I've posted on ViewMate my g'g'g'grandfather's headstone=2C which is in Mad=
=2C Hungary. Having trouble translating much of it. We know his name was As=
her Zelig Planer=2C and he died in 1888. If you can add anything to this tr=
anslation=2C I'd be most grateful. it is image no. VM28542=2C posted at=A0=
=0A=
www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM28542.=0A=
Thank you!=0A=
=0A=
Diane Jacobs=0A=
Austin=2C Texas

Moderator: Please use ViewMate to respond. =

Dear Friends,

We are excited to announce the release of our brand new JewishGen
video entitled "This is JewishGen." The video explains more about us,
who are the people "behind JewishGen" and how JewishGen can help you
research your roots.

To watch the video now, please click here:
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Avraham Groll, Director of Business Operations
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Hello,



I am researching my husband's family SCHONBRUN >from Sombor in Serbia.



1) Has anyone obtained records >from the Sombor Archive?

Do you know which archive holds the Jewish records >from pre-WWII ?



2) Can you recommend a guide / researcher for Sombor?



3) Do you know about the Sephardic history of the area?

The family had surnames such as Elvira, Beno and Estaban, although
they spoke Yiddish.



Thank you kindly,



Loren Greenberg Schonbrun

Venice, California

greenberg.loren@...

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, the IAJGS recognized the KehilaLinks project
for its "outstanding contribution to Jewish Genealogy" at the just
completed conference in Boston. We are incredibly pleased that the
project has been acknowledged, as we have considered it to be an
incredibly useful resource since its inception in 1996.

But we must also take a moment to formally acknowledge Susana
Leistner Bloch and Barbara Ellman, the leaders of the KehilaLinks
project.

It is safe to say that the KehilaLinks project would be
unrecognizable in its current form, without the countless hours of
hard work, planning, brainstorming, and simple devotion that Susana
and Barbara display on a constant basis.

As anyone who has worked with them knows, they are constantly
available to answer questions, and will do their best to help people
be successful in their Jewish genealogical research. For this reason,
we view this award not only as a "JewishGen award" but as a well
deserved honor for two of our most important volunteers, Susana and
Barbara.

Please join us in congratulating Susana and Barbara by leaving your
congratulatory comments on our facebook page by visiting:
http://tinyurl.com/ktrqsu8 .

Your comments will surely be appreciated.

Mazal Tov!

Warren Blatt, Managing Director
Avraham Groll, Director of Business Operations
Michael Tobias, VP of Programming

I've posted on ViewMate my g'g'g'grandfather's headstone=2C which is in Mad=
=2C Hungary. Having trouble translating much of it. We know his name was As=
her Zelig Planer=2C and he died in 1888. If you can add anything to this tr=
anslation=2C I'd be most grateful. it is image no. VM28542=2C posted at=A0=
=0A=
www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=3DVM28542.=0A=
Thank you!=0A=
=0A=
Diane Jacobs=0A=
Austin=2C Texas

Moderator: Please use ViewMate to respond. =

Hello,



I am researching my husband's family SCHONBRUN >from Sombor in Serbia.



1) Has anyone obtained records >from the Sombor Archive?

Do you know which archive holds the Jewish records >from pre-WWII ?



2) Can you recommend a guide / researcher for Sombor?



3) Do you know about the Sephardic history of the area?

The family had surnames such as Elvira, Beno and Estaban, although
they spoke Yiddish.



Thank you kindly,



Loren Greenberg Schonbrun

Venice, California

greenberg.loren@...

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, the IAJGS recognized the KehilaLinks project
for its "outstanding contribution to Jewish Genealogy" at the just
completed conference in Boston. We are incredibly pleased that the
project has been acknowledged, as we have considered it to be an
incredibly useful resource since its inception in 1996.

But we must also take a moment to formally acknowledge Susana
Leistner Bloch and Barbara Ellman, the leaders of the KehilaLinks
project.

It is safe to say that the KehilaLinks project would be
unrecognizable in its current form, without the countless hours of
hard work, planning, brainstorming, and simple devotion that Susana
and Barbara display on a constant basis.

As anyone who has worked with them knows, they are constantly
available to answer questions, and will do their best to help people
be successful in their Jewish genealogical research. For this reason,
we view this award not only as a "JewishGen award" but as a well
deserved honor for two of our most important volunteers, Susana and
Barbara.

Please join us in congratulating Susana and Barbara by leaving your
congratulatory comments on our facebook page by visiting:
http://tinyurl.com/ktrqsu8 .

Your comments will surely be appreciated.

Mazal Tov!

Warren Blatt, Managing Director
Avraham Groll, Director of Business Operations
Michael Tobias, VP of Programming

Dear Friends,

We are excited to announce the release of our brand new JewishGen
video entitled "This is JewishGen." The video explains more about us,
who are the people "behind JewishGen" and how JewishGen can help you
research your roots.

To watch the video now, please click here:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nASSn4rDXh4>

Enjoy - and please share with friends and family!

We would also love to receive your feedback. After watching the video,
please leave a comment on our Facebook page by clicking here:
<https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/607067619315397>

Kind regards,

Warren Blatt, Managing Director
Avraham Groll, Director of Business Operations
Michael Tobias, VP of Programming

Dear SIGgenners,

Thanks to GERsig, we have already managed to contact several members
of our family in Brazil, Holland and Israel.
We would like now to find someone kind enough to make photos of tombs
in the Jewish cemetery of Diez (Diez and der Lahn).

According to:
http://www.cjz-limburg.de/judische_friedhofe/Diez/diez.html
the tombs of which we would like to have photos are on the
15th rank (Reihe 15)
the tombs of Clara MEYER (1848-1909) and Eduard MEYER (1842-1898).

These are the parents of our grandfather Otto MEYER.

Thank you very much in advance

Nicolas Grossfeld, Switzerland nicolas.grossfeld@...

Searching MEYER Diez an der Lahn;
BAUER, SELIG, MAYER, OPPENHEIMER, BALLIN-OPPENHEIMER Bischofsheim, Gross-Gerau,
Mainz

Dear genners
This is a plea >from an artist in connection with Jewish life in Luebeck
Germany before the Holocaust. Please watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvNeDXUM57k
His name is Ken Aptekar and there is only one submission to youtube
under the title Looking for Lubeck 1930s Homemovies.

Christopher Massur, Curacao cmassur@...

Dear SIGgenners,

Thanks to GERsig, we have already managed to contact several members
of our family in Brazil, Holland and Israel.
We would like now to find someone kind enough to make photos of tombs
in the Jewish cemetery of Diez (Diez and der Lahn).

According to:
http://www.cjz-limburg.de/judische_friedhofe/Diez/diez.html
the tombs of which we would like to have photos are on the
15th rank (Reihe 15)
the tombs of Clara MEYER (1848-1909) and Eduard MEYER (1842-1898).

These are the parents of our grandfather Otto MEYER.

Thank you very much in advance

Nicolas Grossfeld, Switzerland nicolas.grossfeld@...

Searching MEYER Diez an der Lahn;
BAUER, SELIG, MAYER, OPPENHEIMER, BALLIN-OPPENHEIMER Bischofsheim, Gross-Gerau,
Mainz

Dear genners
This is a plea >from an artist in connection with Jewish life in Luebeck
Germany before the Holocaust. Please watch it at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvNeDXUM57k
His name is Ken Aptekar and there is only one submission to youtube
under the title Looking for Lubeck 1930s Homemovies.

Christopher Massur, Curacao cmassur@...

In response to Dan Kester's post:

Please check out

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/mantello/

if you're not familiar with the unauthorized visas issued by George
Mantello, an employee of the El Salvador consulate in Geneva Switzerland
during the war. It's wonderful story. Amazingly, some of the visas are
addressed to residents in the camps.

Here is an example:

http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1168471&search=m
antello+spangenthal&index=1
or http://tinyurl.com/nqm39f6

Dennis Aron, dennisaron@...

In response to Dan Kester's post:

Please check out

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/mantello/

if you're not familiar with the unauthorized visas issued by George
Mantello, an employee of the El Salvador consulate in Geneva Switzerland
during the war. It's wonderful story. Amazingly, some of the visas are
addressed to residents in the camps.

Here is an example:

http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1168471&search=m
antello+spangenthal&index=1
or http://tinyurl.com/nqm39f6

Dennis Aron, dennisaron@...

Hello-
Is there any information available on burials at the Old Jewish
Cemetery in Frankfurt/aM? My only reference was a note >from my father
(deceased) that his grandmother was buried there. Any direction to a
resource will be appreciated by

Denise Suttle abqsuttle@...

Moderator note: Alemannia Judaica is a German organization devoted to
Jewish community history in southwestern Germany and parts of France and
Switzerland. The A.J. website is a gateway to massive amounts of information.
Every GerSIG member should become familiar with this resource.
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/
The site is in German but current web browsers can translate the pages.
You probably are looking for this cemetery in Frankfurt:
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/frankfurt_friedhof_rat-beil-strasse.htm
You should search the GerSIG archives via:
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~sigspop
for "old near cemetery and Frankfurt" and variations. Past GerSIG
messages will tell you what kinds of information are available and how. Mod 1

Hello-
Is there any information available on burials at the Old Jewish
Cemetery in Frankfurt/aM? My only reference was a note >from my father
(deceased) that his grandmother was buried there. Any direction to a
resource will be appreciated by

Denise Suttle abqsuttle@...

Moderator note: Alemannia Judaica is a German organization devoted to
Jewish community history in southwestern Germany and parts of France and
Switzerland. The A.J. website is a gateway to massive amounts of information.
Every GerSIG member should become familiar with this resource.
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/
The site is in German but current web browsers can translate the pages.
You probably are looking for this cemetery in Frankfurt:
http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/frankfurt_friedhof_rat-beil-strasse.htm
You should search the GerSIG archives via:
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~sigspop
for "old near cemetery and Frankfurt" and variations. Past GerSIG
messages will tell you what kinds of information are available and how. Mod 1

Hello to everyone with roots in Zagare (and everyone else too!)

I am writing in response to Diane Sophrin's posting of Thurs. Aug 15,
2013 because her family probably had a similar history to mine. First
of all, there are no records in existence >from Zagare before 1922.
However I did get some good information >from the Latvian Historical
Archives. I was surprised to see how much people moved in the 19th
century, even if it was only 20 or 30 miles away. I was told that if
the father was a tailor, and the son became a tailor, a small town
didn't need two tailors, so the son would move to a neighbouring town.

My paternal grandfather, Abba Goldwasser was born in Akmene, a few
miles >from Zagare, then he moved to Zagare and later to Riga. I do
not have any information as to the years the moves occurred. I do know
that he and a brother left Riga in 1891 or 2, and went to Dublin where
another brother lived for 15 years, and then moved to Port Elizabeth
in 1896. Abba came to Montreal in 1893. There was a large community in
Dublin who originated in Akmene, and there were many Litvaks who went
to South Africa.

I discovered that my grandfather had another brother who stayed in Riga
and died in 1936. I realized that some of that family probably died in
the Holocaust, so I went to Yad Vashem and I traced some descendants
because someone had filled in a page of testimony for the relatives who
died. Some Jews >from Zagare, and the area, were exiled to Russia in
1915, and that is how those descendants survived. They lived in Nizny
Novogorod and immigrated to Israel several years ago, and I have been
in touch with them.

My grandmother, Bertha Kagan (Goldwasser), was born in Zagare, but her
family moved to Riga when she was very little, maybe three or four, and
she always said that she was >from Riga.

When my grandparents were born, ca 1865-1870, Akmene and Zagare were in
Courland, a province of Russia. Many immigrants at the time just said
that they were >from Russia. It took me quite a while to find out the
actual town that they were from. I discovered this when I found the
Canadian naturalization papers for one of my father's first cousins that
said he was born in Schgarren, which is the Russian name for Zagare.
Then all the pieces began to fit together.

Diane, I looked at your photo on Viewmate and it is great. (24539 and
24538 in the ViewMate archives)

Good luck to everyone with their research, and thanks to all those who
have responded to my e-mail asking for information about Zagare. I hope
this may help some of you.

Shana Tova, Jo Ann Goldwater, Montreal

Researching GOLDWASSER, KAGAN, SARON, ABRAHAMS >from Akmene, Zagare, and Riga.

Hello to everyone with roots in Zagare (and everyone else too!)

I am writing in response to Diane Sophrin's posting of Thurs. Aug 15,
2013 because her family probably had a similar history to mine. First
of all, there are no records in existence >from Zagare before 1922.
However I did get some good information >from the Latvian Historical
Archives. I was surprised to see how much people moved in the 19th
century, even if it was only 20 or 30 miles away. I was told that if
the father was a tailor, and the son became a tailor, a small town
didn't need two tailors, so the son would move to a neighbouring town.

My paternal grandfather, Abba Goldwasser was born in Akmene, a few
miles >from Zagare, then he moved to Zagare and later to Riga. I do
not have any information as to the years the moves occurred. I do know
that he and a brother left Riga in 1891 or 2, and went to Dublin where
another brother lived for 15 years, and then moved to Port Elizabeth
in 1896. Abba came to Montreal in 1893. There was a large community in
Dublin who originated in Akmene, and there were many Litvaks who went
to South Africa.

I discovered that my grandfather had another brother who stayed in Riga
and died in 1936. I realized that some of that family probably died in
the Holocaust, so I went to Yad Vashem and I traced some descendants
because someone had filled in a page of testimony for the relatives who
died. Some Jews >from Zagare, and the area, were exiled to Russia in
1915, and that is how those descendants survived. They lived in Nizny
Novogorod and immigrated to Israel several years ago, and I have been
in touch with them.

My grandmother, Bertha Kagan (Goldwasser), was born in Zagare, but her
family moved to Riga when she was very little, maybe three or four, and
she always said that she was >from Riga.

When my grandparents were born, ca 1865-1870, Akmene and Zagare were in
Courland, a province of Russia. Many immigrants at the time just said
that they were >from Russia. It took me quite a while to find out the
actual town that they were from. I discovered this when I found the
Canadian naturalization papers for one of my father's first cousins that
said he was born in Schgarren, which is the Russian name for Zagare.
Then all the pieces began to fit together.

Diane, I looked at your photo on Viewmate and it is great. (24539 and
24538 in the ViewMate archives)

Good luck to everyone with their research, and thanks to all those who
have responded to my e-mail asking for information about Zagare. I hope
this may help some of you.

Shana Tova, Jo Ann Goldwater, Montreal

Researching GOLDWASSER, KAGAN, SARON, ABRAHAMS >from Akmene, Zagare, and Riga.

Does anyone have an exact tree of ALL of the descendants of the
Admo"r of Lechowitz R' Aharon and Pearl (she was a daughter of the
Karlin-Stolin Chassidic dynasty)

Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Does anyone have an exact tree of ALL of the descendants of the
Admo"r of Lechowitz R' Aharon and Pearl (she was a daughter of the
Karlin-Stolin Chassidic dynasty)

Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem