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more ROZENSZTEJN: road leads to London and South Africa
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MandJMeyers <mandjmeyers@...>
More pieces of the puzzle are coming together.
The granddaughter of Yitzhak Yosef and Yochanan ROZENSZTEJN (sons of Hersz Naftoli R) >from Janowa put me in contact with a cousin of hers who had additional information. Hersz Naftoli had 3 brothers (unfortunately no information yet on any sisters........) 1. David ROSENSTEIN, was married to a Basia, and went to London around 1901 with 6 children. David died in London in 1924 and finding his death certificate and headstone will be crucial to get the names of David's (and Hersz Naftoli's) parents. As some of David's descendants still live in England, we have some very good leads there. There are also some possible leads at the Edmonton Federation Cemetery (>from online JewishGen database). 2. One brother, name unknown, stayed in Poland. 3. Another brother of David and Hersz Naftoli, name unknown, emigrated to South Africa. So my family research leads me, for the first time ever, to the land of South Africa. Can anyone in South Africa suggest how to best track this unknown ROSENSTEIN? (I haven't even started looking at online JewishGen resources >from that country yet) Another interesting point >from the DavidR family branch is that there is a memory of contact, more than 20 years ago, with elderly "ROSENSTEIN" cousins in Canada, but the names are elusive so far. Also, one of DavidR's children (possibly Annie, nee ROSENSTEIN, KING, but not certain) may have emigrated >from London to Canada. Again, please contact me privately if any of this sounds familiar (or if you have suggestions for South Africa research paths). I have to say I am amazed at the size and breadth of the JewishGen and JRI-Poland communities and the capabilities that are possible when critical mass is achieved.......just phenomenal reach all around the world. Thanks again to everyone who has been helping. Marty Meyers Montclair, NJ
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen more ROZENSZTEJN: road leads to London and South Africa
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MandJMeyers <mandjmeyers@...>
More pieces of the puzzle are coming together.
The granddaughter of Yitzhak Yosef and Yochanan ROZENSZTEJN (sons of Hersz Naftoli R) >from Janowa put me in contact with a cousin of hers who had additional information. Hersz Naftoli had 3 brothers (unfortunately no information yet on any sisters........) 1. David ROSENSTEIN, was married to a Basia, and went to London around 1901 with 6 children. David died in London in 1924 and finding his death certificate and headstone will be crucial to get the names of David's (and Hersz Naftoli's) parents. As some of David's descendants still live in England, we have some very good leads there. There are also some possible leads at the Edmonton Federation Cemetery (>from online JewishGen database). 2. One brother, name unknown, stayed in Poland. 3. Another brother of David and Hersz Naftoli, name unknown, emigrated to South Africa. So my family research leads me, for the first time ever, to the land of South Africa. Can anyone in South Africa suggest how to best track this unknown ROSENSTEIN? (I haven't even started looking at online JewishGen resources >from that country yet) Another interesting point >from the DavidR family branch is that there is a memory of contact, more than 20 years ago, with elderly "ROSENSTEIN" cousins in Canada, but the names are elusive so far. Also, one of DavidR's children (possibly Annie, nee ROSENSTEIN, KING, but not certain) may have emigrated >from London to Canada. Again, please contact me privately if any of this sounds familiar (or if you have suggestions for South Africa research paths). I have to say I am amazed at the size and breadth of the JewishGen and JRI-Poland communities and the capabilities that are possible when critical mass is achieved.......just phenomenal reach all around the world. Thanks again to everyone who has been helping. Marty Meyers Montclair, NJ
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Searching: WAJSENBERG
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mark
Dear genners. I am still searching without any progress Wajsenberg >from
Zelechow, Warsaw, Shevelev- Belorussia, Brandwajn >from Ostrog, Zdolbunov. Bejzman >from Novograd Volyskiy-Zvill. Any idea please. Wajsenberg Mark Israel mark306@bezeqint.net
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: WAJSENBERG
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mark
Dear genners. I am still searching without any progress Wajsenberg >from
Zelechow, Warsaw, Shevelev- Belorussia, Brandwajn >from Ostrog, Zdolbunov. Bejzman >from Novograd Volyskiy-Zvill. Any idea please. Wajsenberg Mark Israel mark306@bezeqint.net
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Re: searching Kajla Lewkowicz Kamienk-Paris
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jacqueline.pollak@...
I wish to thank Maria Waltman Daschko and Eve Line Blum-Cherchevsky for
their help to trace Kajla nee Lewkowicz. With their help I was able to learn what happened to Kajla, to her son and to her husband during the Shoah. I discovered too new tracks to deepen my genealogical research. Jacqueline Pollak Brussels
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: searching Kajla Lewkowicz Kamienk-Paris
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jacqueline.pollak@...
I wish to thank Maria Waltman Daschko and Eve Line Blum-Cherchevsky for
their help to trace Kajla nee Lewkowicz. With their help I was able to learn what happened to Kajla, to her son and to her husband during the Shoah. I discovered too new tracks to deepen my genealogical research. Jacqueline Pollak Brussels
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Seeking: Frymet/Frumeta SZTAJNKE
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malcolm katz <malkikatz9361@...>
If anyone has any information on Frymet/Frumeta
Sztajnke born 22/1/1921 in Kutno,Poland or any other children of this name >from there please contact me. Her mother was Frajda Ruchla nee Kac 1896-1929.Father Pinchas Sztejnke remarried to Sura Zychlinska about 1930 in Kutno. Ive searched all database info on JewishGen,Yad Vashem and nothing comes up and im hoping she may have survived or emigrated. Please reply in private direct. Many thanks Malki Katz London
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Seeking: Frymet/Frumeta SZTAJNKE
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malcolm katz <malkikatz9361@...>
If anyone has any information on Frymet/Frumeta
Sztajnke born 22/1/1921 in Kutno,Poland or any other children of this name >from there please contact me. Her mother was Frajda Ruchla nee Kac 1896-1929.Father Pinchas Sztejnke remarried to Sura Zychlinska about 1930 in Kutno. Ive searched all database info on JewishGen,Yad Vashem and nothing comes up and im hoping she may have survived or emigrated. Please reply in private direct. Many thanks Malki Katz London
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Re: Meaning for Romanian Words Targ and Sat with Town Names
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Jules Levin
At 11:09 AM 2/21/2008, you wrote:
Targ was given at Market.This may indeed be the explanation, but there is another simple explanation. I don't know about its development in Roumanian, but this word need mean only any old open-air peasant market. But Briceni-Targ may just be the town name, without regard to what targ "means". Greenwich Village isn't a village, and King of Prussia doesn't have a king. There needn't have been a "targ" in Briceni-Targ for centuries, for all that. Jules Levin Los Angeles
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Meaning for Romanian Words Targ and Sat with Town Names
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Jules Levin
At 11:09 AM 2/21/2008, you wrote:
Targ was given at Market.This may indeed be the explanation, but there is another simple explanation. I don't know about its development in Roumanian, but this word need mean only any old open-air peasant market. But Briceni-Targ may just be the town name, without regard to what targ "means". Greenwich Village isn't a village, and King of Prussia doesn't have a king. There needn't have been a "targ" in Briceni-Targ for centuries, for all that. Jules Levin Los Angeles
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R' Zevulon Yehoshua NEUSTADTER's ancestry
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Darren Dalcher <D.Dalcher@...>
Dear Genners,
Can anyone help? According to Otzar Harabanim: R' Zevulon Yehoshua (5567) was >from a great family with a distinguished Yichus; 'gedolei Yisrael' for a number of generations. He was the Rabbi of Neustadt (Neishtat Sugind, Nishtot Tavarig, Zemaiciu Naumiestis, Lithuania) >from the founding of the Jewish Community there. Is there any way of finding out more about his family and their yichus? At the very least, does anyone have any information about his father? Please respond privately to: d.dalcher@mdx.ac.uk Many thanks, Prof. Darren Dalcher, London, England
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic R' Zevulon Yehoshua NEUSTADTER's ancestry
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Darren Dalcher <D.Dalcher@...>
Dear Genners,
Can anyone help? According to Otzar Harabanim: R' Zevulon Yehoshua (5567) was >from a great family with a distinguished Yichus; 'gedolei Yisrael' for a number of generations. He was the Rabbi of Neustadt (Neishtat Sugind, Nishtot Tavarig, Zemaiciu Naumiestis, Lithuania) >from the founding of the Jewish Community there. Is there any way of finding out more about his family and their yichus? At the very least, does anyone have any information about his father? Please respond privately to: d.dalcher@mdx.ac.uk Many thanks, Prof. Darren Dalcher, London, England
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Passports of Jewish refugees found in Shang Hai.
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Evertjan. <exjxw.hannivoort@...>
19 German passports of Jewish refugees found
in an antique shop in Shang Hai. Read the article in the German "Frankfürter Algemeine" and see the scans of the pasports. The article is in German. Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Schanghai "Mit dem Adler und mit dem J" Von Frank Hollmann, Schanghai <http://tinyurl.com/yoyy57> Google machine translation into English of this German article, <http://tinyurl.com/2dt3j5> translates the German "Was haben wir für ein Schwein gehabt!" to "What have we had a pig!", the German idiom meaning "We have been terribly lucky", so the translation is not completely kosher. Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Passports of Jewish refugees found in Shang Hai.
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Evertjan. <exjxw.hannivoort@...>
19 German passports of Jewish refugees found
in an antique shop in Shang Hai. Read the article in the German "Frankfürter Algemeine" and see the scans of the pasports. The article is in German. Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Schanghai "Mit dem Adler und mit dem J" Von Frank Hollmann, Schanghai <http://tinyurl.com/yoyy57> Google machine translation into English of this German article, <http://tinyurl.com/2dt3j5> translates the German "Was haben wir für ein Schwein gehabt!" to "What have we had a pig!", the German idiom meaning "We have been terribly lucky", so the translation is not completely kosher. Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
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Israel BEKER, Artist and Director Born in Bialystok
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Bialystoker
The curators at the Muzeum Podlaskie w Bialymstoku (The Museum of Podlaski
Province in Bialystok) are developing an exhibit to describe the artistic culture of the Bialystok region in the 18th - 20th centuries, with particular consideration of the artists who used to work or have heritage in Bialystok and Podlaski Province. Israel Beker, born in Bialystok in 1917, is one of the Jewish artists that will be highlighted in this project. The curators wish to make contact with Israel Beker's descendants. If you are a descendant, relative, or know of a relative of Israel Beker, please contact me privately. Mark Halpern bialystoker@comcast.net Coordinator, BIALYGen http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/BialyGen/
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Israel BEKER, Artist and Director Born in Bialystok
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Bialystoker
The curators at the Muzeum Podlaskie w Bialymstoku (The Museum of Podlaski
Province in Bialystok) are developing an exhibit to describe the artistic culture of the Bialystok region in the 18th - 20th centuries, with particular consideration of the artists who used to work or have heritage in Bialystok and Podlaski Province. Israel Beker, born in Bialystok in 1917, is one of the Jewish artists that will be highlighted in this project. The curators wish to make contact with Israel Beker's descendants. If you are a descendant, relative, or know of a relative of Israel Beker, please contact me privately. Mark Halpern bialystoker@comcast.net Coordinator, BIALYGen http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/BialyGen/
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Are these two people the same?
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Mark Schwartz <Mschwartz@...>
Could Fejga Juskowna Brzoza, be the same person as
Basia Joelowna Brzoza? Thanks 0 Mark Schwartz Arlington, Virginia SEARCHING: Schwartzblatt, Permuth, Lefkovich, Petluk, Burak, Chelst, Fruman, Greenfield
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Are these two people the same?
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Mark Schwartz <Mschwartz@...>
Could Fejga Juskowna Brzoza, be the same person as
Basia Joelowna Brzoza? Thanks 0 Mark Schwartz Arlington, Virginia SEARCHING: Schwartzblatt, Permuth, Lefkovich, Petluk, Burak, Chelst, Fruman, Greenfield
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Re: Herman Epstein NYC Birth Certificate Date correction
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lbb47@...
Thanks to Barbara for alerting me to my typo
The correct Birth Date for Herman EPSTEIN on this Birth Certificate is Nov 11, 1893. Sorry for any confusion Lois Bloom Barnett I have a certified copy of a birth certificate which is available to anyone interested. It was not the Herman Epstein I am searching for. It is: Certificate # 45433 Herman Epstein born Nov 11, 1983. NYC Father: Herman Epstein - Russia- Shoemaker Age 31 Mother: Rachel Epstein ( maiden name Wolfe) Russia Age 33 Residence: 306 E. 102nd St
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Herman Epstein NYC Birth Certificate Date correction
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lbb47@...
Thanks to Barbara for alerting me to my typo
The correct Birth Date for Herman EPSTEIN on this Birth Certificate is Nov 11, 1893. Sorry for any confusion Lois Bloom Barnett I have a certified copy of a birth certificate which is available to anyone interested. It was not the Herman Epstein I am searching for. It is: Certificate # 45433 Herman Epstein born Nov 11, 1983. NYC Father: Herman Epstein - Russia- Shoemaker Age 31 Mother: Rachel Epstein ( maiden name Wolfe) Russia Age 33 Residence: 306 E. 102nd St
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