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The Migration of a Shtetl
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Wave 3 1920-1929 | Aliyah to the Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine | Stragglers 1930 and beyond
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Wave 3 1920–1929
WWI was a turbulent time for the residents of Mlynov and Mervits. Mervits was completely destroyed. Mlynov families were evacuated more than once. Many became refugees who couldn’t find places to live and some came home to find their homes destroyed. After WWI ended, Mlynov became part of the newly created Poland. Many of the residents of Mlynov and Mervits made their way back home and life there slowly resumed.
There was some initial optimism among Jews in the new Polish government, which had signed a Minorities Treaty guaranteeing rights for minority populations. But migration to the US began again fairly quickly. Wives who were separated from their husbands during the war, in some cases for up to nine years, set out to be reunited. Immigration papers for the first time show Mlynov immigrants as being from “Poland” rather than Russia.
Not all families were able to afford or obtain papers to go to the United States. In addition, immigration laws would tighten over the decade and quotas by geography and race would be set in place by 1924. Even early in the decade, we find Mlynov immigrants obfuscating their personal details, clearly indicating that they were doing everything they could to get around custom rules. The Immigration Act of 1924 imposed a national origins quota, making immigration more difficult from Eastern and Southern Europe. To get around these restrictions, a group of young men from Mlynov made their way to Buenos Aires and from there snuck into the US under assumed names and national identities. The children of at least one Mlynov family came in via Mexico as well. A few of those who came via South America fell in love, married and started families there.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record June 24, 1920 Kossack /Kozak Philalelphia via Vancouver / Seattle Jack Kossack with wife and daughter, lines 7-9 Jack Kossack (variation Kossick), was brother of Mlynov Shoah survivor, Icek Kozak. Jack arrived in the US and was in Philadelphia before WWI but fled to Canada, according to family oral traditions, to avoid the WWI draft. The record of his earlier arrival in the US has not been definitely located. However, a possible 1918 draft registration card shows a Jack Kossack from “Merwitz," age 25, single and a bricklayer, living in Philadelphia. Later naturalization records, however, list his birthplace as the nearby town of Dubno, which was a more familiar name and perhaps easier to use.
After leaving the US, immigration records show that that Jack headed first to Halifax in 1914 and made his way across Canada to Vancouver. He married Minnie Atkins in June 1918 in Vancouver and their first daughter Anna was born there. A record of alien passengers from April 24, 1920 shows the family entering the US via Vancouver. The record also indicates they had entered earlier in June 18, 1919. Scrawled above Jack and Minnie's names is "ver natz." [verified naturalization] and a date indicating that a later US official checked this record as they initiated their naturalization processes later. The record shows they were headed to Seattle to a cousin named Clara Wax.
For place of birth on the second page, Jack's is listed as "Valina," which could be an attempt at "Volhynia" or "Mlynov." Minnie's is listed as Vilna, and Anna's as Vancouver. A 1920 census record shows them living in Seattle. By 1928 and possibly earlier, the family is living in Philadelphia. See a summary of the Kossack / Kozak family migration.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record June 19, 1920 Demb, Lerner, Marder, Fishman Baltimore Three wives and children plus a teenager, lines 18-30 (2 page) | alien detention record of Rose Lerner and children, line 31 Itsig Lerner and new wife as US Citizens (2 pages) Three Mlynov families (Demb, Marder, Lerner ) and a young man (Ben Fishman) made their way in June 1920 to England probably leaving from the ports of Bremen or Rotterdam. There were 13 individuals in the party traveling together. They departed from Southhampton on June 9, 1920 on the SS New York and arrived in New York on June 19th. This is the earliest manifest found to date that shows Mlynov immigrants listed as from “Poland”.
They are helped and accompanied by Isadore (“Itsig”) Lerner who arrived in Baltimore from Mlynov in December 1913 and returned to Mlynov after the War to help his families and the others leave. As a US citizen, Lerner was able to take the families via first class on the train to Warsaw. The families were all headed to Baltimore to be reunited with husbands and fathers from whom they had been separated during the war. Two of the husbands (Jospeh Lerner and Marder) were living together in Baltimore. According to oral traditions, the young man, Benjamin Fishman, volunteered to join the party when there was an additional spot available.
“Karla Marder” [Clara (Tesler) Marder] , age 34, with children “Tore Girla” (“Sore Gitla?” Marder, later to be Sarah Mutter), age 17, “Fesra” (Pesia?) [Pauline Marder] (later Pauline Samuels Bargteil), age 18, “Futia” (Nathan Marder), age 9. Their last residence and birthplace is listed as "Mlenow", and their closest relative there is “father M. Marder”. They are headed to Clara’s husband, Isaac Marder, at “1516 Presberg St,” a transposition of the actual address of 1615 Presbury St. in Baltimore, where Isaac was living with Joseph Lerner.
Bejla Demb [Bailah (née Woladaid or Woladad) , age 38, is traveling with two children, “Zipe” (Louis), age 11, Chaim (Hyman), age 9. Their last residence is listed as Rowno (Rivne) which is where some of the Mlynov residents had fled during and after the War. Their closest relative there is an uncle Mr. Woladaid. Their birthplace is given as "Mermrz", which I suspect is an attempt to render “Mervits.”They are headed to her husband “Mr. Demb” (Aaron Demb) at 104 Ave Canale St. in Baltimore. I believe this was intended to be 104 Albemarle street which is where Aaron was living with other Mlynov immigrants, which was near the Falls River and Baltimore harbor and hence generated “Canal”. Aaron had arrived in 1914 and the family had been apart six years. See a summary of Demb Family migration or check out the Demb Family story.
“Radi Lerner” [Rose, Ruth, Rachel (Cooperstein) Lerner] , age 50, ais traveling with her children, Hene (Anna Miller) 18, Sosra (Sarah Simon) age 13, Mojzhe (Morris) age 10, Spre (Sophie Glick) age 11. Their last residence and birthplace is “Mlenow” and they are headed to heading to Rose’s husband Joseph Lerner at 1516 Presbury St [a transposition of 1615 Presbury] who was living at the same address with Isaac Marder. Her husband had arrived in August 1913. A record shows that Radi's family was detained in customs while she waited for her son Itzig to retrieve them. See a summary of the Lerner family migration or check out the Lerner Family story.
Rose’s son Itsig (Isidore) Lerner is also on the ship listed on a page of naturalized US Citizens. With him is his new wife, Gertrude [Gittel (Czainik) Lerner] age 21 (whom he brought back on this trip. She received automatic citizenship as his wife. According to the record, they married on May 21, 1919, though it is not clear Itsig was in Europe by the and it seems more likely they were fixed up sometime after Itsig arrived. They are headed also to 1516 Presbury St, Baltimore.
“Boks Fishman” (Benjamin Fishman) , age 17[?] a labourer, is traveling with the other families. His last residence and birthplace is listed as “Mlenow” and his closest relative there was his father “Mr. Fishman" [Moishe]. He is headed with the Marder and Lerner families to his “cousin Mr. Lerner at 1516 Presbury [1615 Presbury]. No relationship between Ben and the Lerners has been discovered to date and it maybe that he was just posing as a cousin.
According to oral tradition, Ben got abandoned at Ellis Island, wandering around with no language skills and he was rescued by Zavel Schwarz, [Samuel Schwartz] who happened to be in the balcony because he heard of Mlynov immigrants arriving. It seems plausible, however, that Zavel planned to be there (since he arrived in the US with one of Ben's cousins) and that Itzig Lerner was busy dealing with his family who was being held over in customs. Ben would soon be living with is Aunt Sarah (Fishman) Schwartz at 1152 Lombard St. See a summary of the Fishman Family migration or read more about the Fishman family from Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record July 12, 1920 Gruber Baltimore Gitla [Gertrude] Gruber and daughters, lines 11-13, (2 pages) “Gitla Gruber” [Gertrude Gruber née Garfinkel)] , wife of Nathan Gruber, and her two children left from Southampton on July 3rd for New York on the SS Imperator. They arrived July 12th. The manifest lists her as 36 and her daughter Zena (Jennie Feinberg) age 10, and Dora (Doris V Fishman), age 8.
Their last residence was Rowno (Rivne) and their closest relative there was friend Shesl Miller [Saul Meiler or Malar, who married Nachuma Shulman). Gertrude and children are headed to her husband/father Nathan Gruber at 102 “Albemaroe” [Albemarle] St. They have been separated from him since 1912. See a summary of Gruber / Demb family migration or check out the Gruber / Demb Family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record June 19, 1920 Demb Springfield Sonia Demb, line 1 “Sonia Demb / Deming” [married name Sylvia Penn], daughter of Max (Mordko) Demb / Deming and Freida (née Koszhushner), was the first of her nuclear family to immigrate. Her father, Mordko, was one of the Demb siblings. She left Southhampton on February 15, 1920 on the SS Aquitania and arrived in NY on the 22nd. She is listed as age 23 and a teacher. Her last residence and birthplace is listed as “Swichel” which in Yiddish is the name for “Novohrad Volynskyi.”
Her closest relative still there was her father, Mordko Demb, who was originally born in Mlynov but had likely gone to Novohrad for business with his brother Simha Gruber and there he married his wife Freida Koszhushner.
The manifest indicates Sonia was headed to her uncle Jacob Goldstein in Springfield, Mass, 133 [street name illegible]. The exact relationship is not yet known. Sonia married Abraham Penn in Springfield. Her parents followed her to the States in Nov. 1924 and her brother Julius came via Buenos Aires in June 1926. See a summary of Demb Family migration or check out the Demb family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record April 02, 1921 Gelberg | Goldberg | Weizer New York Gitla Gelberg with children and brother-in-law, Gershon, lines 5-10 (2 pages) Gitla Gelberg [Gitel Gelberg née Weizer / Weitzer] and her children departed Rotterdamn on March 23, 1921 on the SS Rotterdam and arrived in NY on April 2nd. They were traveling to join Gitla's husband and the children's father, Moishe (Morris) Gelberg (Goldberg) who arrived ten years earlier in 1911. The manifest lists Gitla age 42 and her children, “Chakja/ Chirleja” (“Chultzie”, aka Helen Dishowitz Lederer) age 16, Sura (Sarah Lewbel) age 13, Gershon (Jack) age 8, and Awrum (Abraham) age 11. Accompanying and assisting the family was Moishe’s younger brother, Gerzon Gelberg (aka George Goldberg), age 21.
Their last residence and birthplace is listed as “Mlynow” and Gitel's closest relative there is her brother Aron Weizer. They are headed to her husband (the children’s father), Moische E Gelberg 24 Ludlow Str in NY. See a summary of the Goldberg family migration or read more about the Goldberg family from Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record May 2, 1921 Fishman Baltimore Family of Nathan Hyman Fishman, lines 24-28 (2 pages) A group of Fishman family members (members of Nathan Hyman Fishman's family) left Le Havre, France on April 9, 1921 on the SS Rousillon. They arrived in New York on May 2nd. The traveling group included Nathan's wife, two of their children, a daughter-in-law and her children (their grandchildren). Two of Nathan and Malka's children had already arrived in Baltimore (Annie Fishman and Joseph Fishman). Annie had since married Benjamin Schwartz and Joseph's wife and children were on the ship arriving. The manifest lists in order Hodel (Ida, wife of Joseph Fishman) age 34, and their son "Beniame" [aka Benjamin J. Fishman] , age 10. The manifest indicates that Hodel and Beniame are heading to husband/father M Fischmann 574 Pressman Street in Baltimore. Hodel was actually married to Joseph Fishman, so the "M" is probably a mistake or transcription error.
Traveling with them was Hode's mother-in-law, "Molker" Malka Fishman (wife of Nathan Hyman Fischman), with daughter "Enise" [Anna Semiatin] age 23 and son Beniomen [aka Benjamin M. Fishman], age 21. "Enise" may have come to Baltimore earlier and gone back to help with the migration. Malka and children are heading to her husband/ their father Nathan Fischmann at 102 Albemaria Street, where so many other Mlynov immigrants had settled in Wave 2 of the migration and were still living.
The last permanent residence of the group is listed as [the district of] "Volyn," and their birthplace as "Mlinoff". The manifest lists the closest person still there as "friend Welinoff, " which I suspect meant "a friend in Mlinoff." See a summary of the Fishman Family migration or read more about the Fishman family from Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record June 10, 1921 Shulman, Settleman / Zutelman Baltimore Shulman family, lines 1-6 (3 pages) Harry Shulman and Pesach Zutelman (3 pages) A bulk of the “Szulman” (Shulman) family left Antwerp, Belgium on May 25, 1921 on the SS Lapland and arrived in New York on June 10th. They were assisted in their preparation and travel by a Tsodik Shulman's nephew, David Shulman, who returned from the States to support the immigration of his Uncle Tsodik's family and relatives of David's wife.
The Shulman travelers included Codyk (aka Tsodik) age 60, his wife “Perla [Pearl Malka née Demb]” age 56, their daughter Pepa (married name Pauline Schwartz) 16, Sura (married name Sarah Shulman) 22, Chaja ( married name Clara Fishman) 18, and their new daughter-in-law, Ita (Yetta / Eta née Perelson), who married their son Harry (“Ertz”) just before the trip so that she could join them.
The manifest lists their last residence and birthplace as Rowno (Rivne) though we know that Pearl and the children were born in Mlynov and had gone back there after WWI at least for a time.* Their closest friend in Rowno is "I Kartofel," about whom nothing is known. They are headed to D. Szulman’s address in Philadelphia, who is listed as a son but was in fact a nephew. The daughter-in-law “Ita” is listed as if she is a daughter though she was a daughter-in-law. Listed below the Shulmans are the Blumencrantzes, relatives of David Shulman's wife, Annie.
The bulk of the Shulmans were on passenger list 28. On List 9, presumably to intentionally distance themselves from the rest of the family, appear the Shulman son Harry (“Ertz”) Shulmanand his friend Pesach Zutelman / Settleman (Paul Shulman) posing as a Shulman son.
Pesach and Harry swapped identities presumably to get through customs. Pesach pretended to be Naftula Szulman (which was Harry’s Yiddish name) and is listed as 26 and a dentist. Harry Shulman, for his part, assumed the identity of his brother “Syman” [Simon Shulman] who did not arrive until a year later. He is listed as 28 and a bookkeeper. The swapping of identities is evident from their later Petitions for Naturalization.
Pesach Zutelman married Sarah Shulman not long after their arrival in Baltimore and would retain the Shulman last name to avoid later issues in his naturalization. The youngest daughter, Pepa Shulman, contracted measles on the trip and family feared she would be denied entrance to the US, but she was eventually admitted.
Two of older Shulman daughters stayed behind in Europe. One family, the Meilers (possibly also spelled “Malar”), perished in the Holocaust. The other family, the Koszhushners, made it to Kiev and survived the war in Russia. The US branch of the family was reunited with them in the 1990s. See a summary of Shulman Family migration or check out the Shulman family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record July 14, 1921 Gevantman | Goldberg New York Benjamin Gevantman and wife Ida née Goldberg, lines 6-7 (two pages) "Benjamin Gewontman" (aka Gevantman) and his wife "Chaja" (Ida née Goldberg) departed the free city of Danzig on June 30, 1921 on the SS Gdansk and arrived in New York on July 14th.
Chaya, age 26, is listed above her husband, Benjamin, who is 25. Their last residence was Benjamin’s home town of “Trubitz,” Poland [now Torhovytsia, Ukraine] and Trubitz is listed as their birthplace, though Chaya was most probably born in Mlynov. Chaya has no relative back there and the name of Benjamin’s contact is illegible. In fact, it appears someone wrote "hospital" in Benjamin's line indicating he may have been hospitalized upon arrival. Their destination was Chaya’s brother-in-law Samuel Spector at 142 W. 28th Street NY, the husband of Chaya’s sister, Sarah Goldberg/Gelberg. Sarah arrived in 1913. Chaya was apparently pregnant on the voyage becuase their son Lewis Hyman Gevantman (later known as H. L. Gevantman) was born in September that year. See a summary of the Goldberg family migration or read more about the Goldberg family from Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record August 1, 1921 Mazer Baltimore Mazer Family, lines 3-5 (3 pages) “Lejzor Mazuryk” (Leisor Mazer) and his wife “Gulcia” [Gulza] (aka Margalit “Gulza” née Rivitz), and son “Mordko” (Martin) departed on July 24, 1921 from Antwerp, Belgium on the SS Zeeland and arrived in New York Aug. 1. “Lejzor” is listed as age 38 and a merchant, Gulcia is 37 and Mordko 7.
Their last residence and birthplace is listed as “Berestechzko” (today Berestechko, Ukraine) and their closest relative there was Leizor’s mother “Witia Mazuryk.” Gulza, however, was born in Mlynov, the oldest daughter of David Rivitz and Bessie (née Demb).
They were headed to Leizor’s father-in-law (i.e., Gulza’s father) David Hurwitz at 1303 E. Fayette St in Baltimore. The rest of the Hurwitz family had been in Baltimore by 1909. See an overview of the Rivitz / Hurwitz migration story or read more about the Hurwitz Family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record October 11, 1921 Borodacz, Barditch, Tatelbaum / Teitelbaum Baltimore Barditch family group, lines 25-30 “Silka Borodacz [Barditch]” [married name Sylvia Goldberg], future wife of George Goldberg from Mlynov, and eventual member of Book Committee for the Mlynov Memorial Book, traveled with her paternal grandmother and a number of siblings from Le Havre, France leaving on Oct 4, 1921 on the SS France and arriving in NY on Oct 11th. Sylvia’s mother and her younger brother were delayed by illness and follow a few weeks later.
Sylvia’s mother, Bassa Teitelbaum [variation Ferteybaum], was born in Mlynov and moved to Lutsk, her husband's home town. Sylvia wrote about visiting her maternal grandparents in Mlynov in several essays in the Memorial Book. Their names were Malia and (Samuel Yitzhak) Ferteybaum / Teitelbaum. Her grandfather was known “Icik Starost,” staroste being a title indicating administrative duties of some sort, possibly for the Russian government. In the manifest, Sylvia is listed as age 20 and a millener. In the party with her is her paternal grandmother, “Dwojra” age 65, her brother, Peretz (Paul) 25, his wife, Chana (born Annie Garbazh) 24, her sister, Sura (Shirley Jacobs) 18, and brother Benjamin 14.
Their last residence and birth location is “Luck” (Lutzk, Ukraine) and their closest relative there was father-in-law Szulin Lejb Garbarz at Pokrowske St 24, who must have been Chana’s father. They were headed to Dwora’s son and the children’s father, I. [Jechiel/Isadore] Borodacz at 28 Anna Polis [=Anapolis] Ave in Baltimore. Another records shows they were detained in customs when they first arrived. See an overview of the Barditch / Teitelbaum migration story or read more about Syvlvia (Barditch) Goldberg and her memories of her Mlynov grandparents..
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record November 1, 1921 Borodacz, Barditch, Teitelbaum Baltimore Bassa Borodacz (aka Bessie Barditch) and son Meyer (lines 3-4) (2 pages) Bassa Borodacz [Bessie Barditch (née Teitelbaum) ] and her son Majer (Meyer) left Le Havre, France on October 22, 1921 on the SS Rochambeau and arrived in New York on November 1st. Bassa is listed as age 46 and Majer is 15. They were probably supposed to be with the rest of the family that left a few weeks earlier but were delayed for some reason. Their last residence was [the district of] “Walyn” (Wolyn) and the closest relative there was Bassa’s mother “Malia Ferteybaum” in “Milenof.”
They were headed to Bassa’s husband Isidore Barditch at 28 Annapolis Ave in Baltimore. The manifest lists their birth location as “Varsovic” [today: Varkovychi Ukraine], which was sixteen miles east of Mlynov. Bassa, however, appears to have been born in Mlynov based on the essays by her daughter Sylvia in the Memorial volume. Bassa’s husband had arrived in Baltimore in July 1910 and her husband Harry Teitelbaum arrived in March 1911. See an overview of the Barditch / Teitelbaum migration story or read more about the Schuchman Family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record November 5, 1921 Schuchman Klepatch Baltimore Chissa (Jessie) Schuchman and children, lines 4-8 (2 pages) “Chasia Szuchman ” [Jessie / Chissa Schuchman (née Klepatch) ] and her children departed Antwerp on October 25, 1921 on the SS Gothland and arrived in NY on Nov 5th. Her husband had been in Baltimore since August 1913. “Chasia” is listed as age 47, and with her children: “Shai” (Sam) age 11, a labourer, “Chaja” (later Ida Cohen) age 17 described as a "h. worker," “Enia” (later Anna Yoffee) age 11, and “Rejzia” (Rose Klavan) age 9.
The manifest lists their last residence and birth location as “Mlynow," Poland, and their closest relative there was Chasia’s brother "M. Klepatz" [Klepatch]. They are headed to her husband and the children’s father Josel Schuchman at 205 “Alberule” [Albemarle] Str. See an overview of the Schuchman migration story or read more about Syvlvia (Barditch) Goldberg and her memories of her Mlynov grandparents..
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record March 7, 1922 Alman Elman Gelman Springfield, MA Rikel Alman and children, lines 15-18 (2 pages) Ryszla Elman (aka Rikel Alman, née Gruber), age 40, with three of her younger daughters departed Le Havre, France on Nov. 25, 1922 on the SS La Savoie. They arrived in New York on March 7th. The three daughters with Rikel were Szejwa (later Sylvia Heafitz) age 12, Brandla (later Bertha Jacobson) age 10, Rejzia (later Rose Greenberg), age 9.
Their last residence is listed as “Rowne” [Rivne] and her closest relative there is Mr. Pejsach [Steinberg], her son-in-law who was married to her daughter Beatrice. Their birthplace is listed as Zhitomir, though her husband and her eldest daughter list Mervits as their birthplaces on their manifests.
Rikel was headed to her husband “J. Elman” [Joseph Alman] who arrived in 1914 and was living at 1211 North Street in Springfield Mass. Rikel’s oldest daughter, Beatrice and her husband Pesach Steinberg, arrive in Dec. 1923.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record June 25, 1922 text Baltimore via Philadelphia Simon and Edith Shulman, lines 12-13 (2 pages) “Szymon Judel Szulman ” (Shimon/ Simon Shulman ) and his wife, “Alta Ides Shulman ” [Edith "Oula" Shulman (née Fixman) ] left Antwerp on June 15, 1922 on the SS Finland and arrived in New York on June 25th. Simon is listed as age 32 and a laborer and Edith is 27. Simon did leave with the rest of his family when they left in June 1291 because he was away studying to be a pharmacist in Berdichev, which is where he met his wife, Edith.
Edith in a short memoir indicated that they were evacuated by the Communists during the Civil War. Eventually they had an opportunity to return to Mlynov which was then in Poland only to discover that Simon's family had already left for the States. They contacted them and got their assistance for their own immigration.
It appears that Simon didn't want authorities to know he was from Mlynov [now Poland]—perhaps to avoid being conscripted into the Polish army or to avoid difficulties in customs since his family already pretended he was with them when they left in 1921 so as to include Paul Settleman who was traveling with them. This probably explains why Simon listed his birthplace as “Starobychow” [Stary Bychów], which may have been Simon’s father’s birthplace and was still in Russia.
The manifest lists their last residence as “Wolomin" which is a city in Poland. They indicate their closest relative there was their "friend" (actually brother-in-law) Szoel Mejler (Saul Meiler/Malar), in Rowne (Rivne).
Simon was born in Mlynov like his siblings. But his manifest lists his and Edith's birthplace as “Starobychow” [Stary Bychów], which may have been Simon’s father’s birthplace, another obfuscation on the manifest. They were headed to Simon's “brother” [actually his first cousin] David Shulman in Philadelphia at 612 S. 56th Street. See a summary of Shulman Family migration or check out the Shulman family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record July 1, 1922 Preluck Steinberg Providence via New York Golda Preluck and children, lines 2-4) (1 page) Golda or Goldie Preluck (née Steinberg) and her two younger children left Southampton on June 24, 1922 on the SS Aquitania and arrived in New York on July 1st. “Goldie” is listed as born in “Mirowitz” (Mervits) on her husband’s Petition for Naturalization. She was the sister of Asher Anshel Steinberg who was still back in Mervits.
Golda and two of her children appear on a list of traveling US citizens, a status they acquired via the naturalization of Golda's husband George Gedaliah Priluck, who migrated to the US in July 1913, where he settled in Providence and naturalized on May 28, 1921. On the record , she is age 40, two of her children, Cipe (Sadie Max) age 9, and Motel (Eli) age 7 are with her. Her destination is her husband Gdale Preluck at 27 Kane Str. Providence RI.
A record of an “Emergency Passport Application” at the American Consulate in Warsaw, dated January 30, 1922, references a marriage record issued by the State Rabbi at Dubno and a passport picture issued by the “Starosta at Rowno.” See a summary of Preluck / Steinberg Family migration or check out the Steinberg family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record October 8, 1922 Hirsch | Gurtin Jersey City Gurtin Family lines 20-26 (2 pages) Jankiel (Jacob Gurtin) with wife Ruchla Leja Gurtin [aka Ruth Gurtin ( née Hirsch) ] and their 4 children left Antwerp on September 28, 1922 on the SS Finland and arrived in New York on Oct. 8th. Ruchla's parents and brothers arrived much earlier starting in 1905 and were already well settled in Jersey City. Ruchla is listed as 40 and her husband Jankiel as 48 and a merchant. With them are children “Malka” (later Miriam Fidel) age 13, “Enia” (later Edna Aronson) 10, “Michel” (Milton) 7, “Szowel” (Saul) 18, “Baisa” (Beatrice Gurtin), 15.
The manifest lists their residence as Luck (today Lutzk, Ukraine) which was the provincial capital of the Wołyń Voivodeship (province) in Poland. It is unclear why the manifest lists "pinsk reg" [Pinsk region?] instead of Poland in the Country column, especially since Luck was not very close to Pinsk. Their closest relative in Luck was Jankiel's sister Ester Klejnbut. Luck was also the birthplace of the children. The record indicates Ruchla was born in “Blinow” (Mlynow) like her siblings and her husband Jankiel was born in Kowel (Kovel).
They were headed to Ruchla’s brother, Lewis Hersch (aka Abe Hirsch) at 100 Clerk Street in Jersey City. By this point in time Lewis (Abe) Hirsch arrived with their parents in 1909. See a summary of the Hirsch family migration or read more about the Hirsch family from Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record July 10, 1923 Wasserman | Cooperstein / Kuperstein Baltimore Rose Wasserman, daughter Basia, lines 14-15 (2 pages) Rejza (Rose) Wasserman [née Kuperstein] with daughter, Basia Wasserman (married name Bertha Sklar), embarked from Hamburg on July 10, 1923 on the SS Reliance. They arrived in New York on July 20th and were headed to the home of Rejza's daughter, Lifsha/Lillian and her husband Isadore Shmuner at 300 N. Ann St. in Baltimore.
The manifest records that they were both born in Mlynov. their last residence as "Kremionice" [Kremenets’, Ukraine] and their closest relative back in Poland was Rose’s brother Joel [Yoel] Kupferstein who was living in “Dymydowka” [today Demydivka, Ukraine]. Demydivka is just 24 km west of Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record December 1, 1923 Alman (Ellman /Gelman) | Steinberg Springfield via New York Beatrice Steinberg (nee Ellman / Gelman) with husband, lines 29-30 (2 pages) “Bejla Stzejnberg ” [aka Beatrice Steinberg née Alman/Gelman] and her husband “Pejsach Stzejnberg ” (Pesach Steinberg ) left Antwerp on Nov. 21, 1923 on the SS Minnekahda and arrived in NY on Dec. 1st. The manifest lists Bejla as age 22 and her husband Pejsach as a baker, age 28. Beatrice’s father, Joseph Ellman, arrived in 1914 and her mother and three younger sisters arrived in 1922.
Their last residence was Rowne (now Rivne Ukraine) which is also listed as Pesach’s birthplace. Bejla’s birthplace is listed as “Morowice” (Mervits, Muravica). Their closest relative back in Rowne was their cousin Bunia Sztejnberg. Bunia and Bejla Steinberg were first cousins (their mothers were sisters in the Gruber family).
The couple was headed to Pesach’s “Fath.I.L.” [father-in-law] G. Alman, the father of Bejla, who was living at 1211 North Str, in Springfield, Mass. See a summary of the Gelman / Alman family migration or check out what we know about the Gelman family from Mervits.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record Dec. 22, 1923 Zutelman / Settleman Philadelphia Pejsach Zutelman (aka Frank Settleman), line 22 Frank Zutelman (Settleman) left Buenos Aires on December 1, 1923 on the SS Vandyck using the name and visa of his brother Pejsach Zutelman. Frank arrived in New York on Dec. 22nd.
Frank had relatives in Buenos Aires, according to his son, though he probably headed there like other young men from Mlynov to get around the increasingly strict quota system imposed in the US on Eastern European immigrants in the 1920s. Since Frank's brother, Pesach, posed earlier as one of the Shulman sons when he migrated in 1921, Frank assumed his brother's available identity.
Frank is listed as 27 and a tanner. The manifest indicates his closest friend in Buenos Aires was Nowl Barabes, Lavalle [Street], 2146, BA [Buenos Aires]. Unlike some of the other boys from Mlynov who came through Buenos Aires after him, Frank is identified on the manifest correctly as a Hebrew and his birthplace as “Moravitza” (Mervits / Muravica).
Frank was headed to his uncle B. Pinkus at 619 Miflin St. in Philadelphia. He probably did not list his brother's name and address in Baltimore as his destination since he was traveling under his brother’s name.
Frank subsequently came to Baltimore to live with his brother, Paul who retained the Shulman surname. Frank subsequently married Helen Blum (Blumenkrantz), who also travelled to the US with the Shulman family in 1921. Helen was related to the wife of David Shulman, the Shulman nephew who returned to Europe to assist the Shulmans in their migration. See a summary of Settleman / Zutelman family migration or check out the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record April 9, 1924 "Vulah" [Wallace] Buenos Aires to Chicago via New York Morris Wallace line 18 (2 pages) “Moische A Vulah ” (aka Morris Aron Wallace) was one of the young men from Mlynov headed to the United States via Buenos Aires. The increasingly strict quota system in the US made it difficult for young men to migrate directly to the US, even for young adults like Moische whose father, Jacob Wallace, arrived in Chicago in 1913. .
Moische is one of several young men who appear in a photo of friends in Buenos Aires in 1924. No record has been located of his arrival. Moische left Buenos Aires on the SS Vestris on March 17, 1924 and arrived in NY on April 9th. He is described as 26 years old and a laborer. He identified himself as German speaking and of the Hebrew race from Poland.
His birthplace is listed as “Nylinir” [Mlynov], Russia. His last residence is La Plata, a port city about an hour drive today from Buenos Aires. His friend’s name there was I Aronovich and his address was Calle 5 No 550 La Plata. His destination was his father “J. Wallace 1115 South Throop St. Chicago Ill." See an overview of the Wallace family migration or read more about the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record May 5, 1924 Wulach | Wallace Chicago Sarah Wallace and daughter, lines 1-2 (2 pages) Sara Wulach (Sarah Wallace) and daughter Frejda Malka (Mae Wallace) left Cherbourg, France on April 25, 1924 on the SS Belgenland arriving in NY on May 5th. Sarah is listed as age 48 and Frejda Malka is age 12.
The manifest lists their last residence as "Wolynska" [Wolyn the district] and the closest relative son N. Wulach [Nathan] was in the town of Rownen [Rowno / Rivne]. The record indicates Sarah was born in Ostrosec (today Ostrozhets' Ukraine), which is 25 km (16 m) from Mlynov and daughter, Fejda, was born in "Mlynow." In the column listing their Country of birth, Poland is crossed out and replaced by "Pinsk R[egion]." Pinsk and the area around it had become part of Poland in 1921. Perhaps there was still confusion in 1924 about what to call the area before it was part of Poland.
They were headed to Sara’s husband “J. Wallace" [Jacob Wallace], who arrived in 1913 and was living at "1115 S. Throop St, Chicago Ill”. Their son, Morris, left Buenos Aires for Chicago just a month earlier (April 1924) and their other son Isadore would leave Buenos Aires for Chicago two years later in March 1926. According to family memories, the youngest son Nathan Wallace eventually left Mlynov for Buenos Aires but married and settled down there. See an overview of the Wallace family migration or read more about the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record November 5, 1924 Demb / Deming / Koszhushner Springfield, MA Max Deming, wife and daughter, lines 7-9 (2 pages) Norako Demb” (Max (Mordko) Demb/Deming), wife Freida (née Korusia [Koszhushner]) and daughter “Marie” (later Marion Laken) are listed in Antwerp Police Records among immigrants passing through the city. Nordko and Freida are listed from “Malinow” and daughter Marion as born in 1914 “Nowograd” [Novohrad-Volynskyi, now Zviahel, Ukraine]. It seems likely Max was there for business purposes before the War started since the record of nephew Nathan Gruber indicates he was there as well in 1912.
The family caught the SS Pittsburgh leaving Antwerp on Oct. 25, 1924 for New York and arrived on Nov. 5th. The manifest shows “Mordko” as age 53 and a merchant, Freida age 43, and “Mariam” age 9. Their last residence was “Novograd” (Novohrad-Volynskyi), Russia and their closest relative there was brother-in-law Schaja Kosuschner (who married Max’s niece, Liza Shulman, daughter of his sister, Pearl Malka Shulman).
They are headed to their “Sohn.I.L” Abraham Penn at 702 North Str, in Springfield, Mass. Abraham married their daughter Sylvia after she arrived in Springfield in February 1922. Max had five Demb siblings who arrived in Baltimore between 1909 and 1921 and he and his wife and daughter would soon relocate to Baltimore too.
Their son, Julius Demb/Deming, did not migrate with his parents probably because of US quotas on single adult men. He later makes his way to the US via Buenos Aires in June 1926. See a summary of Demb family migration or check out the Demb Family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record April 25, 1925 Shargel Baltimore Joseph and Yetta Shargel, lines 28-29 (2 pages) “Jose [Yossel] Szargel” (aka Joseph Shargel) and his wife, “Jenta” [aka Yetta Breindl (née Weiner)] left Southampton England on April 8, 1925 on the SS Olympic arriving in New York on April 25th. They are both listed as 56 years old and Joseph is a merchant. A note indicates he was “in hospital” but discharged. That may explain why Yetta's name was listed first and Joseph's second, reversing the normal order.
The manifest indicates their last residence was “Mlynow” and their closest relative there Joseph’s brother, Mendel Szargel. Yetta’s birthplace is listed as “Mynow” and Joseph’s as Luck (Lutzk). They are an example where the husband went to live in his wife's hometown. They are heading to their son “Yodal Shargel” (Julius Shargel) at 2518 Druid Park Drive in Baltimore. Julius had arrived in New York in 1911 but he and his sister, Mollie (Shargel) Feingold had moved to Baltimore in the meantime.
Joseph and Yetta left their daughter “Milka” (Amelia) in Mlynov with hopes of having her join them in the US. It could be that new quotas were preventing her and two of her brothers from accompanying her parents. During this time, we know she lived in the home of her friend, Charna Goldseker. Two of Amelia’s brothers, Bernard Shargel and Earl, made their way to the US via Mexico. Amelia eventually joined her two brothers in Mexico and eventually entered the US with them in 1929. See a summary of Shargel family migration or check out the Shargel Family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record February 10, 1926 Steinberg | Shulman Chicago Sura Steinberg, line 25 (2 pages) Sura Sztejnberg (née Sura Hannah Shulman) left Rotterdam on Jan 30, 1926 on the SS Veendam and arrived in NY on Feb. 10th. Sura was a widow. Her husband Abraham Steinberg had passed away. She was on her way to join three of her children in Chicago. Her brother, Tsodik Shulman, had already migrated to Baltimore in 1921.
The manifest describes her as 65, wd (widowed), a housewife and on her way to her daughter. Her last residence was "Mlykow" [Mlynow] Poland in the district of Wolyn. Her closest relative there was her daughter "Matel Berger, 26 Szkolna Street." Her destination was her daughter Rose Berger at 1217 S. Karl ow [Karlov] St. in Chicago. Someone wrote "Cert 8702 senility etc affect" above information in her row, a comment which might refer to her. See a summary of the Steinberg family migration or read more about the Steinberg family from Mlynov.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record March 23, 1926 Wulaj Wallace Chicago via New York Isadore Wallace, line 4 (2 pages) “Isaac Wulaj” (aka Isadore Wallace) was one of the Mlynov young men who came to the US via Buenos Aires. He appears with his brother in a photo with friends in Buenos Aires before 1924. His brother, Morris, left Buenos Aires in April 1924.
Isaac left Buenos Aires on March 3, 1926 on the SS Voltaire and arrived in New York on March 23rd. Difficulties getting into the US clearly led him to provide misleading information. The manifest describes him as age 19 and a “clerk.” His language is listed as "Spanish," his citizenship “Argentine,” and his people "Spanish." Santa Fe, Argentine is listed as his place of birth, though he was born in Mlynov. At some point, perhaps later during his naturalization process in the US, someone wrote the word “Hebrew” over the word “Spanish.”
Isaac's last residence was “BeAires” [Buenos Aires] and his friend there was “Israel Viener” on Calle Sarmiento 2269, in Buenos Aires. The manifest indicates he was headed to Chicago to his friend Sol Berger at 440 North Oakley Blvd. Since his parents and two siblings were already in Chicago, he probably listed Sol Berger's address as his destination so as not to disclose his Jewish identity. Isaac's father, Jacob, traveled with a group of the Bergers in his own migration back in 1913. See an overview of the Wallace family migration or read more about the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record June 22, 1926 Demb / Deming Springfield, MA via New York Julius Deming, line 11 (2 pages) “Julio Deming” (Julius Deming), son of Max Demb/Deming and Freida (née Koszhushner), left Buenos Aires on June 3rd, 1926 on the SS Western World and arrived in New York on June 22. He was one of the young Mlynov men in the photo of friends in Buenos Aires in 1924. His sister, and his parents, were already in the US. Julius probably could not go with them because of US quota limitations on single adult young men from Eastern European Countries, among others.
Difficulties getting into the US clearly prompted him to provide misleading information. His manifest describes him as 18 years old and a mechanic. He lists “Dutch” for both his nationality and race. At some point in time, someone scratched out the word “Argentye” for language spoken and hand wrote "Spanish." Perhaps at the same time or latter, someone wrote “Hebrew” over Dutch for his race/people.
Julius's last residence was Buenos Aires and his friend there was Max Masel, OMBU 533, B. Aires. The same man's name appears as friend on the manifest of Mlynov-born young man named David Goldseker who leaves Buenos Aires a month after Julius.
Julius gives his birthplace as “E. Rios” which was probably “Entre Rios,” a province of Argentina. He was headed to his sister’s husband, Abraham B. Pem [Abraham Penn] 702 Newton St. Springfield, Mass. See a summary of Demb family migration or check out the Demb Family story or the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record August 25, 1926 Goldseker Baltimore via Buenos Aires and New York David Goldseker (aka Sonny Katz) line 1 (2 pages) David Geldchecker (Goldseker) (later Sonny Katz) reached Buenos Aires sometime in 1923 via an initial stop in Montevideo, Uruguay. He kept photos of himself and other Mlynov young men who were there during that time, including Julius Deming, Karl Berger, Morris Wallace and his brother Isadore Wallace.
David left Buenos Aires on August 2, 1926 on the SS Vauban arriving in New York on Aug 25, 1926. He is listed as age 18 and a clerk. His nationality is “Argentine,” his race is Hebrew and he is listed as a speaker of Spanish. Like most of the others on his page of the manifest, he was traveling on a “non-quota” visa.
His last residence and birthplace are listed as Buenos Aires. His last residence was Buenos Aires and his closest friend there is Mr. Meisel at Sarmiente 22, Buenos Aires. This is the same friend listed by Julius Deming and it seems probable the three of them were likely the friends with whom he spoke about sharing a residence in the city. He was headed to a “friend” Carl Gamer [Carl Gaynor] who was actually a cousin of his in New York on 276 East 121 St.
Already in Baltimore were two of his siblings, Ida Fishman Gresser [née Chaya Goldseker], arriving in January 1912 and Morris Goldseker (arriving in August 1913).
David lived in the US under the name of "Sam Katz" until authorities discovered his identity. By then he had a family and a good grocery business and authorities granted him citizenship. See a summary of the Goldseker family migration or read more about the Goldseker family from Mlynov or the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record December 29, 1926 Berger | Machlin Chicago via Buenos Aires and New York Karl Berger arriving as Abraham Machlin, line 14 (2 pages) “Abraham Machlin” (aka Karl / Kalman Berger) left Buenos Aires on the SS Voltaire on December 6, 1926 and arrived in NY on Dec. 29th. He was born "Kalman Berger," in Mlynov and was headed to Chicago to join his brother, Sol Berger, who arrived in July 1914. He appears in the photo of friends saved by David Goldseker who was there at the same time along with Julius Deming, Morris Wallace and his brother Isadore Wallace.
As evident from his later naturalization petition, Kalman entered the US under the assumed named of “Abraham Machlin” on a “non-quota” visa. The manifest lists him as age 20, and as a clerk. Spanish is listed as his language, “Argentina” as his nationality, and Jewish as his race/people. His last residence was Buenos Aires and his friend there was M. Tidler, 2002 Cerrientes. B. Aires.
Kalman was headed to Chicago to his “friend” Nathan Berger, who was in fact his first cousin. He likely didn't give the name and destination of his brother, Sol, to avoid exposing his assumed identity as Abraham Machlin. The Chicago destination address is difficult to read but looks like 1217 S. Garlev Ave which I suspect is Oakley Blvd.
A border crossing record from September 9, 1943, shows that Karl left the US for Canada and reentered in Detroit legally under his own name and was able to secure his legal naturalization. See an overview of the Berger family migration or read more about the Berger family from Mlynov or the boys in Buenos Aires.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record April 20, 1927 Fishman | Goldseker Palestine to Baltimore via New York David Fishman, wife Eta (née Goldseker) and daughter, lines 27-29 (2 pages) David Fishman and his wife Eta (née Goldseker) made the difficult decision to leave Palestine. David had been there since 1921 with his family. Eta joined and married David her first cousin there in 1924. Now three years later, they and their daughter “Simonith” [Selma (Fishman) Bacher] departed from Alexandria, Egypt on April 3rd on the SS Lapland and arrived in NY on April 20th.
David is described as age 27 and an agriculturist, and "Ida" [i.e., Eta] is listed as 28. Their daughter, Simonith, was an infant 5 ½ [months]. Both David and Eta’s birthplace is listed as “Mlinov” and Simonith’s is [Moshav] “Balfouria.” Their visa was issued on Feb. 8, 1927 in Jerusalem.
Balfouria is listed as their last residence and David’s father, Moshe Fishman, as their closest relative there. They are headed to their “Bro-in-law, Sam Gresser,” the husband of Eta's sister, Ida, at 1226 N. Caroline Street in Baltimore. Eta had two other siblings in Baltimore by this point: Morris Goldseker and David “Sonny” Goldseker. David Fishman's brother, Benjamin Fishman, was also in Baltimore since 1920. See an overview of the Fishman family migration or Goldseker family migration or read more about the Fishman family or the Goldseker family .
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record January 24, 1929 Shargel Baltimore Border Crossing Shargel Sibs Amelia "Milka" Szargel [Shargel] (later Amelia Meren), stayed in the home of her friend Charna Goldseker after her parents Joseph and Yetta Shargel left for the US in April 1925. A photo postcard of Charna and Milka was sent during this time to Charna’s brother, David Goldseker, who was in Buenos Aires at the time.
Sometime before 1929, Amelia left Mlynov to join two of her brothers, Bernard and Earl (Ezra/ Israel), who had gone to Mexico to try to get into the US. Bernard Shargel wrote postcards from Mexico to his friend David Goldseker in Buenos Aires during the time.
There is a record from Jan 24, 1929 showing Amelia under the name of “Genia Malka Szargel,” age 18, crossing the border from Mexico to the US in El Paso, Texas. She is with her brothers, Earl (“Ezra”), age 16, and Bernard, age 23. Her later Petition shows they had traveled from Chihuahua, Mexico on the E.P.E. Co Railroad to the border. The brothers are listed as from “Mlynow,”, and Amelia is listed as from “Wolynak” [Wolyn]. They were headed to Baltimore.
By this time, their parents were settled in Baltimore as were their older sister Mollie (Shargel) Feingold, who arrived in 1909 and her brother, Julius Shargel, who had arrived in 1911.
Milka was naturalized in 1934 and subsequently married (Boruch Meren) in Palestine in 1938 whom she helped get into this country, as discussed below. See a summary of Shargel family migration or check out the Shargel Family story.
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To the Land of Israel / Mandate Palestine: 1920–1929
After the Balfour Declaration in 1918 and as immigration in the US tightened substantially in the 1920s, Zionist Youth Groups became popular in Mlynov and Mervits, as in the rest of Poland. Many young people began dreaming of "making aliyah"- going up to Eretz Yisrael, the "Land of Israel" and becoming a normal people living on and working their own land. Most of the elders in Mlynov and Mervits thought the new political movement was blasphemy or were so buried in eaking out a living that they didn't have time to be bothered. One exception was Moishe Fishman, head of the first Mlynov family to make aliyah. His decision created quite a stir in Mlynov, as told in one essay in the Memorial Book.
To the rest of the world, of course, the Land of Israel was called "Mandate Palestine," which was under British Control following WWI. For complex political reasons, and from a contradictory set of policies, the British increasingly began limiting the number of immigrants to Palestine during the 1930s and only issuing a small set of “certificates” that would allow legal immigration into the County. The certificates were doled under the guidance of local Zionist organizations in Poland.
To earn a certificate, a youth had to demonstrate that he or she was trained and prepared for the challenging life in Palestine. Neither the British nor the Jews in Palestine wanted a flood of “unproductive” individuals who could not contribute to building the infrastructure of new settlement, the Yishuv. In the late 1920s and through the 1930s, a small stream of Mlynov and Mervits young men and women earned their certificates through preparatory training (hachsharah) on training Kibbutzim in Poland. Many young people who came of age in the 1930s and who aspired to leave never got the opportunity.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record circa 1920 Lamdan Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine Yitzhak Lamdan, the future poet and writer of the famous poem, “Masada”, made his way to Mandate Palestine at some point during this period after his brother was killed in the civil wars that followed WWI. Read more about Lamdan
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1921 Fishman Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine record not located At some point in 1921, Moishe Fishman created a stir in Mlynov when he decided the family should move to the Land of Israel, known by the rest of the world as "Mandate Palestine." One of the essays in the Mlynov Memorial Book ("The First Aliyah from the Shtetl") recalls the shock of other Mlynov residents at the time. Moishe Fishman, his wife Chaya Gilden, and two of their children, David and Chuva, migrated to Palestine. Their other son, Benjamin Fishman, left in June 1920 for America. See a summary of the Fishman Family migration or read more about the Fishman family from Mlynov.
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< Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1924 Goldseker Moshav Balfouria / Mandate Palestine record not located Sometime in 1924, Eta Goldseker left Mlynov on aliyah to the "Land of Israel" to join and marry her Mlynov-born first cousin, David Fishman who arrived with his family in Mandate Palestine in 1921. The family was among early settlers in Moshav Balfouria.
According to family oral traditions, David's brother Benjamin recalled carrying love notes between Eta and David when they were still back in Mlynov. They married on July 8, 1924 in Jerusalem. They subsequently migrated to Baltimore in 1927. See a summary of the Goldseker family migration or read more about the Goldseker family from Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination Read or download the record 1925 Mandelkern | Mandelkoren | Lamdan Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine not located Shmuel Mandelkorn (Mandelkern) and wife Malcah Lamdan , a sister of the poet, Yitzhak, left Mlynov for Eretz Yisrael in 1925, according to a short reflection that Mandelkern wrote for the Mlynov-Mervits Memorial book.
Mandelkern was remembered by other former residents of Mlynov as being one of the early young people who was a Zionist and who cultivated the Zionist youth groups in town. He also contributed his own essays to the Memorial book, recalling his own early efforts to prove the viability of the Zionist vision and to organize self defense in Mlynov following the Bolshevik Revolution. Malka Lamdan was remembered as one of the Hebrew teachers in town. Malcah Lamdan, for her part, was remembered by former residents as a Hebrew teacher in town.
According to oral accounts shared by Malka’s nephew, Meir Litvak, the couple seriously struggled in the 1920s and residents back in Mlynov raised money to help them come back to Mlynov. They decided, however, to stay put and used the money to get through the difficult time. Read more about the growth of Zionist youth groups in Mlynov, or Shmuel's own recollections of an early botched effort to prove the viability of the Zionist vision in the humorous "Yaakov Yosi Goes to the Land of Israel..." or his essay on the efforts to develop "Self-Defense in Mlynov."
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record November 1929 Mohel Land of Israel / Mandate Palestine In 1924-25, Yehuda Mohel at the age of 16 or 17 moved with his family from Boromel to Mlynov when his father took the position as the second shochet (kosher slaughterer) in town. Yehuda joined the youth organization, Hashomer Hatzair, and was secretary of the organization working alongside of Aaron (Berger) Harari.
At the end of 1927, he went for his preparatory training (hachshara) in Horyn, near Stolin [now Belarus]. Family recalls that he was the first to do so. In 1929 the British government approved a certificate for him to make aliyah. With other members of Hashomer Hatzair, they left Trieste, Italy in late October 1929 and arrived in Jaffa in November 1929. He joined other immigrants at Kibbutz Binyamina.
Yehuda was later sent back to Poland and prison for being a communist. He was subsequently released, married and returned to Mlynov. When the Germans attacked Russia in 1941, he, his wife, and several siblings fled East and survived the War in the interior of Russia. Read more about the growth of Zionist youth groups in Mlynov or the extraordinary the story of Yehuda Mohel and his family.
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Year of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record Early 1930s Gruber | Hofni Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine Yitzchak (née Gruber) Hofri, the younger brother of Rachel Teitelman (née Gruber), made aliyah in the early 1930s. Yitzhak's sisters, Rachel and Sonia Teitelman were both survivors along with their husbands. Read more about the growth of Zionist youth groups in Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record May 1, 1933 Berger Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine record not located In 1933, Rosa Berger, daughter of Wolf and Golda (Kentor) Berger, made aliyah with the preparatory group of Hashomer Hatzair called “Planty.” She left a year before her brother, Aaron (Berger) Harari, because he was asked to get involved in helping another training group near Mlynov. Her older siblings “Sol” and Karl went to Chicago before WW1.
After Rosa’s arrival in Palestine, the group was staying in Rehovot, where she became a wall painter, painting the first buildings in the Weizman Institute. After a year she moved with the group to Ramat-Yohanan, a kibbutz 16 km east of Haifa. There she eventually married Moshe Chizik (also spelled Tzizik), whom she knew from childhood in Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1933 Teitelman | Tamari Land of Israel | Mandate Palestine record not located Moshe Tamari , an author in Israel, was born Moshe Teitelman in Varkovitch, Russia, about 16 miles from Mlynov, but spent most of his years growing up in Mlynov. Tamari’s father was Anshel Teitelman, one of the siblings of Nahum Teitelman, from Mervits and a survivor of the Shoah.
Tamari was inspired by Mlynov-born Yitzhak Lamdan, the author of the famous poem, “Masada,” whom Tamari met in 1933 when Lamdan came back to Mlynov to visit. Tamari wrote about that experience for the Mlynov-Mervits Memorial Book.
In Mlynov, Tamari was involved in Zionist Youth Groups and made aliya to Palestine in 1933 after a period of preparation (hachsharah). When asked later in life what led him to leave his family and his town and everything else and make aliya, he said simply, “the inclination to literature”. Read more about Moshe Tamari, the growth of Zionist youth groups in Mlynov or check out the Teitelman family from Mervits and Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record Winter 1933 Holtzeker | Holtzhaker Land of Israel | Mandatory Palestine record not located Tzipporah Holtzeker (spelled Goldseker in America), the second oldest daughter of the large Mlynov family of Yaacov and Rosa Holtzeker, made aliyah in 1933. As a young women she joined the Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) and when the time for training (hachsharah) arrived she went for training to “Kibbutz Haaliya Wolynia B” near Rovno (now Rivne Ukraine). She was among 28 persons selected in the first “company” to go to Palestine in the winter of 1933.
The group first went to Rishon LeTzion and then Givat Keren Kayemet. She worked in orchards and fruit packing and quickly learned to identify the best fruit, a good position at the time. She was also a beekeeper and worked in the care of young children, in the education department, in the clothing warehouse, in the kitchen, among other kinds of work. She was described by family as who believed “that work is life” and that it had to be carried out faithfully and with full devotion. Goldseker family migration or read more about the Goldseker family from Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record February 1934 Berger | Harari Land of Israel | Mandatory Palestine record not located Aaron Berger (later Harari) was one of the leaders of the Zionist youth group, Hashomer Hatzair, in Mlynov in the mid 1920s. By the time Aaron was about 24 (1931), if not sooner, he left Mlynov for his prepatory training ("hachsharah") for his aliyah to Palestine. He joined the group “Planty” (פְּלַנְטִי) and lived on a training kibbutz in Slonim, Poland, 350 km (217 m) due north of Mlynov, now located in modern day Belarus. There he served as one of three secretaries of the training kibbutz. His younger sister Rosa made aliyah a year before Aaron, because Aaron was involved in supporting a training kibbutz located near Mlynov.
In February 1934, Aaron was among the first members of the Planty group to arrive in Palestine where they joined Kibbutz Merhavia. Soon after his arrival, Aaron changed his name from Berger to Harari, signaling his new identity.
Aaron went back to visit Mlynov in 1938, a visit he wrote evocatively about in the Memorial book, among other essays he contributed. The photos he took during that visit are among the few remaining photos that exist of the town before its end. Read more about Aaron Harari, visit a summary of the Berger family migration or check out the Berger family from Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1937 Halperin | Hirsch | Shrentsil Land of Israel | Mandatory Palestine Lipa Halperin was the son of Israel Halperin and Rivkah-Rachel (from the Shrensil line). His father was Israel Halperin. His grandfather, Lipa Halperin, was his namesake and his grandmother was Pesia (from the Hirsch line).
Liba was involved in the Zionist youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair, and in a small preparatory kibbutz (hachsharah) in Mlynov. When Lipa was 26, in 1933, he left Mlynov and joined a preparatory kibbutz (hachsharah) in Golina.
After a year and half he was called to work in the center of HeChalutz (the “General Zionist Pioneer”) in Warsaw. He was refused a certificate for aliyah because the organization didn’t want to lose his talents. In the end, Liba made aliya to Palestine in 1937. Not long afterwards he joined a kibbutz of the Zionist Youth movement in Ramat Hasharon. There he met Tola Mack, his wife. Lipa contributed a number of essays to the Memorial book. Read more about Lipa Halperin or check out the Hirsch family story from Mlynov.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1937 Litvak | Lamdan Land of Israel | Mandatory Palestine record not located Penina Litvak, daughter of Motl-Meir Litvak and Dvora-Rivka (née Lamdan), and sister of Yosef Litvak. Penina's mother, Dvora, was born in Mlynov but met and married Motl-Meir Litvak in Kiev. Penina was born there in 1912. Her brother Yosef was born there in 1917.
The family returned to Dvora’s hometown of Mlynov after the Bolshevik Revolution to escape the persecution of the bourgeoise. The family tried but failed to get immigration papers to the US. Penina made aliyah in 1937. Her brother Yosef tried to get a certificate in the 1930s but failed due to British restrictions. He later fled ahead of the German invasion and survived in the interior of Russia. Read more about Yosef and the Litvak family.
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1938 Meren | Holtzeker Land of Israel | Mandatory Palestine record not located Mlynov-born Boruch Meren was the son of Ben Tzion Meren and Miriam (née Holtzeker). Growing up Boruch was a boyfriend of Rosa Berger who had made aliyah in 1933. However, Boruch's father, who was a teacher in town, forbade him from participating in the Zionist Youth group activities in town. So Rosa leveraged connections in Palestine to help Boruch get a certificate to make aliyah in 1938.
After four years apart, the relationship between Boruch and Rosa did work out. Rosa realized she no longer loved this pale, learned young man from the shtetl.
Sometime that year, Amelia (“Milka”) Shargel, who was born in Mlynov and was in Baltimore since 1929, came to visit Boruch in Palestine apparently to kindle a relationship. During her visit to Palestine, Milka and Boruch got married. The marriage enabled Boruch to secure a visa to the US and Boruch subsequently followed Milka to Baltimore in 1940. Read more about Boruch Read more about Boruch Meren, the love story between Boruch and Rosa or check out an overview of the Goldseker family migration
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Date of Aliyah Family Name Destination City Read or download the record 1941 Holzeker | Holtzeker Land of Israel | Mandatory Palestine record not located Baila Holzeker’s elder sister Tzipporah made aliyah in 1933. Baila’s aliyah was to be more daring and challenging. In her youth, she too was involved in the Zionist youth group, Hashomer Hatzair, and when she reached her 30s she was ready for prepatory training (hachsharah) and made her way to Częstochowa.
Aliyah was held up for a variety of reasons and in the meantime the WWII broke out and the paths to aliyah were blocked. Nonetheless Baila decided to make her aliyah in whatever way she could. Beginning in 1941, with daring, stubbornness and facing much danger, she made her way to Moscow and from there to Odessa to the port on the Black sea. From there she took a rickety boat to Turkey and then by land to Syria, and Lebanon until, finally by foot, she reached the soil of the Land of Israel.
Her made her way to Kibbutz Negbah which was being built, the place her elder sister was living and had been one of the founders. In the beginning, she worked for a time in the vegetable garden, an important project in those days, and afterwards for a dozen years in children’s care. In 1946, she tied the knot of family life with her husband, Isar. Read the short essay that Baila contributed to the Memorial Book, check out an overview of the Goldseker family migration or read more about the Goldseker family from Mlynov.
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Stragglers: 1930 and beyond
Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record May 8, 1939 Shargel | Meren Baltimore from Palestine Amelia Shargel line 17 (1 page) Amelia “Milka” Shargel originally arrived in Baltimore via Mexico in 1929. She was naturalized in 1934. Sometime in early 1939, she went to Palestine to meet up with and marry Boruch Meren, a young man from Mlynov who made aliyah in 1938 (see his story above).
She appears on a manifest from May 8, 1939, returning home from that visit to Palestine. She departed Cherbourg, France on May 3, 1939, on the SS Queen Mary and arrived in NY on May 8th. She is listed as a US citizen, married, and her age is 29. She is headed home to 1648 Ruxton Ave in Baltimore, where she succeeds in getting a visa to bring her new husband Boruch to Baltimore. See a summary of Shargel family migration or check out the Shargel Family story.
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Date of Arrival Family Name Destination City Read or download the record April 11, 1940 Meren Baltimore from Palestine Boruch Meren, line 9 (2 pages) “Boruch
JechohMeron lechon” (aka Boruch Meren) originally left Mlynov in 1938 for Palestine to join his then girlfriend Rosa Berger. When their relationship did not worked out, Mlynov-born Amelia Shargel, traveled from Baltimore to Palestine where Boruch and Amelia were married. Amelia left Palestine in May 1939 and was able to secure a visa for Boruch by Feburary 1940 enabling him to join her in Baltimore.Boruch appears on a manifest leaving Naples, Italy, on April 3, 1940, on the SS Rex arriving in New York on April 11th. He is listed as 33 and a mason. His birthplace is “Mlynow” and his last permanent residence, "Hedera, Palestine." The manifest indicates he received his visa in Jerusalem on Feb. 29th, 1940. He lists his closest relative as “father: Bentzion” back in “Mlinov, Poland.” His destination is his wife: “Emilia Shargel” at 1648 Ruxton Ave in Baltimore. Read more about Boruch Meren, the love story between Boruch and Rosa or check out an overview of the Goldseker family migration.
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