-----Original Message-----
From: Risa Mandelberg [mailto:info@...]
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:44 PM
To: Gesher Galicia SIG
Subject: [galicia] large number flee the Russians during WWI

Dear Barry Scheer and Galicia Digest,

I read your email to jewishgen.org about your question "Did a large number
of people flee the Russians and is there any evidence that Jews feared
persecution?"

My father-in-law N. Joseph Mandelberg would tell a story about his family
fleeing their town Peremyschlany near Lvov in advance of the Russian army
(fear of a possible pogrom.) The story goes like this: His parents and 3
brothers fled with their horse and wagon. Not far into their flight, his
father realized he had forgotten something in the house. So his father
returned with the horse while everyone waited along the road. When hisfather
got to the house, he found that his non-Jewish neighbors had torn up the
house, especially the floor boards looking for treasure.

My father-in-law's story is anecdotal evidence. If you read S.
Ansky's book (He wrote "The Dybbuk"), "The Enemy at his Pleasure", he
documents the travails of the Jews of Galicia during WWI by the Russian
army. It was originally published in Warsaw in 1925.
The translated English copy was published in 2002 by Henry Holt and Company,
LLC. The editor and translator, Joachim Neugroschel, wrote an interesting
forward about the historical "omission" of the "campaign of brutalization by
the Russian army that involved wholesale expulsions and massacres (despite
the presence of half a million Jews serving in the czar's army).
Approximately 600,000 Jews were deported >from their homes; the deportations
were especially vicious near the front lines."

Risa Mandelberg
Encino, California

Researching: Rohatyn, Kalush, Wertelka, Berizin, Vienna, Peremyschlany,
Paris, ZEIDLER, KAPLAN, RUDOLF, MANDELBERG, DOBOW, FELDMAN, SCHECHTER

Barry Scheer <barryscheer@...> wrote:

I am looking for the reason why my father's sister, Klara Scheer, went from
her home in Brody in 1916 to Lvov and apparently returned home following the
Armistice.

I know that the Russian Army invaded Brody twice, the second time in June
1916, and advanced as far as Lvov. Is it possible that she was a refugee?
Her parents remained in Brody. Did a large number of people flee the
Russians and is there any evidence that Jews feared persecution?....

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-----Original Message-----
From: Risa Mandelberg [mailto:info@...]
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:44 PM
To: Gesher Galicia SIG
Subject: [galicia] large number flee the Russians during WWI

Dear Barry Scheer and Galicia Digest,

I read your email to jewishgen.org about your question "Did a large number
of people flee the Russians and is there any evidence that Jews feared
persecution?"

My father-in-law N. Joseph Mandelberg would tell a story about his family
fleeing their town Peremyschlany near Lvov in advance of the Russian army
(fear of a possible pogrom.) The story goes like this: His parents and 3
brothers fled with their horse and wagon. Not far into their flight, his
father realized he had forgotten something in the house. So his father
returned with the horse while everyone waited along the road. When hisfather
got to the house, he found that his non-Jewish neighbors had torn up the
house, especially the floor boards looking for treasure.

My father-in-law's story is anecdotal evidence. If you read S.
Ansky's book (He wrote "The Dybbuk"), "The Enemy at his Pleasure", he
documents the travails of the Jews of Galicia during WWI by the Russian
army. It was originally published in Warsaw in 1925.
The translated English copy was published in 2002 by Henry Holt and Company,
LLC. The editor and translator, Joachim Neugroschel, wrote an interesting
forward about the historical "omission" of the "campaign of brutalization by
the Russian army that involved wholesale expulsions and massacres (despite
the presence of half a million Jews serving in the czar's army).
Approximately 600,000 Jews were deported >from their homes; the deportations
were especially vicious near the front lines."

Risa Mandelberg
Encino, California

Researching: Rohatyn, Kalush, Wertelka, Berizin, Vienna, Peremyschlany,
Paris, ZEIDLER, KAPLAN, RUDOLF, MANDELBERG, DOBOW, FELDMAN, SCHECHTER

Barry Scheer <barryscheer@...> wrote:

I am looking for the reason why my father's sister, Klara Scheer, went from
her home in Brody in 1916 to Lvov and apparently returned home following the
Armistice.

I know that the Russian Army invaded Brody twice, the second time in June
1916, and advanced as far as Lvov. Is it possible that she was a refugee?
Her parents remained in Brody. Did a large number of people flee the
Russians and is there any evidence that Jews feared persecution?....

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On 16 Nov 2009 at 0:04, Gesher Galicia SIG digest wrote:

Both myself and others have copies of bmd's going back to about
1880-1900s which list a town name and a house number in Lviv, in
Brody and in small towns/villages not far >from these places as
well. None of these documents list a street name.

On 16 Nov 2009 at 0:04, Gesher Galicia SIG digest wrote:

Both myself and others have copies of bmd's going back to about
1880-1900s which list a town name and a house number in Lviv, in
Brody and in small towns/villages not far >from these places as
well. None of these documents list a street name.