SHCHEDRIN
THE CHABAD SHTETL

Щедрин  שטשעדרין   Шчадрын

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and to the memory of those who remained and were slaughtered.

Surname
Database

Compiled by
Melissa Kaplan
&
Andrew Sverdlove

The following table contains the known names of Jews who lived in Shchedrin. If you know of other names, please submit them to Andrew Ira Sverdlove so they may be added to the list. For some of these names, the meaning or origin of the name has been added to the What's In A Name? page. These names will be marked with an * which you may click on to go to the discussion of that name. If you know the origin or meaning of any of the the names which are not linked, please consider submitting them Andrew Ira Sverdlove so they may be added.

There are over 450 surnames when the variations and name changes are included. Some names are families that got married to Shchedriners. The names have been grouped in possible family connection. Folks spoke Yiddish. Many did not read or write English and spelled their name mirroring the phonetic transliteration of the European (Russian or Polish) name. Surnames were NOT changed on Ellis Island or in any other port.

The great emigration from Shchedrin began in the 1890's. One of the first to leave Shchedrin was 15-year-old Harry Friedman, who went to Pittsburgh, PA.

A few sets of variant family surnames, together with a reference of some of their members, follows. A table of surname variants is shown below.

AINBUND, AJNBUND, AYNBUND, EINBUND, and EINBUNDT might all be relatives. This family was from Parichi and a daughter married one of the nine children Berl WEINER.

HORELICK could be spelled HORLICK, HORLIK and because there is no "G" in Russian, people might call themselves GORELICK, or GORELIK and then change the name in the United States to GARRICK, GARELICK, GORDON.

Minna AMITIN immigrated with her son Shmeril AMITIN to Baltimore via Ellis Island to join her son Leonis KAGANOVITCH. They arrived on Ellis Island on 08 June 1922 from Liverpool, Merseyside, England on the S.S. "Scythia". They left 31-year-old "Motl GANKIN" in "Shtchedrin". He would die in the Shoah. They are going to her son, Leonis Kaganovitch on Ostend Avenue (Hamilton Station), Baltimore, MD. She was listed as a widow. We don't know why her older son took her surname. Her headstone in inscribed Minnie Amitin (Kahanovitz).

The DENBURG clan migrated to Montreal, New York, and one to London, England. In Montreal in the early 1900s the school system had many Catholic nuns as teachers and administrators. One youngster was renamed DEMBURG and the nuns refused to correct this spelling. Another branch of the family emigrated from Montreal to New York and misspelled their name DENBERG. DEMBURG occurred again on Holocaust lists in Yad Vashem.