Greetings,

Is there anybody out there in Buenos Aires, Argentina who would be able to
photograph two gravestones for me in the Tablada Cemetery? If so, please
contact me privately at steve725@... . Thank you.

Regards,
Steven Lasky
New York

I have just read the Discussion Group Archives and am still very confused
about security. It seems like most people are saying dates of deceased
people are OK but *not* on living people.

But my relatives would like all the information (deceased and living).

Any suggestions how I can solve my personal dilemma.

Thank you, Trudy Barch,
Chicagoland

Greetings,

Is there anybody out there in Buenos Aires, Argentina who would be able to
photograph two gravestones for me in the Tablada Cemetery? If so, please
contact me privately at steve725@... . Thank you.

Regards,
Steven Lasky
New York

I have just read the Discussion Group Archives and am still very confused
about security. It seems like most people are saying dates of deceased
people are OK but *not* on living people.

But my relatives would like all the information (deceased and living).

Any suggestions how I can solve my personal dilemma.

Thank you, Trudy Barch,
Chicagoland

Hello,

I am looking for information about the FABELINSKI family members >from
Bialystok. Yovna (Jona), b.1860-s, son of Aizik FABELINSKI , was married
to Pesza GELSZER.

Any information will be appreciated.

Leon Koll
Yehud, Israel

Hello,

I am looking for information about the FABELINSKI family members >from
Bialystok. Yovna (Jona), b.1860-s, son of Aizik FABELINSKI , was married
to Pesza GELSZER.

Any information will be appreciated.

Leon Koll
Yehud, Israel

Today, the web site, "Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszkow, Poland,"
begins serializing a Holocaust memoir called, "Helen's Story," written
by Helen ROTHSTEIN (nee ROSENBERG).

Helen, a distant relative of mine [her great grandparents, Zysman and
Ruchel BLUM (BLOOM) were my great great great grandparents], graciously
permitted me to do this with her copyrighted manuscript hoping that it
could it bring her tragic yet triumphant and heartfelt story to a much
wider audience.

In her introduction to Chapter 1, Helen writes:

"Before I was born {circa 1930} my father had tried to come into the
United States >from Poland. He got as far as Mexico but no farther. He said
that Mexico was hot and he didn't know the language and with the quotas he
wasn't allowed into the States. My father thought that with the business
that he had back in Wyszkow, that he might as well go back to Poland . . .
But this was all before I was born and . . ."

Helen continues with "her earliest memories of her happy life in the
small Polish town of Wyszkow. She is bold, mischievous and sometimes a
rebellious child. She recounts her vivid memories of the dynamic, loving
and close-knit life she had in pre-war Poland: Her father's and mother's
business, the joys of Shabbos, visits to the Yiddish theater in Warsaw,
being one of the first households to have a telephone, and her brother's
Bar Mitzvah as the clouds of war and destruction gather.

Against this backdrop was the pervasive anti-Semitism that seemed a
normal part of life: Polish laws that clashed with Jewish holiday
celebrations that fell on a Sunday, the requirement that Jews have
Christian business partners, the taunts of the Christians that Jews were
Christ killers.

As the Germans advance on Helen's small town, the decision on how to
live through the terror surrounding the family is made. Helen's uncle
wanted the family to flee toward the Russian lines. But her father,
remembering as a young boy in the First World War that the Germans were
kinder than the Russians, decided against leaving."

Here is the URL for "Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszkow, Poland,"

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHWyszkow3.html

at which you will see a link to "Helen's Story: Chapter 1"

Please check the website in about a week or so for the next installment.
Comments are welcomed.

Thank you.
Howard Orenstein
Westminster,MD
horenstein@...

Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszkow,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, Plonsk, Poland
HOLLAND (GOLAND), PIENIEK, OSTROWIAK -- Serock, Wyszkow, Poland
BLUM (BLOOM) -- Wyszkow, Poland; London, England

Today, the web site, "Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszkow, Poland,"
begins serializing a Holocaust memoir called, "Helen's Story," written
by Helen ROTHSTEIN (nee ROSENBERG).

Helen, a distant relative of mine [her great grandparents, Zysman and
Ruchel BLUM (BLOOM) were my great great great grandparents], graciously
permitted me to do this with her copyrighted manuscript hoping that it
could it bring her tragic yet triumphant and heartfelt story to a much
wider audience.

In her introduction to Chapter 1, Helen writes:

"Before I was born {circa 1930} my father had tried to come into the
United States >from Poland. He got as far as Mexico but no farther. He said
that Mexico was hot and he didn't know the language and with the quotas he
wasn't allowed into the States. My father thought that with the business
that he had back in Wyszkow, that he might as well go back to Poland . . .
But this was all before I was born and . . ."

Helen continues with "her earliest memories of her happy life in the
small Polish town of Wyszkow. She is bold, mischievous and sometimes a
rebellious child. She recounts her vivid memories of the dynamic, loving
and close-knit life she had in pre-war Poland: Her father's and mother's
business, the joys of Shabbos, visits to the Yiddish theater in Warsaw,
being one of the first households to have a telephone, and her brother's
Bar Mitzvah as the clouds of war and destruction gather.

Against this backdrop was the pervasive anti-Semitism that seemed a
normal part of life: Polish laws that clashed with Jewish holiday
celebrations that fell on a Sunday, the requirement that Jews have
Christian business partners, the taunts of the Christians that Jews were
Christ killers.

As the Germans advance on Helen's small town, the decision on how to
live through the terror surrounding the family is made. Helen's uncle
wanted the family to flee toward the Russian lines. But her father,
remembering as a young boy in the First World War that the Germans were
kinder than the Russians, decided against leaving."

Here is the URL for "Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszkow, Poland,"

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHWyszkow3.html

at which you will see a link to "Helen's Story: Chapter 1"

Please check the website in about a week or so for the next installment.
Comments are welcomed.

Thank you.
Howard Orenstein
Westminster,MD
horenstein@...

Explore Your Jewish Heritage in Wyszkow,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, Plonsk, Poland
HOLLAND (GOLAND), PIENIEK, OSTROWIAK -- Serock, Wyszkow, Poland
BLUM (BLOOM) -- Wyszkow, Poland; London, England

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will present
its annual family history workshop

Jewish Genealogy 101:
Four Hours to Your Family Roots
Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007
12:30 to 5 p.m.
Mid-Island Y-JCC, Plainview, NY

Registrations postmarked by Tuesday, Oct. 23:
$45 ($15 for an additional family member*)

After Oct. 23 or at the door:
$55 ($15 for an additional family member*)

=== Fees include 2008 annual dues. ===

Attendees receive a copy of the workshop manual,
"Jewish Genealogy 101," and a light lunch of bagels
and spreads, coffee and cake.

Expert instruction on...

- researching and recording a family tree
- interviewing relatives
- identifying ancestral towns
- Holocaust research
- using censuses, city directories, ship's manifests,
naturalizations, vital records, and other U.S. sources
- European records
- computer and Internet resources

Recommended both for beginners and for family
historians who want to brush up or expand their skills.

For more information contact Cheryl Sofer
<workshop@...> .

To register, please print out and complete the form at
<www.jgsli.org> and mail it with your check (payable to
JGSLI) to JGSLI Workshop, PO Box 735, Melville NY 11747,

Please see our website also for a roster of upcoming
meetings and for membership information.

Renee Stern Steinig
Membership Vice President
Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island
info@...
www.jgsli.org

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will present
its annual family history workshop

Jewish Genealogy 101:
Four Hours to Your Family Roots
Sunday, Nov. 4, 2007
12:30 to 5 p.m.
Mid-Island Y-JCC, Plainview, NY

Registrations postmarked by Tuesday, Oct. 23:
$45 ($15 for an additional family member*)

After Oct. 23 or at the door:
$55 ($15 for an additional family member*)

=== Fees include 2008 annual dues. ===

Attendees receive a copy of the workshop manual,
"Jewish Genealogy 101," and a light lunch of bagels
and spreads, coffee and cake.

Expert instruction on...

- researching and recording a family tree
- interviewing relatives
- identifying ancestral towns
- Holocaust research
- using censuses, city directories, ship's manifests,
naturalizations, vital records, and other U.S. sources
- European records
- computer and Internet resources

Recommended both for beginners and for family
historians who want to brush up or expand their skills.

For more information contact Cheryl Sofer
<workshop@...> .

To register, please print out and complete the form at
<www.jgsli.org> and mail it with your check (payable to
JGSLI) to JGSLI Workshop, PO Box 735, Melville NY 11747,

Please see our website also for a roster of upcoming
meetings and for membership information.

Renee Stern Steinig
Membership Vice President
Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island
info@...
www.jgsli.org

There has been a call for more activity on this list. With only 80 members,
that is rather optimistic. Even SIGs with over 900 members, find it hard to get
many to contribute! Two recent postings to this group were called "RE: ytandv
digest: October 10, 2007". Please, do not hit the return button when you reply
otherwise you get this *meaningless* subject line. A good subject line can make
a posting.

There is little I can contribute to this forum "de novo" apart >from items I
come across serendipitously whilst scouring the internet for something totally
different. Here is one such item I found today and enjoyed reading. It appears
not to have been reported before:

Obituary: Phil BERNSTEIN - Independent, The (London), Jun 6, 1996 by
Rosalind GOLD ... "For over 60 years Phil Bernstein provided the tragedies,
comedies and romances of the Yiddish Theatre in Britain with their common and
essential element: the distinctive music."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960606/ai_n14048206

Names in the article include Yidel GOLDBERG; S.J. HARENDORF; Ferdinand STAUB [I
will write about him next]; Isidore BERMAN; Madame Fanny WAXMAN, Meier
TZELNIKER; Maurice SCHWARTZ and Richard TAUBER. Leading British comedian
feature also.

Phil BERNSTEIN married the daughter of Meier TZELNIKER in 1941. According to
the obituary, Phil BERNSTEIN practiced his violin every day till shortly before
his death. Did he really get his permanent job because of an overcoat borrowed
in a hurry? I am sure his excellent violin playing must have helped him too!

Celia Male [U.K.]

There has been a call for more activity on this list. With only 80 members,
that is rather optimistic. Even SIGs with over 900 members, find it hard to get
many to contribute! Two recent postings to this group were called "RE: ytandv
digest: October 10, 2007". Please, do not hit the return button when you reply
otherwise you get this *meaningless* subject line. A good subject line can make
a posting.

There is little I can contribute to this forum "de novo" apart >from items I
come across serendipitously whilst scouring the internet for something totally
different. Here is one such item I found today and enjoyed reading. It appears
not to have been reported before:

Obituary: Phil BERNSTEIN - Independent, The (London), Jun 6, 1996 by
Rosalind GOLD ... "For over 60 years Phil Bernstein provided the tragedies,
comedies and romances of the Yiddish Theatre in Britain with their common and
essential element: the distinctive music."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960606/ai_n14048206

Names in the article include Yidel GOLDBERG; S.J. HARENDORF; Ferdinand STAUB [I
will write about him next]; Isidore BERMAN; Madame Fanny WAXMAN, Meier
TZELNIKER; Maurice SCHWARTZ and Richard TAUBER. Leading British comedian
feature also.

Phil BERNSTEIN married the daughter of Meier TZELNIKER in 1941. According to
the obituary, Phil BERNSTEIN practiced his violin every day till shortly before
his death. Did he really get his permanent job because of an overcoat borrowed
in a hurry? I am sure his excellent violin playing must have helped him too!

Celia Male [U.K.]

http://www.polonica.net/Lista_Polskich_Dzieci_deportowanych_4.htm

I came across the above during my research ~ Children deported >from
Eastern Poland to Siberia in 1940s. There is a note to the effect
that there are names of Jewish children in this list.

Posting in the hope that this will be of interest to someone,

Beata Kalinska
Montreal Canada

http://www.polonica.net/Lista_Polskich_Dzieci_deportowanych_4.htm

I came across the above during my research ~ Children deported >from
Eastern Poland to Siberia in 1940s. There is a note to the effect
that there are names of Jewish children in this list.

Posting in the hope that this will be of interest to someone,

Beata Kalinska
Montreal Canada

On Oct. 12 2007, Ann Jensen wrote:

My own interest is in the English Warner Brothers, once the largest
theatrial agencies in England (1880-1920)with large interests in
Europe and USA... I would like to track down stories of the people
who went through his agency and ultimately discovered whether there
is any truth in the story that RLW was a branch of the the US Warner
Brothers family (an idea which doesn't seem possible so far).

One of the resources for Hollywood connections was pointed out in an
earlier message submitted by David Priever. He wrote:
"In Los Angeles, just as phenomenal as the Lincoln Center branch of
the NYPL is the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and
Sciences-Margaret Herrick Library, address: 333 S. LaCienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211, near Olympic Blvd."

I suggest a letter to the Academy Library could help to resolve the
relationship between the U.S. and U.K. Warners, if any.
David Harris
Silver Spring, MD

On Oct. 12 2007, Ann Jensen wrote:

My own interest is in the English Warner Brothers, once the largest
theatrial agencies in England (1880-1920)with large interests in
Europe and USA... I would like to track down stories of the people
who went through his agency and ultimately discovered whether there
is any truth in the story that RLW was a branch of the the US Warner
Brothers family (an idea which doesn't seem possible so far).

One of the resources for Hollywood connections was pointed out in an
earlier message submitted by David Priever. He wrote:
"In Los Angeles, just as phenomenal as the Lincoln Center branch of
the NYPL is the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and
Sciences-Margaret Herrick Library, address: 333 S. LaCienega Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90211, near Olympic Blvd."

I suggest a letter to the Academy Library could help to resolve the
relationship between the U.S. and U.K. Warners, if any.
David Harris
Silver Spring, MD

Barbara Rubinstein is searching for information about Dorothy
(Rubenstein) Raymond, an actress >from the 1920's and 1930's. The NY
Times carried at least two articles mentioning Ms. Raymond.
The 1928 article about Chicago Theater events tells of her joining
with the Goodman Memorial Company in performing some Ibsen plays and
makes mention of her performance as the cantor's wife in the 1925-26
NY run of the Jazz Singer.
The second article >from 1934 discusses her performance in a play
titled, "Dodsworth".
David Harris

Barbara Rubinstein is searching for information about Dorothy
(Rubenstein) Raymond, an actress >from the 1920's and 1930's. The NY
Times carried at least two articles mentioning Ms. Raymond.
The 1928 article about Chicago Theater events tells of her joining
with the Goodman Memorial Company in performing some Ibsen plays and
makes mention of her performance as the cantor's wife in the 1925-26
NY run of the Jazz Singer.
The second article >from 1934 discusses her performance in a play
titled, "Dodsworth".
David Harris

Hi, Trudy

There is a great difference between a public and private family tree.

Anything you publish on the Internet that is available to anyone to
see must be censored so that as little information about living people
is shown because of identity theft concerns. In fact, sites like
JewishGen and Rootsweb will automatically hide information about
anyone who is or may be alive. If you create and publish your own web
pages, you must make sure do the same. Be wary of the family-oriented
social network websites that use family trees as the hook. Anyone can
be invited to join these sites so that your in-laws can invite their
in-laws, etc. and you have no idea who is looking at the information.

Hi, Trudy

There is a great difference between a public and private family tree.

Anything you publish on the Internet that is available to anyone to
see must be censored so that as little information about living people
is shown because of identity theft concerns. In fact, sites like
JewishGen and Rootsweb will automatically hide information about
anyone who is or may be alive. If you create and publish your own web
pages, you must make sure do the same. Be wary of the family-oriented
social network websites that use family trees as the hook. Anyone can
be invited to join these sites so that your in-laws can invite their
in-laws, etc. and you have no idea who is looking at the information.