Source update · 28 October 2026
A biographical source for Rabbi Bick
A 1991 appreciation adds attributed education, career and death information to the existing profile, without adding ancestry or re-proving the marriage.
Goworowo historical research
New source-linked notes on two Shron households and a marriage connection in the memorial book. Their relationship to the American Schron family remains unproved. Read the separate research notes.
The Bald–Schron Family
A family history in records, stones and memory
Świrz · Rzeszów · Wólka Podleśna · Sokołów · Maków · Goworowo · Warsaw · the Lower East Side
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Two family lines, one family
The Bald–Schron Family
From Świrz and the villages around Rzeszów, from Warsaw, Goworowo and Maków, to the Lower East Side of New York.
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- generations back from the three sisters
Picture: the SS Niagara passenger list, September 1920, with Tillie Bald and her four children. — FamilySearch / NARA
The family story
This is the family of three sisters, the daughters of Seymour Bald and Dorothy Schron. On their father’s side the Balds and the Ochs family came from Świrz in eastern Galicia, and the Wanks and Weinsteins from Wólka Podleśna and Sokołów near Rzeszów. On their mother’s side the Schrons came from Warsaw and, likely, Goworowo, and the Szymkowicz, Rakower and Kerszenbaum families from Maków and the village of Bazar.
Between 1904 and 1925 they crossed to New York, where the two lines met again on the Lower East Side: Isidore Bald married Bella Wank, the girl from down the block on Rivington Street, in 1926, and Benjamin Schron married Eva Szymkowicz of Bazar. Their landsmanshaft plots at Mount Zion and Mount Lebanon still hold them together.
The ladder
Read upward from the three sisters. In the generation of great-great-grandparents the names come from the parents’ own records. Feiwel and Malke Schlanger are named in Dora Weinstein’s 1878 birth entry (Likely); Jakob and Pesla Weinstein are Possible. In the top row, Szapse and Taube Oks of Świrz are possibly Tillie’s great-grandparents (the names match; the link is not proven), and Josek is possibly the father of Tauba Kerszenbaum. Labels are shown where a link is less than Confirmed. Tap a name for the person’s card.
The family lines
Isidore & Bella
Świrz · Rzeszów · Rivington Street · East Houston Street Read the family → Part 3 · The Bald great-grandparentsIsaac (Yitzchak Eizik) & Tillie (Toba Miriam) of Świrz
Świrz · Rivington Street · Mount Zion Read the family → Part 4 · Tillie’s family of ŚwirzThe Ochs family
Świrz · New York Read the family → Part 5 · The tailor from Wólka PodleśnaKalman bar Reuven Wank & Dwojra Weinstein
Wólka Podleśna · Rzeszów · Rivington Street Read the family → Part 6 · Two more generations, marked LikelyWeinsteins & Schlangers of Sokołów
Sokołów Małopolski · Stobierna Read the family → Part 7 · From Warsaw and Bazar to ManhattanBenjamin & Eva Schron
Warsaw · Bazar · Maków · Manhattan Read the family → Part 8 · The Schron great-grandparentsMorris the tailor & Frieda
Warsaw · Goworowo · Manhattan · Mount Zion Read the family → Part 9 · The Szymkowicz great-grandparentsSzymek the shoemaker of Bazar & Tauba Ryfka
Bazar · Maków · Worms · New York Read the family → Part 10 · Back to the 1830sThe Rakowers & Kerszenbaums of Maków
Maków Mazowiecki · Warsaw Read the family → Part 11 · Where the Schrons came fromGoworowo roots
Goworowo · Warsaw Read the family → Part 12 · Mount Zion, Mount Lebanon, Beth David and Har HaMenuchotResting Places
Queens · Elmont · Jerusalem Read the family →Where they came from
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Latest
What’s new
- 27 Oct 2026 · Mendel Szron and Chana Szylc (married 1846): three of their children very probably married at Ostrów Mazowiecka, Sora (1873), Abram Szmul (1879) and Chaja Eta (1883); the family moved from Goworowo to Ostrów about 1860. Likely
- 27 Oct 2026 · 24 new people. Abe Shron’s children Louis, Maurice (Moshe Mendel) and Ritta, with Louis’s wife Bertha and Maurice’s wife Rose, two Finkelstein sisters; Maurice’s stone gives Abe’s Hebrew name, Shmuel Abba. Confirmed
- 27 Oct 2026 · Lena Schron’s husband Barnett Wolkis and their five children: Anne, Milton, Jeanette, Herbert and Richard. Barnett’s birth year is uncertain; the records disagree. Likely
- 27 Oct 2026 · Fannie Schron’s husband Sigmund Okin and their children: Harold O’Kin, who died in 1917 aged about 4, David, Martin, Murray and Beatrice. Fannie and Sigmund’s graves at Montefiore. Confirmed
- 27 Oct 2026 · Hyman Rakower’s children as their own people: Fay, Louis (died 1935, aged 17), Joseph, Abraham, Molly and Anna. And Isaac Bick, son of Sylvia (Zisel) Bald and Rabbi Moshe Bick. Confirmed
- 27 Oct 2026 · New facts: Lena’s 1954 naturalization (born 27 May 1891, Warsaw), Freda Galin’s birth narrowed to 15 Aug 1907, Isidore Bald’s Hebrew name R’ Yisroel Boruch, and the 1937 marriages of Max Shron’s children Louis and Doris. Likely
- 26 Oct 2026 · Twenty-one Schron family records are now in the gallery: Morris’s 1920 household, Benjamin’s 1942 draft card, Eva’s 1936 naturalization (born 15 Jan 1903 in Maków; came in 1920 on the Nieuw Amsterdam as Chawa Szymkowicz; her witness was Joseph Schron), Benjamin and Eva’s 1923 marriage certificate, Clara’s 1921 marriage and Tauba’s 1937 death certificate, with Abe, Sophie and Max Shron’s papers marked Likely. Confirmed
- 26 Oct 2026 · Frieda’s death certificate, read in full, names her parents Mendel Chenick and Deborah. Confirmed
- 26 Oct 2026 · Changed: Abraham Shron is now only possibly Morris’s brother (it was Likely). His death record names his father Joseph, Morris’s names Julius. His widow Sarah Breine Shron’s 1944 death certificate is in the gallery. Possible
- 26 Oct 2026 · The 1846 and 1851 Szron marriages of Goworowo are now read in the original pages and shown. They go back to a Julek, born about 1760–1790, possibly an ancestor of Morris; nothing proves it. Possible
- 26 Oct 2026 · New: Sara Weinstein, born 1902 at Sokołów, likely Dora’s half-sister (her father Boruch’s second marriage). Dora’s mother Chane Chaje had likely died by December 1894. Likely
- 26 Oct 2026 · Five original certificates are now in the gallery: Isidore Bald and Bella Wank’s 1926 marriage (it names Bella’s mother as Dora Weinstein and Isidore’s as Taybe M. Ochs; Rabbi Michel Leiter married them), Isaac Bald’s 1939 death certificate, Elkunah Ochs’s 1920 death certificate, Sarah Wank’s 1930 marriage to Samuel Fisch, and Harry Bald’s 1933 marriage to Celia Wietschner. The medical sections of the death certificates are blanked out. Confirmed
- 26 Oct 2026 · Tillie’s parents Shapse Ochs and Frieda Schleider are now confirmed, from her brother Elkunah’s original death certificate. Isaac’s parents Pincus and Sylvia Bald are confirmed from his. Confirmed
- 26 Oct 2026 · “Mestretyn”, the society plot of Isaac and Tillie, means “of Stretyn”: the Stretyn society. The gate of Kalman Wank’s Dunajewer society at Mount Zion is in the gallery. Confirmed
- 26 Oct 2026 · Harry Bald likely died in April 1986 in Brooklyn (Social Security index, born 10 Jan 1907). Likely
- 26 Oct 2026 · The Goworowo society’s gate at Mount Zion possibly names Morris, “Chaim Moshe b. Yoel, Ex-Pres”, and Frieda, “Frayda Ester b. Menachem”. If so, Morris’s father’s Hebrew name was possibly Yoel and Morris was possibly a past president of the society. The gate carries no surnames. Two gate photos are in the gallery. Possible
- 26 Oct 2026 · Corrected: Max Shron’s son Louis died in 1993 and his daughter Doris (Dora, later Cohen) in 1991, by the Social Security index. They were shown as living before. Likely
From the records
Highlights
- Isidore Bald: Born in Świrz, eastern Galicia. His 1942 petition gives 16 Jul 1903; his 1936 declaration and 1940 draft card give 16 Jul 1905; the Social Security index says 14 Aug 1903. The papers disagree and all are shown. Confirmed
- Bella Wank: Arrived in New York on 18 Sep 1923 on the SS Mount Clinton from Hamburg: “Beila Wang”, 20, housemaid, from Wulka, going to her father Kalman Wank at 272 Rivington Street. Confirmed
- Isaac Bald: Born at Świrz: 10 Jun 1877 on his 1931 petition, 1 Mar 1877 on his 1920 declaration, “1878 Swierz” on his wife’s petition. Confirmed
- Max (Meir Chaim) Bald: His gravestone at Har HaMenuchot reads “Meir Chaim son of R’ Yitzchak Eizik Bald”, died 8 Shevat 5744 (12 Jan 1984). The father’s name makes him Isaac’s son. Confirmed
- Kalman Wank: Born 18 Mar 1876 (his petition), 10 Mar 1877 (his wife’s petition) or 5 Mar 1876; born at Wulka (Wólka), Galicia, by his 1912 passenger list. Confirmed
- Benjamin Schron: Born in Warsaw: 6 Mar 1896 on his 1918 petition, 15 Mar 1897 on his WWII draft card. Confirmed
- Morris Schron: A tailor, born about 1856–60; came to America in 1904. Confirmed
- Max Shron: Married Minnie Yavitz (Jawitz) in Manhattan on 13 Feb 1909. The certificate names his parents Morris Shron and “Frieda Kshinok Mandels”; the witnesses were Morris Shron and Harry Mandels. Confirmed
- Abe Shron: Married Soffia (Sophie) Jawitz on 20 Jan 1912 at Golden Star Hall, 81 Columbia Street, Manhattan: a tailor of 22, living at 127 Broome Street. The certificate names his parents “Mores Shron” and “Freida Mendel”. Confirmed
- Szymek Szymkowicz: A shoemaker of Bazar, in the Maków district; father of Eva, as her gravestone (“daughter of Shimon”), her 1920 passenger list and her marriage show. Confirmed
- Malka Mindla Kerszenbaum: Named as Tauba’s mother (“Malka Kirshenbaum”) on Tauba’s 1937 death record. Confirmed
How to read this site
Every person and every claim carries a label. Confirmed: an original record was read and states it. Likely: two or more records agree, or an exact index entry supports it. Possible: one weak record, or the link fits by name, place and date but is not yet proven. Online family trees were used as leads only.
A living record
Everything here comes from the original records named on the Sources page; new finds will be added as they are read. Living and possibly living members of the family appear by name and relation only.