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The family of the rabbis of Mszana Dolna
The family of the rabbis of Mszana Dolna

The family of the rabbis of Mszana Dolna came from Lviv, the place of origin of the town’s first rabbi, Josef Holländer. According to Josef’s New York-based great grandson, Elieazar Zobremann, who is the main...

The Weissberger family
The Weissberger family

The Weissberger family moved to Mszana from the nearby Niedźwiedź at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. They owned a large building at Piłsudskiego Street, where they lived and ran a large ironmongery....

The Streimer family
The Streimer family

“I had a friend, Jurek Streimer,” Henryk Zdanowski told us many years ago, while describing the Streimer family’s hospitable house. Already back then we knew that the Streimers were one of the few families...

The Schwitzer Family
The Schwitzer Family

The list of Jews living in Mszana Dolna on 15 June 1942, which was drawn up on the orders from the Nazi German authorities, includes dozens of names but very little is known about all but just a few of them. The...

The Borger and Goldberger Families
The Borger and Goldberger Families

The Borger family did not live in Mszana Dolna but had relatives there. Borgers came to Mszana during the war, after their displacement from Zembrzyce. Unfortunately, they became the victims of the mass execution...

The Rebhun Family
The Rebhun Family

The Rebhuns are one of the first Jewish families of Mszana we heard about. They lived at Piłsudskiego street, above the railway viaduct, on the right side in the direction of Słomka. Mr. Henryk Zdanowski, an...

The Stern Family
The Stern Family

For us, this story began with a photo left at the mass grave of Jews at Pańskie a few years ago. The large, foil-wrapped photograph shows a multigenerational family, along with a description and information that...

The Federgrün Family
The Federgrün Family

Information about the Federgrün family from Mrs. Yafa Hoch Rom, daughter-in-law of Cesia Federgrün:   "My late mother in law -  Cesia Hoch Federgrün was born in 1925 and  brought up in Mszana Dolna. She was...

The Rosenstock Family
The Rosenstock Family
The Schmidt Family
The Schmidt Family
The Zins and Grünberg family
The Zins and Grünberg family
The Feuerstein Family
The Feuerstein Family

In Mszana Dolna lived several families named Feuerstein. We do not know if and how they were related to each other. Among them are Anna née Geller and Benjamin Feuerstein with their daughter Rachel and son Rafael...

The Geller Family
The Geller Family
The Turner Family
The Turner Family
The Langsam Family
The Langsam Family
The Beldegrün Family
The Beldegrün Family

One of the first people that Mr. Henryk Zdanowski told us about - remembering the Jewish residents of Mszana - was "Lusia from Beldegrün." Her father had a bakery on Pilsudski Street, which baked tasty, oblong...

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