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Feiga BEKER nee FLEISIGER from Chelm and Akko
#poland
David Zoldan
I am looking for Feiga BEKER nee FLEISIGER originally >from Chelm and later
from Akko, if she is living or anyone who may possibly know herBased on her Yad Vashem POTs: Feiga married Leib (Yisroel Aryeh) BEKER who was killed in the war Feiga was the daughter of Aharon and Zisl FLEISEGER who were murdered in Majdanek Feiga had siblings Moshe FLEISEGER, Avraham FLEISEGER, and Menachem Mendel FLEISEGER who married Chana CZESNA/CHESNER the daughter of Shraga Feivel CZESNA and Sheindel Devorah ROZENKNOPF Chana FLEISEGER nee CHESNER who was murdered in Sobibor is my great grandmothers sister I would be happy to be in touch with her or her children if she remarried after the war as well as anybody else who could help me in some way sort out the life of Chana CZESNA/CHESNER Thank you Avraham David ZOLDAN Researcher 382214 Researching in the Carpathians: ZOLDAN, STEINBERG, WEISSBERGER, SHLEZINGER, MEYER,SOLOMON, HOFFMAN, others, Researching in Poland/Galicia: BIENENFELD, SOVA, ROSENKNOPF, EINBINDER, CZESNA, TYK, others MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with family information. Suggestions for research methods or resources my be shared with the list.
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JRI Poland #Poland Feiga BEKER nee FLEISIGER from Chelm and Akko
#poland
David Zoldan
I am looking for Feiga BEKER nee FLEISIGER originally >from Chelm and later
from Akko, if she is living or anyone who may possibly know herBased on her Yad Vashem POTs: Feiga married Leib (Yisroel Aryeh) BEKER who was killed in the war Feiga was the daughter of Aharon and Zisl FLEISEGER who were murdered in Majdanek Feiga had siblings Moshe FLEISEGER, Avraham FLEISEGER, and Menachem Mendel FLEISEGER who married Chana CZESNA/CHESNER the daughter of Shraga Feivel CZESNA and Sheindel Devorah ROZENKNOPF Chana FLEISEGER nee CHESNER who was murdered in Sobibor is my great grandmothers sister I would be happy to be in touch with her or her children if she remarried after the war as well as anybody else who could help me in some way sort out the life of Chana CZESNA/CHESNER Thank you Avraham David ZOLDAN Researcher 382214 Researching in the Carpathians: ZOLDAN, STEINBERG, WEISSBERGER, SHLEZINGER, MEYER,SOLOMON, HOFFMAN, others, Researching in Poland/Galicia: BIENENFELD, SOVA, ROSENKNOPF, EINBINDER, CZESNA, TYK, others MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with family information. Suggestions for research methods or resources my be shared with the list.
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New material in the Hungarian Databases
#hungary
ethnoca@...
I am happy to announce that we were able to make another large upload into the
Hungarian databases, over 16000 entries this time. Besides the smaller projects of Fuzer [Abauj-Torna], Monok [Zemplen] and Kisszeben [Saros], we also have some additional data for Aranyosmeggyes [Szatmar] and Papa [Veszprem]. But the most substential additions are the long awaited civil birth records for Kassa for the years 1895-1915, and the huge Nyitra project - births only for now, marriages and deaths are being readied for the next upload. A great big thank you goes for these to Peter Absolon and Henry Wellisch respectively. I would also like to remind our SIG members that if the new material will help in the progress of your research, you can show your appreciation by making a small donation towards further acquisitions. Sarah Feuerstein JewishGen Hungarian Vital Records Coordinator Moderator: Many thanks to Sarah who has done a marvelous job coordinating this effort and painstakingly reviewing the transcribed records before they are uploaded. Volunteers like Sarah and those who transcribe records are essential to our effort to continue to provide an outstanding resource for those researching their Hungarian Jewish families. I you are unable to help transcribe records, please consider a donation to allow us to continue acquiring new images >from archives overseas.
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Hungary SIG #Hungary New material in the Hungarian Databases
#hungary
ethnoca@...
I am happy to announce that we were able to make another large upload into the
Hungarian databases, over 16000 entries this time. Besides the smaller projects of Fuzer [Abauj-Torna], Monok [Zemplen] and Kisszeben [Saros], we also have some additional data for Aranyosmeggyes [Szatmar] and Papa [Veszprem]. But the most substential additions are the long awaited civil birth records for Kassa for the years 1895-1915, and the huge Nyitra project - births only for now, marriages and deaths are being readied for the next upload. A great big thank you goes for these to Peter Absolon and Henry Wellisch respectively. I would also like to remind our SIG members that if the new material will help in the progress of your research, you can show your appreciation by making a small donation towards further acquisitions. Sarah Feuerstein JewishGen Hungarian Vital Records Coordinator Moderator: Many thanks to Sarah who has done a marvelous job coordinating this effort and painstakingly reviewing the transcribed records before they are uploaded. Volunteers like Sarah and those who transcribe records are essential to our effort to continue to provide an outstanding resource for those researching their Hungarian Jewish families. I you are unable to help transcribe records, please consider a donation to allow us to continue acquiring new images >from archives overseas.
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Re: "Kristallnacht" [A personal memoir]
#germany
Eva Lawrence
On November 8th and 9th 1938, my father was travelling >from Stuttgart
to Frankfurt/Main. In December 1970 he described his experience in an article which he called 'Report about the so-called Crystal Night in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse'. Clearly the subject held painful memories, but 30 years later he felt strong enough to face up to them. I'm happy to send a copy to anyone who gives me their credentials. Eva Lawrence, St Albans, UK. eva.lawrence@...
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German SIG #Germany re: "Kristallnacht" [A personal memoir]
#germany
Eva Lawrence
On November 8th and 9th 1938, my father was travelling >from Stuttgart
to Frankfurt/Main. In December 1970 he described his experience in an article which he called 'Report about the so-called Crystal Night in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse'. Clearly the subject held painful memories, but 30 years later he felt strong enough to face up to them. I'm happy to send a copy to anyone who gives me their credentials. Eva Lawrence, St Albans, UK. eva.lawrence@...
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(Germany) Israeli Genealogist Helps Find Family of Holocaust Victim Karolina Cohn After Silver Pendant Found In Sobibor Death Camp
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
Last year archeologists found a silver pendant engraved with the name
Karolina Cohn, her birth date July 3, 1929 and birthplace at the former death camp known as Sobibor ( see: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.765056). It also had the words "Mazel tov" and stars of David. She was 14 at the time of her death. The Stolpersteine were placed at the entrance of the Frankfurt home. After reports of the discovery of the pendant, an Israeli amateur genealogist began searching about her life and built a family tree based on documents and photographs of her life, finding about dozens of people related to her in Britain, Germany, Israel, the U.S. Italy and Japan. The Jewish Claims Conference invited about 30 of the relatives for the Stolpersteine ceremony and a reunion. These relatives had never known about Karolina or her family before the pendant was found and the genealogist was able to contact them Nazi deportation lists helped the genealogists identify Karolina as the owner of the pendant. According to Yad Vashem, she was banished from Frankfurt to Minsk, Belarus on November 11, 1941. Nothing is known about her after then, including whether she was murdered in Minsk and someone else took the pendant who was sent to the death camp or Karolina was banished to Sobibor in September 1943 when the Minsk ghetto was liquidated. The pendant was found in the ruins of a hut where the women's hair was shaved before being led to the gas chambers. To read more about this and see photographs see: http://tinyurl.com/yap5n7an Original url: https://apnews.com/ed55d011153a4f3ba1b513afde1f3efb/Relatives-meet-to-honor-Jewish-girl-who-died-in-Holocaust Thank you to Randy Herschaft, Associated Press for sharing this story. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (Germany) Israeli Genealogist Helps Find Family of Holocaust Victim Karolina Cohn After Silver Pendant Found In Sobibor Death Camp
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
Last year archeologists found a silver pendant engraved with the name
Karolina Cohn, her birth date July 3, 1929 and birthplace at the former death camp known as Sobibor ( see: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.765056). It also had the words "Mazel tov" and stars of David. She was 14 at the time of her death. The Stolpersteine were placed at the entrance of the Frankfurt home. After reports of the discovery of the pendant, an Israeli amateur genealogist began searching about her life and built a family tree based on documents and photographs of her life, finding about dozens of people related to her in Britain, Germany, Israel, the U.S. Italy and Japan. The Jewish Claims Conference invited about 30 of the relatives for the Stolpersteine ceremony and a reunion. These relatives had never known about Karolina or her family before the pendant was found and the genealogist was able to contact them Nazi deportation lists helped the genealogists identify Karolina as the owner of the pendant. According to Yad Vashem, she was banished from Frankfurt to Minsk, Belarus on November 11, 1941. Nothing is known about her after then, including whether she was murdered in Minsk and someone else took the pendant who was sent to the death camp or Karolina was banished to Sobibor in September 1943 when the Minsk ghetto was liquidated. The pendant was found in the ruins of a hut where the women's hair was shaved before being led to the gas chambers. To read more about this and see photographs see: http://tinyurl.com/yap5n7an Original url: https://apnews.com/ed55d011153a4f3ba1b513afde1f3efb/Relatives-meet-to-honor-Jewish-girl-who-died-in-Holocaust Thank you to Randy Herschaft, Associated Press for sharing this story. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Brandwajn Bejzman
#ukraine
mark
Dear Genners.
I am searching Brandwajn and Bejzman >from Ostrog,Zdolbunow,Rovno,Zwill (Novograd Volynski),Boston-before WW2. Wajsenberg Mark mark306@...
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Brandwajn Bejzman
#ukraine
mark
Dear Genners.
I am searching Brandwajn and Bejzman >from Ostrog,Zdolbunow,Rovno,Zwill (Novograd Volynski),Boston-before WW2. Wajsenberg Mark mark306@...
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Thanks RE: uncle buried in Plashet cemetery
#unitedkingdom
Michael Goldsmith <michaelg32@...>
I want to send a heartfelt thank you to the many people who responded to my
request about Plashet cemetery where my uncle Hyman was buried. It is so wonderful to see such a rapid response by so many caring people! Michael Goldsmith Bedford, NH
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom Thanks RE: uncle buried in Plashet cemetery
#unitedkingdom
Michael Goldsmith <michaelg32@...>
I want to send a heartfelt thank you to the many people who responded to my
request about Plashet cemetery where my uncle Hyman was buried. It is so wonderful to see such a rapid response by so many caring people! Michael Goldsmith Bedford, NH
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Re: uncle buried in Plashett cemetary
#unitedkingdom
Tim Homewood
Hi Michael, as Annie said, you can search the burial records online,
on the United Synagogue website https://www.theus.org.uk/category/find-grave I had a quick look and couldn't find a record matching the names and dates. The trick with this search is you have to get the spelling exactly right (no wildcards) but you can also just enter the first few letters of a name, eg "H", "Hy" and "Hym" will all return Hyman. There aren't that many records for each cemetery and I searched for firstname "H", surname "Y" for Plashet (no date). Have a look at the names returned and see if maybe the date is wrong. I've also found in the past that the online records aren't complete, so you can ask the United Synagogue to see if they can help ( contact details for the head of the Burial Society are on the website https://www.theus.org.uk/article/about-us-burial-society-0 ). Though Charles Tucker is still the record keeper, but I don't believe he is involved with the burial records. Regards, Tim Homewood On 14 November 2017 at 01:01, Annie Fuchs lydgateaction@... <jcr-uk@...> wrote: The burial records for Plashett are mostly online. I want to visit a grave
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom Re: uncle buried in Plashett cemetary
#unitedkingdom
Tim Homewood
Hi Michael, as Annie said, you can search the burial records online,
on the United Synagogue website https://www.theus.org.uk/category/find-grave I had a quick look and couldn't find a record matching the names and dates. The trick with this search is you have to get the spelling exactly right (no wildcards) but you can also just enter the first few letters of a name, eg "H", "Hy" and "Hym" will all return Hyman. There aren't that many records for each cemetery and I searched for firstname "H", surname "Y" for Plashet (no date). Have a look at the names returned and see if maybe the date is wrong. I've also found in the past that the online records aren't complete, so you can ask the United Synagogue to see if they can help ( contact details for the head of the Burial Society are on the website https://www.theus.org.uk/article/about-us-burial-society-0 ). Though Charles Tucker is still the record keeper, but I don't believe he is involved with the burial records. Regards, Tim Homewood On 14 November 2017 at 01:01, Annie Fuchs lydgateaction@... <jcr-uk@...> wrote: The burial records for Plashett are mostly online. I want to visit a grave
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Looking for correct email addresses for the following people
#general
Barry Halpern
I'm posting on behalf of LitvakSIG and hoping to find correct email
addresses for the following individuals. Please contact me at barry.halpern@... if you are one of these people and let me know your address. The address we currently have for you is "bouncing". Thanks! Michael Shur Mark Brown Antony Griew Arthur Mark Marcia Goldberg Guillermo Erdei Harold Atkins Garry Shub Elizabeth Levy Itai Perez Richard Pompian Kaye Miller Rita Redlich
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Looking for correct email addresses for the following people
#general
Barry Halpern
I'm posting on behalf of LitvakSIG and hoping to find correct email
addresses for the following individuals. Please contact me at barry.halpern@... if you are one of these people and let me know your address. The address we currently have for you is "bouncing". Thanks! Michael Shur Mark Brown Antony Griew Arthur Mark Marcia Goldberg Guillermo Erdei Harold Atkins Garry Shub Elizabeth Levy Itai Perez Richard Pompian Kaye Miller Rita Redlich
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Descendants of the PRIWER and MAHLER families of Krakow
#general
Robert Avner
I am interested in corresponding with anyone who are descendants of the
Mahler and Priver families (it also became Pruver in the U.S.) as listed on Dan Hirscberg's Krakow website. Also the Herstein and Greenbaum families of Krakow that I am related to through marriage. Robert Avner robertavner@... MODERATOR NOTE: Please send contact information privately.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Descendants of the PRIWER and MAHLER families of Krakow
#general
Robert Avner
I am interested in corresponding with anyone who are descendants of the
Mahler and Priver families (it also became Pruver in the U.S.) as listed on Dan Hirscberg's Krakow website. Also the Herstein and Greenbaum families of Krakow that I am related to through marriage. Robert Avner robertavner@... MODERATOR NOTE: Please send contact information privately.
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Looking for cousins in NY
#general
JUSTICEOFP
I have finally found one of my mother's half-brothers, Hyman ISRAEL. Hyman
was born in Baltimore, MD in 1914 and died in Brooklyn, NY on Dec. 22, 1957. His death certificate listed his wife as Rita KATZ. According to his gravestone in the Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, NJ, Hyman was also a father. Rita and her sisters-Johannah and Greda- were born in Germany. Her parents and one of her sisters, Johannah KATZ NUGGET, are also buried in Cedar Park Cemetery. I can't seem to find out what happened to Rita or information about the child or children they had. Johannah had two sons, Michel W. NUGGET and Robert S. NUGGET. Robert may be living in Forest Hills, NY. Her sons may have information for me and my family. I am hoping someone will help me connect to Hyman's child and/or children. Thank you, Linda Winkleman Wallingford, CT justiceofp@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Looking for cousins in NY
#general
JUSTICEOFP
I have finally found one of my mother's half-brothers, Hyman ISRAEL. Hyman
was born in Baltimore, MD in 1914 and died in Brooklyn, NY on Dec. 22, 1957. His death certificate listed his wife as Rita KATZ. According to his gravestone in the Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, NJ, Hyman was also a father. Rita and her sisters-Johannah and Greda- were born in Germany. Her parents and one of her sisters, Johannah KATZ NUGGET, are also buried in Cedar Park Cemetery. I can't seem to find out what happened to Rita or information about the child or children they had. Johannah had two sons, Michel W. NUGGET and Robert S. NUGGET. Robert may be living in Forest Hills, NY. Her sons may have information for me and my family. I am hoping someone will help me connect to Hyman's child and/or children. Thank you, Linda Winkleman Wallingford, CT justiceofp@...
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