Ukraine: Imperfect, and Still Far Better Than Russia—Which My Family Can Tell You

 In March 1917, Susi (“Joseph”) Czarnecki was born. Just over four years before, Nechama (“Nellie”, later Valerie Lillian “Lillie”) Czarnecki was born.  Their fathers were “Felix” (presumably Efrayim or Jankie) and Yehudah (“Julian”, etc./“Ludwick”, etc.) Czerniecki; and their mothers had Jewish roots in Ukraine. Susi’s brother Tony (the father of my paternal grandfather) was born in Tsuman’ (“Suman”), and Tony’s mother had relatives in Buzhanka, Lysyanka, Berezhany, and Kuty. By the way, if you don’t think that Tony‘s mother knew what she was saying when she gave her son’s birth place as “Suman”, think again. She wasn’t thinking of some supposed “Cumań” near Sejny; and Tony subsequently celebrated his birthday on October 24th instead of on the day of the Kaniv Pogrom.

Meanwhile, Tony’s wife, Mary, was a sister of Lillie’s husband, John (remarried to the widow of Lillie’s brother Joseph**). John’s & Mary’s father, Mihály Nagy (later Michael Trudnak), had Jewish roots in the Odesa & Kyiv areas (Trudnyakov/Trudnyak, etc.). 

Mihály himself was the “illegitimate” son of Mária Nagyová & Mihály Trudnyak, and someone would go on to make sure that Mary & Tony weren’t really married in a church—as a certain Reverend Halicki never signed the marriage license. John and Lillie by contrast did have a signed marriage license, and it’s therefore presumed that Tony’s mother made sure that history repeated—as she believed in shidduch and not love in the American sense, and she had the mistaken impression that Christianity is Antisemitic. 

My family has other roots in the Jewish Diaspora in Ukraine as well. Ergo, my family knew that Ukraine was not perfect, especially as Russian influence crept back into it (Remember that Ukraine was originally Kyivan Rus’). My family also knew that Russia (Ukraine’s equivalent of Arabia) was far more dangerous than Ukraine for the most part had ever been (Ukraine:Russia is as Israel:Arabs—no Ukrainians, no Russians; just as no Hebrews would mean no Arabs.). They also would (if they could’ve been openly Jewish) be thrilled to see Volodymyr Zelenskyy rise up as a sort-of Esther to take on the Russian menace that Vladimir Putin*** is. If nothing else, my family’s history is part of why I stand with Ukraine led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

Incidentally, it’ll probably unfortunately take a miracle and/or generations for most of my family to take simcha in being Jewish. ****

**Anna Mikitka Czarnecki was later Anna Czarnecki Trudnak. 

*** Even if Vladimir Putin‘s mother was Jewish, Vladimir Putin was cut off in every other way from ‘Am Yisra’el a long time ago. While One cannot change his or her ethnicity, one can change, whether or not he, or she has the right to claim the blessings which belong to Israel.

**** I will be doing a subsequent blog entry about DNA testing, by the way. Self reporting can absolutely affect how DNA results turn out. Be honest with your children, as especially attempted Ashkenazi erasure is real—and if Non-Ashkenazi Jews were the majority, the attempted erasure would be perpetrated against especially Non-Ashkenazi Jews.

An AI-Created Tribute To the Bibas Family? Big Deal! The Real Danger Is Not AI In This Instance

The person who posted the tribute never alleged that Adele Bloch-Bauer herself was a Holocaust victim. What she did note in her public post was that history is indeed repeating in its own way. Meanwhile, what should concern everyone is as follows: 

While Adele Bloch-Bauer died of meningitis in 1925. Her niece Maria Bloch-Bauer Altmann would survive the Holocaust only to be taken advantage of by a grandson of Arnold Schoenberg, whom admitted that he represented her only for the money (He bullied his wife into accepting his so-called “representation” of his mother’s family friend. “To her credit, she said OK.” See https://paw.princeton.edu/article/return-treasure).

Maria Altmann did not get to do with the $54M for the painting of her aunt what she wanted to do, even though she was able to donate what Randy Schoenberg did not take from her (and that doesn’t include just money. It includes the trust that she could have had in a fellow Jew and a son of her friend.)

Among what scares me the most is that Randy Schoenbergs of the future are going to rise up to take advantage of October 7th survivors and blame Jewish victims for their own fates. If your concern is more over an AI-created tribute to the Bibas family than that bogdim like Randy Schoenberg will victimblame and take advantage of October 7th, that is on you.

PS Taking advantage of Maria Altmann was not the only way in which Randy Schoenberg is a boged and a complete disgrace (and I wish that it were only that someone would be sick enough to make up that Randy Schoenberg tweeted something like this. As far as I know, Twitter/“X” has yet to remove the despicable tweet): 

Kanye West Is a Modern Martin Luther, Which Is Obviously Bad and Indicting

 The tweet by Kanye West about enslaving Jews is nothing different from a grifter whom admitted that he “doubly hated God” after actually reading the Scriptures and would go on to blaspheme the Salvation of the Jews. For example, Martin Luther would begin by inciting gentiles to leave Jews (along with gentiles such as the Roma) without shelter: 

“I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies.”

The Scriptures of looking out for the poor, the stranger, etc. were obviously of no real concern to Luther. He did not even conceal that he wished Jews (and, among other people, Roma) to be treated as animals and die of exposure to the elements. Not long after he wrote that he did not even wish Jews warm and well fed, he wrote what Kanye West could have simply edited to make a tweet of his own:

“Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Gen 3[:19]}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.”

(Other parts of what Martin Luther wrote were vile enough for Jewish Virtual Library to make the call of not quote them, noting each of those parts as “remainder omitted”.)

If and when you criticize Kanye West, also make sure that you are not lauding the grifter Martin Luther. Much of the aiding and abetting of Kanye West can easily be found in many supposedly-Christian churches, and the Church (both Jewish and gentile) overall needs to examine itself thoroughly and make sure that it is not leading people to Hell along with Kanye West and Martin Luther. Besides, Jesus warned about people whom make other people twice as fit for Hell as they are—and if two people are or will be burning in Hell, Martin Luther and Kanye West are those people.

Ethical Dilemma—Please Weigh In On What I Should Do!

 I have an ethical dilemma: even though I want to find out exactly what happened to certain relatives of mine, I try to avoid websites that contain domains such as those of Russia and Hungary (that is, such as “ru” and “hu”) because of the Antisemitism at the highest levels of government in those countries. Yet, I cannot in any other way find out exactly what happened to certain relatives. For example, my ancestor Michael Trudnak—né Mihaly Nagy to hidden Jews Mária Nagyová and Mihály Trudnyak—had two sisters whom (as far as I know) never took their father’s name (Even though he recognized all of his children, he refused to marry in a Roman Catholic Church—and all of his children were “illegitimate” as a result). I don’t know what happened to Aurelia/Aranka Nagyová other than than that she married a fellow “illegitimate”-born person (Rudolph Pardutz/Rezso Parducz the son of Jakob Fuchs) and (like her husband) never took the paternal family name; and I don’t know what happened to the sister Maria at all. Nonetheless, I don’t want to go on any Hungarian websites unless I absolutely have to do so; and I even looked up Arcanum to make sure that it was not Hungarian despite its “com” domain. Notwithstanding that, it tears me apart that I don’t know what happened to Great-Great-Granddad’s sisters or their mother—whom did not go to the United States with Great-Great-Granddad and his father (whom left Budapest when Great-Great-Granddad was a teenager). 

I want to know what happened to them and not betray their memories (It was so painful for Great-Great-Granddad, he lied about where and when he was born. He claimed to be born in what is now Kacwin, Poland and gave varying years for when he was born. He was born in Budapest two years after Aranka was born on Dohány Street, and almost three years before the name-honoree Maria was born in a different part of Budapest. His parents had to move each time, and his mother’s family descended from Leváis whom had to become hidden Jews to leave confinement on Óbuda.).

Just FYI

I was in the hospital until just about an hour ago due to a breakdown, although I was discharged hours before. Long story short, I love even my enemies only because I am commanded to love them, and I would hate especially my enemies whom misuse the Name of Jesus to bully and otherwise abuse others if I were allowed to hate them. In specific instance, my enemy is a bully of mine and her so-called “church”. 

I therefore just caught up on the news as well, and I can tell you that I would absolutely and unequivocally hate groups whom have tried to destroy my people for generations. In this particular case, I can tell you that I would absolutely rejoice if I were allowed to rejoice in simply if Hamas (י״שמ) were burning in Hell with Martin Luther (י״שמ) and John Calvin (י״שמ. He can look around for eternity to find a ‘span long of babies’—and he won’t find one). While I am forbidden to rejoice in the death of the wicked in of itself (as Tanakh tells us that יהוה Himself does not delight in the wicked), I am allowed to rejoice that Antisemites across the generations cannot hurt anyone anymore (and John Calvin, י״שמ, was a perpetrator of the Inquisition, as he directly ordered the murder of Michael Servetus, ה״י״ד. Michael Servetus’ misguided belief about exactly what “אחד” means was no excuse to Antisemitically murder him—and that was nonetheless what John Calvin, י״שמ, used as an excuse to perpetrate the Inquisition in Switzerland).

By the way, sugarcoating or ignoring the reality in any way gives Hamas (י״שמ) exactly what they want—and who on Earth thought that it was a good idea to trust (whether intentionally or unintentionally, aid and abet) Hamas (י״שמ)? At least one of the hostages was physically released with fingers missing (and will she ever truly be released? With PTSD, etc., she likely will still be a hostage to some extent for the rest of her life). To make it worse, each of the physically-released hostages received taunting and sadistic “gift bags”.  

Especially after my own experience in the past 48 hours, I will continue to love my enemies only because I have to love them – not because they deserve that love in the least. I will also take even more steps on my own part to never sugarcoat or ignore any reality. I sadly ended up giving the benefit of the doubt to my own bully and her accomplices, and they sent me up to the hospital due to a psychiatric breakdown. I also should not have given them any benefit of the doubt because they support Antisemites like Martin Luther (י״שמ) and John Calvin (י״שמ). A lot of churches and individuals in them – even Jewish individuals in churches—misguidedly do that, although there is absolutely no excuse to support Martin Luther (י״שמ) and John Calvin (י״שמ) nowadays. 

As far as I’m concerned, my bully and her accomplices can eventually join Martin Luther (י״שמ) and John Calvin (י״שמ) as well as Hamas (י״שמ) if they so wish.  I myself don’t have an interest one or another way in caring about a so-called “church” whom makes many twice as fit for Hell as they are, and I will love and forgive them by staying away from them and making sure that we never cross paths again.

The Case of Chana/Hanka (Helena) Czerniecka Podochowicz

 Her father was Karol (Chaim) Czerniecki; and her parental grandparents were Dominika (daughter of Antoni and Marianna/Mariam-Chana Fiedorowicz Wierzbinski) and Paweł (Sha’ul) Czerniecki. The parental grandparents followed a mixture of Sefardi and Ashkenazi naming customs; and there is reason to believe that they were genuinely Catholic Christian in religious outlook (with two of their children being Paulina and Nikodem by secular or non-Hebrew/non-Yiddish name). Pawel’s parents were Jan Jozef (Yochanahn Yosef; c. 1748-1837) and Krystyna Katarzyna (Chana Krase; c. 1781-1851).   Karol married Antonina Sawicka in 1891 (It seems like marriage-registration quotas even applied to Catholics of Jewish ethnicity in Russia-occupied Poland); and Karol’s brother Antoni went on to marry a cousin, “Katarzyna” Daniłowiczówna (b. October 26, 1838; forcibly baptized on December 29 1843, in the year after her father died).   “Katarzyna” gave her age as “17” when she married because of when she’d been forcibly baptized (as she would have turned 17 in 1860 had she really been born in that year); and her mother was Marianna (Mariam-Chanah) Krusinska Daniłowiczówa, a daughter of Tereza Surożenska Krusinska (later remarried Rutkowska). Tereza herself was a cousin of Chanah Krase Surożenska Czerniecka.   PS “Antoni” was often used as a secular name to calque “Jozef” or “Yosef”. At various times, the Czerniecki and connected (including Andrulewicz and Zdanowicz) families felt comfortable using Jewish names (e.g., Like Hanka, two of her cousin Yehudah’s/Julian’s/Ludwick’s sons used Yiddish names as nicknames—one was Jankie, and the other Susi.). When Antisemitism was prevalent or otherwise a very-real dread, even the family name was not spared, with “Czerniecki”/“Zernetzky” (and its variants) being spelled for the family to pretend that we connections to a certain Antisemitic Polish hetman. 

PS Thanks to (among other organizations and individuals ) Genetka and others for indexing records, etc.; and (notwithstanding unscrupulous people like Randy Schoenberg) JewishGen (PPS Randy, if you and your accomplices try anything, I will release the screenshots, emails, etc. I have no problem telling anyone you how victim blamed Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, doxxed multiple people; I am ashamed that Randy is a Munka-Horowitz, and Geni did confirm the connection. As far as I know, my Munka ancestors certainly would not have put up with Randy’s unscrupulous behavior just because of whom his paternal grandfather was).