Torgovitsa – Hammer Family

Some of my cousins traveled here but I haven’t heard their stories yet!

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Torhovytsia, Targowica, Torgovitsa, Trovits, Targowitz, Targovica, Targoviste, Targowitza, Tarovitz, Truvitz—in eastern Ukraine, west of Kiev—is the ancestral home of the Hammer (Gomehr) family.

Berel Hammer

BerelHammerBerelHammer0001This is my great-grandfather Berel Hammer. He was a Hebrew teacher and a grocer in Newark, NJ. Like all the Hammers, he was from Torgovitsa, Ukraine.