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DAVID BEN GURION'S PLONSK FAMILY

Extract from the Plonsk residents page.

FAMILY GRÜEN: Information was sent to Ana Nuta by Cindy Gallard; Ana Nuta compiled the information from books she has in her library.

SHEINDEL BROITMAN (Her parents were María Perla Sura ROTBLATT and David Josheph BROITMAN. She was born in Plonsk in Nov.19, 1854 and died in Plonsk in Jan 24, 1899 (The parents from David Joseph Broitman were MEILOCH BROITMAN and TAUBA KOHN) She married AVIGDOR GRÜEN in Apr.9, 1876 in Plonsk. (He was born in Plonsk in Jan.1857 to ZVI GRÜEN and MECHLA BRYN, and died in May 13,1942 in Tel Aviv. And Sheindel died in Plonsk in Febr.7, 1898 and the cause of the death said: Childbirth. They had eleven children, but only 5 survived to adulthood. Avigdor GRÜEN moved to Palestine in July 13, 1925. He was named as Viktor Grúen too. The children who are alive:

1) Abraham GRÜEN was born in Plonsk in 1877 and died in Israel. He married in first time with unknown. The second time with CHINDLA TAUBA NACHMANOWICZ who was born in Plonsk in 1876 (her parents were Jakow NACHMANOWICZ and Cheveta RYWKA) They married in Jan.30, 1898 in Plonsk. They had three children: one unknown gender GRÜEN; Sheindel GRÜEN (for his mother) was born in 1902; and Benjamín GRÜEN was born in 1909. They moved from Plonsk to Israel in 1931.

2) Michel Gruen was born in May 7, 1879 and died in March 1965 in Israel. He had a daughter perhaps named Miriam with his first wife. She left Michel and took her daughter with her. He married a second time in Tel Aviv to Bruria (aka Bronka) Majzels born about 1896 in Konin, and died September 1979 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Her first husband, died in the Holocaust). The source of these facts are from Bruria Majzels’ two sisters, now deceased, who Madeleine Okladek met in Tel Aviv. They are Madeleine's cousins related through Bruria's mother, Ryfka Prochownik.

3) RIVKA GRÜEN was born in 1881 and died in Israel. She married Abraham LEFKOVITZ who was born in 1851 and died in Poland in 1920. They had only one child: Benjamin Lefkovitz.

4) DAVID JOSEPH GRÜEN who was born in Plonsk in Oct. 16, 1886 / or Febr.18, 1887 and died in Dec. 1st. 1973 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He married Paulina or Paula or Penina MUNWESS who was born in 1886 and died in Jan. 1968 in Israel. DAVID JOSEPH GRÜEN changed his name to DAVID BEN GURION (Select this link to read about his life). They had three children: GEULA BEN GURION was born in Sep.1918 in New York.USA.She married EMANUEL BEN ELIEZER who was born in 1917. They had one child; YARIV BEN ELIEZER who was born in 1940. AMOS BEN GURION was born in Aug.1920 in London, England. He married Mary and they had a child, named: ALON GURION who was born in 1952 and married Anastasia. BENJAMIN GRÜEN who was born in 1909 and arrived in Israel in 1923 and lived in 1937 in Kibbutz Na'an. He married and had three children: ISRAEL GRÜEN, MICHEL GRÜEN and OAZ GRÜEN ENANA BEN GURION who was born in March 1925 in Israel.

5) TZIPPORA GRÜEN who was born in 1890. She married Moshe KORITNI who died in Ukraine in 1921. She was a nurse and emigrated in 1923 to Palestine, then Israel. They had one child: Arieh KORITNI who was born in 1917 and emigrated with his mother to Palestine, then in Israel with the surname of Ben Gurion and he never married.

Bibliography from the life of David Ben Gurion: "Ben Gurion: a Biography" By Michel Bar-Zohar.; "Ben Gurion" by Shabtai Teveth; Herbert Gursky, wrote a briography ; "Amanecer de un Estado" by David Ben Gurion; "Ben Gurion, Prophert of Fire" by Dan Kurzman. Encyplopedia Judaica; and another articles and books from his life in Plonsk, Poland, and in Israel in Tel Aviv as Primer Minister, and in Sde.Boker, the Kibbutz were he lived when he didn’t work or when he past his 20 years before his death. And all the details who sent to Ana Nuta Cindy Gillard who look for his family ROTBLAT and found the connection with the family BROITMAN and from GRÜEN or BEN GURION after. Cindy Gillard has all the documentation proving all that she said.