1. Joel Alpert (Naividel/Ellis/Krelitz)
Finding Our Roots and Ourselves The Naividel-Krelitz-Feinberg-Rosin-Craine Family Reunion
Introduction by
Joel Alpert (Naividel/Ellis/Krelitz)

2. “Pa” in about 1970
Hillel Eliashevitz
(aka) Harry Ellis

3. Last Page of Original 1968 Family Tree

4. Notation on the 1968 Family Tree: “Large Family Lost” in several places

5. Sisters: Lee and Helen Ellis
Leah Golda Ellis
about 1928

6. 1991 Enter the Computer Age

7. Hillel Naividel Family

8. So, I thought I was done. But....
I started borrow old photos and
copy them to start a collection...

9. Start of The Photo Collection
Contributors:
Fanny Bernstein Rubenstein / Leslie Bern
Rosalin Ellis Krelitz
Geroge Ellis
Lee Ellis Alpert
Helen Ellis Koppel

10. Fanny Bernstein
and
Her Boys:
Jimmy, Sanford,
Howard and
Leslie

11. Harry and Celia (Krelitz) Ellis

12. Sidney Ellis
(Shimmy)

13. Helen (Ellis) and Erwin Koppel Wedding - 1944

14. Reuven and
Alta (Feinberg)
Ellis
Wedding Photo

15. Reuven and Alta (Feinberg) Ellis
Wedding Photo

16. Sons of Reuven and Alta Ellis in Yurbrick

17. Family of Reuven and Alta (Feinberg) Ellis

18. Chaim Feinberg and ? Krelitz Family

19. Chaim Meir and Sarah Donevsky Family

20. Feinberg Family

21. Hillel Naividel Family

22. Meir and Chareva (Rosin) Eliashevitz
About 1905
Murdered in Shoah - “Large Family Lost”

23. Sarah Beylah Naividel Rosin

24. Daughters of Meir Eliashevitz
MURDERED

25. Children of Meir Eliashevitz
MURDERED

26. So, I thought I was done. But....
I started to talk to
a Mormon friend who said...

27. The Naividel Krelitz Ellis (Eliashevitz) Feinberg Rose (Rosin)
The Naividel Krelitz Ellis (Eliashevitz) Feinberg Rose (Rosin) Craine (Kroida) Family Book The Story Of An Interrelated Jewish Family Originally From Yurburg (Yurberig), Lithuania compiled by Joel Alpert July / Now available on the Reunion CD and the Internet:

28. Mary Naividel Eliashevitz

29. Shalom Eliashevitz Family

30. Harry, Celia, Fanny and Boys

31. Morris Laden and Family

32. Sam and Rae (Krelitz) Ellis and Ben Craine

33. Talmud Torah in Yurburg - 1927 From Rosalin Krelitz Photo Album

34. From Rosalin Krelitz Photo Album
Wooden Synagogue of Yurburg
From Rosalin Krelitz Photo Album

35. Moshe Krelitz - Unknown to us From Rosalin Krelitz Photo Album

36. Hillel Naividel and Elka Rosin Family

37. Pesha
(Naividel)
Zapolsky
Daughter of
Hillel Naividel
and
Elka Rosin

38. Original Photo from Yurburg
Leah Naividel Krelitz
From Craine Studio

39. Cecil Krelitz Family

40. Krelitz Family at George Zerry’s Wedding

41. George Krelitz

42. Gittelson Family

43. Krelitz & Lippman (Naividel) Store in Minnesota or Pennsylvania

44. Store on the Iron Range in Minnesota Sam Ellis and Ben Craine

45. Krelitz Family in Yurburg in about 1920
Who were these people? Eventually found out.
Krelitz Family in Yurburg in about 1920

46. Yurburg Home Page on the Internet
RIVKA KRELITZ GUTTMAN Born in Yurburg, Lithuania Rivka Krelitz was born in Yurburg, Lithuania. She married Yisrael Guttman also from Yurburg. They immigrated to Mexico City in They raised three sons. Unfortunately all contact has been lost with them. Anyone knowing of their whereabouts, please contact Return to Yurburg Home Page | ShtetLinks Home Page | JewishGen Home Page
Mystery: what happened to Rivka and the Mexican Krelitzes. Put this on the Internet on the JewishGen Home page for Yurberik.

47. So, I thought I was done. But.... then
I found out about the incredible
1927 film by Ben Craine
of Yurberik

48. So, I thought I was done. But....
I found out that the
Yizkor Book for Yurberik
had been published in

49. (Finanaced by Our Families) On Reunion CD and the Internet
The Yurburg
Yizkor Book
Published in Israel in 1991 in Hebrew and Yiddish
Now Mostly Translated
(Finanaced by Our Families)
On Reunion CD and the Internet

50. Europe

51. Memel
Yurberik X
Yurberik
Kovno
Vilna
Lithuania

52. Neiman River
Yurberik
Kybart
Western Lithuania

53. This is the view of the comercial center of Yurburg, Kovno (Kauno)Street.. The corner storeon the far right is book store of Pinchas Schnovitz, a cousin.
Center of Yurburg

54. Main Comercial Street in Yurburg

55. Woodcut of the famous Wooden Synagogue of Yurburg - Destroyed in 1941

56. Model of Wooden Synagogue of Yurburg

57. Wooden Synagogue of Yurburg - 1927 Postcard

58. Translated Excerpts from the Yurburg Yizkor Bookwith special interest to our family THE COMMUNITY OF YURBURG AMONG LITHUANIAN JEWRY By Professor Dov Levin YURBURG ON THE BANK OF THE NEIMAN RIVER - By I.D. Kamazon JEWS IN YURBURG - By I.D. Kamazon THE YURBURG I KNEW - By Mordechai Zilber YURBURG AND PEOPLE OF OUR CHILDHOOD By Hanna Feinberg-Shraga (Shrage) A MEMORIAL CANDLE FOR MY FAMILY - By DianaTobin (Berzaner) THE NAIVIDEL FAMILY - By Mordechai (Motel) Naividel (Father of Beny Naividel) THE KARABELNIK FAMILY By: Hannah Karabelnik- Trainin PINCHAS SHACHNOVITZ - ZIONIST AND MAN OF THE BOOK (Pinchas Shachnovitz was the husband of Chaia Feiga Naividel, daughter of Shmuel Naividel) YURBURG DESTROYED The Story of Hannah Magidovitz as recorded by Zebulun Poran DARING ESCAPE OF THE PARTISANS IN THE WOODS The Personal Story Of Mordehai Ben Tuvia And Rachel Berkover IN ETERNAL MEMORY by Dorothy Chosid-Bodnoff Sister of Jack Cossid JEWS OF YURBURG - LIST OF NAMES (including many from our families) People of Yurburg Abroad (including many from our families) SURVIVORS OF YURBURG, (HOLOCAUST) IN LITHUANIA- including our family members JEWS IN LITHUANIA JEWS IN THE DAYS OF THE KINGS OF LITHUANIA HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF LITHUANIA

59. The Naividel-Krelitz-Feinberg-Rosin-Craine FamilyReunion
The Naividel-Krelitz-Feinberg-Rosin-Craine FamilyReunion Detroit, Michigan July 28-30, TABLE OF CONTENTS I Introduction 1 page II Family Descendant Lists: Naividel pages Krelitz pages Feinberg 7 pages Rosin 5 pages Craine 2 pages III Address List of Family Members 7 pages IV List of Attendees with Ancestral Family Connection 2 pages V The Shoah (Holocaust) Affected Our Family too 22 pages Naividel and Rosin Family Holocaust Victims Craine Family Holocaust Victims Feinberg Family Holocaust Victims Krelitz Family Holocaust Victims can be found in the Naividel and Feinberg Family lists The Horrible Days - Story of Gita Abramson Bereznitzky Gershon Hilelson’s Story

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