Genealogy of the Glotzer "tribe" from Ivanik
near Pinsk, and of the families
Rozenbaum, Iliwicki (Ilivitzki) and Pikman from Pinsk
Easy to remember URL (page address) to this page:     http://welcome.to/ivanik
[Resources available on this site]  [Introduction]  [Gathering data]
[The Holocaust]  [Organizing, updating and correcting data]
[Other relatives' homepages]  [E-mail list]  [Why Sweden?]
[First International Gathering of the Glotzers, New York, July 30 - August 1, 2004]
Latest update of genealogical information: August 30, 2004
Latest update of this page: August 22, 2004


Genealogical trees
of the families...
  
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to that page Rozenbaum
to that page Iliwicki
to that page Pikman
to that page Gorbat/Garbut 		   A few words about
the families...
  
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to that page Rozenbaum
to that page Iliwicki
to that page Rubacha 		   Other genealogical
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Introduction

This web site is dedicated to my genealogy and my ancestors. It presents genealogical information about four Jewish families from which I originate, and two other Jewish families related to "my" families. Up to WWII, these families used to live in the town of Pinsk in Western Belarus (Belorussia), and in a Jewish agricultural village Ivaniki (in Yiddish Ivanik, in Polish Iwaniki) located at that time seven kilometers north of Pinsk. (There is also a place called Ivaniki south of Pinsk, but it has nothing to do with the Jewish village Ivaniki located before WWII north of Pinsk.) Before 1917, this territory was a part of the Russian Empire; in 1921-1939 it belonged to the Republic of Poland; in 1939, during the German-Soviet partition of Poland (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), it was incorporated into the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; in 1941-1944 it was occupied by the Nazi Germany; during 1944-1991 it belonged again to the BSSR; and since 1991 it is a part of the Republic of Belarus. The families are:
  • The Glotzer family of my maternal grandmother, Ivanik(i)
  • The Rozenbaum family of my maternal grandfather, Pinsk and Ivanik(i)
  • The Iliwicki (Ilivitzky) family of my paternal grandfather, Pinsk
  • The Pikman family of my paternal grandmother, Pinsk

  • The Gorbat/Garbut family, related to the Glotzers, Ivanik(i)
  • The Rubacha family, related to the Iliwickis, Pinsk & Wloclawek
The largest of the above mentioned four families of my origin were the Glotzers of Ivanik(i). It is also a family about which I have most genealogical information, and with which my and others genealogical research once began.


Gathering data

Gathering of genealogical data about his family has been Albert "Al" Glotzer's (#103) passion for many years. Until his death on February 18, 1999 in New York City, Al, who was born 1908 in Ivanik(i), was - to my knowledge - the oldest member of the Glotzer "tribe" and its grand old man. As far as I know, he was the first genealogist of the "tribe".

In the 1970's, my first cousin Wlodzimierz "Vlady" Rozenbaum (#36) born 1940 in Pinsk (as far as I know Vlady is the last surviving member of the Glotzer and Rozenbaum families born in Pinsk) and my mother Malke (later Malwina) Ilicka née Rozenbaum (#24), born 1922 in Ivanik(i) and deceased in Uppsala, Sweden, on February 28, 1999, i.e. ten days after her first cousin Al (#103), began collecting genealogical information as well. Vlady's genealogical research was based on Al's data, and Malwina's on her own memories as a child in Ivanik(i). Since Malwina, Vlady and I, Julian "Ilek" Ilicki (#42), are descendants not only of the Glotzer "tribe" but also of the Rozenbaum family, the database also includes information about the Rozenbaums, starting with the tile-stove setter (in Polish zdun) Dovid(?) Rozenboym (#17).

Vlady organized the original data (the Glotzers and some Rozenbaums) in a database using a genealogical computer software. After receiving this database from him, I have updated and further improved it. One of my main sources were my mother's recollections from Ivanik(i). Later, I added the Iliwicki family of my paternal grandfather and Pikman family of my paternal grandmother (I know almost nothing about the Pikmans). Now, the time has come to use Internet as a tool for further research and for sharing genealogical information with other descendants of the Glotzers, as well as of the Rozenbaums, the Iliwickis and the Pikmans.


The Holocaust

People who to our knowledge perished in the Holocaust have their death years in the genealogical trees and in the picture descriptions in red colour. We don't know the exact dates of their death. What we do know however, is that Jews in Ivanik(i) were taken to the Pinsk Ghetto, established April 30, 1942, and that the Germans started what they called "liquidation" of this Ghetto October 28, 1942. Although most of the about 20.000 inhabitants of the ghetto were murdered within a few days after this date (the majority, about 16.000, were shot already next day, October 29, 1942), their death date in the database is consistently entered as 28 October 1942, i.e. the day Nazis started the "liquidation" of the ghetto.

In case of my maternal grandfather Avrom Rozenbaum (#16), we know from testimonies given after the war by Avrom's Belorussian neighbour to one of our relatives, that he was killed together with other male Jews (we don't know their names or how many they were) in Ivanik(i), shortly after the Germans entered the area in July 1941. These Jewish men in Ivanik(i) were shot by Belorussians (probably at least some of them were locals) presumably acting under German supervision (we are not sure). Thus, it is possible that some of the male Jews from Ivanik(i) whose death date is entered in the database as 28 October 1942 were, in fact, murdered in their own village as early as in summer of 1941, together with my maternal grandfather.


Organizing, updating and correcting data

All genealogical information gathered so far is being kept in a computerized database. The genealogical computer software I am using assigns a unique number to every person entered into this database, in order of entering. These numbers are provided after every name mentioned in the genealogical trees and other information available on this site. Please always refer to these numbers when contacting me in order to update data, correct errors, etc.

Similarly to most of other genealogical computer programs, the software I am using has a capability of generating a so called GEDCOM file. GEDCOM is an international standard for sharing genealogical information between different genealogical computer programs. Please contact me if you would like to obtain the latest version of the GEDCOM file.

The genealogical trees available on this site do not present all information entered into the database of the original genealogical software. The original software contains the following fields:

  • Full name
  • Sex
  • Full date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Full date of death
  • Place of death
  • Full date of funeral
  • Place of funeral
  • Place of residence
  • Occupation
  • Full date of marriage
  • Place of marriage
  • Full date of divorce/separation
When you contact me for updates or error corrections, please make sure that you provide information for all of these fields whenever possible.


Other relatives' homepages

to that page Wlodzimierz "Vlady" Rozenbaum's (#36) homepage
to that page Jonathan Ilicki's (#46) homepage
to that page Danny Goldman's (#183) page about his parents Tanya (#181) and Sasha (#175)


E-mail list for members of the Glotzer "tribe"

We have an e-mail list for the descendants of the Glotzers. Please contact me if you would like to join that list.


Why Sweden?

And finally a question I am asked from time to time: Why Sweden? How come a few descendents of Sholem Glotzer (#1) of Ivanik(i) and of Dovid(?) Rozenbaum (#17) of Pinsk ended up in Sweden? Well, actually, the Swedish branch is a part of the Polish branch. Between the two world wars Ivanik(i) and Pinsk belonged to the Republic of Poland and Jews living there were Polish citizens.

As far as I know, nine descendents of Sholem Glotzer (#1) and his second wife Chaye-Golde Yoffe(?) (#2) survived WWII as Polish citizens in the Soviet Union, and eight of them returned to Poland after the war (some of them with their families): all four children of Sholem's (#1) and Chaye-Golde's (#2) youngest daughter Perl Glotzer (#5) and her husband Avrom Rozenbaum (#16), i.e. Frume Rozenbaum (#21), Chaim Rozenbaum (#22), Gite Rozenbaum (#23) and my mother Malke Rozenbaum (#24), and four grandchildren of Perl Glotzer's (#5) older syster Dvoyre Glotzer (#3) and her husband Itzchok-Yakov(1) Goldman (#147), i.e. Yehoshua "Sasha" Goldman (#175), Frume(2) Goldman (#176), Shifre Goldman (#177) and Golde Nimcowicz (#156). (The ninth person, Avrom "Abrasha" Gorbat (#91), remained in the Soviet Union.) However, after WWII Poland "moved" to the west incorporating what before the war used to be eastern Germany, and losing to the Soviet Union what before the war used to be eastern Poland, including western Belarus with Pinsk and Ivanik(i). Refused by the Soviet authorities permission to return home, the families - which by then lived in the Urals region - opted for immigration to Poland, where they settled in Lódz, Wroclaw (formerly German Breslau) and Warsaw.

The Rozenbaum siblings (#21, #22, #23, #24) with their families, as well as Sasha Goldman (#175) with his wife Tanya Shurp (#181), returned to Poland from the Soviet Union shortly after the war, but Sasha and Tanya left for Israel in 1947. The Rozenbaum siblings with their families remained in Poland until the late 1960's.

Sasha Goldman's (#175) sisters Frume(2) Zajac née Goldman (#176) and Shifre Gofer née Goldman (#177), as well as their first cousin Golde Perelsztejn née Nimcowicz (#156), and their families, returned to Poland from the Soviet Union in the mid 1950's. The Goldman sisters with their families continued after a couple of years to Israel, and the Perelsztejns remained in Poland until the late 1960's.

By the late 1960's the Polish branch of the family grew to 19 persons, including the in-laws: the Rozenbaum siblings (#21, #22, #23, #24) and Golde Perelsztejn née Nimcowicz (#156), with their families. 13 of them can be seen on this picture, taken in 1960 on the 50th birthday of Frume Samsonowicz née Rozenbaum (#21). Only five of theses 13 persons are still alive.

In 1967-1968 the communist regime in Poland carried out a vicious anti-Semitic campaign, which resulted in emmigration of some 15,000 Jews by the early 1970's. Only three countries by government decisions officially welcomed these immigrants: Israel (naturally), Denmark, and Sweden. More than 4,000 Jews went to Israel, some 2,500 to Sweden and over 3,000 to Denmark. The rest left for other countries, mostly the United States. Only three older members of the Polish branch remained in Poland, the rest left for Israel, Sweden, and the United States in the years 1968-1970. Two of those who remained in Poland died there in the 1980's, and the third one in the late 1990's joined her daughter in Sweden, where she passed away in 2000. To the best of my knowledge there are no more descendants of either the Glotzers, the Rozenbaums, the Iliwickis or the Pikmans left in Poland.

As far as I know, a few descendants of Sholem Glotzer (#1) and his first wife Yochevet (maiden name unknown) (#222) live in the Russian Federation: the sisters Nelly and Irina Schuman (#248 & #249) together with Irina's husband and son. The family Ajngemachtz (spelling?), related to the Iliwickis, seems to live in the Ukraine. I don't know of any other close or remote relatives living in what is now Poland, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.