Karen Kirshner wrote;

It is wonderful that you have the Yiskor book online and translated for the families of descendants of those who perished in the early years of the Holocaust.  I do not see  many of my relatives names listed, and I know for a fact they were murdered in massacres in Sharkovschizna when everyone was being herded up to the town square and murdered. My BERMANs are not mentioned in your book at all. I believe the spelling was mispelled in your book.  Moshe Baer Berman, my grandfather David /Dov Berman's brother was brutally murdered as was his son Chunah Berman, my grandfather Dave's older brother. Chunah m. my grandmother Leiba/Liba/Lily Chidekel/Khidekel's sister Raiycha and they had children murdered as well. Chunah stood up to the murderers and was  quartered by horses and parts of him were pulled in various directions and he was then trampled by the horses/trucks and flattened into the ground. They knew the locals who were the collaborators, and brutally and joyfully were murdering his family members and friends.  He had two daughters who were raped in the woods and then murdered by the German Soldiers. His wife Raicha was my grandmother Liba/Leiba Chidekel/Khidekel Berman's  sister and sister in law. They were the daughters of Moishy/Masha Levin Chidekel/Khidekel and Itze/Yitzchak Chidekel/Khidekel (Carpenter and Glasier who was born and raised in Sharkovschizna and moved his family to settle nearby in Shkuntiki, when the town got too big. He had died prior to WWII, in his early 70s, an old man, and his wife, my great grandmother was murdered by the "Polish" collaborators and Nazis, as was her son Meier and his wife Chana, and children, and her daughter Brochka Chidekel (who was married with children with surname I am not sure of, although I know she was in a photo with an Aaron Mirkin that my grandmother had kept.  Gramma Liba/Lily left Shkuntiki in Vilna Giberna, Sept. 1921 and arrived in the USA with her son Hyman/Chaim, named in memoryy it turns out of her father's father.  She had family in Argentina on her maternal Levin/Levine line and on her paternal Khidekel/Chidekel lines. I know the Levine's had a store, clothing I believe. I know they were shopkeepers in Argentina, Buenos Aires, I believe. I was there, found such a family and a store  and believed it was the same family, but so much time passed, who knows now!    Gramma Leiba/Lily had married Dov/David Berman of Sharkovschizna 10 years prior to coming to NYC to join him in America.  He had escaped the Russian Army and then was sent back to fight for the USA in WWI and war had separated them.  Fortunately, many of her Singer and Levin/Levine family members, cousins, even uncles and aunts had migrated to the USA, but of course not everyone. Her mother maiden name was Levin, and her mother's maiden name before that was Singer/Zinger.  It was a long rabbinical line of 5 LURIA brothers who were adopted or had adopted the Levin name, all rabbis.  That is what I was told directly by my grandmother who died at the age of 87 in May 1975.  She had lost all her immediate family in WWII Sharkovschizna and Shkuntiki, in the Vilna Giberna, Disna Uzed.  She told me and showed me a photo of two cousins on her father's side, one was a cook the other, I believe Boruch was supposed to have gone crazy/depressed due to what happened to his famiy and was in a mental institution for a while, I believe. The family lived in England and there was a daughter, which I got mixed up with granddaughter. Anyway, we found each other, Josie Khidekel Barnett is that cousin the cook's granddaughter, she is my cousin. Cousins married cousins in all my families from that area.  Levins/Singers, Khidekels/Bermans, etc.

Why is it that there is no BERMAN cited with that spelling, please. And I see no Khidekel/Chidekel names cited? My grandmother's brothers were teachers.  Her sisters were dressmakers, and her mother was famous for her many braided challahs.  Gramma had a store in Shkuntiki and would travel to Vilnius to see her mother's relatives and to other areas to get supplies.  That was prior to 1921. One day there were no more communications from her family and that was when their lives ended.  There were other relatives in Argentina, and in France, but I don't know much more, and one cousin Yitzchak Gurevich came to the USA after my grandmother had died, and claimed he was her cousin.  He had a sister in Israel, and children who were doctors in Vilnius and became psychiatrists here in the USA/NY.  My grandfather David Berman's baby brother Shrul Aaron Berman had survived WWII by being in the Russian Army, as had Yitzchak Gurevich who rode his bike away and joined the army when he was warned all were being murdered in the shtetl of Sharkovschizna.  Great Uncle Schroll Aaron Berman lived out his life in St. Petersburg/Leningrad and although trained as an engineer was forced to work as a tailor due to Stalin's restrictions.  He was angry about it, and we used to correspond, when I was a child. My grandmother continued the sending of money and items to him, and then my mother. My grandfather's sisters, my great aunts Anna and Gertie who became Cohen and Zuckerman from Berman, were brought to the USA with money my grandfather sent for them to come. His father Moshe Baer Berman, also came to the USA and worked with him and went back to be with a second younger wife and  second family.  He was also murdered along with his wife and children. I don't know if anyone survived. 

I saw a photo of a woman of Szarchovschizna in a Yiskor book that cousin Josie sent to me recently, and I look like the exact image of a woman by the name of Hana Hasan/Chazan Steinman or was it Steiiner?  ... who perished in the Sharkovschinna shetl midlife. She seemed to be my twin a generation or two after her life.  I believe since my mother's who family was from that area, (inc. nearby Nowe Swieciany, Wilno, then Poland) Vilnius and other local areas  and that shtetl especially, and so much intermarriage of cousins throughout time was happening, that she had to be a relative of mine. How could two people be doubles otherwise. It is too uncanny!  Is there anyone who is related to her who has a family tree to compare and see who is connected. I do not know the maiden name of my paternal great great grandmother, although I believe it was told to me. I do know my Berman G Great Grandmother's maiden name of Moonik/Munic and that she was from Mir/Warsaw area and had a brother there who had an inn.  I know my great grandfather Itze/Yitchack Khidekel/Chidekel had a brother and had an aunt Ester, and that he had a nephew Boruch, and a brother or cousins in Argentina. 

(My father's line originally KIRSNER spelled without the H but prounonced with the SZH sound in it, also had relatives in Argentina, So. America, and in So. Africa. His lines were from Lithuania all the way, from Luoke and Vilki, Kaunus.)

Please be in touch with me. Thank you.

 Karen  

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I found the Berman family on the Yad Vashem site- they were listed by the Soviets. You should also give reports to Yad Vashem.
Here is how the Soviets listed them;
Berman Khona 
Berman Khona
 
Khona Berman was born in 1890 to M. He was a waggoner and married to Raya. Prior to WWII he lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war he was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Khona perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1890 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Raya 
Berman Raya
 
Raya Berman was born in 1890. She was a housewife and married to Khona. Prior to WWII she lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war she was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Raya perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1890 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Mikhlya 
Berman Mikhlya
 
Mikhlya Berman was born in 1920 to Khona and Raya. She was an employee. Prior to WWII she lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war she was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Mikhlya perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1920 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Basia 
Berman Basia
 
Basia Berman was born in 1926 to Khona and Raya. She was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war she was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Basia perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1926 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Solomon 
Berman Solomon
 
Solomon Berman was born in 1927 to Khona and Raya. He was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war he was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Solomon perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1927 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Iosil 
Berman Iosil
 
Iosil Berman was born in 1923 to Khona and Raya. He was a tailor. Prior to WWII he lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war he was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Iosil perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1923 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Izrail 
SHARKOVSHCHINA 
DZISNA 
WILNO 
POLAND 
1933 
List of Persecuted 
Berman Izrail
 

Izrail Berman was born in 1933 to Khona and Raya. He was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war he was in Sharkovshchina, Poland. Izrail perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of Persecuted ...............................................

 
Thank you for finding my grandparents' brother and sister(as well as
brother and sister in law) and their children!  It is like a miracle to
me, since I did not have all the names, et al.  I will definitely fill
in the missing info.a and send it to Yad Vashem, as you suggest.  I
know how several of them really died, and I know that two boys, I
believe it was probably theirs, were twins.  My mother would know which
family immediate family members had the twins so I will ask her.  The
Soviets left out a lot, but at least they included them among the
persecuted.  I know my great Uncle Scholl/Israel Aaron Berman had
attended a memorial there and he may have helped ensure the names and
basic information was not lost. I can't be sure, but I suspect it to be
the case.  You helped me a lot. I appreciate your effort!  Now if only
I could remember why a few of the Chidekel names cited were cousins, a
few closer to my grandmother than others, I just can't resurrect that
far back.  I remembered a Freida, and a Malka and Fruma, names Gramma
Liba/Lily mentioned and had some pictures of, and others, but not all
rang a bell.

Finding the Bermans and seeing they were not totally forgotten helps.

I still don't know who or what relationship Hana Hasan Steinman had to
my maternal lines, that would make us appear to be "twins" but
whatever, maybe it will be clear someday.

Karen
 I checked Yad Vashem reports for the Khazan family and found that they are related to the Khidekel family!
Hazan Gisa
 
Gisa Hazan nee Khidekel was born in Szarkowszczyzna in 1912 to Yerakhmiel Khidekel and Roza. She was a seamstress and married to Nakhman. Prior to WWII she lived in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. During the war she was in Szarkowszczyzna, Ghetto. Gisa perished in 1942 in the Shoah at the age of 30. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 17-Apr-1999 by her nephew Shlomo Estrin of Ramat Gan ( Ramat Chen Aluf David Street #175/ 7- phone 03-6312468
Khazan Shabtai
 
Shabtai Khazan was born in Sarkowszczyzna in 1930 to Nakhman and Gisa nee Khidekel. Prior to WWII he lived in Sarkowszczyzna, Poland. Shabtai perished in 1942 in Sarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 12. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 08-May-1999 by his cousin Shlomo Estrin, a Shoah survivor

Khazan Yerakhmiel
 
Yerakhmiel  was born in Sharkotsina in 1936 to Nakhman and Geisha nee Khidekel. He was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Sharkotsina, Poland. During the war he was in Sharkotsina, Poland. Yerakhmiel perished in 1942 in Sharkotsina, Poland at the age of 6. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 08-May-1999 by his cousin, a Shoah survivor
Estrin Khona
 

Khona Estrin was born in Szarkowszczyzna in 1910 to Zalman and Bela. He was an agriculturist and married to Sheina. Prior to WWII he lived in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Ghetto. Khona perished in 1942 in Szarkowszczyzna, Ghetto at the age of 32. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 17-Apr-1999 by his brother
Estrin Zalman
 
Zalman Estrin was born in Sharkovshchina in 1880 to Shlomo. He was an agriculturist and married to Disa. Prior to WWII he lived in Sharkovshchina, Poland. During the war he was in Sharkovshchina, Ghetto. Zalman perished in 1942 in Sharkovshchina, Ghetto at the age of 62. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 17-Apr-1999 by his son

- Eilat

My
mother Betty / Batya/Basha Berman Kirshner is the daughter of
Dudgie/Dov/David Berman and Leiba/Liba/Lily Chidekel/Khidekel B.  My
maternal grandparents of Sharkovschizna and Shkuntiki, Vilna Giberna.
I reread the email I sent, attached and see some stupid errors.  I
don't know my mother's paternal great grandmother's original surnames,
except my grandfather Dave's mother's maiden name of Munic/Moonik, and
she died when he was a child because she caught a cold when she bathed
in the Disna River, versus the mikvah, because she was too poor for the
proper ritual bath, (Moshe Baer Berman was a flaxer, son of Shepsel and
Bashya/Batya Berman, who managed an Orchard and was wealthy, but was
robbed and murdered by locals well prior to WWII, along with them were
two murdered grandchildren.  The father to Shepsel was Israel/Shroll I
believe.  The whole Berman line was for  generations in Sharkovschizna
in the Disna Uzed, yet the Bermans, all who remained in WWII times were
murdered and nothing is listed with the proper spelling of their names.
 I am alarmed by this of course.  Chunah Berman was a heroic figure who
stood up to the locals, murderous collaborators, and Raycha
Chidekel/Khidekel Berman, his wife and my grandmother's cherished
sister was running to the woods when everyone was being shot and tried
to escape with a baby in her arms and was shotin the back with the baby
and killed. Their daughters, one of whom looked like my mother's
duplicate, she had been told, and was in fact from the same families as
my grandparents together, had been raped and murdered in the woods by
the local collaborators and or Germans on the scene.    I found my
great uncle Meier and his wife Chana cited on a list, but  not others
in the family, other than one or two children. I know there were twin
boys, which may have been Brochka Chidekels and her husband, surname I
don't know.  Or they were another aunt/uncle's twins. Twins ran in the
family, though.  I remember the picture of two boysin sailor outfits
 from the early 20s.  I mentioned my Great Uncle Shroll/Israel Aaron
Berman, the baby brother to my grandfather David Berman, who survived
and lived in Leningrad/St. Petersburg and died at approx. 80 years old.
 I forgot to mention that he had a daughter and a son. The daughter,
Galina Berman is now Galina Aidman and migrated with her second husband
and her daughter Yana, to the USA. She is a retired engineer now, and
lives in Pennsylvania. She was famous for her Chemical engineering
work, and gave lectures in Russia after emigrating to the USA. She went
under the surname of her first husband, a Russian name.  Her brother
Michael Yudin lives in Russia and has a family of his own there.  (
Note Michel was a first name of one of my grandmother Liba's brothers
Khidekel/Chidekel) .  The Yitzchak Gurevich who was a cousin to my
grandmother Liba Chidekel/Khidekel Berman was related to my grandmother
not my grandfather, he had told us.  We don't know how he was related,
through the maternal or paternal line?  He was an old man when he
migrated to the USA and she was already dead, so we could not ask her.
My mother was the geneaologist then, now it is me.  Anyway, his first
wife and children were all killed, and he went off and joined the
Russian Army, married the nurse/surgeon who saved him in a hospital and
had a family of what were doctors and then became psychiatrists in the
USA. The children, adults, live in NY and elsewhere in the USA now. One
is Eva, and there are others. I know one  is married to an engineer for
the LIRR.  And, an elderly sister to Yitzchak lived in Israel and did
not come the USA as far as I knew.  She did notknow English so I could
not communicate with her.   I never found out the connection. Only that
I believe with the rabbinical lines going all the way back in time,
according to my grandmother, and being Lurias, that it must have been
related to the Luria/Levin, line of Vilnius.  Gramma had an aunt, her
mother's sister who lived in Vilnius with her family, and she had her
mother Masha/Moishe Levin Chidekel's siblings living along the same
street in Shukuntiki just outside Sharkovschizna, where her father
moved the families due to crowding.  I know eventually my Chidekel
great uncles were teachers and ran a school in Sharkovschizna.  They
were Chidekels/Khidekels  Gramma spelled the name Chidekel, and it was
totally mispelled when she arrived at Ellis Island by whoever worked
there.  My grandfather David Berman, who had first gone to Canada and
then to the USA with various  Uncles of Gramma Lily's mostly, met her
ten years after he had left, escaping the Russian Army to wind up in
France for the US Army, and then eventually in the So. Bronx, on Manor
Avenue, in the East Tremont section.  He owned buildings in Harlem, and
elsewhere, which were lost after he died, due to dishonest people in
the management co. / mismanagement. His son Hyman/Chaim Berman, born in
Shkuntiki or Sharovshizna was only 10 in 1921, when he migrated to NY
with his mother to meet his father for the first time.  He lived in the
Bronx with his wife Sarah and their two sons Richard I. Berman and
Curtis Berman, then all moved over time.  Uncle Hy was 16 years older
than my mother, and worked for the US Post Office. He had a stutter all
his life, due to being frightened in hiding from a Cossack's large
viscious dog,  as a small child. Uncle Hy died years ago, as die Aunt
Sarah. There are plots of the "Cousins club/Landsman's organization in
Beth David Cemetary, in Elmont, LI, NY.  The spelling for the
organization is again different. Something like Sharkoivschina, or
something like that. Transliterating from the Hebrew and Yiddish to
English was always a dilemma.  I visited the shtetls several years ago,
including those of my father's lines, all in Lithuania, I am pure
Litvak on all sides, and it was a devastating experience for me,
knowing how my ancestors were treated and how good they were as human
beings. My mission since childhood was to find missing relatives of my
grandmother Liba Chidekel Bermans, as her entire family, other than the
Levin/Levine and Singer and other uncles, aunts, cousins who came over
survived, but all her immediate family were murdered, no more Chidekels
roamed the earth, except one here or there, cousins, Uncles somewhere
in Europe, and some unknown to me relatives lost forever to me in
Argentina and France, and England, although Josie Chidekel Barnett is
the relative found.  I want to never allow the forgetting of those
wonderful people. I told my grandmother I would find relatives alive. I
would hunt for them, it was my mission as a young teenager. She died
when I was about 16, beloved, cherished Gramma Liba/Lily Chidekel
Berman. She would speak to her mother Meier and to her mother
Masha/"Mooshy" at her bedside and they had long been gone. Her sister
Raiycha was her best friend as well as Meier.  It pained me to see her
with so much loss.  I took on the responsibiity to find relatives
somehow, and I am trying to do that. As if a sick joke, the Yiskor book
of Sharkovschizna Jews, perhaps it was in the Vilna Giberna and
Environs book, when Josie Barnett had sent it to me it was as if
someone had planted a photo of me on its pages, it was that eery and
bizarre. That woman Hana Hasan Steinman is my twin. That is still on my
mind and driving me on with the genealogical hunt in Sharkovschizna,
the shtetl of my maternal lines.  Perhaps one of my great grandmothers
or great great grandmothers had a sister or whatever who married
another cousin of the other side of the family, but how and why do we
look exactly alike, even the hair style at about the same age, I don't
know. It is as if I have been reincarnated from two generations ago.
Someone on a streetin NYC had stopped me prior to my receiving the link
 from cousin Josie and she stared at me, as did the two people she was
with and she said she had just come from Yivo, I believe she said and
had to ask me a personal question because it was startling. She just
saw photos of Jews who perished in the Holocaust and I looked so much
like a woman who died who she had seen. She wanted to know if I am
Jewish and did my family come from Poland. I told her NO!  I am pure
Litvak, the shetls of my mother's family was in what is now Belarus,
and was White Russia and was Litvak territory, and for a period between
wars it was considered Poland, but they were not Poles, and I don't
look like my mother's side of the family. I look like my father's
maternal side of the family, the FRANK, BARON line of Ben Rab Nachman,
and in fact I look remarkably like my grandmother Rachel and her sister
Gitel (who married Segal - murdered in a camp in WWII with her
husband).  I was very proud of that Royal Jewish lineage, and knew I
resembled no one in my mother's line, other than my mother in essence
and voice only.  That was until the Yiskor book link and the photo of
Hana Hasan Steinman crossedmy desktop. She and I DOUBLE image of each
other!  Even the hair and the expression. Who was the woman. She had to
be related. She looks more like me than I do like my father's maternal
line. It is freaky beyond rational explanations.  So perhaps Hasan was
a surname of one of my relatives?  I don't know. It could be Khazan,
Chazan, Hassan, and a nephew had reported her death to Yad Vashem, but
whom.  Now I can't find the book online. Anyway, I sound nuts, but if
you saw your body double from two generations earlier and from the same
shtetl of your ancestors and you never knew of such a relative, you
would probably freak out too. Even my uncle Sam Berman in CA and other
relatives, even my own mother agreed we looked like we could be twins.
Uncle Same was a social worker for years and is one of the most
rational people I ever met and he thought it was amazing.  I would like
to hear from anyone who knows who she was, about her life and any
relatives who may be my relatives too.  But of course, please do call
me. I don't know what I'd have to say, other than Masha/Moishe LEVIN
Chidekel, my great grandmother was totally left out of the list of
murdered victims of the massacre where my great uncle and aunt Meier
and Chana Khidekel/Chidekel were killed along with a child or two. I
don't want her to be forgotten. She was 81-2 years old and treated like
garbage in the end. It isn't right!  I want revenge against the
murderers, but it makes me sick personally to hold onto so much anger
and hatred ... who gleefully
collaborated with the Nazis.  They continue to reside in Sharkovschizna
and Shkuntiki, along with transplanted Russians.  I cannot forget the
anti-semite who was in charge of the monument/plaque where my relatives
perished.  He told a child who told our guide that the worn gravestones
with Hebrew writing on them fight there was where "animals are buried".
  They still ride in carts,......
as she described. Time stood still. Those people at least got their
punishment in that they are left behind.  I will never forgive and
never forget. I am turning 5o soon, and my mission is still undone.

Karen

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some of the Yad Vashem reports are for the same family ( of Lena) by different relatives;

We know that there was a Yehoshua ( Shia)  who was born c 1880 to Yaakov Khidekel. He was married to Frida Henia Dikshtein

and had children; Lena ( who survived and lived in Givataim) Moshe, Avraham Yaakov (born in 1910 married Sarah Svirski)

Chidekel Avraham Yaakov
 
Avraham Yaakov Chidekel was born in Szarkowszczyzna in 1910 to Shaia/ Yeshayahu. He was a merchant and married to Sara nee Svirski.They had children Hillel born in 1939 and Chana born in 1940.  Prior to WWII they lived in Koziany, Poland. During the war he was in Koziany, Poland. Yaakov and his family perished in 1942 in Glebokie, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 10-Sep-1956 by his sister-in-law Nechama nee Svirski Aminezach of Kfar Saba.
Report by the sister Lena Torzin; Avraham Yaakov Khidekel
 
Yaakov was born in Sharkoyschina to Yehoshua and Frida Henia. He was a merchant and married to Sara nee Svirski. Prior to WWII he lived in Sarkeyschina, Poland. During the war he was in Sarkeyschina, Poland. Yaakov perished in the Shoah at the age of 30. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 20-May-1999 by his sister
Lena Torzin
Could this one be a cousin of the family?reports by Pnina nee Nomkin, the daughter of Zvia nee Khidekel

Zvia passed away before the holocaust.

Chidekel Moshe ( the brother of Zvia)
 
Moshe Chidekel was born in Poland to Pesia Sarah. He was a tailor and married to Malka. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Moshe perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 50. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his sisters' daughter Pnina Pesia Shlemler of Tel Aviv ( Shlonski Street)
Chidekel Khaia
 
Khaia Liba Chidekel was born in 1879. She was a housewife and married to Ihezkiel. Prior to WWII she lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war she was in Nowy Pohost, Poland. Khaia perished in 1942 in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 63. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her niece.  
 
Chidekel Lea Lea Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1929 to Moshe and Malka. She was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war she was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Lea perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 13. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her cousin
 
Chidekel Shepske
 
Shepske Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1913 to Chaze/ Ihezkiel and Chaia Liba. He was a merchant. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Shepske perished in 1942 in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 29. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his cousin
Chidekel Zelig
 
Zelig Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1917 to Chaze/ Yechezkel and Chaia Liba. He was a student and single Rakhel. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Zelig perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his cousin.  
Lea Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1929 to Moshe and Malka. She was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war she was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Lea perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 13. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her cousin
Chidekel Simcha
 
Simcha Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1930 to Moshe and Malka. He was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Simcha perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his cousin.  More Details... 
Chidekel Chaim
 
Chaim Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1910 to Chaze/Yechezkel and Chaia Liba. He was a merchant. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Chaim perished in 1942 in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 32. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his cousin.  More Details... 
 
Chidekel Zelig
 
Zelig Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1917 to Chaze/Yechezkel and Chaia Liba. He was a student and single Rakhel. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Zelig perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his cousin.  
Chidekel Lozer
 
Lozer Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1911 to Ihezkiel and Liba. He was a merchant and married to Lota. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Glebokie, Poland. Lozer perished in 1942 in Glebokie, Poland at the age of 31. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01-Jan-1998 by his cousin
Goldin Rachel
 
Rachel Goldin nee Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1912 to Ihezkiel and Liba. She was a housewife and married to Mordekhai. Prior to WWII she lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war she was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Rachel perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her cousin
Hofman Riva
 
Riva Hofman was born in Nowy Pohost in 1928 to Zalman and Feiga nee Chidekel. She was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war she was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Riva perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her cousin.  More Details
Nomkin Leibke
 
Leibke Nomkin was born in Nowy Pohost in 1908 to Ichak and Tzvia nee Chidekel. He was a tailor and married to Ita. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Nowy Pohost, Poland. Leibke perished in 1943 in Glebokie, Poland at the age of 35. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his sister Pnina/Pesia Shlemler
Nomkin Moshe Aharon
 
Moshe Nomkin was born in Nowy Pohost in 1917 to Ichak and Tzvia nee Chidekel. He was a yeshiva student and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Nowy Pohost, Poland. Moshe perished in 1942 in Braslaw, Poland at the age of 25. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his sister Pnina
Nomkin Reuven
 
Reuven Nomkin was born in Poland in 1880 to Berl and Riva. He was married to Tzvia. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Reuven perished in 1941 in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 62. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his daughter Pnina
Chidekel Rachel
 
Rachel Chidekel nee Szmid was born in Nowy Pohost in 1917. She was a clerk and married to Abraham. Prior to WWII she lived in Jody, Poland. During the war she was in Jody, Poland. Rachel perished in 1942 in Jody, Poland at the age of 25. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01-Jan-1998 by her relative.
Moshe Chidekel was born in Poland to Liba. He was a tailor and married to Malka. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland. Moshe perished in Szarkowszczyzna, Poland at the age of 50. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his
Chidekel Avraham
 
Avraham Chidekel was born in Nowy Pohost in 1915 to Ihezkiel and Liba. He was a clerk and married to Rakhel. Prior to WWII he lived in Nowy Pohost, Poland. During the war he was in Jody, Poland. Avraham perished in Jody, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01-Jan-1998 by his cousin Pnina Shlemler of Tel Aviv who hid during the Shoah
Khidekel Avraham
 
Avraham Khidekel. He was married to Sara ( nee Svirski). Prior to WWII he lived in Koziany, Poland. Avraham perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a List of victims from Yizkor books found in the SVINTZIAN REGION (YID, HEB), TEL AVIV, 1965 page 1941.  More Details... 
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Thank you so much. I just don't know enough about the aunts and cousins
and uncles of my grandmother Liba/Lily Chidekel (maiden name) who
married Dov/Dudgie/David Berman of Sharkovschizna, her father's and his
father's homeland shtetl. Her father Itze/Yitchak Chidekel and
Masha/Moishy LEVIN (maiden name) Chidekel lived in Nowy... .. Which I
only recognize as Shkuntiki, Vilna Giberna, a few miles west and closer
to Vilnius than Sharkovschizna, in the Disna Uzed.  The Frida Dickstein
name stands out powerfully in my memory. It may have been my
grandmother's aunt or a first cousin through marriage. Other names
strike a cord, but may not be close cousins aunts, nieces, nephews,
etc. I just don't know now.  I just can't find my mother's other sister
Brochka Chidekel who was married with children when she too was
murdered.  I don't know her married name.  It wasn't Mirkin, most
likely.  It is distressing to me. I think she may have lived where her
husband's family was living, which would not have been far away.  So
many lives, so many names, so many people wasted, for what?!  It is
heartbreaking to read the names and see the basic info., just a mere
glimpse at the lives they had, it is so painful.  I wish I knew all the
relationships to my grandmother, but I can't remember so far back
without records. Thank G'd cousin Josie is working hard at it, and is
my factually certain cousin.  No wonder my grandmother no longer was
humorous and lively when the letters stopped coming and she heard no
more from her loved ones at home.  I will get the answers to all my
questions. I hope. I know.  You have been incredibly helpful.  I will
also forward this email you sent to Josie Barnett right now, in case
she didn't get it earlier.  I know through her that my great
grandfather Yitzhak Chidekel was the son of Chaim, not the brother of
Chaim.  I was confused prior.  We have either great great grandfathers
of great great great grandfathers in common.  I hope no one was adopted
and changed names, as that would make it even more difficult.  I know
synagogue records were destroyed in a synagogue fire in Sharkovschizna
prior to my grandmother's departure in 1921 to the USA to join my
grandfather Dov Berman of Sharkovschizna married ten years prior with a
son Hy/Hyman/Chaim Berman, who must have been named in memory of
GGrampa Itze/Yitchak's father.  Anyway, it will take alot more
research.

Thank you again.

Karen Kirshner
 
Of course add it!  I want to find more out about Chana Khazan Steinman though. Thank for for finding the Khidekels and the Khazans are related. Is Giza another name for Khana/Chana?  Is that the same seamstree woman from Sharkovschizna, who was shot?  I wrote to the JGFF researcher from that family, but haven't received a response yet. Thank you.
P.S. My cousin Josie nee Khidekel Barnett told me that she is convince you are a woman, is that true?  I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you.  I am still missing my Brochka Khidekel great aunt, who was sister to my grandmother Liba/Lily Khidekel/Chidekel Berman, and I don't know what Brochka's married last name is.  I know she had chidren but don't  know their names.
 
Karen Kirshner
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I started family research in about 2001 and I chose my Chidekel connections as my main research. I am Chidekel on both sides of my father. His mother and father were both Chidekels and were second cousins from Sharkovschinna.. The unique thing about most of my father's family is that they are mostly red heads.

I belong to the Disna group and got all the census that are. Alexander Bieder at the last big conference in Jerusalem told me that if I went to a big library in St. Petersburg I could get a copy of the Duma lists for the area in the early 1900s. This way maybe I could piece everyone together. At one time I was in email contact with a whole slew of Chidekels. Karen is convinced that we are related. Probably my relationship to Karen is very far removed.

OK now I will return to my former pet query. My father had a first cousin who survived Sharkovschinna, fled to Sibera and then onto California. In 2002 I met probably my father's last remaining cousin in Sweden who told me that he had actually met her in California but he had forgotten her first name and her married name. (He was 80 years old) I thought there can't be that many Sharkovschinna survivors called Chidekel and so I wrote to the Washington Holocaust Museum. They said they had a two women that would fit the description. They gave my phone number address etc.to them One letter sent to an address in the USA came back to them unknown. The other was sent to this Lena Chidekel Torzin in Ramat Gan. She phoned me up but when she realised I was not  a survivor of the second world war and that I was born in London, she lost interest. I live in the Jersualem area and I arranged to meet her as I wanted to show her the photo of my cousin who survived the war. I thought that if she was her generation she would recognise her. I also wanted to ask her about Chidekels and Shark. She was just not interested ... big big let down.  My paternal grandmother who left shark around 1911 returned in 1936 for a vacation to see her mother and brother/brothers. That is the photo I have of them all. Any British Danish or Swedish Chidekels are my immediatel family. My Swedish cousin confirmed that his father had tried to find his family after the second world war and had found out that they had all been killed except for the above mentioned cousin. I never asked my father her name and my father died in 1970 aged 58. My grandmother had brothers who were twins. The brother in Denmark and one in Sharkovschinna who was the father of the survivor. It is really weired that my Swedish/Danish cousin could not remember the name of his father's twin daughter but that is it. We spent a week with him and his family in Sweden and Denmark. He of course knew who I was and they made a big fuss of us.

I also have some comments on the 1875 father and sons revision list. All those names entered as Khadskel are really Chidekel. I am so sure that it was error in the translation from syrillic to english. Line 21 is Shakne Khadskel. Shakne was my grandmother's father. The age would be about right. Further there are no Chidekels listed in 1875 but they ar ethere in 1850. Often the same people. I think it has to be changed. Also my father's grandfather is also there - can't find the line number right now. He is Benjamin or Benish son of Joseph.

One final very positive thought. My great grandfather was Benjamin or Benish and he is buried in London. I saw his grave and of course I saw that his father was Yosef. My grandfather was Yosef and they called me Josephine after him. I married a Yosef so we have managed to continue the name in some form.
Josie Barnett
Leibin Chidekel. He married Leba ?.

Children of Leibin Chidekel and Leba ? are:
i +Abraham " Mendel" Chidekel , b. 11 September 1888, Scharkowstunna , Vilna , Lithuania.
Abraham " Mendel" Chidekel (b. 11 September 1888)Abraham " Mendel" Chidekel (son of Leibin Chidekel and Leba ?) was born 11 September 1888 in Scharkowstunna , Vilna , Lithuania. He married Sara Sonia Unterschlak on 17 September 1910, daughter of Elijohu - Meiske Unterschlak and Genia Seifer.

Emigration: Ellis Island : Frederick V111.
Information: Supplied by Lief Rosenstock leif.rosenstock@mail.tele.dk.
Occupation: Tailor.

More About Abraham " Mendel" Chidekel and Sara Sonia Unterschlak :
Marriage: 17 September 1910

Children of Abraham " Mendel" Chidekel and Sara Sonia Unterschlak are:
i Rebekka Chidekel, b. 09 October 1910. Cause of Death (Facts Pg): Congenital Heart Failure
ii Elias Moses Chidekel, b. 17 March 1914.
iii Bertha " Beile" Chidekel , b. 18 October 1918.
iv +Simon Chidekel, b. date unknown
Children of Simon Chidekel are: Per Chidekel, b. date unknown, d. 2001
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+Schwabe .
 Jude Chidekel, b. date unknown, d. 18 February 1953, Copenhagen, Denmark. He married Sprintze Children of Schwabe Jude Chidekel and Sprintze are:
i Nathan Chidekel, b. Abt. 1922.
Bashe Frieda "Bushi" Chidekel , b. date unknown
Most of the information above was supplied by me to various relatives in Denmark and also an Unterschlak in South Africa. I have most of the missing birth dates and names of the Danish descendants.. Firstly Basha Freida (Bushke) Chidekel/Chedekal was my grandmother. She was born towards the end of 1886 and died July 1956 before her 70th birthday.
 
I introduced the name Leibin Chidekel for my great grandfather. In fact his name is Shakne but for some reason on the Danish Jewish Records, my great Uncle appears to have given the name Leibin as his father for the purpose of his marriage to Sara Sonia Unterschlak. What I have seen since on the 1875 Scharkovschinna male census, is that Shacne was the son of Leiba. Quite definitely on all the gravestones of my grandmother and her siblings, Shacne is down as their father. It maybe he went by two names. Shacne is an Aramaic name and maybe he also went under the name of Leibin.
 
If you have a need to include this information in your work, then I will update everything. These are all my cousins and great Uncles. My grandmother was born 1886, Abraham Mendel 1888.  Yudel Shwabe born 1894. He had a twin brother who perished in Sharkovschinna or closeby. The youngest brother Chaim left for Argentina in the 1930s. He was born around 1910 and died March 1984????? I don't have exact year right now. Chaim married but had no children of his own. Chaim visited England 19 1955 and stayed with our family. I also think there may have been another brother but my cousin in Sweden says not.
 
Have to go now.
 
Will be in touch further. It was great speaking to you. Hag Sameach
 
Josie