Some time ago a member of gerSIG alerted me to some US
Census entries for some SELIGMAN s who might have been
related to my SELIGMANN family >from Ichenhausen.
Having looked at the entries I am fairly certain that
they are in fact individuals who should appear on my
family tree.

The following extracts >from my family tree list these
people:

1. Jakob SELIGMAN(N) (b.1846-Germany (Ichenhausen)
d.1900-Chicago)
sp: Hendrina HENDRICKS (b.1850-South Africa m.1873
d.1920)
|-2. Ralph SELIGMAN (b.1875-South Africa d.1900)
|-2. Frederick SELIGMAN (b.1876-South Africa
d.1930)
|-2. Max SELIGMAN (b.1877-South Africa)
| sp: Myrtle UNKNOWN (b.1886-Canada)
| |-3. Percy F SELIGMAN (b.1908-Chicago)*
| |-3. Arthur J SELIGMAN (b.1914-Chicago)*
| +-3. LeRoy SELIGMAN (b.1918-Chicago)*
|-2. Arthur SELIGMAN (b.1878-South Africa d.1930)
| sp: UNKOWN
+-2. Percy SELIGMAN (b.1882-Illinois)

It is faintly possible that any of the asterisked (*)
persons my still be living. There may well be other
SELIGMAN descendants >from this family still living. If
anyone can help me locate any members of this branch
of my family, I would be very happy.

Adam Yamey, London, UK <adamandlopa@...>

Some time ago a member of gerSIG alerted me to some US
Census entries for some SELIGMAN s who might have been
related to my SELIGMANN family >from Ichenhausen.
Having looked at the entries I am fairly certain that
they are in fact individuals who should appear on my
family tree.

The following extracts >from my family tree list these
people:

1. Jakob SELIGMAN(N) (b.1846-Germany (Ichenhausen)
d.1900-Chicago)
sp: Hendrina HENDRICKS (b.1850-South Africa m.1873
d.1920)
|-2. Ralph SELIGMAN (b.1875-South Africa d.1900)
|-2. Frederick SELIGMAN (b.1876-South Africa
d.1930)
|-2. Max SELIGMAN (b.1877-South Africa)
| sp: Myrtle UNKNOWN (b.1886-Canada)
| |-3. Percy F SELIGMAN (b.1908-Chicago)*
| |-3. Arthur J SELIGMAN (b.1914-Chicago)*
| +-3. LeRoy SELIGMAN (b.1918-Chicago)*
|-2. Arthur SELIGMAN (b.1878-South Africa d.1930)
| sp: UNKOWN
+-2. Percy SELIGMAN (b.1882-Illinois)

It is faintly possible that any of the asterisked (*)
persons my still be living. There may well be other
SELIGMAN descendants >from this family still living. If
anyone can help me locate any members of this branch
of my family, I would be very happy.

Adam Yamey, London, UK <adamandlopa@...>

MODERATOR NOTE: Our rules permit a *** one time mention *** of new books and
other material offered for sale.

The subject matter *** must *** be on topic to the GerSig Forum. MOD1

Daniel Sachs, a five-year GerSig subscriber, has
written a ">from the ground up" memoir that describes
his family's flight >from Nazi Germany and then from
Franco Spain and of years of tumult and tragedy as
1930's arrivals in New York City's Washington
Heights/Inwood German-Jewish "ghetto."

"Through Turmoil to Tranquility" is a portrait of the
"different" wave of immigrants that arrived in the United States
during 1930's and 40's.

Moving >from small towns in Silesia and Prussia and

from Altona and Osnabrueck in what is now Lower

Saxony, Sachs's forebears were part of that great wave
of urbanization that turned Berlin into a cosmopolitan
center in the mid 19th-century. Descended >from three
generations of prominent academics and researchers,
Sachs tells of his parents' move in 1932 >from Berlin
to Madrid, where his father, George SACHS, had
fortuitously secured an appointment as lecturer at the
University, and of their flight >from Madrid as
Franco's forces laid siege to the city. Shortly after
their 1937 arrival in New York, George Sachs died.
The memoir relates the author's experience growing up
fatherless in New York and of the network of family
and friends that enabled him to survive and flourish.
Along the way, the book provides interesting
reminiscences of the author's grandfather, the noted
musicologist Curt Sachs. We learn of the history of
the Inwood neighborhood in Manhattan, the author's
religious life as a member of an Orthodox
German-Jewish congregation on upper Broadway, summers
at Jewish camps in the Catskills and the Poconos, and
of the author's high school years at the Walden School
on Manhattan's West Side. In later chapters, Sachs
describes his years at Cornell University, his
military service as an unofficial "chaplain" to Jewish
servicemen at a remote Army outpost in Texas, and in
law school The book ends with the author's marriage in 1964.

Sachs does not shy away >from dealing with what he
calls his "spiritual confusion" in his growing-up
years, his attraction to non-Jewish women, his
wrestling with identity issues and, finally, with his
reaffirmation of his essential Jewish self.

Through Turmoil to Tranquility, published by the author, is hard-bound,
with 481pp + 18 ppo of endnotes and 12 pages of photographs.
An attached genealogy traces the family back, in two of its branches, to the
16th and 17th centuries.

To GerSiggers, the price is $24.95 plus $4.00 postage and handling.
Please request ordering information from: <sachsmd@...>

Daniel Sachs Bethesda MD 20814   <sachsmd@...>

MODERATOR NOTE: Our rules permit a *** one time mention *** of new books and
other material offered for sale.

The subject matter *** must *** be on topic to the GerSig Forum. MOD1

Daniel Sachs, a five-year GerSig subscriber, has
written a ">from the ground up" memoir that describes
his family's flight >from Nazi Germany and then from
Franco Spain and of years of tumult and tragedy as
1930's arrivals in New York City's Washington
Heights/Inwood German-Jewish "ghetto."

"Through Turmoil to Tranquility" is a portrait of the
"different" wave of immigrants that arrived in the United States
during 1930's and 40's.

Moving >from small towns in Silesia and Prussia and

from Altona and Osnabrueck in what is now Lower

Saxony, Sachs's forebears were part of that great wave
of urbanization that turned Berlin into a cosmopolitan
center in the mid 19th-century. Descended >from three
generations of prominent academics and researchers,
Sachs tells of his parents' move in 1932 >from Berlin
to Madrid, where his father, George SACHS, had
fortuitously secured an appointment as lecturer at the
University, and of their flight >from Madrid as
Franco's forces laid siege to the city. Shortly after
their 1937 arrival in New York, George Sachs died.
The memoir relates the author's experience growing up
fatherless in New York and of the network of family
and friends that enabled him to survive and flourish.
Along the way, the book provides interesting
reminiscences of the author's grandfather, the noted
musicologist Curt Sachs. We learn of the history of
the Inwood neighborhood in Manhattan, the author's
religious life as a member of an Orthodox
German-Jewish congregation on upper Broadway, summers
at Jewish camps in the Catskills and the Poconos, and
of the author's high school years at the Walden School
on Manhattan's West Side. In later chapters, Sachs
describes his years at Cornell University, his
military service as an unofficial "chaplain" to Jewish
servicemen at a remote Army outpost in Texas, and in
law school The book ends with the author's marriage in 1964.

Sachs does not shy away >from dealing with what he
calls his "spiritual confusion" in his growing-up
years, his attraction to non-Jewish women, his
wrestling with identity issues and, finally, with his
reaffirmation of his essential Jewish self.

Through Turmoil to Tranquility, published by the author, is hard-bound,
with 481pp + 18 ppo of endnotes and 12 pages of photographs.
An attached genealogy traces the family back, in two of its branches, to the
16th and 17th centuries.

To GerSiggers, the price is $24.95 plus $4.00 postage and handling.
Please request ordering information from: <sachsmd@...>

Daniel Sachs Bethesda MD 20814   <sachsmd@...>

Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:22 PM
To: 'Robert Wolf' Cc: Micheal Schwarcz (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Troebitz

Robert,
Thanks for your very informative reply. And thanks to Henny and Micha as
well for your help.

What you and the Center for Research of Dutch Jewry have found seems far
more definitive, while somewhat contradictory to the information relayed to
my parents regarding my uncle Paul's death. I have a letter, written on
November 18, 1945, >from a Dr. A. Houwink, Rubensstraat 79, Amsterdam 2, who
was a friend of Paul and Kaethe REFISCH, as well as Kaethe's parents,
Maximillian FRANKEN, and Margerethe FRANKEN-WOLFF (Houwink's wife was also
Max FRANKEN's niece). The letter indicates that both families died in
Bergen-Belsen. While the information was third hand, based on news >from "a
friend of a friend" who claims to have visited Kaethe REHFISCH in a hospital
at Bergen-Belsen, it stated that while Kaethe was still alive, she was "in a
very bad state of health". However Paul and her parents were already dead

from the typhoid fever epidemic, and that Kaethe probably died too shortly

after the visit, which I must assume was after the Germans vacated the
facility. That would indicate that they never left Bergen-Belsen.
However, I must also assume that your information is based on death and
burial records, as opposed to the third hand information that I have. It
also puts Paul's death in a more historic context, which is quite ironic
since I just visited the concentration camp at Theresienstadt less than
three weeks ago. Thanks again for your help.

Pete Vanlaw, Studio City, CA

P.S.: Yes, I'd be very interested in obtaining a copy of the "Lost
Transport" monograph. Just let me know if there's any cost involved.

-----Original Message-----
Robert Wolf
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:14 AM
To: pvan@...
Subject: Troebitz
Your uncle, Paul REHFISCH, and his wife, Kaethe REHFISCH-FRANKEN are buried
in the mass grave at the Nordfeld Barracks Infirmary in the town of
Troebitz. They died of Typhus, Paul on May 5th and Kaethe on May 12, 1945.

They were among the several thousand former inmates of Bergen-Belsen who
were loaded on a train bound for Theresienstadt on 9 April 1945. The train
has become known as "The Lost Transport". Because of the almost total
destruction of the German rail system the train never reached Theresienstadt
(where gas chambers had been constructed after the death camps in Poland had
been overrun), but wandered through what was left of Germany for two weeks
until finally liberated by the Red Army on April 22/23.

About fifteen years ago, when Troebitz was still in the DDR, a local woman
wrote a monograph about the Lost Transport and the subsequent events in Troebitz.

I have translated the monograph, which contains extensive lists of the dead,
and would be happy to send you a copy on CD if you wish. Robert Wolf

Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:22 PM
To: 'Robert Wolf' Cc: Micheal Schwarcz (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Troebitz

Robert,
Thanks for your very informative reply. And thanks to Henny and Micha as
well for your help.

What you and the Center for Research of Dutch Jewry have found seems far
more definitive, while somewhat contradictory to the information relayed to
my parents regarding my uncle Paul's death. I have a letter, written on
November 18, 1945, >from a Dr. A. Houwink, Rubensstraat 79, Amsterdam 2, who
was a friend of Paul and Kaethe REFISCH, as well as Kaethe's parents,
Maximillian FRANKEN, and Margerethe FRANKEN-WOLFF (Houwink's wife was also
Max FRANKEN's niece). The letter indicates that both families died in
Bergen-Belsen. While the information was third hand, based on news >from "a
friend of a friend" who claims to have visited Kaethe REHFISCH in a hospital
at Bergen-Belsen, it stated that while Kaethe was still alive, she was "in a
very bad state of health". However Paul and her parents were already dead

from the typhoid fever epidemic, and that Kaethe probably died too shortly

after the visit, which I must assume was after the Germans vacated the
facility. That would indicate that they never left Bergen-Belsen.
However, I must also assume that your information is based on death and
burial records, as opposed to the third hand information that I have. It
also puts Paul's death in a more historic context, which is quite ironic
since I just visited the concentration camp at Theresienstadt less than
three weeks ago. Thanks again for your help.

Pete Vanlaw, Studio City, CA

P.S.: Yes, I'd be very interested in obtaining a copy of the "Lost
Transport" monograph. Just let me know if there's any cost involved.

-----Original Message-----
Robert Wolf
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 8:14 AM
To: pvan@...
Subject: Troebitz
Your uncle, Paul REHFISCH, and his wife, Kaethe REHFISCH-FRANKEN are buried
in the mass grave at the Nordfeld Barracks Infirmary in the town of
Troebitz. They died of Typhus, Paul on May 5th and Kaethe on May 12, 1945.

They were among the several thousand former inmates of Bergen-Belsen who
were loaded on a train bound for Theresienstadt on 9 April 1945. The train
has become known as "The Lost Transport". Because of the almost total
destruction of the German rail system the train never reached Theresienstadt
(where gas chambers had been constructed after the death camps in Poland had
been overrun), but wandered through what was left of Germany for two weeks
until finally liberated by the Red Army on April 22/23.

About fifteen years ago, when Troebitz was still in the DDR, a local woman
wrote a monograph about the Lost Transport and the subsequent events in Troebitz.

I have translated the monograph, which contains extensive lists of the dead,
and would be happy to send you a copy on CD if you wish. Robert Wolf

I do not manage to find the Polish website of White
Pages. There are a few of the Yellow Pages.Any idea?

Jacob Rosen
Jerusalem

I do not manage to find the Polish website of White
Pages. There are a few of the Yellow Pages.Any idea?

Jacob Rosen
Jerusalem

Dear Madams/Sirs
I will be very thankful to you with respect to the details you may find regarding
my ggrandfather Levi WERTHEIM fm Oestrich North Westphalia as following :

date and place of birth
names of parents
names of sisters/brothers

according to info. I already have, Levi WERTHEIM was married to Bertha
CAHNFELD b 14.10.1841 in Oestrich North Westphalia, they had five children
all born in Oestrich North Westphalia

Paula, Julius, Isidor, Hugo & Martha WERTHEIM. thanks & best rgds

Eli Naumann JGID 118623 Petach-Tiqva, Israel eli-na@...

Dear Madams/Sirs
I will be very thankful to you with respect to the details you may find regarding
my ggrandfather Levi WERTHEIM fm Oestrich North Westphalia as following :

date and place of birth
names of parents
names of sisters/brothers

according to info. I already have, Levi WERTHEIM was married to Bertha
CAHNFELD b 14.10.1841 in Oestrich North Westphalia, they had five children
all born in Oestrich North Westphalia

Paula, Julius, Isidor, Hugo & Martha WERTHEIM. thanks & best rgds

Eli Naumann JGID 118623 Petach-Tiqva, Israel eli-na@...

In my most recent foray onto Google, I pulled up new to me
information on this website:
www.judaica.kiev.ua/eng/Projects/Arhivs.htm

Specifically the Archive of Jewish Heritage in Ukraine has
been collecting archives of Jewish heritage >from the Ukraine.
There are 10 areas of collections listed.

Do any of the Ukraine SIG members know anything more about
this collection?

Thanks for any feedback.

Beatrice Markel
Redondo Beach, CA

Researching in the Ukraine:
MINKOVSKY: Rozhev, Kiev, Ukraine
TALALAYEVSKY: Mokhnachka, Kiev, Ukraine

In my most recent foray onto Google, I pulled up new to me
information on this website:
www.judaica.kiev.ua/eng/Projects/Arhivs.htm

Specifically the Archive of Jewish Heritage in Ukraine has
been collecting archives of Jewish heritage >from the Ukraine.
There are 10 areas of collections listed.

Do any of the Ukraine SIG members know anything more about
this collection?

Thanks for any feedback.

Beatrice Markel
Redondo Beach, CA

Researching in the Ukraine:
MINKOVSKY: Rozhev, Kiev, Ukraine
TALALAYEVSKY: Mokhnachka, Kiev, Ukraine

I have a problem of ascertaining male forename s
1. He was Aaron ( called Harry ) but his father was thought to be Hyman .
His headstone however read Aharon ben 'Chet Nun Final Nun' and the entry in
register read ( script ) 'Aaron ben Het Nun Hay '
Suggestions and explanations welcomed .
2. Julius - with headstone Yod Vav Aleph Lamed - is it possibly a version
of shortened form of Jaacov /Koppel

Aubrey Jacobus

I have a problem of ascertaining male forename s
1. He was Aaron ( called Harry ) but his father was thought to be Hyman .
His headstone however read Aharon ben 'Chet Nun Final Nun' and the entry in
register read ( script ) 'Aaron ben Het Nun Hay '
Suggestions and explanations welcomed .
2. Julius - with headstone Yod Vav Aleph Lamed - is it possibly a version
of shortened form of Jaacov /Koppel

Aubrey Jacobus

I went through Miriam's Weiner's book on Poland and could find nothing
about records >from Oswiecim. Does anyone know if there are any
records available >from Oswiecim, especially before 1912. Thanks.
Sy and Cyndie PEARLMAN, researching PEARLMAN (Bialystok,
Rozany),ROSACHOTSKY and SKOVRONEK (Lomza, Wysokie Mazowieckie),KUNOFSKY
and LEVINE (Uzda and Nesvizh), BERNBACH
and HACKEL (Ulanow, Lejzaisk), MINTZER (Glebowice), CHAIT (Kiev),
TREITELMAN (Akkerman, Odessa).

I went through Miriam's Weiner's book on Poland and could find nothing
about records >from Oswiecim. Does anyone know if there are any
records available >from Oswiecim, especially before 1912. Thanks.
Sy and Cyndie PEARLMAN, researching PEARLMAN (Bialystok,
Rozany),ROSACHOTSKY and SKOVRONEK (Lomza, Wysokie Mazowieckie),KUNOFSKY
and LEVINE (Uzda and Nesvizh), BERNBACH
and HACKEL (Ulanow, Lejzaisk), MINTZER (Glebowice), CHAIT (Kiev),
TREITELMAN (Akkerman, Odessa).

JewishGen restricts the Belarus SIG >from updating the All Belarus Database
(ABD) to once every quarter. In an effort to make at least some data
available to our members as soon as possible, our able webmaster, Edward
Rosenbaum, adds the names on new databases to the names index until
the data can be added to the ABD during the next quarterly update.

Once the data does get added to the ABD, the problems encountered by Andi,
will be resolved. Our other option is to not make the limited data
available and just wait for the quarterly update. I thought something fast
was better then waiting three months or more to see the data.

Dave
--
David Fox
Mail to: davefox73@...
Belarus SIG Coordinator
Arnold, MD USA
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus

JewishGen restricts the Belarus SIG >from updating the All Belarus Database
(ABD) to once every quarter. In an effort to make at least some data
available to our members as soon as possible, our able webmaster, Edward
Rosenbaum, adds the names on new databases to the names index until
the data can be added to the ABD during the next quarterly update.

Once the data does get added to the ABD, the problems encountered by Andi,
will be resolved. Our other option is to not make the limited data
available and just wait for the quarterly update. I thought something fast
was better then waiting three months or more to see the data.

Dave
--
David Fox
Mail to: davefox73@...
Belarus SIG Coordinator
Arnold, MD USA
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus

I seek possible derivations of surname SCHRECKINGER. Have tried German
dictionary, Yiddish sourcebooks, shtetl finder to no avail- also tried
name variants. I know Shrek means fright in German and suffix inger
means more, but this makes little sense to me. My grandfather, Osias
Schreckinger emigrated >from Sambor (now Ukraine) to US in early 1900s.
Would appreciate suggestions. Thanks.

Rochelle Kaplan
Salt Lake City

Researching: SCHRECKINGER, KARP- Sambor
KAPLAN, BREGMAN, RAPAPORT-Slutsk, Kopyl
GERSON- Riga, Bauska
ZAKS- Kraziai, Lithuania
LEIBSON/LIPSON- Brailov, Shargorod
LEBOWSKY, WEINBERG-Piaski, Peski

I seek possible derivations of surname SCHRECKINGER. Have tried German
dictionary, Yiddish sourcebooks, shtetl finder to no avail- also tried
name variants. I know Shrek means fright in German and suffix inger
means more, but this makes little sense to me. My grandfather, Osias
Schreckinger emigrated >from Sambor (now Ukraine) to US in early 1900s.
Would appreciate suggestions. Thanks.

Rochelle Kaplan
Salt Lake City

Researching: SCHRECKINGER, KARP- Sambor
KAPLAN, BREGMAN, RAPAPORT-Slutsk, Kopyl
GERSON- Riga, Bauska
ZAKS- Kraziai, Lithuania
LEIBSON/LIPSON- Brailov, Shargorod
LEBOWSKY, WEINBERG-Piaski, Peski