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Belchatow Survivors Site Guest Book

Please identify anyone in the photographs by the name of the photograph and the number or location of the person identified. (You may use the numbers from the templates provided.) You may also leave comments in this public guest book to share your thoughts with other visitors. If you know the present location and/or email address of any of these people, please send them to Roni Seibel Liebowitz (roni19@optonline.net). That information will be kept private until the person is contacted and expresses interest in having that information made available to others.
 

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Date:
         3 March 2010

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Hi Roni,
I have some names to add the picture in the link:
http://liebowitzes.com/belchatow/groupphotograph_1.htm

No. 6 - FRIDA FRADEL FRISH (my grandmother)
No. 8 - YEHUDA FRISH (my father)
No. 11 - DAVID RAYSHER
No. 12 - ROSHKE RAYSHER (Dobrowolska)
No. 22 - SHYIA BANK (husband of Frania #23)

my email is: Fshimi2@gmail.com

Cheers,
Shimi Frish

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Date:
         1 August 2008

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" YASHER-KOACH  RONI "

                  FOR EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING FOR THE MEMORY
                  OF OUR " BELCHATOW ".

.                            WE LOVE YOU, RUTH AND JACK ALTMAN.

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Date:
13 September 2006

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Hi, I am delighted to see a picture I have looked at in my parents photo album. I would like the first names of my aunts indicated in the picture. #25 is Helen Dobrowolska latter Helen Dobrowolska Herlic, and #23 is my Aunt Frania Dobrowolska Bank. Thank you for maintaining this site. 

Eugenia (Jenny) Haneman  Hanex@aol.com

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Date:
3 May 2006

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Update on Harry Haft…………his story covers life in Belchatow:
http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2006/harry-haft.html

Alan Haft (son)   [See Guest Book entry from 09 February 2005 below.]
 

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Date:
9 March 2006

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Hi my name is Kay Fridman, my maiden name is Brajtberg. My father and his two brothers settled here in Australia. They are the Brajtberg family from Belchatow, Hershel, Motek and Meyer. They are the only survivors of the family from Miriam and Gershon Brajtberg. My grandmother's maiden name was Mahobanski and we have not found any one from her family, but I saw on the photo of the Holon cemetery there was a Fela Mahobanski and sister. If any one could give me any information I would be grateful. My email is kfridman@bigpond.net.au. My father Motek is 83 and my uncle Meyer is 80. My uncle Herschel passed away in 2005. Looking forward to hearing from some one.

regards Kay

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Date:
24 February 2005

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I have just come across this page. I was born in Belchatow, I live here, and I have to admit that a lot of inhabitants of this town have no idea that so many things happened here. Just think, every day I go to work, I pass the place where the Synagogue was, the school I work in is situated in Fabryczna Street, so it's the district where the ghetto used to be... Thank you for this site, it made me think a lot... lucid2@op.pl

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Date:
10 February 2005

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My comment is that i'm 12 and i've just heard of alschwitz in my history class. i think its terrible that they could do that...a human being could terr apart all their lives. just like that. thanks if you have any comments back to me e-mail me at butterfly_9_3@yahoo.com

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Date:
09 February 2005

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#2 [in large group photo] HARRY HAFT, now lives in Pembroke Pines, FL. His tel # is 954 431 5607. Harry's story of survival and his boxing career (he fought Rocky Marciano in 1948) will soon be published by Syracuse University Press.

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Date:
29 January 2005

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According to my wife's great grandfather's nationalisation papers from 1906, he immigrated to England from Belchatow . His name was Solomon Jacobson and his parents name were Chemie and Rochma who lived in a farmhouse near the cemetery. My father in law believed they changed their name from Jakobowicz. I would be grateful if anyone could share any information. brian@pearce5860.freeserve.co.uk

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Date:
06 December 2004

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My mother was Pola Freitag, daughter of David and Pessia Freitag from Belchatow. She had two brothers, Peretz (who was an active member of the Bund), and Hertzig, and two sisters, Mania and Rivjeh. Pola left Poland for New York around 1928 with her new husband, Alex Weiss, and as far as I know, was the only survivor of her immediate family. If anyone has any information about them or the extended family (I think Peretz Freitag, who owned a textile factory might have been her father's brother), please email me at smsilver@bezeqint.net. Reading the material on this site and seeing the pictures has been extremely moving and of course, informative. Thank you for the excellent work.

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Date:
24 November 2004

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My mother, Pola Freitag (maiden name) was from Belchatow, daughter of David and Pessia Freitag, sister of Peretz, Hertzig, Rivka and Rachel. She left Poland for New York before the war started, but the rest of her family perished. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has any information about this family. My email address is: smsilver@bezeqint.net.

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Date:
03 October 2004

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SHALOM FROM JACK AND RUTH ALTMAN,(RACHELKA KRYZMAN JACK (AZRIEL A SON OF SZAJA ALTMAN, GARBERS PABJANICKA 26.WE LIVE IN DALLAS TEXAS,6906 NORWAY PL.DALLAS TX.75230. TEL.214 368-1144,FAX 214 3639848 EMAIL BELCHATOW@AOL.COM. WE WISH YOU ALL AND FAMILY A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR,WITH ALL THE BEST. LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU.

 SHALOM JACK AND RACHELKA.

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Date:
         03 July 2004

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I AM A BELCHATOWER, LIVING NOW IN DALLAS TEXAS
6906 NORWAY PL. DALLAS 752300 214 368-1144.FAX 214 3639848
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME, MY WIFE IS ALSO A BELCHATOWER
CHIL LUZER KRYZMAN DAUGHTER. (PULDUPICKS ZALMAN FAMILY.

JACK ALTMAN   BELCHATOW@AOL.COM

 

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Date:

02 July 2004

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 In photo from 1975 at Holon cemetery # 8 family's name is Plavner which does not live any more.

Gil  lignv@hotmail.com 

 

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Date:

05 May 2004

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In group photograph_2htm, my aunt, Dina Klug (single's name), later Dina Jakubowicz, identified some people: 1. Macha Klug (Israel, sister of 2 & 11); 2. Dina Klug (Sao Paulo, Brazil, wife of 3); 3. Beirish Jakubowicz (died in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1996); 11. Dvoire Klug (Buenos Aires, Argentina); 16. Motek Winter (died in Argentina); 20. Abram Rozencwajg; 21. Brajtberg; 24. Pesse Baum; 37. Cyngler; 38. Wolfowicz; 35. Altman; 48. Yossef Wolfowicz.

Lennart Klug  creatif@terra.com.br

 

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Date:

27 April 2004

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 Audience photo-- sitting to the front of my parents Motek and Chanka Satt (#6) and sort of between them is a cousin who's name was Yosef Hirsch. He passed away when I was a child in the mid 50's. to the right of Yosef Hirsh is my
uncle, my fathers' youngest sibling, Herschel Satt. He passed away in December 1984 at the age of 60.
in the same row as my father is Manya Monczyck who is no longer alive (and I believe she was not from Belchatov )and her husband Yankel Monczyk who was a Belchatover and passed away c, 1983.

 
Goldie Satt-Arrow  GSatt-Arrow@att.net  
 

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27 April 2004

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 #6 in "Audience Photograph" are my parents Moteck (Yaakov Mordichai) and Chanka (Chana Rivka) SATT. The last name has been misspelled. We have been using the SATT spelling since before the war.
My father, Motek passed away in May, 2002 at the age of 88. My mother is suffering with Alzheimers, she is now 80 years old. My mother lives in Far Rockaway. NY.
Please contact me you can. I am curious about my father's war years. I know that he spent a good portion of the war in the Lodz Ghetto. There, he lost his first wife and their approx. 2 year old child Leeba.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Goldie Satt-Arrow  GSatt-Arrow@att.net 

 

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Date:

14 April 2004

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 I began researching my family history and was excited and touched by the information about Belchatow. A sincere thank you for all your work and information.

Ira (Bornstein) Pulwer  ipulwer@comcast.net 

 

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Date:

23 March 2004

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 I cant´t identifie anybody in the picture, but I´m argentinian and my surname is gliksman so there´re gliksman survivers in argentina, and my grandfather´s father was from belchatow.
have you identified anyone named Gliksman?
Lucia Gliksman  hechizada13@hotmail.com 

 

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Date:

14 Nov 2003

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There was a family Rozenblum that is not mentioned in the list of Jewish population in Belchatow. They were related to me by daughter Bela who married my brother Jakub Calecki in the year 1936 and had a son Mordechai [Miecio]. All killed by the Nazis.

Perla Calecka  perla_calecka@yahoo.com 

 

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Date:

06 Sept 2003

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 my family are from belchotow

leonardo urbach  groberbest@hotmail.com 

 

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Date:

01 June 2003

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shalom, my name is sara i am the daughter of mendel kaufman, i want to thank you for the beutiful site you made for my father home town. we were very exiting to see it. my fother and his wife live in kibbuts yifat in israel.
i have to correct mistak about the pictures, they didn't foto in argentina my fother dont remember when and were but he weren't in argentina.
near my father stand my mother rachel kaufman and not dora klug.
again thank you, and sorry for my english, if you talk hebrew it will be esier for me.
shalom , sara eliau 
sara_eli@walla.co.il
 

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Date:

27 May 2003

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gostei de ver um documentario muito bom da cidade do meu pai, KOPEL URBACH,ja falecido.
urbach ,leonardo  groberbest@hotmail.com 
 

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Date:

25 May 2003

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Hi there.. found this site very interesting. My mother's mother married a man called Nathan Szylit who was from Poland.. but I thought he was from a town called Krapkow (excuse the incorrect spelling) which was on the Polish/Czech border. Having seen this site I think she may've been wrong. I believe Nathan, my grandad, had a brother, who ended up in Belguim after the war.. but we have no record of anything else. I believe most of his family died in Auschwitz. He married a woman called Sadie in Liverpool and settled in London. That's all I know. If anyone has any info and can help me trace my grandad, I and my mum of course!, would be very grateful. Thanks, in advance.
gary phillips gary.phillips@creation.com 
 

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Date:

18 Dec 2002

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Dear Roni
The person # 21 in this picture is Mendel Lizerovitch.
He is also #19 on the "Large group Photo Freising 1946"

Yehiel Volchik  [new email for Al Volchik: alchilik@optonline.net]

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Date:

18 Dec 2002

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Hi Roni How are you? You are doing a great job. Thanks.
Looking at picture and checking with my aunt in Israel, I was able to Identify the following two people:
# 19 is Mandel Lizerovitch, Lived in Israel (Ramat Gan). I believe that He passed on some years back. #33 is Chazkel Volfovitch, He also lived in Israel ( Ramat Gan or Givatayim). He too may have passed on.
I promised you some time back pictures from Frizing [Freising] but I could not put my hand on these pictures. As soon as I find them I will send them to you.

Regards
Yehiel Volchik.  [new email for Al Volchik: alchilik@optonline.net]

PS. I am concern about the access to personal information in all the genealogy sights by some shady characters. Had someone using my name and other info for personal gains.

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Date:

10 Dec 2002

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I will be presenting a school performance on the survivors of Belchatow. I was wondering if you could send me some information on the actual camp clothes. thank you.

 Giles Whittle  Gilestron@hotmail.com 
 

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Date:

30 Nov 2002

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 Number 30 is Moishe Cymberknopf (aka Morris Cymber), his wife Helena is number 31.

Wayne Cymber and Scott Cymber  cymber@comcast.net; %20Scott.Cymber@mycom-usa.com 
 

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Date:

04 Oct 2002

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 Hi, I'm from Brazil, and I'm very glad to find such a site about the little town that my grandfather was born. Congratulations for the initiative!

P.S.: I would like to send more pictures, so how can I do that?
 
Paulo Naparstek   pn2@ieg.com.br 

 

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Date:

22 July 2002

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 Hi Roni. Number 18 is the deceased Mr Zucher Szotten, and number 20 is his wife Jocheved Szotten. Regards Jacob Jakobowicz  jacjak@netvision.net.il 
 

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Date:

07 June 2002

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PLEASE VISIT MY SITE "THE YEAR 1945 interest group" and enter any personal stories, tributes, or personal photos from the year 1945 of family, friends,or loved ones, especially loved ones who may have died or went missing in that year. The URL is: http://communities.ninemsn.com.au/TheYear1945interestgroup
JOHN BERRY  jbcan@bigpond.com  
 

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Date:

27 May 2002

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I am not positive, but #7 closely resembles my grandfather, Nathan Shyllit.

 sara shyllit  1sds@qlink.queensu.ca
 

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Date:

06 May 2002

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witam ja mieszkam teraz w belchatowie pozdrawiam wszystkich ktorzy milo wspominaja to miasto.

[translation: Welcome, I am living now in Belchatow. I salute all of you who remember this place.]

maribon  rifam@interia.pl 

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Date:

         16 March 2002

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 Group Photograph 2: A group of Belchatow survivors in Freising, Germany, 1946
#27 is Iocheved (Jadzia) Shalit - Shotten

Shmuel Shottan is the son of Isachar Shotten (#46) and Iocheved Shalit - Shotten.

#47 is Nachum (Natek) Shotten, son of Isscahar Shotten and Tovah Nouiman (Also of Belchatov), died in Russia in 1944.

Shmuel Shottan  sshottan@aol.com

 

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Date:

20 Aug 2001

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Correction of already listed names:
#2= Hetscku Haft
#4= Rachel Chojnacki (nee Gliksman)
#24= Yankel Gliksman (cousin of Yankel Gliksman #26)
#26= Last name is spelled Gliksman
#40= Wolf Chojnacki (corrected spelling)

#5= Esther Malka Starkman (nee Gliksman)
#7= Aron Starkman (husband of Esther)

Unfortunately, Jack has macular degeneration in both eyes, so it's hard for him to see the photos clearly and this is the only ones he can discern. We'll keep trying and he will call you. Meanwhile, our phone number is 732-370-0896 for your records. We're just going on the web site, but our children are very excited.

Thank you for your efforts,
Roberta & Jack Glucksman
hackernan@aol.com 

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07 Aug 2001

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After 25 years of looking for family, I have found exciting information in the last 2 weeks!! Thank you to everyone for all your tireless efforts towards this web site!!

Toba Abramczyk  jkerbel@centtel.com

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Date:

25 June 2001

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Harry Haft is my cousin. I lived in Lodz, but I was born in Kamiensk. Belchatow was liked to http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kamiensk/. if any one is known from Kamiens(Kaminsk) please let him or her get in touch with me via E mai.victorsb@aol.com.
Thank You

Victor Breitburg victorsb@aol.com  

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Date:

19 June 2001

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Number 8 should be the late Abraham Szylit.

Jacob Jakobowicz jacjak@netvision.net.il

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Date:

23 May 2001

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 Hi Roni. If I am not wrong, I think I identify number 8 as my late cousin, Abraham Szylit and number 46 as the brother-in-law of #8, Sucher Szotten. Although Abraham Szylit has past away, Sucher Szotten still lives, in Ramat Gan. 34 Krinizi street, tel: 972-3-6736078.
Best regards Jacob

Jacob Jakobowicz jacjak@netvision.net.il

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Date:

18 May 2001

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 I am the daughter of Israel Lachman who was born in Belchatow. We are looking for any information about Lachman family. We are planning a trip to Belchtow by the end of this May. Please help with additional information. My father died on 1982.

Rina Berger matib@netvision.net.il

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Date:

29 April 2001

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Since the end of World War two it has always been on my mind how best to preserve the memories of our loved ones who perished in such a gruesome way at the hands of the Nazis.
As President of the Independent Belchatower Benevolent Association, Inc., together with my wife as Secretary for the past 16 years we always try to encourage our members not to forget. Every year at the Haskurah gathering for our kedoishem at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Long Island, New York, all my speeches are devoted toward this end. We now have a welcome addition in the Internet.
We thank you Roni for your efforts to make our Shtetl and our Jewish people go down in history.
 

Hiller Bell (Belchatowski) Phylbell@webtv.net

 

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Date:
        27 April 2001

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You have done a fabulous job of keeping your shtetl -- and those who did, and did not survive -- in the minds and hearts of all who visit this site. Mazel tov!

Linda Greenman greenman50@aol.com

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