# Icek Szol Balter (b.1886) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **2nd cousin 4x removed** ![[I518981.jpg|220]] **Born** ~1886 — [[Siedliszcze]] **Parents** [[Abram Josef Balter (b.1845)]] · [[Sura Chysza Erblich (b.1849)]] **Spouse** [[Chaja Rosa Kamer (b.1886)]] **Children** [[Jankiel Moszek Balter (b.1932)]] **Siblings** [[Ksyl Szmul Szmelka Balter (b.1867)]] · [[Szajndla Balter (b.1868)]] · [[Jankiel Icek Balter (b.1876)]] · [[Szyia Mordka Balter (b.1876)]] · [[Chana Balter (b.1876)]] · [[Moszek Lejb Balter (b.1878)]] · [[Srul Balter (b.1885)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I518981_1.jpg|180]] *GEDCOM I518981 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Icek Szol Balter was born about 1886 in [[Siedliszcze]], a town in the Chełm region of what is now south-eastern Poland. The MyHeritage biography records him as a son of [[Abram Josef Balter (b.1845)]] and [[Sura Chysza Erblich (b.1849)]], though the MyHeritage biography flags that parentage as unconfirmed. He married [[Chaja Rosa Kamer (b.1886)]], and a son, [[Jankiel Moszek Balter (b.1932)]], is recorded. The clearest documentary trace of the couple comes from post-war Poland. A Monitor Polski court-announcements notice, published in the issue of 18 October 1946 and repeated in Nr 16 of 7 February 1947, names them together — rendered in the OCR as "Icku-Szolu i Chai-Rosi z Kamerów Balterowej" (Icek Szol and Chaja Rosa née Kamer, wife of Balter) — as owners of a property in **Chełm** under mortgage-register number 448 (Monitor Polski 1946 item 29; 1947 item 29). The same entry lists **Jankiel-Lejb Kamer** and **Sura-Tauba née Drexler, wife of Kamer** as co-owners, situating Chaja Rosa's Kamer relatives on the same title [?]. These were hipoteka (land-register) proceedings of the kind used after the war to regularise or trace ownership of real estate whose holders were dispersed or missing — context that frames the notice rather than a fact proven about the family's fate. He is also mentioned twice in the Chełm Yiddish newspaper *Khelemer shtime* in 1929 (issues of 13 June and 6 December), under the name באלטער (Balter). ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **Monitor Polski, 1946 (Nr 108, 18 October 1946), item 29** — court-announcements list of property owners in Chełm names, per OCR, "Ickti-Szohu i Chai-Rosi z Kamerów Balterowej oraz Jankielu-Lejbie Kamerze i Surze-Taubie z Dreksierów Kamerowej, właścicielach nieruchomości w Chełmie, hip. Nr 448" — i.e. Icek Szol [Balter] and Chaja Rosa née Kamer (Mrs. Balter), together with Jankiel-Lejb Kamer and Sura-Tauba née Drexler (Mrs. Kamer), owners of real estate in Chełm, mortgage no. 448. Read via extracted PDF text (OCR, noisy). Source: https://monitorpolski.gov.pl/M1946108000001.pdf - **Monitor Polski, Nr 16 (Łódź, 7 February 1947), item 29** — the identical entry reappears ("Icku-Szolu i Chai-Rosi z Kamerów Balterowej oraz Jankielu-Lejbie Kamerze i Surze-Taubie z Drekslerów Kamerowej … w Chełmie, hip. Nr 448"), confirming the 1946 reading. Read via extracted PDF text. Source: https://monitorpolski.gov.pl/M1947016000001.pdf - Together these establish: Icek Szol Balter and Chaja Rosa née Kamer were on record after WWII as owners of property in **Chełm** (mortgage register no. 448), alongside her Kamer relatives (Jankiel-Lejb Kamer; Sura-Tauba née Drexler Kamer). The wife's maiden name **Kamer** [confirmed] and the mother-in-law's maiden name **Drexler** [?] are supplied by these notices. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Needs browser pass** — *Khelemer shtime* (Chełm), 13 June 1929, article mentioning באלטער (Balter): image-based NLI viewer, returns HTTP 403 to fetch; cannot be read here. https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chelemersztyme/1929/06/13/01/article/35/ - **Needs browser pass** — *Khelemer shtime* (Chełm), 6 December 1929, second Balter mention: same image viewer, unreadable here. https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chelemersztyme/1929/12/06/01/article/31 - Parentage as son of [[Abram Josef Balter (b.1845)]] is flagged unconfirmed in the MyHeritage biography — needs a birth/marriage record to prove. - The Monitor Polski notices place the couple in **Chełm** (not Siedliszcze) after WWII; the Kamer/Drexler co-owners on mortgage no. 448 are likely Chaja Rosa's family and warrant their own profiles/cross-check.