Genealogy
The Bolechow Community is made up of families currently living across the world. Our hope is that people will submit their family tree documents for inclusion on this website. We are also looking for stories, history, and news about Bolechow ancestors and their descendants. So much was lost. But, the best way to honor our families is to share the wonderful stories about their lives. We want this section to become a living history.
If you have information to share, please contact us for this material to be posted on this website. Also, to connect with other Bolechow researchers you can visit the Jewish Gen family finder for Bolechow.
Read Altervits Eulogy, read at the Taniava Mass Grave Ceremony, August 2010.
"The Lost": A Search of Six of the Six Million by BJHS Founding Chair, Daniel Mendelsohn.
Altervits Eulogy
Read at the Taniava Mass Grave Ceremony, August 2010
Great grandpa Shaye and great grandma Eitta, I your granddaughter Bracha Ellner-Alterovits came here with great proud to update you and tell you, that, your son – my grand father- Sucher managed to protect and save his family from the Nazis.
Grandpa Sucher managed to provide for his family in very difficult conditions. As a Zionist he took his family to Israel and raised a beautiful wide tribe of Ellners. Today he is buried in the city of Zefat overlooking Mount Meiron and the Galili mountains where our ancestors lived before.
I also want to tell you that your grandson-my father- Abraham, the small child Eitta, who used to run to your house in "Rusky Bolechov" every Friday, and you used to give him a small cookie or a coin or any other surprise.
Well he's grown up to be a strong man. Fighting for his right as a Jew for freedom and independence, protecting his people in the six days war and the "Yom Kippur" war.
He always mentions your wooden house with the big yard and the horses you had. He doesn't stop talking about you.
I'm here to tell you that your grandchildren and great grand children didn't forget you. You and your children have vanished somewhere in the war, but you live through us. We are you, we continue the legacy you left us.
And we won't let anyone stop us!
The Lost
“The Lost”: A Search of Six of the Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Highly regarded and award-winning is the story of the Jager Family as described in the award-winning book by BJHS Founding Chair, Daniel Mendelsohn.
In 2006 Mr. Mendelsohn's international bestseller "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million," was published in the United States to extraordinary critical acclaim. A New York Times Notable Book of 2006 and a 'Best of the Year' pick in a dozen other newspapers, The Lost won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Salon Book Award, and a number of other honors; in its foreign translations it has been awarded the Prix Médicis (France), the ADEI-WIZO Prize (Italy) and was short-listed for the Duff Cooper Prize (UK). With now over half a million copies in print, it has been translated into a dozen other languages for publication throughout Europe and in Israel.
Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his book and his journey online here.