I am interested in contacting any descendants of Meshulem and
Ayreh KRONMAN. The latter were born in Zdunska Wola in 1897
and in 1909, respectively. Their parents were Benjamin KRONMAN
and Fayge MIKELSON who were married in 1894 in Zdunska Wola. The
Yizkor Book for Zdunska Wola, published in 1968, showed the
Meshulem died in Israel after WWII, his wife and children having
died during the war. It is not known if Meshulem married again
in Israel and had children there.

The Social Security index of deaths showed that Aryeh, or as we
was known in the US as Harry, died in 1997 in New York City. His
application for a Social Security account was dated June, 1947,
showing that he was living in the United States at that time. At
that time he lived in Brooklyn, NY. It is not clear as to whether
he came to the United States Europe before WWII or afterwards,
perhaps via Israel. I have been unable to determine if he married
in the United States and had children.

I would greatly appreciated hearing >from anyone who knew of Harry
(Ayreh) and Meshulem KRONMAN and their descendants. Any suggestions
about a source for such information would also be welcome.

Martin J. Kronman
Syracuse, NY
Researching: KRONMAN in Kolo, Konin,
Tuliskow, Warta, Slupca, Kalisz, Zdunska Wola
and Lodz, Poland ;Ukraine; Hungary; United States

Occasionally I've helped genners look up phone listings in Israel,
but it's something anyone who is familiar with the Hebrew alphabet
can do. The site www.144.bezeq.com opens with brief instructions
in Hebrew. There's a typewriter bar in the lower left of the screen
where you can input the surname, first name, street and town. It
also has a helpful soundex feature that's built in. If you're not
sure what area of the country set the area to 00- the entire country,
and set it to return 20 listings per screen. This site has helped me
locate quite a few relatives. Gamar tov to you all

Jeffrey Blustein, Livingston, NJ jblu14@hotmail.com

While tracking down the death of my Jacob Solomon, I have ordered
two unwanted death certificates :-

Jacob Solomons, Boot (Clicker ? Checker ?) d.22 Mar 1932, age 62,
in Bethnal Green, registered by Henry Saunders, son, of London N16

Jacob Solomons, Leather Goods Dealer, d.23 Jun 1935, age 68, in
East Tottenham, registered by P.Solomons, son, of Stamford Hill

Free to a good home !

Lauren Strauss-Jones
researching
ORENSTEIN / STRULOVITCH / PARVAL - Focsani, Romania
SOLOMON / RUMMIK / ROMICK / ARONICK / RAMECH - Russia (Poland?)
STRAUSS / ROZINSKY - Vilna
GOLDRING / ZIGMUND - Lodz / Piotrkow

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately.

I am trying to find out the surname of Rabbi Shlomo (Reb Shloymele),
the Rabbi of Tiraspol (now in Moldova) in the 1840s and 1850s. I am
also interested in any other information about him.

Please respond also privately.

Michoel Ronn
Brooklyn, NY
mailto:netronn@hotmail.com

I am interested in contacting any descendants of Meshulem and
Ayreh KRONMAN. The latter were born in Zdunska Wola in 1897
and in 1909, respectively. Their parents were Benjamin KRONMAN
and Fayge MIKELSON who were married in 1894 in Zdunska Wola. The
Yizkor Book for Zdunska Wola, published in 1968, showed the
Meshulem died in Israel after WWII, his wife and children having
died during the war. It is not known if Meshulem married again
in Israel and had children there.

The Social Security index of deaths showed that Aryeh, or as we
was known in the US as Harry, died in 1997 in New York City. His
application for a Social Security account was dated June, 1947,
showing that he was living in the United States at that time. At
that time he lived in Brooklyn, NY. It is not clear as to whether
he came to the United States Europe before WWII or afterwards,
perhaps via Israel. I have been unable to determine if he married
in the United States and had children.

I would greatly appreciated hearing >from anyone who knew of Harry
(Ayreh) and Meshulem KRONMAN and their descendants. Any suggestions
about a source for such information would also be welcome.

Martin J. Kronman
Syracuse, NY
Researching: KRONMAN in Kolo, Konin,
Tuliskow, Warta, Slupca, Kalisz, Zdunska Wola
and Lodz, Poland ;Ukraine; Hungary; United States

Occasionally I've helped genners look up phone listings in Israel,
but it's something anyone who is familiar with the Hebrew alphabet
can do. The site www.144.bezeq.com opens with brief instructions
in Hebrew. There's a typewriter bar in the lower left of the screen
where you can input the surname, first name, street and town. It
also has a helpful soundex feature that's built in. If you're not
sure what area of the country set the area to 00- the entire country,
and set it to return 20 listings per screen. This site has helped me
locate quite a few relatives. Gamar tov to you all

Jeffrey Blustein, Livingston, NJ jblu14@hotmail.com

While tracking down the death of my Jacob Solomon, I have ordered
two unwanted death certificates :-

Jacob Solomons, Boot (Clicker ? Checker ?) d.22 Mar 1932, age 62,
in Bethnal Green, registered by Henry Saunders, son, of London N16

Jacob Solomons, Leather Goods Dealer, d.23 Jun 1935, age 68, in
East Tottenham, registered by P.Solomons, son, of Stamford Hill

Free to a good home !

Lauren Strauss-Jones
researching
ORENSTEIN / STRULOVITCH / PARVAL - Focsani, Romania
SOLOMON / RUMMIK / ROMICK / ARONICK / RAMECH - Russia (Poland?)
STRAUSS / ROZINSKY - Vilna
GOLDRING / ZIGMUND - Lodz / Piotrkow

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately.

I am trying to find out the surname of Rabbi Shlomo (Reb Shloymele),
the Rabbi of Tiraspol (now in Moldova) in the 1840s and 1850s. I am
also interested in any other information about him.

Please respond also privately.

Michoel Ronn
Brooklyn, NY
mailto:netronn@hotmail.com

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I would appreciate if anyone could help translate the Yiddish written on a
post card which was sent to my grandmother, Mary Bernstein in Chicago, sent
by her brother in Warsaw. I assume that it was written prewar. The reverse of
the post card has an interesting group photo of men in which they appear to
be a social organization.

Unfortunately, a portion of the post card is torn away and mission. The
brother's name would be either Manasha or Moishe. Mary's maiden name was
Karcewer/Karchover, and her family was >from Warka, Poland.

The post card can be found a the View Mate Site
(http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/) file # VM1767
Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Stewart Bernstein
Thousand Oaks, California

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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>I would appreciate if anyone could help translate the Yiddish written on a post card which was sent to my grandmother, Mary Bernstein in Chicago, sent by her brother in Warsaw. I assume that it was written prewar. The reverse of the post card has an interesting group photo of men in which they appear to be a social organization.
<BR>
<BR>Unfortunately, a portion of the post card is torn away and mission. The brother's name would be either Manasha or Moishe. Mary's maiden name was Karcewer/Karchover, and her family was >from Warka, Poland.
<BR>
<BR>The post card can be found a the View Mate Site (http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/) file # VM1767
<BR>Your help would be greatly appreciated.
<BR>
<BR>Stewart Bernstein
<BR>Thousand Oaks, California</FONT></HTML>

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from a message I received today, I am reminded that the online directory for

Poland is not well known, nor is it easy to find. In case the Polish text
on that search page confuses you, I have recently revised a little guide to
this search engine:

http://www.kazez.com/~dan/poland-online/

Dan
........................................................
Daniel Kazez <dkazez@wittenberg.edu>
Professor of Music / Wittenberg University / Springfield, Ohio USA
Poland: TALMAN, ENGLANDER, JURKIEWICZ, STRAUSBERG, KIFER, CZAPNIK, BRODA,
SZEWCZYK, LEWKOWICZ, SZPALTYN, OFMAN, ZYLBERBERG, KRZEPICKI, LUKS,
MOSZKOWICZ, STROZ, SZWIMER, GUTMAN, PESACH
http://www.kazez.com/~dan/missing/englander.html

Dear friends:

Jewish Records Indexing - Poland needs laptop computers
to help us in our indexing projects and data checking work
in Poland.

If you have upgraded recently and have an old laptop,
please let us hear >from you.

Here are the minimum specs we require:

Computers should have a minimum of 500 meg hard drive, and a
CD Rom drive, and Windows 95 (preferably a Pentium 1).
The necessary Excel software will be added by JRI-Poland.

If you have a used laptop gathering dust, or your company is
upgrading and may be willing to donate a laptop to a worthwhile
project, we will arrange to get it to Poland. In fact, we know
several people who are leaving prior to mid-October so please
don't delay if you can help out. Don't worry if it needs
a little work; JRI-Poland will take care of that.

In accordance with US IRS regulations and JRI-Poland's 501(c)(3)
status, a US tax receipt will be issued for the current market value
of the computer. If you can help, please contact me as soon as
possible.

Stanley Diamond
Project Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
SMSDiamond@aol.com

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I would appreciate if anyone could help translate the Yiddish written on a
post card which was sent to my grandmother, Mary Bernstein in Chicago, sent
by her brother in Warsaw. I assume that it was written prewar. The reverse of
the post card has an interesting group photo of men in which they appear to
be a social organization.

Unfortunately, a portion of the post card is torn away and mission. The
brother's name would be either Manasha or Moishe. Mary's maiden name was
Karcewer/Karchover, and her family was >from Warka, Poland.

The post card can be found a the View Mate Site
(http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/) file # VM1767
Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Stewart Bernstein
Thousand Oaks, California

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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>I would appreciate if anyone could help translate the Yiddish written on a post card which was sent to my grandmother, Mary Bernstein in Chicago, sent by her brother in Warsaw. I assume that it was written prewar. The reverse of the post card has an interesting group photo of men in which they appear to be a social organization.
<BR>
<BR>Unfortunately, a portion of the post card is torn away and mission. The brother's name would be either Manasha or Moishe. Mary's maiden name was Karcewer/Karchover, and her family was >from Warka, Poland.
<BR>
<BR>The post card can be found a the View Mate Site (http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/) file # VM1767
<BR>Your help would be greatly appreciated.
<BR>
<BR>Stewart Bernstein
<BR>Thousand Oaks, California</FONT></HTML>

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from a message I received today, I am reminded that the online directory for

Poland is not well known, nor is it easy to find. In case the Polish text
on that search page confuses you, I have recently revised a little guide to
this search engine:

http://www.kazez.com/~dan/poland-online/

Dan
........................................................
Daniel Kazez <dkazez@wittenberg.edu>
Professor of Music / Wittenberg University / Springfield, Ohio USA
Poland: TALMAN, ENGLANDER, JURKIEWICZ, STRAUSBERG, KIFER, CZAPNIK, BRODA,
SZEWCZYK, LEWKOWICZ, SZPALTYN, OFMAN, ZYLBERBERG, KRZEPICKI, LUKS,
MOSZKOWICZ, STROZ, SZWIMER, GUTMAN, PESACH
http://www.kazez.com/~dan/missing/englander.html

Dear friends:

Jewish Records Indexing - Poland needs laptop computers
to help us in our indexing projects and data checking work
in Poland.

If you have upgraded recently and have an old laptop,
please let us hear >from you.

Here are the minimum specs we require:

Computers should have a minimum of 500 meg hard drive, and a
CD Rom drive, and Windows 95 (preferably a Pentium 1).
The necessary Excel software will be added by JRI-Poland.

If you have a used laptop gathering dust, or your company is
upgrading and may be willing to donate a laptop to a worthwhile
project, we will arrange to get it to Poland. In fact, we know
several people who are leaving prior to mid-October so please
don't delay if you can help out. Don't worry if it needs
a little work; JRI-Poland will take care of that.

In accordance with US IRS regulations and JRI-Poland's 501(c)(3)
status, a US tax receipt will be issued for the current market value
of the computer. If you can help, please contact me as soon as
possible.

Stanley Diamond
Project Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
SMSDiamond@aol.com

Lili wrote:

I just (after 60 years) found out my father died in Dachau but
worked in Riederloh. Can anyone enlighten me as to what and
where Riederloh was and anything else available on this camp.
I never heard of it before. Appreciate your help.

My comment:

Dear Lili,

a search in yahoo.de provided the information that today "Riederloh"
is part of the German town Germaringen (zip code D-87656). The
location and a map is available through the address. This site also
provides a history of the whole place, although, as usual, there does
not seem a history between 1933 and 1949. In 1949 Riederloh was
resettled by Sudenten-Germans evicted >from Czechoslovakia.

Germaringen Ortsteil Riederloh
http://de.srd.yahoo.com/goo.de/Riederloh/1/*http://www.germaringen.de/riederloh.html

Karte von Riederloh.
http://www.germaringen.de/riederloh.html

But even before the place seems to have been hardly settled, just a
few farmers. One possibility could be that your father was at some
time working as forced laborer at one of the farms there, unless there
is a record of an Aussenlager of Dachau somewhere that is totally ignored
in the official history,

Possibly the Dachau museum staff could help you to clear up this
information. They also provide copies of the official record to next
of kin. Their email address is

info@kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de

I hope that helps.

With kind regards

Fritz Neubauer, North Germany

from a message I received today, I am reminded that the online

directory for Poland is not well known, nor is it easy to find.
In case the Polish text on that search page confuses you, I have
recently revised a little guide to this search engine:

http://www.kazez.com/~dan/poland-online/

Dan
Daniel Kazez <dkazez@wittenberg.edu>
Springfield, Ohio USA
Poland: TALMAN, ENGLANDER, JURKIEWICZ, STRAUSBERG, KIFER, CZAPNIK,
BRODA, SZEWCZYK, LEWKOWICZ, SZPALTYN, OFMAN, ZYLBERBERG, KRZEPICKI,
LUKS, MOSZKOWICZ, STROZ, SZWIMER, GUTMAN, PESACH
http://www.kazez.com/~dan/missing/englander.html

In a message dated 9/10/02 2:17:51 AM, Lili Susser (susserl@attbi.com)
writes:

<< I just (after 60 years) found out my father died in Dachau but
worked in Riederloh. Can anyone enlighten me as to what and
where Riederloh was and anything else available on this camp.
I never heard of it before. Appreciate your help. >>

Dachau had 123 subcamps. A "google" search turned up several sites
for Riederloh including one which had a map of the town. Most of the
sites were in German, but some had a button for automatic English
translation (which is usually crude). ( One URL was partly described
as mentioning that it was a "punishment" camp" but when I clicked it
on, the site was unavailable.

But at:

http://www.acu.edu/academics/history/12ad/campsx/camps.htm

there is a typewritten letter in English >from an Anton Posset to a Mr.
Saks about a concentration map of Dachau Mr. Saks had. Mr. Posset said
Mr. Saks' map was very inaccurate. Mr. Posset then presents a brief
numbered list of several locations near Dachau where inmates worked,
one of which was Riederloh, which Mr. Posset sad was 60 miles >from
Landsberg, near Kaufbeuren. He writes that reports still exists >from
inmates of the Riederloh camp.

A couple of URLs giving lists of "Forgotten camps" list Riedloh. One
of these is:

http://www.logon.org/_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Camps/camps2.htm

which puts Riedeloh as one of a group under the heading "Kaufering
Erptfing"

Another site, this one of the Janusz Korczak Communication Center, at:

http://korczak.com/maler/tzur/tzur-3.htm

offers some accounts by former inmates one of whom came to Dachau from
Riederloh in 1944. (This site is in German but automatic translation
in English is possible but it doesn't comprehend that Kaufering is a
place name.)

Riederloh is also listed in a French site at:

http://www.crrl.com.fr/Ressources/Camps/r.htm

Riederloh was a former ammunitions factory owned by Alfred Nobel & Co.
or its "daughter" firms. The factories made dynamite. (See:

http://www.kirchenmusikneugablonz.gmxhome.de/chronik.html

and

http://www.altenforst.de/projekte/unischu/html/1945/450508b.htm )

Ironically, many of the Riedloh websites which "google" turned up
indicate that the town is now the location of a organization
called "Humedica" which is devoted to famine relief in southern Africa.

Possibly more about Riederloh can be found in books, but my 1962
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer does not list it. But it does have an
entry for Kaufbeuren (see above mention of Mr. Posset's letter to
Mr. Saks) so I suppose that Riederloh was merely a suburb of Kaufbeuren.

Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN)
Bloomington, Indiana
NFatouros@aol.com
Researching: BELKOWSKY and BIELKOWSKY, Odessa and Berdichev;ROTHSTEIN,
Kremenchug; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SCHUTZ, RETTIG, WAHL, Shcherets; LEVY,
Mulhouse; SAS or SASS,Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol, Korostyshev;
BEHAM, Salok and Kharkov; WOLPIANSKY, Ostryna.

Genners,

I must take issue with Diane Jacobs' assertion that detainee
manifests are not available on-line. I have found them,
including the Astoria, March 29, 1906, Ellis Island.

Regards,

Ty Henken
Centennial, Colo.
Henken9@aol.com

HENKEN,SMOLINSKY>Vitebsk; POLCHINIKOFF/POLTINIKOW>Gomel, Mogilev;
PECKEL>Ushachi, Vitebsk; LEVIN,LEVITT>Cherven, Minsk; WOLODARSKY>
Riga,Svetlovodsk,Kherson,Astrahkan; INTRELEGATOR>Siauliai, Kaunas;
GUTMAN>Jaunjelgava, Latvia

Does anyone know of an orthodox synagogue in the NYC area (in the
late 1920s probably), known as Congregation Malchuso[w] Bako[w]l?

An acquaintance suggested it might have been on Mosholu Parkway,
which is in the Bronx, but I can find no records.

Gmar Chatimah Tovah

Michael Bernet, New York <mBernet@aol.com>

WOLFF (Pfungstadt, Frankfurt/M, Koenigsberg, Amsterdam, N.Carolina);
BERNET, BERNERT, JONDORF(Frensdorf, Bamberg, Nurnberg); FEUCHTWANGER
(Schwabach, Hagenbach & Fuerth); KONIGSHOFER (anywhere); BERG, WOLF(F),
(Demmelsdorf & Zeckendorf); Shim`on GUTENSTEIN (Bad Homburg ca 1760);
FRENSDORF/ER (anywhere); MAINZER (Lorsch); anyone in Ermreuth or Floss;
GOLDSCHMIDT (B. Homburg, Hessdorf). ALTMANN (Silesia); TIMMENDORFER

Are the passenger lists in the National Archives the same as the
manifests at Ellis Island? In other words, if I have passenger
manifests that show date of arrival as well as city of origin,
are the passenger lists at the National Archives going to show
me anything new?

Yes, they are the same. If you have the actual image of the manifest

from the Ellis Island Database you have an image of what the National

Archives has on microfilm. (If all you have is the text list form
the Database, you do not necessarily have all the data that was on
the manifest, and you may have something that is incorrect because
the volunteer who extracted the data got something wrong.)

What you might gain >from the National Archives is a larger image, or
some other image variation that might make something that is obscure
on one easier to read in the other.

Peter Zavon
Penfield, NY 14526
PZavon@Rochester.RR.Com