My families from the East
​Family genealogy
Title 2
The Raabe
C'est encore, un concours heureux de circonstances qui m'a permis de trouver une réponse à ce qui était un mystère:
Pourquoi Grand-Père a -t-il quitté Varsovie sous le nom de Raabe?
J'avais établi par la recherche d'état civil que le grand-père de mon grand-père, Yehuda Leizerson né vers 1825, avait épousé Myriem Raabe et qu'ils étaient les parents de Szlama/Salomon Leizerson ou Lejzersohn.
En allant à Varsovie, nous avions pris contact, mes niéces, Sarah et Lola, et moi avec l'un des généalogistes de l'Institut de Généalogie juive de Varsovie, situé dans le Musée Ringuelblum.
Il se trouve que sa propre recherche familiale avait croisé des Raabe et des Leizerson. Il nous a mis sur la voie des frères de notre arrière grand-père Szlama Leizerson
Il nous a confirmé que l'instauration des états civils d'état datait des années 1820, mais de nombreuses familles juives continuaient leur recensement communautaire et remettait à plus tard les démarches auprès de l'Etat-civil polonais. Vraisemblablement ce fut le cas pour eux, le mariage religieux suffisait. Sans être marié civilement, la loi stipulait que la mère donnait son nom à l'enfant.
Les deux premiers enfants du couple eurent droit au patronyme Raabe/Rabe.
1-Hersch Ber est né en 1841 et décédé en 1907 à Varsovie'.
2-Gershon Meir est né en 1843 et mort en 1912 à Varsovie.
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Quand mon grand-père a voulu quitter Varsovie en 1911, il a dû prendre l'identité d'un de ses cousins Raabe. Pour quelles raisons?
Cela reste encore un mystère!
Des 3 frères, son père, Szlama, fut le premier à décèder en 1904. Il n'avait que 56 ans et son fils Herschen 26 ans.​
The family of Hersch-Ber Raabe
If my mother hadn't told us that her father had left Warsaw under the name Raabe,
We could have missed out on this branch of the family!
Hersch-Ber, born in Warsaw in 1841, married Rebeka-Maria Janover (1841-1891) around 1859. He was registered at the civil registry (see JRI Poland) in 1859 by his grandmother, Szocia Raabe, aged 62, and by a father (his grandfather) who had died just before his marriage.
They had 5 children:
* Moszek-Mauricy Raabe born in (1860-1929 in Vienna);
Moszek-Mauricy was chairman of the board of directors of the Mutuelle des commerçants and a shareholder in the family company, Etablissement Industriel HBRaabe.
He married Zofia From and they apparently had 5 children:
° Léonia (1885-1971)
° Rebeka-Marja (1892-1966)
Edward (1895-1971). He was also a shareholder in his father's company.
° Irena (?-?)
° Jadwiga (?-?)
* Bernard Raabe (1864- October 8, 1939 and buried in the Parafi Ewangelicko Reformowane cemetery in Warsaw).
He was also a shareholder in the company Etablissement Industriel HBRaabe.
He married Cecylia Wulff (1865-1938, buried in the same cemetery as her husband); they are therefore buried in the cemetery of the Evangelical Reformed Parish of Warsaw. His wife and daughter Maria Wanda are also buried there.
Apparently the family had converted to the evangelical rite.
They had 3 children:
Maria Wanda (1894 in Warsaw – 1974 in the same cemetery as her parents). Mia thus survived the war in Poland. She married twice: first to Roman Witols Rejs, with whom she had a son, Witold Zbigniew Rejs; this son-in-law of Bernard was also a shareholder in the Raabe family company. Her second husband was Henry Konarek, with whom Maria-Wanda also had a child, Stefan Henryk Konarek.
° Tadeuz-Jan (1896 in Lublin-1975 in Warsaw). It would appear that Tadeuz was also a shareholder in the company founded by his grandfather.
Janina (1905 in Lublin-1966 in Warsaw). Her married name was Wasowiczowa.
* Jacob-Meyer Raabe ( 1869-1938 in Méré, Seine et Oise, near Paris).
In 1911, when Grandfather, already in Paris, wrote to Grandmother to inform her of the progress of their move, he referred to a cousin "Gutmeier" with whom he had lunch: this could well be Jacob-Meyer.
His story is included in his naturalization file submitted in 1926. He was naturalized on May 22, 1929.
Jacob-Meyer was born into a family with some property, a well-to-do family. He was a co-owner of a building on Dzielna Street in Warsaw, a shareholder in an industrial company, and owned a tannery. In France, he lived a life of leisure.
He first came to France in 1910 and stayed until June 1914.
He wrote that he had taken courses at the Museum.
He returned to see his family in Warsaw, but war broke out a few months later, preventing him from going back to Paris. Before leaving, he had rented an apartment on a nine-year lease at 2 Square Delambre in the 14th arrondissement. From Warsaw, he paid the rent throughout the war.
When Warsaw was occupied by the Germans, he took the initiative to transfer his tannery and its 65 employees to Moscow. He wrote that he was in Moscow during the Russian Revolution. What seems strange to me is that he makes no reference to a marriage before 1919; he was 50 years old then!
In January 1919, he married Lycia Rachel Rappoport (born in 1892) in Moscow.
His wife was 23 years younger than him.
Their son Constantin-Salomon was born in December 1919 in Riga where his mother had joined her family to give birth.
After repatriating his business to Warsaw, he returned with his family to Paris in 1921, to an apartment on Square Delambre. The couple had a daughter, Maria, born on November 20, 1921.
He bought a small house in Méré in Seine-et-Oise where he lived until his death in 1938 (he was 69 years old). It seems they had another daughter named Jeanne-Germaine.
During the war, his wife and children were investigated, and the information was added to the file for consideration of "denaturalization".
We learn that Constantin was a chemistry student. He must have been involved in resistance activities because he was decorated after the war. At the time, he lived in Montfort Lamaury. He died in 2012 in Jouars-Pontchartrain.
His sister Marie worked in 1942-43 as a bibliographer at the Faculty of Sciences in the department of Dr. Débat. She died in 2015 in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
We had no knowledge of their existence.
* Vincente Raabe (1871-1927 in Moscow). His marriage to whom is unknown. However, he had a son, Antoni (1915 in Warsaw-1942 in Auschwitz).
* Dawid Raabe (1872-1889)
* Rosa was born in 1874. According to Jacob-Meyer, she was living in Nice in 1926.
*Gastawa born in 1881. According to Jacob-Meyer, she lived at 143 Bd Raspail in 1926.
All this information was gathered either from Jewish-Gen, or from myHeritage and from Jacob's naturalization file provided by the National Archives.
The family of Gershon-Meir Raabe
I found his record on My Heritage and Genie, and his first marriage date in 1864.
He was born in 1843 and therefore married in 1864 to Szyfra Robak, born in 1844. She died in 1875.
They had 3 registered children together:
Shoshana Raabe ( ?-1937)
° Chaya-Dwora Raabe: no information, presumably disappeared in the Holocaust.
° Schmuel-Eliezer Raabe .(?-?) married Golda-Etla Zindeband. They had nearly ten children including
*Chana-Szyfra Raabe (1885-1942) married Meir Roland; they had 3 children:
+ Yitzack Roland (1911-1944); he married Gitel and had Lifa (1940-1944),
+ Gershon Roland (1913-1942) married Mira Lipski, had a daughter Zofia (1938) who lives in Bat Yamn, Israel. She married Amir Tuler (deceased in Israel): two children. Anat Tuler married an unknown Harari (1960 in Holon), 3 children living in Israel (Miri, Naama and Yitzack). Mickael Tuler (1962) married Emmy, they have 3 children (Stav, Yonatan and ?).
+ Henia Roland (1916-1944).
* Chaim Raabe (1890-1961 à Tel Aviv), épousa Fiega; ils eurent 3 enfants:
- Schlomo Raabe père de Eli Raabe
- Itzack Raabe
​​- Sarah Raabe épousa Desconocido Newman; ils eurent 2 enfants, Shimon et Tzipora (ils vivent en Israel)
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* Justine Raabe (1890- 1942) épousa Jacob Fastag, Ils eurent 5 enfants:
- Eva Fastag-Raabe (1917- 2021 près de Haifa);
- Sara Fastag (1920- ?) a vécu en Belgique à Bruxelles;
- David Fastag (1923-1942);
- Gershon Fastag (1926-1942);
- Isaac-Abraham Fastag (1928-1942)
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* David Raabe,(1893-1972, à New-York) . il épousa Fanny: une fille Goldie Raabe mariée ? Nemeth (une fille Elaine Nemeth devenue épouse Gross) Ils vivent à New-York.
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* Maria Raabe-Zindeband (1898-1934 à Valparaiso au Chili) épousa Adolfo Lewitt : 2 enfants:
- Une fille morte en Pologne avant leur départ pour le Chili
- Genoch Lewitt (1932 à Santiago-2023 à Eilat en Israel);
il épousa Anna Slavik : il a eu 2 enfants
+ Abraham Lewitt (1954 à Santiago du Chili) vit à Alicante en Espagne
+ Itzack Lewitt (1957 à Santiago) vit à Jérusalem.
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* Chava Raabe (1900-1944) épousa un Guelblum.
After his death, Gershon Meir remarried Rikel Mriede.
They had 3 registered children:
° Osnat/Anna (1878-1944). She was the wife of Yitzack Feferberg. They had 4 children:
* Benjamin Feferberg (1899-1968 in Israel), he had a son, Moshe.
* Ester Feferberg married Kohn (1900-1943/44): one daughter, Rajzel (1927-1944),
* Chayia Feferberg (1903-1974 in Russia), no information
*Sarah Feferberg (1905-1944),
* Rivka Feferberg (1908-1989 in Israel) married Abrahamer and
* Bracha Feferberg (1911-2005) married Gershon Silberberg (I think the connection with Noam Silberberg, whom I met at the Institute of Jewish Genealogy in Warsaw, is at this point). They had 3 children: David-Zil Silberberg (1941 in Ramat Gan - 1967 Six-Day War, Holon), Ruth Silberberg and Yaron Silberberg (after 1916-?) father of Noam.
Josef Raabe (1880-1944) was married to Zeda Schwartz and they had 3 children: Chana Raabe (1912-1944); Szlomo Raabe (1907-1944); Dwora Raabe (?-1944)
° Chaskiel Raabe , no information, presumably disappeared in the Holocaust.
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