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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 8/23/2026 5:30 PM
Family Surname: Korenblum
Country: Poland
Town: Varsovia
Date of Image: 1915

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Hello,

Could anyone please help me transcribe and translate this Russian handwritten document?

The document dates from 1915 and is written in Russian cursive handwriting (pre-revolutionary Russian). I am particularly interested in obtaining an accurate transcription of the original Cyrillic text before translating it.

I would be very grateful if someone could provide:

1. A line-by-line transcription in the original Russian/Cyrillic, preserving the original spelling and pre-revolutionary orthography where possible.
2. A translation into English.
3. Please indicate with [?] or brackets any words that are uncertain rather than guessing.
4. The document contains the surname КОРЕНБЛУМЪ (Korenblum), which is important for my family history research.

I have already tried to read it myself, but some parts of the handwriting are very difficult to decipher.

Thank you very much for any help!

Response

8/24/2026 4:12 PM

436. Явился в Варшаве в Канцелярии Чиновника Гражданского Состояния Нехристианских Исповеданий, пятого Повонзковского участка двадцать седьмого Апреля — десятого Мая тысяча девятьсот пятнадцатого года (1915) в одиннадцать часов утра.
Явился лично отец Мендель Корнблюм, тридцати шести лет (36 лет), извозчик, в Варшаве в доме под номером две тысячи двести девяносто буква Г (№ 2290 «Г»), проживающий
и в присутствии совершеннолетних свидетелей: Вигдора Бидермана, под номером десятым (№10) и Арона Гольдфельда под номером семнадцатым (№17) по Гусиной улице в Варшаве проживающих, частных писцов, предъявил нам ребенка мужского пола, пояснив, что таковой родился

15/28 апреля тысяча девятьсот девятого года (1909 года) , в доме где заявляющий проживает, от отца его заявляющего и матери- не замужней Хаи-Леи Сипонович, тридцати восьми лет (38 лет). Ребенку этому дано имя Нафтуль.
Акт сей, опозданный (составлен с опозданием) по вине родителей, присутствующим прочитан, Нами и свидетелями подписан.
Чиновник Гражданского Состояния
Нехристианских Вероисповеданий. Полковник. Подпись.
Подпись : Мидль Корнблюм.

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436. Appeared in Warsaw at the Office of the Civil Status Officer of Non-Christian Confessions, fifth Powązki district, from the twenty-seventh of April to the tenth of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen (1915) at eleven o’clock in the morning.
Father Mendel Kornblum, thirty-six years old (36 years), a cab driver (he transported people on horses), residing in Warsaw in the house at number two thousand two hundred and ninety letter G (No. 2290 "G"), appeared in person
and in the presence of adult witnesses: Vigdor Biderman, number ten (No. 10) and Aron Goldfeld at number seventeen (No. 17) on Gusina Street in Warsaw, private scribes, presented us with a male child, explaining that such
was born on April 15/28, one thousand nine hundred and nine (1909), in the house where the applicant resides, from his father, the applicant, and his mother, the married Khaya-Leya Siponovich, thirty-eight years old (38 years).
This child was given the name Naftul. This act, late (drawn up late) due to the parents' fault, has been read to those present and signed by us and the witnesses.
Civil Status Officer Non-Christian Faiths. Colonel. Signature.
Signature: Middle Kornblum.
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Submitted by Ariel Eduardo Korenblum

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ViewMate Posting VM 115176

Submitted by Ariel Eduardo Korenblum