This Photograph was sent to me by Dr. Melvyn Lopata of Skokie Illinois. It was takenin Zabludow circa, 1930. We are quite certain that we are related through my grandmother whose maiden name was Lopata. We haven't been able to determine the exact nature ofthe relationship, but I think it is likely that our respective great grandfathers where brothers.Melvyn's mother is the women in the center at the top of the photo, and Melvyn's father is bellow her. To his fathers left is his mother's brother Lieb who was a Rabbi of the Bresslover Hassidism. To his left is his wife, and on her lap is Rachel who now lives in Israel. She is the one who put me in contact with Melvyn. Four boys and one girl in the photograph are their children. This family immigrated to Israel in the 1930's and thus avoided the holocaust. To his fathers right is his sister Hye and her husband Zeidle. The boy on the top right row is their son Palter.He is the only one of this family to survive the holocaust. He survived being hid by a Polish farmer and his family. To Palter's left is his sister Masha who later married Moishe Abramitsky. He served in the free Polish army during the war and was stationed in Palestine. When he returned to Poland to find his wife had been murdered in the holocaust, he married Melvyn's cousin Rachel.
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