Welcome to Lipany, Slovakia!

~ Héthárs, Hungary ~

(also known as ~ Siebenlinden, Lipjany, Lipiany, Septem Tiliis)

 

(Latitude 49°09´, Longitude 20°58´)

188.7 miles ENE of Bratislava

 

The "entire" Jewish cemetery has been photographed!!

~ Click Here ~

 

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 “Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names”(Yad Vashem)

 

 

This database went online on Nov. 22, 2004 and sadly there are over 1000 names.  The Lipany list below shows the first 1000 of Holocaust victims associated with Lipany  (some names may be repeated)

 

~ Click Here for Lipany  Names ~

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Maps ~

 

 

Radix - 1882 Gazetteer of Hungary
Based mainly on the national census of 1880, a new gazetteer of Hungary came out in 1882.
[English translation of bibliographical data: Gazetteer of the countries of the Hungarian Crown / under the auspices of the Hungarian National Royal Statistical Office ed. by Mihály Kollerffy, József Jekelfalussy. - Budapest : Athenaeum, 1882. - 142, [2] p., 1292 col., xxx p., [1] t.]


Sáros megye (County)
Felső-tárcai járás (District)
Székhely (Seat): Kis-Szeben
Bajorvágás, Balázsvágás, Berzevice, Bodónlaka, Csipkés, Csircs, Daróc, Décső, Dobó, Feketekút, Gromos, Hajtufka, Hamborg, Harcsár-Lucska, Héthárs, Hönigh, Magyar-Jakabfalu, Jakoris, Jesztreb, Kijó, Kriván, Lagnó, Litinye, Kis-Lipnik, Lubotin, Matiszova, Ardó-Nyárs, Obrucsnó, Olejnok, Orkuta, Olysó, Orló, Palacha és Gyurkó, Péchujfalu, Plavnica, Polom, Pusztamező, Rencsisó, Roskovány, Schönviz, Som, Stelbach, Alsó-Szalok, Sztarina, Sáros-Szulin, Tárca, Tárkeő, Toltsemes, Ujak, Ujszfalu, Usz-Peklén, Usz-Salgó, Viszoka, Jakab-Volya, Orosz-Volya, Vörösalma

 

 

Town History ~

 

LIPIANY (Hung.Héthárs) Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, today Republic of Slovakia.  Jews probably arrived in the early 18th century.  In 1848, they numbered about 130 and in 1859 they erected a wooden synagogue.  In the early 20th century, a beit midrash with a talmud torah was opened and a yeshiva operated intermittently as the Jewish population maintained a level of about 300 (20% of the total) until WWII.  Hermann Kopp initiated Zionist activity in 1900 and was one of the founders of Mizrachi.  Zionist activity expanded after WWI, with WIZO, Hashomer Hatzair, and Betar all active.  A new synagogue was consecrated in 1929.  Jews owned 38 commercial establishments, a sawmill, distillery, and dairy.  In 1941, the Slovakian authorities closed down Jewish-owned businesses and seized their owners for forced labor.  About 55 young Jewish men and women were deported to Majdanek and Auschwitz, respectively, in late March 1942.  About 300 Jews from L. and its environs were deported to the Rejowiec ghetto in the Lublin district of Poland on 22 May.

 

Source:  The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust Shmuel Spector (editor) & Geoffrey Wigoder (Consulting Editor), Yad Vashem, Jerusalem [2001] 0-8147-9356-8

 

Lipany

Jews first arrived in Lipany in the early 18th century. By 1848, 130 Jews lived in the town and, in 1859, the community built its first synagogue. In the early 20th century, a Beit Midrash and a Talmud Torah were established. After World War I, Zionist activities and organizations began to thrive in the town. In 1929, a new, larger synagogue was consecrated. In March,1942, nearly 400 Jews from Lipany were transported to various Polish ghettos and concentration camps. There exists a cemetery from the 19th-20th century, incorporating 100-500 tombstones.

Source: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/slovakia.htm

Lipany is located northwest of Sabinov.  The first mention of this little town situated in the Saris valley at the confluence of Lipany Brook and the Torysa River occurred in 1312. Germans settled in the area at the end of the 13th Century. At the beginning of the 15th Century, Lipany was considered a servitude village(oppidum) belonging to the gentry - Kamenica.

 

Today, Lipany is in the kraj (administrative region) of Preshovský(Presov) and the okre (zone/district) of Sabinov.

In 2002, Lipany had a population of 6,100.

 

 

Town Name ~

 

The settlement was called Seven Linden Trees (Septem Tiliis) in the oldest document (1312). Its coat of arms reflect this.

 

 

Photos ~

 

 

Synagogue ~

 

Synagoga v Lipanoch

Source: Bárkány-Dojc, Zidovské nábozenské obce na Slovensku [The Jewish Religious
Communities in Slovakia] (Bratislava 1991) page 348

 

Holocaust Database ~

 

JewishGen's Holocaust Database is a collection of databases containing information about Holocaust victims and survivors.  It contains more than two million entries, from more than 150 component datasets and includes information from Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  It is a work in progress with additional lists being added, as the data is transcribed. The people listed below resided in Héthárs/Lipany at some point.  Not all people in this database perished in the Holocaust, and additional information appears for each individual on the database itself. 

 

To search this database by name and/or town, go to: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust . More details about the people listed below can be located by doing this. If you want to find out more about the records themselves and what they contain, click on the link provided next to each name listed below.

 

DOUBRAVA, Anton - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

GOLDBERGER, Lenke - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

MOSKOVITSOVA, Marie – Czech Women in Hospitals

STEINMETZ, Nudi - Pinkas HaNitzolim I - Register of Jewish Survivors

 

Those who perished at Auschwitz

Mosaisch = Jewish

Katholisch = Catholic

wyznanie: = religion

miejsce urodzenia = Place of Birth

miejsce zamieszkania = Place of Residence

 

 

 

1.       Baumöhl, Moritz
(1895-06-16 ÷ 1943-01-14)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Preśov, wyznanie: mosaisch

2.       Groszwirth, Moric
(1896-09-24 ÷ 1942-08-12)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Preśov, wyznanie: mosaisch

3.       Mandl, Alexander
(1916-09-09 ÷ 1943-03-22)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Prag XI, wyznanie: mosaisch

4.       Mandl, Artur
(1924-01-09 ÷ 1942-07-04)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Poprad, wyznanie: mosaisch

5.       Neid, Jakob
(1897-08-26 ÷ 1942-05-30)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Sarisske Suky, wyznanie: mosaisch

6.       Peterfreund, Artur
(1922-05-24 ÷ 1942-05-29)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Lipiany, wyznanie: mosaisch

7.       Peterfreund, Heinrich
(1915-01-02 ÷ 1942-06-28)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Lipiany, wyznanie: mosaisch

8.       Rosenberg, Moritz
(1893-11-13 ÷ 1942-09-09)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Preßburg, wyznanie: mosaisch

9.       Roth, Samuel
(1914-09-27 ÷ 1942-06-08)
miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Kalsa, wyznanie: mosaisch

  1. Stark, Blanka
    (1920-12-28 ÷ 1942-09-20)
    miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Lipiany, wyznanie: mosaisch
  2. Vogel, Helene
    (1920-11-12 ÷ 1942-09-27)
    miejsce urodzenia: Lipiany, miejsce zamieszkania: Lipiany, wyznanie: mosaisch
  3.  Zieba, Feliks
    (1903-08-05 ÷ 1943-10-07)
    miejsce urodzenia: Lipianka, miejsce zamieszkania: Lipianka, wyznanie: katholisch

 

Cemetery ~

 

     Nahrobne kamene v Lipanoch

LIPANY: (Lipjany) US Commission No. SLCE000048
Lipany is located NW of Presov. The cemetery is about 2 km into the forest, with traces of a stone wall, but no tombstones. They were used to construct a RR line. The flat urban isolated location has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all via a broken masonry wall without gate. 100-500 19th-20th century marble and sandstone flat shaped tombstones and flat stones with carved relief decoration with Hebrew and German inscriptions are in original locations. The property is used for a garden. Adjacent properties are residential. Occasionally, private visitors stop. Vegetation was cleared. Now, individuals clean or clean occasionally. Security, vandalism and weather are minor threats.

 

 The "entire" cemetery has been photographed!! - Click Here!

(All 145 gravestones are online!)

 

 

To see more panoramic views of the cemetery – Click here!

Documents/ Databases  ~

“The 1828 Hungarian Property Tax Census Database”

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“1869 Saros Census” – Jewish Records are on microfilm and can be ordered from the Mormon Family History Center.

Lipany- Héthárs is located with several other towns on FHC microfilm roll # 2150626 Item #1

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“Metrical Records – 1844-1941” Zidovská obec Sabinov (Sabinov)

Jewish congregational records of births, marriages and deaths for Sabinov, Slovakia; formerly Kis-Szeben, Sáros, Hungary. Text in Hungarian, and Slovak.-  Státny Oblastný Archív v Presove, zv. 1054-1068.

VAULT INTL Film - FHC microfilm roll # 1793677

(I viewed this microfilm at the LDS Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.  This roll of microfilm provides a treasure trove of information.  Records for Héthárs are located throughout it.  So, be prepared to sit awhile.J)

 

 

Ellis Island: Immigrants from Héthárs, Hungary/Lipany, Slovakia (1892-1924)

 

(List of Jewish immigrants has been deleted due to copyright restrictions of the Ellis Island Foundation.)

 

Surnames include:  Friedmann, Gottlieb, Herbach, Krischer, Linker, Moskovic, Reibscheid, Rosenberg, Schmidthammer, Vogel, and Wald

 

(to locate someone go to the Steve Morse Website at: http://stevemorse.org/)

 

Be aware that the town name may appear as: Héthárs, Lipany, Lipiany, Lipjany, Hetasz, Hethais, Kethars, and/or Hetharz

 

(Some of the above spelling variations are due to transcription errors.)

 

 

 

“Héthárs /Lipany Family Trees”

(to add your family information contact webmaster)

 

Herbach/Birnbaum(Birenbaum) Family Genealogy

 

 

Aron Herbach (son of Abraham Eliezer and Bascha Herbach) and Dina Beshel Schneier Birnbaum (daughter of Abraham Schneier and Liebe Chana Birenbaum) both came from Nowy Sacz, Poland.  They were married in Héthárs, Hungary, on June 3, 1883, and began their family.   They were not the only Birnbaum/Herbachs drawn to this town, so it appears that the midwife’s income was assured for many years to come.

 

 

Aron and Dena’s 12 children were: (in birth order) Morris "Mozes, Sam "Zalmon" (my grandfather), Max "Mano", Sarah, Regina (Rivka) "Rebeka", Fani, Abe "Adolf", Louis "Naczi", Lillian, Seymour "Zsiga", Joseph “Jozsef", and Jack "Jakab". The children began leaving for New York one at a time beginning in 1901 with my grandfather and by the summer of 1920 the entire clan had finally arrived.  On that last trip, Aron and Dina brought their youngest 3 sons; Regina (a niece);  her husband, Herman Werner; and their 9 month old son, Julin.

 

There were many Herbachs & Birnbaums born in Héthárs, but I am unable to determine many of their relationships to my family.

Contact me at: seraph@dc.rr.com

 

Researching the following surnames: HERBACH /BIRNBAUM / BIRENBAUM/SCHNEIER from Héthárs, Hungary now Lipany, Slovakia & Nowy Sacz, Poland - RAFF / SICHERMAN / FISH/FISCH / MEISNER/ KATZ / GRUNSPANN/GREENSPAN / EICHNER / ZWICK / HILLER from Zmigród Nowy / Bukowsko / Dukla / Dynow / Korczyna, Poland  - LAWNER/LAUNER/KORNFELD/WEITMAN?/GERMAN?/JURMAN? from Ukraine

 

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                                                                   Compiled by Deborah Raff
Lovingly Updated 06 February 2010
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