Hi. I'm a member of the Local History of Sullivan County, NY group on Facebook, so I put the question to them. The only suggestion that came back was that Ginsburg & Klausner were real estate agents,

Maybe Cewice http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PL/82/Cewice.html David Rosen Boston, MA

Trying to find the siblings of Harry SCHWARTZ (1887 in Zanekhov, Ukraine). May have lived in Mogilev-Podolsky. His parents were Joseph SCHWARTZ (1885-1941) and Belen (Bela) PILDERWEIS SCHWARTZ

My maternal grandfather was Aron Eliyahu Wysoker, but he was born in Wysokie Litovsk in 1891. I've always understood that families never took the surname of the town in which they lived. His father

A fascinating story. I am not an expert in this area but I have to think records from the Red Army at that time were (a) not so good (b) hard to find. and (c) still secret, so I don't like your

I thought i was the only one fighting for the loss of the 6-7.9 cM. i complained the day the notice came out and shared with some others. Many were thankful and a few tried to tell me it was just

Dear Daniela, I have made a small mistake, the date of the decree is 8 October 1946 - not 13. please find below the decree number 51755 x 38 (the last digits stand for 1938) last step is to

Not to beat a dead horse :~), but I have some thoughts on other people's replies .... Pisztráng is indeed Hungarian for "trout". While it is an unrelated language, Hungarian shares quite a bit of

Dear Daniela, a quick look at the "Journal Officiel de la République Française" under Gallica.fr is saying that there is a Naturalisation file (date of the decree 13 october 1946) a recent update

My grand uncle Simon Taganski survived in Paris. Some of my uncles visited him when WWII was over. Would love to know how he survived as well. Iris Folkson

This is most probably place Cewkow (Tsevkuv) in Cieszanow district. There are two entries for this location in JGFF database. This town had 2,700 residents, including 135 Jewish souls registered

Personally I do not find small segments of any use whatsoever, as they go so far back in time that they are unreliable, and give faulty results. It is the 20cm plus which are the key to finding recent

Hello Neilan ! By entering the word with its exact spelling in GOOGLE Translation (do you know? always first to try, doesn't always give the solution), it is identified as being Hungarian (Magyar),

just addition: it may mean not "8th klass...", but "8-years ... college", Sorry, Josef ASH

I’ve also been trying to contact them without success. The email address must have changed. Kathryn Berman LICHTENSTEIN/LIPKIN/ISAACS/BAKER

This (apparently Hungarian) Wikipedia article (for "trout") has the same basic spelling ("pisztrang" -- with an accent mark over the "a") : https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisztráng . Good Luck. Ethan

Neilan, According to google translate, https://translate.google.com pisztráng is hungarian for trout. The Polish word is pstrąg I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia

Hamburg, Germany was a popular harbour Fundatia Tarbut Sighet +40 74 414 5351 www.ftsighet.com

HUNGARIAN David Barrett

You can find all of the information and correct address at LitvakSIG https://www.litvaksig.org/-and-tools/archives-and-repositories/kaunas-regional-state-archives Carol Hoffman