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Hannah Sperber
Is there a list of survivors of Karlsruhe, Germany?
There was a reunion more than 20 years ago by invitation of mayor of Karlsruhe. any info on Johanna Heineman,? Hannah Sperber, Denver, CO
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Re: Researching: family Gunsberger of Papa, Hungary, including Flora/Fradel, who married a Lazar. Bodansky, Hungary. Lafosky, Ukraine, Hackers, Austria-Germany. Anyone else?
#hungary
#austria-czech
#ukraine
#holocaust
#unitedkingdom
val.ginzburg@...
Hi Susan
Do you have any male offspring who carry last name Gunzburg or Ginzburg? If yes, did they do Y chromosome? This can help link the families. My Ginzburg family comes from Belarus Minsk. My family shares y chromosome with De Gunzburgs Val Ginzburg Toronto Canada Genn, Gen Fainblum Reznik Gochman Lapovok Fridman
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#poland
Bruce Drake
“When we think of and bewail the millions of dead, tortured and subjected to horrible deaths that are impossible for the human mind to comprehend, we plant an eternal flame, a yahrzeit light, for such illustrious figures who, in the last moments of their lives, demonstrated such proud humanity and dignity.” “A Wolomin Mother Becomes a Martyr” from the Yizkor book of that Polish town is the story of one woman’s courage and sacrifice that saved the life of another. When the Germans took the town into their iron hand, one of their demands was that all Jewish women bring their fur coats to the Gestapo. One tried to safeguard her coat by putting it into the care of a gentile, who informed on her. The Gestapo quickly summoned her. But her mother-in-law, Rochele Loskovki, told her “Chutshe, you're not going…They demanded Mrs. Loskovki, so I will go. You have young children for whom you have to stay alive.” And she went in Chutshe’s stead, and paid the price. -- Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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Question on Ron Day Vo photograph
#photographs
murphy8@...
I would appreciate any ideas about this photo. I'm trying to figure out what the, " Ron•Day•Vo (?) is referring to, possible location and approximate year based on dress and car. Someone previously thought that this was a vocational program but I question this based on the time of the picture. Lastly, please take a close look at her right hand. Could she be wearing a brace?Thanks so much for any ideas! Robin August murphy8@...
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Re: Why St. Louis?
#usa
Judy Floam
This book was been mentioned here so I got a copy – it was fascinating. “Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear” – letters from people thinking about immigrating to various groups that were set up to help them. There was a lot of investigation before people made a decision about where to go when they left.
Judy Floam Baltimore, MD
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Re: Listing as an Alien Trader
#poland
Frank Szmulowicz
In my private message, I asked whether it is possible that the great great uncle was involved in foreign trade in some capacity.
Frank Szmulowicz
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Groberman from Yedenitz
#bessarabia
#general
in the last 2 years searching my family ( Groberman) roots, i reached only around 1870 born family. i found also that in Yedenitz lived few Groberman families ( only 7'000-10'000 jewish in the town ) which i couldn't find any connection yet between them all.
i will appreciate any assistance ! -- Avihu Groberman avihu@... ISRAEL
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Can Nazi forced labour records be found of Bohemia (Böhmen-Kamnitz) ?
#holocaust
r.peeters
I am trying to find details of Adrianus PEETERS (born 1915) and Sara KERPEL.(born 1911)
Ron Peeters (NL)
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Re: Why St. Louis?
#usa
shirley@...
My great aunt, newly married at age 18, emigrated from Belagorodka to St Louis before 1900. She had many relatives from Zaslav [and Shepetovka] some of whom joined her in the early years. Her husband [Icheal/Israel Rich] had kin who were in St Louis. I suspect that as has been mentioned, St Louis was seen as a hub of opportunity and discussed well in advance of immigration.
Shirley Ginzburg RICH [St Louis], BOCKSER & SCHLAGER/ SHLUGER [Boston, Lynn MA] all from Zaslav & Shepetovka area, Ukraine KANTER/OWITZ & dEMATOFF [Mir, Belarus to Chicago]
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Michele Lock
I notice the liberal use of sequins in the torah cover, in the crown, under the lions, and making up the garland vase.
This is similar to a sequined torah cover from the early 1900s, found at a synagogue in the Lower East Side of New York City: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-judaica-torah-cover-belt-469740705 It is also similar to a torah cover that is in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, though there is no date mentioned in the website listing: https://jewishmuseummd.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/BA0C1F9A-7E3E-49F4-B22A-153508871677 I would think there are textile historians here in the US who can tell you when those types of sequins became available, to at least give you an early date for the cover. -- Michele Lock Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus
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Re: Meaning and pronunciation of Yiddish surname
#names
#lithuania
#yiddish
Michele Lock
I'd like to thank all the responses I've gotten, both here and privately.
The consensus, taking into account both the way the surname was written in Hebrew and Russian, is that the named should be transliterated as Lak, and that the vowel is similar to the second 'a' of "ah-HAH". This accords with how my family has always pronounced the surname, and our using the Anglicized spellings of 'Lock' or 'Locke'. There is no longer any one alive from the Lock immigrants who came to this country in the early 1900s, so I can't hear how they pronounced the name, but I do have an 88 year old cousin who did grow up around these immigrants, and I'm hoping he remembers how they pronounced it. As for the meaning - according to two different Beider volumes, the name is related to either sealing wax, or having curly hair. I'm thinking that the 'curly hair' is most likely, bestowed on either Efroim Lak (b. 1793) of Plunge, Lithuania, or perhaps his father Yankel (b. about 1760-70.). Someone suggested that I check out a photo of these individuals, but that is not possible. The oldest Lock for whom I have a photo is my great grandfather Hyman Lock (b. abt 1845) and a grandson of Efroim; Hyman had straight hair as it turns out. Myself, I have wavy hair. On the latest chapter of this surname - in the 1960s, some of my distant Lock relatives moved to Israel, where they decided that לאק was too Yiddishy. So they changed the spelling to what I believe is לוק, and now pronounce the surname similar to 'Luke'. So sad.
, -- Michele Lock Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus
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Re: Rose Bernstein from Binghamton, New York
#usa
The Becker's Email
It appears Rose married an Edward McMahon 20 July 1927 as parents' names match. She evidently lied about her age.
Rosalyn Bernstein, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940" • FamilySearch Johanna Becker Newport, RI
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Re: Seeking the descendants of Volf VOLFSON in Dnipro
#ukraine
Janet Furba
Hi, the information could be in the local archives.
Janet Furba, Germany
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Re: GRUNSBERGER from Oradea, Romania
#ukraine
Yael
Hi, My paternal side were Gunsbergers (one time mis-typed in an official document as Grunsberger) from Hungary. I wonder if any connection? Yael Silver
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Records of the Ramsgate Jewish Community, Kent, England
#unitedkingdom
Contribution for JewishGen Discussion Group:
This is just to let you know of a recently published book by Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira, Archivist of the Spanish & Portuguese Jewish Community, on: "RECORDS OF THE RAMSGATE JEWISH COMMUNITY 1829 — 1962". The book is an interesting record of local births and marriages which includes several marriages of residents from the Kitchener Camp at Richborough, near Sandwich as well as details of resident members of the Lady Judith Montefiore College in Ramsgate, some of whom were refugees from middle Europe in the 1930s. The book is now available online, free of charge, and can be downloaded from the book section of the following website: https://www.eastcliff.co.uk/Books.htm. The book will be of genealogical interest to anyone with roots in the Ramsgate community and complements a book published in 2016 by Benedict Kelly and Gerald Tripp: “The Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery 1872-2016” which can also be purchased from the afore-mentioned website as well as others on Ramsgate’s history.
Hashtags: United Kingdom, Sephardic, Germany, Austria.
Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent UK - formerly from London - Researcher number: 166938 email: dianadacosta@...
Researches include ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN, COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD, GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI, MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN, WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER - all originally from Bavaria, mainly Furth, Nurnberg and Bamberg as listed in the JGFF database.
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Re: Researching: family Gunsberger of Papa, Hungary, including Flora/Fradel, who married a Lazar. Bodansky, Hungary. Lafosky, Ukraine, Hackers, Austria-Germany. Anyone else?
#hungary
#austria-czech
#ukraine
#holocaust
#unitedkingdom
Sue Brundage
My maiden name is Ginsburg, my GGF was David Joseph Ginsburg from Chernigov, now Ukraine. They moved to this area from somewhere in Germany about the beginning of the 19th century to manage farmland, forests, mills, etc. About 1911 they moved to Detroit from Liverpool via Quebec. Eventually many of them moved to the Los Angeles area in So Cal.
As far as I know, we are not related to Bodansky families. Might we be related? Susan Ginsburg Brundage researching Ginsburg, Baron, Katz, Bikovsky, Mindlin, Kvas or Quass, and Malatsky from Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia
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Re: Family name of PRUT PRUTH PROOTH PRUTKOFSKI
#bessarabia
#ukraine
#russia
Sherri Bobish
Charles,
Have you been able to obtain documents such as naturalization, passenger manifests, vital records, etc.? These documents may list town of birth for the original immigrants. Once you have a town name then you can begin searching further back in time. Have you tried doing a soundex search on the surname on various JewishGen databases? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/ www.familysearch.org is a free site and good starting point for census, manifests, naturalization and other records. Hope this helps, Sherri Bobish
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Re: Listing as an Alien Trader
#poland
Sherri Bobish
Vivienne,
I assume that the occupation "Alien Trader" was written in Polish (although sometimes the occupation was written in Polish and French.) What words were written in the directory exactly? Perhaps you've gotten an inaccurate translation? Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Sherri Bobish
Karen,
There is a Zvia Moskowitz, b. 1859 Romania, d. 1926 New York City. I have not been able to find any further info on her. Her death cert lists no husband's name. It does list one son named Joe (probably the informant.) If you can get a photo of her tombstone from Baron Hirsch Cemetery than it may contain the name of her husband. Baron Hirsch Cemetery charge $16. for a photo. https://baronhirschcemetery.org/photo-grave-request/ If you post a request for a photo on JewishGen than someone may volunteer to take a photo for you. Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish (info below from www.findagrave.com)
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Re: JewishGeneology Society of Colorado presents: Alex Krakovsky LIVE From Kyiv! Discussing his Ukrainian Archives Digitization Project with Ellen Kowitt
#events
Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
Looking forward to this informative exchange with Alex! Bring your questions and learn what's new.
-- Ellen Shindelman Kowitt Director, USA Research Division Colorado ekowitt@...
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