Front row, left to right: Shimon
Alter Tachna, daughter Rivke, wife Zysla (nee Kon), grandson Mikhael
Zylberstejn,
son Luzer, daughter Freida Chaya.
Back row, left to right: Daughter Anka, son Zalman, daughter Lizzie, and
son Dovid, son Harry Nathan.
ZYSLA
(nee Kon) TACHNA
wife of Shimon Alter Tachna
mother of twelve children
Zysla, daughter of Michel Kon and Cypra Waser, was born in
Neiporet in 1861. In Nowy Dwor in 1880 she married Shimon Alter
Tachna of Mlawa, son of Ickiem Jankiel.
Shimon Alter passed away in Mlawa in 1933; Zysla perished in the
Shoah. |
Zysla Tachna
cir 1933 |
Zysla with daughter
Anka and perhaps
a grandchild
cir 1937
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The
Children of Shimon Alter and Zysla Tachna
all photographs taken in
Mlawa unless otherwise specified |
BESSIE
Both Bessie and her husband Samuel were born and were
married in Mlawa.
They had two boys and two girls, two of their children being born in
Nasielsk and one in Mlawa. All eventually emigrated from Poland.
Photo, right: Samuel Perlmutter, husband to Bessie, bef
WW I. Photo taken in Nasielsk.
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RIVKE
Rivke was born in Mlawa; her husband
Abram Mordechai Zylbersztejn
was from Garwolin. They married in Mlawa in 1910. They had one child
Mikhael. All perished in the Shoah. |
Rivke (nee Tachna) Zylberstejn and husband Avram
Mordechai, with son Mikhael, cir 1920s |
Mikhael
11 Sep 1925 |
Mikhael
12 Dec 1928
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Mikhael
cir 1930s |
LIZZIE
Lizzie was born in Mlawa and eventually married
Henry Silverstein in Poland. They had two boys, one born in Mlawa,
the other in the United States. They later immigrated to the
United States. Lizzie passed away in 1930 at the early age of
forty.
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Lizzie with her
first son
cir 1920
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SHAYNDEL
Shayndel was born in 1890 in Mlawa,
Poland. Sadly, she passed away from cholera during the war in
Mlawa in 1916.
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ZALMAN
Both Zalman and his wife Nijie were from Mlawa. They married there
and eventually immigrated to Sonora, Mexico.
Zalman and Nijie had four children, two boys and two girls, all
born in Mexico. |
Zalman
cir 1920s |
Zalman
cir 1920s
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Zalman and his wife
Nijie (nee Weischinsky) |
PESSA
Pessa was born in Mlawa in 1906 and sadly passed away six days
after her birth.
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MARVIN
Marvin, born in Mlawa, immigrated to the United States. He married
Bella Baseman, and they had one boy and one girl. |
Marvin
cir 1920
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ANKA
Both Anka and her husbnd Jonat Grynberg were born in Mlawa. They
married there in 1934. Both they and their infant daughter
perished in the Shoah. |
Anka
cir 1920s
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Anka with husband
Jonat Grynberg
cir 1930s |
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HARRY NATHAN
Harry Nathan immigrated to the United States. There, he met Rose
Perlmutter and married. They had one boy and two girls. |
Harry Nathan
cir 1911 |
Harry Nathan
cir 1912
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Harry Nathan
cir 1914 |
Harry Nathan
cir 1917 |
DOVID
Dovid was born in Mlawa in 1904. There, he met Feige Ruchle nee
Jacobovitz who was also Mlawa. He perished in the Mlawa Ghetto in
1942; she in the Warszawa Ghetto in 1943.
Also see:
Warszawa: Dovid and Feige Ruchle
Tachna |
Dovid
cir 1920s |
Dovid and his wife
Feige Ruchle
cir 1920s |
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Also see
Mlawa:
The Family of Szaja and
Ruchle Tachna
...and Mlawa: The Children of
Szaja and Ruchle Tachna
...and Mlawa:
Yetta and Rosa Tachna
...and Mlawa: A Segal Family Seder
...and Warszawa: Dovid and Feige Ruchle Tachna
...and Goworowo: Pearl Tachna and Family
...and Nasielsk: Samuel Perlmutter
...and Lodz:
Gitle Frimet Jablon
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