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Re: Assistance Needed to translate the Hebrew on Family Gravestones #translation

fredelfruhman
 

You can post them on ViewMate and, in your comments, include the link to the precise page on findagrave. 
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Re: Why Did Jews Marry Christians? #general

Larry Gaum
 

Many they just fell in love. Simple as that.
Larry Gaum
Toronto, ON.
Finnish puzzle #poland #lithuania #general

Carolyn Amacher
 

 
Sorry in advance that this is long but I need your help
Here’s a synopsis -
Simo Klimscheffskij was a famous guy in Turku/ leader in international Cycling Federation and Finnish Olympic Committee along with Turku city council. There is a bike race named after him. Leopold Klimscheffskij took him from Vilnius orphanage in trunk of car when he took a steamer back to Finland in 1937 during one of his merchant excursions. Simo was born Dec 23, 1933. 
Background - 
Simo Klimscheffskij’s son Henri, who is a restauranteer in Helsinki, is a pretty close match to me and his dad Simo was likely the grandson of one of my grandfather’s siblings. Yet I thought all of my Zacharowicz great uncles and aunts ( who were all born in Lomza but moved to Warsaw) had come to the US along with my grandfather Israel Fajbe   Zacharowicz- which became Horowitz. But I found out my Great Uncle Meier stayed in the old country along with many of my Great Grandfather’s siblings and there children ( many of whom perished in the Holocaust.)  My great uncle Meier married Gitla Rotszvyld and Gita’s brother Herz married my second cousin Estera Zacharowicz Rotszvld who died at Auschwitz along with most of her family. However - two daughters survived and if either of their children Astrid Jacovy Heller or Robbie Ofir match closely to the Klimscheffskij brothers it’s likely that Simo Klimscheffskij was the son of my lost Uncle Meier and aunt Gita Rotszyld. The only other possibility I can come up with for such a close match to Henri Klimscheffskij is that my Great Grandfather had another child with his third wife he married after my Great Grandmother Cyma Dluzewich Zacharowicz died giving birth to my lost great uncle Szolje Zelman Zacharowicz who died at 2.5 years old in Northern Lithuania which is where his older brother Meier - who was also left without a mother- was posted in the army. I would like to find out what my Great Grandfather Hershbehr Zacharowicz aka Wolf Israelowitz Zacharewicz’ third wife’s name was. She had taken in Baby Zelman and possibly my Uncle Meier while the other Zacharewicz children went to live with other relatives. It appears my Cousin Israel Zacharowicz who was my great grandfathrrs nephew/ son of Lejzor Zacharowicz/helped raise Baby Zelman and Meier and cousin Israel’s daughter Estera Zacharowicz Rotszyld married Herz Rotszyld -brother of my Uncle Meier’s wife Gitla Rotszyld.
 
So I need to find name of my Great Grandfather’s third wife; if they had another kid; or if my lost Uncle Meier Zacharowicz and Aunt Gita Rotszvld Zacharowicz had a child or grandchild named Simon possibly Kagan as records at Turku synagogue indicate a Kagan involved with adoption. 
Any help you could offer is greatly appreciated by me, Henri and his daughter Sabrina, granddaughter of the late Simo Klimscheffskij.
Carolyn Horowitz Amacher 
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“Legacies of European Jewry” -- Recording Now Available #galicia #poland #holocaust

Gesher Galicia SIG
 

If you have missed this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration hosted by the University of Connecticut and co-sponsored by Gesher Galicia, the recording of the program is now available.

To view, please go to: https://youtu.be/6ygR9H-d8fU

To access the review in the Daily Campus, please go to:
https://dailycampus.com/2021/04/07/bridging-the-past-to-the-future-in-the-european-jewish-experience/

Moderator:

Dr. Frederick Roden, Professor of English and Coordinator of the UConn Stamford Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life.

Panelists included:

Dr. Andrew Zalewski, vice president of Gesher Galicia, an organization dedicated to the history of Jewish Galicia, and author of two books on Austrian Galicia.

Ralph Berger, an editor of his parents' writings as members of the Bielski partisans who survived Nazism in the Belarusian forests, the subject of Nechama Tec's book "Defiance" and its film adaptation.

Leora Tec, founder of Bridge to Poland that promotes dialogue between contemporary Poles and American Jews.


Dr. Andrew Zalewski
Gesher Galicia, Vice President
Public Education, subsection
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

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Viewmate Postcard Translation request - Yiddish #translation

Joan Lorber
 

Some lost family has been found and now a postcard that may contain information about my grand uncle Itzhak Migdal Poissen who had quite an interesting and disturbing life.


I've posted a vital record in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93066
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.
Joan Lorber
Maryland
An Index of Jewish Surnames in Alexandria in the 20th Century #general #names #sephardic

Abuwasta Abuwasta
 

Just published it on Avotaynuonline.com  It is a first attempt to index the Jewish surnames in this city.

 Please take your time at go through the of 1,618 surnames which I managed to assemble. It is

certainly not a complete list and is missing some names. If you do not find a surname you know do

notify me. Without your cooperation it will be impossible to complete the index. Thanks

https://avotaynuonline.com/2021/04/index-of-jewish-surnames-in-alexandria-in-the-20th-century/

Jacob Rosen

Jerusalem
The Hessen Gatermann Index reference numbers #germany

Ravelle Scherer
 

When I do a search on Jewishgen for my LEVI and DILLOF(F) names I get hits under the Hessen Gatermann Index, however the links do not appear to be working.  There is a reference number so that one can actually go into the films but I am not sure how to decipher it so I can pick which film I need on the Hessian Vital Records Website.  Can anyone explain how to find the images i need here is the reference: HHStAW 365/177/17/99   

Ravelle Scherer-Schwab
Algonquin, IL
IGRA 2021 webinar series continues April 18 with Tammy Hepps #announcements

Garri Regev
 

You are all invited to join IGRA in our April 18, 2021 webinar hosting Tammy Hepps. The webinar is at 7 pm Israel time. Advance registration is required:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlf-ygqzsoHNRXMjS4Z1NvOVPAw2vkXOqj
 
Tammy's topic is "100 Days to a Better Family History". We invite you to join in this webinar and come away with a plan for your next 100 days of family history activities. You will receive self-assessment tools, learn to prioritize research activities, pace your work, set deadlines and more. 
 
Tammy Hepps is a local historian who focuses on topics within American Jewish history, especially small towns and synagogues. Her projects combine research techniques from genealogy and history and draw heavily upon her technology expertise to break new ground in data gathering and interpretation.
 
Garri Regev
President, IGRA
Re: David Oppenheim / Franziska Frischmann - Transcribe and Translate from Hebrew #translation

Schonfeld.family@...
 

David Oppenheim

David Tsvi called David Hersch called Dawid son of Issachar called Ber called Bernhard.

Franziska Frischmann

Feigale called Franziska called Fanny daughter of Ber  called Bernhard.

Jacob Shayzaf
Re: Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name? #names

Lee Jaffe
 

I've been following the exchange with a lot of interest because it touches the identities of three relatives I'm trying to trace. 

I have two mystery relatives listed in the family tree passed on to me, siblings of my great-grandmother Dora Koshkin, one a sister, Mayna and the other a brother, Munya.  The Koshkins came from Snovsk, Chernigov, Ukraine.  Most of the family emigrated in the early 1900s but, as far as I know, neither Mayna and Munya came to the US.  I have no records or documents of their lives and for awhile wondered if they were actually one person whose name was transcribed incorrectly in the family tree.  I've since found family photos with Munya and Mayna labeled separately.  :-)

I also have a 2x great-grandfather whose name is recorded as Manis on his son's marriage license and מאניש on the same son's gravestone.  The son, my great-grandfather Joseph Schwartz, is listed on a couple of other family trees where it says his father's name was Emanuel.  A number of posts in this thread suggest that Manis is a derivative of Emanuel but I've always assumed that it was the other way around: that Emanuel was a Westernized rendering of whatever Manis stood for, probably Menachem. I don't know where Manis or Joseph came from but my best guess, at the moment, is Ternivka, Ukraine.

Lee

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Lee David Jaffe

Surnames / Towns:  Jaffe / Suchowola, Poland ; Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Bialystok and Rajgrod, Poland ; Joroff (Jaroff, Zarov) / Chernigov, Ukraine ; Koshkin / Snovsk, Ukraine ; Schwartz (Schwarzman?, Schwarzstein?) / ? ;  Rappoport / ? ; Braun / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland,  Ludwinowski / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland

 
Re: Why Did Jews Marry Christians? #general

Lin Mor
 

Yes! In the case of my grandfather's brother, he did not actually embrace another religion. I do not know any of the specifics, but his granddaughter stated that he did the formal conversion for, as she said, business reasons. You are making a good point that it could be a tax reason. Or a political reason. Or a social reason to expand his business, whatever it was. He was married to a Jewish woman and has Jewish descendants. Do not know if his wife converted. No one is around with first-hand knowledge but particular actions can be researched by someone in Russia. I suspect that Jews were taxed at a higher rate or more frequently, paid more to get licenses, etc. I do know the family had several businessmen.

Here is a Rostov-on-Don entry for a business that I believe was of his son: (This may be the son Moshe/Michael who immigrated to Palestine in the 1920's)

Business directory 1910

 

AMCHISLAVSKY M. I.  bed manufacturing, Bolshaya Sadovaya ulitsa 115

From Linda Cohen Morzillo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Re: Help with multipage document for ViewMate #translation #germany #hungary

laurie.budgar@...
 

Thank you, Andrea. These are my great-great-grandparents, so I actually would love a translation of all the details, if you or anyone else is up for it. I'd be happy to pay for your/their time. 

Laurie Budgar
Longmont, CO, USA
Major new Skierniewice records extraction project launched #announcements #poland

Joe Ross
 

Long-time Skierniewice and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all surviving Skierniewice birth, marriage and death records from 1826 to 1917.  To carry out this major initiative, we also have acquired scans (digital images) of all surviving Skierniewice records in the Łódź and Grodzisk Mazowiecki branches of the Polish State Archives.

 

As Town Leader, it would be my pleasure to send you a full description of the project and explain how you will be able to obtain the extracts of your family records as they become available and before they go online.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Joe Ross

Town Leader, Skierniewice Phase 3 extraction project.
Laniado family #names

avi7373@...
 

Hii
Does anyone have details on the Laniado family in Livorno?
Regards
Avi laniado
Re: Luzow? - Poland town name #poland

Steven Granek
 

SOLVED. Thank you.   This turns out to be Ludza (Lutxin in Yiddish) in present day Latvia.  Thank you.

Steven Granek
Information on Article in JewishGen: “Jewish Community in Bacau, Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania and Centrul Pentru (Bacău, Romania)” #romania

Perry Shorris
 

One branch of my family is the Recu family originally from Bacau in Romania.  The article cited in the heading refers to a Simion Recu who fought in the Romanian Independence War in 1877.  Does anyone know if there is someone who worked on or contributed to this article that might be able to tell me where this information regarding Simion Recu was found?  I am hoping that it can lead to information on my family.  The article was originally published in 1995, and I believe the author (I. Kara) is deceased, but there are people mentioned on the cover that include Paul Litman (editor), Harry Green (project coordinator) and Prof. N. Cajal (author of the forward).
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Perry M. Shorris
Re: Was it common for relatives to move far away from their families? #lithuania #ukraine

Michele Lock
 

For my Lithuanian forebears, I have found that about 70-80% lived within the same district for most of their lives, prior to coming to the US. By that, I mean only moving to neighboring towns, not more than about 20 miles away. 

But I have also come across some individuals, either young men or young couples, who had moved quite far away from their home districts, to other places within the Russian Empire. Some I found had moved to a neighboring uyezd, say 30-50 miles away from their home base. In the late 1800s, I found two couples who had moved from northern Lithuania to Riga, Latvia. One of these couples later moved to the US. Another couple moved to the city of Kaunas, prior to moving to the US. I even found one family who moved from northern Lithuania to Revel (now Tallinn) Estonia for several years, prior to coming to the US. So, there were some persons who did move about, and it has been worth it for me to look farther. I have also used results from AncestryDNA to weave together some of these disparate families, based on likely relationships amongst us descendents.
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Michele Lock

Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania; Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania
Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania
Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania
Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland; Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus
Re: Searching for relatives of Harold Goel LERNER and Rosalie (FINE) LERNER #general #names #usa

The Becker's Email
 

Rosalie's obit. in addition to listing children Joseph and Susan lists grandchildren Erik and Jared.  I could not find an obit for Harold.  Suggest you contact the cemetery/funeral home since Harold died more recently (2006) and see if they have a family contact listed w/ address.  You might try Facebook, especially for young people and contact all individuals that match the name until you hopefully find the right one.
Johanna Becker
Newport, RI
Re: Was it common for relatives to move far away from their families? #lithuania #ukraine

Sally Bruckheimer
 

War, pestilence, and famine haven't been mentioned. A cousin of mine who came to the US from Augustow, Suwalki gubernia said, on his naturalization papers (both sets) that he was born in Marseilles. Evidently the parents fled the rebellion, cholera, and famine - then went back to Russia.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ
Re: Dorot Center #names

Laurie Sosna
 

I bookmarked it, it's not available from the main museum site.
https://dbs.anumuseum.org.il/skn/en/c6/BH
Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Click on Jewish Genealogy to search for names.
It's got a big search field at the top, not much in the way of refining the search.

Laurie Sosna
San Francisco, CA
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