The following, in alphabetical order, are names of some of the victims of the Felshtin pogroms of 1919 and persons orphaned by the pogroms. These lists are from Felshteen; zamulbukh lekoved tsum ondenk fun di Felshteener kdoyshim Felshteen; in memory of all those who were killed in the Pogroms of Felshteen in the year 1919), Posy-Shoulson Press, New York, 1937. They were translated by Sora Ludmir for the Felshtin Society. Despite the dilligent efforts of the yizkor book editors, this is not a comprehensive list.
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Itzik Avrohom (Eliyahu’s son) and his wife
Pinya Baizer and his son, Mottel Avrohom Yosef Barg’s two sons Yaakov Barnbaum, son of Efraim, Sorke’s son Yanku, 40.
Hettie Barnbaum, daughter of Moshe
Yanku’s wife, she called out to a Petlura soldier to come and kill her, 35.
Mordechai Barnbaum, son of Yaakov, all the Barnbaums were stabbed on the hill behind their house, 10.
Hertz Barnbaum Itzik Dovid Barzach
Yehoshua Barzach and his wife Sholom and Moshe Bekker
Chaya Sora Huberman’s Grandson Meir Ber (Avrohom’s son)
Berel Berman, the tailor, 46.
Rivka Berman, his wife, 45.
Chaika Berman, daughter of Berel, 20. Pearl Berman, daughter of Berman, 18. Simcha Berstein and his son, Shloimah Moshe Avrohom Binyaman (son of Aaron the sexton) and his brother-in-law Zusia Zalman Blecher and his wife and children Zalmon Blever’s (Blecher’s?) son, wounded in the first pogrom and killed in the second pogrom
Menashe Bloch’s wife and four children Rochel Bloch and her son
Leizer Bonder’s son
Koine Braver, son of Isaiah, pulled out of someone else’s house and killed, 26. David Braver, Anschel’s son, 2.
Avrohom Elyu Brenman, son of Velvel and his mother, 28.
Avrohom Brenman, son of Mordechai Avrohom Zjushkivtzer, President of Community Council, 62.
Golda Brenman, wife of Abraham, 60. Nachman Brenman, son of Avrohom, 23. Gitel Brenman, daughter of Avrohom, 18. Isaac Genedels-Brenman
The Cantor of Felshtin Noson Chosid and his wife Avrohom Itzy Cohen’s family
Feiga Cohen (Eli Chaim Herschel’s daughter)
Bairach Cooper, son of David, killed near the Polish cemetery, 60.
Dedalya’s son Yankel and his wife Herschel Duchovney
Shloimah Einkoifer’s wife
Akira Elefant, his wife, and his wife’s brothers and sisters
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Schachne Fireman’s wife and five children Moshe Fleisher, Avrohom’s son and Necha’s son, stabbed to death, 40.
Avrohom Fleischer, (Shloima Yosef Isaac’s son) Chaika Fleisher, Avrohom and Necha’s daughter, stabbed to death, 38.
Chaim Fleischer, son of Wolf, Fradel Zeigerman’s son-in-law, was shot on June 6, 32. Avrohom Fleischer, Shloima Yosef Isaac’s son Ezra Fleischer, Shloima Yosef Isaac’s wife. Efraim Chaim (Fruma’s) Forman (Sora Ita’s, Friedel’s husband)
Gitye (Gentzi’s) and her daughter Froim Forman
Shmuel (Gentzi’s son), his wife and daughter
Yona Herzovis (Forman), his wife, Yocheved, and daugher, Leah
Baila Gerschgorn, Michel’s daughter, 50. Avrohom Elyu Gerschgorn, Orin’s son, 19. Yechiel Gerschgorn, Orin’s son, stabbed in someone else’s house; Baila and her son Yechiel managed to run into the street where they both collapsed dead, one falling on top of the other. Mendel Gerschgorn, Aba’s son, Yechiel Rofeh’s son-in-law, 31.
Mindi Gerschgorn, Yechiel’s daughter, 26. Chaika Gerschgorn, Mendel’s daughter, 6. Rosa Gerschgorn, Aba’s daughter, Mendel’s sister, killed in the field on June 6 (1919), 20. Shmuel Ber Glantzov’s (Gitza’s son) wife Yechiel Berish (Esther Chaya’s)
Chaya Golda and her daughter Pinchas Goldman, son of Hirsch, 48. Rivka Goldman, daughter of Leib, 45.
Susia Goldman, Hirsch’s (Son of Shmuel) wife Tuva Goldman, son of Pinchas, all shot near bathhouse, 18.
Chaim Greenbaum (Chana Slova’s) Hertz Greenbaum, shoemaker Avrohom Guttman, shoemaker Shimon Hantman
Yosel Hantman
Akiva Helfand and his wife, Chata Riva, their three sons and a daughter
Michel Hersch (Itzik Hersch’s son)
Esther Herschel (Eli Chaim Herschel’s wife) and daughter Feiga Herschel
Zalman Herchel’s wife and child Avrohom’s (Chaim Herschel’s son) wife Moshe Chaim Herscheles (Steinberg)
Velvel Hochman’s (Feivish’s son) wife Moshe Press Hoizgezund (Lemeshke’s son) Sholom Horowitz’s (Schachne’s son) three daughters
Shimon Horowitz’s (Hirsch Leib’s son) wife Chaya Sora Huberman, Wolf’s daughter, Avrohom Moshele’s wife, stabbed at home with a bayonet, 62.
Shloima Mechel Huberman, son of Moshe Golda’s husband, 55.
Buzzy Huberman (Shmuel Zelig’s daughter) Noson Jungreis (Aaron Bedonis’ grandchild) Sheva Kagan, daughter of Yitzchok, wife of Shlomo the teller, who lived by Leibish Shabsis, 44.
Yaakov Kagan, son of Shlomo, stabbed at home with a bayonet, 15.
Herschel Kapilopwitz, the Rebbe Moshe’s future son-in-law who came from Kamenetz, 23. Chaim Getzi Kaplan, son of Alter, Monday night he was choked and then thrown into a cellar, 65. Alter Schneider Karshenbaum, his daughter, who was Shloima’s wife, and two children.
Itzik Karshenbaum (Alter Schneider’s) and the family
Isaac Katz and two sons, Dovid Leib and Moshe Yoel (Moshe Yoel was killed in Grading) Schloima Leib Katz (Yisroel Hirsch’s son), his wife and two sons
Sholom Katzav, his wife and five children Shlomo Yosef Isaac’s Katzav (butcher) and his wife
Itzik Yosel Kellenson
Yosel Shmuel Isaacs Kerdman and his wife and two children
Pinney Kerdman (Lozer’s) and his wife, Baila Itamar Kichovitzky
Noach Kirschenbaum’s son-in-law Zelig Pigrishes Kirschner Avrohom Kirschner and his wife
Shloima Michel Kirschner’s son, Nachum Meir Kirschner
Ita Krishtal
Itzik Leib Kirschner (Yarid’s son-in-law) and family
Zusia Kitai (Habers)
Yosef Kitover, Rabbi Yisroel Kitover’s son, he was paralyzed, 65.
Avrohom Kitover, Yosef’s son, 23.
Rabbi Mordechai Kitover’s wife and six children, her father, and her son-in-law, the Solopkivotzer Rabbi, all burned in a fire
Moshe Klares, a broker for landlords and priests Henoch Binem Kleiner’s wife, Chaya Liba, and her nephew, Berel
Dovid Kliban Chaim Kliban
Dovrish Klug (Bairach Cooper’s Daughter)
Noson Koritner (Berel’s son)
Matel Korn, Moshe’s wife and Zlata’s daughter, 40.
Sasya Korn, Nachman’s second wife, 35. Pessie Korn, Matel’s daugher, two months. All three were hiding in a lime pit, a peasant spotted them, and they were all shot. Yaakov Kornblit, son of Eliezer, 70.
Elyu Moshe Kornblit, son of Yaakov, stabbed near the synagogue, lived for a day, 36. Yechiel Kornblit, son of Yaakov, 42.
Miriam Kornblit, Meshulem’s daughter, 36. Chantzi Kornblit, daughter of Yechiel, 18. Tzipa Kornblit, daughter of Yechiel, 15. Rochel Kornblit, daughter of Yechiel, 8. Yehuda Yitzchok Kornblit, Yechiel’s son, 2 weeks.
Meshulem Kovler and his wife Pesach Krishtal (Binyaman’s son)
Zusia Krishtal, son of Pesach, his wife, and their five children
Avrohom Leib Krishtal (son of Binyamin) and his wife
Fridel Kum, famous for his quips and quotes, his wife and their grandchild, a tiny baby
Herschel Kum, Fridel’s son, his wife and child (his child became frozen while crying) Avrohom Lazer (Leib’s son)
Naftali Lazer (Leib’s), his wife and four children
Muttel (Yaakov Leib’s son)
Baba (Dovid Leib’s daughter), Rosen and her son, Leib
Moshe Lekman, son of Mechel, 65.
Zalman and Ita Lerner and son, Yechezkel and daugher, Sima
Itamar Lichovitzky
Yosel Maddick’s wife Shaindel and their five children
Dr. Y.A. Masur from Odessa, stabbed to death, 36.
Yisroel Avrohom Melamed (previously Yayetchnik)
Moshe Melamed (Shtempel), his wife, his son Yechiel and his wife and child
Yosef Melech, son of Yaakov, Ezra Cohen’s son- in-law, 45.
Tuva Melech, son of Ezra, 40. Nunye Melech, son of Yosef, 22. Chana Melech, daughter of Yosef, 11 Roise Melech, daughter of Yosef, 9 (The Melechs were all shot in the house where a grenade was then thrown in.)
Rochel (Chaim Mendele’s daughter) and her family
Shlomo Mindlen, son of Yaakov Zusia, 49. Meshulem Mordechai (Yoel’s), blacksmith Chaim Moshe (Avrohom Aaron’s son) (sexton), his wife and child
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Nechama’s son Asher and his wife Rabbi Novoseller’s wife and two daughters. Yosef Ofeh (Chana’s)
Tova Baila Orband (Eni’s) and a grandchild Shaika Oxsman (Sora Yankel’s son) and his brother
Herschel Leib Pollack’s wife, Miriam Dvorah, and their son, Moshe
Brocha (Alter Polick’s daugher) (She was a mute.)
Yekel Portegal, Leib’s son, stabbed at home with a bayonet, 68.
Ita Portegal, Avrohom’s daughter, stabbed at home with a bayonet, 65.
Rivka Portegal, Yekel’s daughter, stabbed at home with a bayonet, 40.
Asna Portegal, Yekel’s daughter, stabbed at home with a bayonet, 34.
Nuta Postivess and his wife
Susia Principalke and her daughter Mendel Rabin and his wife
Yosef Raver and his wife, Hennie Gittel Rachmilevitch (Leib Polick’s
daughter), Shaya Aaron’s (Nuta’s son) wife, and her two children
Polick Raver’s (Schochet’s) wife Yosel Rizshulinetzer and his wife
Mendel Moshe Ritzshilnitzer and his wife Zeev Rochman and wife
Zusia Roiz, son of Moshe, shot on the frozen river, 34.
Yosef Roizman, son of Gershon and Hhusband of Chaytshe (son-in-law of Moshe Yaakov) was caught running away and hacked with a sword, 46.
Chaytshe Roizman, Moshe Yaakov’s daughter, raped and killed in the street, 40.
Sora Roizman, Yosef’s daughter, raped and killed in the street, 15.
Menucha Roizman, Yosef’s daughter, raped and killed in the street, 13.
Bina Roizman, Alter’s daughter, stabbed in the street with a sword, 65.
Rochel (Shloima Rovo’s) and her son Zaida Rusia’s wife
Yechiel Saltzman, Bina Roizman’s son-in-law, lived with Moshe Braver, stabbed at home, 35. Yisroel Saltzman, Yechiel’s son, stabbed at home, 8.
Danya Saltzman, Yechiel’s daughter, stabbed at home, 1.
Mr. Scheinberg, father of Mika, Toby, and Chaya
Yaakov Leib Schneider, his wife and two children
Noson Schochet, son of Moshe, Abrohom Kirschner’s son-in-law, 38.
Gitel Schochet, son of Avrohom, 33. Moshe Schochet, son of Noson, 6. Yosel Schochet (Raber) and his wife
Yechiel Schochet (Wasserman) and a son, Velvel
Leib Schuster’s son
Lebenyu Schuster’s daughter, a mute. Yaakov Segal’s (Yossi’s son) wife Sora Ita Mutti Segal, son of Aaron Shmuel, 23.
Meir Segal, Chaim Sholom’s son
Yosel Segal’s son
Chaim Shemesh, his wife and son Moshe Yehuda Ber Shenkman (sexton in the learning hall) and their two children Shlomo and Zlata. Yosel Segal’s son
Ephraim Shpantz (died of a heart attack after the first pogrom)
Reuven Sostchin, son of Chaim, killed and thrown into a cellar, 55.
Tzipa Sostchin, Reuven’s wife, 53.
Avrohom Sostchin, son of Reuven, killed with a gun in the street, 28.
Chaim Sostchin, son of Reuven, 18.
Tuva Sostchin, son of Reuven, both stabbed with knives at home, 15.
Yenta Sostchin and her daughter, Chaya Yoel Sostchin with a child in his arms Machliye Shpert, Simcha Goldman’s daughter and five children
Asher Shuylsinger from Galicia, a teacher in Kolterlige School, 32.
Feige Shulsinger, from Galicia, first raped and then mutilated, the calf of her leg was cut, 30. Chana Shmurak, daughter of Efraim and Sorke Barnbaum, 40.
Gitel Shmurak, daughter of Isaac, stabbed with a bayonet, 10.
Ber Leib Shmurak, son of Avrohom, stabbed on the stoop of his brother-in-law’s house, 23.
Shloima Shmurak, Ber Leib’s son.
Yankel Mannes Steinshleger
Tsiril Steinshlager (Wolf Eli’s daughter) Zisia Sternick and his wife, Fruma Moishe Stolyer and his wife
Shmuel Yeshaya Sviner, Avrohom’s son, Asstant Chairman of the Community Council, Chairman of the Zion Organization, stabbed with a bayonet, 36.
Shifra Sviner, Orin’s daughter and Shmuel’s wife, butchered like an animal, 27.
Velvele Swindler (Chana Manny’s) Paisa Tchibaner and his family of eight Mutti Tut
Avrohom Chaim Tzinis, Bassie Wolf’s son-in- law, stabbed while lying ill in bed, 37.
Chaim the Water Bearer (Vasserfirer) and his wife and four children
Gershon Vatenmacher and his son and his grandson Yosef’s family
Menachem Verboch’s wife Betty
Yaakov Voghalt, son of Moshe, their grandson from Kupin, stabbed with a bayonet, 15. Moshe Chaim Weintraub and his wife, Rivtzy (Rivka)
Mally Weintraub, Chaim’s daughter, stabbed with a bayonet, 38.
Michel Weintrab and family
Mendel Weitraub (Mechel Meir Mendel’s son) Rochel Weintraub, Moshe’s daughter, 5. Chaim Weintraub, Moshe’s son, stabbed, 1 1/2. Avrohom Itzis Yasel (Bella’s), his wife and two children
Mordechai Yosef’s wife (Baum)
Yosel the Redhead’s son, Chaim
Dvorah Velvel Zafrin and a 10-day-old child Fradel Zeigerman, daughter of Pinchas, Aharantzi Itzy Bidanis’ wife, 65.
Yerachmiel Zeigerman and his wife and daughter
Herschel Zeigerman (Yerachmiel’s son) Susi Zilberg, Yisroel Schneider’s daughter, stabbed naked in the street, 22.
Gedal Yahu Zilberman, son of Zalman Yaakov, found sitting up with a quart of water in his hands; killed in his house, 67.
Sora Riva Zilberman, daughter of Isaiah, killed at home, 65.
Manele Zilberman
Simcha Zussman from Galicia, Yekel Portegal’s son-in-law, shot in a peasant’s garden, 30. Yosel Zweig (Shmuel Chaim’s son)
A girl from Satanov and 10 other strangers
The following, in alphabetical order, are names of Felshtin orphans who went to
Lemberg (now Lvov). Most lost their parents in the pogroms of 1919. This list is from Felshteen; zamulbukh lekoved tsum ondenk fun di Felshteener kdoyshim Felshteen; in memory of all those who were killed in the Pogroms of Felshteen in the year 1919), Posy- Shoulson Press, New York, 1937. Translated by Sora Ludmir for the Felshtin Society.
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Moshe Barnbaum, 7
Velvel Bernstein, 6
Yechiel Bernstein, 9
Mendel Dubocher, 13
Moni Dubocher, 12
Naftali Dubocher, 9
Dovid Dubocher, 7
Dvosi Elefant, 17
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Toiba Forman, 12
Guni Forman, 12
Tzipa Forman, 8
Yosef Forman, 5
Yosef Gendlier, 11
Leah Gershgorn, 4
Shifra Goldman, 11
Mani Greenbaum, 17
Isaiah Gurtman, 14
Mani Gurtman, 10
Yosef Karschenbaum, 11
Shmuel Katz, 14 (his brother, Mayer, and his sister, Feiga, remained in Felshtin)
Michel Katz, 14 Itzik Yosel Kellenson Zelda Kellenson, 13
Gelly Kellenson, 11
Leib Kellenson, 6
Sheva Kellenson, 10
Shprintze Kellenson, 6
Golda Kellenson, 3
Eliezer Kligman, 15
Chava Kligman, 12
Gitel Kligman, 10
Ita Kornblit, 5
Ita Kovler, 16
Yenta Kristal, 16
Freida Kristal, 14
Moshe Kristal, 12
Kreina Kristal, 14
Yehuda Kristal, 12
Moshe Kum, 4
Elozor Laber, 16
Chaim Laber, 12
Shmuel Laber, 10
Esther Leibowitz, 16
Rivka Lerner, 23
Dvosi Lerner, 16
Golda Lerner, 15
Sora Lichavetsky, 14
Mendel Milstein, 13
Chana Milstein, 15
Ida Modick, 10
Zisel Modick, 12
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Breina Pomerantz, 11
Many Pomerantz, 23
Baila Raber, 15
Yitzchok Raber, 10
Chaika Raber, 14
Sosi Rabin, 10
Baila Rabin, 8
Eti Rabin, 6
Mika Scheinberg, 16
Toby Scheinberg, 15
Chaya Scheinberg, 12
Esther Shapiro, 16
Yaakov Shapiro, 15
Leibish Shapiro, 10
Moshe Shmuran, 16
Avrohom Shmuran, 15
Ita Sostchin, 15, lost a hand and was crippled
Batya Sostchin, 8
Zisia Shpantz, 10
Mayer Shpantz, 15
Breina Tut, 9
Herschel Tut, 7
Yitchok Tzines, 19
Chaim Tzines, 9
Sora Tzines, 7
Avrohom Tzines, 2
Yitzchok Wasserman, 14
Sora Wechsler, 6
Mika Weintraub, 16
Chava Weintraub, 9
Velvel Weintraub, 7
Moshe Chaim Zilberman, 15 Brocho Zilberman, 10
Charne Zilberman, 10
Elka Zilberman, 6
Shaindel Zilberman, 4
Noah Zilberman, 7