Vylok Family Photographs


To be inclusive, we contacted all of the Vylok researchers with an e-mail address listed in JewishGen (as of 30 April 2011). We asked each person contacted for family photographs or anything else to make the Vylok shtetl web pages in JewishGen's KehilaLinks more interesting for all current and future researchers. Our sincere appreciation is expressed to all who responded.

Below, you will find photographs of families that once lived in Vylok. In most cases, the photographs you see survived the Holocaust only because they were mailed to relatives in the United States and elsewhere.

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~ Vylok Individual Family Photographs ~

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Emma ACKERMAN
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA


Margaret ACKERMAN
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

Marton WEIS
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA



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unknown 1
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

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Margaret (née ACKERMAN) WEIS
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA




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Paula RITTENBERGER *
c. 1930s

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel

Zigmund RITTENBERG
c. 1931

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel




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Évike (Éva) MIHÁLY
c. 1943

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary

Gyöngyi LEBOVICS
c. 1952

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary




~ Vylok Multi-Person Family Photographs ~

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KESTENBAUM family
c. 1942

Photo: Courtesy of Ari TESSLER, Belgium

Rabbi KESTENBAUM, unknown unknown and unknown
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BERGSTEIN family
c. 1924

Photo: Courtesy of Jack BERGSTEIN, USA

Front row, left to right: Jenny BERGSTEIN, Sarah BERGSTEIN, Ella BERGSTEIN and Rose BERGSTEIN

Back row, left to right: Isadore BERGSTEIN, Irene BERGSTEIN, Adolph BERGSTEIN and Edith BERGSTEIN



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RITENBERGER and BERKOVIC family
c. 1931

Photo: Courtesy of Laszlo FRIEDMAN, USA and Ron ROTEM, Israel

Seated, left to right: Samuel RITENBERGER * holding Vilmos BERKOVIC *

Standing, left to right: Hella Berkovics, Jeno BERKOVIC, Ludwig BERKOVIC, Paula (née RITENBERGER) * and in front, Edith BERKOVIC
WEIS family
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

Seated, left to right: Maria (née KORODI) WEIS, Klari WEIS and Herman WEIS

Standing, left to right:Magda (née BERKOVICH) WEIS, Pishta WEIS and Montzi (née KARODI) WEIS



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Marton and Margaret (née ACKERMAN) WEIS
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

Ludwig and Aronka (née FRIED) BERKOVIC
c. 1946

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel




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WEIS family
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

Seated, left to right: Jani (née MOSKOVICH) WEIS and behind her Regina WEIS, Iszak WEIS and behind him, Sarena WEIS

Standing, left to right: Marton WEIS, Herman WEIS, Miklos WEIS, Lajos WEIS and unknown
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unknown 2
c. unknown

Photo: Courtesy of ...

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WEIS Relatives
c. 1940s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

left to right: Sarena WEIS, unknown and REGINA WEIS
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Rittenberg family
c. 1932

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel


Front row, left to right: Ludvic BERKOVIC, Edit BERKOVIC, unknown boy and unknown girl

Back row, left to right: Janos BERKOVIC, Rosa (née ZUKERMAN) RITTENBERGER, Shimon RITTENBERGER, Moritz RITTENBERGER, Etush RITTENBERGER, Harry SCHWIMMER, Lepot RITTENBERGER and Jennie (née RITTENBERGER) SCHWIMMER (The Schwimmers were visiting from USA)
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Rittenberg Home
c. 1930s

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel

Shimon RITTENBERGER, with son's Mauritz and Lipot, daughters Paula and Etush and grandaughers Hella and Edit
RITTENBERG family
c. 1915

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel

Front row, left to right: Mauritz RITTENBERG, Roza (née ZICKERMAN) RITTENBERG, Gizus RITTENBERG, Shimon RITTENBERG and Lepot RITTENBERG

Back row, left to right: Etus RITTENBERG, Shiku RITTENBERG and Paula RITTENBERG


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Erzsébet (Bösi) (née KATZ) MIHÁLY and son, Sándor (Öcsi)
c. 1941

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary


Wife of József MIHÁLY

Relatives I
c. 1962

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary

Left to right: Gyöngyi (née LEBOVICS) GOLDBERGER, József MIHÁLY and Gitta (née LEBOVICS) EINCZIG and unknown (Gitta's husband)
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Gyöngyi LEBOVICS and Miklós (Öcsi) KLEIN
c. 1949

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary



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Relatives II
c. 1940

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary

Seated, left to right: Pepi CZIGLER, Hermina Klein with Éva MIHÁLY and Mária (Mirjam) UNKNOWN

Standing, left to right: Erzsébet (née KATZ) MIHÁLY, József MIHÁLY
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SOLOMON and ALTBERGER wedding
c. 1946

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary

Foreground, left to right: Gyögyi LEBOVICS (11 yo) and unknown girl

Seated, left to right: unknown ALTBERGER, unknown ALTBERGER (grandparents to Polgár Zsuzsa, Judit, Zsófia. They were the world chess champions, but they are not on the picture), Manci (né ALTBERGER) (bride), Patyu SALAMON (groom), unknown lady and unknown man (perhaps Patyu's mother and father)

1st row standing, left to right: unknown lady, unknown lady, unknown lady, Olga (née RITTENBERGER) MÓRIC, unknown lady, Miklós (Öcsi) KLEIN and unknown man

Back row standing, left to right: unknown lady, unknown lady, unknown man, unknown lady, Iku SOLOMON, Hersi KLEIN, unknown man and Móric RITTENBERGER
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FINKELSTEIN and BERKOVICS wedding
1946

Photo: Courtesy of Laszlo FRIEDMAN, USA

Left to right: Jeno BERKOVICS, Lipot RITENBERGER, Bozsi RITENBERGER holding Jukta RITENBERGER, bride - Hella BERKOVICS, groom - Miklos FINKELSTEIN, Moritz RITENBERGER and front, Edith (née Ritenberger) Berkovics (married name FRIEDMAN)
Miklos and Sonja (née UNKNOWN) KLEIN wedding
25 August 1955

Photo: Courtesy of Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary

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KLEIN family
c. unknown

Photo: Courtesy of Edit GOLENDER, Israel

Front row, left to right: Eva SCHWARTZ, Jakob SCHWARTZ, Olga SCHWARTZ, seated Zali (née LEBOVICS) KLEIN, Judit KLEIN, seated Smuel KLEIN, Niklos KLEIN, unknown girl and unknown boy

Second row, left to right: unknown girl, Sara (née SHEFER) KLEIN, Miklos KLEIN, Heovig KLEIN, Karoly KLEIN, Ibolya KLEIN, Olga KLEIN and Sari KLEIN

Back row, left to right: Ede KLEIN, Herman KLEIN, Abraham KLEIN, Fani (née KLEIN) SCHWARTZ, Adolf KLEIN, Fedora (née SOLE) KLAIN, Mirjam (née ROT) KLEIN and Henrick ROSENTHAL
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WEIS and SOLOMON families
c. 1960s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

Seated, left to right: Margaret (née ACKERMAN) WEIS, Marton WEIS holding Helen SALOMON, Shaman SOLOMON holding Robert SOLOMON, Valerie (née WEIS) SOLOMON and Edit WEIS

Standing, left to right: Fedor (Frank) WEIS and Aldalber WEIS



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WEIS and SHOLOMON families
c. 1960s

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

Seated, left to right: Valeri (née WEIS) SHOLOMON, Martin WEIS, baby Helen SHOLOMON, Margaret (née ACKERMAN) WEIS and Sandor SHOLOMON

Standing, left to right: Fedor (Frank) WEIS, Edit WEIS and Adalbert Weis




~ Vylok Military Service Family Photographs ~

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unknown 3
c. unknown

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

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unknown 4
c. unknown

Photo: Courtesy of Frank WEIS, USA

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Zigmund RITTENBERGER
1917

Photo: Courtesy of Ron ROTEM, Israel




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Miklos WEISZ
2010

Photo: Courtesy of Courtesy of Ken BERGER, USA
Last Jew living in Vylok




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Compiled and created by:
Marshall J. KATZ, USA
with assistance from:

Ari TESSLER, Belgium
Amos Israel ZEZMER, France
and the following:


JewishGen members/descendants and
contributors of Vylok Jewish families:


Ken BERGER, USA
Jack BERGSTEIN, USA
Laszlo FRIEDMAN, USA
Dr. Támas GOLDBERGER, Hungary
Edit GOLENDER, Israel
Ron ROTEM, Israel
Frank WEIS, USA
Miklos WEISZ, Ukraine



Updated: 28 August 2020

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