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USHMM Document Translation German/Polish
#germany
Dear Friends.
I've received a Lodz Ghetto document >from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum regarding Chaim Hersz Fass. I've posted the image for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73567. I would like a complete translation and identification of the person in the photograph. Thank you very much. Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Paulette Bronstein, Aventura, Florida
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German SIG #Germany USHMM Document Translation German/Polish
#germany
Dear Friends.
I've received a Lodz Ghetto document >from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum regarding Chaim Hersz Fass. I've posted the image for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73567. I would like a complete translation and identification of the person in the photograph. Thank you very much. Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Paulette Bronstein, Aventura, Florida
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SITE CITE - SLUB on-line links to directories in select cities in Germany [and more]
#germany
Teven Laxer
The Saxon State Library in Dresden (SLUB) has an on-line address book for
many cities in Germany. You can search by city, address, year, and surname. http://adressbuecher.sachsendigital.de/en/home/ There are links to many other resources as well that are city or region- specific. For example, the link below takes you to an historical index of places in Saxony: https://hov.isgv.de/ The first two links of the interactive map below only works when the German (DE) language is selected. Once you select the region and time period, you will get a list of surnames you can search for. The third page is in English or German. http://adressbuecher.sachsendigital.de/tour/ There are many other collections and databases stored on the SLUB website. I just learned about this website today >from my wife's second cousin in Leipzig. Teven Laxer teven.laxer@sbcglobal.net
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German SIG #Germany SITE CITE - SLUB on-line links to directories in select cities in Germany [and more]
#germany
Teven Laxer
The Saxon State Library in Dresden (SLUB) has an on-line address book for
many cities in Germany. You can search by city, address, year, and surname. http://adressbuecher.sachsendigital.de/en/home/ There are links to many other resources as well that are city or region- specific. For example, the link below takes you to an historical index of places in Saxony: https://hov.isgv.de/ The first two links of the interactive map below only works when the German (DE) language is selected. Once you select the region and time period, you will get a list of surnames you can search for. The third page is in English or German. http://adressbuecher.sachsendigital.de/tour/ There are many other collections and databases stored on the SLUB website. I just learned about this website today >from my wife's second cousin in Leipzig. Teven Laxer teven.laxer@sbcglobal.net
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Need help in finding my Grand Uncle
#poland
HERBERT SIEGEL
Subject: Lena Siegel sister in law to Solomon Siegel
From: Herbert Siegel; LTCHSIEGEL@GMAIL.COM I have been researching the connection of LENA SIEGEL to my family for the past several years. In the 1905 New York census she is listed as the sister in law of my grandfather SOLOMON SIEGEL. Her age is 19 born about 1886 in Poland and arrived in New York about 1901. Based on this I began to test out possible husbands >from the next 40 years of census reports. These husbands would be a brother of my grandfather Solomon Siegel and have the same parents (Louis Siegel and Rose Sprintzer). Nothing offers solid proof of a connection. The information >from the census yielded 10 possible husbands for Lena. I have found no immigration records for her or Solomon. (believe they may have entered at Castle Gardens and the records were destroyed). If you can provide any information on the above questions it would open a vast family tree connection for our families. The trees on Ancestry.com for the several of the possible husbands and the main Siegel tree is "Siegel Family Tree". All are public trees and have no one listed as "private". I sincerely appreciate any information you have and thank you for taking the time to read my message. Reply directly to my email. Herbert Siegel The Villages, Florida
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BialyGen: Bialystok Region #Bialystok #Poland Need help in finding my Grand Uncle
#poland
HERBERT SIEGEL
Subject: Lena Siegel sister in law to Solomon Siegel
From: Herbert Siegel; LTCHSIEGEL@GMAIL.COM I have been researching the connection of LENA SIEGEL to my family for the past several years. In the 1905 New York census she is listed as the sister in law of my grandfather SOLOMON SIEGEL. Her age is 19 born about 1886 in Poland and arrived in New York about 1901. Based on this I began to test out possible husbands >from the next 40 years of census reports. These husbands would be a brother of my grandfather Solomon Siegel and have the same parents (Louis Siegel and Rose Sprintzer). Nothing offers solid proof of a connection. The information >from the census yielded 10 possible husbands for Lena. I have found no immigration records for her or Solomon. (believe they may have entered at Castle Gardens and the records were destroyed). If you can provide any information on the above questions it would open a vast family tree connection for our families. The trees on Ancestry.com for the several of the possible husbands and the main Siegel tree is "Siegel Family Tree". All are public trees and have no one listed as "private". I sincerely appreciate any information you have and thank you for taking the time to read my message. Reply directly to my email. Herbert Siegel The Villages, Florida
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Translation German/Polish Lodz Ghetto
#poland
Dear Friends.
I've posted three Lodz Ghetto documents obtained >from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73559 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73568 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73567 I would appreciate a full translation of each page Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paulette Bronstein https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Salakas/ GAMBURG, GAMUS, SHAPIR, LEVIN, PITTEL, GORDON, RIMER Salakas, Lithuania - Disna, Belarus - Brooklyn, NY ROSENZWAIG, FASS Lodz, Poland - Bergen-Belsen DP Camp - Israel (Kfar Saba, Hadera) ---
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JRI Poland #Poland Translation German/Polish Lodz Ghetto
#poland
Dear Friends.
I've posted three Lodz Ghetto documents obtained >from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73559 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73568 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73567 I would appreciate a full translation of each page Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paulette Bronstein https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Salakas/ GAMBURG, GAMUS, SHAPIR, LEVIN, PITTEL, GORDON, RIMER Salakas, Lithuania - Disna, Belarus - Brooklyn, NY ROSENZWAIG, FASS Lodz, Poland - Bergen-Belsen DP Camp - Israel (Kfar Saba, Hadera) ---
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Need help in finding my Grand Uncle
#poland
HERBERT SIEGEL
Subject: Lena Siegel sister in law to Solomon Siegel
From: Herbert Siegel; LTCHSIEGEL@GMAIL.COM I have been researching the connection of LENA SIEGEL to my family for the past several years. In the 1905 New York census she is listed as the sister in law of my grandfather SOLOMON SIEGEL. Her age is 19 born about 1886 in Poland and arrived in New York about 1901. Based on this I began to test out possible husbands >from the next 40 years of census reports. These husbands would be a brother of my grandfather Solomon Siegel and have the same parents (Louis Siegel and Rose Sprintzer). Nothing offers solid proof of a connection. The information >from the census yielded 10 possible husbands for Lena. I have found no immigration records for her or Solomon. (believe they may have entered at Castle Gardens and the records were destroyed). If you can provide any information on the above questions it would open a vast family tree connection for our families. The trees on Ancestry.com for the several of the possible husbands and the main Siegel tree is "Siegel Family Tree". All are public trees and have no one listed as "private". I sincerely appreciate any information you have and thank you for taking the time to read my message. Reply directly to my email. Herbert Siegel The Villages, Florida
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JRI Poland #Poland Need help in finding my Grand Uncle
#poland
HERBERT SIEGEL
Subject: Lena Siegel sister in law to Solomon Siegel
From: Herbert Siegel; LTCHSIEGEL@GMAIL.COM I have been researching the connection of LENA SIEGEL to my family for the past several years. In the 1905 New York census she is listed as the sister in law of my grandfather SOLOMON SIEGEL. Her age is 19 born about 1886 in Poland and arrived in New York about 1901. Based on this I began to test out possible husbands >from the next 40 years of census reports. These husbands would be a brother of my grandfather Solomon Siegel and have the same parents (Louis Siegel and Rose Sprintzer). Nothing offers solid proof of a connection. The information >from the census yielded 10 possible husbands for Lena. I have found no immigration records for her or Solomon. (believe they may have entered at Castle Gardens and the records were destroyed). If you can provide any information on the above questions it would open a vast family tree connection for our families. The trees on Ancestry.com for the several of the possible husbands and the main Siegel tree is "Siegel Family Tree". All are public trees and have no one listed as "private". I sincerely appreciate any information you have and thank you for taking the time to read my message. Reply directly to my email. Herbert Siegel The Villages, Florida
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Seeking Contact with Relatives of Hinde Wank
#poland
Joyce Eastman
I am trying to make contact with Mason Wank, who has a tree on Ancestry.com
as well as Geni.com which shows Hinde Wank. It is my belief that Hinde Wank, born about 1875 in Brody, Poland, is a possible sister of my grandfather, Salomon Wolf Wilder and his two brothers. According to the Brooklyn Census Hinde Wank was also known as Annie Wank as well as Hilda Wang. Her husband was Jacob Wank. Hinde Wank came to the US in 1906 on the Blucher out of Hamburg into the Port of NY with her children. Her husband, Jacob, arrived in the US in 1903. Any assistance you can provide in locating relatives of Hinde Wank or Mason Wank would be most appreciated. My goal is to find information regarding Hinde Wank's parentage. I have looked online at various databases including Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org and was unable to find any burial records for Hinde Wank. I have been in contact with Hinde Wank's granddaughter, but she has very little information and does not know much about her grandmother at all. Hinde Wang lived in Brooklyn, NY in 1933 at 154 Rockaway Parkway, living with her daughter Vivian and son Max according to the 1930 census. The 1933 city directory for Brooklyn lists her as Annie Wank, widow of Jacob, living with Vivian and son Max. Any regarding the above information for Mason Wank and Hinde/Annie Wank or her death record/parentage would be most appreciated. Joyce Eastman Orange City, FL USA RESEARCHING: WILDER/HONIG/HELFER/ZINKOWER: Brody, Poland/Ukraine and Vienna, Austria; RUFEISEN: Biala/Sucha/Zywiec/Szare, Poland, Israel, Germany and Brazil; SCHEIER/ROBINSOHN: Biala/Sucha, Poland and Stanislawow, Poland/Ukraine (Ivano-Frankvisk); FRANKL/FODOR/PORGES/GROSSMANN/KOHN/WEISZ: Vaj Ujhely, Hungary/Trencin, Slovakia MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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JRI Poland #Poland Seeking Contact with Relatives of Hinde Wank
#poland
Joyce Eastman
I am trying to make contact with Mason Wank, who has a tree on Ancestry.com
as well as Geni.com which shows Hinde Wank. It is my belief that Hinde Wank, born about 1875 in Brody, Poland, is a possible sister of my grandfather, Salomon Wolf Wilder and his two brothers. According to the Brooklyn Census Hinde Wank was also known as Annie Wank as well as Hilda Wang. Her husband was Jacob Wank. Hinde Wank came to the US in 1906 on the Blucher out of Hamburg into the Port of NY with her children. Her husband, Jacob, arrived in the US in 1903. Any assistance you can provide in locating relatives of Hinde Wank or Mason Wank would be most appreciated. My goal is to find information regarding Hinde Wank's parentage. I have looked online at various databases including Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org and was unable to find any burial records for Hinde Wank. I have been in contact with Hinde Wank's granddaughter, but she has very little information and does not know much about her grandmother at all. Hinde Wang lived in Brooklyn, NY in 1933 at 154 Rockaway Parkway, living with her daughter Vivian and son Max according to the 1930 census. The 1933 city directory for Brooklyn lists her as Annie Wank, widow of Jacob, living with Vivian and son Max. Any regarding the above information for Mason Wank and Hinde/Annie Wank or her death record/parentage would be most appreciated. Joyce Eastman Orange City, FL USA RESEARCHING: WILDER/HONIG/HELFER/ZINKOWER: Brody, Poland/Ukraine and Vienna, Austria; RUFEISEN: Biala/Sucha/Zywiec/Szare, Poland, Israel, Germany and Brazil; SCHEIER/ROBINSOHN: Biala/Sucha, Poland and Stanislawow, Poland/Ukraine (Ivano-Frankvisk); FRANKL/FODOR/PORGES/GROSSMANN/KOHN/WEISZ: Vaj Ujhely, Hungary/Trencin, Slovakia MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Translation German/Polish Lodz Ghetto
#general
Dear Friends.
I've posted three Lodz Ghetto documents obtained >from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73559 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73568 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73567 I would appreciate a full translation of each page Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paulette Bronstein https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Salakas/ GAMBURG, GAMUS, SHAPIR, LEVIN, PITTEL, GORDON, RIMER Salakas, Lithuania - Disna, Belarus - Brooklyn, NY ROSENZWAIG, FASS Lodz, Poland - Bergen-Belsen DP Camp - Israel (Kfar Saba, Hadera)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translation German/Polish Lodz Ghetto
#general
Dear Friends.
I've posted three Lodz Ghetto documents obtained >from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73559 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73568 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73567 I would appreciate a full translation of each page Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paulette Bronstein https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Salakas/ GAMBURG, GAMUS, SHAPIR, LEVIN, PITTEL, GORDON, RIMER Salakas, Lithuania - Disna, Belarus - Brooklyn, NY ROSENZWAIG, FASS Lodz, Poland - Bergen-Belsen DP Camp - Israel (Kfar Saba, Hadera)
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Need help in finding my Grand Uncle
#general
HERBERT SIEGEL
I have been researching the connection of Lena SIEGEL to my family for
the past several years. In the 1905 New York census she is listed as the sister in law of my grandfather Solomon SIEGEL. Her age is 19 born about 1886 in Poland and arrived in New York about 1901. Based on this I began to test out possible husbands >from the next 40 years of census reports. These husbands would be a brother of my grandfather Solomon Siegel and have the same parents (Louis Siegel and Rose Sprintzer). Nothing offers solid proof of a connection. The information >from the census yielded 10 possible husbands for Lena. I have found no immigration records for her or Solomon. (believe they may have entered at Castle Gardens and the records were destroyed). If you can provide any information on the above questions it would open a vast family tree connection for our families. The trees on Ancestry.com for the several of the possible husbands and the main Siegel tree is Siegel Family Tree. All are public trees and have no one listed as private. I sincerely appreciate any information you have and thank you for taking the time to read my message. Reply directly to my email. Herbert Siegel The Villages, Florida
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Need help in finding my Grand Uncle
#general
HERBERT SIEGEL
I have been researching the connection of Lena SIEGEL to my family for
the past several years. In the 1905 New York census she is listed as the sister in law of my grandfather Solomon SIEGEL. Her age is 19 born about 1886 in Poland and arrived in New York about 1901. Based on this I began to test out possible husbands >from the next 40 years of census reports. These husbands would be a brother of my grandfather Solomon Siegel and have the same parents (Louis Siegel and Rose Sprintzer). Nothing offers solid proof of a connection. The information >from the census yielded 10 possible husbands for Lena. I have found no immigration records for her or Solomon. (believe they may have entered at Castle Gardens and the records were destroyed). If you can provide any information on the above questions it would open a vast family tree connection for our families. The trees on Ancestry.com for the several of the possible husbands and the main Siegel tree is Siegel Family Tree. All are public trees and have no one listed as private. I sincerely appreciate any information you have and thank you for taking the time to read my message. Reply directly to my email. Herbert Siegel The Villages, Florida
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Finding Immigrant Names On Degraded Ellis Island Manifests
#general
JewishGen is pleased to announce that we recently posted to our InfoFiles an essay
by Joel Weintraub, Finding Immigrant Names On Degraded Ellis Island Manifests. See: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Degradedmanifests.html In his essay, Joel provides helpful information for finding or obtaining clues to passengers listed on ship manifests that are damaged and degraded. He describes strategies that work and other strategies that don't yield results. We thank Joel for his outstanding research on this topic and for sharing his essay with JewishGen. JewishGen's InfoFiles contain a wealth of information. If you haven't accessed this resource recently, we recommend you check it out! See: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA) Communications Coordinator JewishGen.org
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Finding Immigrant Names On Degraded Ellis Island Manifests
#general
JewishGen is pleased to announce that we recently posted to our InfoFiles an essay
by Joel Weintraub, Finding Immigrant Names On Degraded Ellis Island Manifests. See: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Degradedmanifests.html In his essay, Joel provides helpful information for finding or obtaining clues to passengers listed on ship manifests that are damaged and degraded. He describes strategies that work and other strategies that don't yield results. We thank Joel for his outstanding research on this topic and for sharing his essay with JewishGen. JewishGen's InfoFiles contain a wealth of information. If you haven't accessed this resource recently, we recommend you check it out! See: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA) Communications Coordinator JewishGen.org
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This week's Yizkor boor excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#general
Bruce Drake
The Evacuation >from Ksiaz >from the Yizkor book of Miechov, Charsznica and Ksiaz
(near Krakow in Poland) recounts the first stages of how the Germans and their henchmen uprooted and eventually destroyed Jewish communities that had existed for generations. It started with the Germans demanding that Jews hand over their valuables and belongings, while Christian neighbors hovered close by looking for bargains among the things that soon-to-be-banished Jews left behind. Even worse was the fact that the herding of Jews into wagons and carts to be taken away >from their homes occurred on the Sabbath. The pain was enormous, unbearable. Not because of the property and belongings left behind did the heart ache, but the desecration of the Shabbat that they were forced to perform and for the fact that we were forced to leave the town in which Jews had resided for tens of generations. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2311272235561585?__tn__==3DK-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen This week's Yizkor boor excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#general
Bruce Drake
The Evacuation >from Ksiaz >from the Yizkor book of Miechov, Charsznica and Ksiaz
(near Krakow in Poland) recounts the first stages of how the Germans and their henchmen uprooted and eventually destroyed Jewish communities that had existed for generations. It started with the Germans demanding that Jews hand over their valuables and belongings, while Christian neighbors hovered close by looking for bargains among the things that soon-to-be-banished Jews left behind. Even worse was the fact that the herding of Jews into wagons and carts to be taken away >from their homes occurred on the Sabbath. The pain was enormous, unbearable. Not because of the property and belongings left behind did the heart ache, but the desecration of the Shabbat that they were forced to perform and for the fact that we were forced to leave the town in which Jews had resided for tens of generations. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2311272235561585?__tn__==3DK-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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