# Azriel Yosef Barbanel (b.1907) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **great-grandfather** ![[I500082.jpg|220]] **Born** 01/17/1907 — [[Abramowice]] **Died** 10/27/1990 — [[Bronx]] **Parents** [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]] · [[Genendel Spitz (b.1888)]] **Spouse** [[Baila Yachet Yocheved Friedman (b.1908)]] **Children** [[Yisrael Tzvi Barbanel (b.1934)]] · [[Faiga Toba Barbanel (b.1939)]] **Siblings** [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1911)]] · [[Herszek Barbanel (b.1913)]] · [[Helen Barbanel (b.1919)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500082_1.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_2.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_3.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_4.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_5.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_6.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_7.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_8.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_9.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_10.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_11.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_12.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_13.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_14.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_15.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_16.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_17.jpg|180]] ![[I500082_18.jpg|180]] **Documents — from MyHeritage:** [[I500082_doc0.pdf|📄 Azril Josef Barbanel]] *GEDCOM I500082 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Azriel Yosef Barbanel — Azryl Josek, as the register named him at his brit — was born on 4/17 January 1907 at seven in the evening, on the *folwark* (manor farm) of [[Abramowice]] near [[Głusk]], and lived to die an old man in the [[Bronx]] in 1990.[^birth] His birth was registered at Głusk a week and a half later, on 12/25 January 1907, by his father [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]], a merchant of twenty-eight — who, the act notes, was illiterate and could not sign it — before two Głusk witnesses, the householder Lejzor Lanajl and the synagogue sexton Pejsach Lejzman; his mother is entered as "Genendla née Szpic," eighteen years old ([[Genendel Spitz (b.1888)]]).[^birth] He grew up the eldest of the family, with younger siblings [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1911)]], [[Herszek Barbanel (b.1913)]] and [[Helen Barbanel (b.1919)]].[^birth] In 1933 he married [[Baila Yachet Yocheved Friedman (b.1908)]] — a wedding remembered in a surviving 1933 invitation — and the couple had two children, [[Yisrael Tzvi Barbanel (b.1934)]] and [[Faiga Toba Barbanel (b.1939)]], born in Poland before the war.[^marriage] Azriel Yosef lived through the Holocaust and survived it. The International Tracing Service (now the Arolsen Archives) held a tracing-and-documentation file on him — case no. 778.356, "BARBANEL, AZRIEL, born 07/17.01.1907" — the kind of file opened for survivors and displaced persons.[^arolsen] After the war the family made their way out of Europe: a family photograph records them leaving Bremerhaven, Germany, on 13 November 1950 aboard the USNS *General Sturgis*, bound for the United States, and the profile holds his U.S. petition for naturalization and a 1955 ship manifest.[^emigration] He settled in [[New York]], and died in the Bronx on 27 October 1990.[^death] [^birth]: Birth record, Głusk, registered 12/25 January 1907 (translation on the profile, and birth-record images "Azryl Josef Barbanel birth"): the child, born on the *folwark* of [[Abramowice]] on 4/17 January 1907 at 7 p.m., named Azryl Josek at his brit; presented by his father [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]], merchant, 28 (illiterate); mother "Genendla née Szpic," 18 ([[Genendel Spitz (b.1888)]]); witnesses Lejzor Lanajl (householder, 43) and Pejsach Lejzman (synagogue sexton, 49). [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/e88d86ba5c2f3101878d10c4c978810df2bdf39375d16f55517af4978293820e) [^marriage]: Marriage to [[Baila Yachet Yocheved Friedman (b.1908)]], 1933 (Barbanel–Friedman wedding invitation and marriage-record images on the profile); children [[Yisrael Tzvi Barbanel (b.1934)]] and [[Faiga Toba Barbanel (b.1939)]]. [^arolsen]: Arolsen Archives (ITS), Tracing and Documentation file, case no. 06030302.0.778.356, "BARBANEL, AZRIEL, born 07/17.01.1907." https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/archive/6-3-3-2_06030302-0-778-356 [^emigration]: Family photograph and documents on the profile: the family left Bremerhaven, Germany, 13 November 1950 aboard the USNS *General Sturgis*, bound for the USA; a Petition for Naturalization and a 1955 Barbanel ship manifest are also held. (His mother [[Genendel Spitz (b.1888)]] likewise survived the war and emigrated on the same 1950 sailing.) [^death]: Died 27 October 1990, [[Bronx]], New York (GEDCOM/MyHeritage). ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **Birth record (Głusk, 1907) translated on the profile** — b. folwark Abramowice 4/17 Jan 1907; father Dawid Barbanel (merchant, 28, illiterate), mother Genendla née Szpic (18); named Azryl Josek. A Holocaust survivor: Arolsen file 778.356; emigrated Bremerhaven → USA 13 Nov 1950 (USNS *General Sturgis*). - Records still to **read directly** from the scans/images: the birth act, the marriage record, the naturalization petition, the 1955 manifest, and an additional szukajwarchiwach scan cited in the biography. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Read the record images directly** (birth act, 1933 marriage, naturalization petition, 1950/1955 manifests) and add key ones to Evidence. An extra szukajwarchiwach scan is cited unlabelled in the family biography ([scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/e88d86ba5c2f3101878d10c4c978810df2bdf39375d16f55517af4978293820e)). - **His wartime experience** — which camps/ghettos, and the family's survival path to the 1950 Bremerhaven sailing — is not yet documented beyond the Arolsen file reference; a read of that file would fill it in.