In November 29004, Liora (Lalita) Claff of Australia posted the following
paragraph.

"Just wondering if there's any connection. My great aunt (my father's
aunt) was Fagey PICKLES >from Manchester. When I read Steve Pickholtz's
email I realised that the name Pickles could be an anglicised version of
Pickholtz. Does anyone have any ideas on this?"

Steve and I have spent quite a bit of time and effort checking out the
possibility that this family had changed their name >from Pikholz,
especially since the given names fit a very specific set of missing
brothers. But we now know that this is not who we had hoped it was.

I wanted to share the results of our efforts with Liora and to offer her
a copy of her aunt Fagey's marriage record >from the London Bet Din, but
her email bounces. If someone has contact with Liora (Lalita) Claff, I
would be pleased to hear.

Israel Pickholtz

In November 29004, Liora (Lalita) Claff of Australia posted the following
paragraph.

"Just wondering if there's any connection. My great aunt (my father's
aunt) was Fagey PICKLES >from Manchester. When I read Steve Pickholtz's
email I realised that the name Pickles could be an anglicised version of
Pickholtz. Does anyone have any ideas on this?"

Steve and I have spent quite a bit of time and effort checking out the
possibility that this family had changed their name >from Pikholz,
especially since the given names fit a very specific set of missing
brothers. But we now know that this is not who we had hoped it was.

I wanted to share the results of our efforts with Liora and to offer her
a copy of her aunt Fagey's marriage record >from the London Bet Din, but
her email bounces. If someone has contact with Liora (Lalita) Claff, I
would be pleased to hear.

Israel Pickholtz

My paternal great-grandfather’s brother, Harris (later changed to Henry
Maurice) NEWMAN was born in Dudley, near Birmingham, on 13 October 1848.
He was a cigar merchant, a business in which he seems to have been very
successful, and died in London on 12 November 1900, aged 52.

Henry’s wife’s name was Pauline, and they had at least one child - a son
called Edward, born about 1882, who attended Harrow School, where he was
awarded several prizes. It seems likely, therefore, that he would have
distinguished himself in his subsequent career.

I would be extremely interested to hear >from members of the group who may
know anything about this family.

Many thanks for your help and please respond privately,

Jonathan Newman,
Leeds, England
Primpark@ntlworld.com

My paternal great-grandfather’s brother, Harris (later changed to Henry
Maurice) NEWMAN was born in Dudley, near Birmingham, on 13 October 1848.
He was a cigar merchant, a business in which he seems to have been very
successful, and died in London on 12 November 1900, aged 52.

Henry’s wife’s name was Pauline, and they had at least one child - a son
called Edward, born about 1882, who attended Harrow School, where he was
awarded several prizes. It seems likely, therefore, that he would have
distinguished himself in his subsequent career.

I would be extremely interested to hear >from members of the group who may
know anything about this family.

Many thanks for your help and please respond privately,

Jonathan Newman,
Leeds, England
Primpark@ntlworld.com

This photo was given to me by my late father. It belonged to his
mother and it was taken somewhere in Lithuania -- possibly near the
Shetl of Rakikshok

My late grandmother Annie Epstein (maiden name something like Saturte?) eft
her shetl which I think was Rakikshok, travelled to England where she stayed
until she left to join her husband Max Epstein who worked as a Baker in
Liverpool before he left for Cape Town. She later followed him to
Cape Town, I think in the early 1900's.
I know that she had two brothers who on lived in Liverpool and I am told
that their surname was MASS -- possibly name changed at Immigration to
Mass?
They were Pincus and Shloime Mass!! A son, Cecil Mass, a cousin, once
travelled to South Africa I believe

My Grandfather Max Epstein's, was born in Grodno -- Family legend is
that his actual surname was Fink or Finkelstein but he changed it to
Epstein (perhaps when he got married?)

I am trying to identify the attached picture.- I most probably think it is
relatives of Annie Epstein or even of Max Epstein (Finkelstein's family)

If anyone identifies this photo, I would be most grateful

VM7742
posted: 4/16/2006
Do you recognize?

Maxine Boyd
vmboyd@iafrica.com


Victor and Maxine Boyd
Cape Town

MODERATOR NOTE: The photo is posted at
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=7742

This photo was given to me by my late father. It belonged to his
mother and it was taken somewhere in Lithuania -- possibly near the
Shetl of Rakikshok

My late grandmother Annie Epstein (maiden name something like Saturte?) eft
her shetl which I think was Rakikshok, travelled to England where she stayed
until she left to join her husband Max Epstein who worked as a Baker in
Liverpool before he left for Cape Town. She later followed him to
Cape Town, I think in the early 1900's.
I know that she had two brothers who on lived in Liverpool and I am told
that their surname was MASS -- possibly name changed at Immigration to
Mass?
They were Pincus and Shloime Mass!! A son, Cecil Mass, a cousin, once
travelled to South Africa I believe

My Grandfather Max Epstein's, was born in Grodno -- Family legend is
that his actual surname was Fink or Finkelstein but he changed it to
Epstein (perhaps when he got married?)

I am trying to identify the attached picture.- I most probably think it is
relatives of Annie Epstein or even of Max Epstein (Finkelstein's family)

If anyone identifies this photo, I would be most grateful

VM7742
posted: 4/16/2006
Do you recognize?

Maxine Boyd
vmboyd@iafrica.com


Victor and Maxine Boyd
Cape Town

MODERATOR NOTE: The photo is posted at
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=7742

The accounting department for Wheatmark advices the following for those in
the United Kingdom: Bertrams will be handling the book so you should buy the
book through their distribution network in the U.K. (called "resellers") to
save on shipping costs.

For those in Israel: I am working with Wheatmark to come up with a plan. The
shipping cost plus the exchange rate makes the book VERY expensive. One
possibility is to have the Jewish genealogy societies put in a group order.
Please hold off on ordering for the time being unless you don't mind the
cost.

If those of you in Australia can work with your Jewish genealogy societies
to generate a group order, the shipping price will work out better.

For those in other countries outside of the U.S.: contact Hayley Love at
accounts@wheatmark.com or call 510 798-3306 extension 100. Shipping is
different for each country so the queries are handled individually.

Suzan Wynne

The accounting department for Wheatmark advices the following for those in
the United Kingdom: Bertrams will be handling the book so you should buy the
book through their distribution network in the U.K. (called "resellers") to
save on shipping costs.

For those in Israel: I am working with Wheatmark to come up with a plan. The
shipping cost plus the exchange rate makes the book VERY expensive. One
possibility is to have the Jewish genealogy societies put in a group order.
Please hold off on ordering for the time being unless you don't mind the
cost.

If those of you in Australia can work with your Jewish genealogy societies
to generate a group order, the shipping price will work out better.

For those in other countries outside of the U.S.: contact Hayley Love at
accounts@wheatmark.com or call 510 798-3306 extension 100. Shipping is
different for each country so the queries are handled individually.

Suzan Wynne

Dear JewishGenners,
You may have already heard about "Some Jewish Families of Hesse and
Galicia" by Nathan M. Reiss, but did you know it's now available in the
JewishGenMall?.
Representing 40 years of research, the book includes information on over
9,000 persons, is over 1,100 pages in length and includes hundreds of
photos, maps and diagrams, as well as biographical information about family
members. It also includes extensive historical information on the Jewish
communities of the various ancestral towns, and on the Jews of Germany and
Galicia.
The families in the book >from towns in and near Galicia (now Poland) are:

DYNER, FREYLICH, GOLDBLUM, JAKUBOWICZ, MOSKOWICZ, TOBJASZ, MELLER,
SZLAMOWICZ (Olkusz), and KRIEGER (Oswiecim, Malec, Osiek, Kety) but even
if these are not the surnames you are researching, the
extensive Table of Contents provides an in depth listing of material that
will surely whet the appetite of any genealogist searching family in Galicia.

"Some Jewish Families...." is a large sized hard cover book containing a
treasure trove of information and may possibly provide a connection to your
own research, if not immediately, perhaps in the future. It deserves a
spot on the bookshelf of any researcher interested in Galicia since it
is such an expansive resource. To review the Table of Contents please to
visit
< http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6/id5.html >.

By clicking on the link to Purchase Copies at the top of the Table of
Contents page, you will be taken right to the JewishGenMall banner. Click
on it and you are in the Mall! Enter the title of the book or the Mall
Code NMR101 and click on the yellow search button. The JewishGenMall
introductrory sale price for this extraordinary resource is $80 plus
shipping and handling.
Hope you find this book of value to your research,
Carol
Carol W. Skydell, Vice President
JewishGen Special Projects

Dear JewishGenners,
You may have already heard about "Some Jewish Families of Hesse and
Galicia" by Nathan M. Reiss, but did you know it's now available in the
JewishGenMall?.
Representing 40 years of research, the book includes information on over
9,000 persons, is over 1,100 pages in length and includes hundreds of
photos, maps and diagrams, as well as biographical information about family
members. It also includes extensive historical information on the Jewish
communities of the various ancestral towns, and on the Jews of Germany and
Galicia.
The families in the book >from towns in and near Galicia (now Poland) are:

DYNER, FREYLICH, GOLDBLUM, JAKUBOWICZ, MOSKOWICZ, TOBJASZ, MELLER,
SZLAMOWICZ (Olkusz), and KRIEGER (Oswiecim, Malec, Osiek, Kety) but even
if these are not the surnames you are researching, the
extensive Table of Contents provides an in depth listing of material that
will surely whet the appetite of any genealogist searching family in Galicia.

"Some Jewish Families...." is a large sized hard cover book containing a
treasure trove of information and may possibly provide a connection to your
own research, if not immediately, perhaps in the future. It deserves a
spot on the bookshelf of any researcher interested in Galicia since it
is such an expansive resource. To review the Table of Contents please to
visit
< http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeskyb6/id5.html >.

By clicking on the link to Purchase Copies at the top of the Table of
Contents page, you will be taken right to the JewishGenMall banner. Click
on it and you are in the Mall! Enter the title of the book or the Mall
Code NMR101 and click on the yellow search button. The JewishGenMall
introductrory sale price for this extraordinary resource is $80 plus
shipping and handling.
Hope you find this book of value to your research,
Carol
Carol W. Skydell, Vice President
JewishGen Special Projects

Spring Greetings to all. Time is drawing closer to the 2006 International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy. It will be August 13-18 in New York at the
NY Marriott Marquis. There is still time to include your personal ad in the
Commemorative Banquet Journal. Ads may be anything >from one line to portion
of a page to a full page. If you would like to honor someone, or place an
ad in memory of a person, place, event - the Journal is quite appropriate.
Please email me at
emewenstein@nyc.rr.com with any questions, or for additional information
and costs.

You might also want to visit the conference website at www.jgsny2006.org
where you will find many details about this very exciting conference. I
look forward to hearing >from you.

Edith M. Ewenstein
Chairperson, Banquet Journal
IAJGS Conference, 2006

A number of people have emailed me about not being able to complete an order
with Wheatmark for my new book because the order form does not permit the
entry of non-US addresses. I was not aware of this problem until yesterday
and have contacted the company for clarification. I will do another message
as soon as I know more. If you live outside of the U.S., do not try to
order the book until you see the next message.

Suzan Wynne

Spring Greetings to all. Time is drawing closer to the 2006 International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy. It will be August 13-18 in New York at the
NY Marriott Marquis. There is still time to include your personal ad in the
Commemorative Banquet Journal. Ads may be anything >from one line to portion
of a page to a full page. If you would like to honor someone, or place an
ad in memory of a person, place, event - the Journal is quite appropriate.
Please email me at
emewenstein@nyc.rr.com with any questions, or for additional information
and costs.

You might also want to visit the conference website at www.jgsny2006.org
where you will find many details about this very exciting conference. I
look forward to hearing >from you.

Edith M. Ewenstein
Chairperson, Banquet Journal
IAJGS Conference, 2006

A number of people have emailed me about not being able to complete an order
with Wheatmark for my new book because the order form does not permit the
entry of non-US addresses. I was not aware of this problem until yesterday
and have contacted the company for clarification. I will do another message
as soon as I know more. If you live outside of the U.S., do not try to
order the book until you see the next message.

Suzan Wynne

Dear friends,

If anyone is interested in reading the English
translation of a Belgian document regarding the
collaboration of Antwerp's Police Force in arresting
Jews in 1942, please contact me privately.

Felicia P. Zieff
Chicago

Felicia P. Zieff
Association of Descendants of the Shoah - Illinois, Inc.
http://adsillinois.org
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/zloczew/zloczew.html

Dear friends,

If anyone is interested in reading the English
translation of a Belgian document regarding the
collaboration of Antwerp's Police Force in arresting
Jews in 1942, please contact me privately.

Felicia P. Zieff
Chicago

Felicia P. Zieff
Association of Descendants of the Shoah - Illinois, Inc.
http://adsillinois.org
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/zloczew/zloczew.html

Shalom

We are looking for information about R. Itschak Zeev ERDINAST. He was
the Lutatover Rebbe. His son was R. Moshe Aharon, Rebbe of Zlochov.
His son was R. Chanoch Heinech that was married to Miryam Tsomber.
They lived at Zdonska Volla, Poland

My husband, Arye Michael ARAD ERDINAST, is a grandson of the
ERDINASTs

If anyone knows about this family, we will be happy to get the
information.

Tsila Arad
Beer Sheva, Israel

Shalom

We are looking for information about R. Itschak Zeev ERDINAST. He was
the Lutatover Rebbe. His son was R. Moshe Aharon, Rebbe of Zlochov.
His son was R. Chanoch Heinech that was married to Miryam Tsomber.
They lived at Zdonska Volla, Poland

My husband, Arye Michael ARAD ERDINAST, is a grandson of the
ERDINASTs

If anyone knows about this family, we will be happy to get the
information.

Tsila Arad
Beer Sheva, Israel

Dear Genners,

Can anyone suggest a way of contacting the children of Gertrude BODNICK

from Philadelphia?

Gertrude was born Gertrude BANKOWSKI in Pinsk (around 1914) -- I believe
she passed away in Philadelphia in 1998. My grandfather, Raphael
Bankowski and Gertrude were the only known survivors >from the family. We
had an emotional meeting with Gertrude in Philadelphia in 1975 but did
not meet her children. She had a son named Sheldon and a daughter who
got married. I believe that Sheldon was an engineer and have been told
that he possibly may have moved to New Jersey.

I am trying to piece together details about members of the family who
perished in Pinsk, but would need the help of Gertrude's children.
However I have no idea how to find either one of the children.

If you know the family, or have any suggestions about how to find
Sheldon or his sister, please respond privately.

Thank you in advance.


Darren Dalcher (in London, UK)

--
Dr. Darren Dalcher (d.dalcher@mdx.ac.uk)

Researching: DALCHER/DOLCHER(Zamosc, Tarnogrod), SZTEINWORCEL
(Tomaszow-Lubelski), SZTERN (Krasnystaw), MAJMAN (Szczebrzeszyn),
LEDERMAN (Tarnogrod)
Pinsk: BANKOWSKI, GINZBURG, SHLACKMAN, WASSERMAN

Dear Genners,

Can anyone suggest a way of contacting the children of Gertrude BODNICK

from Philadelphia?

Gertrude was born Gertrude BANKOWSKI in Pinsk (around 1914) -- I believe
she passed away in Philadelphia in 1998. My grandfather, Raphael
Bankowski and Gertrude were the only known survivors >from the family. We
had an emotional meeting with Gertrude in Philadelphia in 1975 but did
not meet her children. She had a son named Sheldon and a daughter who
got married. I believe that Sheldon was an engineer and have been told
that he possibly may have moved to New Jersey.

I am trying to piece together details about members of the family who
perished in Pinsk, but would need the help of Gertrude's children.
However I have no idea how to find either one of the children.

If you know the family, or have any suggestions about how to find
Sheldon or his sister, please respond privately.

Thank you in advance.


Darren Dalcher (in London, UK)

--
Dr. Darren Dalcher (d.dalcher@mdx.ac.uk)

Researching: DALCHER/DOLCHER(Zamosc, Tarnogrod), SZTEINWORCEL
(Tomaszow-Lubelski), SZTERN (Krasnystaw), MAJMAN (Szczebrzeszyn),
LEDERMAN (Tarnogrod)
Pinsk: BANKOWSKI, GINZBURG, SHLACKMAN, WASSERMAN