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Descendants of Aaron Schlomo Shedrowitsky

Generation No. 3

3. YENTEH RIVKAH³ SHEDROVITSKY (ITSCHAK² SHEDROWITSKY, AARON SCHLOMO¹) was born in Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus), and died Abt. 1905 in Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus). She married BETZALEL MOSHE SCHWARTZMAN, son of SCHMOIL SCHWARTZMAN and CHAI YACHA.

Notes for YENTEH RIVKAH SHEDROVITSKY:
from Antopol. She contracted tb from her son Zaydel. She went down to Baden Baden, Germany to recover. There were health springs and sanatoria there for tb sufferers. She died not long after returning from the trip. Her son Hyman was 12 or 13 when she died in her bed at home.

More About YENTEH RIVKAH SHEDROVITSKY:
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis
Religion: Jewish

Notes for BETZALEL MOSHE SCHWARTZMAN:
He was also called Sala Moische (pronounced something like Mayshe)
He grew up in Kobrin, east of but close to Antopol. According to Lois, Antopol was once part of Kobrin. His wife was from Antopol so when he married, he moved there and made Antopol his home.
He came to the US in 1907, some time after Yenteh died, and did not like it. He got swollen, according to what Lois heard. He went back to Russia, where he died in the 1920's. A telegram of his death, written in Yiddish, informed US family members of his death. Lois has this telegram.

More About BETZALEL MOSHE SCHWARTZMAN:
Religion: Jewish
Residence: Antopol and NY (briefly)

Children of YENTEH SHEDROVITSKY and BETZALEL SCHWARTZMAN are:

7.	i.	GUSSIE/GOLDA⁴ SCHWARTZ, b. August 17, 1890, Antopol, Belarus; d. April 1980, Fair Lawn, NJ.
8.	ii.	ESTHER SCHWARTZ, b. Abt. June 1887, Russia; d. January 30, 1978, NY, USA.
9.	iii.	MINNIE SCHWARTZ, b. Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus); d. Abt. 1936, NY, USA.
	iv.	LEAH SCHWARTZ, b. Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus); d. Abt. 1939, Europe.

Notes for LEAH SCHWARTZ:
Also known as Leche.
She did not marry or have children, according to Lois.
Killed by Nazis in WWII.

More About LEAH SCHWARTZ:
Religion: Jewish

10.	v.	CHAIKEH SCHWARTZMAN, b. Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus); d. Abt. 1939, Europe.
11.	vi.	HENYE SCHWARTZMAN, b. Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus); d. Abt. 1939, Europe.
	vii.	ZAYDEL SCHWARTZ, b. Abt. 1888, Russia; d. Abt. 1906, Russia.

Notes for ZAYDEL SCHWARTZ:
In Russia at that time, the Czar could call all able-bodied males to serve in his military whenever he wished. Zaydel was called, because a war was in progress. He did not want to serve. He knew that the law stated that if a person's waist circumference was less than half his height, he was exempt from service. Such 'thin' people were presumably ill. Zaydel purposely began losing weight. He then got tuberculosis, perhaps because he was weakened and more susceptible to disease. Zaydel died.
Zaydel's mother caught the tb from Zaydel, and it killed her too. The fact that she died around 1906, long before WWI, leads me to hypothesize that the Czar called Zaydel to serve in the Russo-Japanese war (1905-7). The Russians had to send many soldiers off to fight that war, in which they fared infamously poorly. Russian morale about the war is known to have been quite low. Many Russian soldiers died because of poor military management at the top. Lois thinks that this theory is quite credible too.

More About ZAYDEL SCHWARTZ:
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis

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viii.

HYMAN SCHWARTZ, b. January 20, 1893, Antopol, Belarus; d. December 14, 1970, Bellerose Manor, Queens Co., NYC, NY.

4. HAIM LEIB³ SHEDROVITSKY (ITSCHAK² SHEDROWITSKY, AARON SCHLOMO¹) was born in Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus), and died Abt. 1905 in Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus). He married MEITA LIBBY/MINNIE STERN in Ontopol, Russia (Now Belarus), daughter of MR. STERN.

Notes for HAIM LEIB SHEDROVITSKY:
Haim died from an infection six months after his wife died.

More About HAIM LEIB SHEDROVITSKY:
Cause of Death: An abcessed tooth
Religion: Jewish

Notes for MEITA LIBBY/MINNIE STERN:
Her name was Stern or Morganstern, according to Gertrude, who never was clear on this,according to Lois. It appears as Minnie Stern on Hyman and Gertrude's wedding application.

More About MEITA LIBBY/MINNIE STERN:
Cause of Death: Unknown, according to Lois.
Fact 1: Her last name may be Morganstern
Fact 2: Minnie may not have been her first name
Fact 3: She was probably from Brest Litovsk
Religion: Jewish

Children of HAIM SHEDROVITSKY and MEITA STERN are:

13.	i.		GERTRUDE⁴ SHEDROW, b. October 15, 1897, Antopol, Belarus; d. August 16, 1994, New York, NY (Jewish Home for Aged, w. 106th st).
	ii.		SHANA RACHEL/JULIA SHEDROW, b. 1900, Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus); d. 1989, New York, NY, Jewish Home for the Aged, w.106th st.; m. ABRAHAM LIFSHITZ.

Notes for SHANA RACHEL/JULIA SHEDROW:
Julia's mother died when she was 5 years old.
Julia married in the US and had no children. She lived in the Bronx for many years. When she was an older widow, the neighborhood up there had changed.... so my parents and Uncle Marvin found her a rental apt. on 20th st. in Styvesant town, where she moved when Rachel Avigad was a child. Lois and Julia were very close. She bought Lois a typewriter and introduced my mother to fine clothes, linens, and other things as a teen. I remember how during her last years, Aunty Julia would always say fervently, God Bless America! Julia and her sister Gertrude would talk on the phone every day, until or maybe even after Julia went to the Old Age Home. (She had fallen in the kitchen.) They lived in the home for years but didn't know that they were there together, on separate floors. Lois and Marvin told them but they did not recognize each other as old women and did not want to believe that each had aged or become old to 'look like THAT", it seems.
Julia's husband slapped her face in front of Hyman Schwartz, in their house on 251st st. in Bellerose. Hyman got angry and warned him never to do that again in his house. Apparently he never did. My mother never liked Abe. No wonder.... When I was pregnant and Dan and I were pondering what to name the shmoo, I suggested Abraham, because it sounded nice, but my parents shot it down immediately. I had not known, of course, and had forgotten that Abe was Julia's husband's name. So we dropped it from our mental name list easily. Jonah is a nicer name anyway!!!
Julia spoke Russian, Yiddish, German, and English fluently.
Julia belonged to the Millinary Union for 19 years, and was one year from being eligible for her pension from them. But Abe died and his Union, Amalgamated Clothing, promised Julia a bigger pension if she belonged to it instead. Julia joined Amalgamated in 1957 and stayed there for about 20 years, working her way up from the bottom again. According to Lois, she had to fight to get that small pension.... Since Julia worked for many years, she was more than eligible for her own SS# and was able to collect her own social security.

More About SHANA RACHEL/JULIA SHEDROW:
Religion: Jewish

Notes for ABRAHAM LIFSHITZ:
Abe was a union man.

He worked for the Amalgamated Clothing Union in NY. He was an excellent cutter, and had quite a talent for the detail-work and precision it required. He cut cloth for suits, among other things. Cutting was a high-paying job.

More About ABRAHAM LIFSHITZ:
Cause of Death: Hodgkin's Disease
Medical Information: This is some kind of skin cancer, Lois thinks.
Profession: Clothing Cutter
Religion: Jewish

14.	iii.		YELENA SHEDROW, b. Russia (Belarus); d. Russia (Belarus), probably.
15.	iv.		AARON SCHLOMO SHEDROW, b. Europe; d. USA.

5. AARON SCHLOMO³ SHEDROWITSKY (ITSCHAK², AARON SCHLOMO¹) was born in Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus), and died in Europe. He married REITZE GONIONSKY.

More About AARON SCHLOMO SHEDROWITSKY:
Religion: Jewish

Children of AARON SHEDROWITSKY and REITZE GONIONSKY are:

16.	i.		YENTKEH⁴ SHEDROWITSKY, b. December 03, 1901, Russia; d. November 1983, Bronx, NY, USA.
	ii.		NATHAN SHEDROWITSKY, d. NY, USA.

Notes for NATHAN SHEDROWITSKY:
Nathan did not marry or have children.
Before and after his military service in WWII, he worked for the Brighton Laundry in NY. Before going off to fight, he took Lois for a Coke. In WWII, he went up the boot of Italy and fought against Rommel in North Africa. At some point afterwards, he came to Edna to pick up her laundry on day and she gave him tea and cake. He went back to his truck and had a fatal heart attack there. Louis in Canada has a picture of Nathan that he showed Gad and Lois in August 1998.
Lois recalls Nathan very positively, as well as goodnatured, short, chubby and shy. She cannot imagine him doing what he surely had to do in battle.

More About NATHAN SHEDROWITSKY:
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Military service: USA
Religion: Jewish

iii.

SAL SHEDROWITSKY, b. Russia.

Notes for SAL SHEDROWITSKY:
Sal is a shadowy figure in the family. When my mother Lois asked Louis Drabin about Sal, Louis had never heard of the man, his Uncle. According to Lois, Sal and Hyman Schwartz, his first cousin, were good friends. When Lois, as a four-year-old, was trying to label family pictures, she came across Sal. She still has the picture of him that she labelled. He looked virtually identical to Nathan in pictures. Gertrude and Hyman told Lois during her childhood that Sal went to South America. Lois never met him. She does not know if the South America 'tale' is true, or if Sal ever married or had children.

More About SAL SHEDROWITSKY:
Religion: Jewish

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iv.

LISE SHEDROWITSKY, b. Russia; d. USA.

6. MALKEH³ SHEDROVITSKY (ITSCHAK² SHEDROWITSKY, AARON SCHLOMO¹) was born in Antopol, Russia (Now Belarus), and died Abt. 1949 in USA. She married ABRAHAM WISHNOWITZ.

Notes for MALKEH SHEDROVITSKY:
Known by Lois as Tante Molly. She had already come to the US by the time Marvin Schwartz was born in 1941. She died of stomach cancer at the old Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.

More About MALKEH SHEDROVITSKY:
Religion: Jewish

Notes for ABRAHAM WISHNOWITZ:
He changed his name to Wishnow in the US. Lois says that he was probably from Bialystok, where his children were born.

More About ABRAHAM WISHNOWITZ:
Religion: Jewish

Children of MALKEH SHEDROVITSKY and ABRAHAM WISHNOWITZ are:

18.	i.	WILLIAM⁴ WISHNOW, b. Abt. 1902, Bialystok, Poland; d. 1996, Somerville, NJ.
19.	ii.	SAMUEL WISHNOW, b. May 15, 1895, Bialystok, Poland; d. November 1969, Somerville, NJ.
20.	iii.	HYMAN L. WISHNOW, b. March 15, 1903, Bialystok, Poland; d. August 1983, Flushing, NY.

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