Keidan SIG Digest for Tuesday, May 09, 2000.

1. Introduction
2. JewishGen Appoints Business Director

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Subject: Introduction
From: "Andrew Cassel" <acassel@...>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:42:50
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My name is Trevor Pogroske currently residing in Sydney, Australia having
migrated >from Johannesburg, South Africa in 1995.
My late father Jack Pogroske (born PAKROISKIS) was born in Keidan in 1904
as was my wife's late father, Alec Bank. My father migrated to South
Africa in 1927 after spending 2 years in South America. My father's sister
Sarah migrated to the USA and married Abne Rosenthal . They lived in
Pitsburg and we met with them in 1984. My father's other brothers were :
1.Rachmiel Pokroy( changed his name on arrival in S outh Africa ) in the
late 1920's and married Gutel also ex Keidan.They lived in Pretoria and had
3 sons Solly, Arnold and Morris. They live in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

2. Avraham (changed name to Cohen to avoid military call up in
russia/Lithuania). He migrated to Boston USA about 1920. I met his 2 sons
when I visited USA in 1984.

My grandmother Rifka Pakroiskis, 2 uncles and 2 aunts and their respective
families were killed during the holocaust. The only names I recall were
Munke and Yitzchak. My Grandfather Moishe Pakroiskis died prior to the
holocaust and I would have thought that his grave may have been discovered
, however it is apparently not on the web site search.

I was delighted to discover the Web site and recognise many familiar names
referred to in the most interesting correspondence.
The various articles covering the History , Demography and many delightful
stories were able to resolve and answer many of the questions I was not
able to ask my late Father.

During the early 1960's I was able to assist one remaining family relative
who lived in Russia, born in Keidan prior to World War 2, immigrate to
Israel with his family.

I would be most interested to track my family history in Keidan and was
wondering if there are any other sources of Data available to assist with
such research.
I am aware the Seef , Krost and Bank families (Norman is my wife's cousin),
have had much involvement with the Keidan Society in South Africa.
I have also discovered there a number of families in Australia whose family
were originally >from Keidan and would like to revive the Keidan Society in
Sydney.

Fastastic work and research.

Regards,

Trevor Pogroske
St Ives
Sydney , Australia
e. mail: brown@...


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Subject: JewishGen Appoints Business Director
From: Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 19:17:53 -0700
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FWD to Keidaners

For Immediate Release
Contact: Susan E. King (susan.king@...)
Glen Straus (gstrauss@...)

Due to the tremendous growth JewishGen is experiencing and recognizing the
need to focus on Business and Corporate Development, it is with great
pleasure that JewishGen can announce today the appointment of Mr. Glen
Strauss as our Director of Business and Corporate Development. This newly
formed position will report directly to the President of
JewishGen with input >from the Development Sub-Committee of JewishGen's
Executive Committee.

Glen's role will be to strengthen and build JewishGen's business
relationships within the Jewish genealogical community and to develop
ongoing relationships within the world's corporate community.

Born in Illinois in 1954, Glen graduated >from the University of Illinois
with a B.S. degree in music education in 1976. He graduated with a J.D.
degree >from the University of Southern California Law Center, and has been
admitted to practice law in the State of California. He joined Smith Barney
as a financial consultant in 1983, and is now a Senior Vice President of
Investments/Financial Consultant and a Director of the
Consulting Group at Smith Barney. He has served on the Directors Council
at Smith Barney for nearly fifteen years, and has been a member of the
Directors Advisory Group.

As co-chairman of the Yitzhak Rabin Peace Memorial Fund, he recently
succeeded in having a large bronze bust of the late Prime Minister
installed at the entrance to the municipality building in Tel Aviv.

For the last two years, he has been very actively pursuing his
genealogy hobby and, through the help of JewishGen,
located over 3000 descendants of his maternal great-great grandfather. Glen
has organized two family reunions - one in July, 1998 in Chicago attended
by over 260 relatives, and one last October, in Tel Aviv, with over 225
attendees. His family website at http://www.eisenstein.nu houses
over 2000 family photos. Glen has also successfully arranged for the
translation of the Yizkor book >from Drogichin, the shtetl in Belarus from
which both his maternal grandparents emigrated.

Over the next few months, Glen will be contacting the coordinators of all
those groups we currently serve either by email or telephone. He will be
building an overall plan of expanding awareness of JewishGen and our
partners within the corporate world.

We look forward to the opportunity to broaden the awareness of JewishGen in
the worldwide Jewish community and to strengthen the relationships with our
partners and hosted organizations as we strive towards our mission of
preserving our history for future generations.

Susan E. King
President
JewishGen, Inc.

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