This is a photograph of my mother's sisters, Lea and Ester, together with the Kellman sisters. I'm still in touch with descendants of Rivka Kellman, who is third from the right in this photograph. They live in the United States; in the photograph are from left to right: Dvora Kellman, Lea Kellman, Frayda, Rivka Kellman, Lea Königsberg, Esther Königsberg. I unfortunately where and when the photo was taken.
The Kellman family was in some way connected to the Königsbergs, my mother's family. Likely somewhere in that generation of grandmas, one from the Königsberg family married into the Kellman family, but I don't know anything about it for certain. Someone by the name of Yehuda Schlomo Kellman is there, apparently the brother of Zissl Königsberg, who was probably my grandmother, the mother of Lola Preiss. So her maiden name would then have been Kellman. According to the same source of information, my mother's grandmother was named Chana Kellman, née Weiser. Apparently she died in 1929. So that's perhaps how both families are related. Both families lived in the same small town, Bochnia in Poland, near Krakow.
Some information that I have about my real is from this branch of relatives, from Hersch Leib Forman from New York, the son of Rivka Dorman, née Kellman, who's also on this photograph, right beside Lea. But I don't know anything about her. Nor about Lea Königsberg, who died during the war.
