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Joseph David Ha Levy
Mansbach
(c. 1830-c.1890)
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Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
Rachel Rose Piller, daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
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Abraham Pinchas Wurzel MANSBACH was married to Clara; they had two sons, Isman Leopoldo MANSBACH and Joachim MANSBACH. Abraham and his family escaped to South America just before the war.
Right, Aaron MANSBACH, a son of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH with his wife Mary and sons Jack (Jacob Jehudah) MANSBACH, and Fred MANSBACH. Aaron and Mary successfully fled Nazi Germany for America. See the Extraordinary Holocaust Survivors story elsewhere on this website.
Jack MANSBACH was a grandson of Jacob-Jehudah MANSBACH and named after him. Born in Germany in 1935, Jack and his family escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and immigrated to America. He grew up in the Bronx and moved to Manhattan after graduating from City College of New York. Jack owned a successful sweater manufacturing business and later worked for the New York City Housing Authority. He moved to Sarasota in 2004, where he became an active member of the Asolo Play Readers. Jack starred in an award winning independent film called Mr. Jim. He was an avid reader, a wonderful bridge player and New York Times crossword puzzle solver, and a film and music aficionado. Jack is survived by his brother Fred (Toni) of Manhattan, his daughters Lynn (Mario) and Shari (Joe) of Long Island, and his loving companion, Carol Cohen of Sarasota. Jack was a kind, passionate person with a true zest for life. May his memory be a blessing to all of those who knew him. He greatly contributed to this website.
Sima MANSBACH, wife of Pinchas MANSBACH
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Above, Gitla Ryfka Krill, the daughter of Shlomo Peretz ben Joseph David MANSBACH
Pinchas Mansbach was married to Feiga Leib Mansbach and had a son named David. The name Pinchas or Pinchas Elimelech is repeated several times in the Joseph David MANSBACH family and in the Shlomo Peretz family further indicating that these two "families" were closely related.
In 2019, Jewish Records Indexing printed the record below, memorializing Hirsch MANSBACH from Nowy Sacz, who perished in the Shoah. A page of testimony for Hirsch and Gilda was submitted by me to Yad Vashem. Now, their names will be remembered forever.
Deborah bat Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH (Kanerek)
1892-c.1943
Jacov-Jehudah Joachim/Achim "Joaquin" MANSBACH
1931-1963
The children and descendants of Joseph David Ha Levy MANSBACH:
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Gitla Ryfka Krill, the daughter of Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH 1877-19--
Jacov Jehudah ben Avraham Pincus MANSBACH also known as Joachim, Achim and then John in the United States, He fled the Nazi's with his family when he was 4 years old settling in Bolivia. He spent considerable time in Bolivia, later joining the Argentine army in 1955. Some time after that he joined the Israeli Defense Force and then came to the U.S., where he was known as John MANSBACH. He is interred at Mt. Hebron in Flushing, New York.
Deborah died in the Shoah at Aushvitz her husband Hirsh and daughter Lea
Brendla MANSBACH, eldest daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH, 1890-1973, married to David Belz, mother of Kurt and Arturo Belz. She barely escaped the Nazis by emigrating to Brazil with her family.
Elimelech ben Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH c. 1900-1992
The children and descendants of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH:
Above, Malka "Malie," first wife of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
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Sons, Avraham and Josef Kanarek
Pessel or Pesla bat Joseph David MANSBACH 1858-C.1920
Red arrow shows a reference to Joseph David Manzbach born c. 1830, the only known and earliest reference to him.
Moshe Yitzhak MANSBACH the son of Joseph David MANSBACH and Gnendl Zahava MANSBACH (Fiskus)
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Pinchas Mansbach c. 1860-c.1920
Below: birth of Chaim Jacob ben Shlomo Peretz from Polish archives
In 2017 your webmaster received an email from a French history teacher named Aurelie Pech related to Elimelech and his family. Ms. Pech said "as the father was imprisoned in the Milles Camp near Marseilles and deported to Auschwitz in August 1942 by the French Administration, the children lived hidden near Aix-les Bains but not (only?) in the woods, because the Swiss home in Pringy was very welcoming and nice. They soon crossed the border in February 1943 ."
Abraham Pinchas Wurzel MANSBACH, the son of Esther MANSBACH
1900-1993
Jack ben Aaron MANSBACH, grandson of Jacov-Jehudah MANSBACH c. 2015.
Kurt Belz son of Breindel Belz, daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
Below are letters from Elimelech ben Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH. He notes the name MANSBACH is contained in the 8th century Shabbat prayer Tahanot Shabbat. Importantly, he says that his grandfather Joseph David MANSBACH had brothers--likely the father(s) of the other MANSBACH families.
Aaron ben Jacov Jehudah MANSBACH
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A letter from Pinchas MANSBACH giving his thoughts on the MANSBACH family written in German:
Above is the 1899 wedding certificate of Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH, the brother of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH, and the grandfather of Elimelech MANSBACH who wrote the letter below.
Mansbach - Levyim Family
Joseph David MANSBACH 1894-1973, a son of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
Pinchas ben Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH : 1903-1986
Esther bat Joseph David MANSBACH c.1860-c.1900
Shlomo Peretz ben Joseph David MANSBACH
(1858-1942)
NOWY SACZ POLAND 1890 Census showing MANSBACHS living there in 1890:
Gitla fled the Nazi's and went to South America with her family. She was the wife of Benjamin Wolf Krill, the mother of Jacob Pinkas "Pedro" Krill; Ester Erna Spira, Chaje Helena Amsterdam, Aaron Krill, Lea "Leny" Mames and one other; the sister of Helene Chaje Rosenzweig, Heinrich Chaim Jacob MANSBACH, Mali Mansbach, Chana Buchsbaum, Josef David MANSBACH and six others.
R. Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH, the eldest son of Joseph David, was born in 1864 in Olpiny. He moved around a lot, through Nowy Sacz (rabbinical studies?), Erfurt, Dresden, Nurenberg and Berlin where he died in 1931. Below and to the right are pictures of Jacob Jehudah, in his youth and old age, and his funeral monument. Jacob Jehudah was married to Malka Malie. Their children were Joseph David, Pinchas, Aaron, Berisch, Briendel Bertha, Rachel Rose Piller, Tony Taube, Salome and Chaye. Jacob Jehudah had a second wife and children with her.
"Tony" Taube Hene Solomon, 1909-1993, daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
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Gilda MANSBACH from Nowy Sacz was punished for trading in contraband in 1941, no doubt because she was Jewish and desperate. I do not believe Gilda survived the Shoah.
Itamar Kazachinsky (l.) and Robert MANSBACH (r.) descendants of the Joseph David MANSBACH and Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH families, respectively.
Robert and Jack MANSBACH c. 2018
Translated : The Groom: Salamon Peretz MANZBACH (properly or legally, LICHTMANN), born in Olpiny, merchant in Nowy Sacz house No. 205_____, son of Josef Dawid and Taube Hene MANZBACH, merchant in Olpiny. Born October 15, 1858. Single. The Bride: Sara Schlanger (properly, Krischer), born in Nowy Sacz, daughter of Abraham Hersch Schlanger (a school custodian?) and Lea nee Krischer from Nowy Sacz.
Yisoel, the eldest son
Brendla MANSBACH eldest daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH 1890-1973
Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH (in the Joseph David family), was born in Olpiny, Poland on October 15, 1858. Polish archives identify him as in the "fancy goods trade, habedashery business." He was married to Sara Schlanger born in Nowy Sacz, daughter of Abraham Hersch Schlanger, a school custodian. She was born in 1857. We do not have a picture of Shlomo Peretz. He perished in the Shoah. Shlomo Peretz's children were Elimelech MANSBACH, Gitel Rebecca Rivka Krill, Helene Chaye Rosenzweig, Henry Chaim Jacob MANSBACH, Malie MANSBACH, Chana Buchsbaum and six others. See list on left.
There are seven MANSBACH families today that descend from one of the following MANSBACHs:
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MANSBACHs from Poland who perished in the Holocaust include:
Jacob Jehudah ben Joseph David MANSBACH
(1864-1931)
Jacob jehudah MANSBACH later in life
A number of the descendants of Joseph David MANSBACH from Nowy Sacz died in the Shoah but I am not certain as to how they were related:
Jack (Jacob Jehudah) ben Aaron) MANSBACH
1935-2019
Leah
Joseph David Ha Levy MANSBACH is identified as a merchant in Polish records. He and his family lived in Olpiny, Poland, the same village where Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH, the head of the Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH family, was living and in the same time frame. We do not know if this Shlomo Peretz and Joseph David were brothers but it seems likely and that the Joseph David and Shlomo Peretz families were actually one family with a common paternal ancestor. The descendants of Joseph David were constantly on the move and lived in many Polish villages, including Nowy Sacz, Olpini, and Dombrova, close to the other MANSBACH family shtetls SSE of Tarnow. According to family tradition, this branch of the MANSBACHs descended from or followed the Satmar Rebbe.
Joseph David was married to Taube Hene MANZBACH and had daughters Pessel and Esther and three sons, Jacob jehuda, Shlomo Peretz, and Pinchas MANSBACH. Joseph David's son Shlomo Peretz may have been named after the head of the Shlomo Peretz family who was living in Olpiny, or even an earlier Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH.
Eight generations of the descendants of Joseph David MANSBACH are identified in the following PDF:
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Aaron and Mary MANSBACH
Esther MANSBACH was a daughter of Joseph David Ha Levy, we don't know much more about her other than she lived in Olpiny like her sister Pessel and was married to Jacob Sender Alexander WURZEL, She had children Joseph David MANSBACH born in 1897 and Abraham Pinchas Wurzel MANSBACH.
Yudel MANSBACH: