After the interesting time I had in Rutki, and backtracking some of my journey to find that memorial, I went back to Rutki and followed that sign to Wizna.
I knew the road would take me through a few even smaller villages. One of them was Grądy Woniecko, the birth place of the earliest Mularzewicz ancestor who’s birth record I have. I only stopped long enough to take a picture of the sign. It seemed like the only thing in town was a prison, which Polish Wikipedia confirms opened in 1999.
The earliest Mularzewicz record I have so far is for the a marriage for Moszko in 1838 in Wizna. However, Wizna is primarily known to me as where my Kurlender family comes from. My great-grandmother Sorka was born there in 1865. When I first got her Polish birth record, I was not sure it was hers because I lacked more information about her. But I was just being hesitant. After retrieving all of the indexed Kurlender records, I was able to put them all together into one large family tree.
As I did with Rutki, I tried to find where the synagogue used to be, but while I found some pictures online, I could find no address or other details. So I just went to the center of town. There was a sign pointing for information, but when I followed it, I got to a one way street out of the center of town and could never find where it wanted me to go.
And to be a good genealogist, the names inscribed on the monument in the Wizna park:
- Dobronski Jozef
- Glinski Jan
- Grzeszczyk Marceli
- Konopko Franciszek
- Krasnowski Jozef
- Lipinski Jozef
- Markfart Boleslaw
- Olszewski Teofil
- Ostrowski Stefan
- Pruszko Jozef
- Piotrowski Andrzej
- Ptaszynski Edmund
- Radziwon Antoni
- Renkiewicz Apolinary
- Szulc Antoni
- Trepanowski Jozef
The URL of this post is http://idogenealogy.com/blog/2012/09/23/wizna/.
All photos and content Copyright 2012 by Banai Lynn Feldstein.