Goldfoot Genealogy

Nadene Goldfoot
These are found on Jewish Genealogy-Jewishgen.org.

Births in:  Libava, Grobin, Courland.

1. David Abram Goldfus b: October 4, 1879, son of Borukh Goldfus and Ita Behr.

2. Khona Goldfus b: October 13, 1881, son of Volf Goldfus  and Khana .

3. Rakhel Mina Goldfus b: June 30, 1886, daughter of Borukh Goldfus and Ita Lapin.

4. Elia Goldfus b: October 29, 1889, daughter  of Volf Goldfus and Khana Idelsohn

5. Deborah Goldfus b: March 9, 1897, daughter of Izaak Goldfus son of David Goldfus and Hinda Raina,daughter of Berel Kihl.

Parents:
1. Mira Goldfus, daughter of Rivka, and married to Itzko Neider, son of Leib, gave birth to their son, Khaim Leizer Neider on February 4, 1874 in Riga, Latvia.

2. Deborah Goldfus, wife of Elias Rubinsohn, gave birth to Shora on January 28, 1881.

3. Emma Goldfus, wife of Ilya  Rubinsohn, gave birth on January 8, 1883 to Hirsh Leib Rubinsohn.

DEATHS IN LIBAVA

1. Rasha Goldfus died October 3, 1880 at the age of 10 months of convulsions.

2. Borukh Goldfus, son of Movsha Goldfus died on January 15, 1893.  He was an "old man" and died of pneumonia.  What age was one "old"?

Death in Tikkum, Courland

1. Freida Goldfus, daugher of Gershon Goldfus, died on March 19, 1896 of teeth disease.

MARRIAGES IN RIGA, LATVIA

1867:  Moses Goldfus to Zipa Blumberg

1886:  Itzik Goldfus to Fruma Wagenheim

1889:  Ruvel Goldfus to Sara Sternber

1899:  Mira Goldfus to Judel Finkmann

1900  Hana Goldfus to Shmuel Blacher

1920  Rochel Lea Goldfus-Rosenberg to Note Rummer.

RIGA TAX ADMINISTRATION

1. Freida Goldfus married to Iziksohn who was 26 years old in 1885 (b: 1859).

Information from Leah, a  match to Goldfus: Surname of presumed common Latvian ancestor: Shalman.  We remember that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.  Goldfus was one surnname of victims.  Translation of mily?  Must be maiden for maiden name as she is unmarried.  Beila was 43 at death. 

mily name	GOLDFUS
Maiden name
Other family name
Given name	Beila
Father
Mother
Date of birth	1898
Place of birth	Orel
Date of death	1941
Place of death	Riga
Prewar residence	Riga
War residence	Riga
Occupation	Dentist
Gender	F
Family status	Unmarried
Spouse
Fate in 1941-1945	Killed

Ruvel Goldfus is listed above.  Martha must have been his daughter.  She was 49 when she died. 

Family name	GOLDFUS
Maiden name
Other family name
Given name	Martha
Father	Ruvel
Mother
Date of birth	1892
Place of birth	Libau
Date of death	1941
Place of death	Riga
Prewar residence	Riga
War residence	Riga
Occupation
Gender	F
Family status	Unmarried
Spouse
Fate in 1941-1945	Killed

Nadene Goldfoot                                                   

Nathan Abraham Goldfus/foot of Telsiai, Lithuania

Zlata Jermulowske of Lazdijai, Lithuania

Our genealogy connects through Alperovitch somehow.  My grandparents were Zlata Jermulowske and Nathan Abraham Goldfus of Lithuania.  Alperovitch connects to Wertheimer, and the man of genealogical importance to us was Rabbi Samson Wertheimer 1658-1724.
                                      

Dmitri Alperovitch

I found an Alperovitch in Russia.  Son of Michael Alperovitch, he was born in 1980 in Russia.  He's even made it to Wikipedia.   Now he's an American and had attended Georgia Institute of Technology.   "Alperovitch was awarded the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the U.S. federal information security   and was recognized in 2013 and 2015 as one of Washingtonian (magazine)'s Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cyber security."

" In August 2011, as vice president of threat research at McAfee, he published Operation Shady RAT, a report on suspected Chinese intrusions into at least 72 organizations, including defense contractors, businesses worldwide, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee." 

My family has computer geniuses.  Is it the genes?  Could be.  

In the book, "Finding Our Fathers" by  Dan Rottenberg:  , Alpern says, See Heilprin.  
Heilprin says, also:  Halpern, Heilbronn, Heilbrunn, Heilperin, Heilbron, Heilbroner, Heilperin, 
Heilpern, Heilborn, Halperin, Helpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Heilpern.
Heilborn, Halperin, Helpern, Alpron, Galpern, Heilprun, Galperin, Halper, Helpern.

It's a German name derived from the town of Heilbronn in Wurttemberg.  All Jews with these 
variations are not necessarily related.  Many Jews of Austria, Germany and Russia 
indisciminately  assumed these  names when they were ordered to take family names.
However, 4 branches of the Heilprin name have been found.  JE encyclopedia has charts
for 3 of the branches.  Many Russians claim the 4th branch. 

 The oldest is Zebulon Heilprin of the 16th century.  His son was Moses of Brest-Litovsk and
 was the father-in-law of Samuel Edels.  

Another branch comes from Lithuanian Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin (1660-1746), a descendant of
Solomon Luria, who traced his genealogy back through RASHI (1040-1105).  I lived in Safed,
Israel where his synagogue was built and where he lived.

Another Heilprin branch is also related to the BAAL SHEMTOV,  founder of Hasidism.  
Biographies are in JE.  Most people are from Poland, Russia and Germany.   There is an EJ
article on Abraham ben Hayyim of Lublin Poland who died in 1762.  He was the grandson of
Isser, whose son married FORTIS.  CAJ has a Heilprin family tree.  LBI has a Heilbrunn family 
tree beginning in 1683.  LBIS has notes of a Heilbron family from Posen. CAJ has Halpern
family records.  

Relatives found include KATZENELLENBOGEN  and others listed in the book.  Goldfus
was not there.  
JE=Jewish Encyclopedia
EJ=Encyclopedia Judaica
CAJ=Central Archives, Jerusalem
LBI=Leo Beck Institute, NY
LBIS=Leo Beck Institute, Rudolf Simonis collection
                                                                   

RASHI

RASHI traces back to King David.  Rashi was a famous Talmudic rabbi and the most famous 
Talmudic commentator of the 11th century France.  His is supposed to have descended in the
33rd generation from Johanan ha- Sandalar, who lived in 2nd century Egypt.  Johanan was a
great-grandson of Rabbi Gamaliel the Elder, who was in turn the grandson of Hillel the Great,
the sage who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod and Jesus.  
                                                                          

Hillel of 1st century BCE

Hillel is the scholar who was once asked by a scornful heathen to explain Judaism while stand-
ing on one foot.  Hillel replied, "What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy fellow man.  This is the
whole law, the rest is mere commentary."  


Resource:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch
Finding Our Fathers, a guidebook to Jewish Genealogy, by Dan Rottenbergm 1977.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/rashi 

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                             
Cousins' Facts About Lithuania and Jewish Community

Subject: Unique Memorial to a LIthuanian Jewish Community initiated by the Christian Town Mayor
From: Joel Alpert <joelnmnalpert@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:11:40 -0700
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Always learning in Lithuania.  This was an ORT Agricultural School farm

 All that currently stands as the reminder of the Yurburg (Jurbarkas,

Lithuania) Jewish community is the Jewish Cemetery, one of the few in
the small towns of Lithuania not destroyed. The once glorious Wooden
Synagogue of the Jewish community was burned down by the Nazis and
their collaborators in late summer of 1941 when all the Jews of
Yurburg were murdered.
                                                           

To fill that void in the town's history the current mayor of
Jurbarkas, Skirmantas Mockevicius, asked Mr. Amir Maimon, the Israeli
Ambassador to Lithuania, to contact the reknown Israeli sculptor David
Zundelovitch, with a request to design and create a memorial to
commemorate the now extinct Jewish community. This is most unusual
because it is the first such memorial that was initiated by the local
Lithuanian community. The choice of Zundelovitch is particularily
fitting because he and his extended family have roots in the town.

  The memorial will be constructed on the corner where the Wooden
Synagogue once stood and will be called the Synagogue Square Memorial.                                              

Krozh Synagogue, Krozh, Lithuania

In 1766, there were 1048 Jews in Krozh.  In 1888, there were 220 Jewish families or 1125 people, 32% of the general population of 3375. 
The town became a center for learning Kabbalah in Lithuania. 

For more information including images of the model of the memorial go
to: https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newartistscollegium.com%2Fsynagogue-square-memorial&data=02%7C01%7C%7C520079126aff47fa07eb08d5712326f7%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636539318138246676&sdata=XN6lJWZLFnvBQsUqbUlCxG5bmkpfOeYTCLb8PPNBu3U%3D&reserved=0

Joel Alpert, Chair of the Friends of the Yurburg Jewish Cemetery
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Reference: p. 52-69  Preserving Our Litvak Heritage, a history of 31 Jewish communities in
Lithuania.   by Josef Rosin;  Joel Alpert, Editor, published by JewishGen, Inc.

   Alpert and Rosin are cousins.  Joel Alpert is my 5th cousin, and Andi Alpert Zigelman is my 3rd.  They are 2 of 6 Alpert DNA matches  I have.  This is what connects us to Lithuanian history.  It tells us what our ancestors' lives were like there.

Jewish settlement of Yurburg exists from 1766 on, even though it became a town after the border between Lithuania and Germany was defined in 1422.  It then was a border town and customs point.
Yurberg had 2,525 Jews in 1847.  It had 2,350 by 1897 which was 31% of the town.
                                                                 

Telsiai, before WWII

I'm more familiar with Telsiai (Telzh) and Lazdijai (Lazdey) , two towns that our ancestors came from in Lithuania.  Our genealogy goes back to Iones "Jonah" Goldfus b: 1730.  Telsiai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania.  Lazdey had been settled by Jews by the end of the 16th Century.  An organized Jewish community functioned from about 1689 because permission was granted by King Jan Sobiesky.

Descendants of Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie

1  [1] Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie b: 1850 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania prob.Poland,  Lazdijai, Suwalki, Russia/Lithuania d: Bet. 1895 - 1950 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania
.. +Esther "Essie" Decatsky/ Decad  b: Abt. 1860 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania d: Abt. 1887 in Lazdzieje, Suwalk Gubernia, Lithuania
*2nd Wife of [1] Joshua Charles "Hatzkel" Isaiahel Jermulowskie:
.. +Dora Leah "Deborah" b: Abt. 1850 in "Russia" d: Bet. 1895 - 1950 in Poland/, Russia
In 1855, Telzh had 3,209 Jews, which was 67% of the town.
                                                                     

Murder Site of Jews Linkuva, Šiauliai County, Lithuania

Lazdey had 1,546 which was 60% of that town.  You find Lazdey on Poland's resource list in Jewishgen.org today, as they were a town on the border between the two countries, and was taken by Poland at some point.  Until 1795, Lazdey was part of the Polish Lithuanian Kingdom, when the 3rd diviion of Poland by the 3 superpowers of those days, Russia, Prussia and Austria, caused Lithuania to become partly Russian and partly Prussian.  Lazdey was handed over to Prussia that ruled there from 1795-1807.  Then it was the country administrative center.

From 1807-1813, Lazdey belonged to the GREAT KINGDOM OF WARSAW, and was part of the Bialystok district.  The Napoleonic code was introduced. However, Napoleon was defeated in 1815 and ALL of Lithuania was then annexed to Russia, which put Lazdey in the Augustowa Province (Gubernia).   In 1866 it became part of the Suwalk Gubernia as a country administrative center.

Our grandmother, Zlata Jermulowske, was born in 1886.  In 1897 when she was 11 years old, her town had 1,439 Jews in it which was 56% of the town.  She had insisted that she was a Litvak!
                                                                           

Young men of Lazdijai in May 1929

Her Lazdey suffered from many fires.  In 1915 the Germans occupied the town and ruled there till 1918 after WWI.  Finally Lithuania was independent, but in 1919 the Polish army took it over, but was expelled in a few days.  Sejny, the administrative center, remained in Poland.  Lithuania remained independent until 1940.  Germany invaded again in June 1941 and caused the demolition of almost all the town. 

Resource:  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kraziai/history_jewish_khroz.htm
http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=236