MEYER WAJMAN and his wife, ROCHL ‘REBECCA’ SZTEJNMAN

MEYER WAJMAN married ROCHL ‘REBECCA’ SZTEJNMAN

and

MENDEL ‘SAM’ SZTEJNMAN married NECHAMA ‘ADA’ WAJMAN

Double first-cousins arise when two siblings of one family reproduce with two siblings of another family. The resulting children are related to each other through both parents’ families. Double first cousins share both sets of grandparents in common and have double the degree of consanguinity of ordinary first cousins. Double second cousins can arise in two ways: there can be two first-cousin relationships among their parents, or there can be one double-first-cousin relationship between their parents.

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MEYER WAJMAN and his wife, ROCHL ‘REBECCA’ SZTEJNMAN

Documentation: Marriage Certificate of Rose Wyman and Sol Rodin: December 31, 1937

Children:

ROSY WAJMAN aka ROSE WYMAN NIAMAN / RODIN /ROSENBAUM

TSINE WAJMAN aka TILLIE WYMAN LENTZNER

YACOV WAJMAN aka JACOB ‘JAKE’ WIMAN

AVRAM WAJMAN aka ABRAHAM ‘ABE’ WYMAN

SORE ‘SORELE’ WAJMAN aka SELMA WYMAN BRUSTIN

MENDEL WAJMAN

Photo taken in Poland of Meyer Wajman and his wife, Rokhl ‘Rebecca’ Sztejnman . Rokhl is wearing a Sheitel (שייטל), a wig or half-wig worn by Orthodox Jewish married women in order to conform with the requirement of Jewish Law to cover their hair. This practice is part of the modesty-related dress standard called tzeniut.

Reverse side of the card above. It is printed on LEONAR paper. Leonar was the brand name for cameras and photographic material made by the Leonar-Werke Arndt & Löwengard in Wandsbek near Hamburg, Germany. There are two copies of this card in the family collection, each with the same message. The photographer was J. Tjkocki (Tikotski)

Translation and note by Hershl Hartman:

Rokhl [Rachel] with Rokhl’s husband [Note: Failure to name the husband may be related to hesitation about photos — “graven images” — of the very devout (possibly, khsidish— Hasidic) Jews.]