My families from the East
​Family genealogy
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My families came from the East
Why this website?
My paternal families Czalczynski and Landschaft
My maternal families Leizerson and Kronental
A bit of history
For my families, the wind had blown from East to West!
Like many children born in the post-WWII period, into a Jewish family of which
the majority of its members were no longer with us,
I didn't know much about their history, their legacy, also there were almost no photos.
We had to search!
I found traces of them as early as the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in this Russified Poland, which I had to familiarize myself with.
Two parents, two stories
Some of them - on my mother's side - came from Warsaw, before the First World War.
The others - on my father's side - lived in southern Poland, in the Kielce district.
Having lost all his close family in the Holocaust, my father arrived in Paris in 1946 as a stateless person.
Here I am, a child of immigrants, first and second generation!