Potersman family
All the information written below is based on a personal research which took place in the last few years.
The information sources for this research are: documents from the inheritance of Zvi Potersman (the only survivor of his family), testimonies of the daughters of Zvi Potersman, testimony of Sara Wimisbarg (the only relative who survived), documents and data from various archives both inside and outside Israel.
All the information written below about Potersman family is dedicated to the memorial of Zvi and Sara Potersman, and to the memorial of all the people from Potersman and Wegwajzer families who were killed in the Holocaust, for Sara Wimisbarg (Itzcoviz) and to the memorial of all her relatives who were killed in the Holocaust.
In the name of all the descendants of Sara and Zvi Potersman:
The daughters: Rivka and Haim Hasid, Nomi and Meir Pesternek, Shlomit and Mashiah Yaakovi.
The grandchildren: Adi Hasid, Ronit (Pesternek) and Amnon Cohen, Boaz and Pascal Pesternek, Hagit (Hasid) and Leni Kervel, Tamir and Maya Pesternek, Ido and Orit Yaakovi, Shira Yaakovi, Yonatan Yaakovi, Moria Yaakovi.
The great grandchildren: Rotem, Nitzan, Gal, Noga, Liav, Gal, Carmel, Gaia
About Potersman family:
The father of the family – Shlomo Potersman, son of Tekla and Josek, born 1876 (died 1926, buried in Lodz).
The mother of the family – Rahel from the family of Wegwajzer, daughter of Rivka-Handel and Symcha, born in 1878 Ozorkow (died in the Holocaust).
The family lived at 12 Zgierska St. They owned stores in: 18 Piotrkowska, 7 Nowomienska, 10 Nowomienska.
The children (eight) and their relatives:
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transport to Warszaw, died with his family in the Holocaust
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Icchok, 1.3.1925
Sara Mira, 15.12.1923
Szlama, 13.7.1928
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Chaja Ejchler
4.10.1901, Checiny
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died with her family in the Holocaust
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Sulzfelder Strasse
10 Flat 17
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Henoch, 1928
Szlama, 1927
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died with his family in the Holocaust
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Ino warzlaw
ul. Kilinskiego 1
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Sura Nacha Wegweiser, 1911
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died with her family in the Holocaust
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Sulzfelder Strasse
10 Flat 17
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Josef Zajnwel, 27.9.1937
Szlama, 16.12.1937
Symcha, 17.12.1934
Fajwel, 4.8.1941
Icchok, 17.3.1933
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Kapelusz
Icek, 17.12.1910, Radoszyce
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escaped to Russia 21.11.39, died in the war
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escaped to Russia 21.11.39, died in the war
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Sulzfelder Strasse
10 Flat 17
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Zvi Hersz – born 1906, the only survivor of his family, immigrated to Israel in 1924 as a pioneer to fulfill his Zionist dream.
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He first arrived to Tel Aviv and worked there paving roads. In 1925 he started his work in the British post (P.P.T.T) as a region manager.
After the end of the British Mandate and the establishment of the State of Israel, he continued his work in the area of telephones, as the manager of the region Petah Tikva in Doar Handasa – the telephone department of the post office. From the year of 1936 until 1948 he was active in the Haganah in the area of communication.
In the year of 1929 he married to Sara from the family of Goldman, born in Poland, who emigrated with her family from Germany in the year of 1925.
They lived in Petah Tikva, where their daughters were born to them: Rivka (1930), Nomi (1936) and Shlomit (1947).
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In the year of 1986 he died and was buried in the cemetery of Sgula, Petah Tikva, near his wife Sara.
Zvi is the last person of his family who had the family name Potersman. Today there are no people in the country who have this name.
Here are some pictures which were photographed in Poland before the war and were found in the inheritance of Zvi Potersman.
Research, writing and editing – Ronit Cohen
Granddaughter of Zvi Potersman
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