Immediate Family

Descendants of Mordko Biterman


1 Mordko (Moszko) Josef Biterman b: 1843 in Hrubieszow d: Sept. 21, 1884 in Poland
.. + Marya "Miriam" Adler b: 1843 in Tyszowce m: Jan. 23, 1862 in Hrubieszow d: 1928-1938 in Hrubieszow
......... 2 Chaja Malka Biterman b: 1862 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: After 1915 in Hrubieszow, Poland
......... 2 Golda Biterman b: 1865 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe
........... + Ela Ajdelman b: Abt. 1870 in Lublin m: 1883 in Hrubieszow d: Aft. 1900 in Europe
..................... 3 Chaim Jankiel Edelman b: 1884 in Hrubieszow d: 1942 at Sobibor Death Camp
........................ + Ita (unknown) b: 1882 in Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
................................... 4 Gershon Henoch Edelman b: 1902 in Wlodawa, Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
....................................... + Gitla (unknown) b: 1907 in Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
................................... 4 Benjamin Edelman b: 1906 in Wlodawa, Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
....................................... + Chawa Lajner b: 1912 in Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
................................... 4 Avraham Edelman b: 1908 in Wlodawa, Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
................................... 4 Chaja Edelman b: 1912 in Wlodawa, Poland d: 1942-1943 in Wlodawa or Sobibor
....................................... + Zalman (unknown)
..................... 3 Chaja Estera Edelman b: 1888 in Hrubieszow d: 1892 in Hrubieszow, Poland
..................... 3 Mechel Edelman b: 1890 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe
..................... 3 Balcha "Bilja" Edelman b: Abt. 1900 in Hrubieszow d: 1939-1945 in Hrubieszow, Poland
........................ + Ajzyk "Yitzhak" Finger b: May 20, 1898/1908 in Tyszowce d: March 14, 1945 at Dachau
Notes on Ajzyk and Bilcha Finger:
.............The Finger family lived at 2 Gurna Street in Hrubieszow. Mr. Finger was a notable Zionist activist in the city. An online listing of Dachau prisoners states that Isaj Finger was transferred from Auschwitz to Dachau on Sept. 1, 1944. His prisoner # was 95188 and his ID was 47877. He was murdered on March 14, 1945 at the Dachau Concentration Camp, after surviving the bulk of the war.
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................................... 4 Michael Finger (Drori) b: April 24, 1920 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: Oct. 21, 1998 in Holon, Israel
....................................... + Sara Rothstein b: private
................................................ 5 Nitza Drori b: private
.................................................. + Daniel "Danny" Peremen b: private
................................................ 5 Eitan Drori b: private
.................................................. + Miriam "Miri" Schwartz b: private
........................................................... 6 Jason L. Drori b: private
............................................................... + (unknown) (unknown)
...........................................................................7 Zachary Adam Drori b: private
........................................................... 6 David Drori b: private
................................................ 5 Avishai Drori b: private
.................................................. + Orit Ghelman b: private
........................................................... 6 Or Drori b: private
........................................................... 6 Arad Drori b: private
........................................................... 6 Ofek Drori b: private
................................... 4 Chana Finger b: 1924 in Hrubieszow d: 1939 in Hrubieszow, Poland
......... 2 Liba Biterman b: May 6, 1869 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: unknown
........... + Benjamin Judah Geryng (Haring/Heryng) b: March 18, 1866 in Hrubieszow m: March 5, 1891 d: Aft. 1910 in USA
..................... 3 Pesach Hering b: 1891 in Poland (lived in Zamosc) d: Aft. 1910 in USA
..................... 3 Moshe "Moses" Hering b: Abt. 1892 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: Aft. 1910 in USA
..................... 3 B. Harris b: unknown d: in Brooklyn, New York
Notes on B. Harris:
.............Beniamin Heryng was the son of Yosef Duwid Herying and Hena Bard. After years of searching for him in Poland, I finally found a record for his emigration to the USA: Hering, Benjamin, origin Rubiszow, Russia, age 43, born 1867, emigrated 1910. He likely settled in New York. A Bennie Herring (Hering) was in the 1930 census with wife Dora. Bennie was born April 15, 1888 and emigrated in 1914. Dwojra was born in 1888 and emigrated from Hrubieszow in Dec. 1924 with a daughter, Chana (born Abt. 1815). Bennie is in the New York County Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-24. There was also a Berko/Baruch Geryng born in Hrubieszow in 1903 (akt 119).
.............In 1948, my grandparents came to New York. They met my grandfather's first cousin, B. Harris in Brooklyn, NY. When the family came to the U.S., the surname was likely changed to Harris. Please contact me if you're descended from Heryng or Harris of Hrubieszow.
..................... 3 Abraham Hering b: 1900-1910 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Ludma, Poland
........................ + Batya Riter b: 1914 in Poland d: 1943 in Ludma, Poland
................................... 4 Henia Heryng b: Abt. 1829 in Hrubieszow d: 1939-1945 in Europe
......... 2 Josef Hersz Biterman b: September 6, 1870 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: Oct. 1939 in Hrubieszow, Poland
............ occupation: farm operator/merchant
........... + Sura Gela Golomb b: Aug. 10, 1875 in Krylow m: Aug. 16, 1896 in Krylow d: 1915/1916 in Hrubieszow
Notes on Josef and Sara Biterman:
............. The marriage certificate states that it occurred in Krylow on Aug. 16, 1896 at 6pm. 57 year old Mordko Biterman (a cousin, not the father of the groom) and 35 year old Chaskiel Gran came to announce the marriage of Joseph Gershon Biterman, aged 23, born in Hrubieszow, son of Moszko and Marya [nee Adler] and Sura Gela Golomb, aged 21, daughter of Idel + Chawa [nee Kiper]. Rabbi Moshko Adamszek (Adamczuk)* performed the ceremony. Josef and Sara had four children; Yosef worked in the farm (dairy) industry. According to oral tradition, Josef Biterman's mother, Miriam, was living with him until she reached the age of 102 years. The Cymet family used to transport goods to her for Shabbat (a gift on behalf of Riwka nee Biterman and Josef Cymet, see below). Sara (Golomb) Biterman died in 1915 of gall stones. Yosef Biterman remarried after the death of his wife.
.............* Note: Rabbi Moyshe Hacohen Adamchyk, the Rabbi of Krilow, who was originally from Maciow, Wolyn district, occupied the position of trustee to the religious community of Chelm for several decades. As an objective judge he would not deviate one iota from the "Shulkhan Arukh" (the Orthodox Religious Laws). He was the oldest Rabbi in town. He was known in the entire rabbinical world as a great Talmudic scholar and an honest man. His son published the well-known book "Gan Ruva", a commentary on "Pri Mgadim". In the book one will find an interesting introduction of his father, the Rabbi of Krilow. The Krilower Rabbi passed away in the first year of the German occupation. Afler many long efforts, the Nazi authorities gave permission to bury him in a Jewish cemetery.
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..................... 3 Ajzik Biterman b: Oct. 29, 1896 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: unknown
..................... 3 Malka Biterman b: Aug. 21, 1899 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1942 in Belzec, Poland
........................ (witnesses to birth: Yosef Abus Kaufman, 40; Lejb Rycher, 46)
......................... + Nachman Truk b: 1899 in Krylow, Poland d: 1942 in Belzec, Poland
Notes on Nachman and Malka Truk:
............. Nakhman Truk was a merchant in Zamosc. The Truk family owned and worked at a store in town. Nachman and Malka Truk were very tall -- six feet or more. Mrs. Truk was overweight. The family was murdered in the Belzec Concentration camp in 1942.
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................................... 4 Sara Truk b: 1924 in Zamosc d: 1942 in Belzec, Poland
................................... 4 Wolf Truk b: in Zamosc d: Bef. 1942 in Zamosc, Poland
..................... 3 Judah "Judka" Lejb Biterman b: Dec. 6, 1901 in Hrubieszow d: Aug. 30, 1975 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
......................... + Bluma Folk b: Abt. 1905 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1945 in Stutthof, Baltic Sea, Prussia
Notes on Judah and Bluma Biterman:
.............Yehuda Biterman and his family lived in an apartment that Josef and Riwka (Biterman) Cymet leased to the Biterman family. It was located in Podzamcze #15 (today #1 or #10) in Hrubieszow. Judka and his business partners manufactured grain and distributed it to bidders. The location of the Biterman residence was very near to the Hrubieszow market place (map).
.............Bluma Folk Biterman and her daughter Sala were in the Hrubieszow ghetto beginning in July of 1941. They are believed to have been part of a small labor camp of about 100 people set up in Hrubieszow (on Jatkowa Street) to clean out the Jewish homes. These were the last Jewish survivors of Hurbieszow. When that camp was liquidated in July 1943, all the men and women were sent to the Budzyn Labor Camp. The few children that had been hidden in Hrubieszow by the camp members were shot. Sala, who was around age 15, continued living and working in terrible conditions. In Budzyn, they avoided being killed in the "Harvest Festival" -- the murder spree in which the Nazis liquidated all inmates at all the remaining Polish labor camps, only because the Budzyn inmates had some skills in assembling airplanes, and their slave labor employer (Henkel) needed their work.
.............In February 1944, the Russians were getting close, so some of the prisoners from Hrubieszow were sent to Mielec, where they received the "KL" tatoos on their arms. In August 1944 they were sent from Mielec to Wieliczka. While men who were previously part of the cleanup at Hrubieszow had been grouped with the women up to this point, they were separated after Wieliczka. The men were sent to Flossenberg and the women were sent to Auschwitz. Bluma and Sala continued to live. Then they were sent to Stutthof near the Baltic Sea. This transfer probably was in September or October of 1944. The conditions in the camp were brutal. In 1945, about 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps were marched to the Baltic Sea coast, forced into the water, and machine-gunned at a location called Jantarny (near Kalingrad) in Russia. A surviving witness who was related to Bluma by marriage, Pesia Folk, told my family after the war that Bluma and Sala both were murdered in the Baltic Sea in 1945. Only a handful of Stutthof prisoners survived by swimming to shore and dodging Nazi bullets.
.............My grandfather was sent from Hrubieszow to Budzyn Labor Camp and then was sent to Plaszow and sub-camps Wieliczka and Mielec (April 1943-July 27, 1944), Flossenburg (Aug. 4, 1944-Sept. 7, 1944) and sub-camp Leitmeritz (Sept. 9, 1944-Oct. 13, 1944), Dachau and sub-camp Augsburg-Pfersee (Oct. 23, 1944-Nov. 16, 1944), Natzweiler sub-camp Leonberg (Nov. 16, 1944-March 1945), and then Dauchau and sub-camp Schleissheim (March 1945-May, 1945). From Leonberg, prisoners were likely marched to Dachau on very little food. He was liberated from the Dachau sub-camp at Schleissheim in May of 1945. In Mielec the Nazis tattooed his arm with "KL", which stands for Konzentrationslager. KL tattooing was used by the Nazis to brand and dehumanize inmates selected for forced labor at several Concentration Camps in German-occupied Poland.
.............The Flossenberg archives list him as prisoner number 14207 and indicates he arrived on Aug. 4, 1944 and was transferred to Dachau on Oct. 13, 1944. They list him as "Zudka Bittermann" and say he was a schlosser (metalworker or locksmith). The Leitmeritz archive says his prisoner number was 14207 and that he arrived at Flossenberg Camp from Plaszow camp. An online database for Dachau prisoners says he was in Dachau from Oct. 23, 1944 to Nov. 16, 1944, his prisoner number was 118212, and his ID was 4155. He had arrived from Flossenberg and was sent to the Natzweiler Concentration Camp on Nov. 16, 1944. The Natzweiler camp archive says he was a prisoner at Leonberg, a sub-camp in Germany, and his prisoner number was 38624. A listing in Sharit Ha-Platah lists my grandfather as "I. Binermann" (I would be for Iudah, another form of Judka) and says that Schleissheim, Bavaria, Germany was his last known location after being liberated from Dachau.
.............Judah Biterman emigrated to New York from Bremen with wife his wife Tauba in January and February of 1948 on the ship Marine Marlin. He became a locksmith, store owner, and laborer by trade. He took the name Edward Biterman when assimilating in the United States. Despite assimilation, the family was still religiously observant. Mr. Biterman became a naturalized U.S. citizen on November 25, 1953. Meyer Migdal's Holocaust survival testimony explains what went on at various points of both Bluma and Judah's terrible ordeal in ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps. Mr. Megdal was also from Hrubieszow.
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................................... 4 Chaim Biterman b: 1926 in Hrubieszow d: 1939-1940 in Hrubieszow, Poland
Notes on Chaim Biterman:
.............Chaim was shot in 1939 or 1940, possibly in the ghetto. His father witnessed the shooting.
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................................... 4 Sala Biterman b: 1929 in Hrubieszow d: 1945 in Baltic Sea, Stutthof, Prussia
......................... *2nd Wife of Judah Biterman:
......................... + Chaja Tova "Tauba" Fuks b: private
................................... 4 (private) Biterman b: private
....................................... + (private) Kolb b: private
................................................ 5 (private) Biterman b: private
................................... 4 (private) Biterman b: private
....................................... + (private) Fuld b: private
................................................ 5 (private) Fuld b: private
................................................. + (private) Steinway b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Steinway b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Steinway b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Steinway b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Steinway b: private
................................................ 5 (private) Fuld b: private
................................................. + (private) Gurovitsch b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Gurovitsch b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Gurovitsch b: private
........................................................... 6 (private) Gurovitsch b: private
..................... 3 Moszko Biterman b: June 9, 1907 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: unknown
..................... 3 Chana Biterman b: 1910 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe
..................... 3 Symcha Biterman b: Sept. 8, 1912 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: unknown
......... 2 Rywka Biterman b: 1880 in Hrubieszow d: 1939-1945 in Hrubieszow, Poland
........... + Jojzen/Joizep "Yozef" Cymet b: Dec. 20, 1868 in Hrubieszow m: March 4, 1894 d: 1939-1945 in Hrubieszow
Notes on Rivka and Jojzen Cymet:
.............Yosef Cymet was the owner of butcher shops with his brothers. They also had a contract with the army to provide them with meat. He and Riwka possibly lived in the same building as their nephew, Jehuda Biterman and his family. Josef and Rivka were very religious. Rivka was superstitious. She was caring, sensitive, and warm.
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..................... 3 Chawa Ginda "Hinda" Cymet b: 1901 in Hrubieszow d: in Mexico City
......................... + Moszko Icko "Moshe" Cymet b: 1893 in Hrubieszow d: in Mexico City
................................... 4 Ichel Hersch "Enrique" Cymet b: Sept. 10, 1918 in Hrubieszowv d: June 6, 2009 in Mexico City, Mexico
....................................... + Estela Wlodawer b: private
................................................ 5 Miriam Ratusnik Cymet b: private
................................................. + Isaac Ratusnik b: 1933 in Mexico d: 1985 in Mexico City, Mexico
........................................................... 6 David Ratusnik b: 1962 in Mexico, d: 1979 in Mexico City, Mexico
........................................................... 6 Jack Ratusnik b: private
............................................................... + Aliza Shapiro b: private
...........................................................................7 Talia Ratusnik b: private
...........................................................................7 Kira Ratusnik b: private
........................................................... 6 Raquel Ratusnik b: private
............................................................... + Bobby Engelman b: private
...........................................................................7 Darielle Engelman
................................................ 5 Janet "Jenny" Blatt Cymet b: private
................................................. + Bernardo Blatt b: private
........................................................... 6 Rafael Blatt b: private
............................................................... + Helen Pinchanski b: private
...........................................................................7 Aaron Blatt b: private
...........................................................................7 Joseph Blatt b: private
................................................ 5 Rebecca Geldzweig Cymet b: private
................................................. + Mario Geldzwaig b: private
........................................................... 6 Michel Geldzweig b: private
........................................................... 6 Yuri Geldzweig b: private
............................................................... + Diana Sheinbaum b: private
................................... 4 Reuben Cymet b: 1922 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1988 in Mexico City
....................................... + Sara Ginzburg b: private
................................................ 5 Malke Libe Cymet b: unknown d: 1976 in Mexico City, Mexico
................................... 4 Shmuel "Samuel" Cymet b: in Mexico City, Mexico
....................................... + Debora Wulfovich b: private
................................................ 5 Jose Daniel Cymet b: private
................................................. + Deborah Schlam b: private
........................................................... 6 Jessica Cymet b: private
........................................................... 6 Uri Cymet b: private
................................................ 5 Israel Arie Cymet b: private
................................................. + (unknown) (unknown)
........................................................... 6 Eyal Cymet b: private
........................................................... 6 Alan Cymet b: private
........................................................... 6 Leann Cymet b: private
................................................ 5 Chana Cymet b: private
................................................. + Isaac Lan b: private
................................................ 5 Bashe Cymet b: private
................................................. + Eyal Baron b: private
........................................................... 6 Itai Baron b: private
........................................................... 6 Thalia Baron b: private
..................... 3 Chana "Jane" Cymet b: Abt. 1903 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe
......................... + Bentsche "Benji" Meir Mejer b: Abt. 1899 (moved to Chelm) d: 1939-1945 in Europe
................................... 4 Guenik Meyer b: in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe
..................... 3 Abraham Cymet b: 1904/05 in Poland d: Dec. 27, 1997 in Mexico City, Mexico
......................... + Cecilia Ramirez b: in Mexico City, Mexico d: in Mexico City, Mexico
................................... 4 Enrique Eduardo Cymet Ramirez b: private
....................................... + Maria Helena Acevedo b: private
................................................ 5 Enrique Cymet Acevedo b: private
................................................. + (unknown) Perez b: private
........................................................... 6 Nydia Cymet Perez b: private
........................................................... 6 Mariana Cymet Perez b: private
........................................................... 6 Enrique Cymet Perez b: private
........................................................... 6 Daniel Cymet Perez b: private
................................... 4 Max Enrique Cymet Ramirez b: private
................................... 4 Rebecca Cecilia Cymet Ramirez b: unknown d: 1985 in Mexico City, Mexico
....................................... + (unknown) (unknown)
................................................ 5 Ariadna Cymet b: private
................................................. + Aaron Lanski b: private
................................... 4 Jose Bernardino Cymet Ramirez b: private
..................... 3 Hersh Cymet b: 1908 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1973 in Mexico City, Mexico
......................... + Perla Hecht b: 1911 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe
..................... 3 Malka Cymet b: 1910 in Hrubieszow, Poland d: 1939-1945 in Europe

Narrative — Immediate Family History

Mordko Biterman was born in 1843 in Hrubieszow. He was a grain trader. On Jan. 23, 1862 he married Marya "Miriam" Adler of Tishevits. They had numerous children, including my great-grandfather Josef Hersz Biterman, my grandfather's father. Josef was a businessman who operated a farm that produced products that were bundled and sold. He married Sara Golomb in 1896 in Krylow. They were the parents of my grandfather, Judka Lejb Biterman, Holocaust survivor.

BITERMANS BEFORE THE WAR

The below is about my immediate family. It includes details about my grandfather's life during the Holocaust. My grandfather Judka Biterman was born in 1901 in Hrubieszow, Poland. He, his wife Bluma, and their two kids lived in Hrubieszow up until September, 1939 when the Nazis invaded. At that time Chaim, my grandfather's son, was shot, and the others were sent into the Hrubieszow Ghetto. Eventually the three remaining immediate family members were sent to the Budzyn Labor Camp.

My grandfather, his wife Bluma, and their two children lived at an apartment on the west side of what is now called Plac Wolnosci Street. The location was less than 1/2 block north of the intersection of Plac Wolnosci and Targowa Streets.

FAMILY MIGRATION

After the war my grandfather met my grandmother, Tauba Fuks, at the Displaced Persons Camp in Zeilsheim (Saltzheim), Germany in 1945. Michael Finger (Drori) from Israel, my grandfather's first cousin and only surviving relative, was also at the Zeilsheim DP camp. He emigrated to Israel in the late 1940s.

Instead of waiting for permission to go to Israel, my grandparents decided to emigrate to the U.S. In June/July of 1946, they applied for emigration to the U.S. They emigrated to New York from Hamburg in January and February of 1948 on the ship Marine Marlin. They left from Hamburg and traveled to New York. Before they boarded the ship, an announcement was made that the Prince of England, Charles, was born. They arrived in New York on Feb. 2, 1948. Initially they settled in New York City, but they decided it was too large. With the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, they re-located to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

LIFE IN AMERICA

After settlement in Milwaukee, the Bitermans were involved in the city's small Jewish community. Judah Biterman was a locksmith and store owner in Milwaukee. He adopted the name Edward Biterman in the United States, learned English, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen on November 25, 1953.

The family was religiously observant in the United States. They attended Agudas Achim, which was then located at 5820 W. Burleigh Street, an Orthodox synagogue. It has since relocated to Mequon, a Milwaukee suburb. Their rabbi was Israel Feldman (1918-1996), a Holocaust survivor who greatly influenced the Jewish community in Milwaukee. My grandfather passed away on Aug. 30, 1975 and is buried at Agudas Achim Cemetery in Milwaukee, WI.

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