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Kolonja Izaaka
Colonist Families & Farms
Colonists
at Kolonja Izaaka, 1934. Photo from Salomon Salit, Kolonja Izaaka.
The original colonists of Kolonja Izaaka were poor Jews from
Odelsk and other nearby towns who responded
to the state's offer of land for farming. According to Pinkas
Hakehillot, the settlers in
1849 comprised 26 Jewish families, a number of whom nearly immediately
left the colony due to the poor farming conditions. Salomon Salit, in
his monograph, Kolonja
Izaaka: Wies Powiatu Sokolskiego (Warsaw 1934), identifies 15 Jewish families as
original settlers who established farms alongside 8
Christian families. The 1853 Revision List for Kolonja Izaaka,
transcribed in 2011, lists 28 Jewish households. The size of the
individual land grants varied, according to Salit, based on
the
number of sons each landholder had at the time of the land
distribution. Each unit, or ucząst
in Russian, represents 16.4 hectares or 40.53 acres of land.
Click Here
to read Salit's chapter
(in Englsh) detailing the ownership
of the farms from 1849 to 1934.
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Click Here
to download the full 1934 Salit book,
Kolonja Izaaka: Wies
Powiatu Sokolskiego
(in Polish) in PDF form (25.2 MB) |
Click Here
to read the 1853 Revision List
for Kolonja Izaaka, listing
the founding families. |
The table below charts Salit's account of the original ownership of
Kolonja Izaaka parcels in 1849 and their ownership in 1934. Click on
the left box above to see the full Salit chapter, detailing the passing
of the
parcels through the generations of each family.
Farm
Number
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Parcel Size
(1849)
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Original
Landholder (1849)
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Parcel Size
(1934)
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Current Parcel
Dispostion (1934) |
| Farm 9 |
1.5 ucz |
Abram Eksztejn |
0.75 ucz
0.25 ucz
0.50 ucz
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Owsiej Eksztejn
Israel Eksztejn
Ice-Ajzik's daughter(s?)
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| Farm 10 |
2.0 ucz |
Izrael Eksztejn |
0.25 ucz
0.25 ucz
0.50 ucz
1.00 ucz
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Rubin Eksztejn
Zochor Eksztejn
Abram Eksztejn
Sold Off |
| Farm 11 |
1.0 ucz |
Zelig Knyszewicki |
1.00 ucz
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Mosze Knyszewicki
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| Farm 12 |
1.0 ucz |
Lejzor Eksztejn |
0.50 ucz
0.50 ucz
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Szmuel-Jankiel Eksztejn
Chaim Eksztejn
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| Farm 13 |
1.0 ucz |
Josef Bialy |
1.00 ucz
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sold to Jan Stasiewicz
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| Farm 14 |
2.0 ucz |
Asz Family |
0.50 ucz
0.50 ucz
0.25 ucz
0.75 ucz
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Asz (not identified)
Asz (not identified)
Asz (not identified)
Sold Off
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| Farm 15 |
1.0 ucz |
Owsiej Goldszmit |
0.50 ucz
0.50 ucz
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Abel Goldszmit (leased
to Motel Goldszmit)
Sold to Wincenty Bakunowicz
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| Farm 16 |
1.5 ucz |
Abram Grudzki |
0.67 ucz
0.33 ucz
0.50 ucz
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Rachmijel Grudzki
Jankiel and Leyb Grudzki
Sold to Wincenty Bakunowicz
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| Farm 17 |
1.5 ucz |
Wulf Krinski |
1.00 ucz
0.50 ucz
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Szolem Krinski
Sold to Jan Kostecki
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| Farm 18 |
1.0 ucz |
Abel Tarlowski |
0.75 ucz
0.25 ucz
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Szloma Tarlowski
Alter Tarlowski
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| Farm 19 |
2.0 ucz |
Szmuel Treszczanski |
1.00 ucz
1.00 ucz
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Mojsze Treszczanski
Mojsze Epsztejn (Icchok's)
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| Farm 20 |
2.0 ucz |
Hilel Epsztejn |
1.00 ucz
0.50 ucz
0.50 ucz
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Mojsze Epsztejn (Icchok's)
Mojsze Epsztejn (Nachman's)
Sold off in bits
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| Farm 21 |
1.5 ucz |
Icko Suchenicki |
1.50 ucz
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Nochemje Suchenicki
(with his father, Jankiel?)
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| Farm 22 |
1.5 ucz |
Lejzor Lew |
1.50 ucz
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Sold to Witkowski
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| Farm 23 |
1.0 ucz |
Icchok Treszczanski |
0.50 ucz
0.50 ucz
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David Kapusta
Sora Kapusta
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New
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Zusman Jasienowski
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New
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Entel Sztejerman
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In 1934, at the time of Salomon Salit's study of Kolonja Izaaka, there
had been, as one can see above, very significant changes in land
ownership. Most of the parcels had
been subdivided. Some subdivisions had been sold - usually to family
members, sometimes to Christian neighbors. Two new farms had been
added. Presumably, the ownership of farms looked somewhat like this at
the time of the community's destruction in 1942.
Copyright © 2011 Irwin Keller
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