Places

Ancestral Map

The towns and streets in the family record on a street map. Pick an area, or tap a marker for what happened there.

Świrz (Svirzh) Home of the Balds and the Ochs family; Isaac, Tillie and Isidore were born here.
Rzeszów Bella’s birthplace on Isidore’s papers.
Wólka Podleśna Kalman and Dwojra Wank’s village, 1912–1925 (“Wulka”).
Stobierna Home of Dwojra’s cousin Samuel Weinstein in 1925.
Pogwizdów (near Rzeszów) Sara Wank’s birthplace (which Pogwizdów is not settled).
Sokołów Małopolski Dwojra Weinstein’s birthplace; the Weinsteins and Schlangers.
Maków Mazowiecki The Szymkowicz, Rakower and Kerszenbaum families.
Bazar Szymek the shoemaker’s village; Eva’s birthplace.
Goworowo Likely home of the Schrons before Warsaw (the Govorow society).
Warsaw Birthplace of Max, Abe, Benjamin, Beatrice and Joseph Schron; Franciszkańska Street, home of the relative left behind in 1907 and 1910; Frieda sailed from here in 1910.
Medynia Głogowska Samuel Hersch Weinstein, merchant, in 1901.
Worms Szymek Szymkowicz in 1920.
Rivington Street, Lower East Side The Balds at 247 and 260, the Wanks at 242 and 272, in the early 1920s.
432 East Houston Street The Bald Drygoods Store, 1936–1950.
702 East 5th Street Bald Dry Goods, Isidore’s employer on his 1942 draft card.
Broome Street, Lower East Side The Schrons at no. 127 (1912–1925) and 130; Szymek at 171 in 1927.
Attorney Street, Lower East Side Morris’s address in 1904 and 1907 (“80½ Attorney St”); Frieda died at no. 32 in 1944.
Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth Isaac and Tillie Bald (Mestretyn), Kalman Wank (Dunajewer), Morris and Frieda Schron (Govorow).
Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale The Makowa of Poland plot: Benjamin, Eva and Murray Schron, Tauba Szymkowicz, Freda Galin. Szymek was buried at Mt. Lebanon in 1927.
Beth David Cemetery, Elmont Zisel (Sylvia) Bick; Sophie Shron, Abe’s wife.
Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem Max (Meir Chaim) Bald.