Notes: The following booklet (folded, loose pages, each approximately 5 1/2" by 3 1/4", and separated from what they had been sewn to) was (presumably) mostly maintained by Mom's maternal grandfather Rafael Isek Ioachimow Baumgarten. However, there are some additions following his death in 1906 (interestingly, not including his own death). As the only son, presumably Uncle Julek had this, but I assume it ended up with Aunt Franka.
I also wonder if there are missing pages (and not in order), since no children recorded after Aunt Franka (Freidel) [Mom's translation has the page with Rose and Mina!]. Mom's notes suggest that what I have as Page 2 was Page 1.
It is both in German and Hebrew, the latter for indicating the dates in the Jewish calendar. I have indicated the English translations from the Hebrew with "[H]".
Page 1:
Birthday of eldest son Israel January 20/February 1 1880 {H] Mazal Tov. The children of Israel will live, Sunday the 19th of the month of Shvat 5640.
Birthday of my second. Daughter Jytta Sunday June 14/26, 1881.{H] Mazal Tov. Daughter Jytta Sunday 29th of the month of Sivan 5641 Parashat Shelach,
Day of death of blessed child Jytta Sept. 2/18, 1882{H] Yahrzeit Sunday the 2nd of the month of Tishrei 5643
Birthday of daughter Freidel Tuesday November 14/26, 1883{H] A daughter, may she live for long life, was born Fridel early Tuesday morning on Parashat Toldot, the 27th of the month of MarCheshvan 5644
[Missing page?]
Birthday of my daughter "Rose" October 10/22, 1885
[then different handwriting]
Birthday of my daughter "Feile" 4/16 March 1887
Birthday of my daughter Mina Friday 7/19 January 1894
Page 2:
Mom's translation: "There are two ways in which men attain virtue--if one closes up, the other will open. By acting the fortunate one will reach them [the sufferer tolerates it] Good for him whose fate conducted him lovingly on both paths." Written Ozorkow [1] May 2, 1869, by your loving brother-in-law S. Ashkanasy [2]
Page 3:
Birthday of my wife 5th June 5, 1859 - {H] 4th of the month of Sivan 5619
My birthday October 22nd, 1856 - {H] Sunday Rosh Chodesh [the first of the month] MarCheshvan 5616
Our engagement day March 12th 1878 - {H] 4th of the month of the Second Adar 5638
Our wedding day 11/23 April 1879 - {H] The first day of the month of Iyar 5639
Page 4:
My watch N. 3 - 56 - No. Dreyfus 27169 [3]
Page 5:
My brother-in-law Salomon Aschkanasy has died on Thursday the 26th April 1906 [H] On Thursday the 1st of the month of Iyar 5686, on Parashat Shmini {2]
Page 6:
[Aunt Franka's handwriting]
Our parents:
Day of death of Rafal Baumgarten: 22 September 1906 in Lodz.
Day of death of Liba (Leonore) Baumgarten nee Lubliner: July 2, 1926 in Berlin (Suffering from diabetes and heart disease).
Page 7:
Birthdays
m. l. Father's April 5, 1834
m. l. Mother 6 May 1834
m. l. Brother Heilmann November 18, 1858
m. l. - Abrahm January 22, 1860
m. l. - Leopold 19 Nov. 61
m. l. - Solomon
m. l. Sister Regina 23 July 65 - 5/7. 1896
m. l. - Helena 22 October 71.
Page 8:
Yahrzeits[H]
-My grandfather Rafael z"l, 28th of the month of Nisan 5609 ([April 20,] 1849)[4]
-My grandfather Levi Israel z"l, 4th of the month of Sh'vat 5620 ([January 28,] 1862)[5]
-My grandmother Rivka 9th of the month of Tamuz 5612 ([June 26,] 1852)[5]
-My sister Frida, 12th of the month of MarCheshvan 5635 (1875) [6]
-My uncle, peace upon him (=may he rest in peace) Yisrael z"l on Yom Kippur 5634, (1874) [6]
-My mother in-law on the holy Shabbat, the 24th of the month of Tishrei 5602 (1841) on Isru first Yom Tov of Sukkot [7]
11 October 1879
Page 9:
Yahrzeits
Yahrzeit of my mother 5 June 1883.[H] Yahrzeit, Tuesday the day before Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 5643 (1883) at 5 in the morning and she was buried on the following day.
Yahrzeit of my brother Solomon, June 4, 1885[H] My brother z"l Zalman Parashat Shelach, 21st of the month of Sivan 5645 (1885)
and as buried on the same day.
Page 10:
[different handwriting]
Yahrzeit of my grandmother Feile Baumgarten 10/22 May 1886.[H] Death on the holy Shabbat at 4, Parashat Bechukotai 17th of Iyar 5646 (1886), the 32 day of the counting of the Omer and she was was buried on the following day the 33 of the Omer
Page 11:
Yahrzeits
Yahrzeit of my father-in-law on Thursday June 9th, 1892 buried June 10, 1892.[H] Died on Thursday 14th of the month of Sivan 5652 (1892) and was buried on the Friday, the following day, in the city of Lvov (?)
Page 12:
Yahrzeits
My brother-in-law Jacob Lubliner ... died in New York [H] 2rth of the month of Tevet 5662 (1902) [8]
Page 13:
H. L. Levin [9]
Box 445
Schenectady
New York
America
From the longer piece about the Lubliners:
Now I want to tell you a little story. Last summer I accidentally met a Polish lady who told me that there were 3 historians named Baumgarten in Poland. I was very pleased and asked her for the address of these people when she got back to Poland. She said so, and I wrote to a historian in Warsaw. Indeed, we have been shown to be related. His ancestors come from the same remote area in Poland as my father, and we have the same great-great-uncle, a very worthy old man (Reb Mosche ... ), who, by the way, was very rich (hat maker, big country manor).
Notes:
Didn't have a name for Solomon before coming across this booklet. Don't understand the date (1869), since Solomon Ashkenasy was his wife's brother-in-law. Interesting how close they must have been since he also records his death, which was only month's before his own death in 1906.
Love this! Don't think it is a watch we still have, but Dreyfuss watches have been around since at least the 1890's.
His father's father (Rafael Baumgarten).
His mother's parents. See birth certificate for his mother.
The Greogrian years seem off by one from the Jewish Calendar years ... should be 1874 and 1873
Hebrew translator: The holiday of Sukkot has two Shabbat like days= Yom Tov, the first and the last. The days in between the two, are week-like days and are called the week of the holiday (chol hamoed). The day after the first Yom Tov is called Israu (bind it) Chag (holiday) so it is a little more sacred than the rest of the chol hamoed days.
Jacob (Jankiel) Lubliner (great-grandmother's oldest brother). The Lubliner genealogy shows that he had a second marriage and had six children in the United States.
Don't know who this is, or who wrote it.