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Compiled by Joy Kestenbaum
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Last updated August 2020

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Joy Kestenbaum
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Narewka

Family Pictures
Reconstructing Jewish Life in Narewka

(Click on photographs and/or text for larger images or additional pages.)

If you have any photographs, documents or stories that you would like to share, please feel free to contact me. I have been researching Narewka's Jewish families and am always pleased to receive photographs, whether taken there or elsewhere in Poland before World War II or from around the world in places to where many from Narewka immigrated. I inherited family photographs (and heard stories) and have obtained additional ones from cousins and from many others descended from natives of Narewka. Sometimes I have sought out descendants and other times people have found me from this website. Some people - or I - have even been able to recognize family members or family names in these photographs and we have even been able to link up long lost relatives. My goal is to connect families, identify those who were killed in the Shoah, as well as others, reconstruct Jewish life in Narewka, and commemorate its small, but vibrant Jewish community.
The majority of these photographs were taken between the wars, before World War II, but there are several which predate World War I, as well as two passport or identification papers and photographs when Narewka was under German occupation during the First World War.

Do you recognize anyone? We are trying to identify those who have not yet been. See below for some success stories.
This collection has been compiled, organized, and edited by Joy Kestenbaum, creator and coordinator of the Narewka JewishGen KehilaLinks, who has also researched and scanned the photographs that were not already in digital form.   The donors and/or owners of the photographs are noted below. The photographs and documents on this page and on the Narewka JewishGen KehilaLinks (formerly ShtetLinks) webpages may not be copied or used in any form without permission of the KehilaLinks coordinator and contributor, owner and/or copyright holder of the image. They are the property of the person or the institution that has given permission for their publication exclusively on this website.
Asher Bischoff Caplan Barucha Bartnowsky
Grave at
                            Narewka Cemetery
Asher Bishka (Bischoff) Kaplański
Barucha (Broche)
Bartnowsky

Lilly, Reina & Bella
at grave of
Chaim Krugman
1924
Courtesy of Jacque Caplan

Relationship: husband's great-grandfather
Courtesy of David Barton

Relationship: great-grandmother
Courtesy of David Feldman

Relationship: great-aunt (Reina)
with daughters
Moshe Shapiro


1925 Visit to
                            Narewka
Bella Shapiro
Moshe Shapiro
Moshe and Bella Shapiro with
daughter Fanny and
granddaughters Alice and Selma

1925
Bella Shapiro
Courtesy of Barry Traub

Relationship: great-grandfather
Courtesy of Barry Traub

Relationship: great-grandparents,
grandmother, mother and aunt

Courtesy of Barry Traub

Relationship: great-grandmother
Avraham Linevsky
Basia Linevsky Baila Szapiro
Avraham Linevsky
photo late 1920s-1930s
Basia Linevsky nee Goldfarb
b: circa 1857
photo late 1920s-1930s

Baila Shapiro
daughter of Shlomo
c1933 (d. 1936)
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Relationship: great-grandfather
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Relationship: great-grandmother
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: gramdmother

Wedding in
                            Narewka
Ziants Family in Narewka
Passport Photo
Fruma (Linevsky) Effron and daughter
(Shaindel) Sylvia (Effron) Dashefsky
c1920
Dovid Linevsky - Tillie Ain
Wedding in Narewka
with family
1918
Mordechai (Marks) & Alka (Alice)
Ziants & Family
including baby Moshe (Morry)
c1909
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Relationship: grandmother & mother
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Relationship: great-uncle with mother,
grandmother, and great-grandparents
Courtesy of David Ziants

Relationship: grandfather (baby),
great-grandparents & great-aunts

Basia and
                            Effron
Itzak and
                            Fruma
Masha Slominsly
Basia (Goldfarb) and Avraham Linevsky
Itzak and Fruma (Linevsky)
Effron Wedding Photo
April 1913
 Masha Jane Slonimsky
Sepulchral photograph
Narevker UV,
Mount Hebron Cemetery, NY
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Relationship: great-grandparents
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Relationship: grandmother & mother
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

photographer

Rywka Grajewska
                            and children Woman and Children
Child and carriage
Rebettzin Rywka (Gelgor)
Grajewska and children:
Pinchas, Feigele, Liebenke
Unidentified: resembles
Rywka Grajewska, rabbi's wife,
with two of her children
(Identified by Joy Kestenbaum)
Child in Narewka
Courtesy of www.radzilow.com Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: family friends and neighbors
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: child of family friends
Beyla Shapiro with Sons Hershel and
                            Shlomo
Esther with parents Freida &
                            Nachman Wasilkowski
Pua Shendrowski
                            nee Wasilkowski
Bella Shapiro with sons
Hershel and Shlomo

c1933
Esther with parents
Freida (nee Milishkovski) and
Nachman Wasilkowski - c1929
Pua Shendrovski
nee Wasilkowski
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: uncle, grandmother and father
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: grandmother, mother
and grandfather
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: aunt


Members of HeChalutz HaTzair in
                              Narewka celebratng the aliyah of Shmuel
                              Smargon.
Bella
                            and Sol Shapiro at the gravestone of Moshe
                            Shapiro
Bella and Hershel Shapiro
at gravestone of Moshe Shapiro
Members of HeChalutz HaTzair
in Narewka celebrating aliya
of Shmuel Smargon -  25/02/1928
Bella and Sol (Shlomo) Shapiro
at gravestone of Moshe Shapiro
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: grandmother and uncle
at gravestone of grandfather
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: grandmother and father
at gravestone of grandfather


Playing on Field
Swimming in River
Rowing on River
Playing on Field near River
with Shlomo Shapiro & friends
Swimming in Narewka River
with Esther and friends
Boating on Narewka River with
Lea Cohn and Sonia Kovenski,
nee Kaplańska
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: father & friends
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: mother & friends
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: family friends


Group
                            with Bike
Dovid and Chana
Chana bat
                            Zev
Shlomo Shapiro with
Nieces Dorothy and Shifre
& Friends in Narewka

1932
Chana & Dovid
Nimerzanski
Chana with gravestone of
David ben Moshe Dov
Halevi Nimerzanski
1919
Courtesy of Barbara Kotin

Relationship: father, family & friends
Courtesy of David Rosen

Relationship: grandparents
Courtesy of David Rosen

Relationship: grandmother
Verso Szepsel & Family
Meshel
                          Fridman and wifeVerso
Dora (Frydman)
Fishtenberg
Chaya & Shepsel Frydman with
Son & Daughters - Freidke (Frydman)
Polojko (top rt.)
Meshel Frydman & wife
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-aunt
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-grandparents,

great-aunts & great-uncle
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-uncle & wife
Blumke, Fania and Sara Polojko
Meshel
                          Frydman & wifeVerso of
                          photograph
Meshel & Alter at gravestone
of their father Shepsel Frydman
Blumke & Sara Polojko
Fania Polojko Dolinski
daughters of Freidke Frydman &
Hirsch Polojko - c1930

Meshel Frydman & wife
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-uncles and
great-grandfather
Courtesy of Joy Kestnbaum

Relationship: first cousins once removed

Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-uncle & wife
Szepsel Meshel
Meshel Frydman
Szepsel Meshel Frydman
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-uncle
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: mother's cousin?
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: great-uncle
Fajge
                            Nimerzanski

Yetta MarrusElias Marrus
Fajge (Kusawicki) Niemirzanski
wife of David Niemirzanski
Blumke and Sara Polojko and friend
daughters of Freidke Frydman &
Hirsch Polojko - c1930

Yetta and Elias Marrus
(Schostakowsky)
Courtesy of Tsipi Nimrod

Relationship: grandmother
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: first cousins once removed
Courtesy of David Marrus

Relationship: grand-parents

Edelman Family Portrait

Photo of Tuva Ajzentejn

Benjamin Rubenstein and friend
Edelman Family Portrait
J. Rendel Photography, Bialystok, c1929
Tuvia? Ajzenstejn
12 November 1931
Benjamin Rubinstein (seated) with friend
before World War I
Courtesy of Tamara Edell Gottstein

Relationship: great-grandmother's siblings and
other family members
Courtesy of Barry Cohen

Relationship: Friend of
uncle Frank (Ephraim) Rubinstein
Courtesy of Barry Cohen

Relationship: grandfather
Chaya and Chaim
                            Nachtigal


Detail of Wedding Photograph

Sheine-Chaya and
Chaim Nachtigal
Sally (Shyfra) & Pearl
(nee Rubinstein)
Detail of Wedding Photo
Benjamin Rubinstein
Photo from
1917 Passport/ID Papers
Courtesy of Chaya Pressburger

Relationship: grandparents
Courtesy of Batya Dashefsky

Identified by Phillip Schreibman
Relationship: his mother & aunt
Courtesy of Phillip Schreibman

Relationship: grandfather
Szepsel

Shyfra & Rywka
Yossel and Sarah
(Waran) Levitsky
Szepsel Frydman
1933
Shyfra & Rwyka
Rubinstein & others

Courtesy of Martin Jacobs


Relationship:  great-grandparents
Courtesy of Phillip Schreibman
(and copy courtesy Joy Kestenbaum)

Relationship: mother's friend
(Relationship: mother's cousin)
Courtesy of Phillip Schreibman

Relatioship: mother,
grandmother& others

Mottel
                            Dolinski Golde
                            Dolinski
Fania Polojko Dolinski and
Jacopo and Mordechai
(Mottel)  Dolinski
Argentina c1956
Mordecai (Mottel) Dolinski
Golde (Kooperwas)
Dolinski - Photo
from Passport/ID Papers

Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

Relationship: mother's cousin,
her husband and father-in-law
Courtesy of Donna Dubinsky

Relationship: great-grandfather
Courtesy of Donna Dubinsky

Relationship: great-grandmother

Fajge and David
                            Niemirzanski
Moshe
                            Birenbaum
Hyman Barton
Fajge (Kusawicki) and
David Niemirzanski
Moshe Birenbaum
1918-2011
Chaim Bartnowsky
(Hyman Barton)
Courtesy of Tsipi Nimrod

Relationship: grandparents
Courtesy of Israel Birenbaum

Relationship: father
Courtesy of David Barton

Relationship: grandfather
Avrom Borovsky
Hyman Auerbach
Abraham Schub
Avrom Borovsky
(Abraham Burrows)
Hyman Auerbach
Sepulchral photograph
Narevker UV,
Mount Hebron Cemetery, NY
Abraham Schub
Sepulchral photograph
Narevker UV,
Mount Hebron Cemetery, NY
Courtesy of www.sidsalinger.com Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

photographer
Courtesy of Joy Kestenbaum

photographer
A
                            Family Photo


Couple

Hirsh Rubin,
Grandmother Ejdel and
two brothers
Unidentified woman with
Szepsel Polojko
Joseph Meyer Rosen
(Nimerozanski)
c1913 - Boston
Courtesy of Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem Photo Archive
Courtesy of Rachel Hinterstein

Relationship: uncle & unidentified woman
Courtesy of David Rosen

Relationship: father
Polojko
                            Brothers
Woman on
                            Stairs
Skiing
Szmuel & Szepsel Polojko
Women on Staircase
Szmuel Polojko with
unidentified woman
Courtesy of Rachel Hinterstein

Relationship: uncles
Courtesy of Rachel Hinterstein

Relationship: mother
with aunts? and friends
Courtesy of Rachel Hinterstein

Relationship: uncle &
unidentified woman


School Photo
Rose Mikalofsky Shapiro with Mandel


Members of Lejzon
                            Family
Copy of photograph  - Narewka
School with principal in center
Rose Shapiro with
third husband Jacob Mandel
New York
Hershel, Hannah (nee Golner), David,
Aviva (Pesha), and Bezalel Lejzon
Courtesy of Israel Birenbaum

Relationship: copy made when
visiting Narewka with his father in 2001
Courtesy of Mark M. Light

Relationship: grandmother and
step-grandfather?
From Elinor J. Brecher's
Schindler's Legacy; True Stories of the
List Survivors
, Dutton, 1994.
Ephraim
                            Kagan
Aunt
                            Jablanovich

Uncle
                            Jablanovich
Ephraim Kagan, son of Mordekhai
Woman nee Jablanovich/Jablonowicz
and man
- Narewka April 1937
Jablanovich/Jablonwicz man
with woman
- Narewka April 1937
Courtesy of Yad Vashem

from testimony submitted by by Yaakov Kagan,
Relationship: grandson

Courtesy of Rivka Witenberg

Relationship: aunt (father's
sister) with man (husband?)
Courtesy of Rivka Witenberg

Relationship: uncle (father's
brother) with woman (wife?)
Jablonowicz
                            in Polish Army
Wolf Jablanovich and Wolf Edelman Wolf Jablanovich and Nechama Hirshberg
                            Jablanovich
Jablanovich/Jablonowicz
in Polish Army

 Zeev Tapoohi (Wolf Jablanovich/
Jablonowicz) seated
Wolf Edelman standing

 Zeev (Wolf Jablanovich/Jablonowicz)
and Nechama (Hirshberg) Tapoohi

Courtesy of Rivka Witenberg

Relationship: uncle (father's oldest brother)
Courtesy of Rivka Witenberg

Relationship: father and his friend
Courtesy of Rivka Witenberg

Relationship: parents
Kaplanski
                            Family: Luba, Benny, Rachel and Anita
                            Kaplanski Kaplanski Family Yosef
                            Kaplanski
Luba, Benny, Rachel and
Anita Kaplański
Kaplański Family, clockwise:
Sonia, Yosef, Anita, Benny, Luba, Rachel
Yosef Kaplański
Courtesy of Shay Fogelman

Relationship: great-grandmother,
great-aunts, great-uncle

Courtesy of Shay Fogelman

Relationship: grandmother, great-grandparents,
great-aunts, great-uncle
Courtesy of Shay Fogelman

Relationship: great-grandfather
Group in Narewka in Winter
By
                            the Narewka River
Sonia Kovenski, nee Kaplańska,
(left) and others
By Narewka River with Lea Cohn
and Sonia Kovenski, nee Kaplańska
Sonia Kovenski, nee Kaplańska, (left)
and others
Courtesy of Shay Fogelman

Relationship: grandmother
and unidentified individuals
Courtesy of Shay Fogelman

Relationship: grandmother,
relatives and friends
Courtesy of Shay Fogelman

Relationship: grandmother,
and unidentified individuals
Rubin and
                            Rose Light
Rubin
                            Light and Max Shapiro
Chana Nimerzanski
Rubin & Rose Light
Brooklyn, NY
Rubin Light & Max Shapiro
New York
Chana Nimerzansky
Boston, MA; immigrated 1921; photo early 1940s
Courtesy of Mark M. Light

Relationship: grandfather and grandmother
Courtesy of Mark M. Light

Relationship: grandfathers (both from Narewka)
Courtesy of David Rosen

Relationship: grandmother
Isidor Gould Becki Rosansky Mayer Sam
                          Shatzkin
Isidor Gould
(Itchi Goldaski)
from 1936 Declaration of Intention
Hartford, CT
Becki Rosansky
from 1934 Declaration of Intention
Brooklyn, NY
Mayer Sam Shatzkin
from 1922 U.S. Passport Application
New York, NY
from NARA & Ancestry.com from NARA & Ancestry.com from NARA & Ancestry.com
Max Bagan
Ida Rachel
                            (Edelman) Bagan
Mayer Sam
                          Shatzkin
Max (Menachem Mendel)
Bagan
Chicago, IL
Ida (Chaya) Rachel (Edelman) Bagan
(1854-1922)
Sepulchral photograph
 Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
Mayer Sam Shatzkin
from 1919 U.S. Passport Application
 New York, NY
Courtesy of Stacey Levy

Relationship: great-grandfather
Courtesy of Stacey Levy
(& Illinois Jewish Genealogical Society)

Relationship: great-great grandmother
from NARA & Ancestry.com
Ike Edelman
Benjamin Bernard Reiskind
                          "Burrows"
Yaakov
                            (Jack) Reiskind
Ike Edelman
(1880 - San Francisco, 1957)
Benjamin Bernard Reiskind "Burrows"
(Narewka, 1887 - Minnesota, 1925)
Sepulchral photograph
 Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
Find A Grave
Yaakov "Jack" Reiskind
(Narewka, 1903 - Montreal, 1963)
1924
Courtesy of Tamara Edell Gottstein
photographer: Irma Rochlin

Relationship: great-great uncle
Courtesy of Zach Just


Relationship: great-great uncle
Courtesy of Zach Just


Relationship: great-great uncle
Feigel
                            Reiskind


Reiskind
                              Family

Sarah
                            Reiskind
Feigel Reiskind nee Wolańska
1922
Feigel Reiskind with sons Joseph and
Jankel (Jack) and daughters Chaya
and Reizel and their families,
J. Rendel Photography, Bialystok, 1931
Sarah Reiskind "Burrows" Juschinsky
(Narewka, 1890 - Chicago, 1963)
Courtesy of Zach Just

Relationship: great-great-grandmother
Courtesy of Zach Just

Relationship: great-great-grandmother
& great-great aunts and uncle and unidentified
Courtesy of Zach Just

Relationship: great-grandmother
Chaya Reiskind

Reisking Family Members


Leiba Reiskind
Chaya Kac nee Reiskind
Chaya (Reiskind) and son Zalman Kac
 Leiba and Reizel Reiskind
Leiba Reiskind
Courtesy of Zach Just

Relationship: great-great aunt
Courtesy of Zach Just

Relationship: great-great aunts
Courtesy of Zach Just

Relationship: great-great aunt
Sonia Epsztein

Mera &
                            Abram Isaac Epsztein

Sonia Epsztejn
from Polish Aliyah Passport
Mera (nee Linkowska) &
Abram Isaac Epsztejn
from Polish Aliyah Passport
Mera (nee Linkowska) &
Abram Isaac Epsztejn
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1944

Courtesy of Jewish
Historical Institute, Warsaw
Courtesy of  Jewish
Historical Institute, Warsaw
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives


Chaim Epsztejn
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1941
Chaim and Devora (Dory) Epstejn,
Israel
Devora (Dory) Epstejn nee Shapiro
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1941
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives
Courtesy of Ephraim Epstein

Relationship: parents
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives

Szmul Tokarski
Israel Epsztejn
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1941
Szmul Smargon
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1940
Szmul Tokarski
from Polish Aliyah Passport
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives
Courtesy of Jewish
Historical Institute, Warsaw
Yehudit Reuveni nee Wolański,
Chana Wolański
nee Schreibman and Josef Wolański
Bishke & Miriam Simberg
Polly (Peya) Pollock nee Simberg
Los Angeles
Courtesy of Yad Vashem
from testimony submitted by Khani Hadni Reuveni
Relationship: mother, grandmother and uncle
Courtesy of David Pollock

Relationship: great-grandparents
Courtesy of David Pollock

Relationship: grandmother

Rela
                          Wiengrowski
Leja Nejman-Kagan
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1941
Mera Drogoczynska
from Mandatory Palestine
Naturalization Application, 1942
Rella Wiengrowski
from 1931 Declaration of Intention
Chicago, IL
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives
Courtesy of MyHeritage.com
and Israel State Archives
from NARA & Ancestry.com
David Kaplan
formerly Kaplański
from 1936 Declaration of Intention
Brooklyn, NY
Rachel (Rochla) Cohen
nee Pryniewicka
from 1942 Declaration of Intention
Brooklyn, NY
Benjamin Birnbaum,
formerly Berel Birenbaum
from 1941 Declaration of Intention
Brooklyn, NY
from NARA & Ancestry.com from NARA Ancestry.com from MARA & Ancestry.com
Harry Altman at
                          4 years of age.
Harry Altman
                          at 14.
Harry Altman
Harry Altman
Harry Altman Harry Altman
Courtesy of Ken Altman

Relationship: father
Courtesy of Ken Altman

Relationship: father
Courtesy of Ken Altman

Relationship: father
Hyman Wolfson on return visit to
                            Poland
Malecki Famiy in Narewka
Hyman Wolfson in Alexandria
Hyman Wolfson (Chaim Malecki)
on return visit to Poland, 1930s
Osher Wolf and Esther Malecki Family with
daughters Olga, Edith and Thelma and
Abraham Nitzberg with Isadore, Dora, Max
Narewka, c1908/1909
Hyman Wolfson in front of
his store in Alexandria, Virginia
Courtesy of Lisa Copeland

Relationship: great-grandfather
Courtesy of Lisa Copeland

Relationship: great-great grandparents and family
Courtesy of Lisa Copeland

Relationship: great-grandfather
Hyman Wolfson and Family Abraham Wolfson and Wolfson Family in
                            Miami
Abraham and Oliver Wolfson
Hyman and Minnie Wolfson
and Family
Abraham, Oliver and Edward Wolfson
and Family, Miami Beach, 1941

Abraham and Oliver Wolfson
from 1924 U.S. Passport Application
New York, NY

Courtesy of Lisa Copeland

Relationship: great-grandfather and family
Courtesy of Lisa Copeland

Relationship: great-great uncle and
grandfather and family
from NARA & Ancestry.com