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Submitted by David Mark Gitman

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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 8/30/2026 8:21 PM
Family Surname: Gitman, Hitman, Tuchsznajder
Country: Poland
Town: Biskupice
Date of Image: 1885
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Please transcribe this 1885 Russian-language Jewish birth record as fully as possible, preserving uncertain readings as [unclear], and provide an English translation. Please identify the exact birth and registration dates; the child’s full name; both parents’ full names (including the mother’s maiden surname), ages, occupations, residence and birthplaces; and all witnesses, declarants and marginal notes. Preliminary, unconfirmed reading may involve Wolf Gitman and Idesa Tuchsznajder. Please say whether this household matches the 1886 act submitted separately. Source: Polish State Archives, Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie, Biskupice Jewish birth register, fonds 35/1614/0/2.21/95, act 2, 1885, unit 298418.

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8/31/2026 1:36 PM Акт 2. Хаим Гитман. Посад Бискупице.Chaim Hitman.

Состоялось в посаде Бискупице 9/21 февраля 1885 года в 9 часов утра.
Явился лично старозаконный Leizor Hitman/Лейзор Гитман, портной, 36 лет, живущий в посаде Бискупице, и в присутствии свидетелей старозаконных Нуссен Бурштин,[кримажа], 51 год и Янкель Гольдбург, школьника,46 лет, в посаде Бискупице живущих, и предъявили нам младенца мужского пола, объявляя ,что он родился в посаде Бискупице 2/14 февраля текущего года (1885 года) в 8 часов утра от его жены Ханы из Ледерманов (девичья фамилия Ледерман), супругов Гитманов,30 лет.
Младенцу этому при обрезании дано имя Хаим Гитман.
Акт этот присутствующему и свидетелям прочитан, нами и ими подписан.
Отец объявил, что писать не умеет.
Чиновник Гражданского состояния.
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Act 2. Chaim Gitman. Posad Biskupice.Chaim Hitman.

Took place in the posad Biskupice on February 9/21, 1885, at 9 a.m.
The old-law Leizor Hitman/Leizor Hitman, a tailor, 36 years old, living in Biskupice Posad, appeared personally, and in the presence of witnesses, the old-law Nussen Burshtin, 51 years old and Yankel Goldburg, a schoolboy,46 years old, living in Biskupice Posad, and presented us with a male baby, declaring that he was born in Posad Biskupice on February 2/14 of this year (1885) at 8 a.m. from his wife Hana of Lederman (maiden name Lederman), the Gitmans, 30 years old.
This infant was given the name Chaim Gitman at the time of circumcision.
This document was read to those present and to the witnesses, and signed by us and them.
The father declared that he could not write.
Civil Registry Office official.
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