Looking for information re: my maternal family.

My mother was Esta SALTZMAN, (actress in Yiddish film & theater as
Esta SALZMAN).

My grandfather (her dad), Jacob, & his siblings Morris, Esther, Eli,
Michael, Benjamin/Beryl, Max, Charles & Sarah were born in Pinsk circa
1876-1899; their parents were Rubin Saltzman & Pearl/Perl
Vernick/Wornik.

Thank you,

Jamie Lubin

My maternal grandmother, Zelda/Selde KRIKUN was born in Pinsk c. 1882. Her parents were Yitzhak/Isaac Yudel KRIKUN & Laby/Libby ZIPORSHAIN. Yitzhak's brother, Morris, was also born in Pinsk. Yitzhak's sister was Doba.

Zelda's sisters were Henya Ruchel (Anna Rachel) KRIKUN, b. c. 1883, Elke Brocha KRIKUN & Sura Rivka KRIKUN.

Sura married Grigori (Gimpel) David SHTEIMAN who was born c. 1882 in Pinsk.

Doba married Moshe I. FELDMAN & their daughter Minnie S. FELDMAN was
born in Pinsk c. 1887.
Minnie married Isidore S. STEINMAN, son of M. STEINMAN and Malke GOTTLIEB. Isidore was born Feb 27, 1886 in Pinsk

Morris married Eva UNKNOWN & their son, David KRIKUN, was born in Pinsk.
David married Rochla Karalinsky. Rochla was born c. 1874 in Pinsk. Their children included Chana (b. c. 1904), Pene, Simon & Silka. Rochla & Chana are listed in the Pinsk Ghetto database, died Oct. 1942.

Any information re any of the above SURNAMES would be appreciated. I have further info from some descendants.

Thank you,

Jamie Lubin
Cedar Knolls, NJ

From: Alex Doini <deportesjs@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:03 AM

Hi,
I wonder if you can help me, my mothers family came from Janow and
most of them perished during the Holocaust, her family name was
Weingarten ( I have also seen it Wejngorten) and I wonder if there are
still someone in the association of survivors of Janow that remember
them and also could let me know more details about them.
Best regards
Alex

THREE PINSK ORPHANAGES

David Sandler, an ex South African who now lives in Perth, Western
Australia, has completed two volumes on Arcadia, the Jewish Orphanage
in Johannesburg - ARC 100 YEARS OF MEMORIES. ARCADIA - SOUTH AFRICAN
JEWISH ORPHANAGE 1906 - 2006. He then proceeded to complete a third
volume THE OCHBERG ORPHANS AND THE HORRORS FROM WHENCE THEY CAME which
describes the rescue of 181 Jewish orphans from the Pale of Settlement
in 1921 by Ochberg. He brought the orphans to South Africa where they
were housed in the care of Jewish orphanages in South Africa.

He is now in the process of trying to find anyone who may have had
ancestors from orphanages in Pinsk who would have been aged between
two and 14 in 1921 with names the same or similar to those listed
below.

THREE PINSK ORPHANAGES - 1921 - 1939
In 1917 a man by the name of Alter Bobrow, together with his friends
from a Zionist Socialist Group, helped establish three Pinsk
orphanages in the devastated city. They were supported by the North
American Joint Distribution Committee. Pinsk, a border town during the
Great War (1914-1918) was devastated in the battles between advancing
and retreating German and Russian soldiers.

In 1921 Isaac Ochberg the representative of the South African Jewish
Community selected 30 children from the three orphanages in Pinsk and
took these to South Africa via Danzig and London. Alter Bobrow was
asked to help Isaac Ochberg and he accompanied the children to South
Africa and helped looked after them.

When Alter Bobrow left Pinsk he was given two exercise books with 135
letters from his pupils and his colleagues. He also had photos of the
three orphanages with the names of the children and colleagues written
on the back of two of the photos.

Below are the names on the back of the two photos and the names of the
children and colleagues who wrote the letters. The numbers following
the names are references to letters written in Hebrew or Yiddish. If
anyone would like to volunteer to translate the letters from Yiddish
to English, please contact David Sandler - see contact details below.

While I understand that most of the children listed below would have
perished in the Holocaust I am hoping to make contact with the
descendants of those who may have survived.

PINSK ORPHANAGE ONE - NAMES WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF PHOTO
Lev Debranshka, Trina Dan, Dvorah Dolinki, Leah Dorfman, Rafel
Dorfman, Moshe Dubovsky, Miriam Epstein 119, Fellta Feldman, Chava
Fridel, Mental Frozinski, Shindel Golshmit, Yitshak Gunzer, Chaya
Gute, Fridel Kagan, Dina Kaplan 84, ??? Kantsfleski, Ruzi Kimstein,
Miryam Knovits, Dvorah Lev, Peshe Lev 62, Mordechai Levin, Rania
Levin, Shmuel Lichtan, Chana Lichtinson, Chana Lichton, Chana Rivka
Litvin 58, Malka Litvin 81, Mindel Merzel, Bashe Rachel, Rashke Rubin,
Bashra Rubinshtein, Leah Rufershtein, Rachel Safanznik, Toybel
Safolznik, Gushagot Shabat, Natee Shulman 75, Bracha Trushkin, Sarah
Trushkin, Rosa Tshiz, Feigal Tzrel 69, ??? Yochbad, Elman Yosef and
Ginl Zavodinkov.

PINSK ORPHANAGE TWO - NAMES WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF PHOTO
Sheindol Aranov, Moshe Avizonshtein, Nachum Avizonshtein, Hillel
Bakaltovich, Chaim Bammel, Feigel Bammel, Asher Bantshik, Nramia
Basalitz, Fesh Bashevits, Benzalel Beliak, Label Belozavski, Rivka
Bokliar, Necham Borman, Baruch Bregman, Hershil Bregman, Kalman
Bergman, Shachar Bregman, Yakov Chomsky 7 & 105, Sarah Cosmonisim,
Feivish Dalinka, Chana Dingman, Masha Dllaron, Vair (Leah?) Dorfman
61, Motil Eizenberg, Galda Epshtein, Gdala Epshtein, Chashar
Fagelevits, Moshe Faladavonik, Yosef Feldman, Rubin Fikman, Yehudit
Fikman, Harshel Friedman, Izik Friedman, Itshak Abraham Fritman,
Yehuda Gelfond, Shmuel Chaim Gorbooz, Avigdor Gotlieb, Esther Grets,
Moshe Grets, Rachel Grooshka, Fina Haltsman, Yacob Helshtein, Leah
Izluk, Eliezer Kagan, Henia Kagan, Itshak Kantor, Shmuel Katsenelson,
Elke Katsenelson, Aharon Mosel Klempert, Abraham Knoosolnits, Bashke
Knoosolnits, Zlota Knorvats, Nechama Kole, Gishel Koodnats, Leibel
Kushner, Leibel Lamish, Chira Levin, Yacov Leviton 110, Fridol
Liberman, Tsat Liberman, Yosel Liberman, Golda Libshovsky, Luby
Lidvinsky, Hene Lubashavsky, Genia Luria, Gershon Luria, Moshe Lydrok,
Mirle Mailin, Chaya Menasha, Asher Mashal 112, Elke Melamed, Tova
Migdalovits, Chaim Sheme Pinsker, Otke Pinsker, Dov Portnoy, Nechama
Portnoy, Regina Rabinomit, Michael Relznesi, Chaya Rimski, Aharon
Ruchalnki, David Rubin, Malkia Rubin, Yente Rubin, Henia Shifon, Dov
Silberman, Daniel Tarantsa, Rivka Teitelbaum, Yacob Telman, Chana
Toranda, Chaim Torkin, Arye Tsifarshtein, Chava Tsnovats, Arye
Tsoofershtein, Itshak Tsoofershtein, Miriam Tsoofershtein, Seindil
Tsoofershtein, Toybel Tsoofershtein, Mendel Tsutski, Leah Vaks, Mile
Vegman, Zisl Vinik 10, Yehudit Werman 115, Chaya Yerlansky, Fruma
Yerlinkski, Malka Zilberman, Arye Zuberman and Sara Zuberman.

COLLEAGUES Shepshge Bragton, Breshge Gefy, Nechama Helper, Aharon
Kaperplinski, Rachel Koosk, Toybe Kosol, Libentor, Sarah Raskot, Tina
Rubin, Tina Zil and P. Kantor - Headmaster 106.

LETTERS FROM PUPILS AND COLLEAGUES GIVEN TO ALTER BOBROW WHEN HE LEFT
IN PINSK WITH THE OCHBERG ORPHANS IN 1921
R Appelman 139, Tzaba Asselman 5, Peshe Bassevitz 88 & 107, Berle
Butenski 77, Feigle Calb 8, Tzeitle Cletzev 76, Lana Cohen 28, Rachel
Cohen 24, Shara Cohen 34, Gittel Davidovsky 55, Lezate Davidovsky
53, Shashke Davidovsky 52, Liba Denenberg 35, Shifra Eiberman 32,
Tzachzekit Eidel 12, Esther Eisenberg 37, Rachel Eizenberg 42, Zeev
Ben Meir Eizenberg 2, Itzhak Federman 4, Yehudit Fedeman 43, Chaya
Feldman 20, D Ferman 135, Malka Fiska 14, Masil Gorshtein 16, Gishe
Gutshabes 57, Miriam Kalton 33, Yache Kantzepleskis 83, Tvi Katzelson
41, Chaya Freidle Klempert 72, Bantze Klepatz 78, Shoshana Kuraz 27,
Zeev Kushner 19, Chaya Lemoosh 29, Devushka Lev 121, Rony Levine 117,
Shalom Levine 118, Chaim Lieberman 6, Tzarne Lieberman 87, Golde
Livshovsky 114, Reva Lutzki 38, Nechama Lutzkit 26, Bashe Rachel
Lubertan 63, Gitle Mann 86, David Marutetky 18, Rachel Pakatz 23,
Bashe Patzekin 80, Chana Peikov 25, Zipora Platnik 15, Gittel Poratz
3, G Poraz 141, Lea Rappaport 40, M Retzvi 109, Chanan Sapasznikov
149, Chazke Segalovitz 113, Ethel Shelkman 22, Chana Sherman 17,
Rachel Shertok 31, Hende Shifman 108, Natee Shulman 75, Tvi Shvetz 9,
Malka Shvetz 30, Yosef Sopalnik 82, Tzirel Sopatznick 68, Bracha
Tiroshek 59, Berle Triguch 79, Yaakov Turkenitz 73, Shena Tzelizika
39, Chaya Tzevin 64, Faigl Tzrel 69, Dasha Yosselman 147, B Zilberman
116 and Chaya Zilberman 111.

If you have an ancestor from Pinsk who would have been aged between 2
and 14 in 1921 (born say 1907 to 1919) with a name the same as or
similar to one of those listed above please make contact
with David Solly Sandler on sedsand@iinet.net.au. He plans to compile
a book on these three orphanages which will include all the letters
with translations, the family histories of any survivors he can make
contact with and any further information he can gather.

From: IStanlyRose@aol.com
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 19:41:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: THE JEWISH ORPHANAGE IN PINSK - POLAND - 1920 - 1924
To: egl.comments@gmail.com

Can anyone help me solve an almost impossible problem?
My mother was born in Pinsk, as far as she knew, on 15th January 1920.
She believed she might have had an older brother and older sister. When she
was between one and two years old, for reasons she never found out, she was
put into the Jewish Orphanage in Pinsk. Possibly her mother died giving
birth to her or to the next child.

She came to England with a group of children from the Orphanage in 1924,
travelling on a ship with around 20 children of different ages.

Her adopted Jewish parents had also come from Poland, in 1910. Their
names were Hanshel (Angel) and Rebecca (Rifka) Schwaitzer. They were
wonderful to her, but forbade her to find out anything about her real
family, and
also destroyed what little documentation she had.

She knew her name was Sorah Basha, and she was called Bashela, and then
Betty. Until she was in her late seventies, she believed her real family
name to be Breckman or Bregman. However, she found out that she had actually
travelled to England on a document belonging to a girl called Sadie Bregman
or Breckman, as Sadie had contracted measles or mumps before travelling
and was therefore unable to travel. The orphanage, not wishing to waste a
travel document had taken Sadie's photo off and replaced it with a photo of my
mother. It was just very strange that nobody noticed that my mother was
only four years old, while Sadie's document was for an eight year old.

We have been unable to find out what my mother's real family name was, and
therefore unable to find if any of her real family had survived either in
Poland, or through the holocaust or had even managed to escape to Europe or
the U.S.A.

The Pinsk Orphanage building is still standing, and there are possibly
Archives either in Minsk or Brest relating to children who were in the
Orphanage between 1920 and 1924, but so far I have been unable to
ascertain any
real information. It was also not helped by the fact that, due to the
Russian Revolution, there were no Census taken between 1917 and 1922.

If I could find any documentation showing that a female child, born on
15th January 1920 and given the first names of Sorah Basha, I might then find
what her real family surname was and could begin looking for further
information.

I know it is very difficult, but I would be so grateful if anyone is still
alive who was in the Orphanage at the same time as my mother, and even
came on the same ship in 1924 to England.

MARILYNE ROSE
IStanlyRose@aol.com

forster ruth <ruthfor@012.net.il>

hello,

how can I get in touch with pepole who were looking afrwe the
Kirschbaum familiy from Krakow?

this familiy is connected with my father's familiy.

thanks,

ruth forster

September 18th, 2011
Eli Zborowski, a survivor of the Holocaust who made it his mission to ensure that it would never be forgotten, founded an American organization to support Israel’s official Holocaust memorial and raised more than $100 million for it, died on Monday in Queens. He was 86.
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George Berman
Eli Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor, founded the American Society for Yad Vashem.

The cause was cardiac arrest, said Rochel Berman, who, with her husband, George, published a biography of Mr. Zborowski last year.

Mr. Zborowski (pronounced zbor-AHV-skee) started the American and International Societies for Yad Vashem, the Israeli memorial, in 1953, a year after he arrived in the United States as a penniless Jewish immigrant from Poland with little knowledge of English. He was the founding and only chairman of what was — in fact, if not in name — a single organization. Under him, it grew to 50,000 members.

Mr. Zborowski served on the board of the memorial and helped come up with the idea, which it adopted, of remembering communities, not just individuals, lost in the Holocaust.

He also founded the American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims, and was one of six survivors — and the only American — to greet Pope John Paul II during his visit to Yad Vashem in 2000.

Mr. Zborowski and his wife, Diana, established a chair in Holocaust studies at Yeshiva University in Manhattan in 1976, the first such professorship in the country. He started a newspaper on Holocaust issues, Martyrdom and Resistance, which has been published for 37 years.

Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and Mayor Edward I. Koch named him to the New York Permanent Commission on the Holocaust. Among many campaigns, he fought for compensation for victims of Nazi medical experiments and the return of property seized from Jews during World War II.

He also started a program for younger members of the American Society for Yad Vashem, mainly descendants of survivors, to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.

Eliezer Zborowski was born in Zarki, Poland, on Sept. 20, 1925 (to Zisel and Moshe) . In 1939, at the war’s beginning, Nazis confined his family in a ghetto they created for Jews. Taking advantage of his fair complexion and forged papers identifying him as a gentile, Mr. Zborowski acted as a courier between the ghetto and other Poles opposed to the occupiers.

When the Nazis’ program to exterminate Jews and other minorities began in 1942, the ghettos were liquidated. Mr. Zborowski and his family were hidden by Christians in an attic and a chicken coop. His father was separated from the family and shot while trying to escape from a German work camp.

After the war, Mr. Zborowski helped smuggle Jews to British-ruled Palestine. In one instance, he encountered a train car containing 100 teenagers and took them to safety at a camp for displaced persons in Germany. At the camp, he set up a youth center to care for them, and it became a model for others set up at other camps. He then helped the youths immigrate to what was soon to be Israel.

Mr. Zborowski had planned to settle in Israel himself, but he had met and married Diana Wilf, whose asthma was aggravated by the Middle Eastern climate. They came to New York in 1952, and Mr. Zborowski imported camera parts from Germany, then began trading in currency. The currency business took him to Latin America, where he set up a company to distribute Sheaffer pens. He later expanded into other businesses, including commercial real estate in New York and the distribution of cellphones in Latin America.

In their biography, “A Life of Leadership: Eli Zborowski,” the Bermans said Mr. Zborowski had taken up the cause of Holocaust remembrance because he believed that few survivors wanted to talk about it and that few Americans wanted to hear about it. An early success in the mid-1950s was getting Jewish schools to require Holocaust studies. He became involved in Yad Vashem during visits to his sister in Israel.

Mr. Zborowski’s wife, Diana, died in 2004. He is survived by his second wife, the former Elizabeth Mundlak, who is also a Holocaust survivor; his daughter, Lilly Zborowski Naveh; his son, Murry; his brother, Marvin; his sister, Tzila Listenberg; and seven grandchildren. He lived in Forest Hills, Queens.

In 2000, when the pope visited Yad Vashem, some criticized him for declining to comment directly on the church’s silence about Hitler’s crimes during the war. But Mr. Zborowski complimented the pope, saying the visit was a momentous gesture.

Mr. Zborowski’s biographers said his magnanimity extended even to German soldiers who had been captured after the war and had nothing to eat or drink. He gave them water.

“I don’t know why I did it,” Mr. Zborowski said, “and to this day I do not regret it.”

From: Debbie Paneth <paneth@013.n,,>

Shalom,
I am very impressed with your site.
 
I maintain two facebooks pages for a non-profit organization in Pinsk, Yad Yisroel ( www.yadyisroel.com ).
 
I would like to know if I may take pictures from your site about life in Belarus. I will of course give you credit in the post.
 
Here are the links to our facebook pages:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yad-Yisroel/223709231054757
 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D7%99%D7%93-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C/719376858082093
 
I look forward to hearing from you.
Pesach Kasher Vesameach.
Debbie Paneth

Is it possible there is family left in Pinsk?  Can you tell me how to research?
my father (now deceased) was Moisha Schwartz born in 1888 in Pinsk. Immigrated around 1904 age 16 to escape the Russian conscription for WW1.
Dad's fathers name : Harry
Mothers Name: Ida

Arlene Lewetzow
alewetzow@earthlin
Dear Arlene,

Thank you for writing. Your father could not have left Pinsk because of the First World war that did not start until 1914. C 1904 was the war of Russia with Japan which started in 1905.  Regarding the first names of the parents; Most likely it is Hirsh ( not Harry/ an English name) and Ita/ Itel. Most Jews who lived in Pinsk in 1941 were killed by the Nazis. The few who survived mostly left  Pinsk after the war. Search the Yad Vashem list of those Shwartz family members from Pinsk who perished. Check the names of the family members who gave the reports
Shwartz, Bashka Bashka 
1899 
Drohichin, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Sorc, Etil Etel 
 
Pinsk, Poland 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Svarc, Chaja Khaia 
1896 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Svarc, Michaeil Mikhael 
1910 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Svarc, Mila 
1912 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Svarc, Etul Etel 
1915 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Svarc, Zeev Zeiv 
1894 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Svarcs, Ester 
1918 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Szorc, Chawa Khava 
 
Pinsk, Poland 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Szorc, Ester 
 
Pinsk, Poland 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Szorc, Mirla Mirla 
 
Pinsk, Poland 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Syma Sima 
1912 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Yaakov 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony (PDF) 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Syma 
 
Pinsk, Poland 
Page of Testimony (PDF) 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Judif 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
 
Szwarc, Iaska 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Chana 
 
Pinks, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
 
Szwarc, Iaska 
 
Pinsk, Poland 
Page of Testimony (PDF) 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Iaska 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
Page of Testimony (PDF) 
Murdered 
Szwarc, Hersz 
1919 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
 
Shvertz, Fishel 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, David 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Genya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Idel 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Ruvin 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Volf 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Iosif 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Zkhariya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Mikhel 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Litman 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Litman 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Etlya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Sheyna Khaya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Iosif 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Leya 
1923 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Khaya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
 
Shvartz, Ester 
1899 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
 
Shvartz, Khatzkel 
1915 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
 
Shvartz, Ber 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Volf 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Genya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, David 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Zkhariya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Ida 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Iosif 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Litman 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Mikhel 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Ruvin 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Sulamit 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
Shvartz, Sheyna Khaya 
 
Pinsk, Poland‎ 
List of persecuted p ... 
Murdered 
earch the list of those who perished;

Sure Debbie, Use any picture you wish! Please give credit  to the site. 
I would like to link your pages.
Eilat
From: Debbie Paneth <debbie.paneth@gmail.com>

Hi Eilat,

I was looking over your very informative site. My grandfather z"l came from Ivenetz and the wealth of information you have is amazing.
I maintain the facebook pages and website of Yad Yisroel, a non-profit organization in Pinsk. May I use pictures from your website for my facebook pages and website?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Debbie Paneth
www.yadyisroel.com

Hello,

I'm looking at your site and I noticed a photo of my father with his mother (which I actually have an original print of) #pnsk-63 labelled Wajnstein family, Pinsk 1930. This is probably more like 1936 as he was born in 1932.  Can you tell me who submitted the photo?  He was sent to the U.S. in 1938 with relatives.  His family left behind all likely perished in 1941.  We are always in pursuit of family details.

Thanks for any help,

Janice Soled
Nashville, TN
USA

The picture is from Yad  vashem report; 
Yisrael Bobrov ( on the left) was born in Pinsk in 1886 
to Mordekhai and Lea. He was a builder and married to 
Dvora. 
Prior to WWII he lived in Pinsk During the war he was in
 Pinsk. Yisrael was murdered/perished in 1941 in Pinsk, 
 at the age of 55.This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed here) submitted in 1999 by, Elka Bobrov 
nee Belous of Herzelia, Israel. His son Zalman also gave a report toYad Vashem for his father.

I am related by a marriage to another Israel Bobrow. He is my mother's first cousin wife's first cousin once removed.
 Rachel Gordin 
my mother → Meir Gurevich 
her father → Natan Avraham Gurevich 
his brother → Gershon Gorev 
his son (my mother's first cousin) → Hasia Gorev 
his wife →Etl Bachmat 
her mother → Isroel Elia Dreyer 
her father → Sophie (Sara Genia) Bobrow 
his sister → Israel Bobrow 
her son

Israel Bobrow 
Gender:
Male
Birth:
estimated between 1872 and 1932 
Latvia
Immediate Family:
Son of Solomon Bobrow and Sophie (Sara Genia) Bobrow 
Brother of David Bobrow; Becky Gabie; Joseph Bobrow; Morris Bobrow and Abe Bobrow 
Added by:
Myrna Margo on September 21, 2008
Managed by:
Myrna Margo (Leibov)

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 9:17 AM Richard H. Katz <rcats@ieee.org> wrote:
Hi Eilat,
Congratulations! This website is a wonderful resource.

I am working on and extended family genealogy in Ancestry.com and Myheritage.com.  I have a question about Pinsk go to #pnsk-83.

Yisrael Bobrov in this picture was the son on my Great-Grandmother Sara Leah Shapiro's sister Lea. Can I use the picture I. My Family trees? If yes, I would like to give credit to you and who ever originally provided it. Can you tell me where the picture came from?

Best Regards
Rich Katz
Torrance, CA USA

From: shimonuv <shimonuv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 2:04 PM
Subject: Information request from Israel on Bakalchuk and Zimmerman families

Hello Eilat,
My name is Shimon Bakalchuk and I am the son of Esther  Bakalchuk of the Zimmerman family. 
Esther is the daughter of Chana and Shimon Arie Zimmerman and sister of Yerachmiel (Misha) Zimmerman.
Misha's daughter, Yaffa, told me that she was in touch with you and that you could help me to get the information I was looking for for my two families in  Bakalchuk  and Zimmerman. 
She also told me that you are a relative of us -a third or fourth cousin.
I also understand that you once wanted details about our family. So what I can help - I will do so willingly.
My father's family in Bakalchuk was originally from Pinsk, and they moved to Mikashevitz.
Thanks in advance and I'd be happy to be in touch.

Avraham (Avramela) Pomeranz (1926 Pinsk- 1948 killed as a soldier during the war of Independence in Israel)