With regards to the question about false papers:

My grandfather was born in Balta, in what was then Russia,
but near the border to what was then Bessarabia, and near
Romania. In 1921, after the Bolshevik revolution, he and
his mother were smuggled out of Russia to Romania. They
found that they could not get not get an American Visa to
enter the USA with their Russian passport, since at that time
US did not recognize the Bolshevik government as legitimate.
They were able to obtain a Romanian passport by paying off
a political figure, and with that obtained an American Visa.

I learned through reading a small autobiography my grandfather
left behind. When I looked up my great-grandmother's passenger
ship list record recently, I found that it lists her home as
Galatz, Romania, which is where she bought her passport.

Were it not for the autobiography, I might have found the shiplist
record and assumed that Galatz was the family's town of orgin!!

Dave Lewak
Berkeley, Ca, USA

Researching:
Belarus: LEWAK (LEVAK?), DWINSKI, GOLDBERG, KIER (>from Drogichin);
FLAKSMAN (>from Pinsk). Ukraine:MISHURIMAN, POLISHER, FLICKSTEIN,
TOBERMAN (>from Balta, and maybe Odessa);
Galicia: WINZELBERG, WERTHEIM (>from Chekhoif?);
Lithuania: LIEBERMAN (>from Balbieriska)