Note: There is also an alphabetical list by names of families from Mir below |
Wendy
Almeleh is
searching for ALTSHULER, ALTMAN, CHANKIN,
KAGAN, LEWIN, MIRSKY, PASS, SCHWARTZ, SKOLNICK/SHULMAN
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| Danny
Dancig and his sister Bea Joffin of Johannesburg,
South Africa have relatives from Mir named DANCIG,
KEIMONETSKY, KONIK, HORWITZ, BELSKI, KOCH, STOLLER,
GARKAVY, BENUN, LIPSZYC |
| Rick
Saffran is looking for SHMULOVITCH (SHMULOVITZ),
BIRMAN, SALMANSKY |
Joel
Kent is searching CHAIMOVITZ (HAIMOWITZ) |
| Carole
Montello and her cousin Caren
Jaeger have ancestors named PISETZNER, MIRANSKY,
KAPLAN, GABRIEL (GABRIELOW), HENDEL, and DUKE
(DJUKE). Another cousin, Paula
Revenson Howard is researching: WINGROFSKY
and CHAIMOVITZ (HAIMOWITZ) in addition to all
of the above. |
| Steven
Pilchik is looking for SHMUKLER and SELIKOFF
from Mir. |
| Mike
Posnick's great grandfather POZNYAK was registered
to the Jewish community of Mir according to the
1895 Minsk City birth records. |
Sheldon
Kneller's grandfather Meier POPOK, son
of Aron Noah and Zelda left Mir around 1900,
along with his brothers Isser and Moshe and
his sister Alta. |
| Ted
Hyman has POGORELSKY, POPOK, EPSTEIN, and
NOVOGRODSKY ancestors from Mir on his mother's
side. Her father was Isser Popok and her mother
was Chosha Meirka Epstein. Her paternal grand-parents
were Aron Noach Popok and Zelda Basha Pogorelsky.
Her maternal grand-parents were Shmuel Zelig
Epstein and Tieba Novogrodsky. |
| Howard
Cooper is looking for FARBER/FABER, SHEPSHEVITZ/SHEPSOVITZ,
KUPER, BONDURA, AARONSON, WILLITOFSKY AND POLLACK
from Mir and nearby Touretz. |
| Bill
Shaphren is looking for SHAPHREN (SHIFRANSKY),
MIRSKY, LAMPERT. His ancestors and mine went
from Mir to Des Moines, Iowa. |
| Rhoda
Krafchin is searching for SINGER/ZINGER and
POLENETSKY, who were in Mir before 1907. |
| Ellen
Gottfried has maternal ancestors from Mir
with the names LIFSHITZ and ROZANSKY. |
| Arthur
Golnick is researching a magid by the name
of Rabbi Eliahu (ca 1757-1828) son of Rabbi Eliezer,
Av bet Din of Berestovista. |
| Hadassah
Lipsius has a great-great-grandmother Chava
CZARNY who was born in 1818. Her Warsaw marriage
record states that she was from Mir and her father
was Moshe Czarny. |
| Henry
Soloway has a number of relatives from Mir
with last names of SOLOVEITCHIK (SOLOVACHIK),
REZNICK, SKLAR, KAPLAN. See his family history for details. |
| Judith
Wilen Krongold is searching for ancestors
named TREMBITSKY (who became BLOOM) and WILENSKY. |
| Marv
Chait searching Ida GRABEVETSKY, his grandmother
and great grandparents Isaac and Dovora. Ida
was youngest of 7, left Mir in 1913 for the US.
Other family settled in London. |
| Zodek
Itzkowitz, the son of David ITZKOWITZ, a
kosher butcher in Mir whose shop was located
on Cerkovna Street, lived in Mir until 1942.
His family housed many Mir Yeshiva students in
the 1920s and 1930s. Zodek and his remaining
brothers Simcha
(Sidney) Itzkowitz and Chaim (Hyman) Itzkovitz
now live in Montreal and Florida. |
Phyllis
Saitz (no e-mail address at present). Her grandfather,
Philip ZAICHIK, (changed to Saitz) and his
future wife, Annie MUCHNIK came from Mir circa
1909, along with the rest of their families. |
| Peter
Levin is the son of Dvora GERSZOWICZ, one
of eight children of a farming family who lived
near Mir. Members of the family went to England
and Palestine. A relative, Abram GERSZOWICZ is
mentioned in the Mir
Yizkor Book. |
| Karin
Schultz' great-great
grandmother's family were named TURETSKY/TERETSKY.
They had 3 daughters. The father was said to
be mayor of Mir. One daughter married a rabbi
and immigrated to Israel. One married a businessman
and immigrated to South Africa. Anna, Karin's
great-grandmother, married Max Tobias, a student
who wrote prayers on talit, and immigrated to
America. |
| Bernie
Hirsch is looking for families named SREBNIK,
LIEBOWITZ, TAUBE or ORLANSKY from Mir. (Note:
he has an excellent web site:http://here.at/berniehirsch/famtree for
Alsace and Lomza Genealogy) |
| Bob
Chazonoff is the son of Sarah Reisha BUNIEWICKIEY,
who is the daughter of Fivel BUNIEWICKIEY and
Fruma Ethel HARKAVY who came to North America
in1926 from Mir. Sarah's older brother Max Beane
had left Mir earlier and settled in New York. |
Nyna
Polumbaum had grandparents Shlomo-Chayim
and Nihama AMDUR(SKY) who had an "iron
store on the square in Mir. They died in
1905 and their children were scattered. Nyna's
mother Rachil was cared for by an aunt in
Mir whose last name became SLOAN in the US,
but was something longer in Mir. |
Thea
Levey is the granddaughter of Louis Moskow
/Lippe MANIUK of Mir. Lippe's grandfather
owned the hotel in Mir and as of the 1929 business
registry the family was still in ownership
under the name S. Maniuk. The MANIUK family
was large. |
| Yolande
Sinder's grandfather Nahum SINDER (born 1904)
and his brother Baruch left Mir in 1922 for South
Africa. They settled in Johannesburg and worked
in the meat business. |
Ted
Brooks has BRUKHANSKY, SKLAR, and MIRSKY
ancestors from Mir. Moshe Brukhansky son, Nathan
Brooks married Sara Resha Mirsky. Sara was
the daughter of Elyakim Yitschok Mirsky and
Etil Sklar. |
| Irving
Pastor's father, and Gail
Pastor Sara and Jeffrey Pastor's grandfather,
is Harry PASTOR, AKA Aaron Postowski/Postovsky
from Mir. In Feb 1907 he came via Liverpool to
Boston then to Nashua , NH. He was related to the
HARKAWAY/HARKAVY family. There is a R. POSTOWSKA
listed as being in the iron business in Mir in
1929. |
| Irene
Silver Topolcic's grandfather, Zev JOSSELEVITCH/IOSSELEVITCH
was a Hebrew school teacher in Mir. He married
Chaya Rivka KAHAN/KAHN. They had seven children:
Samuel, Leib, Aron, Abraham, Sarah, Joseph and
David. Her grandfather went to the US in 1907
as Wolf JOSSELEWITZ. Chaya Rivka died in Mir.
Sarah went to Chicago, Joseph, Sam and David
to New York. Aron went to Buenos Aires, Leib
to Berlin and Abraham to Warsaw. |
| Martin Delikat,
is the grandson of Mordchai SIMAKOWSKY (see certificate
of birth). Mordchai with his mother Esther-Malka
(daughter of Samuel Zelikow EPSTEIN of Mir) immigrated
to New York in 1912 , a year after his father Isaac
Simakowsky immigrated. Their names became Isidore,
Mollie and Emanuel Simon. Five more children were
born in the US. |
| Allison
Vrolijk, a great granddaughter of Isidore
and Mollie SIMON/SIMAKOWSKY, is
also researching this family and NOVOGRODSKY. |
Gary
Salmo's great-grandfather was Pinchas Dovid
KARPELOWSKY. He and his wife Liba had a butcher's
shop in the market square area, and also took
in yeshiva students as boarders. They had 10
children. His grandfather Shmuel emigrated
to Johannesburg, South Africa, circa 1922.
Uncles Harry, Morris and Shmerel also went
to South Africa. An aunt and her family were
transported to Tashkent, where they survived
the war. Descendents are now in Israel.
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| Brian
Marcus is the grandson of Avram Isel MARCUS
(MARKEWIECZ or MARKIEL) and Sonjez PAVLES. The
family, including seven children, left Mir for
Cape Town, South Afica, in 1934. Brian's father
was Sam Marcus. His uncle Rabbi Nachum Leib Marcus
attended Mir Yeshiva. Another uncle Solly Marcus,
lived in Toronto. |
| Annette
Katz' father Morris Jacobs came from Mir.
He was a member of the Mirer Young Men's BES
(see 1953 Journal).
His name was Moshe Yaches before he came to the
US. |
| Eran
Greenberg's grandfather Moshe GRYNBERG was
born in 1906 in Mir and left around 1936 for
Israel. Moshe was the youngest of 7-8 children
of Gershon and Chaja. The family had a grocery
store in Mir. |
| Michael
Escott is the great grandson of HaRav
R. Yaakov Eskolsky (1875-1931). The Eskolsky
family lived in Mir for many generations. The name
may have come from the shtetl of Ishkol'd which is
9.4 miles SSW of Mir. |
| Yechiel
(Hilik) Mirankar and his sister Ahoova
Salit's family include their father's father
Yehuda MIRANKAR, a book binder, and his wife Bluma
SHAPIRA Mirankar, who was a cheese maker.
Their children included Herzel (1917-1996, a carpenter,
father of Hilik and Ahoova), Motel,
Alter, Nehama (Naha), Miriam (Mirel) and Isaac (Itze).
Herzel fought in the Spanish Civil War
as a teenager, in the Polish army, in the Partisans
and in the Russian army. He married Esther Broide
who was from a small village near Baranovich. Later
he
served in the Israeli army during the War of Independence
and the
Sinai War. Herzel Mirankar belonged to the Mir Society
in Israel. |
| Frank
Proschan's grandfather, Israel
PROSCHANSKY, was born in Mir in 1877 and married Rose
GELMAN (born, GILMOFSKY) of Mir, after immigrating
to New
York. Other family connections known to be from Mir
include HERSHOWITZ
(GERSHOWITZ etc.), BERMAN, HARKAVY, BUNIEWICKA. His
grandfather's mother's
last name was RUBINOWITZ and grandmother's mother's
last name was LANDAU,
both of whom may be from Mir. Family members settled
in the U.S., France,
South Africa, and Israel. |
| Malli Schreiber-
Holoshitz is looking for
information about grandparents David SCHREIBER (SHZRAJBER
is the
Polish spelling) and Shifra LIKOVITSKY/LIICHUWIITSKY
Schreiber. Their sons Yehoshua and Yaakov and daughter
Haya Schreiber survived and went to Israel on the Exodus.
Shifra's mother was Lea Yentl ALTSHULER. Shifra's brother
was Shiya Zelig Likovitsky/Liichuwiitsky. |
Eileen
(Chaya) Fridman's grandfather was Israel
Chanan KOPELOWICZ. Some of his children
included Tzila
Kopelowitz (married name Zakheim), Mendel and Michael.
See photos. |
| Julian
Sinai's grandfather, Shlomo SINAISKI, was born
in Mir and trained as a scribe at the Mir Yeshiva.
His cousins were part
of the MIRSKY family from Mir. He married Hannah
CINKIN/ZINKIN before 1907. They had 6 children.
The family went to South Africa in the 1920s. His
sister married Kalman TOUBES of Mir. The Toubes
family went to New York. |
| Julius
Shapiro, of South Africa, is
the great grandson of Bluma and Yossel ZINKIN (also
spelled CYNKIN), who were both born around 1840 in
Mir. Yossel, a miller and Hebrew teacher, was also
known as Yossel Paramel. Their children were Yankel,
Chiena (married baker Kalmen TOUBES/TAUBES), Michle
and Menashe (married Shlomo SINAISKY). |
Leo Hoenig would like information on his wife's OKIN and HELFANT families from Mir. See details.
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| Manfred Schwartz is the son of Alexander TCHERNEY, who was born in Mir in 1897 to Abram-Leib, son of Moshe CHERNY and Dveira daughter of Zalman ABRAMOVITZ. Members of this family went to South Africa. |
| Helene Gossy's mother's parents, Shlomo CHAIMOWITZ and Sarah SKOLNICK and many of their relatives were murdered in Mir, according to reports in the Mir Yizkor Book. Helene is trying to contact CHAIMOWITZ relatives in the United States. |
| Bob Finkelstein ancestors were Monas and Hinde MIRANSKY. Their daughter Razel/Rose married Torah scribe Sholom/Samuel SHAFFER/SCHAFFER around 1890. Sholom and Razel's children were Minnie-Fagle, Chaya/Ida and Chaim/Hyman. The family came to the US between 1904-1907. The Schaffers represented at least three generations of Torah scribes. Sholom Schaffer's father and grandfather were also Torah scribes in Mir. |
| Jack Kolpen's grandfather Jacob KOLPENITSKY lived in Mir. He left for the US in 1912. Jacobs' brother Harry's sons Louis, Abe, and Julius became KOLPON after they immigrated to New York. They were members of the Mirer Young Mens Benevolent and Education Society. There were FOTTERMAN and MIRANKA cousins in Mir. |
 Susan Goldsmith is researching TOBIAS (Toubes, Taubes, Toybes), ROZHANSKY, MIRANSKY, BILINSKY, FOGEL, PROTAS, RUSEK and TRIBUKH in Mir, and nearby Novyy Sverzhen and Stolpcy. |
| Marsha Cohen is researching the CYNKIN/TZINKIN/TSINKIN/ZINKIN and DWORKIN/DVORKIN families of Mir. Her maternal grandfather, Yisroel Nachum TZINKIN, born in 1883, was youngest son of Elye and Mirka TZINKIN of Mir. He came to the US from Mir in 1909/1910, where his name was changed to Isidore Shankin. His wife, Elka Sora (1885-1925), the daughter of Avraham and Esther DWORKIN/DVORKIN of Mir, arrived at Ellis Island in 1921 with their children Shayna Etel (Jeanette Shankin Axelrod), Zalman Ber (Sol Shankin) and Itsche (Irving Shankin). |
| Bill Myers is looking for information relating to his grandparents
Isaac MIRSKY and Matilda/Tilda TOBIS MIRSKY from Mir. Isaac came to
Des Moines, Iowa about 1888 joining his sister Mary MIRSKY MARCUS who
had come to Des Moines some time earlier. Tillie and daughter Libbie
left Mir to reunite with Isaac in 1892. |
| Joanne Wolffson Lafler is looking for SKLOVSKY and SHMUKLER families from Mir. Her father's mother traced her ancestry to Eleazer Shmukler (sometimes spelled SCHMUCKLER), who changed his name to Sklovsky when he married Belle Bessie Sklovsky. Their son, Israel Solomon Sklovsky (b. 1843) married Sarah RABINOVICH (b. 1844). There also are MOLCHATSKY/MOLOCHOVSKY families might have come from Mir. |
| Julie Henner has MAZUREWITZ relatives from Mir. Her ancestors are Leib Ber MAZUREWITZ (1852-abt1930) and his wife Rivka (1865-1941). She is also related to the PERLMAN family. |
Joe
Toubes has HELFANT and TOUBES ancestors
from Mir, who are related to JACOBSON cousins
from Des Moines, Iowa. Two TOUBES sisters married
men with the last name of LEWIS and came to
the US in 1909. |
| David
Jacobson is the son of Jacob Zavel CHERTOK,
who left Mir at age 5 around 1905. The family
went to Iowa. His ancestors from Mir include
Pesha HARKAVY and Minnie JACOBSON. |
| Reeva
Jacobson Kimble is searching for JACOBSON (YAKUBSON, YAKUBOVICH) and BECKER ancestors.
Also for GARBER and CHAPMAN and ESKOLESKY who
married into the JACOBSON family. Some members
of these families left Mir before 1900 (some
1884) and settled in Des Moines, Iowa. (GARBER
from Warsaw, was a rabbi in Mir. He married Elise
JACOBSON whose mother returned with her American born children to Mir from Des Moines, Iowa in 1896.) |
