Re: Pisek and Strakonice #austria-czech
Celia Male <celiamale@...>
Roberta Sheps of the Colchester and District Jewish
Community, UK writes that her synagogue has a Torah scroll, >from either Pisek or Strakonice, Bohemia; they wish to commemorate the Jews of these communities who were killed in the Holocaust ..... and are interested in gathering as many individual names as possible. Roberta asks if we have any members who know that they had family members living in either town at the outbreak of WWII ..... Firstly, I am a bit puzzled as to why Roberta searched the Discussion Group Archives and not the SIG archives! They are totally separate. I got 20 hits for Pisek on the Austria-Czech message archives, including this very relevant message >from Susan Boyer - 18 Feb 2004 Subject: Klatovy, Domazlice, Pisek/Strakonice "A synagogue in Fullerton, CA has 3 scrolls >from the Scrolls Memorial Trust in London... >from Klatovy, Domazlice, Pisek/Strakonice. ... why are the towns of Pisek and Strakonice listed as one town? They are close by but not one community .... do any of you know survivors >from these towns that might want to be a Yom HaShoah speaker in April for a very short service. There are also 8 hits for Strakonitz/Strakonice and we do have descendants on our SIG >from this town. However the links may be historic. Does this matter? In this work, one must think laterally and explore all avenues - looking for these survivors and relatives is a very long task and the deadline is Jan. 2006 for this year's commemoration. However there is, sadly, the vast database on Yad Vashem: http://names.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance Just enter the word *Pisek* [with no names] as a location and up come 174 names. The first, for Hermine KOHN, has a testimony >from her nephew in NY, Gustav FREUD dated 1998, with an address. Otto BROK also has a page of testimony dated 1999, with a clearly; legible address - so has Mathilde HIRSCH. Many pages are in Hebrew and help may be required in reading them. You can also search for Strakonice/Strakonitz records: 383 names appear. Amongst them, for example, you will find Emil EHRENFREUND - a lawyer. Testimony was submitted on 13/04/1999. Hopefully the people who gave testimony are still around and can be contacted. One has to go through all the victims to see what one can find. Then one has to decide how to contact the people. Speed is obviously of the essence. International calls these days are very cheap and online directories are also available. Then to cross-check for victims who lived in Austria go to: http://www.lettertothestars.at/cms/ Born in Pisek: Hugo BERGER 03.05.1889; Rosa BLAU 30.09.1878; Josefine FANTL 19.05.1861; Malwine KAUDER 20.07.1876; Leontine KLAUBER 03.09.1877; Leo KRUGER 22.02.1865; Helene MANDEL 03.04.1876; Leo STRANSKY 22.06.1878. Born in Strakonitz [no hits with Strakonice]: Helene Viktoria ENGELSMANN 16.07.1883; Hugo KIRSCHNER 02.09.1883; Olga LOSCH 11.05.1878. If you enter *Strak* you find more victims and the spelling of the place name differs and may represent a transcription error or a similarly-sounding place name. If you enter one of these names on the Yad vashem database you see the victims was >from Lodz and Strakowitz presumably is a place in Poland. It is important to compare databases. There is a lot of work to be done on the internet to complete a list of victims and the internet as always provides many, many clues to trace survivors and relatives. Celia Male [U.K.]
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