Golomb Family Tree
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The family surname was also spelled Golomp, Golob, Galob, Golop, and Galop. According to the translation of Pinkas Hakehillot Polin by Morris Gradel, Krylow is first mentioned in the second half of the 16th century as a fortified urban settlement in the possession of the noble family Ostrorog. Its situation on the main road contributed to its economic development. There were weekly market days and six fairs a year. Many of its inhabitants were engaged in shoemaking and weaving cloth and linen. In 1795, after the Third Partition of Poland, the town came under Austrian rule; in 1807 it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Warsaw; from 1815 until the First World War it was part of the Kingdom of Congress Poland. During this latter period it was the possession of the nobleman Alexander Chesznowski. Between 1915 and 1918 it was occupied by the Germans. Jewish inhabitants of Krylow are first mentioned in 1550. Their means of livelihood were small trading and crafts. From 1823 to 1862 the Russian authorities forbid Jews to live in Krylow because of its proximity to the Austrian border. (Please note that my family DID live in Krylow during this period.) Only at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th did the community begin to grow. Before WWI the town possessed some welfare and charitable institutions such as a Provident Fund and “Bikur Cholim” (health/hospital services). During the First World War many Jews left Krylow because of its closeness to the battlefront and moved to larger towns in the district. In the inter-war years too, Jews continued in their tradional employment of trading and crafts. Their way of life was religious, though the Zionist movement also exerted considerable influence. At the end of September 1939 Krylow was occupied by the Germans. Many Jews fled to eastern Poland, which was held by the Soviet Union. The remainder were herded into a ghetto. The community was wiped out in the summer of 1942. All the Jews were sent to the extermination camp at Belzec. The only survivors were those who managed to escape to the woods. Noteworthy among the Rabbis of the town were Tsvi Landman (1880-90), who moved to Drohobycz; Yerachmiel Mordechai Weinberg (from 1898 to the WWI); and Aryeh Yehuda Sznicer, who officiated in the inter-war years. The source of the above information is Pinkas Hakehillot Polin. Thanks to Morris Gradel for the translation. If you see any connections in the below, please contact me. Surnames of those in my direct ancestral line appear in BOLD. 1 Abram Golomb b: unknown d: unknown .. + Gitla Gran b: unknown d: unknown ........ 2 Idel Lejb Galop b: 1839 in Krylow, Poland d: June 18, 1900 in Krylow, Poland ........... + Hawa Kiper b: unknown m: 1859 in Krylow, Poland d: unknown ................. 3 Jankiel Berko Golomb b: unknown m: 1880 d: Aft. 1900 ................... + Szandla Gisia Glazer b: unknown m: 1880 d: Aft. 1900 ................. 3 Sura Gela Golomb b: unknown m: Aug. 16, 1896 in Krylow d: 1916 in Hrubieszow ................... + Josef Gersz Biterman b: Abt. 1870 in Hrubieszow, Poland ...................... m: August 16, 1896 in Krylow, Poland d: October 1939 in Hrubieszow -- Notes on Josef and Sara Biterman: ............. Sara Biterman died in 1915 of gall stones. Yosef Biterman remarried after the death of his wife. Together they had four children; Yosef worked in the farm (dairy) industry. ............. According to oral tradition, Josef Biterman's mother, Miriam, was living with him until she reached the age of 102 years. The Cymet family used to transport goods to her for Shabbat (a gift on behalf of Riwka and Josef Cymet). -- ............................... 4 Judah "Judka" Biterman b: Dec. 06, 1901/1904 in .................................. Hrubieszow d: Aug. 30, 1975 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ................................... + Bluma Folk b: 1905 in Poland d: 1944 in Stutthof, Baltic Sea, Prussia -- Notes on Judah and Bluma Biterman: ............. Yehuda Biterman lived in an apartment that Josef and Riwka (Biterman) Cymet leased to the Biterman family. It was located in Podzamcze #15 (today #1) in Hrubieszow. By occupation, Judka was a grain manufacturer. ............. Yehuda Biterman survived the Hrubieszow ghetto, Auschwitz (for only a small period of time in 1942), Buchenwald (time unknown), Mielic (time unknown), Wieliscska (time unknown), Krakow-Plaszow (time unknown), Flossenburg and sub-camp Leitmeritz (1944), Dachau (1944), Augsburg-Pfersee (1944), Natzweiler and sub-camp Leonberg (1944), and then Dauchau (1944-1945) again. In Mielic the Nazis tatooted his arm with "KL." ............. In the concentration camps Buchenwald, Mielic, Wieliscska, and Flossenburg as well as the Frankfurt displaced persons camp (November, 1946), Biterman was with his much younger cousin Michael Finger (Drori). ............. Biterman emigrated to New York from Bremen with wife Tauba Fuks Biterman in January/February, 1948 on the ship Marine Marlin. He was a locksmith, store owner, and laborer by trade. He took the name Edward Biterman when assimilating in the United States. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen on November 25, 1953. Judah Biterman was buried in September, 1975 at Agudas Achim Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ............. Bluma Folk was also known as Bluma Wolk. Bluma survived the bulk of the war. In 1943, a small labor camp (of approx. 100 people) was set up in Hrubieszow (on Jatkowa Street) to clean out the Jewish homes. These were the last Jewish survivors of Hrubieszow. When that camp was liquidated (in July, 1943) all the men and women were sent to the Budzyn labor camp. The few children that had been hidden in Hrubieszow by the camp members were shot. In Budzyn, they avoided being killed in the "Harvest Festival" -- the murder spree in which the Nazis liquidated all inmates at all the remaining Polish labor camps, only because the Budzyn inmates had some skills in assembling airplanes, and their slave labor employer (Henkel) needed their work. ............. In February, 1944, the Russians were getting close, so they were moved to camp Mielec, where they received the "KL" tatoos on their arms. In August, 1944 they were sent from Mielec to Wieliczka. It was here that the women were separated. The men were sent on to Flossenberg for a brief period, and the women to Auschwitz. Bluma survived the selections in Auschwitz, and was sent to camp Stutthoff in Prussia, a very large concentration camp with mostly women. ............. Very late in the war, with the area surrounded by the Russians, the Nazis put thousands of Jewish women who had survived all of these other camps onto boats, which were sent out into the Baltic sea and sunk. Only one or two survived by swimming to shore. Bluma Biterman drowned in the Baltic Sea at Stutthof in late 1944 or early 1945. -- ................................... *2nd wife of Yehuda Biterman: ................................... + Chaja Tova Fuks b: 1918 in Zamosc, Poland ............................... 4 Malka Biterman b: 1903 in Hrubieszow d: 1942 in Belzec, Poland ................................... + Nachman Truk b: 1900 in Zamosc d: 1942 in Belzec, Poland -- Notes on Nachman and Malka Truk: ............. Nakhman Truk was a merchant in Zamosc. The Truk family owned and worked at a store in town. Nachman and Malka Truk were very tall -- six feet or more. Mrs. Truk was hefty. The family -- including son Wolf Truk and daughter Sura Truk -- was killed in the Belzec Concentration Camp in 1942. -- ............................... 4 Chana Biterman b: in Hrubieszow, Poland d: in Hrubieszow, Poland ............................... 4 Moshe Biterman b: in Hrubieszow, Poland d: in Hrubieszow, Poland |
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