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Source update · 28 October 2026

Two more Munich notices

A 1936 lecture report and a 1938 Mishnah timetable name Rabbi Wiesner. The probable identification with Rav Shmaya and the limits of each notice are kept explicit.

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The research notes as they come in, newest first, each with its grade and the record it rests on. Proven = read on the original record.

Golda Lipsitz’s stone at Gáva, and R’ Aharon (II) of Karlin’s Stolin descendants — 27 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: Probable — Golda (Goldi) Lipsitz’s gravestone at Gáva (CJA 388699) names her “Mrs. Golda daughter of R’ Shemaya”, wife of R’ Yisrael Yonah L[ipsch]itz. Strong: her own stone names her father as R’ Shemaya. The link to Shmaya Wiesner stays Probable (the year is broken off).
  • 27 October 2026: Proven as carved — Jónás Lipsitz’s Hebrew name was Yisrael Yonah, from his son Binyamin Zeev’s stone at Gáva (CJA 388696). Binyamin Zeev, died 2 Tammuz 5687 (2 July 1927), is probably his son Vilmos (Probable).
  • 27 October 2026: R’ Yitzchak Yosef Blich’s stone at Gáva now carries its Center for Jewish Art record number (image 388695).
  • 27 October 2026: Probable — R’ Aharon (II) of Karlin’s son R’ Asher (II) of Stolin and the Stolin line; his great-grandchildren, the household of R’ Yisrael of Stolin, are named on the 1992 Stasino memorial (29 Elul 5702, 11 September 1942, as transcribed). The memorial photo and portraits of R’ Asher and R’ Moshe of Stolin are in the gallery as collateral-family context.

R’ Yitzchak Yosef Blich’s parents, a corrected date, and the Koidanov founder in R’ Asher’s house — 27 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: Proven — R’ Náthán (Natan) Blich, rabbi at Csaba, is now on the tree as the father of R’ Yitzchak Yosef Blich, rav of Gáva, from two original entries of his son’s 1876 marriage (images 305 and 309, both now in the gallery and on R’ Yitzchak Yosef’s card).
  • 27 October 2026: Proven as his mother, Probable as a daughter of the Pri Tzadik — Eszti (Esther) Blich, written “Fridmán Eszti” in the register. The maiden-name conflict (Fridmán in the register, Benet or Roth for her sisters) is stated on her card. With her, the records settle that R’ Yitzchak Yosef was the Pri Tzadik’s grandson (Probable), not his son-in-law.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — Mardche (Mordechai) Wizner’s death date corrected to 18 Sep 1875 (Gáva death register, image 321); the 23 Sep date belonged to the next row.
  • 27 October 2026: Probable — the 1816 Stolin page, re-read on the original, also lists in R’ Asher Perlov’s household “Shlioma Khaim”, 19, and his wife “Leya Reizya” (Leah Reizel), 18: very probably R’ Shlomo Chaim, later the first Koidanover Rebbe, R’ Asher’s grandson. A note on R’ Moshe Dov Ber’s card; the site still keeps the Koidanov Perlovs separate from our line.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — two index readings corrected against the 1816 page: there was no daughter “Khana” (that row is Chava, wife of R’ Aharon II), and the daughter indexed as “Rakhla” is written “Рохля”.

Beyla of Stolin, the 1811 page, and a Bököny wedding — 27 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: Probable — a new person, Beyla, daughter of R’ Chaim Chaikel of Haradnaja and Dvora, born about 1823, listed aged 11 in R’ Osher Perlov’s household in the 1834 Stolin revision list (as indexed). Like the rest of the Stolin line, she sits under the family-tradition label.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — the original 1811 Stolin revision list page, listing “Osher’s nephew Movsha Ber” (R’ Moshe Dov Ber), is now in the gallery and on his card.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — the original 1873 Bököny marriage of Vizner József of Gáva, “son of Vizner Antal”, and Grosz Beti of Téglás (6 May 1873), read on the page; Betti’s birth (13 Jul 1856, Bököny) and her parents and siblings from the Bököny family book.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — the original page of Vilmos Lipsitz’s 1882 Gáva marriage, naming his parents “Lipsitz Jónás, Vizner Golda”; Bököny family-book households for Jósef Glück (house 80, Probable) and Jakab Glück (house 41, Proven); R’ Yitzchak Yosef Blich’s 1876 marriage, as a widower, to Klein Mari of Balsa (Proven as written).

Dr Adolf Ónodi, the Pri Tzadik’s grandson — 27 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: Proven — Dr Adolf (Dávid) Ónodi, born Finkelstein (Miskolc 1857 – 1919), the Budapest laryngologist and university professor, is a son of Yeta Devora née Benet and Yosef Finkelstein of Miskolc: his 1857 birth, his 1887 marriage and his mother’s 1908 death (which he reported) all name the same parents. His father Yosef now has his own card.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — his brother Jakab Fénykövi, born Finkelstein (Miskolc 1843), a Budapest teacher, witnessed his wedding; Probable — his brother Mór Ónodi, a law student who took the same surname in 1886 and died in 1891; Proven — his wife Kornélia Steiner (d. 1944), daughter of Bertold Steiner and Cecilia Bodansky.
  • 27 October 2026: Probable — more children of Yosef and Yeta Devora from the Miskolc birth index and the Kozma utca graves: Abraham (1838), Helen (c. 1841–1903), Sari (1848), Izrael (1852), Ignatz (1854), Simon (1856) and Fani (1859). Six record scans are in the gallery. Open questions shown on the cards: his birth day (7 Oct or 7 Nov 1857) and his death (15 or 16 Nov 1919, Vienna or Budapest).
  • 27 October 2026: Proven — the 1811 Stolin revision list, read on the original page, lists R’ Moshe Dov Ber as “Osher’s nephew Movsha Ber”, 32; Probable — the 1834 list still carries him and R’ Asher’s widow Feyga, 68; a second printed source (Rabinowitsch, citing Yaari) names “Moshe-Dov, son of R’ Aharon of Stolin” among the 1846 Tiberias signatures.
  • 27 October 2026: Probable — the Hebrew names “Miriam bas Shmaya”, “HaRav Eliezer Zev ben Aharon” and “Aharon ben Eliezer Zev” in a Tisha B’Av 5784 memorial dedication.

Miriam Perlow’s burial — 27 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: Possible — Miriam Perlow née Wiesner was possibly buried in Eretz Yisrael: her shiva notice (VIN News, 5 Nov 2023) says two of her sons would arrive back from Eretz Yisroel on the Tuesday morning after the Sunday funeral. Where she is buried, and the exact day she died, are not yet known.

Feigel Perlow and her daughter Hinda — 27 October 2026

  • 27 October 2026: Proven as recorded — Feigel Perlow née Zditowski was born about 1881 in Chomsk; a memorial record lists her in 1941 as 60, a widow and a grocer of Chomsk.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven as printed — Feigel died in Khomsk on Tisha B’Av, 9 Av 5701 (2 August 1941), with her daughters Hinda, Freida and Fruma; she is named on the Chomsk memorial book’s list and in the Drahichyn district memorial book (Minsk 1997), p. 306. Her yahrzeit, 9 Av, is now on the yahrzeit page.
  • 27 October 2026: Proven as printed — her son wrote that her line went back to the family of the Vilna Gaon’s sister, from Kosov; the descent itself is Possible (no generations are given).
  • 27 October 2026: Proven as printed — R’ Aharon Perlow “died in the prime of his life”, leaving Feigel a widow; his son R’ Chaim Chaikel’s gravestone speaks of “the house of his mother Feiga the widow”.
  • 27 October 2026: Probable — new on the tree: Hinda Perlow, daughter of R’ Aharon and Feigel, named by her brother R’ Eliezer Zev on the family memorial page as his sister.

Shanghai records and a 1947 ship’s list — 26 October 2026

  • 26 October 2026: Proven — R’ Eliezer Zev (Lejzer) Perlow is named in a 1941 Shanghai refugee-bureau list (born 27 March 1914, Chomsk) with Chajm Chaikel, Feiga and Frumke Perlow — very probably his brother R’ Chaim Chaikel, his mother Feigel and his sister Fruma (Probable; the list states no relationships).
  • 26 October 2026: Probable — R’ Eliezer Zev appears in the 1945 Shanghai HIAS register of Jewish refugees as a rabbi-student, born 27 March 1914 (“Chozuk” is a typing slip for Chomsk).
  • 26 October 2026: Proven — Antal (Naftali Tzvi) Wiesner sailed from Cherbourg on the S.S. America on 6 June 1947 and landed at New York on 13 June 1947, a rabbi, single, 31, born at Sajószentpéter, going to his brother Rav Shmaya (Sam) at 1424 49th Street.

Two register entries read — 26 October 2026

  • Proven — Róza Szender née Klein is the mother of Mendel (Emánuel) Szender: his 1913 Hajdúdorog death entry (no. 238) names his parents as the late Szender Lajos and the late Klein Róza, and his wife as Engel Katalin. Her identity with the Róza who died at Újfehértó in 1876 stays Possible and separate.
  • Proven — Farkas Wiesner was synagogue warden (“templomi gondnok”) of Sajószentpéter in 1895, as the godfather cell of entry 20 of that year’s birth register says, on the same page as his son Ignácz’s birth (entry 21).

Seven more relatives: the Stolin household and the Brooklyn Zitowskys — 26 October 2026

  • Proven as recorded — Rakhlya (Rachel), aged 2, daughter of R’ Moshe Dov Ber and sister of R’ Chaim Chaikel of Haradnaja, read on the original 1816 Stolin revision list (NHAB Minsk 333/9/71, f. 213). Family tradition, not documented, as for the whole Stolin–Karlin line.
  • Proven — R’ Aharon (II) of Karlin, the Beit Aharon (1802–1872), son of R’ Asher of Stolin and Feiga, and so R’ Moshe Dov Ber’s half-brother: listed aged 14 in his father’s household in the same 1816 list, and named in R’ Asher’s printed letter. Family tradition, not documented, as for the whole Stolin–Karlin line.
  • Proven as indexed (Social Security claims index) — Flora Zitowsky (1918–1994), daughter of Victor Zitowsky and Sarah Davidoff; Florence Zitowsky Kaufman (1919–1993), daughter of Morris Zitowsky and Rachel London; Selma Davidoff (1923–1995), daughter of Esther Zitowsky and Nathan Davidoff; Arthur Martin Zitowsky (1924–2000), son of Chaim (Hyman) Zditowsky the painter.
  • Probable — Emanuel Matthew Zitowsky (1914–1997), son of “Sam Zitowsky and Rebecca Marcus”, very probably Samuel son of Shmerko.
  • Updated — Stanley Zitowsky, son of Victor and Sarah, died on 2 July 1983 at Milford, Connecticut (Connecticut death index; Social Security claims index), so his card now shows his dates.

A caution on the Stolin link — 25 October 2026 (night)

  • Caution — the Stolin–Karlin journal (Kovetz Beit Aharon veYisrael 214, p. קנט, note 89) raises the possibility that R’ Aharon Perlov of Stolin (b. c.1826) was the son of Bluma by her first marriage, and not the son of R’ Chaim Chaikel of Haradnaja. If so, there would be no descent from Reb Aharon HaGadol through this line. The 1850 and 1858 revision index rows call him Khaykel’s son, but their images have not been read; nothing on the tree was removed or regraded upward.
  • Wording corrected across the site: the link of our R’ Chaim Chaikel Perlow to R’ Aharon Perlov of Stolin, and the blood tie to Reb Aharon HaGadol of Karlin that follows from it, are family tradition (Possible), not documented.
  • The 1816 Stolin list writes “Shlema Khaim”, 19, as R’ Asher’s “zyat’” (son-in-law); printed sources make R’ Shlomo Chaim Perlov (b. 1797) R’ Asher’s grandson, raised in his house. This site does not identify our family with the separate Koidanov Perlovs.

R’ Asher of Stolin’s letter, Tiberias 1846 and the Miskolc search — 25 October 2026 (evening)

  • Proven as printed — R’ Asher of Stolin’s letter 107 in Hillman’s Igrot Baal HaTanya u-Vnei Doro (Jerusalem 1953), p. 184, sends greetings from “my wife’s son … R’ Moshe Ber, his wife and his sons” — so R’ Moshe Ber was already married with sons when R’ Asher’s own son Aharon was still “a child”. Page image in the gallery.
  • Proven as printed — Hillman’s note (p. 187): R’ Moshe Dov Ber went up to the Land of Israel, was one of the heads of the Karlin hasidim in Tiberias, and in 1846 signed a letter of the Tiberias hasidim as “Moshe Dov son of the Rav R’ Aharon of Stolin”.
  • Conflict — a printed claim makes R’ Moshe Dov Ber a son-in-law of R’ Shlomo of Karlin; Hillman wrote in 1953 that it “needs checking”. The site keeps his wife as Beyla, daughter of R’ Moshe of Kobrin (Possible, doubtful).
  • Probable as printed — R’ Mordechai of Lechovitch (son of R’ Moshe Dov Ber, son-in-law of R’ Noach of Lechovitch) and his son and successor R’ Aharon of Lechovitch (son-in-law of R’ Pinchas of Kalk, d. 21 Sivan 5641 = 1881) join the tree on the Stolin branch (Hebrew Wikipedia / HaMichlol, Lechovitch article). Same family-tradition note as the rest of that branch.
  • Proven — In November 2025 a cemetery-preservation team began searching the old section of the Miskolc cemetery for the gravestone of Frumet Pessel, wife of the Pri Tzadik; it has not been identified yet (Avoyseinu Bulletin no. 761, HFPJC, 27 Nov 2025). Photo in the gallery.
  • Proven as printed — In 1839 the rav of Csaba was R’ Ephraim (subscriber list of the Pri Tzadik’s own book, p. 92).
  • Still Possible — the link of our R’ Chaim Chaikel Perlow (Chomsk) to the Stolin family remains family tradition; nothing new proves it.

Records checked — 25 October 2026 (afternoon)

  • Probable — R’ Chaim Chaikel Perlov was rabbi of the Jewish congregation of Legnica, Poland, about 1958–63, and sat on its 1958 board and on the rabbis’ council of the national union (M. Szajda, Legnicki Almanach 2024, pp. 142, 144, 149).
  • Probable — The American Jewish Year Book for 1962 says “Rabbi Perlow served in Wroclaw”; very likely R’ Chaim Chaikel. Only a search snippet of the page has been read so far.
  • Probable — Asher Perlow is “Perłow O.”, one of Chomsk’s six blacksmiths, in the 1929 Polish business directory (p. 1075).
  • Probable — During the First World War Rav Shmaya Wiesner headed the “Jeschurun” youth society in Breslau, and from April 1918 led its boys’ courses in Vienna (Jüdische Korrespondenz, 1917–18).
  • Proven as printed — In February 1932 the Da’at Sofer of Pressburg answered Rav Shmaya as “my beloved disciple … moreh and dayan of Munich” (Responsa vol. 1, §21).
  • Proven as printed — In September 1943 Rav Shmaya signed HaPardes’s protest of 500 American rabbis about the refugee children.
  • Proven — Szerén Wiesner and her four children crossed from Le Havre to New York on the SS President Harding, 17–26 August 1939, six days before the war began.
  • Proven — Five more of Szerén’s brothers and sisters join the tree from their Hajdúnánás birth entries: Sámuel (1896), Matild (1899), Rozália (1904), Károly (1906) and Klára (1908).
  • Proven — Gyula (George) Wiesner lived at São Paulo, Brazil, before landing at New York on the SS Astri on 10 November 1938.
  • Proven — Béla Wiesner: born Sajószentpéter 1899; married Ilona Szender at Hajdúnánás in 1923; landed at New York on the SS Sobieski in 1947; in the fur business in Brooklyn in 1950.
  • Proven as printed — Ignác Wiesner, sergeant in the 10th Honvéd Infantry Regiment, a prisoner of war at Ivanovo-Voznesensk in the casualty list of 1 June 1917.
  • Proven — On 22 June 1984 Congregation Geulah v’Yeshuah deeded its building at 1424 49th Street to Congregation Ohr Chaim; on 30 Nov 1981 American Friends of the Shemaya School for Deaf Children in Israel was incorporated in Brooklyn.
  • Proven as printed — Brooklyn Eagle marriage licences from 1424 49th Street: Naftali (Antal) Wiesner, February 1949, and Willy Wiesner, July 1950.
  • Proven — The Zitowsky row at Mount Zion is explained: Sarah née Davidoff was Victor’s wife and Ray (Risha) née London was Morris’s wife; new on the tree are Rose (d. 1916), Samuel (d. 1947) and Benjamin (1903–1944).

Records checked — 25 October 2026 (late morning)

  • Proven — The Shmaya Association in Israel (founded 1981) is named “in memory of the late Rabbi Shmaya Wiesner”; it began as a school for hearing-impaired children and is now a national organization for people with disabilities. For two decades his son was its main supporter (Probable).
  • Proven as printed, identity Probable — In 1917 “Samu Wiesner, rabbi of Breslau” gave trial sermons at Debrecen for the post of assistant rabbi (Debreczeni Ujság, 28 Sep 1917); in August 1928 “Rabb. Wiesner” preached in Breslau for the High Holidays; the 1924 trade directory lists Wiesner Samu as a general-goods merchant at Sajószentpéter.
  • Proven — Rav Shmaya came to New York as a visitor in December 1938 and, with a non-quota visa as a minister of religion issued at Havana, flew to Miami on 31 May 1939 to settle; his wife was still in Munich. He married his daughters Leah (1944), Judith (1945) and Miriam (1948) himself.
  • Proven — Miriam Wiesner: arrival at New York 26 Aug 1939 (S.S. President Harding), declaration of intention 1944, citizen 17 Jun 1947 with her father and brother as witnesses, marriage licence printed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle 11 Nov 1948. She died in Boro Park in November 2023, aged 101 (Probable, newspaper notices).
  • Proven — Isak “Irving” Perlow, the only known survivor of Asher’s household: in Italy 1947–50, to New York and Chicago in 1950; died in Chicago on 19 Nov 1983 and is buried at the Waldheim cemeteries, Forest Park.
  • Proven — Rózi Wizner, sister of Farkas, married Náthán Jozefovics at Gáva on 3 Sep 1889; seven children born at Szerencs 1892–1905; she died at Auschwitz in 1944 (a memorial record).
  • Probable — Golda Wiesner, wife of Jónás Lipsitz (d. 1895), landowner of Gáva, was very probably Antal’s sister: Jónás stood at the family’s births and weddings for thirty years. A Moshe Yosef Wiesner of Bököny (married 1873) was probably Antal’s younger brother (open).
  • Proven — Jacob Perlow sailed from Hamburg on the Belgravia and landed at New York on 11 Dec 1904; his sister Esther, 17, of Telekhany, followed on the SS Lapland in August 1910 (Probable-high).
  • Proven — R’ Eliezer Zev Perlow’s later books are now in the Library list: Imrei Eliezer vols. 1–2 (1982), part 3 (1989) and Imrei Eliezer al HaTorah (1995–1999).
  • Map — Chomsk moved to its true place (52.333, 25.229; it had been about 23 km off), and seven Perlow-line towns added: Horodno (Haradnaja), Pohost-Zahorodzki, Kobrin, Zelichov, Mir, Kovno and Karlin (Pinsk), plus Tiberias. Four old pictures of Horodno, R’ Chaim Chaikel’s town, are in the Gallery.

Records checked — 25 October 2026

  • Proven as a record — link to our family still family tradition — The 1816 Stolin revision list was read on the original page (NHAB Minsk 333/9/71, ff. 212v–213; FHL film 1925416, image 755; scan on the Stolin KehilaLinks records page). In R’ Asher Perlov’s household (no. 23), R’ Moshe Ber (“Movsha Ber Aronov”, 37) is listed as R’ Asher’s “relative”, with his wife Beyla, 30, his son Khaikel Simkha (R’ Chaim Chaikel of Haradnaja), 9, and a daughter Rakhla, 2. Two misreadings in the index are corrected: Shlioma Khaim is R’ Asher’s son-in-law, not his son, and the index’s “Khana, daughter, 12” is Chava, 12, wife of R’ Asher’s son Aharon.
  • Not found — The 1875 Beit Aharon letters (Brody 1875, HebrewBooks 46089, pp. 295–316 plus the omissions section) were read in full: they name no Perlow relative.
  • Possible — The bridge from R’ Chaim Chaikel Perlow to the Stolin line is still unproven. The records that would close it: the 1884 Telekhany birth entry and the 1874 Stolin family list.

Records checked — 24 October 2026 (Shabbos, late night)

  • Ruled out: the Nagykálló lead for Shmaya Wiesner’s wife. Rebeka Braun, wife of Lőrincz Zicherman, was having Zicherman children at Nagykálló in July 1859, September 1860 and August 1862 (the 1862 entry names her “Braun Rebeka”), while Shmaya was alive and married at Gáva until 16 September 1862. So she is a different woman. Braun and Lieberman both stay open on his card.
  • Read page by page, without result: the Nagykálló Jewish deaths from mid-1893 to the end of 1895, and the Nagykálló Jewish marriages 1862–1876 (no Wiesner widow, no Zicherman–Braun marriage).
  • Johanna Zichermann’s 1941 death record was read on the image: registered at Baja, entry 385, parents Zichermann Lőrinc and Braun Rebeka, no birthplace given. It belongs to the Zicherman family, not to ours.

Records checked — 24 October 2026 (Shabbos, later)

  • Checked, no result: every Kemecse civil death entry from October 1895 to the end of 1909, the last year online. July 1899 onward was read page by page; the earlier years were searched in the index. There is no death of Mrs Leonorovits (Mariska Glück), so she outlived 1909. Noted on Miriam Glück Lenorovits’s card; her grade stays Probable.
  • Shmaya Wiesner’s wife Rivke: the Apagy Jewish deaths (1852–1885) and the Nagykálló Jewish deaths (1854 to mid-1893) were read page by page, and neither has her. One lead turned up, and it is only a lead: a Rebeka née Braun, born about 1828 and married to Lőrincz Zicherman, died at Nagykálló in 1876. Both Braun and Lieberman stay open. (Ruled out later the same night; see the entry above.)
  • Two other Glück rabbis in the 1929 Hungarian Jewish lexicon, Izsák of Sajószentpéter and Ábrahám Jicchok of Tolcsva, were checked at the source. Nothing links them to the Kemecse Glücks. They are listed on the Sources page as leads only.

Records and books checked — 24 October 2026 (Shabbos night)

  • Probable, not merged — R’ Mordechai Lenorovits of Kemecse’s second book, Derashot Mordechai (c. 1931), names him as the son of Moshe and Elka Lenorovits: the same parents as the groom who married Mariska Glück, Rabbi Emánuel Glück’s daughter, at Kemecse in 1894. Noted on Miriam Glück Lenorovits’s card, with the title page in the gallery; her grade stays Probable.
  • The April 1944 census of Hungary’s Jewish communities lists Géza Leonorovits as the registry rabbi of Kemecse (entry 289). Added to the same card as a consistency note.
  • The original Stolin revision lists of 1834, 1850 and 1858, as indexed, agree with the printed censuses for R’ Chaim Chaikel of Haradnaja and his son R’ Aharon Perlov of Stolin (wives Devorah and Bluma; Aharon’s wife Freydlya and daughter Dvora). Both stay Probable.

Sources checked on the Karlin line — 23 October 2026 (night)

  • The claim that R’ Yaakov of Kobrin was a brother of R’ Nachman of Kosov (which would add R’ Yehoshua, born in the 1600s) is not only single-source but disputed in print: a reply in Kovetz Beit Aharon veYisrael no. 212 (pp. קעב–קעד) calls Levinstein’s lineage notes unreliable, and the original author answered with no new source. It stays Possible, on the Sources page only.
  • Probable, as printed — Reb Aharon HaGadol’s gravestone names his parents: “R’ Aharon, born of the woman Perel … R’ Aharon son of R’ Yaakov” (Shalshelet HaYuchsin Kozhnitz–Trisk, Montreal 2023, p. קפה). Added to his card and the gallery.
  • Checked and negative: the later Kovetz Beit Aharon veYisrael issues on HebrewBooks (nos. 213 and 215–231) add nothing on R’ Chaim, son of R’ Aharon Perlov (b. 1852), so the father of R’ Chaim Chaikel Perlow is still the family-confirmed identification it was.

Records re-read on the originals — 23 October 2026 (evening, second pass)

  • Kemecse, 1895: a son Géza born to Márton Leonorovits, a rabbinical student, and Mária Glük of Kemecse. Noted on Miriam Glück Lenorovits’s card as a possible match only; nothing merged.
  • Kemecse, 1909: Herman Glück’s marriage entry marks only his father as “the late”, which fits Betti Rózmann being alive then (not proof).
  • The 1811/12 Zemplén taxpayers’ list has no Wiesner among Sátoraljaújhely’s 73 Jewish households, so the elder Shmaya Wiesner’s parents stay unknown.
  • The R’ Yehoshua (1600s) Karlin tradition was checked for a second, independent source. None was found: the later writers all go back to one note, so it stays Possible on the Sources page.

The Karlin line pushed back toward 1700 — 23 October 2026 (evening)

  • Probable — R’ Yaakov “HaNistar” of Kobrin, born about 1700–1715, is now on the tree as the father of R’ Moshe of Kobrin (Beyla’s father) and of Reb Aharon HaGadol of Karlin (1736–1772). His son R’ Yitzchak (1751–1803) appears in the 1810 Stolin census beside R’ Asher of Stolin’s household (Kovetz Beit Aharon veYisrael no. 211, note 21).
  • Probable — R’ Moshe Ber’s father was R’ Aharon “HaShotek” of Zelichov, disciple of R’ Uziel Meisels, who died young, probably in 5538 (1777/78) (Kovetz Beit Aharon veYisrael no. 10, pp. פה–פו). Proven as printed — his mother was Feiga, later wife of R’ Asher of Stolin (R’ Asher’s own letter).
  • Probable — Devorah, first wife of R’ Chaim Chaikel of Haradnaja, is now shown with her parents, R’ Shalom Shachna Altschuler and Rivka, daughter of Reb Aharon HaGadol; she was a half-sister of the Tzemach Tzedek.
  • Possible — the traditional line one step further: R’ Yaakov of Kobrin as brother of R’ Nachman of Kosov (d. 1741), whose gravestone names his father R’ Yehoshua, born in the 1600s. Kept on the Sources page under “Traditional lineages”, not drawn in the tree.

Gravestones of the Braunfeld and Zditowski families, and David Smith’s children — 23 October 2026 (afternoon)

  • Proven — Dávid Braunfeld’s gravestone at Kecskemét (BillionGraves 143702548) reads “R’ David son of R’ Yitzchak Braunfeld”, moreh tzedek of his community, died 30 Nisan 5673 (7 May 1913): his grave there is now proven. A photograph of the Kecskemét synagogue just after the 1911 earthquake is in the gallery.
  • Proven — Cantor Julius Braunfeld died at New Orleans on 12 January 1921; his Orleans Parish death certificate calls him “the son of Ignatz Braunfeld, a native of Hungary”. A photograph of Temple Sinai, where he sang 1894–1919, is in the gallery.
  • Proven — David Zditowski (David Smith of Baltimore), Feigel’s cousin, had six more children than the tree showed: Samuel (Sam, Shalom; d. 1967, buried at Dundalk, wife Dora née Waldman), Nathan, Irvin, Harry, Esther and Kate Platt (1907–1993, buried with her husband Irving Platt at Arlington Chizuk Amuno, Baltimore) — from three family death notices that agree.
  • Proven — Isaac Samuel Smith is buried at Bnai Israel Congregation Cemetery, Baltimore (plot A-1-2); Boris (Dov) Zditowski at B’nai Zion Cemetery, El Paso, with his wife Berta (1921–2009, Probable).
  • Probable — Zsigmond (George Sigmund) Braunfeld (20 Dec 1872 – 1945) and his wife Josefine lie at Spring Hill Cemetery, Milwaukee, beside the BRAUNFELD family monument; Meta Braunfeld at Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego; Sidney Dollinger shares his marker with his wife Pearl (1930–2020).
  • New grave photographs (volunteer photos, each credited): Antal (Naftali Tzvi) Wiesner, Juli (Rivka Leah) Braunfeld, Dávid, George S., Josefine, Meta and Alice Braunfeld, David, Tema, Isaac and Sam Smith, Kate Platt, Boris and Berta Zditowski, Sidney and Herman Dollinger.

R’ Eliezer Zev Perlow's wartime papers — 23 October 2026

  • Proven — Sugihara's visa register, Kaunas (Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan), line 1231: “Perlow Lejzor”, Polish, transit visa, 6 August 1940. Its register image is in the gallery.
  • Proven as recorded — a memorial record (item 6577714), from a card file of Jewish refugees from Poland 1939–1941: Eliezer Perlow, born 1913, of Chomsk, in Wilno during the war, a refugee. The card names no relatives and no route.
  • Proven — the 1940 Vilna refugee aid list (no. 7614) and the Kobe register of Polish refugees, February 1941 (no. 524): Lejzer Perlow, 27, of Chomsk, yeshiva student, arrived at Kobe from Vilna on 13 February 1941.
  • Proven — Shanghai: the Mir yeshiva's register (no. 164) gives his Polish passport, issued at Shanghai on 4 December 1941; the Young Israel of Cincinnati sponsored his move to America (UNRRA China Office file S-1132-0000-0181); the Jewish Agency's list of 3 October 1946 reads “Perlow Lejzer, 1914, Chomsk, Yeshivat-Mir, came 1941 from Lithuania via Siberia”. A clipping of that list is now in the gallery.
  • Proven — the SS General M. C. Meigs passenger list, Shanghai 2 September to San Francisco 14 September 1946, list 28, line 25: “Perlow, Leizer, 32, rabbi, born Chomsk”, non-quota visa as a minister of religion.
  • Proven — his 1946 draft registration (Rockaway Beach, 30 October 1946) and his 1955 naturalization petition no. 534186 (filed 4 March 1955; 1424 49th Street, Brooklyn; rabbi; certificate 7430257) both give his birth as 27 March 1914 at Chomsk.
  • Noted — his birth year: 1914 (27 March) on the 1946 and 1955 American papers, 1913 on the 1939–41 refugee card file and the 1940 Vilna list; both readings are kept until a birth record settles it.

Esther Dollinger's death and burial, Max Dollinger, and the St. Pölten burial list — 23 October 2026

  • Proven — Esther (Annie) Dollinger née Perloff, R’ Aharon's probable sister, died in Brooklyn on 25 August 1945 (New York City death certificate 16705) and was buried the next day at King Solomon Cemetery, New Jersey, as the certificate records.
  • Proven — Max (Mendel) Dollinger, her husband, lived in Brooklyn in 1940 with his children Clare, Herman and Sidney (1940 census). Probable — he died in July 1974 in Nassau County, New York (Social Security Death Index; the birth date, 13 June 1892, matches his naturalization).
  • Proven — Farkas and Szerén Szender are named on the list of the 228 buried at St. Pölten from Hofamt Priel, 2–3 May 1945, published by the Institute for Jewish History in Austria; their burial there is now Proven. The same list names Ilona Stark, which supports her Probable burial.
  • Proven — Béla (Gedalia) Szender's alien file number, A-6440207, printed in the 1953 resolution.
  • Possible — a Lieberman family-history website names the Pri Tzadik's daughter, wife of R’ Shimon Lieberman, as Malka (one family-compiled source); on the tree her name stays unknown.
  • Probable — Sámuel Glück's grandparents, Mózes Edeles of Véke and Hani Grünwald, are now shown as Probable everywhere on the site.

Jetti's sister Blanka, Berta Reinitz's children and the Engel line proven — 23 October 2026

  • Proven — Blanka (Berta) Glück, b. Nyírbátor 24 May 1885, a further sister of Jetti; she married Sándor Ligesi at Nyírbátor on 4 May 1905. Probable — the “Berta Ligeti née Glück” of the 1944 Hajdúnánás ghetto list (a memorial record).
  • Proven — Berta (Blimi) Reinitz née Wiesner's three children, all born at Sajószentpéter: Vilmos (Ze'ev) b. 1927, Magda b. 3 December 1928 and Ábrahám Adolf b. 1930. Probable — all three died at Auschwitz, 13 June 1944.
  • Proven — Jakab Engel and Klára Fried are named as parents in the civil death records of Kati Szender (1914), Hani Krausz (1916), Rezi Eisenberger (1916) and Ignácz (1923); Hani and Ignácz move up from Probable.
  • Proven — Ignácz Engel's seven children at Hajdúdorog (Piroska, Sámuel, Berta, Jakab, Lipót, Regina, Farkas) and Cecilia Engel's son Menachem Emánuel Reichmann (m. Kurityán 1894).
  • Proven — Herman (Ármin) Glück died at Budapest on 12 June 1947; he is not the Hersh of the 1944 memorial record, who stays a separate person.
  • Proven — the marriages and deaths of Jetti's sisters Róza (m. Vilmos Heimlich 1896; d. Budapest 1963), Mali (d. Budapest 1956), Hani (m. Sámuel Ullmann 1899) and Relli (m. Sámuel Weisz 1902). The “Mari Glück, b. 1877” index row is Mali's own 1876 birth — no separate Mari.
  • Proven — R’ Dov Berel (Béla) Glück's children Benedek (1902) and Berta (1903); Ilona Stark née Szender's parents, from her 1928 marriage and 1946 death registration (born 1906).
  • Probable — Golda Wiesner née Braunfeld was born in April 1871; the site keeps her death date of 13/14 June 1944 (one list compiled from religious books gives 19 May 1944).

Farkas Szender, Rav Shmaya in Munich and the Glück first marriage — 23 October 2026

  • Proven — Farkas (Wolf) Szender (b. Hajdúdorog 23 May 1878), a younger brother of Herman Szender: his birth entry and his 1903 marriage to Szeréna Lindenfeld both name Mendel Szender and Kati Engel as his parents. He and Szerén died at Hofamt Priel, near Persenbeug, Lower Austria, in the night of 2–3 May 1945 and lie in the mass grave at the New Jewish Cemetery of St. Pölten (burial Proven).
  • Probable — Their daughter Ilona Stark née Szender died with them on 2 May 1945. Proven — their son Béla, b. Hajdúdorog 3 Aug 1904.
  • Proven — Herman's sisters and brother Czili (b. 1867), Ignácz (b. 1871) and Hani (d. Hajdúdorog 1908, wife of Antal Izsák); Probable — Hani's son Mór Izsák (b. 1902).
  • Proven — Rav Shmaya in Munich: dayan from 1928, head of the Talmud-Thora school from 1929, speaker at the dedication of the Reichenbachstraße synagogue on 5 September 1931, one of the community's four rabbis in 1933. A 2021 photo of the synagogue building (Kaethe17, CC BY-SA 4.0) is in the gallery.
  • Probable — Rav Shmaya's own article on the yeshivas, Zsidó Újság, 25 December 1925, signed “Wiesner Samu, Sajószentpéter”, and the readers' replies of 15 January 1926.
  • Proven — R’ Menashe Klein's 1983 responsum to R’ Eliezer Zev Perlow (Mishne Halachos vol. 19, siman 79).
  • Proven — Sámuel Glück's first marriage, to Gitel (Getl) Aran, Nyírbátor, June 1863; her death, 12 March 1870. Her father's name differs between sources (Jozef in the index, R’ Yuda Aran in Alei Zikaron 67).
  • Proven — R’ Dov Berel (Béla) Glück, b. Nyírbátor 27 March 1864, Jetti's half-brother, his wife Eszter Grünfeld and their six children.
  • Proven — Jetti's brothers and sisters Éva, Mali, Róza, Hani, Móric, Relli, Herman and Dolfi, from the Nyírbátor birth register.
  • Probable — Memorial records for Sámuel Glück (Dov Berel's son), Hersh (Shimon Tzvi) and Moshe Glück: Auschwitz, 1944 (items 1455377, 1339859, 304254).
  • Possible — A planned 1836 match between the Glück and Fried (Vértés) families, from the Chatam Sofer's letter and a 2026 article; not a marriage.

Böske’s children, three portraits and the 1848 Engel household — 22 October 2026 (late evening)

  • Proven — Erzsébet (Böske) Winyik née Wiesner, Rav Shmaya’s sister, and Dezső (Desider) Winyik (b. 28 Oct 1904, Megyaszó) had five children: Vilmos (Ze’ev) b. 5 Jan 1929, Ágnes b. 6 Jun 1930, Éva b. 13 Oct 1931, Zoltán b. 5 Feb 1937 and Klára b. 31 Aug 1938 (USHMM photograph no. 91913, the family’s 1942 Salvadoran certificate).
  • Probable — All five Winyik children died at Auschwitz in June 1944 (Ágnes, Éva and Klára on 13 June) (memorial records, items 13538431, 14007905, 14007904, 13500602, 13546736).
  • Proven — Portraits of Dávid (Dezső) Wiesner and Berta (Blimi) Reinitz née Wiesner, and (Probable) of Shmuel Sándor Reinitz, from memorial records (items 13539620, 13522305, 13574548), now in the gallery.
  • Probable — Jakab (Koppel) Engel’s household in the 1848 census of Hajdúdorog (household 108, written “Kappel József”): 36, born at Makó, innkeeper, 29 years in Dorog, with his wife Klára Fried, 29, born at Nagykároly, and the children Katalin 12, Hani 9, Cecilia 6, a daughter about 5, and Ignácz 1. He had no residence permit, since his elder brother had brought him here as a child (FHL film 719824). Household: Proven; identity with Jakab Engel: Probable (high).
  • Possible — Izrael Fried (b. c.1798, Nagykároly), produce merchant, of Bezdéd and later Kisvárda: possibly a brother or cousin of Klára Engel née Fried (same birthplace and surname; no record states it) (1848 census, Bezdéd, household 12, FHL film 719825).
  • Possible — Róza Szender’s death is now cited to its register: Újfehértó Jewish deaths 1876, entry 103 (LDS film 642918, vol. 6).

The Pri Tzadik’s sons-in-law and more — 22 October 2026 (night)

  • Probable — R’ Pinchas David of Kótaj, later rav of Bököny, who settled in Jerusalem and died there 17 Kislev 5639 (13 Dec 1878), was a son-in-law of the Pri Tzadik: the publisher of Pri Tzadik (Pressburg 1839) lists him under Kótaj as “my brother-in-law R’ Pinchas David” (p. 95), and the printed biography in HebrewBooks 51233 names him.
  • Probable — R’ Shimon Lieberman, rav of Szenna for 45 years, was a son-in-law of the Pri Tzadik: “my brother-in-law R’ Shimon” under Szenna in the 1839 book (p. 95); named in the printed biography (HebrewBooks 51233).
  • Possible — R’ Yitzchak Yosef Blich, rav of Gáva (d. 20 Mar 1898), is called a son-in-law of the Pri Tzadik in the printed biography, but earlier research makes him a grandson; the conflict is kept visible.
  • Probable — The Pri Tzadik died 26 Elul 5589 (24 Sep 1829), after 20 years as rav of Csaba (printed biography, HebrewBooks 51233).
  • Proven — Dávid (Dezső) Wiesner, Rav Shmaya’s brother: bookkeeper in Miskolc; died at Auschwitz, 16 or 17 June 1944 (a memorial record, item 13539620).
  • Possible — Daniel Fried of Nagykároly, father of Adolph (Avraham Tzvi) Fried (d. Cleveland 1926; Proven from his stone and Ohio death certificate), may be a brother or cousin of Klára Engel née Fried, the siblings’ 3rd-great-grandmother (age and town only).

Burials, new people and pictures — 22 October 2026 (evening)

  • Proven — R’ Eliezer Zev Perlow and his brother HaRav Chaim Chaikel Perlov are buried side by side on the Mount of Olives (Chasidim chevra kadisha, block America North, row 1, graves 4 and 3); grave 2 is HaRav Chaim Chaikel’s wife Esther Leah (1990). Source: City of David grave cards 20365–20367.
  • Proven — Jacob (Yankel) Perlow (1884–1958), R’ Aharon’s brother: Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, Telechaner–Swentiwolier society plot, Block 95, Row 7R, Grave 4 (cemetery register).
  • Proven — The Chomsker Young Men’s society plot at Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens (383 burials, 1914–1995) holds Ike Zitowsky (1932, Row J grave 7), his son Victor (1931, J-8), his wife Rebecca (1938, J-10) and his brother Morris (1943, J-20) — the cemetery’s own register.
  • Probable — In the same Chomsk plot: Adolph Smith (1936, Row I grave 16), Shiye Zditowsky’s son, and “Kate Smith Barr” (1966, Path 14R grave 26) beside Philip Barr (1951) — very probably Katie née Zditowsky and her husband.
  • Probable — Herman (Hyman) Dollinger, son of Esther “Annie” Perloff: born 20 Nov 1918, died 3 Apr 1990, buried at Star of David Memorial Gardens, North Lauderdale, Florida, near his brother Sidney (1921–1998, Proven match).
  • Proven — Antal (Naftali Tzvi) Wiesner (1916–2008): born 28 Adar 5676, died 30 Av 5768 (31 Aug 2008) at Petach Tikva, buried at Segula; the youngest of nine; studied at Sajószentpéter, Szántó, Montreux and Breslau; ran an Agudat Yisrael refugee home at Engelberg after the war; settled in Petach Tikva in 1970 (Alei Zikaron 67, pp.102–103, as printed). His wife Rivka née Grünberger joins the tree.
  • Probable (high) — Béla Wiesner and Ilona née Szender’s children join the tree from memorial records naming both parents: Vilmos (b. 1928), Robert (b. 1930), Hedvig (b. 1932), Aurél (b. 1934) and Noémi (b. 1937), all of Sajószentpéter, Auschwitz, June 1944; and two daughters, Alice and Judith.
  • Proven — Shmuel Sándor Reinitz, husband of Berta (Blimi) née Wiesner: born 4 Aug 1894 at Damak, son of David Reinitz and Jetti Schwarcz; Auschwitz, 13 Jun 1944 (a memorial record).
  • Proven — Ilona Spierer née Wiesner: a memorial record confirms her birth (16 Apr 1901), parents Farkas and Gizella Braunfeld, and husband Emanuel (Mano) Spierer.
  • Possible — The Grosz family of Sajószentpéter, children of Jónás Grosz, innkeeper (Juli Braunfeld’s possible father): Simon of Bolyok (d. 1887), Farkas (b. 1821), Fülöp (d. Miskolc 1906, buried there, grave I-792) and Debora Czeizler (d. 1899), who was godmother to Juli’s son Jónás in 1854. The records are Proven; the kinship stays Possible.
  • Proven — Three more daughters of Jakab (Koppel) Engel and Klára Fried, sisters of Kati Szender: Rezi Eisenberger (d. 1916), Eda (b. 1855) and Róza Roth (m. 1887).
  • Proven — Johanna Braunfeld née Breszlauer, wife of the Baja cantor József Braunfeld (married at Paks, 1879); his 1921 Baja death entry, read this round, makes the identification Probable (strong).
  • Proven — Antal (Naftali Tzvi) Wiesner (d. 1907) on the Mount of Olives: Perushim plot, block Emtza’i 2, section Gimel, row 24, grave 69; beside him Maita Leah Wiesner, very probably his second wife (Probable).
  • Burials are now on the person pages for 51 family members, from Woodbridge, New Jersey (Rav Shmaya and Szerén) to Sajószentpéter, Nyírbátor, Bököny, Kemecse, Nagykálló, Košice and Tiberias — each with its grade and source.
  • New pictures: 54 photographs, maps and record images — Chomsk in 1929, Stolin, Karlin and Pinsk, the synagogues of Sajószentpéter, Hajdúdorog, Abaújszántó, Mezőcsát and Miskolc, the ships, and the records of the Grosz, Engel, Wiesner, Braunfeld and Zditowski families — plus five of the cemeteries.

Braunfeld — new research, 22 October 2026

  • Proven — Ignácz Braunfeld’s first wife was Czily Grosz, named as his mother by Rabbi Sámuel Braunfeld at his 1868 wedding at Mezőcsát; Sámuel (rabbi of Erdőtelek, d. 13 Nov 1917) and Rosi (b. c.1846 Szendrő, m. Jakob Grosz 1864) were her children. The 1864 Grosz–Braunfeld wedding is Rosi’s.
  • Proven — Teréz (Rézi, b. 1856), Dávid (1858–1913), Ferencz (b. 1862) and Simon Sándor (b. 1865) Braunfeld: their own marriage or death records name their parents Ignácz Braunfeld and Juli Grosz (also written “Nagy Juliánna” and “Grosz Rebus”).
  • Probable — József (1852–1921, cantor of Baja), Czilli (b. 1855) and Ábrahám (Adolf, b. 1859, a cantor), from birth and marriage indexes.
  • Probable — Dávid Braunfeld’s grave: Kecskemét Jewish cemetery, parcel 11, grave 703 (cemetery index “Braunfeld Dávid, 1859–1913”). An earlier report placed this grave in Budapest; the index is Kecskemét’s.
  • Probable — Zsigmond Braunfeld (b. 1872 Sajószentpéter) is George Sigmund Braunfeld of Milwaukee (d. 1945): the 1900 census of Miskolc shows him with a wife and daughter Margit from Kroměříž (Moravia) and his father-in-law Sándor Schmeichler, matching the Milwaukee family exactly.
  • Probable — Cantor Julius Braunfeld’s wife Meta (Schroeder, d. 1927) and children Charles (Carl, 1889–1967; buried Golden Gate National Cemetery) and Gilda (b. 1893, Mrs. Leroy Carter in 1927).
  • Proven — In 1899 Ignácz’s widow Juli was keeping house at Sajószentpéter (her son Ferencz’s marriage record).