Marysia lived for most of her life not knowing her own name nor the name of her parents, only that she had been brought from Poland to Israel in 1948.
Through a lifelong research that became very intensive from the year 1993, she managed to reconstruct her own past and that of her family.
PICTURES OF HER MOTHER AND FATHER
In 1994/1995 Marysia found the maiden name and a picture of her mother (see above). Later she found additional photos. In April 1999 she found the name and pictures of her father after locating her paternal aunt in Brasil.
MEETING HER AUNT AND COUSINS IN ISRAEL IN MAY 1999
Joseph Norbert Hilferding's youngest sister Regina “Gina” had survived the war and settled in Brasil in 1946. Shortly after locating this aunt through the Internet and JewishGen, the aunt and her two sons came for a visit to Israel.
Imagine living under many different names for so many years, and then finally be able to know your private name, your family name and the names of your parents. As a real bonus - finding wonderful living relatives!
This was without doubt one of the highlights in Marysia's life. Through the aunt, a cousin of her father was located in the States. The American relatives had received the family photos from Lviv n the 1920's and 1930's - the only surviving family photos.
GRANDMOTHER REISEL WEINRATH nee GOTTLIEB
In May 2002 and in May 2003 Eva Floersheim did an inventory of the Jewish cemetery in Lubaczow. Among the ca 1600 gravestones registered, it turned out that Reisel Weinrath's gravestone was there too. Reisel was born in 1889 in Rava Ruska, the daughter of
Pinchas and Alte Gottlieb. When Reisel died in 1924 - 35 years old - her daughter Necha Nella was only five years old.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GOTTLIEB FAMILY FROM RAVA RUSKA
Around 1889 Reisel Rosalia Gottlieb was born in Rawa Ruska to Pinkas Gottlieb and his wife Alte. In 1924 when Reisel died in Lubaczow, her father was no longer alive, according to the gravestone.
Using the JRI-Poland index lists
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/ , here are possible pieces in this family tree - pieces that will have to be checked against the original documents.
In the Rawa Ruska lists the following was noted:
In 1896 Pinkas Gottlieb, born ca 1837, died in Rawa Ruska. He was the
son of Chaim Leib Gottlieb and Lea Rose Gottlieb. The original death register may give more information, including where Pinkas was born. ( Interestingly enough, on Reisel's gravestone from 1924, it is written that her father Pinkas is no longer alive. This would also mean that Reisel lost her father when she was only 7 years old )
Looking for Reisel Rosalia's birth register around 1889 in Rawa Ruska, I could not find her name, but looking for other children of Pinkas and Alte Gottlieb, I found:
Jakob Gottlieb born 1883 in Rawa Ruska. So where did Pinkas and Alte live outside Rawa Ruska? Where was actually Reisel Rosalia born? What happened to Jakob Gottlieb born 1883? What other children did Pinkas and Alte have? They probably also had a son named Chaim Leib, born before 1883 ( see text further down).
Are there any other Gottlieb relatives descending from Chaim Leib and Lea Rose Gottlieb and from their son Pinkas Gottlieb and Pinka's wife Alte?
Chaim Leib Gottlieb must have been born back around 1810, in my estimate. Did he also live in Rawa Ruska? Interestingly enough two Chaim Leib were born in Rawa Ruska in 1882 and in 1883. One was the son of Moses Jakob Gottlieb and his wife Serel Lieberman. The other one was the son of Moses Gottlieb and his wife Ruchel Lea Landesman. ( Was the first Chaim Leib Gottlieb born around 1810 the son of Moses, and were these two fathers cousins, named after their greatgrandfather?)
The fact that Pinkas Gottlieb named his son Jakob in 1883, points to the possibility that Pinkas already had a son named Chaim Leib who was born before 1883.
QUESTIONS:
1) When exactly was Marysia born?
2) Was she born under the identity of Irena Dombrovska, a Polish Christian child, in Lviv? Are there any registers of Polish Christian children who were born in Lviv in 1942?
3) Where did Necha Nelly, and later Marysia, live in Lviv or elsewhere, from the autumn of 1941 onwards? We assume her mother lived on her false identity papers under the name of Janina Dombrowska.
4) Necha Nella finished high school in Yavorov in June 1937. Can it be that Joseph Norbert Hilferding was the boyfriend who would fetch her for the weekends in that last school year of 1936/1937?
5) If so, may it be that Necha Nella Weinrath and Joseph Norbert Hilferding married sometimes between July 1937 and September 1939?
6) We now know that Necha Nella's mother Reisel Weinrath had died in 1924 in Lubaczow. Necha's father Samuel Weinrath was alive in 1937. Did he die before the Holocaust? Did he die
during Holocaust?
7) Among the few survivors of Lubaczow, where Necha/Nelly lived with her parents Samuel and Reisel Weinrath, we have not found anybody who remembers them. Where can we find information about this Weinrath family?
8) Do you have any information that can help us to continue to build the Hilferding family tree ?
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