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Martin Fischer
Vice President-Publicity
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois

JGSI website: https://jgsi.org

My hearty thanks to Barbara Manheim, Jules Levin, Avivah Pinski, Max Polonovski, Judy Floam, and  Dick Plotz, and anyone else I might have missed for sharing their valuable and insightful knowledge about by ggm's name, Dwoire.  She was from Slutsk, Russia.  I only saw this Yiddish spelling of her name on the ship's manifest.  After she got to America she used the name Celia and much later in life occasionally called herself Dora.  These latter names I believe were derived from her given Hebrew names, Shulieh Devorah that are inscribed on her headstone.

Jeffrey Gee
Arizona
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Hi Jim,

There were many U.S. ports of entry.  Ellis Island was a large and well known one, but hardly the only port entered through by immigrants.

Try searching your ancestor's name at this free site:
www.familysearch.org
It contains many genealogical databases, and records of many U.S. port manifests.

This page from Family Search shows info on various U.S. ports, including usage numbers.
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/US_Immigration_Passenger_Arrival_Records

Also, remember that the manifest handwriting can be hard to read, and names sometimes were transcribed into the on-line index incorrectly.  Try doing a non-exact search on surname if you don't find it right away.

It also helps if you know the immigrants Hebrew or Yiddish first name.

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ

TO: rroth - 

I mentioned the UK in my response because Tom Klein, who posted the inquiry, is from Toronto, Canada, and Canada is a dominion of the UK. His deceased relative may have also been from Canada.  Tom said it was a feather, not a leaf so I take him at his word.

Jeffrey Gee
Arizona

My Feld family tree dates back to Abraham Feld in Lviv who was born in the mid-1700s.  If anyone has Feld roots in Lviv, I would love to compare notes.

From Lviv:  FELD, WOSK, ORDNER, CZOPP, SCHIMMEL, URICH, JONAS, DOLLER, REISCHER, SPRECHER, WILLER, AWERBACH, PORIES, MENKES, LEINWAND

The Library of Congress has the 1938/1939 Warsaw telephone directory
and a 1923 commercial directory for all of Poland and Gdansk at
https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/pdir/index.html. Brest-Litovsk was
part of Poland in 1923.

Megan Lewis Reference Librarian
NOTE: I am teleworking until further notice.
National Institute for Holocaust Documentation
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org

Cousin  at 136 Ave de la Republique, Fontenay S/Bois,  94 France a suburb of Paris. Name is Michel Bronfenbren(n)er. Born in Ukraine either Cherson or Odessa in 1890. Left there around 1914-1918. Joined the French Foreign Legion during WW I. Fought in a battle where the only survivors of his troop were himself and the baker. He was awarded some sort of medal after that battle where he was wounded and lost a leg. Became a French Civil Servant (He was an engineer) and lived at the above address until his death in 1970's , probably 1974-78. I visited him in his home in March of 1972 with my husband and children. He was my father's first cousin. I first met him in 1939-40 when he came for the New York World's Fair and again in 1964 when he returned for the New York World's Fair again. He went to work every day of the German occupation wearing his jewish star on his coat (I have a photo of him with it).. How and why he was allowed to survive he never told me Would love to know the exact date of his death and where he is buried and what became of the portrait that Modigliani painted of him

Nancy L. Reicher
Kansas City, MO
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Hi Michael,

Try searching this free site of old digitized Eastern European city directories

https://genealogyindexer.org/

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ

A very big thank you to Bernard Flam and Svenja (itencorinne@...) for the time you spent helping me.
Good research to all.
Best Regard

Un très grand merci a Bernard Flam et Svenja itencorinne@... pour le temps que vous avez consacré à m'aider.
Bonnes recherches à tous
Yann

My wife's grandfather's brother, Ruben Myer ROSEN (JERUSALEMSKY) was
born in Schucin (Europe) about, 1860 and moved to the USA . He married
Sophie BRANSON daughter of isadore (died 1945).

Their children were:
Joseph ROSEN
Abel Aaron ROSEN (b. 1887-d.1960 Florida) m. Sophie
Sarah ROSEN-(b. 1894 approx.) married Julius SILVERMAN
Charles ROSEN-b. 1897
Ida b.Schucin 1904-d. 1934 married Philip (?)


Grandchildren include: SLOTNIK, LEHMAN, GELBANI

Ruben and /or his siblings (not my wife's branch) changed their family
name when they came to the States from JERUSALEMKY to ROSEN. Cities in
which I understand they lived include: Baltimore and Chicago.

We'd be happy to be in contact with any of the above family.

Yoni and Rivka (YERUSHALMI) Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Thank you, Rose for the link to this site. I had not heard of this previously. I will definitely look through here!

Thank you for your help....yes, I do have this record for her coming into the US (2 different times). I was trying to find records for her leaving the US to go back to Alexandria in 1903. I'll check Family Search again. 

Thanks to Krzysztof Witaszek.  This is a marvelous website.  I recommend it to anyone doing any genealogy work in Warsaw. You can access it in English.  I was able to get a photo of the building where my grandparents had a store in the 1920s, even though the building is no more.

Avivah R. Z. Pinski
near Philadelpha, PA

 

 

 

Hello,

There is an interesting site for Warsaw that shows old street photographs.  

http://www.warszawa1939.pl

It's only in Polish, but try to use it. Type the street (or with the pre-war house number)  in the field „wyszukaj” and you will receive  several places on the street that have their photo.

Or use the „fotoplan” to check on the map which houses have their photo. Marked green color are houses that survived to this day, red houses are those that were destroyed, but have their photo.

If you need assistance please write.

 "However, after the Shoah, many street locations were changed"  

To be precise, the houses in the Warsaw Ghetto were totally demolished after the Ghetto uprising in 1943.

The rest of Warsaw was badly destroyed in the Warsaw uprising in 1944 and after. But the houses on Zielna street that survived the war were demolished only  in 1950ies to make a place for the ugly Stalin's Palace and so the house numbers have changed too.

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Avivah R. Z. Pinski ,  near Philadelphia, USA

Eva, here are a couple of other photos of steerage. Still pretty idealized. ... Ron

The name "Michal" is a girl's name.  

The first part of her father's name is likely one of the following 2:

1.  Michael [pronounced mee-cha-el in Hebrew], in which case there is a 'typo' and one letter is missing.

2.  "Michel", which is a Yiddish nickname for Michael.
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

I hope that you do not mind my asking, but I am wondering whether you are aware that you can post these images on the ViewMate page, under the "Tombstone" category.  They normally appear on Sundays and Wednesdays, and there is a large group of helpers who check those postings specifically with the aim of helping to read tombstones.

Additionally, by asking people to respond to you privately via email directly to you, rather than publicly, you make it impossible for others to know whether you've already received responses.  On ViewMate, we can all see each other's replies.  If they are perfect, we can go on to other images.  If there are small details to be added or corrected, we can do so, without retranslating the entire stone.  It would be a shame if you get 5 almost-identical replies via private email, which means that 4 people have expended time and effort for no reason.

(We can see each other's replies here, too, if we respond publicly.  However, as a helper I greatly prefer ViewMate; I suspect that other helpers would agree.)

Please reconsider your request.  The stones that you have shown are not simple "so-and-so, son/daughter of so-and-so, died on such-and-such-a-date".  They have a lot of text, and  may not be so easy to translate.  

Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

The original request on Viewmate was "...his wife died in December 1940, (I think)"  The most likely, and simplest  explanation is: The original entry was W and was changed to Wd to agree with the instruction to enumerators, and his wife did not die in December 1940. She died prior to the 1940 census.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

 

Here's Dave Mates: https://alba-valb.org/volunteers/dave-mates/.
I'll see if he's profiled on the Geni tree and will list him if not. (just done.)
Very small bit about Helen North on ALBA-VALB, nothing on husband Joe.
If anyone would like to send me information on relatives who volunteered, I'd be happy to include them i the Lincoln Brigade project on Geni.com.