Response to the new Bucovina and Moldavia Region databases that are
now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/ has been
very positive and well received. Have you looked for your family
members there?

In order to continue with this positive momentum we need translators
to help us get more records online. To see a list of towns that we
are working on and to volunteer please fill out the form at
http://tinyurl.com/vol-transcriber

With your help we will be able to continue to have more records online.

Bob Wascou
ROM-SIG Research Coordinator

Response to the new Bucovina and Moldavia Region databases that are
now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/ has been
very positive and well received. Have you looked for your family
members there?

In order to continue with this positive momentum we need translators
to help us get more records online. To see a list of towns that we
are working on and to volunteer please fill out the form at
http://tinyurl.com/vol-transcriber

With your help we will be able to continue to have more records online.

Bob Wascou
ROM-SIG Research Coordinator

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Dear Lawrence:
What do you mean by "contacts"? Local historians? Members of local
government or clergy who are interested in Christian-Jewish relations?
Members of Jewish communities in the area? English-language guides?

Not to sound like a broken record or anything, but queries like this one
have far greater effect when made somewhat longer before departure.
Especially when the visit is to occur in late August.

Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA karass coordinator, GerSIG

Thanks to all those who attended the 33rd IAJGS International Conference
on Jewish Genealogy in Boston. We hope this year's conference delivered
on its promise to launch you on a path to new discoveries in new ways.

Marlis Humphrey
Jay Sage
Heidi Urich
Co-Chairs

Dear Lawrence:
What do you mean by "contacts"? Local historians? Members of local
government or clergy who are interested in Christian-Jewish relations?
Members of Jewish communities in the area? English-language guides?

Not to sound like a broken record or anything, but queries like this one
have far greater effect when made somewhat longer before departure.
Especially when the visit is to occur in late August.

Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA karass coordinator, GerSIG

I want to share with all of you the new family book I made for my
second son's bar mitzvah and gave it as a souvenir to the attendees.
I think it can give new ideas to others that have the same idea on
mind.

For many years I wanted to write a book about my family genealogy
research but who in the family will be interested in dates and names
like we (genealogist) are? Some time ago I had the idea to write for
my son's bar mitzvah a small book with 13 stories with a nice
teaching of 13 of his ancestors with an introduction to each story
with information about that ancestor. And in each story I added a
picture of the ancestor or the town where he or she lived and or the
headstone picture etc. Most of the people liked the book and started
to be somehow interested in genealogy.

Anybody interested to see the book ,just send me an email and I will
be happy to send it by email in pdf format. rubweiser@...
This is the index of the book:

Introduction
1) Rab Abraham Aaron Teitelbaum of Kolbuszowa
(Leshem Shamayim honor)
2) Bolisa Levy of Aleppo (Sacrifice for your neighbors in need)
3) Eliahu Reich of Rzeszow (Give what God has entrusted us with)
4) Biniamin Jonatan Schwartz of Piricse (If it isn't me, who then?)
5) Moshe Gelberman of Rohod (Hachnasat Orchim)
6) Rab Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz
(Everything should be properly balanced)
7) Rab Itzjak Meshulam Zalman Reinmann of Narol
(And if it's not exactly what we wanted)
8) Rabi Menachem Mendel Rubin of Lezko
(What is the use of anger?)
9) Nissim Juejati of Aleppo (Everything is for the best)
10) Rab Shimshon Wertheimer of Wien (Kiddush Hashem)
11) Leib Shamash of Eisenstadt (Depending on God's will)
12) Rab Moshe Teitelbaum of Satoraljaujhely
(Waiting for the Mashiach every single day)
13) Simja Alegre Kassin of Aleppo (Leshem Shamayim arguments)
14) Josef Weisz of Balassagyarmat (Kiddush Hashem)
15) Haprenumerantn

Hope it helps others to write their family histories.

Ruben Weiser
Buenos Aires
Argentina

I want to share with all of you the new family book I made for my
second son's bar mitzvah and gave it as a souvenir to the attendees.
I think it can give new ideas to others that have the same idea on
mind.

For many years I wanted to write a book about my family genealogy
research but who in the family will be interested in dates and names
like we (genealogist) are? Some time ago I had the idea to write for
my son's bar mitzvah a small book with 13 stories with a nice
teaching of 13 of his ancestors with an introduction to each story
with information about that ancestor. And in each story I added a
picture of the ancestor or the town where he or she lived and or the
headstone picture etc. Most of the people liked the book and started
to be somehow interested in genealogy.

Anybody interested to see the book ,just send me an email and I will
be happy to send it by email in pdf format. rubweiser@...
This is the index of the book:

Introduction
1) Rab Abraham Aaron Teitelbaum of Kolbuszowa
(Leshem Shamayim honor)
2) Bolisa Levy of Aleppo (Sacrifice for your neighbors in need)
3) Eliahu Reich of Rzeszow (Give what God has entrusted us with)
4) Biniamin Jonatan Schwartz of Piricse (If it isn't me, who then?)
5) Moshe Gelberman of Rohod (Hachnasat Orchim)
6) Rab Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz
(Everything should be properly balanced)
7) Rab Itzjak Meshulam Zalman Reinmann of Narol
(And if it's not exactly what we wanted)
8) Rabi Menachem Mendel Rubin of Lezko
(What is the use of anger?)
9) Nissim Juejati of Aleppo (Everything is for the best)
10) Rab Shimshon Wertheimer of Wien (Kiddush Hashem)
11) Leib Shamash of Eisenstadt (Depending on God's will)
12) Rab Moshe Teitelbaum of Satoraljaujhely
(Waiting for the Mashiach every single day)
13) Simja Alegre Kassin of Aleppo (Leshem Shamayim arguments)
14) Josef Weisz of Balassagyarmat (Kiddush Hashem)
15) Haprenumerantn

Hope it helps others to write their family histories.

Ruben Weiser
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Hi All,

Thanks so much to those of you who responded to my questions
regarding explanations for certain abbreviations used in Polish school
directories' students lists. To summarize, the responses that seemed to
make the most sense when used in the context of the list:

"r" (>from Phyllis Kramer/Suzan Wynne): "used to correct the surname of
an individual following a civil marriage between the parents (or when the
father belatedly appeared before the registrar with two witnesses to claim
paternity). Prior to a civil marriage or the attestation of paternity, a child
often had the surname of the mother instead of the father"

"(pryw.)": means "private", but no one could give the exact meaning in the
context of its use.

"(ekster.)": means "external"--"... the student doesn't have to attend to
all the courses, but he has to learn by mainly by himself and than pass
all the exams." --sounds like "independent study" to me

"egz": means "exam"

"egz. przysp": means "earlier exam", "students could ask to to have
possibility to pass exams earlier than it was originally planned, it gave
more time to study for other exams"

Marilyn Robinson
Florida
yourjewishgem.blogspot.com

Original Question:

Hi All,

Thanks so much to those of you who responded to my questions
regarding explanations for certain abbreviations used in Polish school
directories' students lists. To summarize, the responses that seemed to
make the most sense when used in the context of the list:

"r" (>from Phyllis Kramer/Suzan Wynne): "used to correct the surname of
an individual following a civil marriage between the parents (or when the
father belatedly appeared before the registrar with two witnesses to claim
paternity). Prior to a civil marriage or the attestation of paternity, a child
often had the surname of the mother instead of the father"

"(pryw.)": means "private", but no one could give the exact meaning in the
context of its use.

"(ekster.)": means "external"--"... the student doesn't have to attend to
all the courses, but he has to learn by mainly by himself and than pass
all the exams." --sounds like "independent study" to me

"egz": means "exam"

"egz. przysp": means "earlier exam", "students could ask to to have
possibility to pass exams earlier than it was originally planned, it gave
more time to study for other exams"

Marilyn Robinson
Florida
yourjewishgem.blogspot.com

Original Question:

I am going to Germany at the end of the month. I am visiting several
cities and while I have contacts in some, I was wondering if anyone
had contacts for Grosseicholzheim, Freudental, Kuppenheim and
Flehingen. They are all in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Thank you, Larry Weinberg devoutbokononist@...

Moderator reminder: Jewish communities in most of Baden-Wuerttemberg
are covered at Alemannia Judaica including details and often photos or
videos of Jewish cemeteries and former synagogues. Local residents who
have contributed information to the Alemannia Judaica community pages
are often mentioned. For example:

http://www.sitelevel.com/query?crid=0e4df3f5482f6101&query=Kuppenheim&B1=Suche
http://www.sitelevel.com/query?crid=0e4df3f5482f6101&query=Flehingen&B1=Suche

I am going to Germany at the end of the month. I am visiting several
cities and while I have contacts in some, I was wondering if anyone
had contacts for Grosseicholzheim, Freudental, Kuppenheim and
Flehingen. They are all in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Thank you, Larry Weinberg devoutbokononist@...

Moderator reminder: Jewish communities in most of Baden-Wuerttemberg
are covered at Alemannia Judaica including details and often photos or
videos of Jewish cemeteries and former synagogues. Local residents who
have contributed information to the Alemannia Judaica community pages
are often mentioned. For example:

http://www.sitelevel.com/query?crid=0e4df3f5482f6101&query=Kuppenheim&B1=Suche
http://www.sitelevel.com/query?crid=0e4df3f5482f6101&query=Flehingen&B1=Suche

What is interesting also is that the local post office had a special
stamp made for that purpose, which shows that there must have been a
considerable amount of mail arriving, so much that they needed this
particular stamp "CONCENTRATION CAMP refuses to accept the mail" rather
than the normal wording "Annahme verweigert" (addressee refused to
accept) ...

Fritz Neubauer, normally in North Germany

Daniel Kester wrote:
"I have posted a postcard to Viewmate that GerSiggers might find
interesting. My father was born in Wiesbaden in 1925. After
Kristallnacht he was sent to Sweden via a Kindertransport. His best
friend, Leo Kahn, escaped to Holland. Unfortunately, after the Germans
occupied Holland, Leo was deported to Auschwitz. The postcard I have
posted is one that my father sent >from Sweden to Leo at Auschwitz, to
"Arbeitslager Birkenau." It is marked return to sender: "Konz. Lager
verweigert die Annahme an Abs. zurueck." "

What is interesting also is that the local post office had a special
stamp made for that purpose, which shows that there must have been a
considerable amount of mail arriving, so much that they needed this
particular stamp "CONCENTRATION CAMP refuses to accept the mail" rather
than the normal wording "Annahme verweigert" (addressee refused to
accept) ...

Fritz Neubauer, normally in North Germany

Daniel Kester wrote:
"I have posted a postcard to Viewmate that GerSiggers might find
interesting. My father was born in Wiesbaden in 1925. After
Kristallnacht he was sent to Sweden via a Kindertransport. His best
friend, Leo Kahn, escaped to Holland. Unfortunately, after the Germans
occupied Holland, Leo was deported to Auschwitz. The postcard I have
posted is one that my father sent >from Sweden to Leo at Auschwitz, to
"Arbeitslager Birkenau." It is marked return to sender: "Konz. Lager
verweigert die Annahme an Abs. zurueck." "

Dear Harold:
Welcome!

"Kious, Prussia"--could that be Xions in Posen Province? Also, "Zerkow,
Russia"--same province within Prussia? Don't feel bad about Xions--it
had multiple spellings and far more misspellings.

There were several ZUCKERMANN families in Posen Province. KURZMANN is
tough--hardly anyone by that name in all of Germany, and none in the
Eastern parts that I know of. But that doesn't mean much, given that
many of the records >from that time are no longer in existence.

Good luck!

Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA research coordinator, GerSIG

Harold Kurzman, Naples,FL. hardu@... wrote:
Primary goal is more info on lives

of great great grandparents in Prussia.
Maternal great great grandparents: Zacherias and Rose ZUCKERMAN. Nothing
more. No info on paternal ancestry.

Paternal Grandparents: Samuel [B. 24/11/1862;D. 29/3/1938] and

(Brunette) Bessie KURZMAN, birth name STRAUSS [B.2/3/1872;D. 6/7/1940].
All in NY,NY
Great grandparents: Michael KURZMAN [B.9/4/1834 in Kious, Prussia;D. 25/3/1917
in NY,NY] and Ricka KURZMAN, birth name ZUCKERMAN[B. 4/12/1839 in Zerkow,
russia; D. 23/6/1910 in NY,NY]

Dear Harold:
Welcome!

"Kious, Prussia"--could that be Xions in Posen Province? Also, "Zerkow,
Russia"--same province within Prussia? Don't feel bad about Xions--it
had multiple spellings and far more misspellings.

There were several ZUCKERMANN families in Posen Province. KURZMANN is
tough--hardly anyone by that name in all of Germany, and none in the
Eastern parts that I know of. But that doesn't mean much, given that
many of the records >from that time are no longer in existence.

Good luck!

Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA research coordinator, GerSIG

Harold Kurzman, Naples,FL. hardu@... wrote:
Primary goal is more info on lives

of great great grandparents in Prussia.
Maternal great great grandparents: Zacherias and Rose ZUCKERMAN. Nothing
more. No info on paternal ancestry.

Paternal Grandparents: Samuel [B. 24/11/1862;D. 29/3/1938] and

(Brunette) Bessie KURZMAN, birth name STRAUSS [B.2/3/1872;D. 6/7/1940].
All in NY,NY
Great grandparents: Michael KURZMAN [B.9/4/1834 in Kious, Prussia;D. 25/3/1917
in NY,NY] and Ricka KURZMAN, birth name ZUCKERMAN[B. 4/12/1839 in Zerkow,
russia; D. 23/6/1910 in NY,NY]

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Dear Friends,

As many of you know, the IAJGS recognized the KehilaLinks project
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completed conference in Boston. We are incredibly pleased that the
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But we must also take a moment to formally acknowledge Susana
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It is safe to say that the KehilaLinks project would be
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As anyone who has worked with them knows, they are constantly
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