Excerpt From My Upcoming Novel, “Sons of Difficulty”

  

Introduction: Part Of The True Story Which Inspired This Novel, And Some Of Process That Went Into Writing It

 

I waited to see if the following pitch to WhittDocs on YouTube would come to something. As it ended up remaining an unanswered email thus far, I feel free to use it as part of the explanation as to what inspired “Sons of Difficulty”:

 

If you have an interest in another account of somebody with an unusual grave, try the account  of Yehudah (Julian/Ludwik) Zernetzky or Chernetski (variously Czerniecki, Czarniecki—predominantly in times of particularly-severe Antisemitism, etc.). When I saw your video about the grave of Goldenhawk Sizemore, I was reminded of Yehudah’s grave, as it was also an obelisk. Here is part of the biography of Yehudah, the paternal grandfather of my paternal grandfather: 

 

Passed off as a forcibly-baptized sibling of the same name, “Julian” Czerniecki was born to “Antoni” (Paweł and Dominika Wierzbinska) Czerniecki and “Katarzyna” Daniłowiczówna Czerniecka. “Katarzyna” herself was born on October 26, 1838, and forcibly baptized on December 29, 1843; and when the older “Julian” (October 1874 - before or on December 24, 1875) died, she passed off her younger Julian as her older Julian in order to help him avoid forced baptism. She herself had her life saved when a priest by the surname of  Olszewski explained why she was baptized when she was five years old instead of when she was an infant: “this is due to neglect of the parents.” 

 

Reverend Olszewski knew that no serious Catholic whatsoever would forego having an infant baptized, as foregoing to baptism of an infant was considered a mortal sin that could an infant to limbo. He therefore saved the life of five-year-old “Katarzyna” from suspicious Russians and Poles, and other suspicious gentiles—as she and her widowed mother, Marianna Krusinska (or Kruszynska) Daniłowiczówa, had no protections after Abram “Wojciech” Daniłowicz died the year before. They’d already been hidden Jews in a town outside of Russia-occupied Krasnopol, in a town called Krasne. 

 

“Katarzyna” therefore found no issue in passing off her younger Julian as her older Julian, similarly to how Reverend Olszewski protected her. A few years later, cousins “Antoni” (Yosef, perhaps Yosefeh) and Agata Margiewiczówna Andrulewicz would do the same with their older Aleksandra Alicja (Asenat Sarah) and their younger one. When the younger Aleksandra Alicja (June 26, 1882 - April 6, 1936) immigrated to the United States to join her husband-cousin, she listed “mother-in-law Katarzyna Czernieczka” as her contact back in Russia-occupied Poland, but only because they were related – not because they were on speaking terms in the least. 

 

When Julian and Aleksandra became hidden Jews as adults, this infuriated Katarzyna. In fact, Julian’s older brother Feliks (Efrayim or Jankie) named his oldest daughter for his mother as if she were already dead (as they used both Ashkenazi and Sefardi naming customs, and he definitely chose to use Ashkenazi custom for the secular name—as Katherine Chernetski Chokola was born on October 26, 1897). The same estrangement between Feliks and Katarzyna would be between Julian (and Aleksandra) and Katarzyna, with even pictures that a family friend brought back getting thrown away as soon as they were passed around to everybody (The family friend, Bertha Stawinski Wawrzyn, was born in 1929; and Julian was killed in a mine accident on September 11, 1922–also the 31st anniversary of Feliks’ immigration to the United States). The estrangement never went away no matter what sorrow (e.g., death) or joy (e.g., immigration and relative freedom) occurred, with the exception of one letter that was a request for a return of the family farm’s deed—and that letter came after Julian’s son Anthony “Tony” John Czarnecki (Chananyah HaLevi ben Yehudah v’Asenat Sarah) succumbed to Depression and PTSD on December 2, 1964. 

 

Yehudah, whom calqued his name with variations of “Julian” and “Ludwik”, had nine children whom survived infancy: Tony, Regina (Malke or Rachel), Alexandria Alice (Asenat Sarah; later “Alexandria Julia” or Asenat Yehudit in honor of her father), Stanley Peter (presumably Shmarya), Jankie (“John Raymond”/“John Francis”/“John Felix”), Edward Leonard (Yehudah Aryeh or Aryeh Leib), Susi (Josefeh, Joseph Paschal, “Joseph Peter”), Bernard “Bernie” Stanley (Binyamin Shmarya), and Cecelia Regina. Only Jankie and Susi used Yiddish or other Jewish names openly at all. 

 

Yehudah died just under three years before Regina, whom succumbed to Rheumatic Heart Fever and Chorea on June 23, 1925. If the graves of Regina and her mother are marked, my father certainly made no effort to take pictures of those graves — even though he claims that he did. He did take pictures of Yehudah’s and Bernie’s graves.

 

Because the elder Asenat had been raped just before she and Tony immigrated to the United States, and one of her children was forcibly conceived, it would be unsurprising if she refused to have her grave and Regina’s grave marked. She already deeply resented having to be a hidden Jew, and she was really upset when Tony married a Jewish Catholic “for love”—she considered Mary Trudnak, the daughter of Michael Nagy-Trudnak and Anna Munka Trudnak, a complete apostate for willingly believing in Jesus. I personally knew Mary Trudnak Czarnecki, zichrona l’vracha, and I wish that Great-Great-Grandma had come to understand that Great-Grandma was not in fact apostate or treacherous. Great-Granduncle Stanley did come to believe in Jesus thanks to his grandson, Mark, as did Great-Grandaunt Alice (Her grave boldly reads, in reference to both passages in Tanakh and the New Testament, “The cross leads generations” Alexandria Julia Dobrosky. At least two of her mother’s cousins also boldly declared Jesus as the son of Joseph, using a motif that is common on Italian graves. Their graves are in different cemeteries, and they were also part of hidden Jewish branches of the family.). 

 

Great-Great-Granddad (that is, Yehudah/“Julian”/“Ludwik”) did not get to live to the successes of descendants and other relatives of his. His niece Katherine (née Katarzyna Czerniecka) married into the Chokola Family of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and held it together (She unfortunately subsequently died of Breast Cancer; and her sister Wanda died of Ovarian Cancer. While they could’ve died of gynecological cancers because of risks inherented from their mother, Yosefa/Josephine “Veronica” Supronowicz Czarnecki, I have reason to believe they may have inherited such risk from Dominika, whom I mentioned earlier. 

 

(Born in 1819 and deceased by 1867, Dominika Wierzbinska Czerniecka was deceased by the time that she would have been 47-48 years old—and in up to 48 years with at least seven children born in 22 years, she held her family together. The strength that she possessed gave her male descendants like Yehudah and Feliks, and her female descendants like Katherine and Wanda the strength that they needed to get through trauma for as long as they could get through it.). 

Yehudah may have also chuckled to see that Katherine’s (and Wanda’s) sister Valarie “Lillie“ (née Nechama “Nellie”) married John Nagy-Trudnak (the oldest brother of Tony’s wife, Mary Nagy-Trudnak Czarnecki. That in itself is another story for another time, as the in-law father of Tony and of Lillie was born to hidden Jews Maria Nagyová and Mihály Trudnyak). Through the Trudnak-Czarnecki unions, at least three descendants of Yehudah and Feliks became quite successful.

 One of them was Yehudah’s grandson John “Jack” Czarnecki, one of the three IRS agents whom served tax papers to Richard Nixon via his attorneys (and “Pop-Pop”, as I knew him, was definitely reluctant to talk about it. Needlessly to say, he would never openly admit that we were Jewish, and that he hated Nixon because Nixon was an Antisemite. The closest admission that I even got from him that we are Jewish is “if we had any Jewish blood, I don’t know about it”—and that was the closest to an admission that you’d ever get from him if you knew him.)

Two others of them are Feliks’ granddaughter Mary Bishop Yerkes, a writer; and Feliks’ grandson Robert “Bob ‘BBQ Bob’” Trudnak, an entrepreneur. 

 

Yehudah was also spared living to see the sorrows of (among other sorrows) Feliks’ death from pneumonia, Tony’s loss of his firstborn son, and Lillie’s death from Leukemia (and even though Katarzyna Daniłowiczówna Czerniecka was somehow a distant cousin of Kirk Douglas, it’s very unlikely that either of her sons would’ve lived past 103–let alone to see Jack die of the same Leukemia or a similar type of leukemia which killed Lillie. By the way, I’m still ambivalent about whatever our relationship to Kirk Douglas is—I am not thrilled that we are related to the man whom victimized Natalie Wood). 

 

Yehudah could’ve arguably lived to see Feliks die when he was 52 (and Feliks was 58), Tony’s firstborn son die when he was 59 (and the first Anthony, Jr. was only seven hours old), and Lillie’s death when he was about to turn 89 (and she was 50. Incidentally, her widower later remarried Anna Mikita Czarnecki—the widow of her brother Joseph L. Chernetski. As I mentioned, Great-Great-Granddad was spared living to see many more sorrows than he had already endured— and notwithstanding mad his death in a mine accident when he was 46 years old was sorrowful). 

 

There’s a lot more to the history behind a Polish-language obelisk of a matzevah that marks the grave of Yehudah “Julian”/“Julias”/“Julius”/“Ludwik” Czerniecki (Zernetzky, Czarniecki, etc.) of the shtetlach of Lipsk (“Lisko Orlisko”) and Sumeve or Someve (Szumowo), Russia Poland. I will also send a picture that my father begrudgingly took, although the story of Yehudah (December 24, 1875/1876/1877/1879-September 11, 1922) it’s probably enough free to process for now. It’s still a lot for me to process after almost 20 years, especially since I did not find out that we are Jewish until I was 18 – and I did not even know that Great-Granddad (who was born in Tsuman’ on the day of the Kaniv Pogrom) actually came over here with Great-Great-Grandma to join Great-Great-Granddad (whom conveniently “[did] not remember” what ships he boarded when he immigrated illegally twice, and whom interestingly chose to mark Great-Grandaunt Regina’s birthday on April 1st instead of the anniversary of the Alhambra Decree. He did ironically, give the correct birthdate of Great-Granddad, whom chose not to celebrate his birthday on that day. He also chose to mark  Great-Granduncle Stanley’s birthday on the day of his b’rit milah—why he chose to give Great-Granddad‘s correct birthdate, then, I can only guess, as Great-Granddad to celebrate his birthday on October 24th). 

 

As I mentioned, it’s probably a lot for you to process — and it’s still a lot for me to process after almost 20 years, and July 25th will be the 17th anniversary of when I was even able to confirm that we are Jewish. Anyway, I will send a follow up email with the picture of Great-Great-Granddad’s matzevah if I can find it. 

 

Nicole Czarnecki (Nitzkiah bat Avigdor Matityahu HaLevi)

 

 

 

At the time at which I wrote this on my iPhone, I did not and could not have all of the documents in front of me. I tried to recall a lot of what I wrote down from memory, and I encounter challenges even with using voice-to-text functionality on my iPhone (I type with only one finger on each hand, and I have had an iPhone that I was gifted for almost six years at the time of this writing. Perhaps in concession to my mother, whom gifted me the iPhone, I can admit that, perhaps using the iPhone so much has caused slight pain in the area of my dominant-hand thumb. Ergo, I really do need to again set up my computer and my wireless mouse.).

Thus, even small factors like using an iPhone and keeping track of just my side of my paternal family can affect my writing, whether that writing regards my family history or  takes inspiration from it.

That Promised Post About DNA Testing, Part One

 

(The description is below the video.)

See https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-White-Papers?language=en_US, especially https://www.ancestrycdn.com/support/us/2024/10/2024ancestralregionswhitepaper.pdf. 

(I left the links as they are to allow people whom read the description from a YouTube link to be able to access the original links).

The brazen admission regarding selection and confirmation bias reads as follows: 

“ For each sample, we analyze a set of approximately 300,000 SNPs that are shared between the Illumina OmniExpress platform and the Illumina HumanHap 650Y platform (which was used to genotype HGDP samples). Samples with large amounts of missing data are removed. We also remove samples which are likely to degrade the performance of the reference panel. Samples can be removed because 1) they are closely related to another reference sample, or 2) the underlying genetic information about a sample’s origins disagrees with the sample labels, as determined through principal component analysis (PCA) (Jackson 2003, Patterson 2006) and our previous genetic analyses (Figure 2.1).” 

 

If I had ever tried something like that, in one of my college research papers, I would have been expelled very quickly. Legitimate researchers do not get to throw out samples just because the samples do not agree with the predetermined hypothesis. The samples must always be reported as outliers.

I also would have been expelled for a reference panel such as the following because of its deliberate lack of 1:1 ratios and 1,000 samples in each group: 

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).

Originally A Reply On Facebook—And Worth Reiterating If I’ve Already Discussed It

(Here, I was able to add links within the comment. I also demonstrated even and Non-Christian and even Anti-Christian/Anti-Messianic sources end up demonstrating exactly what the New Testament says). 

[So, when was Jesus born? I]nterestingly, the Talmud talks about the Messiah (even though the rabbis refused to acknowledge Jesus) as being born on the Fast Day in the Fifth Month (which the rabbis claim is Tisha b’Av instead of Asara b’Av). Given how cruel the Romans were in regards to Jews, it would unfortunately absolutely make sense that Mary and Joseph were forced to travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem in the summer—and both were 20 years old at a minimum. Think about two 20-year-old Jews being forced to travel on an extremely-brutal summer day during times of fasting just because the Romans wanted to to inflict as much cruelty as possible. Mary and Joseph had likely just reached adulthood (as nobody under the age of 20 was excluded from entering the Promised Land— whereas only Joshua and Caleb were “20 years old and upward” and allowed to enter ‘Eretz Yisra’el). Mary also began adulthood pregnant and with most people believing that she had not been shomeret Torah.

Full Letter For FIG Missions (Written On A Voluntary and Non-Paid Basis)

 (PS I promise to never take payment for helping orphans and widows in Cameroon.)

		Nicole Czarnecki, volunteer for Faith In God Charity Missions 862.294.9326 info@figcharitymissions.org
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Dear Fellow YouTube Users and YouTube Audience:  The Scriptures tell us that faith without works (James 2, especially verse 26) is the opposite a living and an active faith (Romans 12:1-2, Hebrews 4:12), and that one is to go out and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:16-20). They also tell us that one cannot believe in the Gospel if he or she has not heard it, and that whatever we do “the least of these” (Matthew 25:31-46) is what we do to Jesus Himself. “All nations” includes Cameroon, and “the least of these” includes the Cameroonian family whose members are particularly-disadvantaged widows and orphans. In fact, Cameroonian orphans and widows are among—per the Scriptures—the widows and orphans of whom a genuine Christian seeks the wellbeing (James 1:27). In Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, we have the following condolence which we speak to a bereaved Jew: “May God comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.” As you may be able to tell, I myself am a Jewish believer in Jesus and believe that “Zion and Jerusalem” include grafted-in Cameroonians and other people whom Jesus has chosen among the nations (as, although they physically remain gentiles, they are spiritually among the people of Israel. Romans 9-11). I therefore believe in comforting firstly and foremostly the particularly-disadvantaged Cameroonian widows and orphans whom have placed their faith in Christ. After all, the Scriptures command us to do good to especially fellow believers (Galatians 6:9-10), and doing good to the most-needing widows and orphans among Cameroonian Christians is comforting them. To simply console them is not enough—what good indeed is wishing them warm and well fed without helping them to be such (James 2:14-17)? To gentiles, we condole them with a sentiment like, “May God comfort you among all mourners.” Those gentiles include particularly-disadvantaged Cameroonian widows and orphans whom have either not yet been grafted in to Israel or not even heard that a Root (Romans 11) sustains even the branches which reach into the valley of the shadow of death (Job 29:11-25, Jeremiah 17:7-8, Psalm 23:4). To not have our sentiment be as empty as the clanging of cymbals (1 Corinthians 13:1-3), we must comfort them (Romans 12:15) by both preaching the Gospel to them and by practicing what we preach in meeting their needs. The founder and CEO of Faith in God Charity Missions, Terrence, personally knows the plight of the particularly-disadvantaged Cameroonian widows and orphans whom had yet to place their faith in Christ and have since done so. He himself became a paternal orphan at the age of five, and witnessed as his mother endured the plight of a widow. He subsequently came to the knowledge of and put his faith in Christ at the age of fourteen (Matthew 19:14), and he later founded Faith in God (FIG) Charity Missions to help Cameroonian widows and orphans never have to endure what his mother and he endured. In light of this, Terrence founded FIG Charity Missions to assist the particularly-disadvantagedCameroonian widow and orphan in: 1.      Coming to and/or growing in a saving knowledge and faith in Jesus Christ. 2.      Providing for themselves and their families. 3.      Receiving the education, vocational training, and other resources (including food) that they need to be as self sufficient as possible (as none of us are self sufficient in any way without fist being dependent on Jesus Christ).    In Terrence’s own words, “Through comprehensive support programs including food distribution, skills training, educational assistance, and evangelism, we aim to empower vulnerable communities, promote justice, and create sustainable opportunities for a better future.” (Faith In God Charity Missions Website, “Our Mission”, https://www.figcharitymissions.org/about-us) Given this, I ask you to faithfully and prayerfully consider donating to and/or otherwise working with FIG Charity Missions. Please give whatever God compels you to give (2 Corinthians 9:6-15)—for instance, simply an offering of prayer on behalf of FIG Charity Missions, financial assistance to FIG, or volunteer services. Thank you for your time, attention, and faithful and prayerful consideration of assistance to FIG Charity Missions, and comfort and consolation to the Cameroonian widows and orphans whom FIG seeks to help. May God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ bless and keep you.
Nicole Czarnecki  Volunteer  Faith In God Charity Missions December 13, 2024

 

 

If You Know the Story Behind This Picture, You Know It. If You Don’t…

 

I saw this picture of a Pennsylvanian relative on Ancestry. One reason that I saved it was to colorize it, etc. Another reason, and a more-compelling reason: no immigration of this man to Pennsylvania, no Pennsylvania staples as you might know them. If you’ve ever heard of a brand called “Bobby T’s” and another one called “Chokola Beverage Company”, you’re now putting a face to their names. Why? The man known as “Felix Czarniecki” took incredible risks immigrating from Russia-occupied Poland (and if you know even an inkling of the real story—which I did not until I began doing serious digging into my family history—you will appreciate why he took those risks. His brother Julian was my paternal grandfather’s paternal grandfather, and Julian would join Felix in 1904—with Julian’s son Tony joining him in 1908). 

Felix’s daughter Lillie (originally Nellie**) would go on to marry John Trudnak—and he sadly did not get to walk her down the aisle, as he passed away in 1928 (just under six years after Julian, his younger brother, passed away in a coal-mining accident). He did, as far as I know, get to walk his daughter Katherine down the aisle—and she became the bride of the widower Simon Chokola (and Simon had three more children by her—and how they kept it together when one of those children died in infancy, I will never know). 

The apparent story by itself would be perhaps compelling—if you even knew that Felix existed and immigrated to Pennsylvania (which I originally did not— and I certainly had no idea that Tony in fact came over here when he was a child to join his father and his uncle, whom were already over here). If you knew even an inkling of the actual story, you would be amazed at the truly-all-American account of a man whose descendants include the original “Bobby T” and many of the Chokolas today. By the way, I’ve never seen a picture of his brother and his in-law sister whom are my ancestors—let alone pictures of  Felix’s and Julian‘s parents. The estrangement (one of the risks) got so bad, that we would throw away pictures that a family friend brought back once we were done passing them around (My granduncle Tony, of blessed memory, told me this.). Felix also named two of his daughters “Katherine“—Katherine and Jennifer Catherine (later Joan)—for his mother, as if she were already dead (We are mixed Ashkenazi and Sefardi Jewish on that side, although he used Ashkenazi naming custom in those instances— and as I said, the estrangement got bad. For starters, his mother was forcibly baptized when she herself was five years old — and she did not appreciate that her sons chose to generally hide their Jewish heritage.)

(**Her mother, Josephine “Veronica” Czarnecki née Supronowicz, apparently had Jewish heritage from the Jewish Diaspora in Ukraine, and used “Nellie“ for Nechama. Lillie’s in-law sister Mary Trudnak subsequently was my paternal grandfather’s mother, by the way. Unfortunately, Felix never got to see Mary become his in-law niece, either, as Mary and Tony married in 1934.).

Originally On Medium: God Blames Women For Men’s Sins?

 …Oh no. Wait. 

God blamed the men for their sins. I thought about this when someone on Twitter (X) not too long ago had recently pointed out that the book of Hosea warned us that the women who are prostitutes will not be punished because of the men whom are entering them. In other words, the women will not be punished for their sins because the men are actively enabling and aggravating those sins.

Similarly was the sin of Tamar: because her in-law father did not give her her in-law brother Shelah to secure her levirate right, she needed to prostitute herself and uncover the nakedness of her husbands’ father. Remember that both brothers of Shelah died before him, and that the middle son of Judah at the time died because he attempted to get around fulfilling his levirate duty. Thus (as Torah tells us) did her in-law father say of her, “She is more righteous than I.”

Similarly in only its shared vein is the sin of Moses in regard to circumcision. When יהוה sought to kill Moses, יהוה sought to kill Moses and therefore put the blame on Moses. Thus does Torah tell us that Zipporah circumcised her son and told her husband, “You are a husband of blood to me” as she threw the foreskin at his feet. 

In other words, Zipporah was not blamed for not having her son circumcised on the eighth day. Moses was blamed for not having Zipporah’s son circumcised on the eighth day, although Zipporah clearly had to rectify her husband’s wrong because her husband took no action whatsoever to rectify his wrong.

What is the lesson here for men, then?

(Emphasis and explanation mine)

“If you look at a woman with lust, you have committed adultery with her in your heart.” 

Even though Tamar sinned out of desperation, and Judah looked at her with lost in his heart. In the same way, even if a woman provokes or entices, the man is responsible for what he does. This is also why Solomon ultimately puts the onus on his son to not sin when a woman does actually provoke or entice with malice. Solomon learned from the sins of his father Judah (even though he would certainly have sins of his own). This is also why יהוה moved Hosea to prophesy against the men whom exploited women by encouraging them to prostitute themselves (cf. Hosea 4:14).

This is additionally why, in between Judah’s and Solomon’s respective generations, Moses was punished when one of his sons was yet to be circumcised: “To whom much is given, much is required” (cf. Luke 12:48).

Moses was the head of the household, and much was required of him because much was given to him. Yet, Zipporah did what was required of Moses because Moses did not do as was given to him.

In other words, whether through sexual sin, or non-sexual sin, a man is required to answer for his sins instead of blame the woman when he sins — even if the woman herself sins, and especially when the woman does not sin.

Of course, there are cases in which the reverse is absolutely true — as was the case of the wife of Potiphar and Joseph. In the case of the wife of Potiphar and Joseph, the Egyptian wife of Potiphar had power over the Hebrew Joseph, whose boss was the Egyptian Potiphar. Also being single, Joseph as a Hebrew slave of Potiphar had less status than the free-by-comparison and married wife of Joseph’s Egyptian enslaver. Even then, Joseph did not use the discriminations against him based on his ethnicity, marital status, and lack of freedom to sin with Potiphar’s wife.

There are other examples. Nonetheless, here is the sum of the examples: leader must serve and take responsibility for his sins instead of put them on his wife and/or other women. When the man sins (excepting those very-rare cases in which he possesses even less power than Joseph, and the woman truly causes him to stumble), the man must take responsibility for his sins (and those very-rare cases in which he possesses even less power than Joseph usually involve a physical or another disability — or an equivalent factor — that deprives him of all power and therefore all culpability).