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Radzilover Photo Album, Part 5

Pictures taken in Poland

 
 

Mejer Kowalski, 1910's
Went to Israel, ca 1924

See photo of Mejer at the Kowalski forge
See photo of Mejer in Israel


Kowalski Forge, Mid-1920's

[L-R]: Chana (nee Markowicz) Tyszkowski,
Zelda (nee Tyszkowska) Bialaszewska,
Mejer Chaim Tyszkowski

 [Photo taken in Jedwabne, ca 1905]
Zelda killed in Jedwabne, 1941;
her husband Abram Bialaszewski
killed in Radzilow, 1941

 
Leja (nee Linenberg) Kowalski, [L] 1920's, [R] 1922
Died in Radzilow, 1931


1920-21
Two children of Owsiej Mordchaj and
Krejna (nee Kowalska) Niedzwiecki,
almost surely Tova and Izrael Moszk

 
 
Mendel Staroletni (Max Star), 1915
Drafted into the Russian Army, 1914
Went to America, 1918
 

Staroletni Family, c.1921
Chana Basza (nee Frajman) & Moszk Staroletni with 3 of their 8 children: Liba (back left), Philip (probably originally Fajwel, back right) & Bejla (front).
Liba thought to have died in Radzilow just before WWII;
Moszk & Chana Basza killed in Radzilow, 1941, along with Liba's orphaned children;
Bejla went to Israel c.1928;
Philip went to America as a stowaway, 1930

 

Niedzwiecki Family, 1920-21
Owsiej Mordchaj Niedzwiecki and his wife Krejna (nee Kowalska),
with 4 of their children, including Efroim Hersz on his father's lap;
The children are almost surely
L-R: Tova, Abram Icek,
Eforim Hersz, Izrael Moszk
Efroim Hersz went to Israel, 1933, then joined British Army
(prisoner of war, 1941-45 in Germany), returned to Israel

 
 


[L-R]: Reizil Niedzwiecka, Israel Mosze
Kowalski, Efroim Hersz Niedzwiecki, 1922
Israel Mosze went to Israel, ca 1924; Reizil
went to Israel, 1939; Efroim Hersz went to Israel, 1933, then joined British Army (prisoner of war, 1941-46 in Germany), returned to Israel

 

Etka Leah (nee Kreplak)
and Nochym Wolf Kowalski
Etka Leah went to Israel, 1935
Nochym Wolf went to Israel, 1934

See photo of Etka Leah in Israel


Etka Leah (nee Kreplak) Kowalski
and six children [Passport Photo]
[Top row L-R]: Frejdka/Frieda, Mejer, Sosia/Shoshana; [Bottom row L-R]:
Efroim Zelman, Szejna/Yaffa, Sora Dwejra
All went to Israel, 1935

See photo of Frieda in Israel
See photo of Frieda in 2007 Memorial
See photo of Shoshana in Israel


Nochym Wolf Kowalski
[Passport Photo]
Went to Israel, 1934

Chorazycki Family, ca 1919
Abram Chorazycki and daughters;
[Clockwise from top left]:
Gitl, Marjem, Etka & Szejna (Yaffe)
Abram died before 1922;
Gitl went to America, 1922;
Marjem went to Uruguay, 1930's;
Etka killed in Radzilow, 1941;
Szejna went to Israel

Gitl Chorazycka, between 1914-22
[Photo taken in Grajewo]
Went to America, 1922

See photo of Gitl in New York


Late 1910's
Most likely Sora Fejga Chorazycka
(nee Kowalski) on far right;
Gitl  Chorazycka on front left;
Etka Chorazycka second from left
Sora Fejga died in Radzilow, 1917;
Gitl went to NYC 1922;
Etka killed in Radzilow, 1941
 


Chaja Rochla (nee Sawicka)
and Motek Chunowicz, 1907
Moved to Makow Mazowiecki after marriage.
Motek went to America in 1923;
Chaja followed in 1928 with their 5 children


Dwoszka (nee Baranowicz) and Moszko Szymon Sawicki
Dwoszka died before 1931 in Makow Mazowiecka
Moszko Szymon died before 1908 in Radzilow

 


Gittel (nee Sawicka) and Hershel Chunowicz
and children Sheinshe and Chuna
[Photo taken in Makow Mazowiecka]
Gittel and Hershel killed in Treblinka, 1942;
Sheinshe killed in Makow, 1942;
Chuna escaped through Lomza in 1939,
Pinsk 1940, Stalingrad as the Germans advanced 1941; then after war,
eventually to America


Gutman and Chana Itka
(nee Chunowicz) Sawicki
Both killed in Radzilow, 1941,
along with two children

 


Chunowicz Family, 1927
[Photo taken in Makow Mazowiecka]
[L-R]: Chuna, Chaim, Shimon, Gittel (nee Sawicka) Rachel, Hershel, Chana Itka, Sheinshe
Chuna (see left photo); Shimon spent 6 mths in Polish labor camp 1939, escaped, met up with Chuna in Lomza, followed same route
until sent to Siberia 1944, then eventually to America; Chaim killed in Auschwitz, 1943; Gittel and Hershel killed in Treblinka, 1942; Rachel killed in Treblinka, 1942; Chana killed in Radzilow, 1941; Sheinshe killed in Makow, 1942

Read about Shimon's trip to Radzilow - Soon

 

Roza Sawicki
Killed in Radzilow, 1941

Mosze Szymon Sawicki (later took the name Bursztyn)
[L]: Taken in Suwalki, ca 1935, in Polish Army uniform
[R]: Taken in Poland or Russia, ca 1939-40
Went to Israel, 1941

Read about his experience in Anders Army
See his photo in Israel


1895
Gitla (nee Sawicka) Jarmulowski and
her mother Szejna (nee ?) Sawicka
[Photo taken in Szczuczyn,
but both were born in Radzilow]