Genners,

In a chapter written in Yiddish in "Sefer Serock," appears a word that has quotes
around it: "Akovtses" (transliteration) The Hebrew characters are, >from right to
left, alef qof alef vav vav tsadeh ayin samech

The translated sentence:
We received notices that all our dear and close ones had gone into the gas chambers
of Treblinka and Majdanek, and we were advised not to go in the direction of Warsaw
because the "Akovtses"(?) are tormenting the Jews.

Please contact me if you have any ideas about the word and its meaning. Thanks.

Howard Orenstein, Ph.D.
Westminster,MD
horenstein@...
Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszk,Poland:
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHWyszkow3.html
Jewish Heritage in Serock,Poland:
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHSerock3/Welcome.html
Searching for: ORENSTEIN -- Serock, Wyszkow, Pultusk, Poland HOLLAND (GOLAND),
PIENIEK, OSTROWIAK -- Serock, Wyszkow, Poland BLUM (BLOOM) -- Wyszkow, Poland;
London, England

Genners,

In a chapter written in Yiddish in "Sefer Serock," appears a word that has quotes
around it: "Akovtses" (transliteration) The Hebrew characters are, >from right to
left, alef qof alef vav vav tsadeh ayin samech

The translated sentence:
We received notices that all our dear and close ones had gone into the gas chambers
of Treblinka and Majdanek, and we were advised not to go in the direction of Warsaw
because the "Akovtses"(?) are tormenting the Jews.

Please contact me if you have any ideas about the word and its meaning. Thanks.

Howard Orenstein, Ph.D.
Westminster,MD
horenstein@...
Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszk,Poland:
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHWyszkow3.html
Jewish Heritage in Serock,Poland:
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHSerock3/Welcome.html
Searching for: ORENSTEIN -- Serock, Wyszkow, Pultusk, Poland HOLLAND (GOLAND),
PIENIEK, OSTROWIAK -- Serock, Wyszkow, Poland BLUM (BLOOM) -- Wyszkow, Poland;
London, England

Dear Genners, a huge thank you to all who responded to my request for info
for Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu and Shluchot. I have found our cousins. Thank you.
Joan Glanz Rimmon

Dear Genners, a huge thank you to all who responded to my request for info
for Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu and Shluchot. I have found our cousins. Thank you.
Joan Glanz Rimmon

Might there have been a street called Taunton which intersected Prince St. at that
time? This looks to me like the kind of address that was used to indicate a corner
building.

Joy Weaver
Islip, NY

"Paiste, Marsha S."<Marsha.Paiste@... wrote:
My grandfather, a tailor at the time, appears in the Boston city directory in

the 1890s as living on Prince St. and following that [at Taunton] appears.
Could he have commuted to Taunton, perhaps by boat, at that time?

Might there have been a street called Taunton which intersected Prince St. at that
time? This looks to me like the kind of address that was used to indicate a corner
building.

Joy Weaver
Islip, NY

"Paiste, Marsha S."<Marsha.Paiste@... wrote:
My grandfather, a tailor at the time, appears in the Boston city directory in

the 1890s as living on Prince St. and following that [at Taunton] appears.
Could he have commuted to Taunton, perhaps by boat, at that time?

I've been trying for many years to identify a family member who most likely changed
or Americanized his surname while living in the Boston area in the early 1900s.
I've obtained names of quite a few potentials for the family member in question,
but most records don't pan out as being related, or the trail disappears
completely, suggesting a possible name change.

New information is that a relative named Marvin GORE visited the Boston relatives
almost fifty years ago (1960s), and says, "I think I recall that they owned a
department store, Freddlies or something like that." The closest I can come to
this, in researching names of defunct Boston department stores, is Bradlees.

The original family name, which I suspect has been Americanized, or shortened, or
changed completely, was YUDELEVICH/YUDELOWITZ/YUDELEVITZ.

Any information on family connections or names of department store owners or
operators can be sent directly to me at my e-mail address, singingtm@...

Thank you.

Jeff Miller
Brookeville, Maryland (Washington, DC area)

Researching:
YUDELEVICH/YUDELOWITZ/YUDELEVITZ, LAN/LANE, GORE, BLANKFURT/BLANKFORT, ZUSKIN,
WHITEMAN/WHITMAN/WEISSMAN, SPEKTOR/RABINOVICH, KATZEN, BECKER, ABRAVANEL/BARBANELL,
CHODASH/CHORDASH, KAGAN/COHEN, HILLMAN, HIRSHORN, KUMENS, GREENWALD and others from
what is today Lithuania (was Russian empire)

I've been trying for many years to identify a family member who most likely changed
or Americanized his surname while living in the Boston area in the early 1900s.
I've obtained names of quite a few potentials for the family member in question,
but most records don't pan out as being related, or the trail disappears
completely, suggesting a possible name change.

New information is that a relative named Marvin GORE visited the Boston relatives
almost fifty years ago (1960s), and says, "I think I recall that they owned a
department store, Freddlies or something like that." The closest I can come to
this, in researching names of defunct Boston department stores, is Bradlees.

The original family name, which I suspect has been Americanized, or shortened, or
changed completely, was YUDELEVICH/YUDELOWITZ/YUDELEVITZ.

Any information on family connections or names of department store owners or
operators can be sent directly to me at my e-mail address, singingtm@...

Thank you.

Jeff Miller
Brookeville, Maryland (Washington, DC area)

Researching:
YUDELEVICH/YUDELOWITZ/YUDELEVITZ, LAN/LANE, GORE, BLANKFURT/BLANKFORT, ZUSKIN,
WHITEMAN/WHITMAN/WEISSMAN, SPEKTOR/RABINOVICH, KATZEN, BECKER, ABRAVANEL/BARBANELL,
CHODASH/CHORDASH, KAGAN/COHEN, HILLMAN, HIRSHORN, KUMENS, GREENWALD and others from
what is today Lithuania (was Russian empire)

In Israel, that has been the case all along, as with any but the smallest business,
though in our case it is VAT. I suspect that may be the case in Europe as well.

Israel Pickholtz
Jerusalem

In Israel, that has been the case all along, as with any but the smallest business,
though in our case it is VAT. I suspect that may be the case in Europe as well.

Israel Pickholtz
Jerusalem

For the UK there is the Association of Jewish Refugees, website urls is
www.ajr.org.uk. They have a lot of information and many services.

Roberta Sheps
Colchester, England

From: jerry williams [mailto:jer2422@...]
Before and during WW2 some Jewish women and children were taken to England and the
U.S. >from France and Germany Is there any way to find out who they were or, where
they were resettled?

For the UK there is the Association of Jewish Refugees, website urls is
www.ajr.org.uk. They have a lot of information and many services.

Roberta Sheps
Colchester, England

From: jerry williams [mailto:jer2422@...]
Before and during WW2 some Jewish women and children were taken to England and the
U.S. >from France and Germany Is there any way to find out who they were or, where
they were resettled?

Did you make it to the IAJGS Conference in LA in July? If so, you know how
much you can learn... and did learn. If you couldn't make it... Never fear..
You have another fantastic chance, so... next year IN D.C.!

from August 14-19, 2011, hosted by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater

Washington (JGSGW) there will be even more opportunities for Jewish
genealogists to uncover their family historie s and mysteriesl

SAVE THE DATE: August 14-19, 2011 and bookmark our website: www.DC2011.org
Keep coming back for more details.

Faith Klein
Publicist, DC2011
Past President, JGSGW

Dear Genners,
I am searching for information regarding two Lipa sisters -Hava (1904) and Tauba
(1900), who arrived >from Iasi (Socola Str.) Romania to Ellis Island on 26 October
1920 stating that they were going to their brother unknown Freedman who lived on
148 Snyder Av. Philadelphia. I could not find arrival record for the brother not any
marriage record for the two sisters. My guess is that the brother took his mother
name. If any of this details ring a bell ,If not, I would appreciate any suggestions.
Lea Haber Gedalia, Israel

Dear Genners,
I am searching for information regarding two Lipa sisters -Hava (1904) and Tauba
(1900), who arrived >from Iasi (Socola Str.) Romania to Ellis Island on 26 October
1920 stating that they were going to their brother unknown Freedman who lived on
148 Snyder Av. Philadelphia. I could not find arrival record for the brother not any
marriage record for the two sisters. My guess is that the brother took his mother
name. If any of this details ring a bell ,If not, I would appreciate any suggestions.
Lea Haber Gedalia, Israel

Did you make it to the IAJGS Conference in LA in July? If so, you know how
much you can learn... and did learn. If you couldn't make it... Never fear..
You have another fantastic chance, so... next year IN D.C.!

from August 14-19, 2011, hosted by the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater

Washington (JGSGW) there will be even more opportunities for Jewish
genealogists to uncover their family historie s and mysteriesl

SAVE THE DATE: August 14-19, 2011 and bookmark our website: www.DC2011.org
Keep coming back for more details.

Faith Klein
Publicist, DC2011
Past President, JGSGW

Has anyone done the genealogy of Chaim Weizmann (first President of Israel
and one of the few Presidents of any country to have been born in what is
now Belarus)?I have family >from the same shetl (Motol/Mostele/Motal
and wanted to see if they are related to him.

Stephen Weinstein
Camarillo, Calfornia, USA

Has anyone done the genealogy of Chaim Weizmann (first President of Israel
and one of the few Presidents of any country to have been born in what is
now Belarus)?I have family >from the same shetl (Motol/Mostele/Motal
and wanted to see if they are related to him.

Stephen Weinstein
Camarillo, Calfornia, USA

I now have information that my LIFSCHITZ family was >from Latvia and were in
the leather business. My g-uncle's name was Joseph Osher Lifschitz and he
was married to Basha Jaselov. They had 2 girls, Anna, Sarah and 2 boys,
Aaron and Sam Leaf (the U.S. surname.) Sam Leaf was killed in Savannah, GA
by a burglar. Harry Aaron married Sadie Shenkin and had Herbert, Ann, James,
and Alex, using the surname of LEAF.

If any of this matches your family, please contact me privately.

Thank you.

Rachelle Leaf Berliner
Marietta, GA U.S.A.
rlberliner@...

Searching: LIBERMAN/LEAF Swislowitz/Swisloch Grodno Gubernia Russia;
LIFSCHITZ(any spelling)/LEAF Latvia, Savannah, GA, Carrollton, GA

I now have information that my LIFSCHITZ family was >from Latvia and were in
the leather business. My g-uncle's name was Joseph Osher Lifschitz and he
was married to Basha Jaselov. They had 2 girls, Anna, Sarah and 2 boys,
Aaron and Sam Leaf (the U.S. surname.) Sam Leaf was killed in Savannah, GA
by a burglar. Harry Aaron married Sadie Shenkin and had Herbert, Ann, James,
and Alex, using the surname of LEAF.

If any of this matches your family, please contact me privately.

Thank you.

Rachelle Leaf Berliner
Marietta, GA U.S.A.
rlberliner@...

Searching: LIBERMAN/LEAF Swislowitz/Swisloch Grodno Gubernia Russia;
LIFSCHITZ(any spelling)/LEAF Latvia, Savannah, GA, Carrollton, GA