David Eleazer and Rana Temera (Braun) Pieniek
"Bubba Rana" in a photograph with her son Hersh Leib's family.
Hersh Leib's daughter Esther (Pieniek / Tobias / Zev) remembered her "Bubba Rana".
David Eleazer Pieniek (b. Klonow 1844, d. Golub-Dobrzyn 1904)
Rana Temera Braun Pieniek (b. Golub-Dobrzyn 1843, d. Golub-Dobrzyn, probably before 1927)
We start the family tree with David Eleazer and Rana Temera Pieniek. (Earlier generations can be found on the "Previous Generations" page.)
- Uri Ladell
"David Eleazer Pieniek lived in a village called Klonow, in Dobrzyn, Poland with his wife Rana before the turn of the century.
Dobrzyn was a small town with a population estimated at under one thousand Poles, Russians and Jews and other minority groups. We can more conveniently call it a village where life was serene except for the pogroms under the Russian Czar, followed by the purges of the Jews by the Nazis. Most of the populace lived along the shores of the Drevenz River. The townspeople would often stride down to the banks of this river to wash their clothes, drying them on the large rocks and trees that abutted the shoreline.
Our grandparents struggled hard to raise a family of seven children, the family trees of whom we shall herein write about and record. In their respective homes in Dobrzyn, Orthodox Judaism was more than a religion. It was a way of life, which somehow has survived to the present generation. The seven children of David Eliezer and Rana Pieniek were Toyvia, Baercha, Hersh Leib, Becky, Annie, Necha, and Meyer."
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"The Pieniek Roots" by David Joshua Pieniek and David Leon Skop, written in 1982.
Record of David Eleazer's birth in Dobrzyn.
Record of David Eleazer and Rana Temera's marriage in Dobrzyn, December 10, 1862.
