Family Gershanowitz

Meyer Gershenowitz married Toba Besser, my grandmother’s sister.  Email from Howard Mirsky:

David:Well, I looked over the links you sent and was very impressed.  I’m pretty certain that this is a real connection.   Here’s the story:

Meyer is one of 5 children from Czestochowa.  (Spellings vary with documents.)

1.    Harry Gershanowitz
2.    Meyer (Max) Gershenowitz
3.    David Gershanowitz
4.    Chaje  Gershanowitz
5.    [...]

Blustein/Werbers back to 1770!

Thanks to “Cousin” Moshe in Israel, we now know cousins Hannah and Ava’s G-G-G-G-Grandparents !

Leibus Werber (b 1770) + Faiga
..Abram Werber + Gitla Rybak
….Chaim-Wolf Werber + Perele Lehrer
……Goitel Werber + Herszek Blusztajn
……..Murry Blustein + Evelyn Semmel
……….Daniel Blustein + Melanie Chan
…………Hannah & Ava

Marcus Metzger’s Przemysl Home

My friend in Poland, Lukasz Biedka, was kind enough to send me a photo of 25 Czarniekiego Street in Przemysl.

Based on addresses from old family post cards, this is where Marcus Metzger and Chana Laufer lived with their family c. 1910-20.

The building is located near the corner of Rokitnianska Street, directly [...]

New town, new G-G-G-G-Grandparents!

Moses and Ziwje  Gottesmann, born c. 1790 in Krakowiec, Ukraine

They were my great-grandparents great grand parents!

Krakowiec or Krakovets (Ukrainian: Краковець)  is a new town for the SFF.  It is NE of Przemysl, just across the current-day Ukraine border.  Map here.

The JewishGen town site.