Hometown Klodawa: Recent Comments

Comment on Remembering the Jewish Community of Klodawa, Poland

2011-12-11T02:26:30Z

Hi. My great grandfather woolf weigveizer's sister Adelaide was married to abraham fersht's son. I would like to find out more about this side of the family.

Comment on Remembering the Jewish Community of Klodawa, Poland

2011-11-06T15:41:30Z

My family was from klodowa. their last name was stychenski and americanized into morrison. My aunt helena married sigmund marczak shortly after thw war.
uncle sigmund died around 1992 in israel.

Comment on 40 Jewish Merchants Listed - Do Your Recognize The Names?

2011-10-30T20:47:07Z

As my mother says in her testimony For Spielberg's Shoah foundation, her father, mine and Sara's grandfather farmed fish for a CHURCH congregation in a pond on CHURCH property. He also kept the books for the firehouse, which was used as a venue for parties and benefits. His main source of income, as my mother explained to me some years ago, was as a wholesale food merchant. He bought farm crops and then sold them to larger concerns, sometimes in bigger cities.

The business seemed to provide his wife and family of four children a comfortable income—sufficient to host nice holidays with extended family. They couldn't have been rich-rich, because my mother's step uncle, Samuel Skowronski spoke disparagingly of his step sister's (my grandmother's) degree of affluence.

Here is my transcription of my mother's remarks about her father's work:

The priest took care of the fire department and there were a lot of parties...to earn money for poor families. My father kept the books [on this money]. He was the treasurer for the fire department.

...I was constantly going to the priest’s house, because when the priest need[ed] certain things, he always ordered through my father. There were a couple of acres of land with the church...[and a big pond]...In April, my father would stock the pond with carp, and then at Christmas he would catch them. Because the Polish people made a big thing for Christmas. So my father used to do fishing under the ice. Which is really— You don‘t see it around here. And then the priest had a lot of ducks and turkeys and my father used to buy [them] from the priest.

Be well,
Elaine

Comment on KLODAWA SOCIETY CEMETERY PLOT. MT. LEBANON CEMETERY. GLENDALE, NY.

2011-10-17T16:09:39Z

the superintendent of Mount Lebanon
Cemetery believes that society also had grounds at another metropo Thank youlitan New York cemetery. Would you know if that is true and, if so, the name of that cemetery?

Comment on 40 Jewish Merchants Listed - Do Your Recognize The Names?

2011-09-30T03:26:08Z

Rojewski was my Great Grandmothers name

Comment on Remembering the Jewish Community of Klodawa, Poland

2011-08-19T22:17:56Z

My great grandfather, Mark Harry Rogers, was born in Klodowa in 1873 and emigrated to NYC in 1878-1880. I'd love to find other Rogers family or find out what their name might have been in Poland.

Comment on The Przedecki Family of No. 10 Rynek -- Klodawa

2011-06-12T02:15:14Z

Hi Trevor,

I wrote the original message you replied to on here a couple years ago but lost access to that email account and only just found this website again. We are definitely talking about the same Walter Nitcknski. My grandmother, Eleanor's brothers were Clemences & Eddy and I've met your granfather, Nartcy, when visiting back in Pennsylvania a few times. I haven't had luck, though, on locating our relatives in Poland or finding more info on Walter. This is all I know: The spelling Nitcznski is "wrong". He couldn't read or write so someone else made up the spelling which was probably different in Poland. Walter had a brother who also came to the US from Poland and moved to another part of Pennsylvania and he spelled it Nitczynski which is probably a bit closer to the real spelling, but who knows, this is just based on the guessing of someone I spoke to who speaks Polish. Do you have any new info? Please write me if you see this and hope this finds you well... your cousin, Mandy. mbeattiesmith@gmail.com

Comment on 24 KLODAWA SURVIVORS. LANDSBERG, GERMANY DP CAMP. JANUARY, 1947.

2011-02-06T22:32:16Z

My mother received a card from Malka Francus in 1942. She was speaking of her brother Izrael Francur or Francus.
Do you have any idea of her?

Maurice SZTEJN

Comment on Remembering the Jewish Community of Klodawa, Poland

2010-10-28T14:09:42Z

My husband's mother's family were Swientoslawskas. I'm sure they are all related somehow, but I haven't heard anything about Michael. Everything I know about them is on my website. Maybe something will ring a bell. Below is a link to the Swientoslawska page. http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Morrison%20Family/MorrisonMorrisPearl.html

Comment on Remembering the Jewish Community of Klodawa, Poland

2010-09-22T00:22:46Z

Hello Aleksander.-

Thank you so much for writing in.

It is wonderful to see somebody of your generation take not only the interest, but the time and effort to reply to to our site.

I think it's great. How do you know about these men and their association with the fire department? I recognize most of the names from my work and research on the pre-WW II community.

I am having problems with responding on the blog, itself, which is why I'm responding via email.

Did you know there's a woman from your town working on extensive research about the pre-War community. She has been given a grant by the goverment. If you are in Klodawa, you may be interested in sharing information with her.

Thank you again. It's an honour to receive your note.

Warm regards.

Judy