Alex was a butcher.

Arie's father had a textile factory in Michalowa ,a small village nea r Bialystok. His mother died when he was nine.His father remarried a year later wit h Sara Efron. During his childhood , Arie learned in the Hebrew Gymnasium in Bialyst ok , and was active in the "Beitar" zionist youth movement. He had a bigger brother, Mordechai , who immigrated to Palestine and s erved as an officer in the British mandatory police, until in 1938 h e was murdered by Arabs in a bus near Lydda. In 1939, the Russians invaded Poland and came to Michalowa. A year lat er they confiscated the family-house and the factory. Arie's father died in 1940, and Arie moved to his Grandmother's hous e in the village. All that time, and until June 1941, he was permitte d to work in the factory , now owned by the Communists. On June 20 1941 , only two days before the German army arrived in hi s home-town , Arie was arrested by the Russians . Together with his st ep-mother Sara and 18 other Jews from Michalowa he was deported to a l abor-camp in Siberia.(All remaining Jews of Michalowa, including his G randmother and two aunts, were deported by the nazis and found their d eath in Treblinka). They traveled by train to Novosibirsk, and from there by ship up Nort h to Kargasok, and finally to a Kolchoz named Sosnovka, where Arie ha d to work hard in the fields in order to survive. In November 1941, a treaty was signed between Russia and the Polish go vernment in exile, thus Arie and his step-mother were permitted to lea ve to Kargasok, where he stayed till 1943 working as an accountant. In 1943 they moved again to inner Russia , where they stayed till Febr uary 1946. After the war was over, they went back to Poland by train, and found r efuge in Upper Silezia.From there Arie crossed the border illegally t o Chechoslovakia, to Vienna , and later to Linz, where he joined the " Bricha" organization. At the age of 32 , in Austria, Arie met and married Hanna.

Bill has been living in America for many years, but in 1929 he came t o visit his family in Poland, and there he married Luba Lasnick, a rem ote cousin of his. They went back to the States together.

Mirta made Aliyah to Israel. Here she got married (1995) , and in 1996 she and her husband moved t o Colombia.

Mordechai Lasnick was born in Bialystok , Poland , in 1913. Already a s a boy, he joined the Zionist movement "Beitar". In 1931 he had gradu ated the Hebrew Gymnasium "Tarbut" , and in 1934 he received an immigr ation visa from the Techniyon in Haifa , and immigrated to Palestine . After one year's study he moved to Jerusalem and became an officer i n the Mandatory Police Force. He served in Tel-Aviv first, then at th e Lydda Airport station. All that time, he has been a member of the ETZEL resistance , and supp lied vital information to its intelligence unit. On August 31st, 1938, he took an Arab bus from the Airport to the rail way station in Lydda. One of the Arab passengers shot and killed him . He was burried in the "Nachlat Yitshak" cemetery in Tel-Aviv.

Yehuda was the first of the Lasnick family to leave Michelova for th e USA. He did so in 1890, leaving behind his wife and children.

Max Ledermann was head of the Jewish community in Kuenzelsau. In March 1933 he was badly beaten by the SA, and suffered a heart-atta ck, of which he died shortly after.

He studied medicine in Liege,Belgium , then returned back to Bialistoc k. Died with his parents in the death camps.

He studied medicine in France, then came back to Bialystock, and was k illed during the Holocaust.

Jews in Bavaria only adopted family names after 1813. Before that the y had patronyms, e.g. Maentel Loew means "Maentel, son of Loew".

Actum Markt Sugenheim , 5 August 1770 : Mendel Loew (Jud) is listed am ong the inhabitants who had paid taxes "Burger Geld" to the community . He was accepted into "Schutz" in Sugenheim , his Schutzbrief dated 18. 12.1769.

Abraham and Yette Sichel lived in Schluechtern. Yette had a rather large apartment in the upper floor, two stories abo ve the family business, which she conducted after her husband's deat h in 1907.