Joseph David Ha Levy Mansbach (c. 1830-c.1890)
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:
The children and descendants of Joseph David Ha Levy MANSBACH:
Pinchas Mansbach c. 1860-c.1920
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.
Shlomo Peretz ben Joseph David MANSBACH (1858-1942)
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.
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.
David Manzbach born c. 1830, the only known and earliest reference
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.
Elimelech ben Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH c. 1900-1992
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.
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 ."
Gitla Ryfka Krill, the daughter of Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH 1877-19--
Above, Gitla Ryfka Krill, the daughter of Shlomo Peretz ben Joseph David MANSBACH
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.
birth of Chaim Jacob ben Shlomo Peretz from Polish archives
Esther bat Joseph David MANSBACH c.1860-c.1900
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.
Abraham Pinchas Wurzel MANSBACH, the son of Esther MANSBACH 1900-1993
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.
Jacov-Jehudah Joachim/Achim "Joaquin" MANSBACH 1931-1963
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.
Aaron ben Jacov Jehudah MANSBACH
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.
Aaron and Mary MANSBACH
Jack (Jacob Jehudah) ben Aaron) MANSBACH 1935-2019
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.
Jack ben Aaron MANSBACH, grandson of Jacov-Jehudah MANSBACH c. 2015
Robert and Jack MANSBACH c. 2018
Brendla MANSBACH eldest daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH 1890-1973
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.
Joseph David MANSBACH 1894-1973, a son of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
"Tony" Taube Hene Solomon, 1909-1993, daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
Kurt Belz son of Breindel Belz, daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
Moshe Yitzhak MANSBACH the son of Joseph David MANSBACH and Gnendl Zahava MANSBACH (Fiskus)
Rachel Rose Piller, daughter of Jacob Jehudah MANSBACH
Itamar Kazachinsky (l.) and Robert MANSBACH (r.) descendants of the Joseph David MANSBACH and Shlomo Peretz MANSBACH families, respectively.
NOWY SACZ POLAND 1890 Census showing MANSBACHS living there in 1890:
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:
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.
Yudel MANSBACH:
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.
