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Surnames: MEISNER / KATZ /RAFF / SICHERMAN/ MEISNER/ KATZ /
FISH / GRUNSPANN / GREENSPAN / EICHNER / ZWICK / HILLER from
Zmigród Nowy / Bukowsko / Dukla / Dynow / Korczyna, Poland
Great-Great Grandparents: Aron and Itte KATZ,
who were day laborers in Korczyna. They had at least one child.
Her name was Chaje (Chaya) Sara and she was my
great-grandmother. 
The Raffs: (standing) Ida Raff Frankel (my aunt), Isaac
Raff (my uncle), with Yetta Meisner Raff (my grandmother)
holding Israel "James" Raff (my wonderful dad!)
Great Grandparents: Chaje (Chaya) Sara KATZ marries Israel MEISNER.
Israel MEISNER is a shochet and mohel. His name is listed in the
Zmigród Nowy Birth Records, as a mohel for over 2 decades. His
son, Lipa, appears to take over this occupation and is also
listed in the records as a mohel. Chaje Sara and Israel have 10
children, including one set of twins.
- Benjamin Wolf marries Jetti "Yetta" KATZ and they
have 2 children, Celia and Aaron "Al".
- Ester marries Naftali Hersch HILLER and
they have 2 children, Abraham Aron and Izrael.
- Lipa (born 15 August 1871; marries twice - 1st wife Rajsel
and 2nd wife Sara GALLER); Lipa becomes a mohel.
- Ides (born 12 October 1876) marries Abraham Rafael GREENSPAN
and they have one child Chaim "Harry". Harry
(1896-1973) is raised by his grandparents upon the death of
his mother, Ideas. He marries Minnie GELLER and they
have one daughter, Edith.
- Chajem (born 26 May 1879/died 28 October 1880)
- Yitela "Yetta" (born 8 September 1880 / died 20 September
1962 ) marries Jacob Zev "Wolf" RAFF,
a watchmaker from Bukowsko. They live in Zmigród Nowy and
have 3 children (Ida, Ike, and Israel "James"). James was my
father. He was surprised to find out that his mother had
been a twin.
- Cyrel (born 8 September 1880)
- Samuel (born 28 July 1883/died 29 March 1883)
- Rachel (born 15 August 1885)
- Reisel (born 8 June 1889)
Grandparents: Yittela "Yetta" MEISNER
(1880-1962) marries Jakob Zev"Wolf" RAFF (born
21 August 1886/died 17 January 1982), the son of Yehoshua
(Osias) RAFF and Necha SICHERMAN. An Osias
RAFF (watchmaker) is listed in the "1891 Galician Business
Directory". "Wolf" immigrates to New York (USA) in 1922 and is
followed in 1928 by his wife, "Yetta" and their 3 children.
"Wolf" owns a small jewelry store on the Lower East Side of NY
for over 50 years and becomes an active member of the Brezower
Landsmanshaft. The children are:
- Yehudith "Ida" (born 20 May 1911/died 29 November 1977)
married Herman FRANKEL and they have one
child, Rita.
- Eisik "Ike" (born 15 December 1912/died 1 February 1993)
married Ruth LAWNER and they have one child,
Jerry David.
- Israel "James" (born 13 January 1922/died 3 January 1999).
Although records show a birth date of 2 March 1922, by the
time my dad found this out at the age of 75, he decided to
stay with the 13th of January. James married Miriam HERBACH
(born 2 January 1926/died 15 June 1994) (1st cousin to Ruth
LAWNER) on 26 October 1947.
James was my wonderful dad. He moved from Poland to New York
at the tender age of 6. He served in the U.S. Army in WWII, was
an active member of the Jewish War Veterans and a volunteer
coordinator for his local police department, until his recent
death. He practiced his Yiddish by translating some stories from
the Sanok Yizkor Book for JewishGen. My uncles and my father
worked in the jewelry business, which seems to go back at least
3 generations in my family. James, Miriam and their 2 daughters,
Deborah "Debbie" (that's me) and Nedda moved to California in
1959.
The Records of the nearby town of Dukla mention the surname
MEISNER many times. I do not know my connection to those
families at this time.
For More Information, email Debbie
Raff,
Calif.
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I am attempting to find out the fate of my ggf Hershel
(Zvi Hersh) Keller, who lived in Dukla with one of
his daughters and was in his 80's when the Nazis arrived there.
Nothing further is known about him. We may be related to Kellers
in Rzeszow, which is only a short distance north of Dukla and
the town (Tyzycn) where my grandmother, Bertha Saltzman
Keller, was born. Your web page includes the birth
record of a Keile Keller in 1867. My ggm's maiden name was Geldzeller
or
Geldzeiler.Her children included Fanny, Joe, Paul (my
gf b 1882), Louis, sister (name unknown who remained in Dukla
possibly Keile?).
Hersh Keller sold horses to the Polish cavalry. In 1905, he
came to the U.S. to attend my gps' wedding in the Lower East
Side of NYC, but returned to Dukla because he thought "NYC
wasn't Jewish enough." Once the war started, contact was lost.
I also heard from Marcel Keller who lives in Bensonhurst
Brooklyn). He was a young boy in Dukla when the Germans rounded
up his family; his gf Hersch Keller, perished in the camps and
he was one of the very few survivors. I obtained a copy of his
family tree, which goes back almost 300 years. I really
appreciate your continuing interest and pursuing this subject
with me!
For additional information, please email Ken Keller, Virginia
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Great Grandfather: LEIB STECHER (b~1858)
married Golda Trachman circa 1879 in Zmigród. Some of the
Trachman/Trachmann clan lived in nearby Dukla.
Leib and Golda Stecher had 14 children
One daughter,Malka (b~1881 m Josef KORNREICH
~1900) settled in RYMANOW, Her children, born
in Rymanow, included Schmiel 1901; Moishe 1903; Zlater 1905, Avi
1908; Mayer 1910 and Golda 1912. Mayer lives in Daytona Beach,
Florida. 
One son, Hersch Badish (born 2/14/96,
emigrated 1914 NYC) and pictured on the right, married Ester
Guterman from Philadelphia and Lillie GEIGER (a
distant cousin) from DUKLA..
Golda Trachman's siblings emigrated to the US and settled in
Chicago and Joliet, Illinois: Morris Isser Trachman
(1865-1932), Sam Trachman (4/69-6/43),
Sarah Trachman (10/69-5/34, married Samuel Kroon), Yetta
Trachman (married Aaron Schacker), Jenny Trachman (married
Herbst and Wolf), and Lillie Trachman (married Rauce).
Other Trachman cousins from Dukla emigrated
to NYC and included Esther Trachman (born 1876, married Abe GEIGER),
JACOB
TRACHMAN (1867-1938, married first Leah and then her sister
HANNA SOLOMON, was a grocer), Fichu Trachman
(married Pacher of the Brooklyn supermarkets).........
Add comment regarding Phyllis
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My family came from Zmigrod Nowy near Jaslo. My father
Saloman was born in Dukla, my mother Rachel in Brody, about 
100-km east from Przemysl. What
I want to know is: did my father have any brothers or
sisters??
- GGP: LIEBER SCHACHNER married to LAJA FINDLING, They had 5
children all born in Zmigród:
- 1. ABRAHAM SAUL SCHACHNER married to JENTE BERGLAS son:
SALOMON, Fred's father, lived in Yaslo .The Schachner family
photograph shows Fred's father, Salomon Schachner in the
upper right.
- 2. MORITZ SCHACHNER (born Zmigród), married to ROSA
EISENBERG. They had 2 children: ERWIN and EDITH.
- 3. SABINE SCHACHNER (born in ?), married to ADOLF KLUGER.
They had 3 children: FELLA, ELSE and SIGMUND
- 4. SELIG (aka SIGMUND) SCHACHNER (born Zmigród) married
RACHEL LEA UNGER. Sons: MAX and HERMAN
- 5. ITCHE (ISAAC?) SCHACHNER m CHANELE? They had 2
children: TILLY and SYDNEY.
Moritz, Sabina, Selig & Itche fled to the U.S., ABRAHAM
stayed in Poland.
For more information, email Alfred Van Vliet, The Netherlands
by Chaim Greenberger Chaim wrote: My great great grandfather was
Menachem Yehoshua ben Yaacov SCHEINER. He died the 21st of Adar
1898; his two sons were Mordechai Yehuda and Avraham Yosef
Melamed. They moved to seben-sibiu; his daughters were Chana
Gittel who married RUBINFELD and Faige Henna who married MARCH;
she stayed in Dukla.
For more information, email Chaim Greenberger
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March 2019
Robert Margulies emailed "I was forwarded a copy of your
Jewish Gen KehilaLinks about Dukla, by a dear cousin, (Ida
Langsam) whose family is also from Dukla. My grandparents Rosa
and Wolf Margulies(I was informed) were born (or lived) in
Dukla. Rosa was part of a larger Treff family. I believe they
all moved to Berlin, where my father was born (in 1927). Your
document lists my grandmother (Margulies, Rosa née Treff) in
the 1939 Germany listing.
In interesting events 10 little Treff kids were put on train
shortly after Kristallnacht to Holland. Some of the other
Treff kids survived in other ways and some kids were captured
and didn’t survive. My father was then ‘taken’ to England
where he stayed during war- then to US. After Kristallnacht my
grandparents were deported back to Dukla and I have a
photograph of them in Dukla shortly before they were murdered.
(it’s actually a very poised and nice photo, under the
circumstances).
This is a birth certificate of my grandmother, born in
Dukla: Rosa (Reisel) Treff. Born may 14 1898 in Dukla Poland."
Editor's notes: the birth certificate is written in German.
I sent it up to Tracing the Tribe on Facebook and to
JewishGen's viewmate to get it translated.
- It reads: Reisel, genannt Rosa, eheliche tochter des Osias
Wolf Treff, verheiraret und ehegattin Marjem, geb. Scherer
in Dukla,
- Translated (and its not easy), it reads: 7 May,
1898…Reisel, known as Rosa, legitimate daughter of Osias
Wolf Treff, father/married and his wife, Marjem, nee Scherer
from Dukla.
Also note that in the 1500 vital records our researcher found
for Nowy Zmigrod and Dukla, Dwora Treff was a midwife in Dukla
from 1915 through 1923. Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
(JRI-Pl) has some vital records indexes online.
Ida Langsom emailed in 2013; she said "My pgf came from
Dukla, and his wife from Sanock - or the other way around...I
never met my grandfather, Moishe Shlomo who was killed in the
Holocaust - but I do have photos of him from my parents'
wedding in Berlin in 1937." (editors note: i made up this
simple tree for Robert and Ida: Osias (Yehoshua Zev) and
Miriam TREFF
- daughter Eidis TREFF married Moishe Shlomo LANGSAM bc 1877
- The LANGSAM children: Joseph, Shmiel, Arthur, Mosche
Aron, Heinrich, Yitzhak LANGSAM, all born germany
- daughter Rosa TREFF married Manfred/fred MARGULIES b 1927
Berlin
For more information, email by clicking here:
Robert Margulies
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Simone wrote
My father David Weissman was born in Dukla on December
28th 1910. His father Isaac, mother Sarah, siblings who
survived were here: Jacob (b circa 1905), FaHgele
(Frances) b. 1913 or 1916 (still alive), Esther (not sure
of year), Helen. Siblings lost were Benny, Leah and a few
others. No idea of grandparents’ names.
Here are some photos we found which his sister Frances
(Fela, Fani?) identified in 1991.
Shlomo Zehngut, my father’s best friend, and wife. 
Shlomo Zehngut. His mother was my grandmother Sarah
Weissman’s best friend. Shlomo Zehngut and his father,
with my father in the middle. Note the photography shop
name on the back: Natan Laner, Rynek 4 (rynek is the
marketplace; typically the stores would surround the
marketplace). 
My grandmother Sarah Weissman, with her daughter Leah
Weissman. July 28, 1939. At a spa in Rabka-Zdroj. My
father, David Weissman, between two friends Leo Wallach
and ? Wymyszler, Berlin, February 1933. My father was 22.
The patriarch of the Rosenbluth family of
Dukla was LEIB ROSENBLUTH, who along with his wife,
BLIMA GITTEL, had three sons - Feivel Rosenbluth,
Rubin Rosenbluth, and Chaim Samuel Rosenbluth.
Leib and his three sons were each tinsmiths/roofers, which
was the family occupation.
FEIVEL ROSENBLUTH [my
grandfather] was born on May 18, 1862 in Gorlice in Galicia.
Feivel was married twice. With his first wife, Dobra
Goldstein (born, unknown; died, about 1900), he had
four children: Mendel Wolfe Rosenbluth (born, April
29, 1884 in Dukla; died, unknown); Isak Rosenbluth,
(born, December 24, 1885 in Dukla; immigrated to the U.S. in
1913; died, May 7, 1959 in New York ); Schulem (Simon or
Samuel Rosenbluth (born, November 27, 1890 in Dukla ;
immigrated to the U.S. in 1921; died, February 6, 1959 in
California), and Rose Rosenbluth (later married names,
Sadler and Kramer) (born, July 28, 1898 or 1899;
immigrated to the U.S. in 1921; died, February 9, 1969 in
California). With his second wife, Sara Ette Ichel
(born, 1860; died, January 20, 1920), Feivel had three more
children: Abraham Rosenbluth (born, December 24,
1902 in Dukla; died, between May 23 and August 10, 1942 in
the Shoah, along with his wife and two children, upon being
deported from Stropkov, Slovakia to the Sobibor death camp);
Berta Rosenbluth (later married name presumably, Berger)
(born, November 5, 1905 in Dukla; died, between May 19, 1942
and October 1942 in the Shoah, along with her two children,
upon being deported from Vranov nad Toplou, Slovakia to the
Sobibor death camp), and Maksymilian Rosenbluth (later
Max Ross) [my father] (born, August 2, 1908 in Dukla;
immigrated to the U.S. in August 1939; died September 13,
1993 in California). (Max's first wife, Jenta Mahler,
(born, December 16, 1913 in Dukla; died, presumably in
August 1942 upon being deported from Dukla to the Belzec
death camp.) My grandfather Feivel Rosenbluth immigrated to
the United States in 1925, and died on October 11, 1944 of
natural causes in New York.
RUBIN ROSENBLUTH was born between
1866 and 1870. Rubin was married to Golde Sussel
Stadfeld (born, May 3, 1863; died, between April 29,
1942 and May 1942 in the Shoah, after having been deported
from Wien (Vienna) Austria to Poland and her presumed death
at the Sobibor extermination camp), and together they had
six children: David Rosenbluth (born, February 24,
1889 in Dukla; died about June 13, 1942 in the Shoah, along
with his wife and four children, upon being deported from
Vranov nad Toplou, Slovakia to the Sobibor death camp); Wolf
Rosenbluth (born, August 16, 1890 in Dukla; died,
unknown, after 1921); Dobra Ette Rosenbluth (later
married name, Zarkower) (born, April 29, 1895 in
Dukla; died between April 29, 1942 and May 1942 in the
Shoah, after also having been deported from Wien, Austria,
at the same time as her mother, to Poland and her possible
death at the Sobibor extermination camp), Irving
Rosenbluth (later Rose) (born, August 12, 1899 in
Dukla; immigrated to the U.S. in 1922; died, January 4, 1990
in Florida); Sol Rosenbluth (born, February 2, 1901
in Dukla;; immigrated to the U.S. in 1920; died, June 28,
1986 in Ontario, Canada); and Rosa Rosenbluth (born,
April 2, 1907 in Dukla; died unknown. after, 1926). Rubin
Rosenbluth, died during World War I when he killed in Dukla
on May 21, 1915 by a Russian solder, during the occupation
of Dukla by the Russian army.
CHAIM SAMUEL ROSENBLUTH was born
on May 17, 1876. He later lived in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary,
and, with there was married to Mindle Schermer
(born, September 2, 1881 in Satoraljaujhely; died, October
9, 1937 in Budapest, Hungary), where together they had five
children: Sander Rosenbluth (born, June 2, 1904 in
Satoraljaujhely, died, October 17, 1942, in the Shoah while
serving in a Hungarian forced labour battalion in Croatia);
Armin Rosenbluth (born, January 29, 1907 in
Satoraljaujhely; died, November 3, 1942, after being
deported from Antwerp, Belgium to Auschwitz-Birkenau (as had
his wife and daughter earlier that same year)); Lajos
Rosenbluth (later Rozsa) (born, October 30, 1909 in
Satoraljaujhely; survived the Shoah in Budapest; died, April
26, 2001 in Budapest, Hungary). Sarolta Rosenbluth
(later married name, Heiman) (born, May 13, 1911 in
Satoraljaujhely; died May 28, 1944, in the Shoah, along with
her infant daughter, upon being deported from
Satoraljaujhely to Auschwitz-Birkenau (her husband had died
in the Shoah a year earlier while serving in a Hungarian
forced labour battalion on the Eastern front)); and Marton
Rosenbiuth (later Revesz), (born, March 14, 1914 in
Satoraljaujhely; survived the Shoah in Budapest; later
immigrated to Israel; died, July 2, 1996 in Israel). Claim
Samuel Rosenbluth died on May 28, 1944, during the Shoah
upon being deported from Sátoraljaujhely to
Aushwitz-Birkenau at the same time as his daughter and
granddaughter.
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