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Re: Polish army soldier #poland #holocaust

Kris Murawski
 

Sorry for a wrong link to the Lipowa 7 camp for the Polish-Jewish POWs in Lublin. The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipowa_7_camp
--
Kris Murawski
Raleigh, North Carolina
krismurawski24@...
Re: Polish army soldier #poland #holocaust

Kris Murawski
 

Here is information about the camp for Jewish-Polish POWs in Lublin, 1940-1943. Yes, there were cavalry units in the 1939 Polish-German war.
--
Kris Murawski
Raleigh, North Carolina
krismurawski24@...
Translation of survivor testimony from Yiddish/Hebrew #translation

Maciej Łopaciński
 

I'm looking for information about labor camp in a peat mine at Izabelin (10 km south of Radzymin). The camp is forgotten - there is almost no information about it. I found the testimony of survivors  Avraham Chonowicz and Mordechai Zilberstein on YadVashem website.

Could someone kindly translate for me information from these testimonies about camp in Izabelin? Only fragments about Izabelin, not all testimony.

1) First testimony of  Avraham Chonowicz - word Izabelin is on page 9.
https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&search=global&strSearch=izabelin&GridItemId=3556906&TreeItemId=4019643

2) Second testimony of  Avraham Chonowicz  
https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&search=global&strSearch=izabelin&GridItemId=3562740&TreeItemId=4019643

3) Testimony of Mordechai Zilberstein. Some of his testimony is in the book (https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Radzymin/Rad270.html), but maybe there is more information in hebrew version of testimony.

https://documents.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&search=global&strSearch=izabelin&GridItemId=3559009&TreeItemId=4019643


Thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
Maciej Łopaciński
Maciej.Lopacinski@...
Re: Kitchener Camps Sandwich #unitedkingdom

Michael Sharp
 

try contacting the Association for Jewish Refugees in London

If they were kindertransport, you could also contact World Jewish Relief in London who hold their predec3essor organisation's archives of all the kindertransport records
--
Michael Sharp
Manchester UK
michael.sharp@...
Re: Help required to translate the back of a photo #translation #yiddish

Yitschok Margareten
 

For everlasting memory to my nephew and family I'm sending this photo from Avraham Baruch Derg (or Tzerg) 
--
Yitschok Margareten
Re: Disinternment #romania #general #usa

Sherri Bobish
 

Peter,

This page from The U.S. Embassy in Romania has detailed information:
Disposition of Remains Report for Romania
https://ro.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/death-of-a-u-s-citizen/disposition-remains-report/

Regards

Sherri Bobish
Re: Searching: Philip BLUMENTHAL, Jr. #usa

Sherri Bobish
 

Hi Sandi,

I searched www.familysearch.org
for Phillip, born Illinois with mother's name Una, and found this Illinois death record.
This Phillip has the same birth date as your Phillip, and his mother Una was born
in Joplin, MO.  Although, this Una's maiden name is different.  It might be worth looking into further.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Name: Phillip Wentzell
Sex: Male
Age: 9y 1m 29d
Death Date: 08 Sep 1938
Death Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Occupation: Student
Race: white
Ethnicity: American
Father's Name: Edwin Wentzell
Mother's Name: Una Corley
Birth Year (Estimated): 1929
Birth Date: 09 Jul 1929
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Father's Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mother's Birthplace: Jop;in, Missouri
Burial Date: 12 Sep 1938
Cemetery: Wunders

Re: Hamburg ship lists #unitedkingdom #records #lithuania

Jill Whitehead
 

Hi Shirley

There are few if any shipping records from Eastern Europe to Hull or any other nearby port such as Grimsby. My ancestors (on three sides) came via Hull between 1865 and 1875, but there are no official records. Please note that by the 1890s a lot of migrants came via Grimsby rather than Hull. You should contact the University of Hull Maritime Studies Dept for further information. 

Records were either not kept or were destroyed for the East Coast ports (my 4th side went to Leith in Scotland but no records there either).

My Guttenberg family also ended up in Sheffield in early 20th century after having lived in Hull and Grimsby in latter quarter of 19th century.

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
Re: Polish army soldier #poland #holocaust

Janet Furba
 

Ask the archives.
Janet Furba,
Germany
Re: Looking for descendents of the brothers Samuel and Israel Altman of Woodbine, NJ #names #usa

Janet Furba
 

Hi, ask the relevant archives.
Janet Furba,
Germany
Help required to translate the back of a photo #translation #yiddish

Esther
 

Hello, 
I am looking for help to translate writing on the back of the photo in attempt to identify family members. 

Thank you.
--
Esther Gertopsky
Silver Spring, MD

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BRADY: Is "Bohm Leipach" Bohmisch-Leipa, Bohemia, Austria - now Česká Lípa, Czech Republic #austria-czech #germany #general

Hilary Osofsky
 

I would appreciate some help in identifying the town of origin of my son-in-law's BRADY family. According to family records, his third great-grandmother, Betty BRADY de BEER, was born in Ritzebüttel, Germany, c. 1817. However, her father, Isaac BRADY, born c. 1776,  and his father, had both been born in "Bohm Leipach."  Could "Bohm Leipach" be Bohmisch-Leipa, Bohemia, Austrian Empire - now Česká Lípa, Czech Republic?

Thanks very much.

Hilary Osofsky
Orinda, CA

de BEER / BEHR, Amsterdam > Wiegboldsbur, Aurich, Emden, Germany
BRADY: Ritzebuttel, Germany, "Bohm Leipach" 
PELS, HARTOG: Wiegboldsbur
MOSES: Emden 
AHRON: Ritzebuttel
Disinternment #romania #general #usa

peter.grossinger@...
 

My sister was buried in Romania, and I would like to see if I can bring her remains to the US. Does anyone have any experience on this topic or words of advice on how to go about this.

Thanks in advance,
Peter Grossinger
Hamburg ship lists #unitedkingdom #records #lithuania

Shirley Holton
 

My great grandmother Taube Mankunsky came over to England via Hamburg circa 1898 from Simnas Lithuania with her son Dovid Yitzchok’s fiancee (later my grandmother) Tsivia Shochet as well as Taube’s 2 youngest children Zelda (later Betsy) and Leib (later Louis) Mankunsky. They landed in Hull. At least that was the oral history which I had from my grandmother Tsivia via her daughter my mother Mary Myers Adams. The name Mankunsky was changed to Myers in Engand. My grandparents Dovid Yitzchok and Tsivia Shochet Myers married in Sheffield in 1899.

I have searched the Hamburg ship lists but can find no record of Taube and Tsivia’s journey. Are the shipping lists complete? Was there another shipping line? My grandmother talked of travelling by horse and cart to Hamburg but once in England they travelled by train from Hull to Sheffield where Dovid Yitzchok and his older brother Benyomin Meir already married to Sarah Rose Nathanson from Prien awaited them.
I would be grateful for any further infomation.
Shirley Adams Holton
formerly of Leeds and Sheffield Now of Chalfont St Giles Buckinghamshire England
JGS Toronto. Free Virtual Meeting. EXPLORING CITY DIRECTORIES. Sunny Jane Morton. Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 7:30 p.m.. ET. #events

Jerry Scherer
 

Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto

 

Exploring City Directories

A Family Tree Magazine Webinar

 

Followed by Questions and Answers

with Sunny Jane Morton


Virtual Meeting: View from home


Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 7:30 p.m. ET.

 

Sunny Jane Morton is a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine, contributing editor at YourDNAGuide.com, editor of Ohio Genealogy News and a blogger for FamilySearch.org.

 

City directories are indispensable locating tools for genealogists, but they go far beyond connecting an ancestor to a certain place in time. They lead to a multitude of sources, contain information of genealogical value beyond the individual listings, and present a fuller picture of our ancestors’ lives.

 

Although the webinar is focused on U.S. city directories, many of the same principles apply in Canada. A PDF with links to major online Canadian city directories will be made available to all attendees.

 

 

To register, please go to

 

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JewishGen Talks: Portuguese Jews: Names & History #JewishGenUpdates

Avraham Groll
 

We invite you to attend the next presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars:
 
Portuguese Jews: Names & History
Speaker: Dr. Alexander Beider
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 @ 2:00 PM Eastern Time
 
Registration is free with a suggested donation.
 
About the Talk
The case of the so-called "Portuguese" Jews (Western Sephardim) is exceptional in the Jewish history: a mass conversion to Christianity at the end of the 15th century and a gradual return to the religion of their ancestors generations later. The debate about the reasons of this return and the degree of "Jewishness" of members of these communities (primarily in such cities as Amsterdam, London, Hamburg, Livorno, Venice, Bordeaux, and Bayonne) never ceased. Considerations of certain authors are passionate and more closely related to ideological rather than scientific factors. The analysis of names used in these communities allows to shed some (ideologically neutral) light on these complex and fascinating pages of the Jewish history.
 
About the Speaker
Dr. Alexander Beider has a PhD in applied mathematics, and a second PhD in the domain of Jewish studies. Beider uses onomastics and linguistics as tools allowing to unravel the history of the Jewish people. He has written a series of reference books dealing with the etymology of Jewish surnames. Beider is also the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.
 
Registration is free with a suggested donation.
Please click here to register now! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar.
 
Questions?
Please click here. 
Re: Tiktin #general

Jeremy Lichtman
 

According to "The Oldest Families in Czestochowa" by Janusz Spyra, Wolf and Moysesz Landau's father was Abraham.

Abraham was long-lived - he witnessed a grandchild's marriage in 1829.
 
--

Jeremy Lichtman
Toronto, Canada
Richard Nohel and Kojetin cz #austria-czech

Daniela Torsh
 

Tony Hausner has asked me to pass on a message about Kojetin to Richard Nohel. Can you pls help? Tony is part of a Kojetin group. I don’t seem to be able to reply to posts.

Daniela Torsh

Sydney
Searching: Philip BLUMENTHAL, Jr. #usa

SANDI ROOT
 

Fellow Searchers -

I just learned this week that my U.S. Merchant Mariner, and later, Coast
Guard, uncle, Philip BLUMENTHAL, b: 1897, London, East End, has a son:
Philip/Phillip BLUMENTHAL, JR., b: July 1929, Chicago. His mother’s name is
Una (NEWTON) BLUMENTHAL.

Since the discovery I have searched for follow-on material and came up with
nothing. There are Una NEWTONs connected to the UK on Ancestry, but
Philip’s mother was born in Joplin, MO.

Uncle Phil and Una divorced at some point, and if she remarried, it could be
that Philip, Jr. took a new family name.

Let’s see if anything turns up.

Sandi (Blumenthal) Root
Bulverde, Texas


Actively searching:

ALT, ANDERSON, ASHLEY, AUSLANDER, BADESCH, BANUS / BEINUSH / BENESH / BENESCH
/ BENIS / BENNITZ / BENITEZ / BENNISH /BEINASH / BEINASHOWITZ / BINUS,
BECKERMAN, BLOCK / BLOCH, BLUMENTHAL / BLUM, BRODY, BROUTMAN, CHERKOVSKY /
CHEKOWSKI, COBRIN, COHEN / KAHAN / KAGAN, EICHEL, FOX, FRIEDLEN, FRIEDMAN,
GALINA, GOLD, GREENBERG, GUTKOWSKY / GOOD, HANAK, HARRIS, HARWICK, HERRE,
JANKELOWITZ / JACOBSON, KESSLER, KRAUSE, KRIZANSKI, LEVIN, LEVY, LIEBOVITCH,
LOND / LUND, MANNE, MENDELSON, MICHELSON, NEWTON, NIDER, OFFMAN / HOFFMAN,
OFSALLOF / OFSEAL / OFSAROF, OPEAN / OPPEAN / OPIN / UPIN, POSISKI / PISER,
ROSENTHAL, ROTHCHILD, SCHAFFNER, SCHNEIDERMAN / SNYDERMAN, SHAPIRO, SIEGAL /
SIEGEL, SILVERMAN, SIMON, STERN, SUVALKER / SUVALSKI, TABACK, WHATLEY, ZIVETZ
Re: Hungary Jewish records #hungary

Vivian Kahn
 

You can find all of the volumes on line at https://kisebbsegkutato.tk.mta.hu/adatbazis/magyar-zsido-okleveltar .

Vivian Kahn
JewishGen Hungarian Research Director
20301 - 20320 of 678445