A letter from Jack Goldfarb:

I wanted to let you know that my dearest sister, Eve Goldfarb Abrams, passed away on Thanksgiving Eve, last Wednesday, November 25, after a long and worthy life. She was buried in the Staszower Cemetery in Woodbridge, N.J.

Eve fell a little short of becoming a centenarian, having made it to 99 years and 9 months.
Although she recorded a slight deficit in not reaching 100 years, she did give and receive a great surplus of love and affection in her lifetime.

We will surely miss her warmheartedness, her creativity and her individualistic lifestyle.

Jack Goldfarb
Simone
Adam and Melissa.

Nizhyn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nizhyn Ніжин
— Town —
Coordinates: 51°02′17″N31°53′10″E / 51.03806°N 31.88611°E / 51.03806; 31.88611
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Chernihiv
Magdeburg rights	1625
Area
- Total	43.2 km2 (16.7 sq mi)
Population (January 1, 2005)
- Total	75,600
Website	http://nizhyn.osp-ua.info/index.php

John the Apostle Church in Nizhyn.

Nizhyn (Ukrainian: Ніжин; Russian: Нежин; Nezhin) is a city located in the Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine, along the Oster River, 150 km north-east of the nation's capital, Kiev. It is the administrative center of the Nizhynsky Raion, though the city itself is also designated as a district in the oblast. Its estimated population is 76,625 (as of the 2001 census).

History

The earliest known references to the location go back to 1147, when it was briefly mentioned as Unenezh. In the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nizhyn was granted Magdeburg rights (1625) as a self-governing town. Nizhyn was once a major center of Hasidic Judaism and is the site of the Ohel (tomb) of the Hasidic master, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri of Chabad-Lubavitch. It was also the seat of a major Cossack regiment (until 1782) and of the thriving Greek community^{[citation needed]}, which enjoyed a number of privileges granted by Bogdan Khmelnytsky.

In the nineteenth century Nizhyn became an uyezd capital of Chernigov Guberniya and, before 1808, of Malorosiyskaya (or Little Russian) gubernia. In 1805, the BezborodkoLyceum was established there; its graduates include Nikolai Gogol, whose statue graces one of city streets. Nizhyn has also long been noted for its famous cucumbers.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezhin

See also: http://nizhyn.osp-ua.info/index.php

According to Dan Rottenberg's "Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow", Frička is marked on a map as "home of the Goldner family" (p.21). Presumably Mandel Goldner or his son Harry came from this village in Eastern Slovakia, just miles from the Polish border.

From Wikipedia:

(Location of Bardejov District in the Nitra region)

"Frička is a village and municipality in Bardejov District in the Prešov Region of north-east Slovakia.

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1618.

The municipality lies at an altitude of 500 metres and covers an area of 8.279km². It has a population of about 255 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C4%8Dka

View Frička in Google Maps