# Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **2x great-grandfather · also 2nd cousin 3x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** ![[I500897.jpg|220]] **Born** ~1881 — [[Łęczna]] **Died** ~1943 **Parents** [[Jojna Berek Hamerman (b.1839)]] · [[Bajla Frenk (b.1857)]] **Spouse** [[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]] **Children** [[Rechla Hamerman (b.1900)]] · [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] · [[Chana Rajzla Hamerman (b.1912)]] · [[Tema Hamerman (b.1915)]] · [[Fajga Hamerman (d.1943)]] **Siblings** [[Dawid Hamerman (b.1890)]] · [[Wolf Hamerman (b.1895)]] · [[Chaim Hamerman (d.1888)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I500897_1.jpg|180]] ![[I500897_2.jpg|180]] ![[I500897_3.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-grandfather** — [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]] → [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **2nd cousin 3x removed** — [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]] → [[Bajla Frenk (b.1857)]] → [[Syma Fajga Grynblat (b.1826)]] → [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] → [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]] → [[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]] → [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I500897 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Moszek Mortko Hamerman — Moszko Mordko — was born about 1881 in [[Łęczna]], the son of [[Jojna Berek Hamerman (b.1839)]] and [[Bajla Frenk (b.1857)]], and grew up in the town among brothers, [[Dawid Hamerman (b.1890)]] and [[Wolf Hamerman (b.1895)]].[^parents] He married young. The marriage act, drawn at Łęczna on 1/13 January 1899, records "Moszko Mordko Hamerman, a bachelor, eighteen years old, born and residing with his parents in Łęczna, son of Jonas and Bajla née Frenk," marrying **[[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]]**, a maiden of twenty-two, likewise born and living with her parents in Łęczna, daughter of Moszko and Tema née Ponczak Grynblat.[^marriage] Because the groom was still a minor, his father [[Jojna Berek Hamerman (b.1839)]] — present at the ceremony — gave his consent by word of mouth; the banns had been read on three December Sabbaths, no prenuptial agreement was made, and the rabbi of the Łęczna synagogue, Lejzor Kerszenbaum, performed the wedding before the witnesses Moszko Wajs (seventy) and Majer Borensztejn (fifty), both Łęczna householders.[^marriage] Moszek and Maryia 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] He remained a Łęczna man: his name appears on a 1927 list of contributors to the upkeep of the Jewish religious community's administration there.[^community] Moszek Mortko Hamerman died about 1943 — the year the Jewish community of Łęczna was destroyed in the Holocaust; a document survives in the Yad Vashem collection.[^death] Through his son [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] his line runs down to Ozzy.[^kin] [^parents]: Son of [[Jojna Berek Hamerman (b.1839)]] and [[Bajla Frenk (b.1857)]] — named in his 1899 marriage act (below). Born ~1881, [[Łęczna]] (the act gives his age as 18 in Jan 1899). [^marriage]: Marriage record, [[Łęczna]], 1/13 January 1899, 4 p.m. (translation on the profile, family MyHeritage biography). Groom "Moszko Mordko Hamerman," bachelor aged 18, son of Jonas and Bajla née Frenk; bride "Mariya Grynblat," maiden aged 22, daughter of Moszko and Tema née Ponczak Grynblat — both born and resident in Łęczna. The groom being a minor, his father [[Jojna Berek Hamerman (b.1839)]] gave verbal consent in person; banns 28 Nov/10 Dec, 5/17 and 12/24 Dec 1898; officiant rabbi Lejzor Kerszenbaum of the Łęczna synagogue; witnesses Moszko Wajs (householder, 70) and Majer Borensztejn (householder, 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)]]. [^community]: "List of contributions for the maintenance of the administration of the Jewish religious community, 1927" (image on the profile) — Moszek Mortko Hamerman among the Łęczna contributors. [^death]: Died ~1943 (GEDCOM/MyHeritage), amid the destruction of Łęczna Jewry in the Holocaust; a related document is held in the Yad Vashem collection ([document 4068372](https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/documents/4068372)). [^kin]: Direct line to Ozzy via [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]]. (He also relates as a 2nd cousin 3x removed through the intermarried Grynblat line — see the paths on this profile.) ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **1899 Łęczna marriage record translated on the profile** — Moszko Mordko Hamerman, 18 (minor, father's verbal consent), son of Jonas + Bajla née Frenk; married Mariya Grynblat, 22, daughter of Moszko + Tema née Ponczak. Rabbi Lejzor Kerszenbaum. Confirms parents + wife's Grynblat parentage. - **Łęczna community life + Holocaust:** on the 1927 Jewish-community contributions list; died ~1943. A Yad Vashem document is linked. - Scans still to **read directly**: the marriage act image and the 1927 contributions list. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Read the marriage-act scan and the 1927 contributions list directly**, and the Yad Vashem document ([4068372](https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/documents/4068372)) — to confirm his death circumstances (~1943) and add to Evidence. - **Bride's mother's surname** — the marriage act reads "Tema née **Ponczak** (!)" with a copyist's exclamation; confirm against [[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]]'s records.