Dear fellow jewish genealogy subscripters.

I am looking for information about the family of my grand-mother Nacha
Bernard born Wolman in Gabin (Gombin) Poland in 1907.

She was the daughter of Tobjasz Wolman and Balka Goldman. I don't know
if she had siblings. She moved to France and married my grand-father
Raphael Bernard in Paris in January 1931. He was born in Wloclawek
Poland in 1904. Both of them were deported >from France to Auschwitz
where they died in 1942.They had two children. My father was the only
survivor of the family.

I would like to know if anyone has information about the Goldman and
Wolman families >from Gabin, especially about possible siblings or
cousins of my grand-mother. I found that a Wolman family >from Gabin
emigrated to the USA at the beginning of the 20th century but I don't
the relationship with my grand-mother.

I posted the only photograph that I have of her. It was taken in Paris
in 1932. On the right is my grand-father Raphael and on the left his
brother Luzer that also died in Auschwitz after being deported from

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69229

Thank you in advance

Sarah Mayer
Israel

Dear fellow jewish genealogy subscripters.

I am looking for information about the family of my grand-mother Nacha
Bernard born Wolman in Gabin (Gombin) Poland in 1907.

She was the daughter of Tobjasz Wolman and Balka Goldman. I don't know
if she had siblings. She moved to France and married my grand-father
Raphael Bernard in Paris in January 1931. He was born in Wloclawek
Poland in 1904. Both of them were deported >from France to Auschwitz
where they died in 1942.They had two children. My father was the only
survivor of the family.

I would like to know if anyone has information about the Goldman and
Wolman families >from Gabin, especially about possible siblings or
cousins of my grand-mother. I found that a Wolman family >from Gabin
emigrated to the USA at the beginning of the 20th century but I don't
the relationship with my grand-mother.

I posted the only photograph that I have of her. It was taken in Paris
in 1932. On the right is my grand-father Raphael and on the left his
brother Luzer that also died in Auschwitz after being deported from

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM69229

Thank you in advance

Sarah Mayer
Israel

I am seeking the family of Rivka JEGER, who was living in Akko/Acre,
Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
our (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Malka WEISBERGER, who was living in Kiryat
Motzkin, Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Lea MILLER, who was living on Yaffo Street,
in an unspecified city in Israel, in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (Peretz MULLER of Sighet), so we may be related.
Thank you
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Lea MILLER, who was living on Yaffo Street,
in an unspecified city in Israel, in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (Peretz MULLER of Sighet), so we may be related.
Thank you
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Rivka JEGER, who was living in Akko/Acre,
Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
our (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Malka WEISBERGER, who was living in Kiryat
Motzkin, Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

On Nov 14, 2018, at 8:37 AM, Diana Henry <dmh@...> wrote:

Hello,
It occurs to me that other family members of those Jews massacred in August 1944 by the French militia at the wells of Guery in the Department of the Cher might be on this list, as I am
If so, or for any reason related to this massacre, I would be interest to correspond
The atrocity is recounted in Tzvetan Todorov’s book: Une Tragedie Francaise: ete 1944 scenes de la guerre civile en France, published in English as A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944
"As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town....Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice- collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put them to a horrible death..." - >from the dust jacket of the US edition, A French Tragedy, published by University Press of New England.
I contacted the author because he did not include in his book a list of the people who were murdered there,(!) including five of my relatives. It seems many or all, like them, had been expelled or fled >from Alsace when the Germans retook it and incorporated it into the Reich in 1940. A depiction of the Alsatian towns of Hochfelden and Ingwiller and my two relatives who survived the massacre, Roger and his mother Cora Weil, is at:
http://www.dianamarahenry.com/natzweiler-struthof/VanishingJewsofAlsace.htm
Todorov sent me a list he found somewhere and I have others. Thank you,

Diana Mara Henry
http://www.natzweiler-struthof.org/
http://www.callmeandre.com
802-334-7054 (home office)
413-374-2896 (cell travel only)

On Nov 14, 2018, at 8:37 AM, Diana Henry <dmh@...> wrote:

Hello,
It occurs to me that other family members of those Jews massacred in August 1944 by the French militia at the wells of Guery in the Department of the Cher might be on this list, as I am
If so, or for any reason related to this massacre, I would be interest to correspond
The atrocity is recounted in Tzvetan Todorov’s book: Une Tragedie Francaise: ete 1944 scenes de la guerre civile en France, published in English as A French Tragedy: Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944
"As Allied troops landed in Normandy in 1944, members of the local French resistance in the small town of Saint-Amand-Montrond embarked on an ill-fated attempt to liberate their town....Resistance forces took and subsequently executed hostages; their opponents, the milice- collaborationist French police - and German soldiers rounded up 70 Jewish adults and children in retaliation and put them to a horrible death..." - >from the dust jacket of the US edition, A French Tragedy, published by University Press of New England.
I contacted the author because he did not include in his book a list of the people who were murdered there,(!) including five of my relatives. It seems many or all, like them, had been expelled or fled >from Alsace when the Germans retook it and incorporated it into the Reich in 1940. A depiction of the Alsatian towns of Hochfelden and Ingwiller and my two relatives who survived the massacre, Roger and his mother Cora Weil, is at:
http://www.dianamarahenry.com/natzweiler-struthof/VanishingJewsofAlsace.htm
Todorov sent me a list he found somewhere and I have others. Thank you,

Diana Mara Henry
http://www.natzweiler-struthof.org/
http://www.callmeandre.com
802-334-7054 (home office)
413-374-2896 (cell travel only)

I am seeking the family of Lea MILLER, who was living on Yaffo Street,
in an unspecified city in Israel, in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (Peretz MULLER of Sighet), so we may be related.
Thank you
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Lea MILLER, who was living on Yaffo Street,
in an unspecified city in Israel, in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (Peretz MULLER of Sighet), so we may be related.
Thank you
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Malka WEISBERGER, who was living in Kiryat
Motzkin, Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Malka WEISBERGER, who was living in Kiryat
Motzkin, Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
ours (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Rivka JEGER, who was living in Akko/Acre,
Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
our (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

I am seeking the family of Rivka JEGER, who was living in Akko/Acre,
Israel in 1957.
She submitted Yad Vashem POT testimony relating to mutual relatives of
our (MULLER family of Khust), so we may be related.
Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland USA

NYC has recently digitized and put online their 1940 tax photos of
every piece of real estate in the city, but it may not be easy to
search using their website to find the photo of a particular house.
Steve Morse has created a tool that acts as a portal to their photo
collection, making searching their site easier.

Here are some of the advantages that Steve's tool offers:

1. New York City's site has numerous restrictions on the format of an
address, such as:
-- numbered streets must be cardinal numbers and not ordinal numbers
(i.e, "4 Avenue" instead of "4th Avenue")
-- numbered street name must not be spelled out (i.e, "15 Street"
instead of "Fifteen Street" or "Fifteenth Street")
-- no apostrophes in the street name
-- no dashes in the address
-- no abbreviations (i.e., "East 96 Street" instead of "E 96 St")
Steve's tool does away with all these restrictions, allowing searches
by street names as they are usually encountered.

2. On New York City's site, you have to enter your search term using a
very strict syntax, such as "borough=Brooklyn AND block=3598 AND
lot=3". Using Steve's tool you enter the search information by
filling out a form.

3. The result of a search on the New York City site is a set of
thumbnails. The search result >from Steve's tool is a table.

The URL of Steve Morse's tool is
https://stevemorse.org/vital/nyctaxphotos.html

Dick Plotz
Providence RI USA

NYC has recently digitized and put online their 1940 tax photos of
every piece of real estate in the city, but it may not be easy to
search using their website to find the photo of a particular house.
Steve Morse has created a tool that acts as a portal to their photo
collection, making searching their site easier.

Here are some of the advantages that Steve's tool offers:

1. New York City's site has numerous restrictions on the format of an
address, such as:
-- numbered streets must be cardinal numbers and not ordinal numbers
(i.e, "4 Avenue" instead of "4th Avenue")
-- numbered street name must not be spelled out (i.e, "15 Street"
instead of "Fifteen Street" or "Fifteenth Street")
-- no apostrophes in the street name
-- no dashes in the address
-- no abbreviations (i.e., "East 96 Street" instead of "E 96 St")
Steve's tool does away with all these restrictions, allowing searches
by street names as they are usually encountered.

2. On New York City's site, you have to enter your search term using a
very strict syntax, such as "borough=Brooklyn AND block=3598 AND
lot=3". Using Steve's tool you enter the search information by
filling out a form.

3. The result of a search on the New York City site is a set of
thumbnails. The search result >from Steve's tool is a table.

The URL of Steve Morse's tool is
https://stevemorse.org/vital/nyctaxphotos.html

Dick Plotz
Providence RI USA

Lynn Pollak Golumbic wrote:

---
During the last year my parents (who are 3rd cousins) and I did the
autosomal family finder test on FTDNA. One surprise was that a very good
friend and neighbor with whom I thought I had no family relationship came up
as a 5th or remote cousin on my test, with 116 Shared Cm and a longest
block of 9.
He did not show up on either of my parents' tests. Can someone explain why?
I am not adopted, I show up as a daughter of each of my parents.
---

This is a consequence of Ashkenazi Jewish endogamy, the fact that we married
almost exclusively within our own population. We are all descended >from a
"founder" group of approximately 350 people who lived some 700 years ago.
For quite a few generations, Ashkenazi Jews married their first, second and
third cousins before the population's rapid growth in the 18th and 19th
centuries. As a consequence, we share lots of little bits and pieces of DNA

from way back. These common bits skew the autosomal analysis algorithms

because they look just like the shared DNA segments that signify
genealogically accessible relationships within the most recent four to five
generations. As a result, the majority of relationship estimates make the
common ancestors appear to be much closer than they actually are. We may be
projected as fourth cousins, but in reality we may be eighth to twentieth
cousins many times over because of the repeated endogamous marriages.

People listed in the results as fifth to distant cousins are almost always
very distant, out of reach of conventional genealogical research. There is
a "tell", however. The general rule of thumb that I've found most useful
(although not foolproof) is to investigate a match further if it contains
one segment of at least 20 cM and another segment of at least 10 cM.
Matches that don't meet this criterion are unlikely to yield an accessible
relationship. A long segment of only 9 cM is almost certainly a sign of no
common ancestor within reach. For matches that do pass this test, you may
or may not be able to connect your family trees, depending on how far back
your paper trail goes. I have one match with a 56 cM segment and a 20 cM
segment that I'm convinced is a third cousin of my dad, but we cannot
confirm such a relationship because I've been able to trace siblings of only
nine of my sixteen fourth generation ancestors, while my match doesn't trace
as far back.

Keep searching, and focus on matches that look promising. I have over
19,000 DNA matches on FTDNA, and I've been able to find some distant
cousins among them. I hope you'll enjoy similar successes.

---
David J Ellis
Natick, MA
djemkitso@...

Lynn Pollak Golumbic wrote:

---
During the last year my parents (who are 3rd cousins) and I did the
autosomal family finder test on FTDNA. One surprise was that a very good
friend and neighbor with whom I thought I had no family relationship came up
as a 5th or remote cousin on my test, with 116 Shared Cm and a longest
block of 9.
He did not show up on either of my parents' tests. Can someone explain why?
I am not adopted, I show up as a daughter of each of my parents.
---

This is a consequence of Ashkenazi Jewish endogamy, the fact that we married
almost exclusively within our own population. We are all descended >from a
"founder" group of approximately 350 people who lived some 700 years ago.
For quite a few generations, Ashkenazi Jews married their first, second and
third cousins before the population's rapid growth in the 18th and 19th
centuries. As a consequence, we share lots of little bits and pieces of DNA

from way back. These common bits skew the autosomal analysis algorithms

because they look just like the shared DNA segments that signify
genealogically accessible relationships within the most recent four to five
generations. As a result, the majority of relationship estimates make the
common ancestors appear to be much closer than they actually are. We may be
projected as fourth cousins, but in reality we may be eighth to twentieth
cousins many times over because of the repeated endogamous marriages.

People listed in the results as fifth to distant cousins are almost always
very distant, out of reach of conventional genealogical research. There is
a "tell", however. The general rule of thumb that I've found most useful
(although not foolproof) is to investigate a match further if it contains
one segment of at least 20 cM and another segment of at least 10 cM.
Matches that don't meet this criterion are unlikely to yield an accessible
relationship. A long segment of only 9 cM is almost certainly a sign of no
common ancestor within reach. For matches that do pass this test, you may
or may not be able to connect your family trees, depending on how far back
your paper trail goes. I have one match with a 56 cM segment and a 20 cM
segment that I'm convinced is a third cousin of my dad, but we cannot
confirm such a relationship because I've been able to trace siblings of only
nine of my sixteen fourth generation ancestors, while my match doesn't trace
as far back.

Keep searching, and focus on matches that look promising. I have over
19,000 DNA matches on FTDNA, and I've been able to find some distant
cousins among them. I hope you'll enjoy similar successes.

---
David J Ellis
Natick, MA
djemkitso@...