Kartuz - Breze

Yizkor Book (1993)

Names of those who died from the Kartuz-Breze Ghetto ( p. 213 -235)

Compiled and Translated by Ellen Sadove Renck - Yizkor Transliterator, Jay Lenefsky & Steve Morse

Here is a list of people derived from the Kartuz Breze Yizkor Book. The list consists of about 2200 people out of 4500. Click on the Hebrew letter below for surnames beginning with that letter. If you click on a letter and nothing happens then that means that there is no surname beginning with that letter. Users should be advised that:

• Spelling is arbitrary -- transliterated from the Hebrew based on what "looked right," so different spellings of a sought surname should be tried based on soundex-interchangable letters and letter combinations. For example, "p" for "f" , "oh" "eh" "for "a" , "v" for "b" any vowel for any vowel , etc. Names beginning with aleph in Hebrew can begin with any vowel in English transliteration.

Other options:

For those interested in Surnames starting with the sounds: Ah, Eh, Oh, B', G', D', H'

For those interested in Surnames starting with the sounds: V', Z', CH', T', Y' & CH' / C

For those interested in Surnames starting with the sounds: L', M', N', S'

For those interested in Surnames starting with the sounds: P ' / F ', TZ'

For those interested in Surnames starting with the sounds: K'

For those interested in Surnames starting with the sounds: R', SH'
 
 
 
 
 

From the Kartuz Breze book. A preface to the above list:
 
 

Yizkor

About 4500 Jews lived in Kartuz Breze and it's surroundings on the eve of the second world war. Just about all of them died in the holocaust.

We brought here the details of about 2500 men,women and children, residents of our town. In most cases the peoples full name, where they lived in the town and even family relations were noted. In many cases we brought only the family relation because even though the editors made a collective effort as well as the rest of the former residents of Kartuz Breze, we weren't able to remembers their names.

The list of survivors and the list of those who fell fighting are noted further on bringing a total of about 100 names. Thus we are missing alot of more names altogether from the "Yizkor" list.

The editors and the former residents of Kartuz Breze who are alive today, made every effort to find out the missing names. To our great dismay we weren't able to add more names to the list. It has to be remembered that after 50 and sometimes more years, it isn't possible to remember each and every name. Just so, is it with the pictures that appear in this book. We weren't in many cases able to identify the people. Even though they were in front of us.....

Thus about 2500 names alone are listed in the following lists. But we morn over 4500 of our brothers, sisiters, parents, relatives, neighbors and just simple jews who were annihilated from this world, just because they were jews. May our Lord remember them for the better along with the other righteous of the world, and take revenge on the spilled blood of your servents!

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