All great ideas, thank you, but I have zero paperwork on her, just two photos and my late dad’s word that her surname was Solomonski. I may need professional help finding any documentation. I am not even sure if she was Solomonski when she immigrated or if she had married before that. I can’t find any marriage records, any obituaries, just her listing as Sara Landau in city directories. 

I will do some more comprehensive searching on all the name variations, for sure. 

Thanks to all who weighed in!

Esther Landau

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 06:14 PM, <Lmeyer8090@...> wrote:

It is also possible that the street still exists, but has been re-named. ...I also found this map from 1949, which shows that 69th street north of Northern Avenue was also called 12th Street.

It's possible, but in 1949, as in 1950, the street was still named 12th Lane. Given what some have sent me privately, I suspect the streets were reconfigured when this housing was demolished to make way for more modern housing. We moved from NY at that time, so I have no idea what was actually built in that area. 

Thanks so much for your assistance, especially the maps and other references. 

 
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Researching:
RAISKY/REISKY, ARONOV, SHKOLNIK(OV), AEROV; Gomel, Belarus
GERTZIG, BRODSKY; Yelizavetgrad, Ukraine
BRODSKY, VASILESKY; Odessa, Ukraine
IZRAELSON, ARSHENOV; Yevpatoriya, Ukraine (Crimea)

According to FamilyTreeDNA (Big Y-700 test), I share a common direct paternal line ancestor (Y-DNA Haplogroup J-ZS4297) with the 0- to 3-year-old boy (SB604) found in the well. Our common ancestor lived around 550 CE. My ancestry is 100% Ashkenazi.

Jeff Lieberman

I believe there is great liberty in the carving of headstones.
In an older era, it was not unusual to see a piece of poetry (usually in an acrostic of the deceased name).

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Jack Berger, Mahwah, NJ

You might find this interesting:

In the first signature, you see first the letters kaf-heh, with slashes over the letters (meaning abbreviation), which often stands for k'vod harav, meaning something like "the honorable rabbi." Then it looks like the letter resh-bet after it, which could just be spelling out the rest of the phrase harav. Or the whole four letters with slashes could be an abbreviation for k'vod harav rabenu baruch – "the honorable rabbi, our blessed teacher." Presumably Shimon happens after those 4 initials, outside the screenshot? (As Odeda says, it seems there should be more going off to the left.)

What an exciting find!

Irwin Keller
Penngrove, CA

In reply to Graham Lewis, he might like to download the article in Current Biology where there are several archaeological maps and diagrams. The well was just immediately south of the area in which the Jewish community lived. This would seem to make it likely that it was a well used by them,  but if none of them survived the progrom, they would not have been able to use the well in any case.

Norwich was the centre of a medieval blood libel where Jews were blamed for the murder of a young boy William of Norwich - his shrine is in Norwich cathedral but apparently there is now an apology to the Jewish community in the cathedral for the distress caused by the blood libel.  

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

I've emailed Ken Burns about his complete revision of FDR and America's actions toward Jews in the Holocaust and have received no response. Perhaps if others wish to join to express their shock that someone with such historic resume could mislead in this regard it might help. Feigie Teichman

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Moshe Miller. He is often a consultant on Jewgen and is a relative so we share relatives in Eastern Slovakia, including Zborov. I wish you best of luck. Feigie Teichman

Here is the image of the manifest that David Rosen found at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C95S-T9RZ?i=176&cc=1368704&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AJXFF-RY9
Lee Goodnan
Vermilion, Ohio YSA

Thanks Jan. I look forward to watching this documentary.

My own grandparents were part of this story. They were able to immigrate to Cuba circa 1930 after the US quota system, but before the St. Louis incident. I remember my grandfather telling me about how he and my grandmother went to the pier in Havana to protest, to no avail.

The SS St. Louis wasn't the only disaster of this type. There was also SS Struma: https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/struma/overview.html sunk by a Soviet torpedo after being denied entry to Palestine by the British and to Istanbul by the Turks. Approximately 740 Jews attempting to flee from Romania drowned in that incident. And of course there is the story of the SS Exodus 1947 ( https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/exodus-1947 ), where 4,500 refugees were denied entry into Palestine due to British enforced quotas there, eventually being returned to Europe.

There were many Jews inside of Europe did not themselves believe what they were being told by their own co-religionists about the camps, and willingly packed their bags for what they thought would be a holiday in the country. There was an enormous dis-information campaign being conducted to deceive the world as to what was occurring (cf. eg. Theresienstadt), and as the saying goes, the first casualty of war is truth. Nobody wins wars. Factors such as "public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws" also heavily impacted the tragedy, but one must not underestimate the nefarious force of Hitler's propaganda machine.

I am hoping the program sheds some light on our current immigration dilemmas here in the US vis a vis for example Ukrainian, Aghan, and Latin American refuge seekers and quotas. What are the lessons for today of the WWII experience? How sustainable will a US open door policy be, in view of the oncoming flood of refugees from global environmental degradation? We in New York City are now dealing with over 7,000 Mexican asylum seekers bused here by the governor of Texas. We have accepted them and are doing everything possible to ease their burdens, but of course doing so requires resources and time taken away from the other many problems facing city residents.

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Adam Cherson
NY, NY

The name is Aharon the next two characters mean "son of" the other four could be an abbreviation preceding his father's name.  It could be "the respected Rabbi, Rav" but the abbreviation marks are the usual ones.  Perhaps that's the way they marked in that place at that time.  
In Jewish tradition, a person's name consists of their given name, and their father's given name.
Thus, in example no. 1 in the first image, you're showing us only part of the full name.

In the second image,  the name is once again, Aharon, then you have "son of".   It's possible that the next word stands for "HaRav Shimon".  HaRav means "the rabbi".

Some of the letters in example no. 2 are in Rashi script.  Please improve the image resolution.

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Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.

Hello again. I found some more names if you can help. I'm looking for any records of a Marie myska,myskova,Mischka variation in bohemia. Mainly in vodnany.  Her parents are Louis Martin and Sophia.  Thank you so much for helping me with this .
                                 Shaun Murphy 

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It is also possible that the street still exists, but has been re-named.

I have no knowledge of Queens street history, so take this with a large grain of salt.  I found a couple of resources indicating that streets were renamed in Queens.  See Steve Morse's description and his list of changes.  I also found the description from NY1 interesting.

I also found this map from 1949, which shows that 69th street north of Northern Avenue was also called 12th Street.  

If that isn't the street, I would guess it was in the same vicinity.

Larry Meyer
Kensington, MD

It seems the Czech National Archives stopped using that domain. All the data should be now in the database at https://vademecum.nacr.cz/
Or you can check the archives menu at https://www.nacr.cz/en/for-public/research-room/digital-research-room-archival-records-on-line 
Unfortunately it seems the new URLs are constructed differently so it is not possible to use the paths from the old links to access the specific scans or images.

Dana Polakovicova
Czechia / Slovakia

The Library and Archives Canada website has been redesigned. The home page is different, and the genealogy portal has moved. The full URL to the genealogy page is https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/pages/genealogy-family-history.aspx (I have purposely not shortened it). There are links to five major sections: Census search, Immigration records, Citizenship and naturallization, First World War - Personnel records, and Employment records. Towards the bottom of the page, there is a section called "Research guides and other resources," which includes a link to Jewish Canadians, and several more pages that link to  sections which will look familiar if you are a regular user of the website.

It is a shock when you first see it, but once you find the genealogy page, it is quite straightforward.

Good luck!
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