# Maryia Grynblat (b.1876) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **2x great-grandmother · also 1st cousin 5x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** ![[I500898.jpg|220]] **Born** 02/21/1876 — [[Łęczna]] **Died** ~1943 **Parents** [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]] · [[Tema Paczek (b.1843)]] **Spouse** [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]] **Children** [[Rechla Hamerman (b.1900)]] · [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] · [[Chana Rajzla Hamerman (b.1912)]] · [[Tema Hamerman (b.1915)]] · [[Fajga Hamerman (d.1943)]] **Siblings** [[Ruchla Grynblat (b.1857)]] · [[Zelda Grynblat (b.1861)]] · [[Symcha Grynblat (b.1866)]] · [[Zelman Hersz Grynblat (b.1871)]] · [[Elchunon Grynblat]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500898_1.jpg|180]] ![[I500898_2.jpg|180]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **2x great-grandmother** — [[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]] → [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **1st cousin 5x removed** — [[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]] → [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]] → [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] → [[Syma Fajga Grynblat (b.1826)]] → [[Bajla Frenk (b.1857)]] → [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]] → [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I500898 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Maryia Grynblat was born in [[Łęczna]] on 9/21 February 1876, at five in the afternoon, the daughter of [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]], a worker of the town, and [[Tema Paczek (b.1843)]].[^birth] Her birth was not registered until two years later — on 8/20 June 1878 — her father explaining the delay by his having been away from Łęczna looking for work; the illiterate father presented her before two townsmen, the householder Boruch Lejb Rochman (sixty-four) and the synagogue sexton Gercyk Chaskel Korenzecher (twenty-eight).[^birth] She grew up among a large sibship — [[Ruchla Grynblat (b.1857)]], [[Zelda Grynblat (b.1861)]], [[Symcha Grynblat (b.1866)]], [[Zelman Hersz Grynblat (b.1871)]] and [[Elchunon Grynblat]].[^siblings] On 1/13 January 1899 she married, in Łęczna, **[[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]]** — a bachelor of eighteen, five years her junior — before the rabbi Lejzor Kerszenbaum; the act records her as a maiden of twenty-two, daughter of Moszko and Tema née Ponczak Grynblat.[^marriage] The couple had a large family: [[Rechla Hamerman (b.1900)]], [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]], [[Chana Rajzla Hamerman (b.1912)]], [[Tema Hamerman (b.1915)]] and [[Fajga Hamerman (d.1943)]].[^children] Maryia Grynblat died about 1943 — the family, like the whole Jewish community of Łęczna, caught up in the Holocaust.[^death] Through her son [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] her line runs down to Ozzy.[^kin] [^birth]: Birth record, [[Łęczna]], akt No. 58, registered 8/20 June 1878 (translation on the profile, family MyHeritage biography): Mariya, born in Łęczna 9/21 February 1876 at 5 p.m. to Moszek Grynblat (worker, 37) and his wife "Tema née Pongen" (32); the late registration explained by the father's absence job-searching. Witnesses Boruch Lejb Rochman (householder, 64) and Gercyk Chaskel Korenzecher (synagogue sexton, 28); the father was illiterate. [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/156e75021bc8df7574bffdb0ec1dca4306de16b60d371265ffa62ecf3ddffa65) (not yet read directly). [^siblings]: Siblings per the GEDCOM: [[Ruchla Grynblat (b.1857)]], [[Zelda Grynblat (b.1861)]], [[Symcha Grynblat (b.1866)]], [[Zelman Hersz Grynblat (b.1871)]], [[Elchunon Grynblat]]. [^marriage]: Marriage record, [[Łęczna]], 1/13 January 1899 (translation on the profile; also on [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]]): she, a maiden of 22, daughter of Moszko and Tema née Ponczak Grynblat, married Moszko Mordko Hamerman (bachelor, 18); rabbi Lejzor Kerszenbaum; witnesses Moszko Wajs (70) and Majer Borensztejn (50). [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/a67a0d94d31ed63cf59f1491ecd74b51b102bf730010f529a1164fc7861e2dbf) [^children]: Children per the GEDCOM/MyHeritage record: [[Rechla Hamerman (b.1900)]], [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]], [[Chana Rajzla Hamerman (b.1912)]], [[Tema Hamerman (b.1915)]], [[Fajga Hamerman (d.1943)]]. [^death]: Died ~1943 (GEDCOM/MyHeritage), amid the destruction of Łęczna Jewry in the Holocaust. [^kin]: Direct line to Ozzy via [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]]. (She also relates as a 1st cousin 5x removed through the intermarried Grynblat line — see the paths on this profile.) ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **1878 Łęczna birth record (akta 58) translated on the profile** — b. 9/21 Feb 1876, registered late (father's job-search absence); father Moszek Grynblat (worker, 37), mother Tema née **Pongen/Ponczak/Paczek** (32). Fixes her birth + parents. - **1899 marriage** to [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]] (see his profile) — she 22, he 18. - Died ~1943 (Holocaust). Birth scan to **read directly**. - **Mother's surname variants:** Pongen (birth) / Ponczak (marriage) / Paczek (frontmatter) — to reconcile against [[Tema Paczek (b.1843)]]. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Read the birth-record scan (akta 58) directly** and add to Evidence. - **Mother's maiden surname** — Pongen vs Ponczak vs Paczek; settle the correct form.