Jeff Lewy wrote:

"... If anyone can advise me how to locate a researcher working
in the Poznan area who can help unravel some of these
questions, I would be very appreciative.

About four years ago I was in touch with Dr Lukasz Bielecki of Poznan.
At that time he accepted requests for family research.

Write to me privately for full details. With Shana Tova greetings,

Zeev Raphael, Haifa e-mail: zeevra@aerodyne.technion.ac.il

Jeff Lewy wrote:

"... If anyone can advise me how to locate a researcher working
in the Poznan area who can help unravel some of these
questions, I would be very appreciative.

About four years ago I was in touch with Dr Lukasz Bielecki of Poznan.
At that time he accepted requests for family research.

Write to me privately for full details. With Shana Tova greetings,

Zeev Raphael, Haifa e-mail: zeevra@aerodyne.technion.ac.il

<geoff_kaiser@hotmail.com> Melbourne, Australia Wrote:
I have recently come across a website that contains many photographs of
headstones >from the old Jewish Cemetery in Breslau.

Some of you may find it of interest. The web site also has other
information and resources of value eg a searchable version of the 1941
Breslau address book
http://www.breslau-wroclaw.de/de/breslau/history/jfh/
========

There are two beautiful books >from Maciej Lagiewski, the director of the
Breslau museum: "Das Pantheon der Breslauer Juden" (ISBN 3-87584-884-5) and
"Breslauer Juden 1850-1944" (ISBN 83-905227-1-3). The first one has not only
many pictures of the Friedhof Lohestrasse but also short curricula vitae of
the most prominent Jews buried there. The second contains hundreds of
historical pictures relating to the Jewish history of the town. It shows
that the houses in the Jewish quarter, built at the beginning of the 19th
century, did not seem to look very different a hundred years later.

Two other recent publications are very interesting:

- "Microcosm - Portrait of a Central European City" by Norman Davis and
Roger Moorhouse (ISBN 0-224-06243-3, 585 p.) is a portrait of Central
Europe, presented in the form of a case study of Breslau, "one of ist most
colourful cities.

- "Juden und andere Breslauer - die Beziehungen zwisachen, Protestanten und
Katholoken in einer deutschen Grossstadt von 1860 bis 1925" (Jews and other
Breslau people - the relations between Jews, Protestanrs and Catholics in an
German city >from 1860 to 1925) by Till van Rahden (ISBN 3-525-35732-X, 382
p.). It is an extremly detailed study which will be very interesting for all
GerSIG memebers (who understand German). It is a study on the development of
Breslau's social structur. One of the interesting things I learned, was the
fact that, due to the wealthy Jewish middle class, Breslau was one of the
most liberal places in Prussia - until 1918 when the Weimar republic
abolished the three class election system and introduced the one man (or
-also for the first time: one woman) - one vote.

- Finally, there is a reprint of Breslau's town map of 1915 "Reprint
historycznego planu miasta", Wroclaw 2003. The publisher is HBA, 51-124
Wroclaw, ul. Kamienskiego 112/3 (tel. 071-3527321). THe ISBN (83-915118-5-5)
seems to be one number for a series of old town maps, including Wroclaw
1927, 1930, 1936, 1040, 1041.

Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim Tervuren, Belgium
<Hermann.da.Fonseca-Wollheim@telenet.be>

<geoff_kaiser@hotmail.com> Melbourne, Australia Wrote:
I have recently come across a website that contains many photographs of
headstones >from the old Jewish Cemetery in Breslau.

Some of you may find it of interest. The web site also has other
information and resources of value eg a searchable version of the 1941
Breslau address book
http://www.breslau-wroclaw.de/de/breslau/history/jfh/
========

There are two beautiful books >from Maciej Lagiewski, the director of the
Breslau museum: "Das Pantheon der Breslauer Juden" (ISBN 3-87584-884-5) and
"Breslauer Juden 1850-1944" (ISBN 83-905227-1-3). The first one has not only
many pictures of the Friedhof Lohestrasse but also short curricula vitae of
the most prominent Jews buried there. The second contains hundreds of
historical pictures relating to the Jewish history of the town. It shows
that the houses in the Jewish quarter, built at the beginning of the 19th
century, did not seem to look very different a hundred years later.

Two other recent publications are very interesting:

- "Microcosm - Portrait of a Central European City" by Norman Davis and
Roger Moorhouse (ISBN 0-224-06243-3, 585 p.) is a portrait of Central
Europe, presented in the form of a case study of Breslau, "one of ist most
colourful cities.

- "Juden und andere Breslauer - die Beziehungen zwisachen, Protestanten und
Katholoken in einer deutschen Grossstadt von 1860 bis 1925" (Jews and other
Breslau people - the relations between Jews, Protestanrs and Catholics in an
German city >from 1860 to 1925) by Till van Rahden (ISBN 3-525-35732-X, 382
p.). It is an extremly detailed study which will be very interesting for all
GerSIG memebers (who understand German). It is a study on the development of
Breslau's social structur. One of the interesting things I learned, was the
fact that, due to the wealthy Jewish middle class, Breslau was one of the
most liberal places in Prussia - until 1918 when the Weimar republic
abolished the three class election system and introduced the one man (or
-also for the first time: one woman) - one vote.

- Finally, there is a reprint of Breslau's town map of 1915 "Reprint
historycznego planu miasta", Wroclaw 2003. The publisher is HBA, 51-124
Wroclaw, ul. Kamienskiego 112/3 (tel. 071-3527321). THe ISBN (83-915118-5-5)
seems to be one number for a series of old town maps, including Wroclaw
1927, 1930, 1936, 1040, 1041.

Hermann da Fonseca-Wollheim Tervuren, Belgium
<Hermann.da.Fonseca-Wollheim@telenet.be>

I finally have the birth and marriage records I uploaded about 10
days ago posted on viewmate and would truly appreciate
translations >from Polish to English. The records are:
Birth Record for my Great Grandfather Herszlik SADOWSKI >from
Belchatow
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6890

Birth record for Dawid Wolf SADOWSKI >from Belchatow.
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6891

Marriage Record for Chana WIEWIECKA and Moszik Lewek SADOWSKI

from Belchatow

http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6894

Marriage record for Estera Szywa SADOWSKA and Hil WARZAWSKI >from
Belchatow
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6895

Birth record for Kalmen SADOWSKI >from Belchatow
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6896

Please respond to me privately at hjb @ cogeco.ca (remove the
spaces). I am very appreciative of all the translation help I've
received.

Hazel Sandow Boon
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Researching: HABER - Konyushki & Zurów, Galicia (now Zhuriv,
Ukraine), NYC;
STARK - Bóbrka, Galicia (now Ukraine), NYC; BELY - Rzeszów,
Poland
SADOVSKI/SADOWSKY - Belchatów & Lodz, Poland, NYC;
KANET/KANNETT/KANNATT - Czyzewo, Poland, NYC

I finally have the birth and marriage records I uploaded about 10
days ago posted on viewmate and would truly appreciate
translations >from Polish to English. The records are:
Birth Record for my Great Grandfather Herszlik SADOWSKI >from
Belchatow
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6890

Birth record for Dawid Wolf SADOWSKI >from Belchatow.
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6891

Marriage Record for Chana WIEWIECKA and Moszik Lewek SADOWSKI

from Belchatow

http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6894

Marriage record for Estera Szywa SADOWSKA and Hil WARZAWSKI >from
Belchatow
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6895

Birth record for Kalmen SADOWSKI >from Belchatow
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6896

Please respond to me privately at hjb @ cogeco.ca (remove the
spaces). I am very appreciative of all the translation help I've
received.

Hazel Sandow Boon
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Researching: HABER - Konyushki & Zurów, Galicia (now Zhuriv,
Ukraine), NYC;
STARK - Bóbrka, Galicia (now Ukraine), NYC; BELY - Rzeszów,
Poland
SADOVSKI/SADOWSKY - Belchatów & Lodz, Poland, NYC;
KANET/KANNETT/KANNATT - Czyzewo, Poland, NYC

The August and September 2005 reports for the Yizkor Book Project
have been combined. As you all know, our servers were down as a
result of Hurricane Rita, a situation which naturally affected our
ability to receive and work on new translations during the end of
September.

All translations can be accessed through the alphabetical listings at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New translations
are flagged for a month to make it easy for you to identify them.
However, we have flagged both August and September additions this
time.

August 2005

We posted translations >from two new books and two new entries and 13
updates during August 2005.

New books:

-Monasterzyska, Ukraine
-Sadagora, Ukraine

New entries:

-Iasi, Romania: Pinkas HaKehillot Romania
-Ryki, Poland: Pinkas HaKehillot (translation >from English into Polish)

Updates:

-Bedzin, Poland
-Belchatow, Poland
-Brest, Belarus
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Derechin, Belarus
-Dov Levin CV updated
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: historical chapters
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Shumskoye, Ukraine
-Sokoly, Poland

September 2005

We posted 11 updates during September 2005

-Belchatow, Poland
-Chelm, Poland
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: a significant portion of the history of Minsk has
been translated
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Nowy Sacz, Poland
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Zloczew, Poland

We are looking for additional English translations of yizkor books to
put online. If you are interested in coordinating a translation
project, please contact me privately. You will join a distinguished
group of coordinators who have contributed to the Yizkor Book Project
and you will make these precious books available to researchers
worldwide who are not able to read these books in their original
languages.

Please also consider making a donation to the yizkor book translation
projects listed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23.
Your contribution will help pay for the translation of these books,
making their information available to all researchers.

Our sincere wishes to all for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
Shana Tova.

Joyce Field
Yizkor Book Project Manager
jfield@jewishgen.org

The August and September 2005 reports for the Yizkor Book Project
have been combined. As you all know, our servers were down as a
result of Hurricane Rita, a situation which naturally affected our
ability to receive and work on new translations during the end of
September.

All translations can be accessed through the alphabetical listings at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New translations
are flagged for a month to make it easy for you to identify them.
However, we have flagged both August and September additions this
time.

August 2005

We posted translations >from two new books and two new entries and 13
updates during August 2005.

New books:

-Monasterzyska, Ukraine
-Sadagora, Ukraine

New entries:

-Iasi, Romania: Pinkas HaKehillot Romania
-Ryki, Poland: Pinkas HaKehillot (translation >from English into Polish)

Updates:

-Bedzin, Poland
-Belchatow, Poland
-Brest, Belarus
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Derechin, Belarus
-Dov Levin CV updated
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: historical chapters
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Shumskoye, Ukraine
-Sokoly, Poland

September 2005

We posted 11 updates during September 2005

-Belchatow, Poland
-Chelm, Poland
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: a significant portion of the history of Minsk has
been translated
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Nowy Sacz, Poland
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Zloczew, Poland

We are looking for additional English translations of yizkor books to
put online. If you are interested in coordinating a translation
project, please contact me privately. You will join a distinguished
group of coordinators who have contributed to the Yizkor Book Project
and you will make these precious books available to researchers
worldwide who are not able to read these books in their original
languages.

Please also consider making a donation to the yizkor book translation
projects listed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23.
Your contribution will help pay for the translation of these books,
making their information available to all researchers.

Our sincere wishes to all for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
Shana Tova.

Joyce Field
Yizkor Book Project Manager
jfield@jewishgen.org

The August and September 2005 reports for the Yizkor Book Project
have been combined. As you all know, our servers were down as a
result of Hurricane Rita, a situation which naturally affected our
ability to receive and work on new translations during the end of
September.

All translations can be accessed through the alphabetical listings at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New translations
are flagged for a month to make it easy for you to identify them.
However, we have flagged both August and September additions this
time.

August 2005

We posted translations >from two new books and two new entries and 13
updates during August 2005.

New books:

-Monasterzyska, Ukraine
-Sadagora, Ukraine

New entries:

-Iasi, Romania: Pinkas HaKehillot Romania
-Ryki, Poland: Pinkas HaKehillot (translation >from English into Polish)

Updates:

-Bedzin, Poland
-Belchatow, Poland
-Brest, Belarus
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Derechin, Belarus
-Dov Levin CV updated
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: historical chapters
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Shumskoye, Ukraine
-Sokoly, Poland

September 2005

We posted 11 updates during September 2005

-Belchatow, Poland
-Chelm, Poland
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: a significant portion of the history of Minsk has
been translated
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Nowy Sacz, Poland
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Zloczew, Poland

We are looking for additional English translations of yizkor books to
put online. If you are interested in coordinating a translation
project, please contact me privately. You will join a distinguished
group of coordinators who have contributed to the Yizkor Book Project
and you will make these precious books available to researchers
worldwide who are not able to read these books in their original
languages.

Please also consider making a donation to the yizkor book translation
projects listed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23.
Your contribution will help pay for the translation of these books,
making their information available to all researchers.

Our sincere wishes to all for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
Shana Tova.

Joyce Field
Yizkor Book Project Manager
jfield@jewishgen.org

The August and September 2005 reports for the Yizkor Book Project
have been combined. As you all know, our servers were down as a
result of Hurricane Rita, a situation which naturally affected our
ability to receive and work on new translations during the end of
September.

All translations can be accessed through the alphabetical listings at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New translations
are flagged for a month to make it easy for you to identify them.
However, we have flagged both August and September additions this
time.

August 2005

We posted translations >from two new books and two new entries and 13
updates during August 2005.

New books:

-Monasterzyska, Ukraine
-Sadagora, Ukraine

New entries:

-Iasi, Romania: Pinkas HaKehillot Romania
-Ryki, Poland: Pinkas HaKehillot (translation >from English into Polish)

Updates:

-Bedzin, Poland
-Belchatow, Poland
-Brest, Belarus
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Derechin, Belarus
-Dov Levin CV updated
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: historical chapters
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Shumskoye, Ukraine
-Sokoly, Poland

September 2005

We posted 11 updates during September 2005

-Belchatow, Poland
-Chelm, Poland
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: a significant portion of the history of Minsk has
been translated
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Nowy Sacz, Poland
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Zloczew, Poland

We are looking for additional English translations of yizkor books to
put online. If you are interested in coordinating a translation
project, please contact me privately. You will join a distinguished
group of coordinators who have contributed to the Yizkor Book Project
and you will make these precious books available to researchers
worldwide who are not able to read these books in their original
languages.

Please also consider making a donation to the yizkor book translation
projects listed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23.
Your contribution will help pay for the translation of these books,
making their information available to all researchers.

Our sincere wishes to all for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
Shana Tova.

Joyce Field
Yizkor Book Project Manager
jfield@jewishgen.org

Dear Genners:

I would appreciate if someone can look at the 1872 birth record >from Dabie,
Poland. It's >from a LDS microfilm and I think it is for my grandfather, Wolf
Rozental. The translation needed is >from Russian to English.

The ViewMate file is VM 6887, at
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html

The direct link is:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6887

A larger copy of the birth record can be emailed if the ViewMate file isn't
clear enough.

Details in the record are most important: names of parents, exact birth date
and any other facts and details in the record.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Please reply privately to: nicki@onthegopublishing.com.

As the New Year approaches, I wish it be sweet, healthy and full of
information and answers to your research.

Thank you.

Nicki Chodnoff
Columbus, Ohio
researching ROZENTAL >from Dabie, Lodz and Bialystock; ORCHAN >from Lodz,
Dabie and Poddebiece; and PARZENCZEWSKA(SKI) >from Lodz and Ozorkow.

Dear Genners:

I would appreciate if someone can look at the 1872 birth record >from Dabie,
Poland. It's >from a LDS microfilm and I think it is for my grandfather, Wolf
Rozental. The translation needed is >from Russian to English.

The ViewMate file is VM 6887, at
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html

The direct link is:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6887

A larger copy of the birth record can be emailed if the ViewMate file isn't
clear enough.

Details in the record are most important: names of parents, exact birth date
and any other facts and details in the record.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Please reply privately to: nicki@onthegopublishing.com.

As the New Year approaches, I wish it be sweet, healthy and full of
information and answers to your research.

Thank you.

Nicki Chodnoff
Columbus, Ohio
researching ROZENTAL >from Dabie, Lodz and Bialystock; ORCHAN >from Lodz,
Dabie and Poddebiece; and PARZENCZEWSKA(SKI) >from Lodz and Ozorkow.

The August and September 2005 reports for the Yizkor Book Project
have been combined. As you all know, our servers were down as a
result of Hurricane Rita, a situation which naturally affected our
ability to receive and work on new translations during the end of
September.

All translations can be accessed through the alphabetical listings at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html . New translations
are flagged for a month to make it easy for you to identify them.
However, we have flagged both August and September additions this
time.

August 2005

We posted translations >from two new books and two new entries and 13
updates during August 2005.

New books:

-Monasterzyska, Ukraine
-Sadagora, Ukraine

New entries:

-Iasi, Romania: Pinkas HaKehillot Romania
-Ryki, Poland: Pinkas HaKehillot (translation >from English into Polish)

Updates:

-Bedzin, Poland
-Belchatow, Poland
-Brest, Belarus
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Derechin, Belarus
-Dov Levin CV updated
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: historical chapters
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Shumskoye, Ukraine
-Sokoly, Poland

September 2005

We posted 11 updates during September 2005

-Belchatow, Poland
-Chelm, Poland
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: a significant portion of the history of Minsk has
been translated
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Nowy Sacz, Poland
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Zloczew, Poland

We are looking for additional English translations of yizkor books to
put online. If you are interested in coordinating a translation
project, please contact me privately. You will join a distinguished
group of coordinators who have contributed to the Yizkor Book Project
and you will make these precious books available to researchers
worldwide who are not able to read these books in their original
languages.

Please also consider making a donation to the yizkor book translation
projects listed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23 .
Your contribution will help pay for the translation of these books,
making their information available to all researchers.

Our sincere wishes to all for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
Shana Tova.

Joyce Field
Yizkor Book Project Manager
jfield@jewishgen.org

The August and September 2005 reports for the Yizkor Book Project
have been combined. As you all know, our servers were down as a
result of Hurricane Rita, a situation which naturally affected our
ability to receive and work on new translations during the end of
September.

All translations can be accessed through the alphabetical listings at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html . New translations
are flagged for a month to make it easy for you to identify them.
However, we have flagged both August and September additions this
time.

August 2005

We posted translations >from two new books and two new entries and 13
updates during August 2005.

New books:

-Monasterzyska, Ukraine
-Sadagora, Ukraine

New entries:

-Iasi, Romania: Pinkas HaKehillot Romania
-Ryki, Poland: Pinkas HaKehillot (translation >from English into Polish)

Updates:

-Bedzin, Poland
-Belchatow, Poland
-Brest, Belarus
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Derechin, Belarus
-Dov Levin CV updated
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: historical chapters
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Shumskoye, Ukraine
-Sokoly, Poland

September 2005

We posted 11 updates during September 2005

-Belchatow, Poland
-Chelm, Poland
-Czyzew, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Dembitz, Poland (additional translations >from English to Polish)
-Gorodets, Belarus
-Minsk, Belarus: a significant portion of the history of Minsk has
been translated
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Nowy Sacz, Poland
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Zloczew, Poland

We are looking for additional English translations of yizkor books to
put online. If you are interested in coordinating a translation
project, please contact me privately. You will join a distinguished
group of coordinators who have contributed to the Yizkor Book Project
and you will make these precious books available to researchers
worldwide who are not able to read these books in their original
languages.

Please also consider making a donation to the yizkor book translation
projects listed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23 .
Your contribution will help pay for the translation of these books,
making their information available to all researchers.

Our sincere wishes to all for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
Shana Tova.

Joyce Field
Yizkor Book Project Manager
jfield@jewishgen.org

Hello To All

I am so excited to report that I have finally recieved two long awaited
vital records on the RAKOFF side of my family. I finally have the
original marriage record of my maternal great-grandparents. The other
is the death record of my maternal great-great-uncle(brother to my
great-grandfather). According to the marriage record my
great-grandparents David Rakoff & Anna Mendelson were married in
Brooklyn, New York 12/18/1921. They both lived on myrtle avenue at the
time of their marriage David at 932 and Anna at 860.

Their parents names are listed as Moses/Morris & Bertha/Bernice Levine
for David, for Anna its Max/Morris & Rebecca Katz. I would love to find
out more about their parents. I do not know if their parents ever made
it to america. According to petition papers I already have, my
great-grandfather entered the united states >from canada in 1907 but did
not come to new york until 1917. My great-grandmother came to america
in 1911 and was under her original name Elke/Elka. He was >from Minsk
and she was >from Mogilov.

By getting the marriage record I was also trying to either prove or
debunk the story that my great-grandmother had other kids before my
grandmother was born in 1922 in Brooklyn. According to the marriage
record they were both single. But that's not really proof enough. My
great-grandfather was 35 and Anna was 31 even though she put that she
was 25. Apparently my great-grandmother never wanted to grow old for on
every record she fudged her age.

So either one of them could have been married before, and it is quite
possible that she did have kids that died very young,but I would assume
if that was the case it would have listed them both as being widowed.
Also I have my grandmothers birth certificate, and it does not mention
any other previous births. So I do not know if I should believe the
story thats been passed down >from my grandmother to my mother and now
me.

The death record is of David's brother Isidore Rakoff who died on
6/13/1938 in Manhattan at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was only 50 at the
time. He lived in Brooklyn and operated a women's clothing shop.
According to the record he is widowed >from wife Bernice Wolfson. The
story that goes with him, is that he left his kids back in russia when
coming to the states. The wife I believe died in russia. He had Four
kids, Sonia, Samuel, Ben,Helen. He came to the states about 1916-17,
and apparently had married again.

Isidore did not send for his kids right away. I believe my
great-grandfather had to convince him to send for them at least thats
the story I was told. His kids did not come to the states until
1925-26. Some of the kids wound up living with my great-grandparents
because by that time the new wife did not want to be bothered by them.
Also Isidore is supposed to have had other kids with the new wife, but
I have found no mention of this. The son Ben is listed as next of kin
and informant on the death record, but no surving wife mentioned.

So, If anyone has information on these two families I would appreciate
hearing >from you. All help and advice is welcome. I have yet to find
either of my great-grandparents or the brother on a 1920 census for new
york.

Sarah Greenberg
sacredsisters3@aol.com

Hello To All

I am so excited to report that I have finally recieved two long awaited
vital records on the RAKOFF side of my family. I finally have the
original marriage record of my maternal great-grandparents. The other
is the death record of my maternal great-great-uncle(brother to my
great-grandfather). According to the marriage record my
great-grandparents David Rakoff & Anna Mendelson were married in
Brooklyn, New York 12/18/1921. They both lived on myrtle avenue at the
time of their marriage David at 932 and Anna at 860.

Their parents names are listed as Moses/Morris & Bertha/Bernice Levine
for David, for Anna its Max/Morris & Rebecca Katz. I would love to find
out more about their parents. I do not know if their parents ever made
it to america. According to petition papers I already have, my
great-grandfather entered the united states >from canada in 1907 but did
not come to new york until 1917. My great-grandmother came to america
in 1911 and was under her original name Elke/Elka. He was >from Minsk
and she was >from Mogilov.

By getting the marriage record I was also trying to either prove or
debunk the story that my great-grandmother had other kids before my
grandmother was born in 1922 in Brooklyn. According to the marriage
record they were both single. But that's not really proof enough. My
great-grandfather was 35 and Anna was 31 even though she put that she
was 25. Apparently my great-grandmother never wanted to grow old for on
every record she fudged her age.

So either one of them could have been married before, and it is quite
possible that she did have kids that died very young,but I would assume
if that was the case it would have listed them both as being widowed.
Also I have my grandmothers birth certificate, and it does not mention
any other previous births. So I do not know if I should believe the
story thats been passed down >from my grandmother to my mother and now
me.

The death record is of David's brother Isidore Rakoff who died on
6/13/1938 in Manhattan at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He was only 50 at the
time. He lived in Brooklyn and operated a women's clothing shop.
According to the record he is widowed >from wife Bernice Wolfson. The
story that goes with him, is that he left his kids back in russia when
coming to the states. The wife I believe died in russia. He had Four
kids, Sonia, Samuel, Ben,Helen. He came to the states about 1916-17,
and apparently had married again.

Isidore did not send for his kids right away. I believe my
great-grandfather had to convince him to send for them at least thats
the story I was told. His kids did not come to the states until
1925-26. Some of the kids wound up living with my great-grandparents
because by that time the new wife did not want to be bothered by them.
Also Isidore is supposed to have had other kids with the new wife, but
I have found no mention of this. The son Ben is listed as next of kin
and informant on the death record, but no surving wife mentioned.

So, If anyone has information on these two families I would appreciate
hearing >from you. All help and advice is welcome. I have yet to find
either of my great-grandparents or the brother on a 1920 census for new
york.

Sarah Greenberg
sacredsisters3@aol.com

Hi!
My name is Yael Parish.
I am a filmmaker and I live in Zurich, Switzerland.
I am working on a project about my mother:

Ida (Dusa) FRIED, born 1932 in Strij, Poland, today Ukraine.
Her name today is Judith PARISH. She was in a bunker in Strij,
a small town not far >from Lemberg (Lvov). Her girl-friend was
Renata BRAUNSTEIN, I suppose about the same age and she was with her
in the bunker. Her father was a forest ranger!
My mother thinks, that Renata Braunstein survived and leaves in the U.S.

And there was also a boy. His name was Itzchak ROTHSTEIN.
Unfortunately I don't know anything else about him.

Can anyone help me in finding them or their relatives?

Please!!!!!

Or can someone give me an advice where else to look for them?

Thank you so much.

Yael Parish
Zurich
yaelparish@bluewin.ch

Hi!
My name is Yael Parish.
I am a filmmaker and I live in Zurich, Switzerland.
I am working on a project about my mother:

Ida (Dusa) FRIED, born 1932 in Strij, Poland, today Ukraine.
Her name today is Judith PARISH. She was in a bunker in Strij,
a small town not far >from Lemberg (Lvov). Her girl-friend was
Renata BRAUNSTEIN, I suppose about the same age and she was with her
in the bunker. Her father was a forest ranger!
My mother thinks, that Renata Braunstein survived and leaves in the U.S.

And there was also a boy. His name was Itzchak ROTHSTEIN.
Unfortunately I don't know anything else about him.

Can anyone help me in finding them or their relatives?

Please!!!!!

Or can someone give me an advice where else to look for them?

Thank you so much.

Yael Parish
Zurich
yaelparish@bluewin.ch

If you are connected to Eliasz FORSTER >from Radomsko, Poland (second half of
the 19th century) please contact me.

Thank you,

Shana Tova & shalom

Ada Holtzman
www.zchor.org

If you are connected to Eliasz FORSTER >from Radomsko, Poland (second half of
the 19th century) please contact me.

Thank you,

Shana Tova & shalom

Ada Holtzman
www.zchor.org