Westpreussen (West Prussia) Research List Archive - 011
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In my genealogical quest, I am attempting to discover some information about a Jewish family that lived during the period 1850-1880 in Krojanke, Westpreuáen, Preuáen, Germany (now called Krajenka, Poland). I recently visited the town and found little to help me. I have looked at the Krojanke records of Jews from the mid-1880's on microfilm at the Mormon Family History Library, but am unable to read German or understand the Hebrew script. Thus, I am hoping that someone who has researched Krojanke might have come across information on this family and can help me.
I am writing about the "NEUFELD" family. The documents that I have are all from the United States and they have multiple different spellings for that last name (NEUFELD, NEUFELDT, NEWFELDT, NEWFIELD, NEWFELD, NEUFIELD). My information begins with the 1890 Police Census of New York City, which shows the family living in Manhattan at 197 Rivington Street; the family (listed as NEWFELDT) consisted of the head of the household Hyman, wife Johanna, children Max, Amelia, and Harry, and sister (of Johanna) Bertha. I have a birth certificate on Moses NEWFIELD, born on March 14, 1892, which says that the father Hyman was a 34 years old Russian-born tailor and the mother Johanna being born in Germany. Further search revealed a death certificate of another child Adelah (NEUFELDT) who had been born in Germany and died at 2 years of age in 1886 after having been in the United States for 7 months. Also, I found the 1886 New York birth certificate for Leo NEUFELD who subsequently died of tuberculous meningitis in 1888. In late 1892, Hyman himself died of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Subsequently in 1897, Johanna remarried to a Moses APPLEBAUM. It is on that marriage record with the New York City Bureau of Records, that her birthplace is listed as Krojanke, Germany. That marriage certificate also lists her father's name as Moses NEWFIELD and her mother's maiden name as Mollie GOLDSTEIN. I also have located the marriage record for Johanna's sister Bertha NEUFELD, who in 1891, married Morris ROSENBERG; that certificate again lists the birthplace as Germany and the father as Moses NEUFELD and the mother's name as Millie (no last name).

In the 1900 U.S. Census from New York City, Johanna (then in the household of her second husband Moses APPLEBAUM) is listed as having been born in July 1857 in Germany and having immigrated to the U.S. in 1884. The other child of Hyman and Johanna NEUFELD for whom I have information is Amelia: I located her Social Security application from 1936, in which she gives her birthdate as November 5, 1882 and birthplace as Berlin, Germany. The other noteworthy information is that Amelia and her brother Harry are listed in the 1900 U.S.Census as attending "dumb school."

Thank you for any help you can give me.
Roger A. Brumback
rogerbrumback@hotmail.com

Webmaster's Note: While there should be a "Matrikeln Register" for Dresden University, aand this subject is a research specialty of mine, I have never come across one. The only thing I see in the FHL Catlog under schools are two books (for the Holy Cross Latin School and a Teachers College). Perhaps searching the WWW with a WWW Search Engine will be more productive for you.