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Our Genealogy
Our Ancestors:
Click her to see bigger Photos of Hillel Naividel's children
Our great grandparents and great-great grandparents
Mary Ellis - Pesha Zapolsky - Shmuel Naividel
The Family Book
- View The Family Book
- or in MS Word for the Mac (WORD) * or the PC (WORD) *
The Families:
- Naividel Family including Newberg, Gittelson, Weisberg, Ellis, Zarnitsky, Abramson, Laden Families
- View the family descendant charts last updated in 2011 with links showing family connections
- Go to the updated family descendant chart updated in May 2002 (WORD)*
- Go to the updated family history files updated in May 2002
- Krelitz Family including the Gittelson, Weisberg, Ellis, Zarnitsky, Abramson Families
- View the family descendant charts last updated in 2011 with links showing family connections
- Go to the updated family descendant chart updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Go to the updated family history files updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Rosen / Rose / Rosin including the Zapolsky and Wenokur Families
- View the family descendant charts last updated in 2011 with links showing family connections
- Go to the updated family descendant chart updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Go to the updated family history files updated in May 2002
- Feinberg and Kizell Families
- View the family descendant charts last updated 2011 with links showing family connections
- Go to the updated family descendant chart updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Go to the updated family history files updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Craine Family
- View the family descendant charts last updated 2011 with links showing family connections
- Go to the updated family descendant chart updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Go to the updated family history files updated in May 2002 (WORD) *
- Family members can request the date file containing all the family geneology information. It can be read by all genealogy programs (worth using).
- Genealogical information compiled by Joel Alpert.
- Please contact joel.alpert@uwalumni.com
Our Shtetlach
Yurburg (town of Krelitz, Naividel, Gittleson, Rosin, Rose, Craine, Kizell, Feinberg, Ellis, Zapolsky, Zarnitsky, Abramson families)
In Happier Days (excerpts from the Yurburg Yizkor Book):
- Yurburg in Happy Days: Memoirs of Mordechai Zilber (with mention of our family)
- Old Photos of Yurburg and the Yurburg Shtetlinks Page
- The Shoah in Yurburg: (excerpts from the Yurburg Yizkor Book):
- Chana Magidovitz's testimony of the murders in Yurburg
- Destruction of the Town of Yurburg
- List of Yurburg Holocaust victims including Family members in BOLD
- Photos of the Yurburg Krelitz family in 1940 from Leah Krelitz's photo collection
- Bachelor's Thesis from the University of Vilna on the Murders in Yurburg
- Story of the Discovery of our Family Roots
- Yurburg Yizkor Book in Translation on this CD-
- The Yizkor book is the Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania, published in Hebrew in 1990 by the Organization of Former Residents of Yurburg. Our family generously supported its translation, which is now available to the world on the Internet and presented here for so that we may better understand the town where our forefathers lived.
- Yurburg Shtetlinks Page on this CD - This is a copy of the web page sponsored by JewishGen, Inc. It contains more currently collected information about Yurburg, available through the sharing of Yurburg descendants of their individual material.
- Sudarg (town of the Rosin and Hilelson families)
Raseain (town of Avraham Mordechai Krelitz)
Kibart (town of the Joseph Rosin family)
Kovno Gita Abramson Bereznitzky's Saga in the Kovno Ghetto
Other: List of Nazi SS officer of destruction of Lithuanian Jews
Our Visits to Our Shtetlach
- Photos from the Family Trip to Lithuania
- On May 8 - 17 2001, 11 members of our family made a historic trip back to Lithuania to visit the towns of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, almost exactly 100 years after they left. Many of us have expressed that this trip was a pivotal event in our lives. We sensed both the beauty of the countryside where our ancestors lived and felt close to the tragedy of the Shoah as we never could have imagined. Fortunately we had several digital camera carried by our group, so we can present many of our photos below.
- Nancy Lefkowitz's Photos
- Marc Schumann's Photos
- Leon Menzer's Photos
- Other photos of Yurburg courtesy of Gerald Rudmin in June 1998
2005 Opening of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Krelitz Family Displaty under the Memorial in the Family Fates Room of the Information Center
One of only 15 displays
See web site of visit of 15 family members who attended
2007 Yurburg Jewish Cemetery Restoration by Dartmouth College Students
See Web site with images from the restoration.
View the 1927 Yurburg Film by Ben Craine on the web
Go to this location
and this location
Our Reunions
- Presentations from previous Naividel Family Reunions in 1998 and 2000 (Uses MicroSoft Power Point)
- Family Trees
- Presentation from 1998 Reunion - Earlier Version of below (POWER POINT) *
- "Finding Our Roots and Ourselves" Family History-Part 1 (POWER POINT) *
- "Finding Our Roots and Ourselves" Family History-Part 2 (POWER POINT) *
- "Finding Our Roots and Ourselves" Family History-Part 3 (POWER POINT) *
- "Yurberik - Home of Our Ancestors (POWER POINT) *"
- Photos of Yurberik- Collection of Leah Krelitz-Sherman (POWER POINT) *
- Feinberg Family Presentation (POWER POINT) *
- Our Shtetl on the Iron Range (Home of the Range) (POWER POINT) *
- Ellis Family Presentation (POWER POINT) *
- Rosin Family Presention - Part 1 (POWER POINT) *
- Rosin Family Presention - Part 2 (POWER POINT) *
- Rosin Family Presention - Part 3 (POWER POINT) *
- Our Families' History on the Iron Range in Minnesota - based on the above presention at the 2000 Reunion
- Photos from the 1998 Reunion in Minneapolis
- Photos from the 2000 Reunion in Detroit
Photos from the 2002 Reunion in Milwaukee
Photos from the 2005 Reunion in Los Angeles
Photos from the 2008 Reunion in Montreal