Szapiro Family

link-Regina Szapiro, Brother and Sister, Sosnowiec.jpg (9970 bytes) Regina Szapiro with Brother and Sister, Sosnowiec, Russian Poland, c.1907 link-1906-regina-sister-and-brothers.jpg (11668 bytes) Regina Szapiro with Sister and Brothers, Sosnowiec, Russian Poland, c.1907
link-szapiro-brothers-university.jpg (2171 bytes) Szapiro brothers as University Students
Sosnowiec, Russian Poland, c.1907
Regina Szapiro as a young woman in Sosnowiec, Russian Poland, c.1905.
Mendel Szapiro
at Karoly Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia, c.1930
link-1920s-Karlsbad-Mendel-&-Dave.jpg (8021 bytes) Mendel Szapiro with son-in-law, David Orans at Karoly Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia, 
c.1930
Mendel Szapiro with son (uncertain) at Karoly Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia, c.1930 link-1936-szapiro-brothers-warsaw.jpg (2573 bytes) Five of the Seven Szapiro Brothers in Warsaw, 1936
Only one of the brothers would survive the War.
link-1930-szapiros-at-dinner.jpg (14467 bytes) The Szapiro Family at Dinner. Sosnowiec, Russian Poland, c. 1930 link-1928-szapiro-family.jpg (5465 bytes) The Szapiro Family at Dinner. Numbered photo identifying family members Sosnowiec, Russian Poland, c.1928
Mendel Szapiro studying Talmud, c. 1930 Mendel Szapiro outside his home in Sosnowiec, c.1936.
"Mama." First wife of Mendel Szapiro. Mother of Regina, c.1926 Rosa Szapiro. Second wife of Mendel Szapiro. c.1936.
Son of Mendel Szapiro (Uncertain). Baruch Szapiro  (Eldest son of Mendel).
Son of Mendel Szapiro (Photograph inscribed.). Son of Mendel Szapiro  
(Photograph with Yiddish inscription)
Sons of Mendel Szapiro (uncertain). Taken in Vienna, Austria. Son of Mendel Szapiro  
as a student in Warsaw.
(Photograph inscribed.).
Son of Mendel Szapiro,
(Uncertain).
Liza Szapiro, daughter of Mendel Szapiro.
Photo of the bride and groom. Wedding of Shaja Szapiro, 1921. Shaja Szapiro in the Polish Wing of the Royal Air Force (RAF),   c.1944.
Marusia and Husband with Bela Szapiro and friend Family of Szapiro Brother with Mama. Sosnowiec, c.1926.
Three Szapiro daughters. Most likely in Warsaw, c.1936.    
Family of Mendel Szapiro Family of Henri Szapiro
Sosnowiec was the home of the Szapiro family from the period c.1880 until the Holocaust.
Mendel Szapiro made his home at 23/9 Oderstrasse, Sosnowiec.
Sefer Sosnowiec v'hasviva b'Zaglembie.
Book of Sosnowiec and the Surrounding Area of Zaglembie.
Yizkor Book of Sosnowiec published online by JewishGen.
Zaglembia. Website on JewishGen dedicated to preserving the memory and heritage of the Zaglembie region and its towns and cities.. Compiled by Jeffrey K. Cymbler and Osnat Ramaty. Maps, history, photos and links.

Map of Poland in 1911 showing borders of Russian, German and Austrian Empires. National Geographic map of the German-Polish border in 1944. Indicates location of Sosnowiec, Poland,
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