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(back row, left to right)

John Blackman

Chaim Alter Linenberg

Jane Appelbaum (later Govendir)

David Blackman (né Dawid Szwarcberg)

Lewis Blackman

(middle row, left to right)

Bella Linenberg

Etka Linenberg (née Szwarcberg)

Abram Szwarcberg

Jane Linenberg (later Daniels)

Rachel Blackman (née Cohen)

Jane Blackman (later Levy)

(front row, left to right)

Lily Linenberg (later Thomas)

Mary Linenberg

Photo taken during the visit of Abram Szwarcberg, London, 1913

Abram Szwarcberg visited England in 1913, and then returned to Radzilow, where he died c.1922.

Dawid and Etka were children from his first marriage, and they came to London in the early 1890s.

See the Linenberg family's listing on the 1901 census

See more photos of the Linenberg family

Go to David Jacobs' Szwarcberg family website

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(back row, left to right)

Chaim Kowalski

Binyamin Poritzky (né Porycki, later Dotan)

Chaja Poritzky (née Kowalska, later Dotan)

Yehudit Kaminski (née Judes Kuberska)

Efraim Kaminski

(front row, left to right)

Hinda Kowalska (maiden name unknown)

Mejer Kowalski

Izrael Mosze Kowalski (later Moshe Peled)

Esther Kowalski (née Estera Dwojra Kaminska)

Israel, c.1928

Chaim and Mejer are first cousins. Mejer is second cousin of Esther and Chaja, who are half-first cousins!

Esther is Efraim's aunt, so Efraim and Izrael Mosze are not only first cousins (through Esther), but also third cousins (through Mejer)!

This photo shows a number of branches of the huge Kowalski family, all of whom had emigrated to Israel by the late 1920s. The photo appears to have been given to Lynda Harvey by Mejer Kowalski on her 1970 visit to Israel, and it is labelled in her handwriting on the reverse.

See more photos of Mejer, Esther and Izrael Mosze

See photos of Esther's brother's family, who emigrated to England

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Bencyjon Dorogoj and his distant cousin Paulie Rogoff (née Pesza Kowalska)

Probably taken during Paulie's trip to Israel in October 1949

Bencyjon was born in Radzilow in 1918 and made aliyah to Israel in 1935, where he later fought in the War of Independence. His parents and a number of his siblings were killed in Radzilow during World War II. He died in 1977.

Paulie was born in Radzilow in 1904 and moved to New York in 1921, where she married in the same year.

Her mother and a number of her siblings settled in Israel, and she and family made various trips to see them

over the years. She died in 1981.

See more photos of Bencyjon Dorogoj on José Gutstein's Radzilow website

See Paulie's ship manifest from her return voyage on this occasion

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Gitl Spilkevitz (née Chorazycka, left) and her great-aunt,

Rochel Leja Kowalska (née Krakowska)

Taken outside the apartment of Gitl's sister, Yaffa Braverman, Jerusalem, c.1950s

Reverse bears the inscription "Gitel" in Hebrew

Gitl was born in Radzilow in 1903 and witnessed one of her sisters shot and killed in a police raid on their home in the late 1910s. She moved to New York in 1922 and lived to be 99.She died in 2002.

Rochel Leja was born c.1878, probably in Wasosz, and married Gitl's great-uncle, Nochym Mendel Kowalski there in 1898. Their children emigrated to both the USA and Israel and, after Nochym Mendel died, Rochel Leja moved to Tel Aviv in 1939. She also lived into her 90s, and died in 1974.

See more photos of Gitl and her family

See her immigration listing on the Ellis Island database

See more photos of Rochel Leja and her family

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Photo taken in Israel on the occasion of planting trees in the JNF's Diaspora Forest, c. late 1950s

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Holon Cemetery, 1997