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One of Our Landsleit Traces Her Roots (July 2008)
- submitted by Sarah Krakauer Kohn
"My family and I took one of those once-in-a-blue moon trips this summer to Israel
(two weeks) and Poland (one week). In return for working every Christmas for the last I-don't-
even-know-how-many years, I got a big chunk of time off.
" While in Częstochowa, the City Museum Curator was kind enough to take us into the Jewish
Cemetery where we were lucky to find the graves of my great-great-grandmother Aurelia/Rivka
Moszkowitz Weinberg and great-great grandfather Jozef Weinberg - amidst all the ticks and stinging
nettles. The graves were intact, if a little green (from acid rain from the nearby steel factory)."
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Me standing outside one
my family's
ex-factories on ul Wilsona
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Our guide, Wiesław Paszkowski, from
the Częstochowa City Museum
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"The Museum Curator also took us my grandfather Jakob Krakauer's former home at ul.Garibaldiego 15,
and the building of many Weinberg/Krakauer cousins next door at ul.Garibaldiego 17. We were also
informed that my Weinberg ancestors owned three factories on ul.Wilsona, just around the corner."
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my daughter, Miriam Shifra Kohn, making a rubbing of her great-great-great
grandmother Aurelia/Rivka Moszkowitz Weinberg's gravestone
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Our guide, Wiesław Paszkowski, from
the Częstochowa City Museum
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We saw the site of the former Reform Synagogue, where my ancestors worshipped, and where my
great-grandfather, Jozef Krakauer, used his copy of that first Polish Reform siddur signed by
Daniel Neufeld (we still have it). Jozef and Laja Rosa Weinberg Krakauer, and their family and
Polish nanny, all emigrated to the USA in 1904 and 1905."
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Area where the three former
Weinberg factories once stood
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The walkway to Jasna Góra with its 'etz hayim'
as well as the two 'arielim' (both from the Hebrew bible).
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"Częstochowa seemed so sad to us. The state of the cemetery - so many ghosts, so many deaths.
I cried as I placed stones on my Weinberg ancestors' graves and said a 'shechehiyanu' every morning
in the Patria Hotel breakfast room for the gift of being alive to visit and make that connection."
Israeli Landsleit Visit and Treblinka (June 2008)
- submitted by Alon Goldman
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Jacob Goldman (Alon's brother), together
with a group of his friends, visit Poland to explore their family roots.
With Jacob as their guide, they visit Częstochowa and
the Jewish Cemetery
there and Treblinka, where they locate the
Częstochowa memorial stone.
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Tel Aviv, Israel (4th May 2008)
- submitted by Alon Goldman
More than 150 Landsleit attended the 66th Annual Memorial Evening
of the Association of Częstochowa Jews and their Descendants at the "Beit
Zioney America" in Tel-Aviv.
Association Chairman, Arye Edelist (pictured left), reported on the
Association's activities, about Association's the new home in Ramat Gan and about plans
for future activities.
Guest Speaker was Sharon Vardi (Reserve IDF Colonel,
son of
Rut Vardi-Shienfeld) (pictured right)
who spoke on "looking straight into the past,
understanding, remembering and reminding".
As well as the reciting of Kadish and El Molei Rahamim, a film by
Samuel Willenberg made in Częstochowa was screened.
The Association's Second Generation prepared an exhibition of old
pictures from Częstochowa in the hope that people in these pictures could be
identified.
L-R: Yosef Shein, Avraham Zborowski,
Chana Ezyoni and friend
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L-R: Alon Goldman, Chaya Ezyoni
with Arye Edelist
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The evening evokes memories and discussion amongst those who attended
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Yosef Shein (left) helps a Second Generationer identify some of
her old photographs
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Photograph exhibition assembled by our Second Generation-ers
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