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  • Prof. Dr. med. Alexander (Alex) Czempin (1861 - 1943)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs: Czempin, Alex Alexander geboren am 29. Oktober 1861 in Berlin/Stadt Berlin wohnhaft in Berlin (Schöneberg) TODESDATUM 01. März 1943 TODESORT ...
  • Irmgard Ingrid Stadthagen (1893 - 1941)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs: Stadthagen, Irmgard Ingrid geb. Czempin geboren am 06. Juni 1893 in Berlin/Stadt Berlin wohnhaft in Berlin (Wilmersdorf) TODESDATUM 18. Oktobe...
  • Kurt Heinrich Czempin (1891 - 1938)
    Eintrag im »Gedenkbuch« des Bundesarchivs: Czempin, Kurt Heinrich geboren am 18. April 1891 in Berlin/Stadt Berlin wohnhaft in Berlin (Wilmersdorf) TODESDATUM 07. Juni 1938 TODESORT B...
  • Abigail Czempin (b. - 1851)
  • Abraham Czempin (1803 - 1851)
    It's quite possible that this person never existed. The only record I have is a semi-fictional account that my grandfather wrote. An actual record I have shows that Heimann Czempin's father was calle...

About the Czempin surname

In the 19th century, many Jews had to change their name format from e. g. "Son ben Father" to "Christian" name forms with a first name and a surname.

At least 2 families (who may or may not be related) were Jews in Santomischel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaniemy%C5%9Bl) and were able to choose a location-based name, "Czempiń", which was a larger town in the vicinity.

Many members of at least one family Czempin were killed in pogroms in the 19th century and especially during the Holocaust, but some survived and their descendents (that still bear the original spelling of the name) live primarily in Germany.

Some emigrated to Israel, England and the US. In the latter two cases they usually changed their names to be phonetically simpler to understand to English native speakers, so "Chempin" or "Champain", for example.