I just read on Geni, a note from Mitzi Wolfe Zohar to Veronica Wolbromski, "How lucky you are to still carry our family's last name. Ours was changed to Wolfe when my grandfather came to Canada in the twenties."
By all odds, the name Wolbromski should have disappeared by now. Pogroms over the years, and a final rounding up of all the Jews in our village, Staszow, in 1941, could have ended the name forever. What a triumph, then, this past Sukkot, when 61descendants of Rachmiel and Aidl Wolbromski gathered and ate and sang at our home in Israel. There were the children and grandchildren of:
*Abchu, who came in the thirties, a real chalutz, pioneer in Israel, to build kibbutz Beit Alfa.
*Golda, who brought her artistic energy to Kibbutz Yad Mordecai, long before the Nazis.
*Rachel, who cleverly made it to Uruguay
*Volv, who managed to come to Canada before the war
and
*Shimon and his wife Hinde, who actually didn't leave Staszow before the Nazi's came in. Through their own unimaginable bravery and the outrageous, risky kindness of a family who are now honoured among "The Righteous of the Nations", Shimon and Hinde hid in a hole in the yard of this family, and survived the war in hiding. After the liberation, they went to Uruguay, and raised a family. The children and grandchildren of Shimon and Hinde still go by the name Wolbromski.
And now, descendants of every surviving Wolbromski are in Israel.
60 Wolbromskis and more
Feasting together.
The best triumph
Over history and entropy.
We’re here! We’re here!
Sweet Nomi! When will I ever learn to read your woeds without crying? It makes it very difficult to write bag. I love you. Thank you for sharing your inimitable vision of your journey. Come visit me at my blog!!
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Hi! My mother's maiden name was Altbaum and her mother was Zelda Wolbromski, who died in the Holocaust. We do have a picture of Zelda as a young woman. Mum says it's an unusual name - is there any possibility we might be related to any or all of the Wolbromskis in this lovely picture? Mum was a child during the war, so doesn't remember too many names, but perhaps someone else does - and remembers a Zelda?
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