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Slavik

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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:34 am Post subject: Help in finding information about my Great-Grandfather

Hello,

I will be extremely grateful for any information about my great-grandfather’s early life in Poland and his Polish roots.

His name is - Chiel/(Emil) Wald (his father’s name is - Zygmunt).
He had a wife named Sima Wald, and they had 3 daughters.

The little information that I have:
He had an Austrian Poland residency/citizenship.
During WW1 he was sent to fight in the USSR, and at the end of the war he stayed, married and settled in the Soviet Kazakhstan (Alma-Ata City).
In 1933 he and his family decided to immigrate and move back to Poland to Międzeszyn where he had a family member (most likely his sister).
Unfortunately, WW2 and the prosecution of Jews began, in which there was a period when he and his family were sent to a ghetto (in or near Międzeszyn).
In 1939/1940 they managed to escape and flee back to Kazakhstan.

I have attached to this post his death certificate in the hopes that it will help in any way (it is in Russian language).

Thank you very much for your help!

Slavik.

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Trish
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Help in finding information about my Great-Grandfather

Slavik wrote:

Hi Slavik,
Welcome t the forum. I found this website on family search. It has some interesting links on where to find some Jewish records. I don't know if any of the links would be helpful. It's worth a try.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Poland_Online_Genealogy_Records

Regards,
Trish

Slavik

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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 11:49 pm Post subject:

Hi Trish,
Thank you very much, I will look into it!

Regards,
Slavik

Sophia
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Help in finding information about my Great-Grandfather

Slavik wrote:

Hi Slavik and Trish,

Any records of your family in Poland will be found by knowing the name of the town or city they lived in.

Międzeszyn, as you probably already know, is currently part of the city of Warszawa (Warsaw) but in the time that your family lived there, it was its own village. If anyone in Chiel's family got married, or had children, or died in Międzeszyn, then you should be able to find records locally.

Since you mention that Chiel was from the Austrian partition of Poland, this would not have been his birthplace. Does the death certificate that you posted an image of give his place of birth? I am unable to read Russian. All I can tell from the certificate is that he died in 1979, and that this certificate was issued in 1986 (on a form that had a revision date of 1983); presumably the certificate was issued because someone in your family requested it. I can see from the stamps on the certificate that it was issued in Alma Ata.

If you don't know his birthplace, then you still may be able to discover what it was if you can find him or his parents or siblings on a list of people being deported to one of the camps. Finding those records is not my area of expertise but I have seen people post such records, and individuals seem to be listed along with a date and place of birth.

Wishing you good luck in your research,
Sophia

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