FAMILY YAKUBOWICZ

Ana Nuta found in the Archives of Yad Vashem this persons:

1) Miriam Ester YAKUBOVITZ (nee TURFINKIEL) was born in Winograd, married Shlomo Yokanan and they went to live in Plonsk, was in Ghetto of Plonsk where she died. The testimony was given by her granddaughter in law Dvora SHCHUKOVKI (nee YAKUBOVITZ), 21/9/2008.
2) Shlomo YAKUBOWICZ was born in Plonsk in 1855. He married Miriam Ester TURFINKEL. They lived in Plonsk, was in Ghetto of Plonsk where he died, shot by the nazis. The testimony was given by his granddaughter in law Dvora SHCHUKOVSKI (nee YAKUBOVITZ), 21/9/2008.

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Family YAVNIN
The only person who was born in Plonsk is Khaim YAVNIN, in 1907 to Mordekhai and Yokheved. He was married to Ester and had one child. During the war he was in URSS Army. He was a soldier and died in combat. The testimony was given by his niece DORON GOREN YAVNIN 5/04/2006 who lives in Israel in Bat Jafar.

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FAMILY YENTUS/ JENTIS:

Ester Rudman and Anthony Yentis, Mark H. Andes searched for this family and Ana Nuta found in Yad Vashem these persons:
1) Beril JENTIS was born in Czerwinsk, Plonsk in 1900. He married Brana LAZEVNIK. He was taken to Majdanek Camp of Extermination in 1943 at the age of 43.The testimony was given by his niece Lea LAZEVNIK, 11/06/57 who live in Israel.
2) Brana JENTIS (nee LAZEVNIK) was born in Razmin in 1885 to Leib LAZEVNIK. She married Beril (Ber) JENTIS. She was taken to Majdanek Camp where she was murdered in 1943. The testimony was given by her niece Lea LAZEVNIK, 11/06/57 who live in Israel.

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FAMILY YENTES or JENTES: Hillary Eizinger send Ana Nuta this names from her family in Plonsk. Yitzchak Yosef (Icher) YENTES or JENTES was born in Plonsk and was married Rivka Bashia HORLICH and had four children: 1.- Aron YENTES was born in Plonsk about 1875. He was married Dora POSNANSKA. They had seven children and immigrated to New York , USA in 1901. 2.- Shmuel Chaim (Samuel) YENTES was born in 1879 in Plonsk. He immigrated to New York; USA around 1908 where he married Lena SCHRAGER They had three children. 3.- Dora YENTES was born in Plonsk in 1886. She was married Efroim (Frank) JEGER or YAEGER who also was born in Plonsk. They had two children in Plonsk: Morris and Abe JEGER. They immigrated to New York, USA in 1911 and 1912, and had three children more. 4.- Yaakov Leib (then Louis) YENTES, the great grandfather from Hillary Eizinger. He was born around 1890 in Plonsk. He immigrated to New York, USA and was married there to Jennie LEITMAN, and had with her two children.

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FAMILY IZRAELOWICZ or YISRAELEVICH

Bruce Brumberg fist, contact his cousin Ana Nuta, and then his sister Andrea Brumberg Smith and they said they were cousins because our grandfathers were brothers and sisters, and their mother Reginka was fist cousin from Ana’s mother…and Seymour Schwartz and Paul M.Schwartz who add some things and was the son of Marion Schwartz, the daughter from Simcha Izraelewicz who is the brother of Ana Nuta’s grandfather.
Our great grandfather was Yisrael David IZRAELOWICZ, who married Malka Hadas (nee SITKO or SZITKO). Malka had a sister named Gitel married to one man BUDKO or BUTKE. They had many children and all the family moved from Poland to Palestine.
Out great grandparents had 7 or 8 children:
A.-Bela or Bayla YZRAELEVITZ was married to Moszek KURTA in Plonsk, and they had many children:
1) Ester KURTA was married to Aaron Moszek STAROGUBSKI. They had many children and one of them was Pinchas, who became ATIKAI in Israel. All the persons knew him as PINYEK, who married Franka, and they had two daughters.
2) Manya KURTA was murdered in Auschwitz Camp.
3) Genia KURTA was survived the Shoah, went to Israel and she married a man named Szapiro or Szaphir.
4) Mindla KURTA was murdered in Auschwitz Camp.
5) Shmuel KURTA who was survived the Shoah, went to Israel and married but didn’t havve children. He died more or less in 2000
Bayla was the oldest from all the brothers and sisters. Her son Shmuel KURTA gave testimonies from all his family and part of the family Izraelowicz.
B.- Nusyn Natan IZRAELOWICZ who was born in Plonsk like all his family, and married Ruda ZELIGMAN.
They had six children , and all you can see in the other part of the family IZRAELOWICZ.
Two brothers and two sisters were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp of Extermination.; only were survived two sisters Faiga ; Ana’s mother and Manie who lived in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. And they were survived because they moved from Plonsk and Poland before the WWII, Faiga NUTA (nee IZRAELOWICZ) in 1929, went to Argentina, and Manie BULAK (nee IZRAELOWICZ) in 1924 more or less went to Brazil.
C.-Moshe IZRAELEWICZ was the first of the brothers to moved to Palestine in the same ship as David Ben Gurion, but then he moved to USA and there change his name for Morris ISRAELS and settled in Mount Vernon, New York. He brought over his two oldest sisters in January 1921, before then in 1924 change the immigration laws and made it next to impossible to get the other sisters in. He brought Estera IZRAELOWITZ who change her name to Frieda ISRAELS; and Marjem IZRAELOWICZ change her name to Marian ISRAELS. Morris had a daughter Marian and a son Sylvan. He lives in the suburbs of Albany, New York. His wife died in the 1960s. They had a daughter Danya ISRAELS who was married and divorced, and lives in the suburbs of Albany, New York too. She had one daughter in her early 20s. whose name I don’t remember. Marian was married to Irving PADEREWSKI and they adopted two children, a girl named Pennan (Penny) born in 1952 or 1953, and a son Corin (Corey) born in 1955 or 1956. Penny was married to Alan BEDNOWITZ and lives in Mt. Kisco, New York. They had three children: Jared (23 or 24), Noah (22 or 23) and Mia (20 or 21). Marian died in the 1960. Simcha IZRAELEWICZ, grandfather from Bruce and Andrea, and Seymour was born in Plonsk, but he moved to Ciechanow, now Chiechanow, was married and widowed twice. From his fist wife he had three daughters: Estera Franya who was born in 1902 in Plonsk; Marjem or Manya was born in 1904; and Basia. From his second wife he had two daughters. Dobra or Debora was born in 1910, and Reginka or Rivka was born on December 28, 1912, and had a son who died very young. Reginka’s mother was died when she was a child. She had not memory from her. Her father died when she was a young girl. She was send to live with her aunt Gitel or Gizela Szaphir or Szapiro( nee Izraelewicz) in Plonsk. Aunt Gitel was murdered in the WWII by the nazis and Shmuel Kurta gave testimony for her. Before the WWII Reginka with her aunt Dobra went to live with their maternal grandmother Malka Hadas IZRAELOWICZ. Morris Israels brought his niece Reginka and Dobra into the US in the late 1930s. Reginka Izraelowicz arrived in 1937, and change her name to Rhea ISRAELS. Aunt Dobra Izraelewicz change her name to Dorothy ISRAELS, but all calls her Dobra. All they lived in Mount Vernon, New York until 1950s. Rhea ISRAELS was married to Henry Brumberg. They had one daughter Andrea who was born on December 21, 19…? one son Bruce who was born in February 23, 1954. Then they moved to Ardsley , New York in 1955. Andrea Brumberg was married to Jan Smith and had two daughters: Jessica Elizabeth who was born on June 28, 1974 and Rachel Lea was born in April 7, 1970. Andrea lives in Delaware, Ohio. Rachel was married to Michael Chermside and had two children: Benjamin Azariel born on December 14, 2002, and Genevive Brooke born on January 3, 2006. They live in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Jessica was married to Marshall Brown and they live in Chicago, IL. Bruce Brumberg was single, and lives in New York. Their father Henry Brumberg, died in Nov.26, 2003. Rhea Brumberg (nee Izraelowicz) lives in Yonkers, New York. She is called Ginki. Ana’s mother called her Reginka, like in Poland.
Frieda ISRAELS was married to Abraham KALICKA and had four children: Betty, Seymour, Sylvia and Mildred. They moved to California in the 1950s. and settled in the suburb of Los Angeles called Alhambra. Uncle Abe died in 1960s; Aunt Frieda died in 1990s. Seymour died in 1960 at the age of 30.His wife’s name was Beverly and they had two or three daughters. Betty, would be well in her eighties and living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was married several times and Bruce or Andrea Brumberg haven’t any idea which is her married name now. But Seymour Schwartz said Ana as she currently married to Phil Zatz. She had one son named Leon Werner who was married to Irene who lives in Los Angeles area. León had two sons. One of them must be now about 39 years old. Sylvia was married to a man named Mendel, had three children and then she divorced. This children are Lawrence, Ellen and Pamela and live in Los Angeles area. Ellen had a son and a daughter but I don’t remember their names. Pamela has one son named Jake, but I can’t remember her husband surname. Mildred (Millie) was married to Bert Kaplan They also live in Los Angeles area and had two sons: Jeffrey who is and single, and Stephen who was married. Both live in Los Angeles area. Millie , the youngest, passed away three years ago. Mariam ISRAELS was married to Jacob Schwartz. They had two sons: Seymour and Paul Michael. Paul lives in Longmont, Colorado, about 40 miles north of Denver. Seymour was probably 69 years old and lives in Boca Raton, FL. His wife Sally was died in this year 2009. They had one daughter Susan who must be 45 years old, more or less and lives somewhere on the west coast. Paul is probably 67 years old and he was married to Marcia Cohen in 1963. They have two children: Eric (43), and Robyn (37) Eric lives in Atlanta, Georgia and was married to Amanda Blum and they have two daughters. Robyn lives in Colorado near his parents and was married Jacob or Jack died in the late 1970s. or early 1980s. Mariam moved to Las Vegas , Nevada in the middle 1980s. where she died in the early 1990s. Dorothy ISRAELS, Dobra for all her family, was married to Saul Packman. They eventually settled in Brooklyn and had one son: Seymour who was born in 1941 or 1942. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Wendy and don’t have children. Aunt Dobra moved to Los Angeles in 1970 more or less, then she moved to Las Vegas with aunt Marion, and then to San Francisco where she died in the 1990s. Our great grandparents had this children: Bela or Bayla KURTA (nee YISRAELEWITZ); Gitel or Gizela SZAPIRO or SZAFIR (nee ISRAELOWICZ); Simcha IZRAELOWICZ; Nusyn Natan IZRAELOWICZ; Moshe IZRAELOWICZ; Ruchla POZNANSKI (nee IZRAELOWICZ); Sura RADZYNOWER (nee IZRAELOWICZ) and Mania BULAK (nee IZRAELOWICZ). Ana Nuta knew about same of this part of her family, but Bruce Brumberg and Andrea B. Smith gave her a great surprise, and then Seymour Schwartz.

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FAMILY YOFFE - KVASHNE - SHITKO

Rachelie Yoffe, Lenny Kavshne, and Yaakoc Kvashne cousins of Ana Nuta send her these names:

Her great grandmother was Rujl or Ruchel Malka Hadas (nee Shitko). She was the sister of Ana Nuta’s great grandmother Malka Hadas Izraelowicz (nee Shitko). Their parents were Mosh Leib Shitko and Miriam Dvora Schnitzler from Plonsk both of them. They never knew about their mother’s parents because they both died before their eldest brother Elimelek was born. Moshe Leib Shitko was very sick in his youth, with a serious aye infection. He travelled by horse cart to Leipzig, Germany to be treated, but the doctors said as they couldn’t help him. He returned to Plonsk where he died at a young age, totally blind. Miriam Dvora was a member from a large family from the Schnitzers from Plonsk. She had two sisters and two brothers: Malka Hadas, and Gittel and two brothers Meir and Avram. Moshe Leib Shitko , had been a Hasid of the Rebbe. This Rebbe tried to cheer her up by telling her that “ God will help”, but he also advised her haw to make a living for her family so that she would not need any outside help, not even from her relatives. Specifically, he told her to open a bakery. She did dare to ask, “How can I open a bakery when I know nothing about it and my children are still so small???”
The Rebbe’s answer was, “You must hire an experienced apprentice. Your children will help you as much as they can. In this way you will make a living”. She followed the Rebbe’s advice. She hired an apprentice , Yankel BUTKO. The children knew him as Fetter Yankel, and her children did help him. Especially was her son Meir, who became and independent baker himself when he grew up. This Yankel or Yaakov BUDKO married The mother’s sister Gittel, and this was the origin of the Budko and the Shitko family. One of this offspring of his family was Joseph Budko, the painter, who made alliyah to Jerusalem and there he served as principal of the art School, Bezalel. The children loves Uncle Fetter Yankel very much. One of the fetter Yankel’s daughter was Esther She is one of the member of the Kibbutz Ein Harod in Israel. His oldest son, Moshe, immigrated as a young man to the United States, worked as a worker in clothing factory in New York, and became a rabid anarchist. After their grandmother Miriam Dvorah, died , her youngest son Fetter Meyer was still unmarried and his sister took over the care of him. This Fetter or Uncle Meyer, went back to Plonsk and open there a bakery. Finally he, too, emmigrated to America (USA) and there originated the Shitkin family. Rujl Malka Hadas (nee Shitko) had 12 children. Rachelie Yoffe’s grandmother Ester was married to Yosef Haim Kvashne. Her father Yossi Yoffe (named after his grandfather), the youngest son (4/4) of Ester Kvashne and Dov Yoffe was the 11th child (11/12) and the fist who emigrated before the Word War I, to Palestine. Rachelie was the first child from Yossi Yoffe and Rina Yoffe. She had 49 years old and had two daughters: Naama (and a half years old) and Noa
(7 years old). She, Rachelie grow in a Moshav-a kind of Agriculture Cooperative- that name is HERUT. Her family has a farm that still grows citrus, avocado and persimmon. She studied agriculture for Bachelor, and Master Degree in Israel. Then she went to USA for a few years and made a M.A.degree in Critical & Creative thinking. He father died many years ago when he had 33 years old, and her mother still live in the Moshav, she is 72 years old and very active. The second child she had is Tamar YOFFE, she is the sister of Rachelie and had 47 years old. She was married to Tzur and they had three wonderful children: Shahar (f) from 15 years old; Morr (f) from 20 years old, and Yonathan (m) from 14 years old. The third child they had was Yoram, Rachelie’s sister from 43 years old. She was married to Galit. They had four kids. Ori (f) from 15 years old; Yossi (m) from 13 years old; Ye’ela (f) from 10 years old; and Neta (m) from 8 years old. The youngest was Efrat (f), from 40 years old and will be a mother of her first daughter in a month (March-2010) Yoram and Tamar live in the Moshav HERUT; Efrat lives in Tel Aviv, and Rachelie lives and works in Jerusalem. Her father had a brother Avraham who has three kids; and two sisters Sara and Hana who were not married and had no children. Esther, her grandmother, had an eldest sister Miriam who was married to her grandfather’s brother Haim. Two sisters married two brothers and each family had four children. Simcha Elimelek Kvashne who married Freyde Kvashne were their father’s parents. The grandfather Simcha Elimelek was a country Jew who lived in the village or shtetl near Plonsk, in Plonsk region. They had only two children: a son Yosef Chaim, and a daughter, Dvorah. Simcha Elimelek died as a young man at the age of 40. Freyde, their grandmother named by her grandchildren as Bubbe Freyde, became a widow. She went to live with her daughter Aunt Dvorah Cohen in Plonsk Yaakov Kvashne knew her very well, because he went to Plonsk to study in Reb.Feivel’s cheder. Their grandchildren said her goodbye when she moved to Palestine (then Eretz Israel) in 1906. When Yaakov returned to Plonsk in 1908, she had died. Yaakov Kvashne’s father preferred to read the Bible and books of morality rather then the most analytical religious books. After his marriege with his mother Freyde, his father belonged to the Gustininer Hasidtm, followers of the Gustininer Rebbe. He with a few friends prayed in the Gustininer shtibl, the Rebbe was died and he had not sons. Anyway, he was always faithful to this nonexistent Gustininer Rebbe and he always prayed in that shtibl when he was in Plonsk. They prayed in Plonsk , at that time were Hasidim in Plonsk who followed other famous Rebbes such Gur and Alexander. Yaakov said as her mother’s education were shaped by her parents whom she adore and admire. She told her son as she lerned to read prayers in the cheder together with Avigdor Grüen, David Ben Gurion’s father. The marriege from their parents Yosef Chaim Kavshne and Freyde, took place sometime in 1878, in Plonsk. Simcha was eighteen and Freyde twenty. After her marrage, which mother visited Plonsk on Shabbat and on holidays, she could be found in the synagogue with many women. She lerned to read and write Yiddish. She had a respectable dowry, was beautiful in body and in soul.

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