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You will see that spouses who are not direct descendants of the Kaimowitz-Katz-Kaye lineage have not been included as including everyone would have really complicated the site ..........................so don't get upset!
Please email me to add any information, news or photographs. I can then add them as a page or to an existing page. Let us know what's going on in your life. Don't be shy!
You will see that spouses who are not direct descendants of the Kaimowitz-Katz-Kaye lineage have not been included as including everyone would have really complicated the site ..........................so don't get upset!
This is a private website for family members only.
Information can only be changed or added by the site administrator.
You can see to whom you are related and help your kids and grandchildren understand their origins and to stay connected with their relatives in different parts of the world.
In October 2017 Trevor and Martin Kaye visited Poland on a private Jewish Heritage Tour. We visited Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Our aim was to pay our respects and see if we could add to the knowledge of our family history. We accomplished our goals. It was a moving and memorable trip.
In March 2018 Jeff Kaimowitz visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. He found victims whose last name was Kajmowicz. I don't believe they are related, but out of respect and in their memory, I have included the photo documentation that Jeff sent.
In April 2018 Warren and Karen Kaimowitz visited Poland.
In April 2019 Daryl Kaimowitz also visited Poland, so in the past couple of years there has been a definite return to "our roots" by members of the family!
Daryl's comments:
"I did a fair bit of travelling this year. I joined a special tour led by Rabbi Widmont to Poland where we met up with Dov Landau,a survivor. It was the same tour that Warren and Karen did in 2018 and that Rael and Caroline will do in 2020.
Dov accompanied us on this sad but meaningful tour of the camps. We pray that he continues in good health and be blessed to lead more such tours. Over 90 years old, he is such a remarkable man.
I arrived in Poland a few days before the tour to visit Lodz where my father grew up between the ages of 7-14 before coming to Cape Town. It is amazing what you can find on the internet. My cousin Martin, in Boston came across a Census Form taken in Lodz before they came to Cape Town. It showed all the family names and also their address. I immediately searched the address and could not find it. Then found the address of the Information Bureau in Lodz and attached the form. I queried if the street had possibly been bombed during the war. Within 30 minutes they came back to me to say the street names had been changed back in the mid 1920’s and that the “Tenement” was still standing. They attached a front picture of the building as well as a google map shot from above that I could search all around the building. Unbelievable!!! I arranged a guide and we spent a day and a half together. I stayed at the Jewish Centre which has a very reasonable hotel. I spent Shabbos in Warsaw and attended services at the Shul where Cantor Lichterman was the Chazzan."
In March 2018 Jeff Kaimowitz visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. He found victims whose last name was Kajmowicz. I don't believe they are related, but out of respect and in their memory, I have included the photo documentation that Jeff sent.
In April 2018 Warren and Karen Kaimowitz visited Poland.
In April 2019 Daryl Kaimowitz also visited Poland, so in the past couple of years there has been a definite return to "our roots" by members of the family!
Daryl's comments:
"I did a fair bit of travelling this year. I joined a special tour led by Rabbi Widmont to Poland where we met up with Dov Landau,a survivor. It was the same tour that Warren and Karen did in 2018 and that Rael and Caroline will do in 2020.
Dov accompanied us on this sad but meaningful tour of the camps. We pray that he continues in good health and be blessed to lead more such tours. Over 90 years old, he is such a remarkable man.
I arrived in Poland a few days before the tour to visit Lodz where my father grew up between the ages of 7-14 before coming to Cape Town. It is amazing what you can find on the internet. My cousin Martin, in Boston came across a Census Form taken in Lodz before they came to Cape Town. It showed all the family names and also their address. I immediately searched the address and could not find it. Then found the address of the Information Bureau in Lodz and attached the form. I queried if the street had possibly been bombed during the war. Within 30 minutes they came back to me to say the street names had been changed back in the mid 1920’s and that the “Tenement” was still standing. They attached a front picture of the building as well as a google map shot from above that I could search all around the building. Unbelievable!!! I arranged a guide and we spent a day and a half together. I stayed at the Jewish Centre which has a very reasonable hotel. I spent Shabbos in Warsaw and attended services at the Shul where Cantor Lichterman was the Chazzan."