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Young Chone in Poland |
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In the northeast part of Poland, in the former Lomza Gubernia, there was a town called Sniadowo, in which once there lived many Jews. Among them lived my maternal grandfather, Harry Ness (then Avraham Chone Gniazdowicz), along with his parents, siblings, cousins et al. Young Chone is pictured below with his parents, Yisroel and Rivka Gniazdowicz. (Presumably the Gniazdowicz surname was derived from the nearby shtetl of Gniazdowo). Yisroel, I believed, owned and ran a flour mill not far away from where he and his family lived. Perhaps this photograph was taken at a local photographic studio, or more likely it was taken in a studio in the larger, nearby town of Lomza, taken as a remembrance before Chone's emigration from Poland to the United States in 1906.
Many families took such
photographs before the emigration of a family member, no doubt
as a keepsake or remembrance. |
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