I am starting a new thread since there have been various messages to
the list about the Buller family and I think it is important to add
this information.
According to Wiznitzer family oral history and lore, our surname was
given by the Wiznitzer Rebbe to Litman Buller in appreciation for a
favor he had performed.
Litman was supposedly the only person honored to receive the name
associated with Wiznitz.
This would have been in the mid-19th century, around the time the
Rebbe established in Wiznitz and/or the union in marriage of the
Wiznitzer and Sadagora dynasties.
This also coincides with the period when the Emperor decreed that Jews
needed to have a surname in official registries, such as births,
deaths and marriages.
Rabbis often reported these events to local officials and frequently
assigned family surnames to members of their congregation.
It is believed that the Bullers had come to Bukovina from Russia.
To be clear, the Wiznitzer Rebbe's surname was Hager, not Wiznitzer,
and our family were followers but were not related to the dynasty.
However, we are related to the Bullers five generation ago.
Almost all Wiznitzers are descendents of Litman Wiznitzer, formerly Buller.
Litman Wiznitzer lived in Waszkoutz am Cheremosz, located 32 km
northeast of Wiznitz and 40 km west of Czernowitz.
Austrian land and tax records of 1854 in the archives in Suceava
confirm that Littmann (sp) Wiznitzer owned property in Waszkoutz.
His son Mordko (Mordechai) Leib also appears as a property owner in
these records.
However, I am descended from another son of Litman, Shloime, for whom
my own father was named.
There is also a Moische Buller listed in the 1854 records for
Waszkoutz, but I do not know how he is related.
My branch of the the Wiznitzers remained in the town, now called
Vashkivtsi, until the 1920s.
My grandmother died and was buried there in 1914, and my grandfather
was buried in Czernowitz 15 years later.
My father left what was then Romania around 1927 and settled on the
island of Curacao.
In 2010, my family cleared the Jewish cemetery of Vashkivtsi with the
help of locals.
Photos and legible names and dates of the stones there are now
included in the Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry of JewishGen.
The only records for Vashkivtsi in the Ukrainian federal archives in
Czernowitz are from the Romanian period, specifically 1918-1928.
All other records have disappeared.
[Mark Wiznitzer]
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