Tombstones
in the Old Knyszyn Cemetery
The following names, with dates of death,
are among those deciphered and translated by Tomasz Wisniewski (from
the approximately 700 mazevas in the Jewish cemetery in Knyszyn,
the fourth-largest collection after Bialystok, Krynki and Sokolka):
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1807 - Gimpel Zew Mordechaj
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1811 - Rabbi Cwi Eliezer Litman
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1815 - Bejla, daughter of Iszaj Hakohen
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1819 - Cywia Zela, daughter of Rabbi Jehoszua
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1830 - Zew Wolf, son of Marie Kac
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1831 - Cwi Hirsz, son of Israel
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1831 - Arie Lew Wolf Kac
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1839 - Tomb of Leja Rozenberg, daughter of
Mordechaj
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1863 - Icchok, son of Gaon Jezekiel Haifec,
author of "New Roads"
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1863 - Etel, daughter of Sachar Goniadski
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1866 - Abraham, son of Szlomo Ajzyk Trekenberg
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1880 - Sarah, daughter of Icchok Goniadski
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1882 - Menachem Mendel, son of Jakub Suraski
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1887 - Rabin Sincha, son of Rabbi Abraham
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1895 - Naftali Herc Hakohen Szlomo
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1911 - Mejer Aronson, son of Jakow Bursztyn
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1913 - Kol Bochin, son of Arie
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1916 - Jezekiel David Kanacinski (or "Karacianski")
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1922 - Jezekiel David Brajser Kanacinski
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1924 - Golda, daughter of Saul Kaplan
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1925 - Rabin Arje, son of Efroim Wajnsztajn
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1927 - Sijon Icchok Cwi Zuskowicz
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1928 - Szlomo Mordechaj, son of Zwi Hacochen
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1928 - Elijahu Arie, son of Icchok Ajzyk
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1928 - Ester Epsztejn
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1928 - Mariasza, daughter of Abram Badszymczuski
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1928 - Jakow Lopacinski
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1930 - Abraham Symcha Loszowski
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1930 - Szlomo Michal, son of David Sztejn
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1930 - Moshe Icchok, son of Giesel Orsikowski
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1931 - Fejga Zapasner, daughter of Kopel
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1931 - Hilel, son of Szewach Pitkowski
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1931 - Henia Chenia Leja, wife of famous Rabbi
Tanchum Grynszpan, daughter of Rabbi Beniamin Kleinerman
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1932 - Mejer, son of Abraham Grynszpan
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1932 - Chana, daughter of Jekutiel Hkohen
Szpitalnik
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No date - Sara Pesze, daughter of Aaron Icchok
Orlanski
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1935 - Aron, son of Mordechaj Jasionowski
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1936 - Jehudit Krywlanski, daughter of Josef
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1936 - Lipa, son of Symcha Slodownik
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1936 - Rachel, daughter of Szmuel, wife of
David Icchok Kulik
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1937 - Jehoszua, son of Arie Lipszyc
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No date - Leja, wife of Rabbi Cohen Oszenbach
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No date - Arie (?) Rozenblum
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No date - Rabbi Zew Wolf, son of Cwi Karp
Karf
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1941 - (Tomb erected in 1970) - Sim Brzezinski,
Malka Czeslar, Perla Brzezinska
Gravestone in Old Knyszyn Cemetery bearing the name of Cywan
(Photo from the collection of Tomasz Wisniewski, Bialystok, Poland)
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