On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:21 AM, Maury Kitces wrote:

I am not able to help with translations, but am definitely interested in the results.  Especially for names Kharast and Kitzes in Dombroveny and Markuleshty.

Maury Kitces
www.cousinsconnection.com

 I would be interested in the names Danilovich and Scholnik in the Soroki uezd records but can't help in the records' translation.

Craig Harris

The 60 Minute broadcast was made in typical journalistic fashion to give the impression that a thorough investigation was conducted to discover who betrayed the Franks, but in the end admitted their “evidence” was circumstantial and inconclusive. In other words, it was no closer to the truth than previous investigations and may have muddled the mystery even more.  It was shocking to hear the former FBI agent say that suspect X was eliminated because he was not an anti-Semite – as if that's the only reason for betraying the Franks. The team zeroed in on one member of the Jewish Committee (suspect Y) because he had a list of where Jews were hiding. Pursuing that questionable avenue of investigation, wouldn’t it also be possible that other members of the Committee might have access to that same list, making them suspects, too? This question was not addressed. Also not addressed is the fate of the Committee members, excluding suspect Y.  Typically, the Nazis murdered those who cooperated with them once their usefulness had passed. This did not happen to suspect Y.  Here again, no explanation was given. The 60 Minute broadcast reminds me of the 1986 television special “The Mystery of the Al Capone Vaults,” in which tabloid journalist Geraldo Rivera intimated that when the vaults were opened they would reveal a cache of loot and more. That turned out to be a bust.

Jeffrey Gee

Arizona

I'm sure this will be interesting, but as a mental health clinician, I beg of you not to consider mental illness a "skeleton in the closet," a term which perpetuates the stigma against those who live with mental illness.  For our ancestors, particularly, living with a mental illness was a nightmare. There were few effective treatments and little understanding of the brain disorders that are part of mental illness.  We are in the toddler stage of treatment now, with a long way to go.  
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

How to get documents from Bucharest Archives for years 1930 - 1940

Pavel Ravitsky 

Linda, 

I can’t read the penmanship with confidence.

it seem that one of the themes imbedded is that the writer is anxious about not receiving more frequent correspondence from the recipient of this card. There is some evidence that the writer alludes to all things being normal.

You need help from someone who can read this penmanship better than me. I suggest that this might be an octogenarian who spoke and wrote Yiddish in younger times.

I regret not being able to offer you more.

Jack Berger
Mahwah, NJ

Thank you so much for posting it and for the LAPL giving permission.  For those who have not seen it (and have family history in Poland), it is well worth watching.  I will be watching it over and over until I absorb every there is to learn.

Robert Hanna
NYC

Researching:  CHANAN/HANAN/HANNE/HEINE/HINEY (Warsaw, Poland); BLUMENBLAT (Sarnaki, Poland); KARASIK, THOMASHOW/TOMOSHOFF, COHEN (Babruysk, Belarus); RUBINSTEIN, BUNDEROFF, PASTILNIK, NEMOYTEN, DISKIN (Minsk, Belarus).

I am looking for information on a cousin who lived in Rishon LeZion, Israel, and her family.

Polina GUREVICH (גורביץ פולינא), maiden name KLOTZ, was born in Telz, Lithuania, in 1925 and died in 2009. Her headstone is listed at BillionGraves: https://billiongraves.com/grave/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A5-%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5/14342556.

In 1999, Polina submitted testimonies at Yad Vashem for five of her aunts and uncles. The address she provided on the form was Tsadi Gimel Banot 5/1, Rishon LeZion (רח' צ'ג בנות 5/1 , ראושון לציון).

For someone in the U.S. I would search the usual sources for an obituary, but don’t know if that is possible for someone who died in Israel. At this point I've exhausted my leads as far as the internet is concerned and am looking for next steps.

I would like to make contact with any surviving family members of Polina. Thanks for any advice you can give me.

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Scott Johnson

The one pre-emigration factoid I've been able to pin down with reasonable certainty is that my paternal ggm came from Przeclaw (Yiddish=Pshetzlov) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Presumably my paternal ggf - a tailor -  came from the same locale.

In searching the Hamburg departure records, I've come across a family with the surname 'Lische' that has demographics down to the father's occupation quite similar to my family. (This surname occasionally appears in my post-emigration records as well.) The Hamburg records list the family place of residence as 'Prezlau, Osterreich'.

At first, I wondered if there had been confusion with Breslau, but in 1879-1880 Breslau was clearly part of the Prussian-German Empire, and it is unlikely that a Hamburg ticket agent would have confused the two. I don't find anything to indicate that Prezlau was the Germanicized version of Przeclaw but the phonetic similarity and the family demographics seem to match up.

Does 'Prezlau' strike members as a likely match for Przeclaw or am I heading down a rabbit hole?

Thanks, Alan Reische

Manchester NH

a.reische@...

Researching Reische, Lische, Przeclaw, Pshetzlov

 

 I strongly recommend Paul Cheifitz  paulcheifitz@...

Arlene Beare UK
 

That's truly generous, Ted, and very welcome.

It was definitely worth making the time to watch and listen; and I may need to watch it again – there was so much useful information to be absorbed.  I have managed to make use of it, with the handout, already.  Although I haven't managed to prise out the info I was after... yet... I have the tools to make it happen once the right years of scans come online.

Mary Benedict
SW Herts, England
marybenedict51@...

Hi Lesley,

My first port of call would be the United Synagogues Find a grave page: https://www.theus.org.uk/category/find-grave
Just type in first name, surname and year. If you do this then it returns the following information.

Cemetery	Full Name	Last Name	Date of Burial	Section	Row	Plot #
East Ham	LEWIS	BOWMAN	25/06/1958	F	23	1527

They have the opening times for all their cemeteries and maps.  Google Maps have a "Street View" around a part of the cemetery, including section F.

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Barrie Callender

Please I have a postcard from my grandfather to my father and would like it translated.

 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=96967

Thanks

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Linda Gold Buford
davidlinda@...

Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - BRAUDA , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - SPITZ, GILCHENSKI
                      Kobryn, Belarus Belarus - KAMENETZKI - KAMIENKA
                      Russia - SALIMAN, SCHREIBER, SEGAL, WALDMANN
                      Israel - PALTER

Thank you Richard. I have 3 names for Sam's siblings- Yankel, Mashke, Sarah. He had one brother and 2 sisters but maybe your Mordukh is related. What is Mordukh in english? 

Art Pronin

I wanted to let all who asked that my lecture given last Saturday, January 15, "Finding Your Polish Ancestors Online Through the Polish State Archives," is now online and available for viewing.  Since the Los Angeles Public Library's closed-captioning policies made it impossible to keep the video on the LAPL's Facebook or YouTube pages, I have posted a recording to my own web space with the library's permission.  The following link provides a page where the lecture can be viewed and the handout downloaded.

http://www.generationspress.com/Finding%20Your%20Polish%20Roots%20Online.html

I haven't decided whether it will remain online permanently, but it will be up long enough for anyone who missed the lecture last week to view it and/or download the handout.

Ted Gostin
Sherman Oaks, California
tedgostin@...