The Foczkos of Poland, Etc. and our Foczkos/Fockos have to be related (Yes, Kevin; as much as I love you as my cousin, you're being hard on me--and yourself. We can't control what our relatives did, but we're still Jews and have the right to embrace that identity--and the
mitzvah to never forget.). Besides, the following cannot be coincidental:
- "Foczko" and "Focko" (without the accent, "Fots[h]ko") was preserved across the board in Poland and Hungary--and even the same spelling in both. Our "Focko" never had the accent, by the way, and it became "Fosko".
- There's no proof that we came from Germany. Yes, we got hits in Germany; but R1a1a1 is not a Native German marker. It is a Slavic or an Ashkenazi Levite marker.
- As far as the Denmark hits, I1 originates in Denmark. Our Denmark hits may actually be Finnish hits, and are...
| Adam Focko
Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885
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| birth: | 1829 | Hä-Sakoska |
| death: | 7 March 1849 | Gross-Kolpana, Spanko, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg |
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| Peter Focko
Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885
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| birth: | 1849 | Wopsi |
| death: | 4 March 1849 | Gross-Kolpana, Spanko, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg |
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| Justina Focko
Russia, Lutheran Church Book Duplicates, 1833-1885
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| birth: | 1849 | Hä Sakoska |
| death: | 1 May 1849 | Gross-Kolpana, Spanko, Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg |
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- We were spread across Eastern Europe (including Russia, as seen above). Besides, getting between Finland and Russia was going to be easier for anyone--let alone Jews--in those days, especially if we were caught sneaking to and from the Pale--and how the Uszinskys got out to Saros from Russia, by the way, I do not know (Great-Granddad Gajdos never said--he only bragged that we were Russian during the Cold War, to the chagrin of our family.). By the way, Jews were converting to converting to Vaticanism (Roman and Byzantine), Anglicanism (e.g., the Disraeli Family), and Lutheranism (e.g., the Mendelssohns, the Siedenburg Muellers [Mom-Mom's great-great-grandma's family]) at the time to assimilate and escape Anti Semitism--and Vaticanism and Lutheranism especially posed a threat to the Jews at the time, and Lutheranism (given how Anti Semitic Martin Luther was) was an acceptable alternative to Vaticanism (This is also, by the way, why Martin Luther was not a true Reformer. The Reformation actually began with Jan Hus and John Wycliffe, neither of whom have a record of Anti Semitism.).
- We're not a huge family. Foczko, Focko (excluding German Fockos, who aren't ours--since they were Protestant from the beginning, anyway; and we were Pharisees and Vaticanists), and Fosko (excluding the Foskos of Kentucky, etc.--or at least I hope, since I'm not happy if "Foczko" or "Focko" was first changed to "Fusco") are not common. Besides, what does the Biblical prophecy say? "And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you." For the Jewish people to even be formed as a nation that was ready to take Israel, there had to be 600,000 countable people--and children were not counted until they turned 20 years old (By the way, see my note on the age of accountability below.). My point is that since the Jewish people could not take Israel until we numbered at least 600,000 (a tenth of counted and known Jewish victims of the Shoah), we are certainly smaller and indeed left few in number--as Non-Messianic Jews, Anusim v'b'nei-Anusim, and Messianic Jews (I will, by the way, discuss "fewer in number" in a later blog post.).
- The Anusi Foczkos/Fockos married into few families, and especially repeatedly into families like the Hanzok and Filc(z)ak families. Also, Andy Rusnak (the grandson of converts Gyorgy "Gyorgy Kvetkovits" and Elizabetha Molnarova Rusznak) deliberately wrote to the granddaughter of a Lazar. Anusim stuck together, and our family followed the mitzvah to marry cousins as outlined in B'midbar 36.
Did I cover enough? I think so. Anyway, let's embrace our Levite heritage--and certainly not forget Dawid, Hersz, and Mariem:
Searching for Surname (phonetically like) Focko
Number of hits: 3
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Name
Date of Birth
Worker Number | Address in Ghetto | Place Assigned to Work
Type of Employment
Starting Date | Photo on Card?
Signature on Card? | Date of ID Card
Learned Trade
Acquired Skill | Gender
Age on
1st January 1943 | Worked Since
Unemployment / Employment History | Comments | Reel
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FOCKO, Dawid
22-Jun-1896
52256 | Bleigasse 1/16 | 6 (Schneiderei Mühlgasse 2)
Maschinist
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Y | 01-Oct-43
Schneider
| männlich
47 | 13-Jul-43
Bekl. Rep. Werkst. vom 22-Feb-1944 | Transport 86 14-Jul-1944 | 677
1074/1075 |
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FOCKO, Hersz
03-Sep-23
3386 | Bleigasse 1/16 | 35 (Kleinmöbelfabrik)
Maschinist
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Y | 1943
Maschinist | männlich
20 | 12-Apr-42
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1076/1077 |
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FOCKO, Mariem
20-May-1899
52257 | Bleigasse 1/16 | 6 (Schneiderei Mühlgasse 2)
Gruppenführerin
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Y | 01-Oct-43
Schneiderin
| weiblich
44 | 23-Jul-43
Schneiderei 85 Goldschmiedegasse 18 vom 01-Oct-1943; Schn. 2, Hans. 34/36 vom 15-May-1944 |
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