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THE FAMILY OF ISAAC AND ESTHER GRUDZINSKI |
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ISAAC GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
cir 1915-1920 |
ESTHER GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
cir 1915-20
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CHAIM GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
year unknown
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RIVKE
GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
cir 1915-20 |
JAKE GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
cir 1915-20
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HEIKE GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
cir 1915-20 |
COUSIN NAT GRUDZINSKI
Stawiski, Poland
cir 1915-20
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Freda Goldberg, Rivke’s husband,
Jennie Goldberg, Rivke and Jake Grudzinski (Goldberg.)
Rivke and Jake, as well as Nat, all change their surname to
Goldberg on immigration to the United States.
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Chaim and Jacob Grudzinski were born at the
end of the nineteenth century in Stawiski, Poland to Isaac and
Esther (nee Rejmer); they had two younger sisters named Rivka
and Heike. Jacob was apprenticed out to a tailor, and Chaim
became at barber. In the mid 1920s Jacob and his new wife
Jennie (nee Chmielewski/
(also used the surname Malewski) decided to try their fortune
in the United States where Jenny had been born. There their
first child Frejda was born in 1928, but Jacob's homesickness
brought them back to Stawiski in 1929. The worsening economic
and political conditions there first brought Jenny and Freda
back to the States, and Jacob then followed a year later when
his papers were ready.
Upon returning to the United States they decided to follow the
example of their beloved cousin Nat Grudzinski and change
their name to something more American--Goldberg. They lived
for the rest of their lives in New Haven, CT. The rest of the
family perished in Poland.
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