a lot of money to get them released and then transported the inmates to Switzerland. This liberation was well known among Jewish concentration camp inmates and it seems likely that Rozsi (together with Anna) tried to make it to Switzerland after the war to locate her brothers.

Some of Rozsi's brothers had Auschwitz prisoners numbers ranging 109 053, 109 062, 109 054 and others.
Niklos and Fulöp both died in Dachau, sidecamp Mühldorf. Jozsef had died earlier. Laszlo survived and seems to remember that his father died in AUschwitz but is not sure about his mother. There was a second sister deported with Roszi, Anna (Hannah? Chani), who was also listed as having survived Bergen Belsen. Both girls/women showed up on some survivor lists but with incomplete information and with birth years often much late than 1922. It is possible that they looked much younger or that they signed up as younger to get better rations.

Looking for - LEWKOWITCZ, Joel And Frieda/friedetka
Born
Krakow , Poland
Parents
Leon Lewkowitcz & Ester Lewkowitcz nee Wegmeister
I remember
Joel (born 1931) and Frieda (born 1938). The family lived in Krakow and was later in Ghetto Krakow.

Looking for - MANDELBAUM, Aron Josef
Born
Krakow , Poland
Parents
Mandelbaum, Samuel
Relatives
Wife: Golda Zisel Mandelbaum nee Hochhauser from Pivanitzwa

MARCINISZYN, Gienia - Survivor
Born
25 May , 1927 Lwow (?) near Krakow , POLAND
Parents
MARCINISZYN, Mietek & Marciniszyn, BERNICE
Relatives
Janek, Staszek, Mieciek, Wladek, Stefan
Last place during war
HOLOCAUST 1940-1944
I remember
Father worked at a post office.

Gienia escaped from concentration camp and came to US when she was 18. She is looking for any survivors from her family or any info that anyone might have of her family.

Looking for - MIRE, Mechel
Other names
Levovsky, Basia
Born
16 May , 1914 Tarnow , Poland
Parents
Samuel & unkown
Relatives
Mire, Myers, Meyer,Mirrer
I remember
I am looking for any relatives from Poland and or Europe that would know about my family.I do know I have some relatives in England and the USA but don't know how to contact them.I do remember my father telling me that my grandfather was a baker in either Tarnow or Krakow. His name was Samuel (Schmuel) Mire.

MUNZELES, Jacob - Survivor
Other names
yankel
Born
September, 1919 krakow , poland
Parents
moses munzeles & eidel sessler
Relatives
brothers gershon,zev(wolf) yehuda,sister shaindel,

NEIGER, Jacob - Survivor
Other names
Janek, Yaakov
Born
10 December , around 1913 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Neiger, Salamon & Unknown, Rivka
Relatives
Hennek, Bronka--there are 6 or 7 others I don't know the names of.

Looking for - NEUGEWURZ, Irena
Other names
Maria, Nowak
Born
20 December , 1912 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Kirszbaum
Relatives
Spouse: Ferdinand Neugewurz
Last place during war
Hinow concentration camp about 10 March 1945
I remember
May have been transferred to D.P. camp in Germany. May have
emigrated through Bremen.

Looking for - NEUGEWURZ, Ittel
Born
20 December , 1907 Krakow , Poland
Last place during war
Last heard of in Krakow on 17 August 1940 when she applied to the occupying German authorities for an identity card.

PANZER, David - Survivor
Other names
Bronek Kunninsky
Born
21 March , Around 1926 Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg , Poland
Parents
Panzer, Jacob & Lempert, Leah
Relatives
Panzer, Ignatz (brother)
Last place during war
Lwow, Krakow

Looking for - PENNER, Marsha
Parents
Penner, Pinkus (Peter) & Lerner, Frieda
Relatives
Eliash Penner, Samuel Penner, Sura Penner, Dora Penner, Sosha Penner
Last place during war
krakow poland,
I remember
Taken from home with mother, father and sister. Separated from father and transported from krakow with mother and sister destination work camp

I am in search of the children of Frieda and Pinkus. The daughters were born between 1927 and 1932

Looking for - PREKER, Family
Born
Debica (near Krakow) , Poland

RADOLNIK, Arthur - Survivor
Other names
Samuel
Born
15 October , 1924 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Radolnik, Szymon & Gottlieb, Helena
Relatives
Radolnik , Felicia sister
Last place during war
Dachau - Allach Concentration Camp
I remember
To My knowledge my parents & sister were killed by the S.S Troops in Brzozow Poland about 1942.

ROSENBLUM, David - Survivor
Other names
Dolek Rosenblum, Romek Zarombovich
Born
13 May , 1925 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Hemiah Zev Rosenblum & Tzurtl Rosenblum
Relatives
Luzer Rosenblum, Nusek Rosenblum, Hinda Rosenblum, Hanka Rosenblum, Ruzha Rosenblum-Aconsky, Jacob Rosenblum
Last place during war
Death march from Dachau. After war, he was in a DP camp for about a year before coming to the US.
I remember
David was in the Montelupe prison camp, Auschwitz, Dachau and was liberated in Germany by the US in 1945. His tatoo from Auschwitz reads 153004.
His sister Ruzha (Rose) and brother Jack had moved to the US before the war. They have since passed on. All other members of the family, except for David were killed. According to anecdotal evidence, Nusek survived the war, but was killed in a post-war pogrom in Poland.
David is my father.

ROSENTHAL, Adeck - Survivor
Other names
ADAM
Born
30 March , Around 1921 WARSAW , POLAND
Parents
ROSENTHAL, CHAIM & ROSENTHAL, HINDA
Relatives
SISTERS: SALOMEA, ANNA, MASHA
Last place during war
Warsaw
I remember
In 1939, I left Warsaw and moved to the Russian side. After a short time, I had to leave west Russia and I volunteered to work in a Siberian coal mine. In 1940, I received a postcard from my uncle, he wrote to me from Krakow and advised me that my family had been transferred from Warsaw to Krakow. In 1941 I lost contact with my family, due to the war. In 1942 I learned that the German had built concentration camps near Krakow (I believe my family may have been sent to one of these).
After the war, on my return to Warsaw, I registered my details to search for survivors of my family. Todate I have still no information of my family's fate.

Looking for - SCHEIN, Ludwik
Born
12 December , 1937 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Schein,David & Rauch,Dola
Relatives
Schein Karol
Last place during war
Krakow - Poland

Looking for - SCHIMMEL, Ruth
Born
Warsaw , Poland
Parents
Schimmel, Sigi & Schimmel nee Kneller, Gerda
Relatives
Margot (sister)
I remember
Their address in Nov 1939: ul. Kasprowicza 20, Krakow.

SCHLOSSER, Julia - Survivor
Other names
Julianna, Julechka, Jula, Hebrew name Yente, married name: Grosberg
Born
13 July , 1930 Lvov, before the war was Lwow Poland , Poland, now Ukreine
Parents
Schlosser, Josef & Schlosser, Regina, Maiden name Trinczer
Relatives
Brother,Henry, Heniu, Niuniu, Hebrew name Hersh
Last place during war
Zolkiew, Krakow, Poland
I remember
Before the war I lived with my parents Josef Schlosser and Regina (maiden name) Trinczer and my brother Henry (Niuniu) in Lwow Poland.My father was born on May l5th. 1896 in Zolkiew Poland. My mother on September 5th. l901. My brother on November 25th. l925. In Lwow Poland. In during the Nazis Ucupation we were in Zolkiew Ghetto. in l942 they took my father to labor and I never saw Him again. 2 week later in March l942 they liquidated the ghetto. My brother was left for the labor and I never saw again. That day my mother and I manage to escape from the ghetto into the Christian side. We were in hiding in forest, with some Christians people and olso on Christian papers. We were in Krakow Poland at the liberation by the Russias in May l945. I Survive with my mother. In l946 I joined a Kibutz "Gordonista" in Krakow Poland. In May l946 the Kibutz sent 3 convoys each night into Cheslovakia. 2 Convoys make it safely. But the third that my mother was on got ambushed in the forest and got keeled. That night l3 people died. I was not with my mother that night.If someone was on that convoy and survived I would like to get in touch with me. My mother parents were Wilham Trinczer and Ruchul maiden name Stark. They were born in Lwow. They died before the war. My fathers Fathers name was Joel and He was born in Zolkiew Poland. My Father had three sisters Ruchul, Rechal, and Minia. My mather had 4 brothers Karl from Przimysl, Max, Arnold, and Henek. She also has 2 sisters Rifke(Rela) and Gisela. I would like to hear from enyone who knew them or has any information abount Schlosser family from Zolkiew.Or from Lwow. Also from Trinczer Family. Thank you.

Looking for - SCHWARCER, Family
Born
Krakow , POLAND
Parents
Mechel & Malka, Biela born TENENBAUM
Relatives
Siblings Isaac, Gusta (Gito), Adela (Aido), Helena (Henia), Regina, Samuel, Marija (Mania)
Last place during war
Last place where the siblings were together was in the ghetto Rzeszow.
I remember
I am searching for relatives to my mother Adela. The siblings was born in Krakow between 1919-1933

Looking for - SIEGER, Renya
Born
10 October , Around 1936 Krakow , Poland
Parents
SIEGER, Josef (b 1905 Terlo near Chyrow) & REIFER, Mala (b 1911 Gawluszowice)
Relatives
Her aunt Hanya REIFER also lived in Krakow.
Last place during war
Krakow, Poland
I remember
Renya was my mother's niece. Renya's parents were not heard from after the war and are believed to have perished. We hope that maybe their beautiful little girl was hidden with Christians and survived. Her photograph is at www.graceproducts.com/fmnc/srenya.htm .

SPANLANG, Frania - Survivor
Other names
maried jacob munzeles
Born
September, 1923 krakow , poland
Parents
jacob spanlang & marya dreier
Relatives
brothers, henoch(henryk) and samuel spanlang

STANER, Mieczys³aw - Survivor
Born
19 October , 1925 Kraków , Poland
Parents
Staner, Abraham (Adolf) & Staner, Fanny (Franciszka) born Krieger
Relatives
Irena- sister-
Last place during war
KZ Mauthausen-Linz 3 commando
I remember
I am still alive

Looking for - STEINER, Unknown
Other names
SHTEINER, SZTAJNER
Born
KRAKOW , POLAND
Parents
STEINER (SHTEINER/SZTAJNER), ISER (YISR & FEIT (FAJT/FAIT), ESTER (ESTHERE)
Relatives
Unknown
I remember
Looking for family members of my paternal grandfather, Yakob/Yaakov/Jacob/Jack STEINER. He was born in Poland around Krakow in 1909. Information I have is that father's name was either Iser, Yisrael, or Israel STEINER (SHTEINER/SZTAJNER) and his mother's name was Ester FEIT (FAJT). At least one sister was also known to have survived and lived in Israel (last name TUGENDHAFT, and I believe her first name was Lea or Lea is the daughter of the surviving sister). Yakob married Paula nee Billauer and emigrated to NY in 1953. He died in 1969 at the age of 60. I am hoping there may have been other survivors or relatives, as many family members are anxious to make contact. Please respond to: mom2samnalex2u@aol.com

Thank you.

Looking for - STROH, Sisters Of Shlomo Stroh
Born
Poland
I remember
Shlomo Stroh born around 1908, a tailor, lived in Krakow. After his marriage to Fela Reiss, the family lived in Rozwadow. In 1940 they were put in the ghetto in Radomysl nad Sanem. As far as Nana Stroh, Shlomo's daughter, knows, her two aunts emigrated to Argentina before the war. Nana (born 1935) and her brother Lolek (born 1938, died 1997) lost both their parents in the Holocaust. Perhaps Nana has relatives in Argentina?

Looking for - SZLAMOVICH, Jacob
Born
Poland
Relatives
Wife: SZLAMOVICH, Basa. Their children: Szlamek, Benejk, Samek, Rozea (born 1932 lives in Israel).
I remember
The parents were probably divorced. The mother might have lived in Warsaw with her children. During the war the father probably kidnapped Rozea, bringing her from Warsaw to Lodz to Krakow with the help of a friend. Rozea later remembers Ghetto Krakow, Work Camp Plaszow, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt Gleibe where she was liberated. Did any of her family survive?

Looking for - SZULKIND, SCHULKIND, SHULKIND, Shmuel
Born
Krakow , Poland
I remember
Looking for Shmuel Shulkind who lived in Givatayim, Israel and gave testimony in 1957 in Yad Vashem for his friend Moshe Fastman of Krakow who perished in the Holocaust. Shmuel Szulkind is listed in Krakow Registry of 1940. Moshe Fastman may be my uncle.

URICH, Samuel - Survivor
Born
12 July , 1917 Opawa , Czechoslovakia
Parents
Urich, Chaim & Bernstein,Tsirl
Relatives
wife: Mascha Iszajewicz
Last place during war
Lvov, Krakow
I remember
Had a male child born in 1941, taken by Nazi's in 1943 from Lvov ghetto

Looking for - WASSERTHEIL, Josef
Born
Around 1927 Krakow , Poland
Parents
Maurycy, Wassertheil & Malka Perl , Wassertheil ( born Birner
Relatives
Miecyslaw(brother)
Last place during war
Ul.Gertrudy 29 Krakow
I remember
They lived in Gertrudystr. in Krakow
Looking for - WEINTRAUB, Jakub Jonas
Born
3 September, Around 1892 GRODEK jAGIELLONSKI , AUSTRIA-GALCIA
Parents
WEINTRAUB, LEIB & RATTNER, SARA
Relatives
SISTER: GITEL, Chage. Brothers: Eisig and Baruch
Last place during war
KRAKOW SURVIOR
I remember
Uncle in NY named: Abraham Weintraub. Uncle in Vienna/New York: Simon Weintraub. Father in shoe repair/making. May have left Grodek during WW1. Aunts: Briendel, Jutte and Sara Ettel. Many family memebers were muscians. Weintraub family of Grodek were sheet metal works/plumbing.

Looking for - WISNIAK, Joseph
Parents
wisniak, & teitelbaum,
Relatives
adolph ,rivka, eva teitelbaum
Last place during war
krakow, wasn't home, him and his brother aron who went to france, joseph went to israel. Nazis supposedly cremated the parents and the other 5 kids.
I remember
joseph was last seen in telaviv most likely. He has a daughter ariela. Joseph had married a real yiddish speaking woman. Where are you ariela? My grandma and mother visited joseph.Ariela, are the names recorded, please, what were their names?

ZAKREWSKA ?, Wanda ? - Survivor, searching my identity
Born
Around 1942 unknown , Poland
Parents
unknown & unknown
I remember
During the second week of August 1943, a baby was left at the monastery of the Salwatonan Brothers in Trzebinia, near Krakow. A woman asked permission to leave the child, then about a year old, for an hour. She never returned. Ten days later, a parcel of baby clothes arrived addressed "for Baby Wanda Zakrzewska". There was no return address, only a postmark from Bendzin. This happened right after the Bendzin and Sosnowiec ghettos were liquidated.

Two weeks later, the child was given to a priest, J. Kaminski (in the parish of Chrzanow). She was adopted by the priest's family, baptized and registered as Wanda Zakrzewska.

In 1946 a Jewish couple came to claim the child. The priest's family refused to give her up,the child was afraid to go with strangers and she remained with the family of the priest, who has since died. Recently, Wanda met a witness, another priest who had been at the same monastery and gave her these few details about her past. Wanda has been searching for her real identity ever since. She is a member of the organization of Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, is married and a grandmother, and lives in Lublin. If you have any information that may help Wanda in her search, please contact me.

Does anyone know the descendants of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua HESHEL,
known as "Reb Heshel of Krakow" or Hersch Zewi KRAKAU or where I
may find this information?

Thank you for your kind help!

Richard May

 
From: DANIELA TORSH <danielat1@bigpond.com>
“On January 31st 1941 at a train station in Mogaliska Street, Krakow, Poland,
my aunt Olga BRANDMANN nee THORSCH, born 1892 in Uhersky Brod, Czechoslovakia,
her husband Max (Maks, Maximilian Pinkas) BRANDMANN, born 1876 in Tarnow who was a banker,
their son Egon BRANDMANN, born 1918 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, a student at the Jagellonian University in Krakow,
Egon's wife Hanna BRANDMANN nee ROTHSTEIN, born 1916 in Krakow
were ordered to assemble.
What happened after that? Where were they sent?
When and where and how did they die?
Did any of them survive?
The fact is that nobody in the family has heard from them since January 1941.
Do you have any information about my relatives?”
I appreciate your assistance.
Sincerely,

Daniela Torsh