# Chwula Tuchsznajder (b.1818) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **4x great-grandmother · also 5x great-grandmother *(2 ancestral lines)*** ![[I508165.jpg|220]] **Born** 1818 **Died** 09/11/1880 — [[Łęczna]] **Parents** [[Josef Tuchsznajder (Tuchszer) (b.1775)]] · [[Ruchla (b.1774)]] **Spouse** [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] **Children** [[Syma Fajga Grynblat (b.1826)]] · [[Abram Lejbus Grynblat (b.1835)]] · [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]] · [[Serka Grynblat (b.1844)]] · [[PLACEHOLDER Mortka Grynblat]] **Siblings** [[Zelman Nuchym Tuchsznajder (b.1803)]] · [[Lejbus Hersz Tuchsznajder (b.1810)]] · [[Chana Sura Tuchsznajder (b.1813)]] · [[Perla Tuchsznajder (b.1823)]] · [[Szajndla Tuchsznajder (b.1823)]] **📸 Media — from MyHeritage** ![[I508165_1.jpg|180]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **4x great-grandmother** — [[Chwula Tuchsznajder (b.1818)]] → [[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)]] - **5x great-grandmother** — [[Chwula Tuchsznajder (b.1818)]] → [[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 I508165 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Chwula — "**Chula**" in her records — was born about 1818, a daughter of [[Josef Tuchsznajder (Tuchszer) (b.1775)]] and [[Ruchla (b.1774)]].[^death] She married [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] and shared his village life in **[[Rozkopaczew]]**, a settlement of gmina Ludwin in the Łęczna Jewish district. Their children included [[Syma Fajga Grynblat (b.1826)]], [[Abram Lejbus Grynblat (b.1835)]], [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]] and Serka — and because two of them (Syma and Moszek Hersz) each carry the line down, Chula, like her husband, stands in Ozzy's tree along two separate paths. She outlived Chaim. When he died in Łęczna in November 1877 she was left a widow, and she survived him by not quite three years. On **11 September 1880** (23 September by the new calendar), at eight in the evening, "**Chula Grynblat, widow**," aged **sixty-two**, died in the town of [[Łęczna]] — where, exactly like her late husband, she was only **temporarily staying**, her permanent home still being the village of Rozkopaczew.[^death] Her death act names her "**daughter of Josef and Ruchla**," fixing her parentage from her own record.[^death] The registration, on 24 September, was made by the very same two townsmen who had reported Chaim's death three years before: Boruch Lejb Gochman, a householder now sixty-six, and Hercyk, the *szkolnik* (synagogue sexton), now thirty — the standing witnesses of Łęczna's Jewish death register.[^death] Both again declared they could not write. Her recorded age of sixty-two places her birth about 1818. [^death]: Death act no. 25, Łęczna civil register, dated 12/24 September 1880, read directly from the scan. Declarants **Boruch Lejb Gochman**, householder (*домовладѣлецъ*), 66, and **Hercyk [Naskel]**, *szkolnik* (synagogue sexton), 30, both of Łęczna and both illiterate, declared that on **11/23 September 1880 at 8 p.m.** died in Łęczna the Jewess **Chula Grynblat, widow**, aged **62**, "**daughter of Josef and Ruchla**" (née surname unknown), a permanent resident of the village of **Rozkopaczew**, gmina Ludwin, **temporarily residing in Łęczna**. Registered before the mayor of Łęczna. (The same two witnesses registered her husband [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]]'s death in 1877.) Age 62 → birth c. 1818. Scan: [Akta 25](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/6527ad664b316b15ef6afd8ef9dc0c50b32ffcb13b9f9d50f9e2add086fc9f73). (Record image on this profile.) ## Research - **Death, 1880, Łęczna (death act no. 25).** Read directly. **Chula Grynblat, widow, aged 62**, died **11/23 September 1880 at 8 p.m.** in Łęczna; **daughter of Josef and Ruchla**; permanent resident of the village of **Rozkopaczew** (gmina Ludwin), temporarily staying in Łęczna. Declarants **Boruch Lejb Gochman** (householder, 66) & **Hercyk**, *szkolnik* (30), both illiterate — the same pair who registered her husband's 1877 death. Age 62 → b. c. 1818. Source: [Akta 25](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/6527ad664b316b15ef6afd8ef9dc0c50b32ffcb13b9f9d50f9e2add086fc9f73). - **Parentage** confirmed by the death act: daughter of **Josef** ([[Josef Tuchsznajder (Tuchszer) (b.1775)]]) and **Ruchla** ([[Ruchla (b.1774)]]). - **Widowhood** — she is styled "widow," consistent with [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]]'s death in November 1877; both were Rozkopaczew villagers who died while temporarily in Łęczna. - **Recorded name form:** Chula (death act) / Chwula (vault head-form). ## Evidence - **1880 death act (Łęczna, no. 25)** — Chula Grynblat, widow, aged 62, of Rozkopaczew, died in Łęczna 11/23 Sept 1880; daughter of Josef and Ruchla. Her own death record; fixes her death, approximate birth year, widowhood, home village, and parents. ![[I508165_1.jpg]] *Death act no. 25, Łęczna civil register, 1880 — death of "Chula Grynblat, widow," aged 62, of Rozkopaczew, daughter of Josef and Ruchla; reported by Boruch Lejb Gochman and Hercyk the szkolnik ([szukajwarchiwach scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/6527ad664b316b15ef6afd8ef9dc0c50b32ffcb13b9f9d50f9e2add086fc9f73)).* ## Open questions - **Mother's surname.** Her death act gives her parents as "Josef and Ruchla" with an unknown maiden surname for the mother [[Ruchla (b.1774)]]; a marriage or birth record would supply it. - **Birth/marriage records.** No birth or marriage record for Chwula is yet located; either (Łęczna district, c. 1818 birth; or her marriage to Chaim Grynblat) would confirm her Tuchsznajder parentage directly and help settle her daughter Syma's disputed birth year (see [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]]).