It has taken me a couple of days to process the latest burst of photos from Dina Shaket in Israel. This group of pictures continues to add depth to what we know of our ancestors lives in Potok Zloty, one of three shtetlach we know our ancestors lived in Galicia, which was once in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then in Poland, and now in the western part of Ukraine.
This is Dina’s mother, Debora Strauber, with her youngest brother Leib-Leon, in front of their home in Potok Zloty in 1932. Debora would have been 21 that year, and Leib-Leon 9. The home looks a little rustic by our 21st Century standards. The door is unsanded wood, and the stucco seeming to be uneven. But there are a few “modern conveniences” in this photo as well. Note, for instance, the piping on the roof, clearly a kind of rain-gutter system, and the clean and modern clothing they’re wearing.
This is Leib-Leon in the same year, apparently in their home woodshop. He’s holding what appears to be a parallel clamp, often used to steady wood parts that have been glued. There are also a hand plane and some wood shavings on the workbench. And that may well be a turned table leg in the parallel clamp, or possibly protruding from the work bench next to it. Debora Strauber survived the Holocaust, moved to Israel after the war, and died in 1969. Leib-Leon did not survive the Holocaust.
These are the half-siblings of Debora and Leib-Leon, the children of Riva (Kenigsberg) Strauber and Baruch Strober. Riva was his second wife. They married after Baruch’s first wife, Dina, died in 1923. From left to right, they are Dina Strauber, Avner Strauber, and Shmuel Strauber. If this picture was indeed taken in 1932, Dina would have been 7, Avner 2, and Shmuel 8. All three perished in the Holocaust.
Dina also forwarded some more recent photos.
This is Dina’s father, Joseph Glatzer, with Dina’s oldest son, Dvir, in Israel in 1972.
This is Getzel Strauber, the brother of Dina’s mother Devora, with Dvir in 1972 in Israel.
Dina Shaket also provided a lot of genealogy nuts and bolts about her branch of the family. I’ve been updating the family tree with that information, and will post an update as soon as possible.
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Paul –Thank you for sharing these pictures. They tell quite a story. I am enjoying visiting your website. Y
Another instance of a marriage of cousins?
Strauber with a Strober.
Yes, Vic, another case of cousins marrying… but this one is a little complicated. Baruch Strober, a son of Elyakim Getzel Strober, had SIX children, three with his first wife (and first cousin), Dina Strauber (the daughter of Lev Ari Strauber) and three with his second wife, Riva (Kengisberg) Strober. Plus, the period in which Baruch and Dina lived was a particularly confusing one for spelling, since Galicia went from Austrian-Hungarian rule (German language), Polish rule (Polish language), and possibly some Soviet influence (Cyrillic alphabet). It was always pronounced the same–SHTRAUW’-burr–but often spelled differently.