Hello Sara,
I am researching my grandparents who are all from Poland, and most probably Ciechanowiec, or maybe Ciechanow. My g-grandfather was Simon Isha Pianko. He had at least a brother or sister, but their name is unknown. Simon Isha Pianko married Cecile Tillie Vinovich and had Ida, Tillie b. 1889, Frieda (Frances - my grandmother) b. 1890, Abraham b. 1900, and Morris b. 1908. Simon's brother or sister married unknown and had Ida, Jenny, Eva, Abe, Louis, Jeanette, Esther, and Lillian* b. 1913.
Cecile Tillie Vinovich (my g-grandmother on my mom's mom side) had a brother Samuel Vinovich (my g-grandfather on my mom's dad's side). Samuel Vinovich married Nasha (Edna) Vopniltski d. 1925 and had Moshe, Louis, and Max (my grandfather).
Simon Pianko's daughter Ida was killed in the Holocaust with her husband and sons. Tillie married Samuel Kozloff, Frances married Max Vinovich (my grandparents), Abe never got married, and Morris married Lillian Pianko*, his first cousin.
From what I have been told, my grandmother Frances Pianko was born 19 April 1890, and she and her family were either from Bialystok or Ciechanowiec. My grandfather Max Vinovich was born 16 March 1887 in Lomza, Russia-Poland.
Please email me at
mark.rosenblum@juno.com if you feel that you can you help me at all with any of this?
Thank you!