Many years ago, I met Max Amdur at the Mayfield JCC. He shared with me that his daughter was into geneology(Sally). I shared with him that there had been a rumor that my father, Morris Schlachter, had changed his name from "Amdur" as he escaped conscription by the Czar. There was no solid evidence on the purported name change.
I am presently visiting our daughter in Israel. While here, a cousin informed me that there was a section of a cemetery in Holon Israel devoted to the memory of all the shtels in Lithuania destroyed in the Holocaust The display was referred to as "Litvakia". We made the effort to see if we could find the memorial to the town where my father and his family had come from. That town, Glubok or Gluboki had a moving memorial to the partisans who fought the Nazis in their town. I then discovered that a town nearbye was known as "Amdur". I believe that both are now part of Belarus.
I wonder if the story of the changed of family name change may, in fact, relate instead to the name of the nearbye town of "Amdur".
Many years ago, I met Max Amdur at the Mayfield JCC. He shared with me that his daughter was into geneology(Sally). I shared with him that there had been a rumor that my father, Morris Schlachter, had changed his name from "Amdur" as he escaped conscription by the Czar. There was no solid evidence on the purported name change.
I am presently visiting our daughter in Israel. While here, a cousin informed me that there was a section of a cemetery in Holon Israel devoted to the memory of all the shtels in Lithuania destroyed in the Holocaust The display was referred to as "Litvakia". We made the effort to see if we could find the memorial to the town where my father and his family had come from. That town, Glubok or Gluboki had a moving memorial to the partisans who fought the Nazis in their town. I then discovered that a town nearbye was known as "Amdur". I believe that both are now part of Belarus.
I wonder if the story of the changed of family name change may, in fact, relate instead to the name of the nearbye town of "Amdur".