If You Have One of These 15 ‘Polish’ Surnames, Your Family Was Actually Jewish.
If You Have One of These 15 ‘Polish’ Surnames, Your Family Was Actually Jewish Some Polish surnames are not really Polish surnames. Kac. Szapiro. Moszkowicz. Wołowski. Each one belongs to a community that had been in Poland for seven hundred years, that numbered more than three million people in 1939, and that was almost entirely gone six years later. They are on mailboxes in Chicago, Milwaukee and New Jersey right now, on families who have called themselves Polish for four generations. They are not wrong. But there is a second answer underneath the first one, and in most cases a clerk wrote it down and dated it. These are the 15 Polish surnames that point to a Jewish family, counting down to the one that is a Polish noble name and a Hebrew word at the same time. So look for yours.
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