Chervin Family: Goworowo Line
(Linked to Szmelc/Schmeltz)
Table

• CZERWIN
Transcribed as Chervin at Yad Vashem, when written in Hebrew
• 1. Noach
  m 1A. Sarah, Czerwin, roughly 1865
Son:
• 1.1 Leibl 1886
  m. 1.1A Hinda SZMELC 1891
Children:
• 1.1.1 Brana Czerwin 1912
  m. 1.1.1A Matthew AUSLENDER 1910
• 1.1.2 Sarah Czerwin 1918
• 1.1.3 Naftali Czerwin 1925
• 1.1.4 Feiga Czerwin 1927
• 1.1.5 Chaya Czerwin 1931
• 1.1.6 Yocheved Czerwin 1934
• 1.1.7 Noach (Nathan) Czerwin
And possibly four others

Source: Naftali Shmeltz, Yad Vashem, 1957; Adam Czerwin, 2025

• SZMELC (Shmeltz)
• 1. Yakov SZMELC and Chana
Children:
• 1.1 Hinda 1891
  m. Leibl CZERWIN 1886 [parents Noach and Sarah]
• Brana 1912
  m. Matthew AUSLENDER 1910
• Sarah Czerwin 1918
• Naftali Czerwin 1925
• Feiga Czerwin 1927
• Chaya Czerwin 1931
• Yocheved Czerwin 1934
• Noach (Nathan) Czerwin
And possibly four others. One of these may well be the Pesach Czerwin (in Israel) who wrote about the last days of Goworowo in the book of remembrance referenced below. But he does not give the names of his parents.
• 1.2 Breina (Brejne) 1900
  m. Anshel ZIMAN 1895/98 [parents Moshe and Sarah]
Children:
• Sarah 1918
  m. [Unknown] Klos
  
Sarah is in the index to the Goworowo memory book referenced below, p.439, as Ziman-Klas Sarasche
Moshe 1926
Chaim 1929
• 1.3 Shlomo Aharon 1904
  wife Zelda 1900 [parents Shmuel and Chaya Leah]
• Kreina ca. 1938 and Shmuel ca. 1940
1.4 Chaim
1.5 Israel
1st marriage Unknown
Child:
• Naftali SZMELC
(Our main source at Yad Vashem)
2nd marriage Sarah 1895
Children:
• Yitka 1923, Joseph 1930, Luba 1932, Zlata 1934
• DIZE (source: Yakov Zheleznik)
• Shmuel 1897 and Lea
• Shlomo and Bela
• Son Shmuel
• KOS (sourc: Chaim Szmelc)
• Dov
• Chemia 1892 m. Ester
• Leah 1924
Zeev and Sara
• Etka 1918

Source: documents at Yad Vashem, testimony submitted by Naftali Shmeltz, Chaim Shmeltz, Yakov Zheleznik.

Reference (Goworowo Book of Remembrance)

Goworowo, book of remembrance (bilingual, Hebrew/Yiddish).
English translation at JewishGen.
Some Shmeltz family members are mentioned on pp. 40–48 and their homes are shown on the map included (Avrom Meyer, Mikhl (Max)).

The section "A Look Back" was writen by Pesach Czerewin, residing in Israel. (name transcribed as Peysakh Tshervin). This describes the last days of the Jewish settlement in Goworowo, from August 31, 1939.

JewishGen also has a List of the slain, among them Leibl, Hinda, Naftali, Faiga, Chaya, Gittel, Leah Chervin, and also members of the Shmeltz family (likely taken from Yad Vashem records).

At the end of the book, there are many photographs, including some from the Szmelc family toward the end.

Goworowo, Poland

2005; 2025

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