THE ROSEN FAMILY

December 16, 1909, Plonsk Poland

L TO R: Back: Toba German, Aron Rosen (Sender’s son by Laja), probably Sura Frajdla Rosen (Sender’s daughter by Laja. She married Fiskel Jagoda on Dec 5, 1912. Fiskel was killed in Auschwitz. )

Sitting: probably Shaindla Rifka Rosen (Sender’s daughter by Laja. Born March 12, 1898), Sender Rosen, Sender’s wife (not Laja. Laja died in 1898), unknown boy ( he is the spitting image of Aron’s son Harry!)

This was Aaron and Toba’s wedding photo.

Because of the amazing memory of Grandma Lilly, I know more about the Rosen family than any other. We know that the Rosen Family lived in a small Shtetl named Gabin (or Gombin) in Poland.

In 1897, the entire family moved out of Gabin to nearby Plonsk. We do not know why they all left at once, but we know that many families left Gabin in that same year.

In 1912, Sura Rosen married Fiskel Jagoda. Fiskel was recorded as killed in Auschwitz but his wife was documented then as “Shaindla Rosen.” Could his Shaindla be his first wife’s sister? Sura died sometime before, but there is a female named Shindeli Rosen who died in Auschwitz from Plonsk but no other information is given. Fiskel and Shaindla’s son Moshek (born in 1920) also died in Auschwitz suggesting Sura died before 1920.

On September 5, 1939, the Nazis moved into Plonsk and by Sep 1940, a Jewish Ghetto was created. The Nazis renamed the town Ploehnen. Life in the Plonsk ghetto was extremely brutal with torture and mass executions being common. Yad Vashem records that Fiskel was a member of the communist party committee in the Plonsk ghetto. They record that Fiskel was previously a fighter in the “Dabrowski’s Brigade” in Spain in the Spanish Civil War, but I did not see his name on the roster.

In November of 1942, the ghetto was “liquidated” and all the inhabitants sent to Auschwitz. Grandma Lilly said that after World War 2, no member of the Rosen family in Poland was heard from again. I could not find any survivors on Yad Vashem .

These ancestor trees give an idea of who people were named after. Falys David and Esthera Dyna lived until 1912 and living people don’t get names.

I found Sender and his family living in Gabin Poland next to his parents, Falys David and Estera Dyna. The archives in Plonsk sent me the death certificates of Sender’s parents and they listed Sender’s GRANDPARENTS! Moshek, Fraidla,Lozer, and Shaindla were probably born around 1800 – 1810. In 1830 ish, there was a large contraction of the Pale of Settlement. There was a lot of family displacement, so records are hard to trace.