More than two years ago when I first began getting in touch with fellow Klodawa researchers, Karen Kroneheim and I connected and discovered that our families had been friends via the Klodawa Society.  The Society was formed of the "Landsmanshaft" of the town who were newly settled in the U.S., mostly in the New York area, but also from Boston, as with my own family, and probably other places.   I hope to find out more about the Klodawa Society, itself.  In fact one of the cousins I spoke with over the years told me had actually had a program from one of the meetings.

What I would like to do today, is post the email that Karen Kronheim sent two years back.  She went to visit the cemetery in Glendale, NY and was kind enough to write down all the names she could come up with who were buried there.  In addition, she wrote down the names of the some of the founders of the Klodawa Society who were also named at the site.  Thank you to Karen, even at this later, date for taking the time to do that.  Several of the names have come up over the years from family members who have written in--most recently, Harold Andrews, who is a descendant of the Jaret family, and has several family members listed.  To see Harold's entry, please click "View Comments" on the "Przedecki Family of No. 10 Rynek" entry. 

Here is Karen's email:

Dear Madeleine and fellow Klodawa researchers,
     It is such a wonderful opportunity for us to be able to communicate with one another about our families. I hope that the information I’m about to provide will be helpful to some of you. As I mentioned last week in my e-mails, my father, Rudy Kronheim, who was born in Klodawa in 1904, belonged to a society of Landsman here in NYC. His two brothers, Joseph and Leon, were also part of this group. As a child, I regularly attended these meetings with my parents and knew/ met many of these people who were my parents’ dear friends. On the following list of meembers, I have put an asterisk next to the names of the people I recall. 
           Inspired last week by my wonderful conversations with Judy, another researcher, I visited the cemetery this morning where my father is buried in the section devoted to members of the Klodawa (the society spells its’ name “Klodaver”) Society. While there, I wrote down a list of the founding members of the society as well as most of the names of the members who now rest there. I apologize that I might have missed a few names because I wasn’t sure how far the lot spread out to and it was 20 degrees out! The list is however fairly complete. I pass this information along to you in the hopes it will have meaning. I am also currently trying to locate the current society liasion who may have records or information about the society. When I locate this information, I will pass it along as well. In the meantime, here’s some information for you:
Mt. Lebanon Cemetery     718-821-0200
7800 Myrtle Avenue
Glendale, NY 11385
The Klodaver Society Plot:  Block R       Section 2
          If you have a question about a family member who might be buried there (and you don’t see their name on the following list), call Mt. Lebanon. All of their records are computerized and they will be happy to give you information. If I can be of any other assistance, please feel free to write me, Karen Kronheim Louick at Klspeech@aol.com.
Members buried at Mt. Lebanon:
*Altman, Anna and Solomon
*Cooper, Sue and Isidore
*Flonder, Anna and Abraham
Frank, Harry
*Green, Regina and Morris
*Heller, Dorothy and Abraham
Jacobs, Edith and Morris
*Jaret, Abe, Dave, Morris, and Alex
*Karasik, Bertha
Levy (sorry I forgot to write the first name here)
*Marchak, Halina (I believe that Abe, Halina’s husband, moved to Israel when she passed away and may be buried there).
*Mariampolski, Sally and Abraham
*Nichinsky, Henrietta and Joseph
*Opper, Reina and Louis
*Rogers, Rifka and Abraham
*Sompolsky, Pollie, Rubin and Phillip
*Tannenbaum,  Goldie and William

Founding Members are listed on plaques on both sides of the entryway into the society plot but didd not all appear to be buried there. They are as follows:
Abe Jaret                    Raphael Jaret
Jacob Green                    Isidore Cooper
I.S. Morrison                    Alex Morrison
Dave Jaret                    Morris Jaret
Isidore Jacobs                    Jack Rosen
Moe Frank     Ruben Sompolsky
Charles Levy                    Mendel Levy
Israel Jacobs                    Sol Chesire
Sol Altman               Joseph Kronheim
Abe Wishniesky                    Abraham Rogers
Louis Opper                    Morris Jacobs
Morris Green          Alex Jaret
                              Herman Schulman
     Abraham Flonder
                              Harry Frank
     It would be wonderful to know if any of these people are your family. I would appreciate it if you could please just drop me a line to let me know. Thanks so much
     Good luck to you all in your searches and best wishes for the new year!
    
Karen Kronheim Louick
Klspeech@aol.com

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Judy Muratore