Up until 2019, Phyllis Kramer (OBM) developed and maintained this KahilaLink. Phyllis did a wonderful job documenting and sharing information about this shtetl. Starting in July 2021 Jeff Alexander is trying to fill Phyllis’ shoes. Please contact Jeff Alexander for anything related to this shtetl
Our researcher compiled the following list when she was in Dukla; it contains every surname she ran across in any record, not just the ones associated with our research:
Abraham, Adler, Altholz, Apfelbaum, Apt, Auman(n),
Bard, Bartenthal, Barth, Baumer, Beer, Beil, Ber, Berger,
Bergknopf, Berglas, Bergman(n), Bernbach (Birnbach), Bernstein,
Billet. Birnbach (Bernbach), Birnbaum, Birnkraut, Birnstein,
Biron, Blasbalg, Blau, Blawat (of Lodz), Blechner, Blitzer,
Blonder, Blum, Bobker, Bochner, Bodenstein, Bodner, Bornfreund,
Bosser, Brandeis, Brandstatter, Brandwein, Braun, Brav ,
Brenner, Broda, Bruch, Bruder, Buchsbaum, Buchwald
Citron,Czermak, Czopp
Dab, Den, Diamand, Diller, Dorfman(n), Drucker, Drutter, Dukler
(of Lesko), Dunkelblum, Durchschlag
Eder, Ehrenreich, Ehrlich, Eichner, Einhorn, Eisikowicz,
Elowicz, Endzweig, Eneman (Einemann), Epstein, Erbstein,
Ettinger, Ezraelowicz,
Facher, Fallman(n), F=E4rber, Fass, Feder, Feiczewicz, Feit,
Felber, Feld, Feller, Fenig (Pfennig), Fernbach, Feuer,
Feuereisen, Findling, Fink, Fisch, Fischbein, Fischler, Frank,
Frankel, Frant (Freund?), Freiberg, Freister, Freufeld, Fried,
Friedman(n), Friedrich, Friess, Fromm, Fromm, Frühauf, Frühof
(Frühauf), Führer, Fürst,
Gans, Gärtner, Gelb, Geldzeiler (Geldzähler), Geller, Gerhard,
Getzler, Gewürz, Glanzer, Glück, Glücksman(n), Gold, Goldbaum,
Goldberg, Goldfischer, Goldman(n), Goldstein, Gralitzer, Grill,
Gröber, Gross, Grossman(n), Grün, Grünfeld, Grünspan, Grünwald,
Guthwirth, Gutter, Gutwirth, Guzik
Haber, Haberman(n), Hafferling, Hafter, Hahn, Halberstam(m),
Halpern, Hammel, Händler, Häuben, Hebenstreit, Heller, Herczig
(Herzig), Herschthal, Herzig, Hesel??, Hewen, Hirsch,
Hirschhorn, Hirschsprung, Hochstim, Hochstüm, Hofstädter,
Holländer, Holzstein, Hönig, Horlober, Horn, Hornung, Horowitz,
Huppert
Ichel, Indig (Indyk), Indyk, Israel,
Jaffe, Jahre, Jakóbowicz, Jam, Jarmusz, Jass, Jenner?, Jol(l)es,
Judem, Jungwirth
Kalb, Kamelhar (Kamelhaar), Kanarek, Kanner, Kap(p)ner, Katz,
Kaufman(n), Keller, Kerz, Kessler, Kesterbaum, Kimmel , Kümmel),
Kirschner, Kisner, Kiszner, Klagsbald, Klausner,Klein,
Kleinberger, Kleinod, Kohn, Kolber, Korb, Kornreich, Kórz
(Kurz), Krautblat(t), Krebs, Kremer (Krämer), Krill,
Kromatowski, Kryl (Krill), Kuflik, Kuflik, Kurz, Kurzman(n)
Landau, Laner, Langsam, Lautman(n), Leber, Lehrer, Lehrfeld
(Leerfeld), Lehrreich, Leib, Leitner, Lerner, Lichtenberg,
Lichtig, Lichtman(n), Lieber, Lindner, Lipiner, Littman(n),
Lochner, Löffelholz, Löwenbraun
Mahler, Maj, Majerowicz, Makler, Malz, Mandel, Mann, Mantel,
Margel, Margulies, Markel, Maslbaum (Mastbaum?), Mechlowitz,
Meisner, Meizner , Meisner), Melcer (Melzer), Meller, Menner,
Mersel, Messer, Milzner, Minz, Moskowitz, Müller
Nebel, Neger, Neuman(n) , Neuss, Nussbaum, Nüssenbaum,
Ohrschützer, Ornstein, Orschützer (Ohrschützer)
Panska , of Lodz), Parnes, Pasternak, Peller, Pencier (Penzer?),
Penzer, Perl, Perlzweig, Pfeffer, Plachte, Platter, Plattner,
Polster, Popper, Posner, Postrong (P/o/stra,g), Preker, Propker,
Propper, Puderbeutel
Raab, Rab , Rajman(n) (Rei...), Rand, Ratz, Reich, Reichman(n),
Reifer, Reimann, Reiner, Reinmann, Rendel, Rieder, Riemer,
Ritter, Ronies??, Rosenberg, Rosenfeld, Rosenhan (Rosenhain),
Rosenthal, , osenzweig, Rosenzweig, Rosner, Rössler, Roth,
Rothman(n), Rotter, Rozenberg (Rosen...), Rubin, Rubinfeld
Salamon, Salz, Samel, Sameth, Schabse, Schachne, , Schächter,
Schänker, Schanzer, Schapse, Scheiner, Scherer, Schiff (of Köln,
Germany), Schiffman(n), Schild, Schildkraut, Schipper, Schmutz,
Schneebaum, Schneider, Schnejbaum (Schneeb.), Schönberg,
Schönfeld, Schönwetter, Schreiber, Schubin, Schumann, Schuss,
Schütz, Schwan, Schwarz, Schwer, Seemann, Seginer, Segner,
Seiler, Sekler, Seligman,Sicherman(n), Silber, Silberberg,
Silberman(n), Singer, Sommer, Sperber, Sperling, Spira, Spiro,
Spritzer, Srulowicz, Stadtfeld, Stecher, Steinberg, Steiner,
Steinmetz, Stern, Stim(m)ler, Stoff, Sturm, Südwärts, Süsswein,
Synay, Szerer (Scherer), Szydlowska (of Lodz)
Tag, Tager, Teitelbaum, Tennenbaum (Ta...), Tepper , Teuch,
Teutelbaum, Thaler, Their, Tiefenbrunn, Tisser, Tobias,
Trachman(n), Treff, Treister, Treitel, ropp, Trunczer,
Tuchman(n), Tucker, Türk
Ungar, Wachspress, Wahl, Wajsman (Weissmann), Wald, Wallach,
Walter,Wasserstein, Wasserstrom, Weber, Weg, Weil, Weinberg,
Weinberger, Weinstein, Weintraub, Weisberg, Weiser, Weiss,
Weissberg, Weissman(n), Weitz,Weitzner, Wellisch, Wermuth,
Wertheim, Wichner, Wieczner (Wietschner), Wiener, Wietschner,
Wild, Wilk, Willner, Wischnowitz, Wisznowitz (Wisch...), Wolf,
Woloski (Wloski), Wróbel
Zal(l)el, Zarkower , of Vienna), Zawislak, Zehngut, Zelnik,
Zeug, Zimet, Zitronenbaum, Zicherman(n) (Si...), Zucker,Zwass
For further information, please contact Debbie Raff, Calif.
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YIVO in N.Y. has a landsmanshaft file for a
Duklar Society. If anyone lives in the N.Y. area, you may want
to explore this file, I am unable to since I live in California.
(Records from the Duklar Relief Society from 1944 through 1968
are in record group 799). The original two page document was
obtained from YIVO in New York. It is typewritten, and appears
to be a non-dated membership list, which includes names and
addresses in Israel. There is no page heading and the clarity of
the printed word is difficult to determine, therefore, some
names may not be totally accurate. The names have been placed in
alphabetical name by surname, but did not appear this way in the
original document.
Debbie Raff, Calif., 12
August 2000
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While walking through the lovely old Jewish Cemetery, Mt. Zion, just outside of New York City, I found the following names in two different Dukla plots:
Acoby ; Altholz ; Amster ; Banilower ; Bandler ; Banilower ; Banner ; Bernhak ; Binder ; Bodner,lena ; Braverman ; Breit ; Cohen ; Donner ; Drucker ; Ehrenreich ; Eichenbaum ; Engelberg ; Ferlig ;; Fleischer ; Fried ; Friedman ; Gluck ; Goldfarb ; Goldstein(many) ; Greenbart ; Greenbaum (many) ; Greenspan ; Grinspan ; Gross,morris,gussie ; Haber sent maralyn ; Haber,hyman ; Hecht ; Henichnesser ; Herman ; Hirschhorn ; Hitter ; Indig(many) ; Jacobowitz ; Karten ; Katz ; Katz ; Klaufman ; Kranzer ; Kronfeld ; Kurzman ; Last (many) ; Lehreich/lehrer ; Leifer ; Leinhart ; Lembech ; Magrill ; Marcus ; Mehlman ; Meyer (many) ; Miller ; Morgenlander ; Moskowitz ; Moss ; Pollack ; Purek (many) ; Rubin,lena ; Rubin,max ; Scheer ; Scherer,blanche ; Scherer,estelle vivian ; Scherer,frieda ; Scherer,hyman ; Scherer,isidor/esther ; Scherer,max charles, and anna ; Scherer,mollie ; Scherer,morris ; Scherer,moses/fannie ; Scherer,samuel ; Scherer,samuel ; Scherer,sarah ; Schiff ; Schiffman(many) ; Schlussel ; Schneider ; Seiler ; Shilling ; Siepser (many) ; Simon ; Spadacini ; Spira(many) ; Stansky ; Stone (many) ; Strassman ; Teich ; Teich (many) ; Teitel (many) ; Tobias ; Trench (many) ; Weintraub ; Weiss ; Wohl ; Wolf ; Ziegler (many) ; Zimet,julius/miriam ; Zimmerman ; Zwirn ;
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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.
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:
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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Leib and Golda Stecher had 14 children
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).........
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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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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??
For more information, email Alfred Van Vliet, The Netherlands
For more information, email Chaim Greenberger
The source wrote: "The picture of Chana Zehngut I think is a sister to David, Mendel, Jonas, Moses, and Henoch but no record to prove that. It was given to me by David’s daughter and it said “my Aunt Chana”. Chana is on the left, then Joseph son of Jonas, then David, Sema and Ester Amalie. "
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.
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
For more information, email by clicking here: Robert Margulies
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.
For more information, email Simone
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