Grodzhisk is a Hasidic

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Elimelech Szapira, author of ''Imrei Elimelech''. Grodzhisk is the

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Grodzisk Mazowiecki Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 29,363 inhabitants (2011). It is 30 km. southwest of Warsaw. Between 1975 and 1998 it was situated in the Warszawa Voivodeship but since 1999 it has been situated in the Masovian Voivodesh ...

, a town in present-day

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Lineage

* Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk (b. 1823, d. 29 March 1892). ** Rabbi Yisroel Szapira. son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira. ** Rabbi Chayim Myer Yechiel Szapira, son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira. *** Rabbi Yisroel Shapira (killed at

Treblinka Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The cam ...

, 1942), son of Rabbi Chayim Myer Yechiel. **** Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Szapira (d. Dec. 6, 1966), son of Rabbi Yisroel Shapira. ** Rabbi

Kalonymus Kalman Shapira Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (or Klonimus Kalmish Szapiro) (or "Shapiro," a more common transliteration of the Polish spelling of his name "Szapiro") (20 May 1889–3 November 1943), was the Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland, who authored a number ...

Piaseczno Piaseczno is a town in east-central Poland with 47,660 inhabitants. It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, within the Warsaw metropolitan area, just south of Warsaw, approximately south of its center. It is a popular residential area and ...

(b. 1889, killed at

Trawniki Trawniki is a village in Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the present-day gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Trawniki. It lies approximately south-east of Świdnik and south-east of the regio ...

, November 3, 1943), son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira. ** Rabbi Isaiah, son of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira. *** Rabbi Elimelech, son of Rabbi Isaiah. **** Rabbi Kalman Menachem, son of Rabbi Elimelech - current

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