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Reunification of the family in Argentina

TheSapoczkowski familyis reunited after more than 120 years, thanks to the combinedresearch efforts of Daniel Paczkowski (Ancestral Tourism in Poland)and the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA). In March 2020Daniel’s skilled archival sleuthingled us to South America, where we discovered second-degree relativesalive and well in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sundry travel documentsrevealed Nison Sapockowski (b. 1916), my mother's first cousin, fledBialystok in 1936, anticipating the unspeakable historical eventsthat were to follow. Nison left behind a largeextended family, whose fate rested entirely in the hands of Nazis andNazi collaborators. To the best of our knowledge, all perished by1943.

2025-01-11

Roots Journey to Bialystok & Lomza: 21-24.07.2023

We, Dvora and Gadi Eshel, organized a roots trip to Poland - Bialystok and Lomza, on 21-24.07.2023. This trip continued a Jewish community and Holocaust trip to Poland - of "Masaot", under the guidance of Itzik Khiderski, which ended on Friday - 21.07.2023 in Krakow. On our journey, we spent two days in Jewish Bialystok, and continued to a full day Lomza. The purpose of the journey was to discover the roots and history of our families: Dvora’s in Lomza, and of Gadi’s in Bialystok, and to get an idea about their lifestyle in the community they were part of, their whatabouts, and if possible, to save something about their fate in the Holocaust.

2024-08-04

Problem of baby girls registration – Bialystok Jewish records

I have had very interesting research in vital records of Jewish community in Białystok lately. Most of these records have been indexed by jri-poland, but records from 1906 till 1925 available for research in the State Archive in Białystok wait for indexation. I have had to check original records from the pre 1905 period to extract whole information included in records, which was not published on the jri-poland web page as well as the post 1905 period. The main goal has been to identify all the siblings of my customer’s grandfather, who left tsarist Russia after pogrom in Białystok in 1906 and settled in America. As it has been quite easy to find birth records of all the brothers of the customer’s grandfather, I have not found any birth records of his sisters. According to an oral familiar history of my customer and based on a marriage record found in one of today’s Ukraine towns, these sisters existed and for one of them a detailed birth date was provided.

2020-02-29