This document that was produced by combining two source lists.

1) A letter to the PRUZANER BRANCH #244 OF THE WORKMAN'S CIRCLE by Holocaust survivors from the Pruzany district who were at the time in FELDOFFING, GERMANY.

2) A booklet printed in Argentina (in Yiddish) shortly after WWII.  This booklet contains personal testimonies and a list of survivors from the Pruzany district. The list of names presented here is a merge of both lists.  Double asterisks following the names denote that both lists contain the names.

Introduction

When WWII ended, the process of Pruzaner's re-location was begun.  At that time most of the survivors were in Germany, some still in refugee camps, while others had migrated towards the West (France, US, Belgium and Sweden) and others towards the East (Russia).  Some returned to their original shtetls and others went to Palestine (now Israel).  The Relief and Benevolent Societies, particularly in the US and Argentina, were mobilized to assist wherever possible.  Also Pruzaner survivors sent letters requesting that they be rescued and/or helped.

The mobilization had its effect.  Many Pruzaners were taken from refugee camps and sent to more pleasant  and comfortable places to live in other countries.  Many that were sick (several with tuberculosis) were admitted to hospitals for their health care.  Families were rejoined.  For many years thereafter help in the form of food, clothing and financial support was provided to the needy.

The documentation of this process was researched by Herbert J. Maletz and by individual volunteers.  This included a list of survivors that indicated their shtetl of origin, and a letter of survivors that still were in a refugee camp in Feldofing, Germany.  We found that the information in the sources was complementary (sometimes redundant) and data was merged without loss of the origination (in this process duplicate names in each source are marked by asterisks which may at times prove not to be correct).  There are 400 survivors on the combined lists which are can be seen via the link below.

It is to be understood that having a family name was a recent phenomenon for Jews; in earlier times they identified themselves by adding their profession, or their nickname, or their relationship to another (for example, son of, mother of, father of).  Some of the survivors that returned to Pruzhany and Bereza have been highlighted in bold letters because they escaped again due to the pogroms perpetrated upon them by Russia.

Letter sent in 1945 to the Pruzany Branch #244, Workman's Circle (Arbeiters Ring)

Committee For 923 Jewish Survivors From Pruzany, Poland, Who Live In Feldofing Germany Are Appealing To The Pruzaner Branch #244 Workman’s Circle.

  The office of the Jewish Workers' committee yesterday gave out some interesting information to the effect that the surviving Jews in the camps in Germany have begun to organize themselves in "landsmanshafts" (brotherhood of neighbors from the old country) in America

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