Welcome to Nowy Sącz, Poland!

                     ( Neu Sandec ~ Neu Sandez ~ Nowy Sancz ~ Zanz ~ Sanz ~ Tsants ~ Sants ~ Zantz ~ Noyzantz )

                           

                                                                    (founded in 1292)

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                                                                       Nowy Sącz – Neu Sandez – c.1915

                               

                                                                                    Nowy Sącz Today

                       Nowy Sącz “LIVE” Click here to see the rynek (town square) on a Web Cam!!

                               Nowy Sącz “LIVE” Click here to see the Ratusz on a Web Cam!!

                                 (both Web Cams include time of day & weather in Nowy Sacz!)

                                                     (Latitude 49°38´, Longitude 20°43´)

                                                                         181.1 miles S of Warsaw

·        Maps/Province Information

·        Town History

·        Faces & Places of Nowy Sącz

·        Nowy Sącz Today

·        Synagogue Information

·        Cemetery in Nowy Sącz

·        Sanz Dynasty

·        Business Directories

·        Yizkor (Memorial) Books

·        World War II in the Nowy Sącz Area

·        Birth, Marriage, Death Records

·        Nowy Sącz Family Tree Information

·        Nowy Sącz – Related Links

·        Stary Sącz – Related Links

·        Other - Related Links

·        …and don't neglect the wonderful treasures at JewishGen

 

 

              Moshe (Mojzesz) Aron REBHUN (April 8, 1919 – July 7, 2008)

 

Mr. REBHUN was born in Nowy Sacz on April 8, 1919 anddied in Haifa, Israel

On July 7, 2008.  He is survived by  3 children, 8 grandchildren and 6 great-grand
children.

 

M.A. REBHUN son of Chune Henry (Heinrich) Elchanan REBHUN and Beila
Dwojre (Deborah) Bertha nee WAGSCHAL moved to Krakow in 1923.

He fled Krakow 4.9.1939 (together with 3 of his brothers - Israel,
Naftali and Shlomo all born in N.S.) on bicycles to Lwow (Lemberg).
His girlfriend, later his wife Stella nee STOCK (born in Krakow
25.11.1918 died 28.1.2006), joined him in Lwow (4.11.1939). They
stayed at rented apartments in Lvov. Afterwards, as a direct result
of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact both acted as agents for their
masters, Stalin and Hitler. Hundreds of Lwow Jews and refugees were
deported in April 1940 to Siberia when they refused to take up Soviet
citizenship (at about 7.1940 with the Russian occupation of Lwow).
They were transferred August1940 to a Gulag at Sosnova, Omckaya, obwash,
Russia.

After Russia joined the allied forces against Germany, they
were "released" and spend most of the war time at an "open" hard –
labor camp at the settlement of Kondinskoye (Kondinsky District) -
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomus Okrug the Arctic Circle of Russia (2.1941-
11.1944). This saved his and his wife’s life. On 7.7.1943 he was in
Omsk to be drafted, but the list was full and he was reassigned to his
working group at Kondinskoye.

From about 12.1944 they turned south and arrived at Barvenkovo,
Ukraine (1.1945-1.1946). His first daughter was born there
(30.10.1945). They returned to Krakow 1.1946 and remained until 12.1947

when they immigrated to Israel (11.1.1948).

                           May his memory be blessed.       

                                 Video Tour ~ Jewish Cemetery of Nowy Sącz!

Description: On September 12, 2005, Mr. Bernard Schwerd together with his son,Yecheal (Neil) Schwerd and nephew, Moshe(Michael)Schwerd visited the Jewish cemetery in Sanz,(Nowy Sanz)Poland, resting place of the holy Divrei Chaim (R'Chaim Halberstam and his family). The trip was part of a tour through various towns in Galicia Poland. At the cemetery gate they were greeted by Mr. Yaakov Miller, a Holocaust survivor presently residing in Sweden. He comes to Tsanz each summer to look after the cemetery. He gave them a guided tour of the cemetery. 20 min 1 sec (This film Courtesy of Neil Schwerd)

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 “Central Database of Shoah Victim Names”

This database went online on Nov. 22, 2004 and there are over 1,000 Holocaust Victims listed from Nowy Sącz (some names may be repeated)

~ Click Here To Do Your Own Search ~

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                      Markus (Mordechai) Lustig (Kanengisser)

 

                                “A Sanzer’s Life Story” (in his own words)

                            **** Click Here to read this incredible life story **** 

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            Source:  Taken by me (Debbie Raff), while on a bus passing through Nowy Sacz in the summer of 1998.  I never had the opportunity to see the town.

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                                   Join our “Nowy Sącz Group” at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sacz

                                                               A wonderful place to ask questions! J

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   A List of 4,232 Jewish Residents of Nowy Sacz – Compiled by William Leibner

                      (Source abbreviations are located at the top of the list)

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                                    “A Purim in the Region of Sants”

                             (a detailed account of one boisterous Purim celebration)

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Maps/Province Information ~

 

Town History ~ see excerpts below and also, check out the “Nowy Sacz” entry at Wikipedia

                                                                                         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowy_S%C4%85cz

 

                                       

By far the largest town in the region is Nowy Sacz (Sonch), which lies above the confluence of the Dunajec (Dunayets) and Poprad, 25 miles (40 km) west of Gorlice. Despite its name , it has already celebrated its 700th anniversary, though it preserves only a handful of notable historic monuments and is primarily of interest for its museums and as a touring base. The Rynek, which has a bombastic Town Hall in the middle dating from the end of the nineteenth century, is the largest main square in the country after that of Cracow. A couple of blocks to the west is the Franciscan church, which still preserves much of its original Gothic shape. The parish church of St. Margaret, just off the eastern side of the square, has not been so fortunate, having been subject to frequent alterations which have left it as a stylistic hotchpotch.


On the latter's southern side is the Gothic House, a former ecclesiastical residence which is now home to the Regional Museum. This contains several hundred works by the Lemko artist Nikifors, who gained an international reputation for the naive paintings he executed between the end of World War II and his death in 1968. Another highlight is an important collection of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century icons brought from the former Orthodox and Uniate churches of the region, many showing an obvious debt to Roman Catholic art. There are also a few examples of the work of the local fifteenth-century painters who formed, in conjunction with their counterparts in Cracow, the first recognizable Polish school of painting. Finally, the museum has an extensive array of folk art of the region, most of it with religious subject matter.


On ul. Joselewicza to the north of the Rynek is the former synagogue, which dates back to the seventeenth century and was later a leading center of the revivalist Hassidic movement. It has lost its internal decoration and now serves as a commercial art gallery. Another gallery has been set up within the ruins of the castle beyond, which commands a fine view over the Dunajec (Dunayets). Built in the fourteenth century for King Kazimierz the Great, it was blown up by the retreating Nazis at the end of World War II.


The Ethnographic Park, one of the best skansens in Poland, lies 1 1/2 miles (3 km) east of the town center in the district of Falkowa. It is due to expand considerably in the future, but around fifty redundant rural buildings have already been re-erected on the hilly site, and the interiors of a dozen or so of these, all of which are furnished in the appropriate style, can also be visited. They are grouped according to ethnographic regions, and include a special section devoted to Gypsy culture.

 

Source: http://www.lemko.org/lih/travel/beskid.html

 

 

A city in the province of Cracow, S. Poland. Jewish settlement is mentioned in a document of 1469. The Great Synagogue, renowned for its beautiful frescos, was completed in 1746. In 1765 there were 609 Jews (154 families) in Nowy Sacz . At the beginning of the 19th century Austrian authorities compelled the Jews to live in a special quarter. During the first half of the 19th century the hasidic dynasty of the Zanzer Hasidim was established. In 1880 there were 5,163 Jews (46% of the total population) living in the town. By 1890 the number of Jews had decreased to 4,120 (32%); to rise again to 7,990 (32%) in 1910.


Between 1900 and 1914 a Jewish school was established, which in 1907 was attended by 204 pupils. In 1921 the Jewish community numbered 9,009 (34%). Tarbut and Beth Jacob schools, a yeshivah, and sport clubs were supported by the community. Over 10,000 Jews lived in Nowy Sacz before the outbreak of World War II, with another 5,000 living in smaller towns of the county.

 

Source: Encyclopedia Judaica 1972, Keter Publishing House Jerusalem Ltd Jerusalem, Israel

 

 The first accounts of Jewish settlement in Nowy Sacz come from 1469, when the name of a certain Abraham from Sacz appears in the town's documents.

 Until the middle of the 17th century the city council blocked the influx of Jews and allowed only for the settlement of well-qualified specialists. This situation

 changed completely in 1673, when in the face of a growing economic crisis King Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki lifted all existing restrictions. The local Jewish

 community was mostly involved in the honey, wine, fur, leather and tobacco trades. An ell, the local standard for measuring length, was placed next to the

 synagogue. The 19th century brought with it the phenomenon of Chasidism. It exploded with great force in Nowy Sacz and made the town one of the main

 centres of this religious movement. It was due in large part to the charisma of the local tzaddik Chaim Halberstam and his yeshivah.

 Jews constituted approximately 30% of the local population. They lived mostly in the town centre and in Pieklo, a part of the Zakamienica district. A large,

 empty square on the corner of ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego and ul. Boznicza is now the only reminder of the Nowy Sacz Jewish quarter.

 The Nazi occupation of Nowy Sacz began in September 1939. Jews were forced into slave labour, toiling in quarries or unloading trains. Already poor, they

 were impoverished still further by the unwarranted contributions which they were required to make. In June 1941 the Nazis marked out the Jewish Housing

 District, a walled quadrangle situated between the castle and the Market Square. The doors of the houses were bricked up and curtains were to be drawn all

 the time. The extermination here started at the beginning of 1942. Its main arena was in the Jewish cemetery in ul. Rybacka, where mass murder and executions

 by shooting were  a regular occurrence. A day which is indelibly marked in the memory is 29 April 1942, when several hundred people were killed in the space

 of one day. In honour of the victims a memorial was erected at the cemetery. Poles repeatedly tried to help their Jewish neighbours. Despite this, ninety per cent

 of Nowy Sacz Jews lost their lives. After the Second World War until 1968 a Congregation of the Jewish Faith operated here. The only private Chasidic house

 of prayer in Poland still functions here today.

 

Source: originally published in the guide Where the Tailor Was a Poet..., by Adam Dylewski / http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slady_i_judaica/nowy_sacz

Nowy Soncz (Yiddish – Zanz) Cracow District, Poland

Jews are recorded from the end of the 15th century, living there in small numbers under various residence and trade restrictions until the second half of the 17th century.  Jews were then welcomed in the effort to rebuild the city after the mid-century invasions and epidemics destroyed its economy.  Under a privilege granted in 1673, they laid the basis of an organized community.  Jews dealt mainly in trade (honey, wine, copper, textiles, furs, and tobacco).  They were also active as millers and distillers, craftsmen and moneylenders, the last particularly to the local nobility.  A fire in 1769 allegedly spreading from the Jewish quarter and destroying the Franciscan church provoked anti-Jewish agitation cut short only by the Austrian annexation of 1772.  Under Austrian rule, Jewish trade expanded into the empire but heavy taxation and numerous restrictions affected the Jewish economy adversely.  The Jewish grain trade was cut back and Jews were not allowed to purchase houses from Christians or employ Christian servants.  The liberalization ushered in by the 1848 revolutions eliminated most Jewish disabilities and paved the way for increasing Jewish prominence in the city’s economy.  Almost all its merchants were Jews as well as most distillers and innkeepers as the Jewish population grew to nearly half the total in 1880 (5,163 out of 11, 185).  To continue reading this summary, which is really quite fascinating, go to…. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Nowy_Sacz/history.htm

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·        November 1292 - King Waclaw II (Wencelaus II) granted Nowy Sacz a foundation charter "Nova Civitas Sandecz". The document was very favorable to the settlers invited by it. It allowed them to build many public edifices, including two public baths, cloth halls, butcher stalls and mills. The city was given the right to take 5/6 of the profits coming from the cloth halls, wine storehouses, assay offices and craftsmen's stalls. 

·        In 1918 Poland gained independence.  During the Second Republic (Inter-war period) Nowy Sacz became the capital of the county. The railway factory was enlarged and many new factories and workshops opened. 

·        In 1992 Nowy Sacz celebrated its 700th anniversary. During this year there were many important and interesting cultural events. Nowy Sacz was honored by the presence of the President of the Polish Republic, Lech Walesa, at the main celebration on October 4th. 

Source: http://www.ux.his.no/~romek/nowysacz/nsstory.htm - a website by Romuald K. Bernacki

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(nô´v sôNch´) (KEY) , Ger. Neu-Sandez, city (1993 est. pop. 79,700), SE Poland, on the Dunajec. It is a railway junction and an administrative and economic center. There are deposits of lignite and petroleum in the vicinity. Chartered in 1298(?), it passed to Austria in 1772 and was included in Poland in 1919. The city has several old churches; its 14th-century palace was destroyed in World War II.

 Faces & Places of Nowy Sącz ~ (some photos)

 

Portraits of Unknown Nowy Sacz Citizens – Help Us Identify These People!

~ Click on photos to see  enlarged versions ~

Courtesy of Joel Levinson - LevinsonJl@aol.com

     

                                                                      Rytro, 1936

                                                             (written on back of original)

 

    

 

 

 Nowy Sącz Today ~

Today, Nowy Sącz is a sister city to 10 separate towns, including Netanya, Israel - Stara Lubovna, Slovakia -Schwerte, Germany - Columbia County, Georgia (USA); Kiskunhalas, Hungary - Presov, Slovakia - Stryj, Ukraine -  Trokai, Lithuania - Tarnow, Poland.- Elbląg, Poland

·        Columbia County Chamber of Commerce – “Our Sister City”

·        County Welcomes its Polish “Siblings”~ Augusta Chronicle June 28, 2002

 

 

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The town is starting refurbishing its roads

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The authorities of the town demand electronic implants for all dogs within the boundaries of Nowy Sacz

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The award of “Transparent Poland” goes to…Nowy Sacz! The award is meant to promote corruption-free administration for the citizens living in Poland

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Source: http://www.romanmajcher.eu/nowysacz_en.htm- a  website by Roman Majcher

 

In the southern town of Nowy Sacz, where some of the country's poorest Roma (Gypsies) reside, the local government launched a new initiative to improve the lives of the city's Roma. The initiative calls for hiring a special liaison to the Romani community, improving housing and access to utilities (sewers and running water), and expanding educational opportunities for Roma.                                                                                                                           Source:    http://www.terrorismcentral.com/Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/DemocracyHumanRights/2000/Europe/Poland.html

            For more information on the “Roma” in Poland today, go to: http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=1286

 

 

Synagogue Information ~

 

                                     

                          The Great Synagogue - 1746                                                 Today

 

   Source: For more synagogue information view the photos, diagrams, etc.  at: 

   http://www.ux.his.no/~romek/nowysacz/nssynago.htm  (This site is in Polish)

 

The Grodzka Synagogue
This pretty synagogue, once known as Grodzka, was erected in 1780 on the site of the former wooden one. The elaborate Baroque decor was destroyed by fire in 1894, and afterwards the facade was remodeled. The Nazis turned the synagogue into a storehouse. After the war it was returned to the Cracow Jewish community, which donated it to the city in 1974.

 

The columns of the bimah have remained but there is no recess for the aron ha-kodesh. The ceiling is new. The interior is filled with the works of local painters.

Only the vestibule contains a modest display of Judaica, entitled "They used to be among us". A plaque commemorating the 25,000 Jewish inhabitants of the city and funded by the Nowy Sacz Landsmanshaft can be seen on the wall of the building. (ed. -see a photo of this plaque and translation of Polish inscription below)

 
The Dawna Synagoga Art Gallery; the building is marked ul. Berka Joselewicza 12. It is situated on the corner of ul. Berka Joselewicza and ul. Boznicza.

Open: Wed and Thu 10am-2.30pm, Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat and Sun 9am-2.30 p.m.

Source: originally published in the guide Where the Tailor Was a Poet..., by Adam Dylewski / http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slady_i_judaica/nowy_sacz

                                

              

 

                                  

          "Remember the community of Sanz"

 

               (from Polish inscription)

 This is to commemorate the 25,000 Jews - men, women and

 children from Nowy Sacz and surroundings, who were burnt in the

 crematories of the concentration camps and murdered at other sites

 of massive extermination by the Nazis between 1939 - 1945. May

 the memory of the sufferers be blessed. Nowy Sacz Group (Citizens)

 in Israel. July 24.07.1994

 

  (from Hebrew inscription)

             25,000 Jews of Sanz and the vicinity men, women and children who

 were murdered, slaughtered and burned in the flaming ovens of the

 crematorium in the camps of destruction, and in other places by the

 German Hitlerists in the years 1939-1945 [Hebrew years].  May their

 memory be blessed. The organization of [people] from New Sanz and

 vicinity in Israel [Hebrew date]

 

[Location: at synagogue entrance - written in Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish] 

(Photo credit: Roman Majcher, February, 2003) 

 

 

 

                                                      

 

                                                                 The display above is located in the synagogue, which is now a museum.

                                                                               (Photo credit: Roman Majcher, February, 2003)

 

Beys Nusn (Natan's House of Prayer)
The only functioning Chasidic synagogue in Poland today, as well as the only private one, was built at the turn of the 20th century by Natan Kriszer, a member of

the Sendzer Chasidim. During the Second World War it was turned into a storehouse and the wall paintings were destroyed. From 1945 to 1968 it functioned

again as a  synagogue. It managed to survive until the fall of Communism as it was used once more as a warehouse. In 1992 the synagogue underwent an overhaul.

Sabbath services take place on occasion, particularly when groups come to visit. These may include Chasids from Satmar (now the Romanian town of Satu Mare),

who have recently joined the group from Bobowa. The matter of the synagogues affiliation is as yet unsettled. At present it is a private place of worship, but the

warden is making efforts to join with the Cracow Jewish community to ensure the prayer hall's continued existence. Ul. Jagiellonska 12 (in the courtyard).

The keys to the synagogue may be obtained from Ms Barbara Makuch, ul. Rybacka 3/2 (opposite the cemetery)

 

Source: originally published in the guide Where the Tailor Was a Poet..., by Adam Dylewski / http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slady_i_judaica/nowy_sacz

 

Cemetery in Nowy Sącz ~

 

        The Nowy Sącz Jewish Cemetery gravestones have been photographed and are online!

                Only about 1/3 of the 311 stones have surnames, which have been translated. 

 

                                 Jewish Online World Burial Registry ~ JOWBR

                                      http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery

 

             To see some beautiful views of the cemetery go to:

                            Nowy Sacz - Cmentaz zydowski (Jewish Cemetery) (Polish)

 

 

                                   

                               Nowy Sącz Jewish Cemetery -  ul. Rybacka 12                                  Holocaust Memorial commemorates the site

                                    (Photo credit: Miriam Weiner, 1993)                                         of mass executions of 25,000 Jews.

                                                                                                                                  “From 25,000 burials, about 200 tombstones remain.”

                                                                                             (Photo credit: Miriam Weiner, 1993)

 

                            Source for above photos/information: Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories

                                                              by Miriam Weiner, Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. & YIVO, 1997.

 

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Nowy Sącz is located in Nowy Sącz region at 20º42 49º37, 55km from Tarnow and 104km from Krakow. The cemetery is

located on Rybacka Street. The town population is 25,000-100,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.

 

Source: US Commission No. POCE000075 or 751

 

The Nowy Sacz Jewish cemetery is very close to the Grodzka synagogue and practically on the bank of the River Kamienica. It was laid out at the end of the

19th century and extended in 1926. It is now surrounded by a solid wall and as the grass is cut regularly, one gets an impression that the cemetery is well

mantained. Some distance away and surrounded by about 200 matzevot (many of them recovered after being used by the Germans as paving stones) you can see

 the ohel of Chaim Halberstam. During the Second World War the cemetery was the site of the gallows and it was here that Jews and Poles (including those who

harboured Jews) were hanged. It is commemorated by a memorial, but the inscription: "To the victims of Nazi barbarity and the heroes in the struggle for the

freedom of the Polish nation", seems somewhat incomplete and should be modified. Alongside, there is another monument which commemorates the massacre of

29 April 1942.

 

Source: originally published in the guide Where the Tailor Was a Poet..., by Adam Dylewski / http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slady_i_judaica/nowy_sacz

 

 

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The earliest known Jewish community was about 1690. 1921 Jewish pop. was 9009. Tzadik Chaim ben Leib, (1793-1876)

settled there in 1830. He (1876) and Aron ben of Chaim (1906) are buried there. The landmark cemetery was established

during the second half of the 19th century with last known Orthodox Jewish burials in 1968 and 1969. The isolated urban flat

land has a sign or marker in Polish and Hebrew mentioning Jews and the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public

road, access is open to all. A masonry wall and locking gate surrounds. The approximate size of before WWII and now is

3.19 ha. 100 and 500 gravestones, all in original positions with 50-75% toppled or broken, date from the 19th-20th centuries.

The cemetery is not divided into sections. The marble, granite, sandstone and concrete finely smoothed and inscribed stones or

flat stones with carved relief decoration have Hebrew and Polish inscriptions. The cemetery contains monuments to Holocaust

victims, marked and unmarked mass graves, and an ohel. The cemetery used as a Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent

are commercial or industrial, agricultural and residential. Occasionally, organized Jewish groups and private visitors stop.

The cemetery was vandalized but not in the last ten years. Jewish individuals and groups from abroad re-erected stones,

Cleared vegetation, fixed wall and gate 1989 through 1991. Contributions from visitors and Leo Getterer Foundation pay

regular caretaker. (see above address). Weather erosion and vegetation are moderate threats. Vegetation is a seasonal

problem preventing access. Pollution is a slight threat.


Piotr Antoniak ul. Dobra 5m 36, 05-800 Praszkow (see Bobowa) completed survey on 9/4/1992 after a visit on 8/28/1992.

Andrzej Swierczek (see above) was interviewed.


The cemetery appeared to be in remarkably good condition. Mostly all of the tombstones were upright. Monuments to the

Holocaust and ohels were in also in good condition. Grass and ground vegetation was generally under control. There was no

graffiti on the cemetery walls or on the tombstones.

 

Source:

Gruber, Ruth E. Jewish Heritage Travel A Guide to East-Central Europe. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.1992.

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                                                                                 Jewish soccer team, Nowy Soncz, Poland (1927)

                                                           Do your recognize anyone? If so, let me know!

 

                                                       

                                                           Bikkur Holim and Jewish School, Nowy Soncz, Poland (date unknown)

 

Sanz Dynasty ~

       

            In the 1840’s, Rabbi Hayyim ben Leibush Halberstam established his court there, making the community one

of Galicia’s more important Hasidic centers.  The dominance of the Hasidim also retarded the advent of

Zionism until the beginning of the 20th century.

 

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            In the early nineteenth century, the Zanzer (from Zanz, the Jewish name of the town) Hasidic dynasty was founded

            in Nowy Sacz by Rebbe Chaim Ben Arieh Lieb Halberstam.

              

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In accordance with the teachings of their master, Chaim Halberstam, the Chasidim of Nowy Sacz represented an ultra-Orthodox approach which even managed to shock other Chasidic groups, who regarded them as reactionary. Apart from raising asceticism to a point where it became a fundamental principle, they resisted all forms of innovation, including assimilation. Boys were not allowed to attend secular schools; the teaching of Polish language was forbidden; they even condemned the activities of the Agudat Isroel party, which, ideologically speaking, was not that dissimilar in that it forbade

participation in politics. The first of many tzaddikim was the master, Chaim Halberstam (1793-1876). His successors were as follows: his son Aron (1826-1903), Moshe (d. 1918), Izaak Tobiasz from Glogow Malopolski (d. 1927) and Jozef Menachem (d. 1935). The dynasty ended with Mordechai Zeew Halberstam from Grybow (d. 1942), who was murdered by the Nazis in the Tarnow Ghetto. The Nowy Sacz dynasty gave birth to many offshoots and, apart from the most famous of all in Bobowa, there were also dynasties in Cieszanow, Gorlice and Sienawa near Lezajsk.

 

Chaim Halberstam (1793-1876), founder of a dynasty and referred to as the Sendzer rebe (the Teacher from Nowy Sacz) was one of the most distinguished of all tzaddikim. He was the representative of an ultra-Orthodox tendency recognising asceticism as the basis for leading a true life. His teachings are contained in the three-part work entitled Divrei Chaim, which may be translated in two ways: 'the Words of Chaim' or 'Stories of Life'. The best known fact about the life and teachings of Halberstam is his lengthy dispute with another great tzaddik, Izrael Friedmann from Sadogora near Czerniowce (Chernovitz). Friedmann lived in unusual splendour in a palace, which greatly irritated the leader from Nowy Sacz, who accused him of extravagance and ignorance. In reply to these accusations one of Friedmann's sons, the tzaddik Dov Ber from Leow (Moldova), true to the Haskalah, stated that the Chasidic belief in the supernatural power of the tzaddik was fraudulent. The centre in Sadogora itself intervened, admitting that Dov Ber was insane. This incident, however, so incensed Halberstam that he put a cherem (curse) on the dynasty from Sadogora, which before long replied in kind. It was the most serious conflict within Judaism at that time.

 

Source: originally published in the guide Where the Tailor Was a Poet..., by Adam Dylewski

              http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slady_i_judaica/nowy_sacz

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 “1891 Galician Business Directory”

201 names/occupations of Nowy Sącz residents!!

~ Click Here ~

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 “1929 Polish Business Directory”

Ksiega Adresowa Polski (Wraz z w.m. Gdanskiem dla Handlu, Przemyslu
Rzemiosl I Rolnictwa) –(written in Polish/French)

~ Click Here ~ 

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                                         Termination of Polish Citizenship

 The names below were obtained from a list of almost 1,500 names of Jews who - in order to emigrate - had to

 renounce their Polish nationality. This took place prior to the year 1939. The original documents contain destination,

 occupation, comments, and photographs.  Those wishing to obtain copies of the original document - and hence ALL

 of the information - should E-mail the Krakow Archives at: proarchivo@poczta.fm

 

Surname           Name                        Date/Place of Birth                Family Members

             

BERGMAN       Leopold                     08.12.1914  Nowy Sącz          Oscher Stief  false Bergman i Sara Fradel Gehler          

DORENTER      Szyja                         24.02.1913  Nowy Sącz           Perec i Chana Luks false Gaertner

DORENTER      Szyja Herschel           24.02.1913  Nowy Sącz           Peretz i Chana Luks     

INFELD            Herman                      08.06.1899 Nowy Sącz           Abraham i Minka Wolf           

KLIPPER          Scheindla                    21.04.1891 Nowy Sącz           -------------------------

LUSTIG             Józef                          03.02.1908 Stary Sącz             Abraham vel Adolf i Ewa Mendler       

REIFEN             Beila                           02.02.1902 Nowy Sącz           Cypora Bodner i Roan Reifer

SCHMEIDLER Chaim                         15.01.1886 Nowy Sącz           Jóżef Ascher i Sprinza Kornfeld

SCHREIBER     Abraham                    15.07.1906 Nowy Sącz           Chaja Schreiber

 

 

             Ellis Island: Jewish Immigrants from Nowy Sącz from 1892-1924

 

              (List of Jewish immigrants, who had resided in Nowy Sącz, has been deleted due to

                                copyright restrictions of the Ellis Island Foundation.)

 

Surnames include: Aberman, Amster, Berger, Bergmann, Berkinfelt, , Birkenfeld, Binder, Borgenicht, Brdner, Clanales,

Denkelbaum, Dentelbaum, Fechter Feibisowicz, Feuercisen, Flam, Frauwirt, Gabel, Geller, Gershel, Glasner, Goldberger,

Goldfingier,  Gottesmann, Gross, Grun, Haberman, Hilowicz, Hochhauser, Horowitz, Jazmir, Kleinberger, Klotzen,

Klotzer r. Storch, Kornfeld, Lehrman, Kramer, Kwicinski , Leichter, Lewin, Low, Maibruck, Markus, Martz, Mater,

Meletz, Morgenbesser, Offner, Ostez, Reibeisen , Reigelhaupt, Rosenstock, Rozenzain, Ruben, Schachter, Schaffer,

Simanowicz fals Hochhauser, Storch, Usiskin, Volkman, Zins

 

(to locate someone go to the Steve Morse Website at: http://stevemorse.org/ )

Be aware that the town name may appear as: Nowy Sacz, Sacz, Noury Sacz, (Stary Sacz), Nawysacz, Nanysacz, Nowy-Sacz, Nagy Sacz, Novy Sacz, Nawysacz, Mawysacz, Nowy Soncz,  Nowy Sojdz, Nowy Sonz, Nowy Saez, Nonsy Saez, Novy Saez, Neu Sanditz, Neu Sandee, Neu Sander, Neu Sandez, Neu Sandes, Neu Saudetz, Neu Saudec, Neu Sandeck, Neu Sandow   (Many of these variations are due to transcription errors.)

 

Yizkor (Memorial) Books ~

 

Yizkor (Memorial) Books are some of the best sources for learning about Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Groups of former residents, or landsmanshaftn, have published these books as a tribute to their former homes and the people who were murdered during the Holocaust. The town of Nowy Sącz has 2 such books, although neither are translated, unfortunately.

 

The National Yiddish Book Center in Massachusetts has completed digitizing their collection. These books are now available, although quite pricey.  They are reprinted as published, which means they will be in either Hebrew and/or Yiddish. (see details below)

 

Le-zekher kehilat Tsants (In Memory of the Community of Tsants) edited byYa'akovi Tefuhah published in Jerusalem 1967/68 by Bet ha-sefer ha-tikhon ha-dati la-banot Oylinah di Rotshild (publisher).  It is a total of 174 pages and written in Hebrew. 

 

Sefer Sants (The Book of the Jewish Community of Nowy Sącz) edited by R. Mahler published in New York in 1970 by former residents of Sants in New York (Publisher).  It is a total of 886 pages and written in Hebrew and Yiddish. The former residents of Sants were members of the Sanzer Society, Inc. founded in 1940.  Its records are located at YIVO in New York [RG 922].  This book is in the process of being translated into English.  You may view the translation at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Nowy_sacz/nowy_sacz.html

 

To see an online version, go to: http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1553  You can see the entire book in its original form.

 

 

The Vanished City of Tsanz by Shlomo Zalman Lehrer and Leizer Strassman , Targum Press, Inc., 1997. 

(English) Targum Press, Inc., 22700 West Eleven Mile Road, Southfield MI  48034

Distributed by Feldheim Publishers, 200 Airport Executive Park, Nanuet, NY  10954.

For a detailed description of content, click here

 

 

World War II in the Nowy Sącz Area ~


September 6, 1939  - The Germans captured the city. At that time it had a population of 34.000. One third of its inhabitants did not survive the war. Near the castle the Germans formed a ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration and extermination camps. During the German occupation courier routes from Poland to Hungary went through Nowy Sacz. There were also partisan groups fighting in the forests around the city. The war destroyed 62 percent of the city. Shortly after it ended most of it was rebuilt. New factories were opened and apartment complexes constructed. 

Source: http://www.ux.his.no/~romek/nowysacz/nsstory.htm

 

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Ghetto of Nowy Sącz under German Occupation

                                                           A Testimonial by Mordechai ( Markus) Lustig (Kannengisser)

                                                   a native of Nowy Sącz, Poland

…The Germans entered the city in the early hours of Wednesday, the 6th of September, 1939. We emerged from one of the cellars in the eastern part of the city center where we had spent the night. We witnessed German tank, artillery, and infantry units streaming east. Every lot became a parking center for the German army. A nearby lot was an assembly area for Polish prisoners of war where they were disarmed. The first day of occupation passed uneventfully, but troubles soon began…[ to find out more about the specific details of what occurred in Nowy Sacz from a person who lived it, CLICK HERE ]

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          Hand-drawn Ghetto Maps ~ Click Here

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    Markus (Mordechai) Lustig (Kanengisser)

 

                               A Life Story

 

Photo: Mordechai Lustig/Kanengisser – following his liberation in 1945 – still wearing his camp hat

            Testimonial originally written in Hebrew. Translated by William Leibner. - September 29, 2005

 

 

I was born in 1925 in Nowy Sacz to Yaakov and Ita ( Lustig)Kanengisser. The family consisted of my father, Yaakov, my mother, Ita, my sister Rachel, myself and my brother, Moshe. We were surrounded with an extensive and warm supporting family. My father was a bookbinder. We lived in the Jewish section of Sandz. Things went along pretty well until September of 1939.

 

 

As soon as the Germans occupied the city, things started down hill. Jews were grabbed for all kinds of work details, daily ordinances

aimed at the Jews, hunger became widespread, Jews were limited in their movements and instant killings of Jews became a favorite

pastime of the Germans. I was constantly forced to work at various hard working jobs until a traumatic event took place that affected

 me for the rest of my life.

 

On April 29th 1942, in the evening, the Germans murdered 300 Jews at the Jewish cemetery. From there, the Gestapo went to the

Jewish street and began a killing spree. The street was densely inhabited by Jews and the Germans smashed through doors and

windows and entered rooms and shot everybody in sight. They entered our apartment, which was part of a large complex of flats

and fired at will. The screams and shouts could be heard throughout the houses. We lived on the first floor, but heard the commotion

on the ground floor. Soon enough they burst into our flat, they entered my parents’ room. They asked my father what he did for a living,

he replied that he was a bookbinder. They shot him; they shot my crying mother and my crying sister, Rachel, who was sleeping in their

room. They then entered our room where I was sleeping with my younger brother, Moshe. I heard one of the killers say, leave the kid.

But, someone else fired the pistol and shot my brother right in the head. I froze. I was under the same blanket, but my head was in the

opposite direction. The killers then left the room and said sarcastically “good night” in Polish. More firing took place on the stairs. I

remained under the blanket, until it was absolutely quiet. I then left my bed and saw my totally destroyed family. Next day, they were

all buried in a mass grave at the site where the other Jews were killed during the previous evening. My uncle provided me with …

 

            **** Click Here to read more of this incredible life story **

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           “In the cemetery of the town of Nowy Sącz, 300-500 Jews and Poles were shot

             between 1939 and August 1942 --the Poles for sheltering the Jews.”

                                     Source: announcement of the SS and police commander in the district of Galicja (January 28, 1944)

The Cracow district, consisting of 12 counties (Cracow, Debica, Jaroslaw, Jaslo, Krosno, Miechow, Nowy Sacz, Nowy Targ, Przemysl, Sanok, and Tarnow), had a prewar Jewish population of over 250,000. By May 1941 this number dwindled to 200,000, in spite of the additional influx of 20,000 refugees and deportees from the incorporated areas, including Silesia, Lodz, and Kalisz, in the fall of 1939 and spring of 1940. The expulsion of Jews from the Cracow district, where the General Government capital was situated, was accelerated. In the first few months, Jews living in the border towns along the San River were expelled to the Soviet zone. From the spring of 1940 to November 1941, Jews living in the spas and summer resorts in Nowy Sacz and Nowy Targ counties were expelled, and from May 1940 to April 1941, 55,000 Jews left Cracow voluntarily or were driven out. The Jewish population thus became concentrated in an ever-decreasing number of places—in Cracow county, in seven townships and ten villages, in Nowy Sacz in five places, and in the Nowy Targ county in seven.

The first ghetto was established in March 1941 in the Podgorze quarter of Cracow. A wall sealed it off from the rest of the city and the gates of the wall had the form of tombstones. The first "evacuations" took place in Cracow Ghetto, which underwent three such actions, on May 30–31, October 28, 1942, and March 13–14, 1943. In the final evacuation, 2,000 Jews were murdered on the spot, about 2,000 were deported to Auschwitz, and approximately 6,000 were sent to the nearby camp in Plaszow, located on the site of two Jewish cemeteries. The first Aktion in Tarnow took place on June 11–13, 1942, involving 11,000 Jews. The Jews of Przemysl county were murdered on July 27–August 3 (after 10,000 Jews from the county had been concentrated in the city). At the beginning of August, the Jews from Jaroslaw were deported to Belzec, followed at the end of that month by deportation of the Jews from Cracow county, where at an earlier date the Jews from the ghettos in Bochnia, Wieliczka, and Skawina had been concentrated. In September 1942 approximately 11,000 Jews from Sanok county (earlier concentrated at a camp at Izyaslav (Zaslav) were deported to Belzec or shot in the surrounding forests. That month the ghettos in Tarnow county were finally liquidated.

Krueger's decree of Oct. 28, 1942, setting up six ghettos in the Cracow district (Cracow, Bochnia, Tarnow, Rzeszow, Debica, and Przemysl), was immediately followed by murder "actions" there. From June to November 1942, a total of over 100,000 Jews were murdered, and by Jan. 1, 1943, according to official figures, 37,000 destitute Jews were left in "residual ghettos" and a number of camps. There were over 20 labor camps in the Cracow district, the largest at Mielec (with 3,000 Jewish inmates on the day of its liquidation, Aug. 24, 1944)—and others in Pustkow (1,500), Rozwadow (1,200), Szebnie (2,000–2,500), and in Plaszow with two branches in Prokocim and Biezanow. Plaszow, a collection point for the Jews who survived the liquidation of ghettos and camps in the entire district, had 20,000 imprisoned there in the fall of 1943. In March 1944, large transports were sent from Plaszow to Auschwitz, Stutthof, Flossenburg, and Mauthausen, while the 567 Jews left were liquidated in January 1945 together with the rest of the Jewish survivors from the Cracow district.

  August 24-28, 1942: Ten thousand Jews from Nowy Sacz, Poland, are deported to the Belzec extermination camp.

…My father's family had come from a small town in southern Poland called Nowy Sacz, nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains. Before the war, around a third of the town's population of 35,000 had been Jewish. On August 23, 1942, all the Jews were told to gather in a central square wearing their best clothes and carrying personal possessions up to a weight of 15 kilograms. About 800 of the youngest and strongest were selected for labor camps. The rest were squeezed into a narrow area where there was no food or water and told to wait. Finally, in three batches between August 25-28, they were marched to the railway station, loaded on cattle trucks and transported to Belzec…

(The above excerpt is written by Alan Elsner -Reuters correspondent writing in a private capacity.  It is part of a description of a trip he took to Belzec with his father. To read the entire account of this journey, go to: http://www.remember.org/educate/belzec.html)

GOLEBIOWSKI, Marian (1919-) “Righteous Among the Nations” – State of Israel

A lawyer born in Tarnopol, during the war he stayed in Nowy Sacz.  At the request of Irena Szumski he took her with her fiancé and later husband, Dr. Juliusz Hellereich, into his only room.  Marian led them later to his colleague, Jan Ryndok to Jaslo, presenting them as political refugees, Irena and Zbigniew Jakobiszyn.  Fearing denunciation, he went with them to the estate of Czermna, owned by Mrs. Lobaczewski.  All three stayed there till the end of the occupation.  Later Dr. Hellereich practiced medicine in western Pomerania.  Ludwik helped also other Jews.  During two years he provided food and moral encouragement to Teresa Huppert and her son Uri.  Teresa and her son wrote from Israel a glowing deposition on behalf of Ludwik for whose decoration as “Righteous” by Yad Vashem in 1989 Dr. Hellereich came from Australia with his daughter, now Ingram. See: Grynberg, op. cit.

Source: Polish Righteous at: http://www.savingjews.org/righteous/gv.htm

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                                                        Those Who Died at Auschwitz

 

Ablöser, Herman Israel  (1915-03-13 ÷ 1943-02-22)
Ablöser, Tobiasz Israel  (1890-02-05 ÷ 1942-02-26)
Apotheker, Augustine  (1888-05-25 ÷ 1942-09-03)
Austerweil, Josef Israel  (1916-07-02 ÷ 1941-08-08)
Baldinger-Gottlob, Izrael  (1904-07-28 ÷ 1942-08-09)
Bäcker, Jozef Israel  (1917-11-09 ÷ 1943-02-22)
Birnbaum, David  (1927-04-03 ÷ 1942-06-21)
Birnbaum, Rosa  (1897-01-27 ÷ 1942-05-21)
Bittersfeld, Hirsch Dawid  (1921-08-31 ÷ 1943-02-22)
Blitz, Sala  (1919-03-15 ÷ 1943-01-13)
Braunfeld, Majer  (1904-01-16 ÷ 1943-01-15)
Buksbaum, Markus Israel (1910-04-22 ÷ 1942-02-07)

For more names....

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Holocaust Database -  The JewishGen Database is a collection of databases containing information about

Holocaust victims and survivors. It contains more than two million entries, from more than 150 component datasets.

 

All people listed below resided in Nowy Sącz/Stary Sącz at some point and not all were Jewish.  The names on this list are as

recorded in German  records.

 

Additional information appears for each individual on the database itself.  Go to: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust

An asterisk (*) before a surname means that there is a direct link providing additional family information.

 

BANAS, Anton –  Dachau Concentration Camp Records

BEDNAREK, Miecislaus - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

BEREK, Josef - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

BIEDRON, Stanilsaus  - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

BODZIANY, Stanislaus - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

BUDZYNOWSKI, Josef - Dachau Concentration Camp Records 

BULKA, Jan - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

BURNAGIEL, Johann - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

CHOWANIEC, Franz  - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

CZERWONABRODA, Johann - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

CZOP, Franz - Dachau Concentration Camp Records 

DEMEZYK, Thadeusz  - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

FELBER, Markus - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

FRENKEL, Hermann - Dachau Concentration Camp Records 

FRYC, Ignatz - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

FRYSELA (FRIESEL), Mattes (Mieczeal) - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

GARBERA, Stefan - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

GLASER, Kurt  - Dachau Concentration Camp Records (Sanz)

GOLDMANN, Bernard - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

GORKA, Apollonius - Dachau Concentration Camp Records (Alt Sandez/ Stary Sącz)

GÜNSBERG, Ephraim - Westphalian Jews

GUTKIND, Henni - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

HILGER, Johann  - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

JAGLA, Kasimir -  Dachau Concentration Camp Records

*KASPRZYKIEWICZ, Eugenius - Dachau Concentration Camp Records (for additional family information click on this name)

KOCON, Josef  - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

KOMAR, Franiseck - Dachau Concentration Camp Records 

KUCHNICKI, Stanislaus - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

PIETRZAK, Felix – Dachau Concentration Camp Records

POLLAK, Rochus - Dachau Concentration Camp Records

 

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                                                                                                                 Belzec

 

The Germans kept no list of names or exact numbers of those transported to Belzec.  Here is an excerpt from the book

                                   "Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka:  The Operation Reinhard Death Camps by Itzhak Arad, 1987(reprinted in paperback 1999).
 


The deportation method, as carried out by the German authorities in the General
Government, was en masse, without lists of names or even exact numbers.  Usually
ghettos were totally liquidated, and only the killing capacity of the camps and
the volume of the trains dictated the number of people who were deported. 
Documents of the German railway authorities, which were found after the war
provided some data on the number of trains and freight cars. 
 
From Nowy Sacz county including the towns of Nowy Sacz, Grybow, Stary Sacz,
Krynica-Zdroj, Piwniczna, Lacko, Limanowa and Labowa the date of deportation was
August 24-28 1942 - the estimate of deportees was 16,000 - all sent to Belzec.

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                                                           19 Martyred Physicians from Nowy Sącz

 

AMEISEN, Maurycy (born 1872) Nowy Sącz – Surgery

EDELMAN, Bernard

FREUNDLICH, Henryk

HERBST, Henryk (born 1897) Nowy Sącz – Pediatrics

HERBST, Maksymilian (born 1898) Nowy Sącz – Gynecology

HOCHHAUSER, Dawid (born 1893) Nowy Sącz – General Practice

KLEINMAN, Mechoel

KOHN, Henryk

KORNREICH, Artur (born 1909) Nowy Sacz – stomatology

KORNREICH, Jakub (born 1907) Piwniczne, Nowy Sącz – Pediatrics

LUSTER, Leon

MENDLER, Jakub

MOHR, Marian

PRINZ, Henryk

REISS, Herman

SCHWARTZ, Henryk

SEIGEL, Israel

SOBOL, Filip

ZUPNIK, _____

For many more details on each physician above, go to: http://www.jewishgen.org and do a search for Nowy Sacz on the Holocaust Database.

 

Source: JewishGen Website & A list of “Martyred Physicians”, which appears in the book Martyrdom of Jewish Physicians in Poland (Exposition Press, New York, 1963), and excerpted in The Galitzianer (Gesher Galicia – Volume 10, Number 3, May, 2003)

 

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                            Can you identify anyone?  Do you have a better copy of these photos or perhaps, other photos?

 

First Yizkor Meeting of Nowy Sacz Survivors – Munich, Germany – May, 1947

 

 

 

 

 

Frenkel, son of #4 (1)

son of Shabta: Melamed (2)

Lustiger, Mordechai (3)

Frenkel, father of #1 (4)

Bodner (5)

Ormianer, Zwi ?? (13) *

Holtzer, Nathan (15)

Lehrer, Mordechai (17)

Bluzenstein, Motsche (18)

Teller, Tzvi (19)

 

 

* Source: Sam Ormianer (son)

 (Mordechai Lustig recognized the above – email me at:

seraph@dc.rr.com (Debbie Raff), if you have

more complete information.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Meeting of Nowy Sacz Survivors – Munich, Germany - 1947

 

 

 

Englander (1)

Weissbroat, Regina (2)

            Folkman, Regina (9)

            Lustig, Mordechai (10)

            Frenkel (11)

            Bodner (14)

            Pepper, Zalman (15)

            Lewint, Nathan (16)

Lantz (17)

            Lehrer, Mordechai (18)

Giter, Doris (20)

    

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(Mordechai Lustig recognized the above – email me at:

seraph@dc.rr.com (Debbie Raff), if you have

more complete information

 

 

                                          A Group of Former Sandzer Residents in Sao Paulo, Brazil

                                                               

Standing from right: fourth & fifth are Ruth(Rudale) & Chaim Lustig. Third from left is M.Segulis. Seated third from left is Yehiel Engelhardt( Springer).

Source: Sefer Sants (Book on the Jewish Community of Nowy Sacz), Sandzer Landsmanshaft,Raphael Mahler,  New York, 1970, page 881

 

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Hadassah “Halinka” Lampel was a 19 years old when she fell in the Israel War of Independence.  She had disobeyed an officer's order and joined the first armored vehicle entering Latrun on the night of May 30, 1948.  A few days before her heroic death, she pleaded with armoured corps commander Chaim Laskov, "Why don't you let me go? I am a trained radio operator. Do you have something against women?"  Laskov said, of course, that he did not and explained that he was following a new directive against unnecessarily endangering the lives of women soldiers. He was angry with Lampel – she had disobeyed a direct order. But he couldn't help admiring her.

 

…. Hadassah Lampel was born in the pretty little Polish town called Nowy Sacz, in the foothills of the Beskid Mountains, on February 12, 1929. A good pupil, she loved to read and was drawn to fairy-tales. When she was nine, she surprised her classmates by reciting a poem which asserted that "Halinka was a brave girl." She lived up to this reputation…. The family’s pastoral life was rudely shattered on September 1, 1939, at the outbreak of World War II. They fled east to escape the speedy German advance, first settling in Russian-occupied Lvov. It was there that Halinka encountered, for the first time, the cruel fate of a homeless and penniless refugee…. Halinka's Father succeeded in placing her among what became known later as the "Tehran Children" – Jewish orphans who were allowed to leave the Soviet Union for Iran with General Andres's Polish army.  For a poignant article on the life of Hadassah “Halinka” Lampel,

go to:  http://www.zchor.org/tehran/children.htm (scroll about halfway down the page)

 

         1929 - 1948

             

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Jewish Tribune

                               London, England ~ 21 October 2004

        Click here to read an article, which highlights the visit of Yacub Elimelech Miller – the last surviving Jewish resident of Sanz

                     (Nowy Sacz) and his quest for funds for the future mantainance & improvement of the Beis Hachaim.

                                   

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 Birth, Marriage, Death Records –

 

According to Miriam Weiner’s book, Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories,

Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. & YIVO, 1997, the following Jewish records exist for Nowy Sacz ----

 

            Birth – 1853-1871; 1877-1942

            Birth – 1880; 1882; 1885-1886; 1900; 1918-1920;1924-1926; 1928-1933; 1935 (INDEX ONLY)

            Death – 1882-1886; 1888; 1890-1891; 1893-1895; 1897-1898; 1905-1919; 1926; 1928-1941; 1885-1942

            Marriage – 1876/1937

Marriage - 1882; 1886; 1891-1892; 1895-1898; 1904-1906; 1911-1912; 1914-1915; 1917-1918;

                 1930-1935; 1937 (INDEX ONLY)

 

Other records that would not come under the auspices of the JRI-Poland Project, but would be of interest are:

 

            Tax List – 1842-1843

            Holocaust Deportation Lists – 1939-1944

            Census Lists – 1870; 1900; 1910-1927; 1932-1939

            Voter Lists – 1907; 1911

 

                              “Nowy Sącz Family Trees”

 

 

 

        Aron Herbach (son of Abraham Eliezer and Bascha Herbach) and

Dina Beshel Schneier Birnbaum (daughter of Abraham Schneier

and Liebe Chana Birenbaum) both came from Nowy Sacz, Poland. 

They were married in Héthárs, Hungary, on June 3, 1883, and

began their family.   They were not the only Birnbaum/Herbachs

drawn from Nowy Sacz to this town, so it appears that the

midwife’s income was assured for many years to come.

 

 

 

 

Aron and Dena’s 12 children were: (in birth order) Morris "Mozes, Sam "Zalmon" (my grandfather), Max "Mano", Sarah, Regina (Rivka) "Rebeka", Fani, Abe "Adolf", Louis "Naczi", Lillian, Seymour "Zsiga", Joseph “Jozsef", and Jack "Jakab". The children began leaving for New York one at a time beginning in 1901 with my grandfather and by the summer of 1920 the entire clan had finally arrived.  On that last trip, Aron and Dina brought their youngest 3 sons; Regina (a niece);  her husband, Herman Werner; and their 9 month old son, Julin.

 

There were many Herbach and Birnbaums born in Héthárs, but I am unable to determine many of their relationships to my family

 

Researching the following surnames: HERBACH / BIRNBAUM/ SCHNEIER (Nowy Sącz, Poland, Héthárs, Hungary/ Lipany, Slovakia ) ~ RAFF / MEISNER / SICHERMAN / FISH/FISCH / KATZ / / EICHNER / ZWICK / HILLER (Zmigród Nowy/Bukowsko/Dukla /Dynow/Korczyna, Poland)  LAWNER / LAUNER / KORNFELD (Husiatyn,Tarnopol, Ukraine) Contact me at: seraph@dc.rr.com

 

 

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 Hamer/Bauman Family

R' Moshe HAMER (1830’s-1930’s) was my father's paternal great-grandfather. My father spent many a Shabbos at R' Moshe's home during his childhood. R' Moshe lived in Sanz and had the honor of being quite close with the Sanzer Rav for many years during the earlier part of the 19th century. R' Moshe died sometime during the 1930's. My father's father, R' Chaim Yehuda HAMER, was the son of the other R' Moshe HAMER who was the son of R' Meir Ezra HAMER (d. 2nd of Nisan). R' Chaim Yehuda was a very quiet, gentle man. He had been in business with his brothers, but gave it up due to poor health though he was still very young. Instead, he learned Torah all day. During the Holocaust, when the shtetl of Alt-Sacz was in the midst of being cleansed of all Jews, R' Chaim was placed on a wagon filled with elderly, sick, and very young Jews. He was shot in a forest along with several hundred other Jews, then buried in a mass grave. His wife Libe and 4 of their 6 children were killed in the concentration camp a week-and-a-half later. His children's names were: Meir Ezra (who had journeyed to Siberia with my father, but returned to Poland shortly afterwards because he worried about his parents and younger siblings), Avraham, Shimon, and Frimit (age 11). R' Chaim Yehuda's siblings were: Yosef (d. 3rd of Av 1940s Siberia), Ephraim (d. 19th of Teves 1953 Israel), and Binyamin (d. 1942). For more information…http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Nowy_Sacz/Hamer.htm

 

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            Miller/Langsam Family

      For more information…http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/Miller/hometree.htm

 

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Einhorn/Krumholz Family

 

 

David Einhorn had 6 six children with his first wife, Friedel Krumholtz:  Annie Ehrenreich, Rose Napolin, Joseph, Gussie Kapner, Esther Messendorf and Adolf. David and his second wife Gittle Geller (in photo with David Einhorn) had one child, Brindle Mandel, who perished in the Holocaust along with 3 of her four children. The one who survived lives in Israel today.

 

Nowy Sacz - c.1890  (M.Friedman)

 

For more information… MichaelS@cloud9.net

 

 

  

 

 

 

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Buchsbaum Family

 

 

Ester Buchsbaum (born 1881), Nowy Sacz was my grandmother .  Ester is standing next to the bride (her daughter) Toni in this photo taken on November 1932 in Berlin when Toni married Alfred Jany. Ester Buchsbaum was married  to Leib Rand Fisch (born 1884), Tarnow, who is standing next to her on the picture. Together they lived in Tarnow. While living in Tarnow they had Toni (born June 28th, 1910) and Elias (born July 4th, 1912). In the last row of the picture there is a little boy dressed in a sailor outfit, this boy is my father Max Fisch (born February 17th, 1920, born in Berlin), next to him is a man who was my father's brother, Paul Fisch (born in 1916 in Berlin). At some point between 1913 and 1915, the family moved to Berlin.  Leib Fisch was taken to Sachsenhausen in 1939. Ester Buchsbaum (now Fisch) was taken to Auschwitz in 1943, together with her daughter Toni and Toni's seven year old daughter, Margot. They were never heard from again. Ester may have had a brother named Moshe Buchsbaum.

 

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 Compiled by Deborah Raff
Lovingly Updated 18 November2009
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