Hi Genners,
In looking for a relative who came through Ellis Island, I found
entries for a Moses Rosenmann age 14, and a Moche Rosenmann age
11, travelling together on the same ship on the same date. The
handwritten manifest, of course, is terribly incomplete, so no info
is available there. The text manifest is completely missing >from
the internet site. Here's my question. Could these two boys be
one and the same because they have the same Hebrew name? The
alternate explanation is that they were cousins.

Has anyone found two entries, for the same relative, on the same
ship, with two different ages, and slightly different given names?
Any help is appreciated.

Shana Tova.

Haviva Dolgin Langenauer
So. Florida

Dear Fellow Genealogists:
I would like to know if archival info exists >from 1932 regarding
the charity burial society called Gomel Chesed Shel Emes in Chicago.
A Piser representative told that limited info is available for an
individual that I am researching, specifically, name and date of
passing. It is my hope that more detailed archived info has been
preserved, because perhaps the Rabbi who conducted the service was
able to obtain and record info supplied by the family.
Your feedback will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Janice Goldman
jg2333@msn.com
Chicago, IL USA

Hello everyone,

My mother and her brothers attended a little old synagogue in
Denver, Colorado >from about the early 1920's, called the "Matsiev"
Synagogue. My uncle looked for it several years ago but could not
find it. He describes it as the old kind of synagogue, where the
men would doven, but with none of the trappings of more modern
communities, such as choirs, etc. Does anyone have any information
on this synagogue, or, more specifically, any records it might hold?

Thank you very much,

Karen Jo Rippens
krippens@earthlink.net

researching:
Handler/Gendler and Fogel, >from Lukov (Matsiev, Maczv, Matzew, Maciew)
Gub. Wolin/Volhynia Ukraine, to Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, USA
Chankes, >from Bulbul to Matsiev, etc.
Zerobnick/Rubin, >from Ostrow-Lubelski to New York, to Ogden, Utah, USA
Muit/Mudd, >from Ostrow Lubelski to New York, Ogden, Utah, USA

Dear Fellow Genealogists:

Do you know of anyone whose ancestor may have been a POW in Stalag
2B in Hammerstein, Germany in WWII? Texas Ranger in the 36th Infantry
Division?

I have heard that many of the people in this particular Stalag were
Serbians and Czechs, as well as several thousand American soldiers.

Also, I am seeking to make contact with WWII Jewish American POW's,
or their families, and hopefully, people that were captured during
the Battle of Cassino, Italy. Perhaps a family member will have info,
too.

I made contat with one such person, and have a list of names kept in
a War Log for an area of Stalag 2B for the 34th Division. If you are
intersted, please conatct me with a name you would like me to check
for you.

Thank you.
Janice Goldman
jg2333@msn.com
Chicago, IL USA

GOLDMAN/GOLDENBERG/KLEIN/MARCOVICI

Dear Fellow Genners:
If you, or someone you know has a WWII War Log, would you please
let me know if a list of fellow soldiers exists within its pages?
I would like to know if a specific name is listed. Please contact
me personally.
Thank you very much.
Shana Tovah.
Janice Goldman
jg2333@msn.com
Chicago, IL USA

Hi Genners,
In looking for a relative who came through Ellis Island, I found
entries for a Moses Rosenmann age 14, and a Moche Rosenmann age
11, travelling together on the same ship on the same date. The
handwritten manifest, of course, is terribly incomplete, so no info
is available there. The text manifest is completely missing >from
the internet site. Here's my question. Could these two boys be
one and the same because they have the same Hebrew name? The
alternate explanation is that they were cousins.

Has anyone found two entries, for the same relative, on the same
ship, with two different ages, and slightly different given names?
Any help is appreciated.

Shana Tova.

Haviva Dolgin Langenauer
So. Florida

Dear Fellow Genealogists:
I would like to know if archival info exists >from 1932 regarding
the charity burial society called Gomel Chesed Shel Emes in Chicago.
A Piser representative told that limited info is available for an
individual that I am researching, specifically, name and date of
passing. It is my hope that more detailed archived info has been
preserved, because perhaps the Rabbi who conducted the service was
able to obtain and record info supplied by the family.
Your feedback will be appreciated.
Thank you.
Janice Goldman
jg2333@msn.com
Chicago, IL USA

Hello everyone,

My mother and her brothers attended a little old synagogue in
Denver, Colorado >from about the early 1920's, called the "Matsiev"
Synagogue. My uncle looked for it several years ago but could not
find it. He describes it as the old kind of synagogue, where the
men would doven, but with none of the trappings of more modern
communities, such as choirs, etc. Does anyone have any information
on this synagogue, or, more specifically, any records it might hold?

Thank you very much,

Karen Jo Rippens
krippens@earthlink.net

researching:
Handler/Gendler and Fogel, >from Lukov (Matsiev, Maczv, Matzew, Maciew)
Gub. Wolin/Volhynia Ukraine, to Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, USA
Chankes, >from Bulbul to Matsiev, etc.
Zerobnick/Rubin, >from Ostrow-Lubelski to New York, to Ogden, Utah, USA
Muit/Mudd, >from Ostrow Lubelski to New York, Ogden, Utah, USA

Dear Fellow Genealogists:

Do you know of anyone whose ancestor may have been a POW in Stalag
2B in Hammerstein, Germany in WWII? Texas Ranger in the 36th Infantry
Division?

I have heard that many of the people in this particular Stalag were
Serbians and Czechs, as well as several thousand American soldiers.

Also, I am seeking to make contact with WWII Jewish American POW's,
or their families, and hopefully, people that were captured during
the Battle of Cassino, Italy. Perhaps a family member will have info,
too.

I made contat with one such person, and have a list of names kept in
a War Log for an area of Stalag 2B for the 34th Division. If you are
intersted, please conatct me with a name you would like me to check
for you.

Thank you.
Janice Goldman
jg2333@msn.com
Chicago, IL USA

GOLDMAN/GOLDENBERG/KLEIN/MARCOVICI

Dear Fellow Genners:
If you, or someone you know has a WWII War Log, would you please
let me know if a list of fellow soldiers exists within its pages?
I would like to know if a specific name is listed. Please contact
me personally.
Thank you very much.
Shana Tovah.
Janice Goldman
jg2333@msn.com
Chicago, IL USA

I wonder if anyone can advise me how to find out more about my ancestors
Samuel Solomon, born about 1770, i dont know where, and Betsy Moses, i dont
know where or when. The information i have is that they married in London:

Samuel Solomon
(Hebrew: Shemayab, son of Moshe Fidshil Faya)
married
Betsy Moses
(Hebrew: Beyla, daughter of Shalom Milik Mal)
on the 30th October 1793, at the Great Synagogue, London
The officiant was Moses Myers, Rabbi of the New Synagogue
and acting Chief Rabbi at the time. The Witnesses were: ltzik, Reader and
Itzik. Second Reader (sic).

Samuel was trading in Spitalsfield, London, as a pencil maker, two of his
sons were sent to NSW in 1817, and he followed them out. This information
regarding the marriage came >from the Synagogue, via another family member. I
am a novice in this area, and am trying to find out about these ancestors.
If he was married in the New Synagogue at that time, would they be SEphardic
or Ashkenazi? I understand Jewish people in London at this time were often

from Holland, Spain or Portugal, where would this family have come >from and

how do i trace their birth?

any advice welcome
regards

Diane Westerhuis
Townsville 4810
dwesterhuis@ozemail.com.au

I wonder if anyone can advise me how to find out more about my ancestors
Samuel Solomon, born about 1770, i dont know where, and Betsy Moses, i dont
know where or when. The information i have is that they married in London:

Samuel Solomon
(Hebrew: Shemayab, son of Moshe Fidshil Faya)
married
Betsy Moses
(Hebrew: Beyla, daughter of Shalom Milik Mal)
on the 30th October 1793, at the Great Synagogue, London
The officiant was Moses Myers, Rabbi of the New Synagogue
and acting Chief Rabbi at the time. The Witnesses were: ltzik, Reader and
Itzik. Second Reader (sic).

Samuel was trading in Spitalsfield, London, as a pencil maker, two of his
sons were sent to NSW in 1817, and he followed them out. This information
regarding the marriage came >from the Synagogue, via another family member. I
am a novice in this area, and am trying to find out about these ancestors.
If he was married in the New Synagogue at that time, would they be SEphardic
or Ashkenazi? I understand Jewish people in London at this time were often

from Holland, Spain or Portugal, where would this family have come >from and

how do i trace their birth?

any advice welcome
regards

Diane Westerhuis
Townsville 4810
dwesterhuis@ozemail.com.au

An exciting symposium on Lithuania and the Jews,
a 3-part historical series co-sponsored by YIVO and the
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, is set for three evenings
this fall.

The first and third sessions will take place at the Center
for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York. The second
session is slated at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. All programs are free but if you are
interested you should make reservations quickly at the phone
numbers indicated below.

If you have any questions about the program, please contact
YIVO or the Holocaust Museum.

Judy Baston

Tuesday 10/1 7:00-11:00 pm
The Intellectual Contributions of Lithuanian Jewry from
the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century


"Haskalah in Vilnius"
Immanuel Etkes, Bella and Israel Unterberg Professor
of Jewish Social and Educational History, Institute of Contemporary
Jewry,Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

"The Gaon of Vilna"
Jay Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish
Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Jewish Intellectual, Religious, and Cultural Life in the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania"
Andrzej Kaminski, Professor of History, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C.

"Mishna and Potatoes: The Essence of Litvak Culture"
Allan Nadler, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies,
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, and Senior
Advisor on Academic Affairs, Max Weinreich Center for
Advanced Jewish Study, YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research

Moderator: Gershon Hundert, Leanor Segal Professor
and Chair of Jewish Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada,
and editor-in-chief, Jews in Eastern Europe: The YIVO Encyclopedia

RESERVATIONS FOR ALL EVENTS ARE REQUIRED.
Space is limited. Please call the Center for Jewish History Box
Office at 917.606.8200 to reserve a place at this free event.


Monday 10/28 4:30-6:30 pm

Lithuania and the Holocaust

NOTE: Takes place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. Call 202.488.6162 to reserve a place. For more information, visit the Museum's web site at www.ushmm.org)

"Lithuanian Collaboration in the 'Final Solution'"
Michael MacQueen, Chief of Investigative Research,
Office of Special Investigations, United States Department
of Justice, Washington, D.C.

"The German 'Final Solution' in Lithuania"
Jurgen Matthaus, Ph.D., Ruhr-Universitat Bochum,
Germany, 1994-95 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow,
and Program Officer, International Archival Program
Division - Berlin Office, Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"Jewish Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto"
David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor
in Yiddish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, New York, New York, co-founder and editor of
Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, and
editor-in-chief, Library of Yiddish Classics

Moderator: Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies


Wednesday November 13 7:00-11:00 pm
Jewish Life Under Soviet-Occupied Lithuania and Today

"Holocaust Studies and Yiddish Studies in Present-Day
Vilnius" Dovid Katz, Professor of Yiddish Language,
Literature, and Culture, Vilnius Yiddish Institute,
Vilnius University, Lithuania

"The Influence of Yeshiva Culture on Modernism"
Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair of Judaic Studies,
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania

"The Lithuanian-Jewish Diaspora: South Africa as a
Case Study" Joseph Sherman, Woolf Corob Fellow in Yiddish,
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton,
United Kingdom

"The Work of the International Commission for the
Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet
Occupation Regimes in Lithuania" Saulius Suziedelis,
Professor of History, Millersville University of
Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania

Respondent: Alfonsas Eidentas, former Lithuanian
Ambassador to Israel and 2001 Flight and Rescue Fellow,
Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum

Moderator: Samuel Kassow, Dana Research Professor of
History, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Space is limited. Please call the Center for Jewish History
Box Office at 917.606.8200 to reserve a place at this free
event.

An exciting symposium on Lithuania and the Jews,
a 3-part historical series co-sponsored by YIVO and the
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, is set for three evenings
this fall.

The first and third sessions will take place at the Center
for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York. The second
session is slated at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. All programs are free but if you are
interested you should make reservations quickly at the phone
numbers indicated below.

If you have any questions about the program, please contact
YIVO or the Holocaust Museum.

Judy Baston

Tuesday 10/1 7:00-11:00 pm
The Intellectual Contributions of Lithuanian Jewry from
the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century


"Haskalah in Vilnius"
Immanuel Etkes, Bella and Israel Unterberg Professor
of Jewish Social and Educational History, Institute of Contemporary
Jewry,Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

"The Gaon of Vilna"
Jay Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish
Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

"Jewish Intellectual, Religious, and Cultural Life in the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania"
Andrzej Kaminski, Professor of History, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C.

"Mishna and Potatoes: The Essence of Litvak Culture"
Allan Nadler, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies,
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, and Senior
Advisor on Academic Affairs, Max Weinreich Center for
Advanced Jewish Study, YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research

Moderator: Gershon Hundert, Leanor Segal Professor
and Chair of Jewish Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada,
and editor-in-chief, Jews in Eastern Europe: The YIVO Encyclopedia

RESERVATIONS FOR ALL EVENTS ARE REQUIRED.
Space is limited. Please call the Center for Jewish History Box
Office at 917.606.8200 to reserve a place at this free event.


Monday 10/28 4:30-6:30 pm

Lithuania and the Holocaust

NOTE: Takes place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C. Call 202.488.6162 to reserve a place. For more information, visit the Museum's web site at www.ushmm.org)

"Lithuanian Collaboration in the 'Final Solution'"
Michael MacQueen, Chief of Investigative Research,
Office of Special Investigations, United States Department
of Justice, Washington, D.C.

"The German 'Final Solution' in Lithuania"
Jurgen Matthaus, Ph.D., Ruhr-Universitat Bochum,
Germany, 1994-95 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow,
and Program Officer, International Archival Program
Division - Berlin Office, Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"Jewish Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto"
David G. Roskies, Sol and Evelyn Henkind Professor
in Yiddish Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, New York, New York, co-founder and editor of
Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, and
editor-in-chief, Library of Yiddish Classics

Moderator: Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies


Wednesday November 13 7:00-11:00 pm
Jewish Life Under Soviet-Occupied Lithuania and Today

"Holocaust Studies and Yiddish Studies in Present-Day
Vilnius" Dovid Katz, Professor of Yiddish Language,
Literature, and Culture, Vilnius Yiddish Institute,
Vilnius University, Lithuania

"The Influence of Yeshiva Culture on Modernism"
Marc B. Shapiro, Weinberg Chair of Judaic Studies,
University of Scranton, Pennsylvania

"The Lithuanian-Jewish Diaspora: South Africa as a
Case Study" Joseph Sherman, Woolf Corob Fellow in Yiddish,
The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton,
United Kingdom

"The Work of the International Commission for the
Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet
Occupation Regimes in Lithuania" Saulius Suziedelis,
Professor of History, Millersville University of
Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania

Respondent: Alfonsas Eidentas, former Lithuanian
Ambassador to Israel and 2001 Flight and Rescue Fellow,
Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum

Moderator: Samuel Kassow, Dana Research Professor of
History, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Space is limited. Please call the Center for Jewish History
Box Office at 917.606.8200 to reserve a place at this free
event.

My name is Eva Floersheim and I have just signed up for the Hungarian SIG to
help a friend in his search.
The friend was born in 1936 in Budapest as Gyorgy Pollak, the son of Moric
Mor Moshe Pollak ( born in 1893 or 1894 in Seregelyes, son of Kalman Pollak)
and Rachel Lea Rozalia nee Brand >from Tarnow in Poland.
His father disappeared >from their home in Garay utca 32 in Budapest during
the war, and the son never saw him again.

Gyorgy has now found out that his biological mother died a month after his
birth, and that the woman who saved him during the war, was his stepmother.
The stepmother died in 1946, and that same year Gyorgy was brought to
Israel - one of the Hungarian Holocaust orphans.

In Ujpest in 1946 lived his half brother Sandor Pollak who at the time was
married and had a little son. After a year or two in Israel Gyorgy lost
contact with his half brother. He still hopes to find him again, though
before the contact was broken , Sandor told Gyorgy he was about to change
his family name >from Pollak to something else....

Gyorgy has a few family photos - of his father, his brother , his stepmother
and himself.
I have posted a photo of the stepmother and Gyorgy in front of a memorial on
Viewmate. The photo was probably taken in the summer of 1939.
Please check http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
The photo is posted as VM1773
Where is this memorial? In Budapest? Somewhere else?

Gyorgy has been several times to Budapest during the last ten years and has
located the graves of his biological mother and his stepmother.
He has not found his brother Sandor Pollak.
He has not found information about the fate of his father.

Any help will be appreciated.
Please write directly to me on evaflor@kinneret.co.il


Sincerely,
Eva Floersheim
Shadmot Dvorah
Israel

My name is Eva Floersheim and I have just signed up for the Hungarian SIG to
help a friend in his search.
The friend was born in 1936 in Budapest as Gyorgy Pollak, the son of Moric
Mor Moshe Pollak ( born in 1893 or 1894 in Seregelyes, son of Kalman Pollak)
and Rachel Lea Rozalia nee Brand >from Tarnow in Poland.
His father disappeared >from their home in Garay utca 32 in Budapest during
the war, and the son never saw him again.

Gyorgy has now found out that his biological mother died a month after his
birth, and that the woman who saved him during the war, was his stepmother.
The stepmother died in 1946, and that same year Gyorgy was brought to
Israel - one of the Hungarian Holocaust orphans.

In Ujpest in 1946 lived his half brother Sandor Pollak who at the time was
married and had a little son. After a year or two in Israel Gyorgy lost
contact with his half brother. He still hopes to find him again, though
before the contact was broken , Sandor told Gyorgy he was about to change
his family name >from Pollak to something else....

Gyorgy has a few family photos - of his father, his brother , his stepmother
and himself.
I have posted a photo of the stepmother and Gyorgy in front of a memorial on
Viewmate. The photo was probably taken in the summer of 1939.
Please check http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
The photo is posted as VM1773
Where is this memorial? In Budapest? Somewhere else?

Gyorgy has been several times to Budapest during the last ten years and has
located the graves of his biological mother and his stepmother.
He has not found his brother Sandor Pollak.
He has not found information about the fate of his father.

Any help will be appreciated.
Please write directly to me on evaflor@kinneret.co.il


Sincerely,
Eva Floersheim
Shadmot Dvorah
Israel

I have just learned that my grandmother came >from a
village called Szil, and not >from Sopron,as was
written on the Ellis Island records.I would appreciate
any help to find out more about this village. Thanks
in advance.
Ilona Lerman, phililona2001@yahoo.com
Researching: KELLER-PRESOV
FELLNER- SZIL
GOTTLIEB- VASVAR

Moderator VK: The Ellis Island records are correct. Szil is in Sopron county about 14 km south of Csorna.

I have just learned that my grandmother came >from a
village called Szil, and not >from Sopron,as was
written on the Ellis Island records.I would appreciate
any help to find out more about this village. Thanks
in advance.
Ilona Lerman, phililona2001@yahoo.com
Researching: KELLER-PRESOV
FELLNER- SZIL
GOTTLIEB- VASVAR

Moderator VK: The Ellis Island records are correct. Szil is in Sopron county about 14 km south of Csorna.

"The Conditions in Jewish Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in
the Middle Decades of the Eighteenth Century" by Gershon David Hundert, pp. 48-50 in Hasidism Reappraised, Ada Rapoport-Albert, ed., 1997 also addresses the issue of Jewish commerce in Poland and Lithuania.

Jeff Marx

"The Conditions in Jewish Society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in
the Middle Decades of the Eighteenth Century" by Gershon David Hundert, pp. 48-50 in Hasidism Reappraised, Ada Rapoport-Albert, ed., 1997 also addresses the issue of Jewish commerce in Poland and Lithuania.

Jeff Marx