Jewish families

The ancestors of Jakob Baruch Vogelhut (born 1889) lived in Brzesko for many generations; the gravestones of his grandmother, Beila Malka Grun née Tellerman (1825-1909), grandfather, Zachariasz Vogelhut (1828-1913), and great-grandfather, Mojżesz Dawid Vogelhut, who died in 1873, can still...

Efroim Jakob Beidner was born in Brzesko on January 28, 1867. He became a "private Hebrew teacher" (as his occupation was described in his children's birth records). The Beidners had lived in Brzesko for many generations; the gravestones of Efroim...

Hirsch Baumgarten (January 7, 1861 – January 1, 1938) was born in Łęki Dolne, he was the son of Laser and Dwojra Baumgarten. He most likely moved to Borzęcin after marrying Ryfka Sattler (1857 – June 4, 1932). Ryfka was...

Born in 1872, Wolf Munz was the eldest child of Berisch Munz and Reisel Nestelgrun, who had lived in Jadowniki. Wolf became a butcher and married Chana Hoffer. They had five children born in 1901-1911. Wolf Munz didn’t live to...

Born in Łukanowice on May 14, 1885, Schaje Nisan Berkelhamer was the son of Aron Eilband and Gale Sussel Berkelhamer. Since the parents had only a religious marriage, which was not recognized by the state, their children were considered illegitimate...

Nisen Leser, one of the last Brzesko-born Holocaust survivors, passed away on January 31, 2022. Nisen Leser, photo from an interview for BoroPark24 Nisen Leser was born in Brzesko on November 6, 1923. He was the oldest of five children...

In the family archive of the descendants of the Feibysowicz-Gartenberg family, there have been kept a post-war photo showing 5 Holocaust survivors from Brzesko. For many decades, these people remained anonymous. However, after seeing this photo, we could right away...

Aron Bukspan was born in Staszów on June 19, 1850; he was the son of the tailor Herszl Bukspan and Ruchla née Weintraub. Birth record of Aron Bukspan; photo from the website www.szukawarchiwach.gov.pl Aron married Brzesko-born Scheindel Laje Matzner (1855),...

I would like to start this article about the Brzesko Laub family with the history of the tenement house, the current address of which is Legionów Piłsudskiego 1, and the pre-war address - Słotwińska st., 41. In the mid-19th century,...

On June 20, 2023, Hasidim from all over the world came to Krakow  for the bicentenary yahrzait of Rabbi Kalman Kalonimos Epstein, Maor VaShemesh. Krakow rabbi Kalman Kalonimos Epstein (1754-1823), called Maor VaShemesh (From the Light and Sun) after the...