Olejarz/Olarsch
In 1997 I set up www.olejarz.com. Over the course of the last ten years I have heard from people with the Olejarz name from as close as New Jersey, USA, where I live, and as far as France and Poland. Olejarz is of Polish origin.
My father, Leijb Olejarz, was a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and wound up in Berlin at the end of the Second World War where he met my mother in Berlin. My sister was born in Berlin in 1949. My father went to the USA and my mother and sister followed a year or two later. I was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1952. My parents’ marriage came apart and my father disappeared. My mother said he moved to Israel and from the time I was 7 or 8 I never heard from my father again. It was only after my mother's death in March of 2005 that I learned that my father did move to Israel and at one point asked that I visit him. My mother never told me of his request. To this day I do not know where my father is or if my father is dead or alive.
When we lived in Brooklyn my father had a cousin who lived in the Boro Park section. I have lost touch with them.
From s/e Poland -small town called Guvrov. They were very religious.
My grandpa Louis was an officer in the Russian army --1896
Louis/Rifka had three boys-- Abraham --Marv's father
Irving ----- Howard's father
Benny ----- Leonard's father
Louis was a shoemaker and ran a shop in Harlem (99th St) -3rd Ave. till he passed
away in June 1948.
David Olarsch ran a dry goods - army/navy type store on Front St in
Elizabeth, NJ. The brothers Louis and David saw each other and I can
recall going there with my father Abraham and my Uncle Benny when I
was a boy.
David had three kids ---- Morris - Louis - and Anna
Your father Herbert was Morris' son. I have no other info on Louie and Anna.
I invite others with the last name of Olejarz to contribute to this page and make connections.