Submitted by Jacob Wallach aka Yacov Vallach
Społeczność żydowska przed 1989 – Relacje, wspomnienia
Polska / lubelskie
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The Post Cards of Rachel Weinberg
By Jacob (Yaakov) Wallach
November 2010 Wilmette, Illinois
Last Updated January 6, 2011
Information retold herein was obtained via interviews with the two surviving daughters of Rachel Weinberg, my Aunt Toba and my mother Sabina.
Feiga Eiger, my Great Grandmother was born in Dubienka Poland in 1860. She was a descendent of Hassidic Jews who lived in Poland for many generations. Her father was Rabbi Natan Eiger and her grandfather was Rabbi Akiva Eiger, an outstanding Talmudic scholar and a leader of European Jewry during the first half of the 19th century.
Feiga Eiger was married at 18 and became a childless widow 10 years later. She then married a much older man, Shaya Edelshtein of Pulava. They had 4 children: Moshe, Yitzhak, Lisa and Rachel my grandmother who was born in 1890.
Moshe Married Lea and both immigrated to Los Angeles, USA before WW2 broke out. They had a girl named Henrietta. Moshe used to send his mother Feiga, food parcels and money which she in turn distributed generously to her grandchildren.
Yitzhak immigrated to Montevideo, Uruguay. He married and had a son Pinchas. They are both deceased now with no survivors.
Lisa, described by her sisters as pretty and energetic married Yosef Hertz of Markushof who had a small carpentry workshop manufacturing chairs. They moved to Lvov, and there Yosef found his living in the logging trade. Their children David and Miriam were 20 and 16 years old when the war broke out and the Soviets occupied Lvov in September 1939. By June of 1941 the Nazi’s invaded Russia and occupied Lvov. There is no evidence that the Hertz family survived the war. They must have perished like many other Jews of Lvov in the Nazi labor camp of Janowska or in the Belzec death camp. It is also possible that they found their death in the July 1941 pogroms lead by Ukrainian anti-Semitic nationalist.
Rachel married Yaakov Weinberg, They moved from Pulava to Lublin in 1914 with their two young children Sara and Bernard and the mother Feiga who by then had become widowed again. The family ran a small convenience store but in 1924 Yaakov Weinberg fell seriously ill and died within a few days from cause’s unknown. He was 37 years old. At 34 Rachel became a widow and continued to support her mother and 6 children on her own.
Family members who perished in the gas chambers of Majdanek and elsewhere:
Rachel’s mother: Feiga Edelshtein nee Eiger
Rachel sister Lisa Hertz (nee Edelshtein) her husband Yosef Hertz and children David and Miriam
Rachel Weinberg (nee Edelshtein)
Rachel’s immediate family:
Son: Natan, estimated age 19
Son: Shabbtai, estimated age 17
Daughter: Sara Yeczmien age 32
Son-in-law: Shlomo Yeczmien estimated age 36. He was a partner in
a successful grain milling business.
Granddaughter: Yochevet Yeczmien (estimated age 7)
Grandson: Izjak Yeczmien (estimated age 5)
Rachel’s Children who survived the Holocaust:
Bernard, a gifted student who graduated from the renowned “Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin” (Jesziwat Chachmei Lublin). He also passed the Polish matriculations exams. In 1928-29 at the urging of his grandmother Feiga and with her financial support he broke his engagement to the Rabbi’s daughter and left for Paris where he earned a master’s degree in Economics from the Sorbonne. He later moved to the USA and received a PhD in Economics at the University of Chicago. Bernard died in1969 at age 57 from heart ailment. He was survived by his wife and two children Jonathan and Dinah.
Toba Shuldiner nee Weinberg is now age 93 and living in Israel. She has two daughters, Tzipora and Rachel. She is also a grandmother and a great grandmother.
Sabina (Shindel), Wallach nee Weinberg was my mother. She passed away at age 90 on December 30, 2010 in Israel. She is survived by her children: Yaakov, Varda and Yosef, 8 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
The Weinberg Sisters Survival Story:
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