Our Families

Thanks very much to the JewishGen Family Finder members who contributed photographs and descriptions of Jewish families from Starokostyantyniv.

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Etta Sundelzon nee Feinberg and daughter Khaya Mirel

Khaya Mirel and her husband Naftula Hertz Shpirt's four children were all born in Starokostyantyniv; Khaya was murdered during a massacre of thousands of Jews in the town soon after the Nazi occupation.

Sheri Meisel's great great grandmother and great aunt

Chava Sundelzon and Abrom Beilis Weisbein

Chava, Etta and Leyzor Sundelzon's oldest daughter and Abrom, the son of Shimon Moshe Beilis and Sheindel Manya Shapira, met as children when their families lived next door to each other in Starokostyantyniv. They immigrated to New York City where they married and remained devoted for over 60 years.

Sheri Meisel's great grandparents

Sarah Bluma Weisbein nee Beilis

Photographed in Starokostyantyniv in the late 1880s, shortly before immigrating to New York with her husband Avraham Issac Weisbein and their three young daughters, Zlata Gelia, Risia, and Chaje.

Sheri Meisel's great aunt

Note the St. Konstantinoff (Starokostyantyniv) location of the photography studio

Eliezer (Louis) Shpirt

Born in 1895 in Starokostyantyniv to Khaya Mirel Sundelzon and Naftula Hertz Shpirt. He immigrated to New York in 1923 and died as a young man just seven years later. His Will directed that his funds be sent to his parents as they were "starving" in Starokostyantyniv.

Sheri Meisel's cousin

Sirota Family

Feige Bluma Reminick nee Sirota and her daughter from Starokostyantyniv, about 1900.

Courtesy of Cheryl Waldman,

Feige Bluma's grandaughter

Mendel and Rysya Sirota with their children, born in Starokostyantyniv - daughters Tillie, Khana, Shifra and son Abraham.

Courtesy of Jack Greenman

Portrait of the Gabelnick Family (original name Grablenik)

Anna (Chanah nee Klinger), Arthur (Aharon), and sons Murray (Moshe) and Zeena (Chiam Eliezer) in Starokostyantyniv about 1912.

Courtesy of Steve Gabelnick, Murray's son

Icek Kossower (later Edward Cosover) in Starokostyantyniv about 1928.

Note the St. Konstantinoff (Starokostyantyniv) location of the photography studio

Courtesy of Mary Jo Cosover Martin, Edward's grandaughter

Glass Family

Dora Rothenberg Glass, born in Starokostyantyniv in 1867, immigrated to New York with her daughters Feige and Sora to join her husband Julius Edelglass (Ydel Shimonovitch Edelglas or Endelglu.) This photo appeared in a newspaper in 1936 on the occassion of their 50th wedding anniversary.

Glass Family photos courtesy of Jeff Ramras, great grandson of Dora and grandson of Florence.

Florence Glass, originally Feige Edelglass, in the 1920s. She came to the US when she was five years old with her mother and sister from Starokostyantyniv.

Rosenfeld Family

The Rosenfeld brothers Hyman (Chaim), Morris, Edward (Yudko) and Jacob (Yankel) emigrated from Starokostyantyniv in the early 1900s. They were the sons of Yusef Ber Rosenfeld haLevy and Lena Schultz.

Rosenfeld Family photos courtesy of Carole Rosenfeld

Jacob and his wife Eidel Singer had two daughters. With second wife Rivka Itzkovna he had sons Ben and David and two daughters. Rivka never immigrated, and the existence of daughters Enya and Leya was unknown until recently, when Russian-language birth records were located in the Ukraine archives by Alex Krakovsky and indexed by JewishGen.

See the Genealogy Resources page for more about the Krakovsky documents.

Morris, born in Starokostyantyniv in 1883, is pictured with his wife Lena. He settled in Terre Haute, Indiana with his brother Edward. Together they opened the Rosenfeld Brothers Clothiers store there. The brothers married sisters Jennie and Lena Piven.

Ben (Boruch) Rosenfeld, photographed at the Cleveland, Ohio Art Museum in the 1930s.

Ben immigrated from Starokostyantyniv in 1913 with his brother David and half-sister Bessie, joining their father Jacob in Cleveland.

Bessie Rosenfeld with her husband Max Gerstein and children David, Sol, and Adele.

Originally Chaje Rukhel Vaysbyn, she was born in Starokostyantyniv is 1886 and settled in Brooklyn, NY with her parents and eight siblings. This photo is from her Declaration of Intention to become a US citizen.

Isaac Schevchuk, with his daughter Liudmila (Lucie) and son Vladimir. He served in the Soviet army in WWII.

Photo courtesy of Natalia Donets, Issac's great grandaughter and Lucie's grandaughter

Bentzion and Perl Rozenfeld with daughter Rose

Bentzion Rozenfeld, son of Noakh and Reyzl, was born in Starokostyantyniv in 1879. His wife Perl was born in Labun in 1890, daughter of Falek and Rukhl Boymelman.

Bentzion and Perl, together with Bentzion's sister Khana and her husband Meer Milgram were all murdered in Starokostyantyniv in July, 1941 - just one month after the Nazi occupation of the town. Bentzion and Perl's son, David Rozenfeld, was murdered in 1939 in Poland. Their daughter Rose survived.

Courtesy of Inna Shnaiden and Carole Rosenfeld

Ester and Abraham Siegel Family

Ester and Abraham Siegel with their oldest daughter Basse (Bessie) and Esther’s mother Ruth, photographed in Starokostyantyniv. Ester and Abraham and their five children - Bessie, Elke, Lillie, Minnie and Ralph - immigrated to New York City in the early 1900s.

Courtesy of Stefani Elkort Twyford, Ester and Abraham's great grandaughter

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