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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).
