(Submitted by the Glick Family)

Israel-Leib (Arie) Friedman was born around 1840 to Yosef-Ayzik and Devorah Friedman. He married Shayne-Chana Bublacki (born around 1840). They lived in Wola and had four sons and two daughters: Ayzik-Yosef, Nachum (Nathan), Chaykel, Aaron, Libby, and Sarah-Leah. Israel-Leib died in Wola around 1914. Shayne-Chana (Bublacki) Friedman came to Jerusalem, Eretz Israel, in order to be buried there. She lived in Jerusalem for about seven years. She died on 26 Shvat, 1932, and is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

The Children of Israel-Leib and Shayne-Chana Friedman
1. Aizik Friedman (b. around 1866), married Ziporah Cherniawski. They lived in Wola and had six sons: Alter, Jacob, Sheime, Avrum, Shimon, and Moshe; and two daughters: Biela and Fruma. Aizik was active in the Haskalah — the Jewish Enlightenment — a movement in Jewish education to teach general subjects like math and science as well as Judaic subjects. Evidently, he was an important force in one of the schools in Lunna. When he left for Eretz Israel, the whole town sent him off. Aizik and Ziporah Friedman were among the first Jews who left Lunna-Wola and made Aliya to Eretz Israel in 1925. They came to Eretz Israel with their children Avrum, Shimon, Fruma, and Moshe. Aizik first settled in Jedda (now Ramat Ishay) in the Jezrael Valley and then moved to Bnei Brak.
Moshe Friedman married Shulamit, daughter of Kadish Friedman from Lunna. They lived in Israel and have family there and in the United States. Fruma (Friedman) married Pinchas Weinberg. They lived in Israel and have family there. Avrum Friedman married Nechama Blowstein from Lvov. They stayed in Eretz Israel for several years and in 1929 they left for Russia; they had family there. Shimon Friedman remained in Eretz Israel until 1939 and he then left for America. Shimon married Flora Friedman from Scotland. Their families live in the United States.
Jacob Friedman left Lunna-Wola in 1907 and settled in the States. He married Rachel Berachowitz from Skidel.
Sheime left Lunna in 1908 for America. He married Anna Steinberg. Their family resides in the States.
Biela (Bertha) left Lunna in 1924 for the U.S. and was known as Biela Lercher. Her family lives there.
Alter was the elder son of Aizik. He married Chana Ethel Greenberg from a town in Lithuania. They lived in Lithuania. They had three children: Zalman, Miriam, and Herschel. In 1938, Zalman immigrated to the United States and has family there. His parents and his brothers perished in the Holocaust in 1941.

2. Nachum Friedman married Jennie Weiss. They left Wola in 1902 and settled in California. He had two daughters, Fanny Wapner and Mary Greenberg. They, too, have families in the U.S.

3. Chaykel Friedman married Chana Efron. They lived in Lunna before the Second World War. When the Germans declared Wola to be the ghetto for Lunna and Wola Jews (in September 1941), the Germans forced several Jews to set all the Torah scrolls from the Lunna and Wola synagogues on fire. Chaykel Friedman hid one Torah scroll and later, on November 2, 1942, he secretly brought it from Lunna to the Kelbasin transition camp. Chaykel and Chana Friedman perished in the Holocaust. They had four sons: Michael, Avraham, Mordechai, Israel; and a daughter, Chaya.
Michael Friedman came to Eretz Israel in the 1930s. He was active in the building of Eretz Israel. He married Miriam Bronstien. They have family in Israel and in America.
Chaya (Friedman) went to San-Paulo, Brazil; she had a family there.
Avraham and Mordechai Friedman perished in the Holocaust. The fate of the Chaykel's son, Israel Friedman, is unknown.

4. Aaron Friedman was born in Wola. Aaron married Golda, who was born in Grodno to Yehuda-Leib and Ester Klebansky. Before her wedding, Golda prepared a Challah cover for Shabbat with an embroidered monogram G K [Golda Klebansky]. After the wedding, Israel-Arie Friedman and his wife Shayne-Chana (Aaron's parents) gave the book טהרת ישראל (Jewish Family Purity) by Rabbi Israel Meir Ha'Cohen from Radin, known as the Ha'Chafetz Chaim, as a present to their daughter-in-law, Golda (Klebanski) Friedman.

Aaron and Golda Friedman lived in Wola and had a daughter Libe and a son Israel. They were friendly, "heimish" and educated. Aaron had a special sense of humor. They were religious and Zionists, and had a dream to make Aliya to Eretz Israel. In Lunna, their daughter Libe Friedman was a teacher of Hebrew and Torah; her hobby was embroidery. In 1936 Libe left Wola and made Aliya to Eretz Israel. Before leaving Lunna she took with her a notebook with names and addresses of persons from Lunna who were already living in Eretz Israel; among other names in the notebook was that of Sonya Rochkin from Lunna, who sent a pillow to her sister Yehudit Rochkin who resided in Tel Aviv. The last letter from Aaron Friedman to his daughter Libe was sent from the Ghetto in Wola in June 1942. Libe Friedman married Moshe Glick. He came from Vien in 1938 with a certificate of a student and studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Libe was known as Ahuva Glick. They have a family in Israel.
Aaron and Golda Friedman perished in the Holocaust. The fate of their son Israel Friedman is unknown.

Selected pictures from the collection of Libe Friedman-Ahuva Glick are shown below. Other photographs and documents of the family are posted on various pages of this website.

5. Libby (Friedman) Ratner. She lived in Lunna and had two sons: Shlomo and Shmuel. Shlomo married Sarah Rudy. They had three children: Moshe, Lilly, and another son. They lived in Stancia Mosty. They owned a motel by the railroad station there. They all perished in the Holocaust.
Shmuel Ratner married Dina. They had three children: Libby, Mina, and another child. They lived in Stansia Mosty. They all perished in the Holocaust.

6. Sarah-Leah (Friedman) Muler (b. 1883), married Shlomo Muler and in 1934 they moved to the United States. More information about the branch of this family is posted at the Muler & Remen page.

From the Collection of Fruma (Friedman) Weinberg (Aizik Friedman's daughter)

From the Collection of Libe Friedman-Ahuva Glick (Aaron Friedman's daughter)

The Family of Kadish Friedman

Kadish son of Eliezer-Aizik Friedman married Miriam Mazur. They resided in Lunna and had five children, born in Lunna: Shulamit, Shneor-Zalman (b. 1914), Alter, Leah, and Sarah. Shulamit (Friedman) came to Eretz Israel in 1936 and married Moshe, son of Aizik Friedman from Wola (see above for more information about Aizik, son of Israel-Leib Friedman). Alter and his sister Sarah also made Aliya to Eretz Israel before the Second World War. Sarah (Friedman) married a person named Krasik; they have family in Israel. Leah (Friedman) married Chaim; they resided in Amdor before World War II. Leah, her brother Shneor-Zalman, and their families remained in Poland and perished in the Holocaust.

From the Collection of Shulamit Friedman (Kadish's daughter)
(submitted by Noa Adato (Shulamit's daughter))

The Family of Yosef-Leib Friedman

(submitted by Marcia Rabb (Lottie's granddaughter))

Zlate Friedman was born in Lunna on August 10, 1893 to her parents Yosef-Leib Friedman and Chaya-Devorah née Bund. Yosef-Leib was born in Lunna ca. 1868 and died in approximately 1914; Chaya-Devorah was born in Amdur in 1872. Zlate’s siblings were born in Lunna and were named Nachman-Aaron, Yaakov, Chaim, Israel, and Mollie (Malka). Zlate-Lottie came to the United States thorough Ellis Island on July 3, 1914, and was married in the States to her first cousin Isidore Bund, from Amdur. Her sister Mollie also came to America, on January 13, 1923. Lottie and Mollie had families in the States. The other siblings remained in Lunna; their fate is unknown. However, it's most likely that they perished in the Holocaust with all other Jews of Lunna. The list of victims from Auschwitz (available at Yad Vashem's website) includes the name of Motel Friedman, born in Lunna in 1919 to Chaim and Chaya (previously Yedwab) Friedman. Motel perished in 1943 in Auschwitz. It could be that Motel is Zlate's nephew.

Zlate Friedman had a relative in Lunna (her husband's brother who was also her cousin) named Israel Bund (b. ca. 1903). Israel Bund resided in Lunna during the 1930s with his wife Taibe and daughters Chaya Devorah and Leah Mina. Israel was a member of Gmilut Chesed Fund (GMACH) which was established in 1928 and provided free-interest loans to the underprivileged.

From the Collection of Zlate Friedman-Lottie Bund

Notes
1. It is yet unknown whether Yosef-Leib Friedman was related to the other two branches of the Friedman families who resided in Lunna and Wola. It could be that Yosef-Leib Friedman was related to Kadish, son of Eliezer-Aizik Friedman from Lunna. However, currently no proof is available.

2. Marcia Rabb writes about the connection of her family to the Marczinowski family from Lunna:
Chaya-Devorah (Bund) Friedman had a sister Miriam (Bund) who married Michael Marczinowski from Lunna. They had four children. Miriam (Mary) came to the United States in the 1920's. Two of her children also came to the Sttes. Mier (became Meyer Meyerson) and Zlata-Laya (Lillian Goldman) raised their families in America. I think Miriam was a widow when she arrived in America. She died in New York City in 1953.

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