Samuel Zvi Weltsman

Author of https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/776984---st...

Researched graves and inscribed many before WWII in Posen

Genealogy Author:

• http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n00045569/
• Jews in Kalisch by Louis Lewin( )
• Breslauer Grabstein-Inschriften( )
• Sefer Derishat Tsiyon : le-ḥevrat yishuv Erets Yiʹsraʼel by Ẓevi Hirsch Kalischer( Book )
• [Avne zikaron] : Stones of remembrance = Avnei Zikaron (translated by Neil Rosenstein) -- Transcriptions of gravestones from Jewish cemeteries in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus in existence prior to World War II

Cemetery Notebook: Born in Kalisz in 1863, Samuel Zvi Weltsman travelled through Eastern Europe prior to WWI and recorded the epitaphs of some 921 prominent Jewish personalities, buried in 51 communities. Today almost none of the cemeteries he visited survive.