Ceplinski [more photos below]
Chaya Brana Ceplinski,  wife of Michuel Przedecki [Max Pizer]. Immigrated from Klodawa via Canada early 1900's.
   

Chaya Brana Ceplinski, married to Michuel Przedecki-brother of Sender Przedecki (Judy Muratore’s great-grandfather). 

One of the Ceplinski’s left Klodawa to the Russian border with Michael Pizer, Joseph Francus, Henyik Niehaus.

 Post to www. Klodawa.org from Menesha Ceplinski 9/2/08:   Hi. My parents (now gone) were from Klodawa I don't see their last names though. You also have to remember that (like in my maternal grandmother's case) the men just studied Torah and the women earned a living. My maternal grandmother Toibe Rifka Berzwinsky ran a general store. Her husband was named Avrahum Bierzwinsky. My father's family they ran a coal selling and taylor shop. My grandparents on his side (who perished in the Holocaust) were Eliyahu Avraham Cieplinski or Czieplinski and his wife Hanna. My older brother went looking for family traces last year on a trip to Klodawa. He found no traces and noone wanted to talk to him when he visited.

My late father's relatives also moved from Klodawa to Britain just before the 1st world war. Their last name Cieplinski got anglizised to Chaplin. Maybe some of those might be known to you my first name "Menashe" was common in the family I know of a cousin who was also Menashe but in England called himself "Monty Chaplin". Menashe.

Additional email from Menashe Cieplinski 9/3/08: The 2 brothers [Cieplinsk] that survived the war were Shmuel that spent the war in Russia and then immigrated to Israel in 1955, and Moishe, my father who came to Mexico. Both died in 1993.

Per Email from Larry Pizer great-grandson of Chaya-Brana Cieplinski, 9/3/08: A Male Cieplinski had three children, the oldest of whom was Chaya Brayna, who married Michul Przedecki who had Shmuel, who had Jack, who had Steve and me.  The second child of the Male Cieplinski was the father of Moishe Cieplinski, who immigrated from Poland to Mexico City (and whom both Dad and Mom and later I visited).  Moishe was the father of William of Middletown, NY, and Menashe, who moved to Halifax, NS, and might still be there. [see "Family History" page on this site, under Michuel Przedecki, son of Mordcha and Rivka Przedecki]

Per Email from Bill Cieplinski 9/17/08: Of the Cieplinskis in Klodawa, my father [Moshe] had one brother and several sisters; the sisters were married and had families and they all perished in the Holocaust together with my grandparents. The only one that survived (aside from my father Moshe ) was his younger brother Shmuel who spent the war in Russia; after the war he and his wife went back to Poland and in 1956 when they allowed Jews to leave they went to Israel with my father's help. They had two children, Hanna ( named after our grandmother ) and Arie, Hanna has three daughters and I am in close touch with her and Arie. We saw them earlier this year on a trip to Israel. Arie changed his name from Cieplinski to Tzapir. My wife, my daughter and myself were in Poland 2 years ago; we tried to visit Klodawa; the area near the train station was desolate and it was a very ugly rainy day and we did not see people we could talk to. I felt that the whole trip to Poland was an exercise in visiting with ghosts.. I hope this information is useful and feel free to get in touch to continue the dialogue.
 Bill Cieplinski

Additional email from Bill Cieplinski, 10/12/08: Pola Cieplinski was my uncle Shmuel's wife and she survived him for almost 15 years and just died last year. I do have pictures from Poland many of which I do not know who they are. I think that some of them are from my father's sisters and their families, none of whom survived. I have photos of my uncle Shmuel and his wife taken on trips to Israel and in the USA. My mother was a Bierzwinski and she had 5 brothers all of whom left Poland prior to the war. The eldest lived all his life in the USA his name was Shmuel as well. The others lived in Mexico and have all passed away but left families. My Bierzwinski grandparents, Avraham Meir and Toibe Rivke also came to Mexico and they passed away in 1952 and 1958 respectively.

PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY BILL AND MENASHE CIEPLINSKI 11/23/08, MEETING IN BROOKLINE, MA.. THANK YOU BOTH SO MUCH!

Moshe and Chaya [nee Brzezinski] ] Cieplinski c. 1940 Mexico City, Mexico. Chaya, Menasha [b.1945], William [b.1943] and Moshe Cieplinski. . Mexico City, c. 1947. Moshe Cieplinski and unknown soldier. Klodawa c. 1935. Unconfirmed: Eliyahu Avrahum and Chana Cieplinski. Klodawa c. 1930's.
 
 
 
Shmuel and Moshe Cieplinski. Israel c. 1980.
  Left to Right Sitting: Leon and ? Kronheim, Chaya and Moshe Cieplinski, Moshe Krel [Klodawa survivors]. Top Row L-R: Unknown, Freyda Krell, Debbie Krell, David Krell and his wife.