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Radzilover Photo Album, Part 1

Pictures taken in Poland


Yisrael Mejer Gutsztejn
Died in Lomza, 1927
Read about him and his wife Pesza

Pesza (nee Zimnowicz) Gutsztejn
Killed in Radzilow, 1941, at age 71

Children of Jankiel Gutsztejn
and wife Yocheved, 1936
[L-R]: Ephraim, Yitzhak, Rywka,
Yisrael and Menachem
Entire family of seven
killed in Holocaust
Read 12-year-old Ephraim's letter, 1939

Moshe Gutsztejn (Miguel Gutstein)
Left Radzilow, mid-1920's
Went to Kovno, Lithuania,
then to Cuba
Read a letter he wrote from Cuba, 1935
See his marriage photo in Cuba, 1928

Sara (nee Gutsztejn) and Jacob Zimnowicz
Both killed in Radzilow, 1941,
along with daughter Shulamit, age 8

Chana Gutsztejn
Went to Israel, 1932

Chana (nee Gutsztejn) and Zalman Maretzky
Went to Israel, 1932

Chana Gutsztejn - Polish Passport, 1932
Went to Israel, 1932

Mejer Zimnowicz
Survived Auschwitz and Dachau
Went to Canada, 1965

Litwer Family
Chana Gitla (nee Zimnowicz) Litwer
and husband Jankiel Lejba (Jacob) Litwer; Children [L-R]: Helen, Rochel (Rose), Nuska Chana and Jankiel went to Myszyniec after marrying in 1876; both went to America, 1922; Helen and Rochel went to America; Nuska died around WWI
Chana's gr-granddaughter's visit to Radzilow

Lejzor Gerszk Zimnowicz
Went to America, 19xx;
became sick and returned to
Nowogrod (where he had married)
to die, 1906/7

Estera Rochla (nee Szeraszew) and Ick Lejba Finkielsztejn
Estera went to America, 1923;
Ick died in Szczuczyn, about 1922

Estera Rochla (nee Szeraszew) Finkielsztejn
Went to America,1923

Cziza (nee Surawicz - daughter of
Rabbi Szemen Aryeh Surawicz) and
Moszk Dawid Zimnowicz
Cziza died in Poland, 19xx;
Moszk died in Szczuczyn, 1913

Snuff Box given by the Radzilow Congregation, ca 1870
to its Rabbi Szemen Aryeh Surawicz
to commemorate his visit to Berlin, Germany

Cziza (nee Surawicz - daughter of
Rabbi Szemen Aryeh Surawicz) and
Moszk Dawid Zimnowicz
Cziza died in Poland, 19xx;
Moszk died in Szczuczyn, 1913

ca 1912
Ishayahu (Izzy) Rajchenberg and an uncle (most likely a brother of his mother Sima Liba (nee Zimnowicz) Rajchenberg

Rabbi Surawicz's Seal

Sora Ena (nee Surawicz - daughter of Radzilow Rabbi Szemen Aryeh Surawicz) and husband Yitzhak Bergsztejn
[Photo may have been taken in Radzilow or Szczuczyn;
couple married in Radzilow, lived in Szczuczyn]
Sora Ena died in Suwalki, 1924;
Yitzhak died in Grajewo, 1917
Read about Sora Ena's father, Rabbi Szemen Surawicz

Sora Ena (nee Surawicz - daughter of
Radzilow Rabbi Szemen Aryeh Surawicz)
Sora Ena died in Suwalki, 1924

Rabbi Kiwa (Akiba) Goldberg
Died in Radzilow, ca 1924
Read about Rabbi Goldberg

Itzchak Wolf Goldberg, ca 1945
[Passport photo]
Fled to Russia during WWII,
then to Italy after it ended, then Israel

Boruch Itzchok Bejnsztejn
Dayan of Radzilow
Died in Radzilow, 1910
See photo of his daughter
Chaja Fejga in NY