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Picture Gallery of Yeheskel Zilberstein's and Amnon Even-Kesef's
Trip to Wizna and Witkowo (1 Mile N of Wizna), 2000

Their ancestry includes Gostkowski


Narew River, northern upriver view
from the former Gostkowski farm
in Witkowo-Wizna
See map showing location of Witkowo

View of the former Gostkowski
farm in Witkowo-Wizna
from the Narew River shore
[View towards the west]

Neighboring farm houses of
the former Gostkowski farm
in Witkowo-Wizna

YeheskelZilberstein, son of
Rywka (nee Gostkowski) and
Yehuda Zilbersztejn, standing in front of a former Gostkowski property, possibly Yankel Gostkowski's
[Narew, northern upriver view]

Close-up view of an old house
on the former Gostkowski farm,
in Witkowo-Wizna

Old cow shed on the former
Gostkowski farm in Witkowo-Wizna

Yeheskel Zilberstein sitting on
the Gostkowski shore of the
Narew River in Witkowo-Wizna
[Narew, northern upriver view]

Amnon Even-Kesef on the famous
Narew River dinghy, in Witkowo-Wizna

Yeheskel Zilberstein, standing on
the Gostkowski shore of the
Narew River in Witkowo-Wizna
[Narew downriver view, south towards Wizna]

A fisherman on the Narew River
near the former Gostkowski farm


Entrance to the remains of the
Wizna Jewish Cemetery, located
north of Witkowo, about 200 yards
from the bridge to Bialystok, on the unpaved road along the river to the small town of Rus
See more photos of the cemetery

Bucolic scene of the area near the
Narew River in the former Gostkowski farm in Witkowo-Wizna. The forest across the river did not exist during the years that Rywka Gostkowska and her siblings lived in Wizna.

[L-R]: Cheslaw Baginski, 88, former neighbor of the Gostkowski family in Witkowo, still remembers Abram and Itzchak Gostkowski; Amnon Even-Kesef (Zilberstein), son of Rywka (nee Gostkowski) and Yehuda Zilbersztejn; Eugenia Dobrowska, 88-90, remembers the Gostkowski family.

[L-R]: Cheslaw Baginski, former Gostkowski neighbor in Witkowo; Amnon Even-Kesef; Josef Koschewski, present resident of the former Gostkowski farm in Witkowo. Amnon is holding a home made Vodka bottle, a present given by Josef Koschewski, the maker of this Vodka

[L-R]: Kazimier Abramowitz, about 90, who also remembers the Gostkowskis; Yeheskel Zilberstein.
Background: Wizna Rynek, near the
monument to the Polish soldiers who
lost their lives in WWI and WWII,
[shown top right]

Wizna Civic Center
[L-R]: fire department, public library

Wizna Civic Center
[Red house on the right]: former
home of Rywka Czapnicka,
who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel now

[L-R]: Zamkowa restaurant,
Wizna City Hall

[Red house]: grocery store
(maybe the former grocery store of
Chana Rywka (nee Gostkowski) Liberman, known as "gote neshome," wife of Leibke Liberman, sister of Eli Avraham Gostkowski) [Yellow house]: Wizna bakery (maybe the former Guzikiewicz bakery)

Wizna Rynek on the left
[Yellow house]: the bakery, (maybe the former site of the Guzikiewicz bakery) This road leads north towards the Wizna church and on to the unpaved road to Witkowo.

[Red house]: Israel Lewin's former home, one of the few homes that survived WWII bombing of the Rynek area; [White house]: Wizna post office

The Wizna drugstore (Apteka)
next to the civic center and Rynek,
on the street that leads to Witkowo,
opposite the Wizna high school

View of the east side of the park
in Wizna's Rynek

Photos courtesy of Amnon Even-Kesef.

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