Thanks so much for that! 

I didn’t know that Opole Lubelskie residents were sent to Treblinka. I had heard of Poniatowa before but unsure how to trace people since the official sources have no records. 

I’m looking for clues in my family letters and sometimes they reference other people. (I am wondering if any other letters reference my ggf.) Do you know if any letters or photos survived in your family? (My email is moshebermann+jewishgen@..., if you’d rather not answer that publicly.)

Thanks again,
Moshe Berman

This was unclear, but if  you look closely and compare to the ר in מרת you can make out that it is צילקא (Tzilka/Cilka) and not Cirka.
Binyamin Kerman
Baltimore MD

Not researching any of those names.

Wanted to point out that that particular section of Elm Ridge Drive was disrupted in the 1960s when the Allen Expressway was built.

Today it is a bridge over the Expressway, and some fairly run-down apartment buildings on the west side of it.

To the east is the heavily Jewish (and quite "frum") neighborhood of Viewmount.

Jeremy Lichtman

Is it welcome to add our own photos to this collection?

Sharon Siegel

she died on 5 av 5689, which was 11 August 1929
The Hebrew date is:  ה אב תרפד
Relly Coleman

Reading about Barney Barnato (born as Barnet Isaacs) I find that at the time of the gold rush in Namibia he got there on foot, I read that his cousin Sir David Harris ( birth name not known by me) got there from Durban on foot.
Does anyone know: 1) David Harris' jewish name;2) whether they went together or not, or if one of them liked the story so much that he decided to use it, too.
Regards,
Ron Peeters
Ulvenhout(NL)

Thank you Bernard for such an interesting history of your family. I looked up Matilda on Jewish gen and of course you're right it is a common name among Jewish women so I stand corrected.

Hi,

I also received such an approach from FF and I wrote to the 'owner' email for JewishGen. I did not get a reply and although Im sorry that other's have been approached, Im pleased this has been brought out publicly.

Regards
Angie Elfassi
Israel

My grandfather left Minsk in 1913 for Montreal. He was from Igumen/Dukora. Listed his name when he immigrated as Boruch Idelzchik. In Canada it became Bennie Adelson. He had a brother named Sruel, but presumably not the same one because his brother died as a teenager in about 1913. His other brother was named Max (Mische?) and came to Canada a bit later.  My understanding is that ultimately he brought most of his many aunts and uncles to Canada. I'm attaching what I know of the family tree and names from Minsk gubernia. 

Tema Frank

Bernard Baschkin who married Millicent, nee Auerbach and a descendant
of the Wiesel and Stern families was the father of Laurance and
Karen-Anne Paul. I am trying to trace the rabbinical roots of this
family.

Neil Rosenstein

Rabbi,
  You might try Dan Jurca. I have obtained many records through him.
His email is:

dan_j777@...

Hope that helps,
Larry Bassist
Springville, Utah

The link below is to a metrical book containing a death notice for Leiba Sharshevich (record M5) from Pakroujjis Lithuania. The translation from JewishGen is below.

The cause of death seems odd - is it correct? Is there any other genealogical information contained in this record?

Thank you (and thank you to the several people who responded to my earlier posting with very useful information about how to locate this specific record).

Ann Scher

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9GQ-JJLS?i=339

SHARSHEVICH, Leiba	Shlioma	Pakroujis	21/2/1875 5 Adar 2 47 knock down with soil	Pakroujis Panevezys Kaunas	Pakruojis 1875 M5	2205128 2 430 LVIA1226/1/554

Shem Imo means "his mother's name". This is very common on tombstones in many places all over the world, not just in Hungary.
My experience is with Dutch tombstones and there many stones have it on. Even on stones of people who have no connection to Hungary.

N. Aronson
Manchester UK