PIASKOWSKI
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According to Jurek Francuz: The Piaskowski family were shoemakers. There were two sisters: Rachel and Rushka. The older sister, Rachel, was in school with Jurek. There was a brother, Leib, who was friends with Judy Muratore's grandfather, Menasha Przedecki. The sisters escaped Klodawa and were in Bialystok with Jurek Francuz and Michael Pizer. There were no survivors at the end of the war. Note: A Schmulek Piakowski was in school with Yurig. He was not Jewish, survived the war, and stayed in Poland.
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EMAIL FROM DAVID KRISS 01AUG2015: Dear Judy, I hope this is your correct email address. I was surfing around some genealogical sites and came across your Klodowa tribute. On my father's side,the family of my grandmother Ginny were from Klodowa and indeed their family name, Piaskowski appears on your list of names. http://www.klodawatribute.com/NamesFrameset.html Since this was first time that I had ever seen corroboration of the family history I had collected, I was quite excited by this discovery. I've copied below a passage from the Kriss (formerly Krys) family history which is also the Piaskowski history that I know of.
By the way, Ginny married Avram in 1912 in London but I don't know exactly when they left Poland. I hope you find this useful. Thank you for putting together this lovely tribute to your family. It gives me some sort of connection to my own. Best wishes, David Kriss "Today’s Kriss family are the offspring of two families: the Kriss and Piaskowski families. The Kriss (originally ‘Krys’) family came from Gostynin while the Piaskowsky family came from Klodowa. Both these villages or townships are situated near the larger town of Kutno (where another part of the Krys family also lived). According the map, the Kutno area is about 100 miles west of Warsaw. We know that at some point before WWII the Piaskowski family moved to Warsaw because Jack and Morris remember sending mail to Ginny’s (David’s grandmother) family at: Ulitzakrufelska 29 Gub Warscawa Avram’s (in Hebrew Avraham Eliyahu – David’s grandfather) father was called Reb Moshe. Despite the Reb, we’re not sure if he was really a rabbi. By all accounts he was a mixture of a traveling salesman and a barmitzva teacher. Gerry remembers being told that he did a lot of traveling and was rarely at home. He seems to have been something of a bad apple.
We do not know Ginny’s father’s first name. David and Cecilia (David’s mother) remember her saying that he was some sort of steward for a Polish landowner. David remembers her saying that they never lacked anything at home but Jack says that that both sides of the family were, ”as poor as church mice”. Jack remembers his grandmother on his mother’s side being called Leah. Ginny and Avram were second cousins. On the Kriss side, Avram’s known siblings were : Sadie and Fanny – who emigrated to London. Fanny married ‘Kopel’ and Sadie married someone quite well off. As far as we know, neither had children. Zelig – who emigrated to Buenos Aries. Another sister – whose name we don’t know, who emigrated to Chicago and became a furrier. Rosie – Gus Swerner’s mother, who also emigrated to England. Harry also mentions a married sister living in Kutno who was married to someone called Leib Menche. On the Piaskowski side, Ginny’s known siblings were: Sarah – Reverend Nat Bergeman’s mother Sam - who emigrated to England, changed his name to Kosky and had a shoe shop[ in Stratford, London. His son was called Ralph and he had radio shops in Bournemouth. Mordechai – who remained in Poland and, as far as we know, perished in the Holocaust. Ginny may have had other siblings.
David remembers her crying over the relations she lost in the Holocaust. As for the children of this generation in Poland, Harry talks of meeting two teenage cousins when he went to Poland in 1925 – Chava and Hershel (Mordechai’s children). There was rumour that Hershl escaped the Holocaust by escaping via Romania. Avram, who was always a frail and sickly man, seems to have left Poland, mainly to escape army service. He was apprenticed to a jacket maker while still in Poland and recalled that as part of his apprenticeship he had to throw out the chamber pots of his employer’s family!"