Żółkiewka, Poland District Krasnystaw, Province of Lublin

Our Families of Żółkiewka

We remember

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Photos in section below are from Tamar Amit©
Wagner Family Top left: Fajga (my grandmother), Joshe, Frieda Wagner-Pupiski, Shlomo Pupiski. Bottom left: Ruchla, Hirsch, Abraham-Adam, Rajzel.	Fajga Wagner, aged 16 (born 1915)	Fajga Wagner & Joel Gewircman, about 1938/9 – my maternal grandparents	Wagner Abraham with his daughter Frieda Pupiski and her husband & daughter: Shlomo & Edith Pupiski
Fajga Gewircman's (nee Wagner) Kenkarte She was born in Dąbie – an extension of Żółkiewka	Fajga Gewircman (nee Wagner) with Sara-Alina Gewircman (a toddler) from Żółkiewka and an unknown couple in Lublin	Fajga Gewircman (nee Wagner) with Sara-Alina Gewircman (a toddler) from Żółkiewka near a fountain in Lublin	From left: Sisters Fajga Gewircman nee Wagner & Frieda Pupiski nee Wagner with their girls: Sara Gewircman & Edith Pupiski
Edith Pupiski (daughter of Frieda nee Wagner) and Sara Gewircman (daughter of Fajga nee Wagner) in Lublin, 30^th July 1945	A gathering – my grandparents & mother in the left corner	From left: Fajga Gewircman nee Wagner with daughter (toddler) Sara, Hanka PELC, Hanna Wagner nee Aizner (2^nd wife of Joshe), Edith Pupiski (girl), Joshe Wagner, Frieda Pupiski nee Wagner, Shlomo Pupiski	Abraham Wagner, my great-grandfather. Mill operator in Dąbie – an extension of Żółkiewka

Photos in section below are from Chaim Zylberklang ©
Zylberklang Family, 1937: parents Josef and Zysel in the middle. Standing from left to right: Moszek, Judka, Bronia, Chaim and the children Nech Szaji and Yakov	Zylberklang Chaim & friends: Abraham Rozenblat, Kalman Tejder, Pinhas Helfman, Noach Glikman	Zylberklang Beirish	Lea & Bronia Zylberklang, 1937 Warsaw - before Leah left to join her husband Josef Hochman in Argentina
Zylberklang Moszek, 2^nd from the top	Zylberklang Judka, murdered in Sobibor 1942	Memorial stones along the road to Sobibor with a highlight of a stone for the Zylberklang family	Avrum Milsztain, Zipora & Chaim Zylberklang at the Żółkiewka Memorial in the Holon cemetery, Israel

Photos in section below are from Jim Haberman ©

Jim Haberman's great-aunt Chana Lafer (husband: Chia Zucker) standing in
front of her business (sign: "soda water, ice and fruit") in Żółkiewka, probably in the 1930s.

Photos in section below are from Shany Burshtein ©
Shajndel Grojser, Żółkiewka 20^th Mar 1938. Photo was sent to her sister Zisel Grojser (born 1918) who was already in Palestine	Stamp on the back stating "Foto Elektra, Żółkiewka"	Page 1 of Handwritten list by Zisel Grojser in Yiddish of people she remembered from Żółkiewka. This will be translated and added to the Names Portal at some point.	Page 2 of Handwritten list by Zisel Grojser in Yiddish of people she remembered from Żółkiewka. This will be translated and added to the Names Portal at some point.

Photos in section below are from Nurit Hirsch ©
Hanna & Itzhak Firer, Żółkiewka.	Moszek Firer's Birth Certificate from Żółkiewka.	Pearl & Shoshana Firer, Żółkiewka 1937.	Sosia Firer's Birth Certificate from Żółkiewka.

Photos in section below are from Dorit Casarotti ©
Hochman Family, Żółkiewka.	Shana Tova (Happy New Year) Card from Lola Milsztajn, Żółkiewka 1936.	Shana Tova (Happy New Year) Card to Sima Hochman, Żółkiewka from Sasza Slastwind?, 1936 [Both sides inside]	Shana Tova (Happy New Year) Card from Szmil Cytryn?, Żółkiewka 1936.
Masza nee Hochman, her children and her brother Szaja Hochman	Jocheved Hochman, Żółkiewka 1938.	Josle Hochman, left Żółkiewka at the beginning of 1930s to South America.

Photos in section below are from Lyudmila Novozhilova ©
Glikman Noach & his father Glikman Kalman, Żółkiewka.	Glikman Noach third from left with friends before the war.	Two of Glikman Noach's friends before the war. Do you recognize?

Photos in section below are from the Ghetto Fighters' Museum © (Shared here with their permission)
Zygmond Weitz aka Zygmunt Zolkiewski (Aryan name) was born 1941 in Żółkiewka to Mendel & Rivka Weitz. He was baptized (probably in an attempt to save him) and "reclaimed" later on.	Shalom Weitz, aged 8 from Żółkiewka was "reclaimed" from Polish villagers in Nowy Maciejow near Krasnystaw in 3^rd May 1946.	Leon Feldhandler, son of Żółkiewka's Rabbi was one of the planners and executors of the Sobibor Uprising. He was murdered in Lublin in 1945 after escaping Sobibor.	Survivors of the Sobibor Uprising. Standing from the right: Lejb-Leon Feldhandler
Remembrance Monument to the Jews of Żółkiewka that perished in the Holocoust. The memorial is in the Holon Cemetery in Israel.

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