Courtesy of
Yosef Sa'ar(Goldman,
Cutler, Farberman)
My great-grandmother's name was, to
the best of our knowledge, Sarah Mariashe
GOLDMAN.It is
believed she came from the area of Kobylnik
(Narach) or nearby Globuyke, what is today Belarus.She was probably
born around 1830-40 and it is believed that
she never came to the US.Her husband was
Beral Cutler. My father and his sisters used
to speak of Kobylnik and sometimes Globuyke
or Dunilovich. These were the towns (or
rural area) where they were born in the
period of 1880's-1902. I had always thought
my father, Abe L. Kotler, was born in Iron
Mountain, Michigan.
It turns out he was brought there at about
the age of six in 1904. When all of the
eight siblings died, so did any knowledge of
their European background. We found
a handwritten sheet of paper with all the
names of the siblings, birthdates, and "born
in Kobylnik" written out for each of them.
Nevertheless, I still believe that they
resided on a farm somewhere between the
three towns. My grandfather Joseph Farberman
(Abe's father) listed Farmer as his
profession on the immigration landing
document at St. John, New Brunswick. Back to Names
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Courtesy of
Simon Goldman(Goldman, Mindel)
My
father
was
Izhak
El
Hanen
(in
some
lists: Iche Chone Goldman). He
originally married Gensia Mindel. In my
father’s family most of his brothers and
sisters married Mindels. My
father lost his entire family on Nov 22 1942
including his wife and three children. The
only survivors were a niece (still alive)
and a nephew.
My
father
joined
with
the
Russian
Partisans,
and
was able to kill/ wound the German
responsible for actually killing the Jews
there. He also was able to save about 30 Jews,
some he got out of the Glebokie Ghetto
including Joseph Riwash, who wrote a book
called Resistance and Revenge where he
recounts my father going in there and
pulling them out.My
cousin Miriam survived the 1942 killing with
my father. She joined Markov's Brigade in
1942 at the age of about 16. She remembered
that our grandmother died in 1930 and her
name was Heiha Sara Goldman (buried in
Dunilovichi cemetery)
Courtesy of
Judith Wolkovitch(Alperovich,
Edelman)
My information
about the children of Shneur Zalman
Alperovich and Rifka Edelman is uncertain.As far as I know
they had six children.The oldest was named Faigle Raize.The youngest
daughter was Nechamah (born in Dunilovichi),
the fifth of six children.The last child born after her was
Avram.The
middle daughters apparently emigrated to Philadelphia
but as I am not certain of their names I
have not been able to trace them.
Nechamel was taken
on as a nanny to the well known Strashun
family and was supposed to travel with them
to the U.S.
to join her sisters.They
stopped in Antwerp
for some time and there she met Itzik Meier
Engel who became her husband. She eventually
went to England
with him.Nechamah
is supposedly a descendant of the
Lubovitcher Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Lyadi.
Courtesy
of Shmuel
Engelson
(Engelson or Anygelson)
My
great-great grandfather was Nosson Nota
Engelson (b. 1842 d 1916). My
great-grandfather's brother Tzvi Hirsh
Anygelson (Engelson) is buried in the
Dunilovichi cemetery.
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Courtesy of
Eliahu Homburger(Cepelowicz)
Joseph Zuzman
Cepelowicz, born in Dunilowicz, emigrated
& died in Brazil.
Brother Myashka (Moshe) died in US, two
sisters - Hainke died in Holocaust, but
husband Kotshin escaped to Russia.
Hainke's baby died in the ghetto, Itke
emigrated to Brazil.
Parents were Eliahu & Basia Cepelowicz.
I
believe my mother's family
(Goldman) spent the pre-WW2
and WW2 years in
Dunilovich. I am told
they were murdered in the town
with other Jewish families in
November 1942. I am
trying to identify the names
of my mother's siblings.
I know of a David and Nachum
Eli, but she had one or two
sisters and possibly a third
brother. Tiba Yonah (my
father's sister) was married
to Nacum Eli (my mother's
brother) and their children
were Esther Libby and
Yenta.
My
mother Bertha (Basha Gita) was
born in 1909. She
immigrated to Newfoundland in
1930 where she married my father
Ernest, also known as Yitchak
Swirsky from Myadel (18 miles SW
of Dunilovichi) who had
immigrated a few years
earlier. My father's
sister Katie, who was married to
a Levitz, lived in Newfoundland
and was able to help bring my
Dad over. Newfoundland was
a British colony until after
WW2. Apparently it was
easier for Jews to get into
Newfoundland than Canada or the
USA prior or during WW2.
My Grandfather Swirsky was Yosef
Tzvi. My Grandfather
Goldman was named Avrham Chaim.
His brother was the grandfather
of Simon Goldman (see history on
this page).
My
mother's oldest brother was David
Goldman. He was born Jan 7,
1897 and died Sept 2, 1956. I
believe David, his first wife and
children lived in Kharkouv just
prior to WW2. During the
initial stages of WW2 his first
wife and children were
killed. I am not sure of the
details, whether as a result of a
bombing or a more violent event.
Sometime thereafter, David joined
the Russian army and remarried, to
a Russian woman named Klava.
they had a son who became a
physicist. He and his son
and their families now live in
Germany.