In 1882 a small group of Jewish refugees from Czarist Russia's pogroms emigrated to the United States and formed an agricultural community in south Jersey with the assistance of Alliance Universalle and philanthropist, Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Among these pioneers were my ancestors Solomon and Frima Salunsky. They produced two sons and five daughters who survived to start families. Myer started the SALUS branch. Joseph started the SALINS branch. Rebecca, Gussie, Anna, Lizzie, and Sarah started the COHEN/COLEN, SELTZER, VINIKOOR, HALPERT, and KRASSENSTEIN branches. This project is a work in progress. The data file is not complete nor probably can be, as new names are added continually. As you study the data, if you find there are errors or new facts you wish to include, please notify me via e-mail. Your responses and contributions to the information here will be courteously reviewed and incorporated as appropriate.
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- Seder, Passover 1941 (61 KB)
Just before World War II at the Passover seder. It would be a number of years before we all sat down together again. During the war we had a pennant with six stars hanging in the window indicating six servicemen in the family. We were fortunate that all six returned home after the war. Clockwise from Dad, Lilly, Joe, Charley, Jerry, Ephie, Gladys, Don, Calvin, Mark, Sid, Mom
- Khasid (252 KB)
Rabbi Krassenstein, spiritual leader of the Alliance Jewish Agricultural Community, 1882. His son Edward, called Ned, married Sarah Salunsky. She was born on the fourth of July and lived 104 years.
- Sarah Salunsky Krassenstein Reaches 100 years (89 KB)
This is an article in the local Atlantic City paper on the occasion of Sarah's 100th birthday July 4, 1984.
- Frima Salunsky (18 KB)
Ephraim's Great-Grandmother, Matriarch of the Family, abt 1905. She was 15 when she married in the old country. Lost two children before Rebecca was born; left in Pultusk with three little ones when Solomon went to U.S. in 1871. Solomon, homesick, returned to Pultusk; emigrated again in 1882 with Becky and Myer; Frima came to US in 1891.
- Bessie Messerman Salins age 45, 1947 (7 KB)
The first marriage of Sam Salins ended in divorce because the wife bore no children. My father's Aunt Annie was married to Mike Vinikoor. Mike had a niece of marriageble age in Russia, Bessie Messerman. An arrangement was made for them to meet. Pop was expecting a poor starving wraith to come off the boat. but Bess was healthy and beautiful. Love at first sight and ten children to quickly follow.
- Alliance Cemetery (180 KB)
This is the entrance to the cemetery in Alliance NJ with the inscription telling of the pioneers.
- I took my grandson, Charley Clark for a fun day. (174 KB)
Unfortunately, his expression doesn't show the exhilaration and joy of spending a day at the cemetery with his grandfather!
- Eph's Tomatoes (687 KB)
Seems like the Salins family is still tied to its agricultural roots. Our ancestors picked berries for the "Americans" to survive before they could clear the mosquito-infested swamp land to plant crops in the early years of the colony.
- Joseph Salunsky (271 KB)
My paternal grandfather. Looks like a senator, but he was a produce peddlar with horse and cart. Probably his wedding photo, but there is no picture of the bride! Neither does a photo exist of his father, who strictly followed the Biblical instruction: Make no graven images.
- Some Vinikoors (27 KB)
David, Sylvia, Martin, Mike, Anna, Gussie Seltzer
50 th wedding anniversary Jan or Feb 1957.
- Second Generation in America (636 KB)
Reunion in Parvin's Park, near Vineland NJ. Most of these are first cousins, Salunskys, Krassensteins, Vinikoors, Halperts, Colens, and Seltzers. No Saluses are represented here.
- Pioneer's Home (47 KB)
Elizabeth Colen's drawing from memory of her grandmother Frima's home in Alliance NJ. In this humble abode Solomon and Frima raised seven children. Each family had a shack and 14 acres and a $300 mortgage to pay off over ten years.
- The Village of Alliance, NJ (37 KB)
Elizabeth sketched the village and shows the location of the families. Can you find Solomon Salunsky's home site?
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