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Our researcher compiled the following list when she was in Dukla; it contains every surname she ran across in any record, not just the ones associated with our research:
Abraham, Adler, Altholz, Apfelbaum, Apt, Auman(n),
Bard, Bartenthal, Barth, Baumer, Beer, Beil, Ber, Berger, Bergknopf, Berglas, Bergman(n), Bernbach (Birnbach), Bernstein, Billet. Birnbach (Bernbach), Birnbaum, Birnkraut, Birnstein, Biron, Blasbalg, Blau, Blawat (of Lodz), Blechner, Blitzer, Blonder, Blum, Bobker, Bochner, Bodenstein, Bodner, Bornfreund, Bosser, Brandeis, Brandstatter, Brandwein, Braun, Brav , Brenner, Broda, Bruch, Bruder, Buchsbaum, Buchwald
Citron,Czermak, Czopp
Dab, Den, Diamand, Diller, Dorfman(n), Drucker, Drutter, Dukler (of Lesko), Dunkelblum, Durchschlag
Eder, Ehrenreich, Ehrlich, Eichner, Einhorn, Eisikowicz, Elowicz, Endzweig, Eneman (Einemann), Epstein, Erbstein,
Ettinger, Ezraelowicz,
Facher, Fallman(n), F=E4rber, Fass, Feder, Feiczewicz, Feit, Felber, Feld, Feller, Fenig (Pfennig), Fernbach, Feuer, Feuereisen, Findling, Fink, Fisch, Fischbein, Fischler, Frank, Frankel, Frant (Freund?), Freiberg, Freister, Freufeld, Fried,
Friedman(n), Friedrich, Friess, Fromm, Fromm, Frühauf, Frühof (Frühauf), Führer, Fürst,
Gans, Gärtner, Gelb, Geldzeiler (Geldzähler), Geller, Gerhard, Getzler, Gewürz, Glanzer, Glück, Glücksman(n), Gold, Goldbaum, Goldberg, Goldfischer, Goldman(n), Goldstein, Gralitzer, Grill, Gröber, Gross, Grossman(n), Grün, Grünfeld, Grünspan, Grünwald, Guthwirth, Gutter, Gutwirth, Guzik
Haber, Haberman(n), Hafferling, Hafter, Hahn, Halberstam(m), Halpern, Hammel, Händler, Häuben, Hebenstreit, Heller, Herczig (Herzig), Herschthal, Herzig, Hesel??, Hewen, Hirsch, Hirschhorn, Hirschsprung, Hochstim, Hochstüm, Hofstädter, Holländer, Holzstein, Hönig, Horlober, Horn, Hornung, Horowitz, Huppert
Ichel, Indig (Indyk), Indyk, Israel,
Jaffe, Jahre, Jakóbowicz, Jam, Jarmusz, Jass, Jenner?, Jol(l)es, Judem, Jungwirth
Kalb, Kamelhar (Kamelhaar), Kanarek, Kanner, Kap(p)ner, Katz, Kaufman(n), Keller, Kerz, Kessler, Kesterbaum, Kimmel , Kümmel), Kirschner, Kisner, Kiszner, Klagsbald, Klausner,Klein, Kleinberger, Kleinod, Kohn, Kolber, Korb, Kornreich, Kórz (Kurz), Krautblat(t), Krebs, Kremer (Krämer), Krill, Kromatowski, Kryl (Krill), Kuflik, Kuflik, Kurz, Kurzman(n)
Landau, Laner, Langsam, Lautman(n), Leber, Lehrer, Lehrfeld (Leerfeld), Lehrreich, Leib, Leitner, Lerner, Lichtenberg, Lichtig, Lichtman(n), Lieber, Lindner, Lipiner, Littman(n), Lochner, Löffelholz, Löwenbraun
Mahler, Maj, Majerowicz, Makler, Malz, Mandel, Mann, Mantel, Margel, Margulies, Markel, Maslbaum (Mastbaum?), Mechlowitz, Meisner, Meizner , Meisner), Melcer (Melzer), Meller, Menner, Mersel, Messer, Milzner, Minz, Moskowitz, Müller
Nebel, Neger, Neuman(n) , Neuss, Nussbaum, Nüssenbaum, Ohrschützer, Ornstein, Orschützer (Ohrschützer)
Panska , of Lodz), Parnes, Pasternak, Peller, Pencier (Penzer?), Penzer, Perl, Perlzweig, Pfeffer, Plachte, Platter, Plattner, Polster, Popper, Posner, Postrong (P/o/stra,g), Preker, Propker, Propper, Puderbeutel
Raab, Rab , Rajman(n) (Rei...), Rand, Ratz, Reich, Reichman(n), Reifer, Reimann, Reiner, Reinmann, Rendel, Rieder, Riemer, Ritter, Ronies??, Rosenberg, Rosenfeld, Rosenhan (Rosenhain), Rosenthal, , osenzweig, Rosenzweig, Rosner, Rössler, Roth, Rothman(n), Rotter, Rozenberg (Rosen...), Rubin, Rubinfeld
Salamon, Salz, Samel, Sameth, Schabse, Schachne, , Schächter, Schänker, Schanzer, Schapse, Scheiner, Scherer, Schiff (of Köln, Germany), Schiffman(n), Schild, Schildkraut, Schipper, Schmutz, Schneebaum, Schneider, Schnejbaum (Schneeb.), Schönberg, Schönfeld, Schönwetter, Schreiber, Schubin, Schumann, Schuss, Schütz, Schwan, Schwarz, Schwer, Seemann, Seginer, Segner, Seiler, Sekler, Seligman,Sicherman(n), Silber, Silberberg, Silberman(n), Singer, Sommer, Sperber, Sperling, Spira, Spiro, Spritzer, Srulowicz, Stadtfeld, Stecher, Steinberg, Steiner, Steinmetz, Stern, Stim(m)ler, Stoff, Sturm, Südwärts, Süsswein, Synay, Szerer (Scherer), Szydlowska (of Lodz)
Tag, Tager, Teitelbaum, Tennenbaum (Ta...), Tepper , Teuch, Teutelbaum, Thaler, Their, Tiefenbrunn, Tisser, Tobias, Trachman(n), Treff, Treister, Treitel, ropp, Trunczer, Tuchman(n), Tucker, Türk
Ungar, Wachspress, Wahl, Wajsman (Weissmann), Wald, Wallach, Walter,Wasserstein, Wasserstrom, Weber, Weg, Weil, Weinberg, Weinberger, Weinstein, Weintraub, Weisberg, Weiser, Weiss, Weissberg, Weissman(n), Weitz,Weitzner, Wellisch, Wermuth, Wertheim, Wichner, Wieczner (Wietschner), Wiener, Wietschner, Wild, Wilk, Willner, Wischnowitz, Wisznowitz (Wisch...), Wolf, Woloski (Wloski), Wróbel
Zal(l)el, Zarkower , of Vienna), Zawislak, Zehngut, Zelnik, Zeug, Zimet, Zitronenbaum, Zicherman(n) (Si...), Zucker,Zwass
For further information, please contact Debbie Raff, Calif.
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YIVO in N.Y. has a landsmanshaft file for a Duklar Society. If anyone lives in the N.Y. area, you may want to explore this file, I am unable to since I live in California. (Records from the Duklar Relief Society from 1944 through 1968 are in record group 799).
The original two page document was obtained from YIVO in New York. It is typewritten, and appears to be a non-dated membership list, which includes names and addresses in Israel. There is no page heading and the clarity of the printed word is difficult to determine, therefore, some names may not be totally accurate. The names have been placed in alphabetical name by surname, but did not appear this way in the original document.
Debbie Raff, Calif., 12 August 2000
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While walking through the lovely old Jewish Cemetery, Mt. Zion, just outside of New York City, I found the following names in two different Dukla plots:
Acoby ; Altholz ; Amster ; Banilower ; Bandler ; Banilower ; Banner ; Bernhak ; Binder ; Bodner,lena ; Braverman ; Breit ; Cohen ; Donner ; Drucker ; Ehrenreich ; Eichenbaum ; Engelberg ; Ferlig ;; Fleischer ; Fried ; Friedman ; Gluck ; Goldfarb ; Goldstein(many) ; Greenbart ; Greenbaum (many) ; Greenspan ; Grinspan ; Gross,morris,gussie ; Haber sent maralyn ; Haber,hyman ; Hecht ; Henichnesser ; Herman ; Hirschhorn ; Hitter ; Indig(many) ; Jacobowitz ; Karten ; Katz ; Katz ; Klaufman ; Kranzer ; Kronfeld ; Kurzman ; Last (many) ; Lehreich/lehrer ; Leifer ; Leinhart ; Lembech ; Magrill ; Marcus ; Mehlman ; Meyer (many) ; Miller ; Morgenlander ; Moskowitz ; Moss ; Pollack ; Purek (many) ; Rubin,lena ; Rubin,max ; Scheer ; Scherer,blanche ; Scherer,estelle vivian ; Scherer,frieda ; Scherer,hyman ; Scherer,isidor/esther ; Scherer,max charles, and anna ; Scherer,mollie ; Scherer,morris ; Scherer,moses/fannie ; Scherer,samuel ; Scherer,samuel ; Scherer,sarah ; Schiff ; Schiffman(many) ; Schlussel ; Schneider ; Seiler ; Shilling ; Siepser (many) ; Simon ; Spadacini ; Spira(many) ; Stansky ; Stone (many) ; Strassman ; Teich ; Teich (many) ; Teitel (many) ; Tobias ; Trench (many) ; Weintraub ; Weiss ; Wohl ; Wolf ; Ziegler (many) ; Zimet,julius/miriam ; Zimmerman ; Zwirn ;
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Surnames: MEISNER / KATZ /RAFF / SICHERMAN/ MEISNER/ KATZ / FISH / GRUNSPANN / GREENSPAN / EICHNER / ZWICK / HILLER from Zmigród Nowy / Bukowsko / Dukla / Dynow / Korczyna, Poland
Great-Great Grandparents: Aron and Itte KATZ, who were day laborers in Korczyna. They had at least one child. Her name was Chaje (Chaya) Sara and she was my great-grandmother.
The Raffs: (standing) Ida Raff Frankel (my aunt), Isaac Raff (my uncle), with Yetta Meisner Raff (my grandmother) holding Israel "James" Raff (my wonderful dad!)
Great Grandparents: Chaje (Chaya) Sara KATZ marries Israel MEISNER. Israel MEISNER is a shochet and mohel. His name is listed in the Zmigród Nowy Birth Records, as a mohel for over 2 decades. His son, Lipa, appears to take over this occupation and is also listed in the records as a mohel. Chaje Sara and Israel have 10 children, including one set of twins.
Grandparents: Yittela "Yetta" MEISNER (1880-1962) marries Jakob Zev"Wolf" RAFF (born 21 August 1886/died 17 January 1982), the son of Yehoshua (Osias) RAFF and Necha SICHERMAN. An Osias RAFF (watchmaker) is listed in the "1891 Galician Business Directory". "Wolf" immigrates to New York (USA) in 1922 and is followed in 1928 by his wife, "Yetta" and their 3 children. "Wolf" owns a small jewelry store on the Lower East Side of NY for over 50 years and becomes an active member of the Brezower Landsmanshaft. The children are:
James was my wonderful dad. He moved from Poland to New York at the tender age of 6. He served in the U.S. Army in WWII, was an active member of the Jewish War Veterans and a volunteer coordinator for his local police department, until his recent death. He practiced his Yiddish by translating some stories from the Sanok Yizkor Book for JewishGen. My uncles and my father worked in the jewelry business, which seems to go back at least 3 generations in my family. James, Miriam and their 2 daughters, Deborah "Debbie" (that's me) and Nedda moved to California in 1959.
The Records of the nearby town of Dukla mention the surname MEISNER many times. I do not know my connection to those families at this time.
For More Information, email Debbie Raff, Calif.
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Leib and Golda Stecher had 14 children
Golda Trachman's siblings emigrated to the US and settled in Chicago and Joliet, Illinois: Morris Isser Trachman (1865-1932), Sam Trachman (4/69-6/43), Sarah Trachman (10/69-5/34, married Samuel Kroon), Yetta Trachman (married Aaron Schacker), Jenny Trachman (married Herbst and Wolf), and Lillie Trachman (married Rauce).
Other Trachman cousins from Dukla emigrated to NYC and included Esther Trachman (born 1876, married Abe GEIGER), JACOB TRACHMAN (1867-1938, married first Leah and then her sister HANNA SOLOMON, was a grocer), Fichu Trachman (married Pacher of the Brooklyn supermarkets).........
For more information, email Phyllis Kramer,Conn & NY, phylliskramer1@worldnet.att.net
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I am attempting to find out the fate of my ggf Hershel (Zvi Hersh) Keller, who lived in Dukla with one of his daughters and was in his 80's when the Nazis arrived there. Nothing further is known about him. We may be related to Kellers in Rzeszow, which is only a short distance north of Dukla and the town (Tyzycn) where my grandmother, Bertha Saltzman Keller, was born. Your web page includes the birth record of a Keile Keller in 1867. My ggm's maiden name was Geldzeller or Geldzeiler.Her children included Fanny, Joe, Paul (my gf b 1882), Louis, sister (name unknown who remained in Dukla possibly Keile?).
Hersh Keller sold horses to the Polish cavalry. In 1905, he came to the U.S. to attend my gps' wedding in the Lower East Side of NYC, but returned to Dukla because he thought "NYC wasn't Jewish enough." Once the war started, contact was lost.
I also heard from Marcel Keller who lives in Bensonhurst Brooklyn). He was a young boy in Dukla when the Germans rounded up his family; his gf Hersch Keller, perished in the camps and he was one of the very few survivors. I obtained a copy of his family tree, which goes back almost 300 years. I really appreciate your continuing interest and pursuing this subject with me!
For additional information, please email Ken Keller, Virginia
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My family came from Zmigrod Nowy near Jaslo. My father Saloman was born in Dukla, my mother Rachel in Brody, about 
100-km east from Przemysl. What I want to know is: did my father have any brothers or sisters??
For more information, email Alfred Van Vliet, The Netherlands
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