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LitvakSIG Oshmiany District Research Group
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My wife's aunts , Chaya HOROWITZ and Malka GREENSPAN (ne: EIZEN) were
thought to have perished in the holocaust. There now arose a
possibility that one of them may have survived and was seen begging
for food after the war (where ? unknown). The source of this rumour
is no longer alive.

Does anyone know of either of these two women who were born in Zlochew
(then Poland) or know for sure that either of them perished in the
holocaust. I presume that whoever entered their information in Yad
Vashem (they are no longer alive) may have based their input on a
presumption.


TIA

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

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Roberta Jaffer

Bessarabia Research Division Yizkor Books Coordinator

Massachusetts

Hello,
I found a record on the LitvakSIG WWII evacuees list that may correspond to someone from my family. Is there a way to gain more information from that record.
The record I'm referring to is:

R10528

SLESERIS / [SHLESER], Yakov

Salomon

b. 1907      Communist party member

1941

Vilnius  Vilnius

WWII Evacuee to the USSR  LCVA/R-754/10/23

Served in the 16th division of the Red Army.

This town known as Oberwart or Felső Eőr in hungarian, i would like
to know if there is any birth/marriage records for the years of
1800-1825 or if any census records for this town.


M Lenzky

Some 3 years ago, while browsing old family pictures, I found a picture of a young boy with his name written on the back - Herszel SZTARKMAN. I asked my grandmother who he was, but she didn't know. His surname - SZTARKMAN - was not in my family tree and she never heard of it in our family.

Some weeks later I was searching my great-grandmother`s surname in the Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony and I found some records with her surname and... SZTARKMAN. The pages were submited by a man called Herszel SZTARKMAN in 1990 in memory of his parents and siblings who perished in the Holocaust. His mother's name and surname were those of a sister of my great-grandmother - Rukhlia TKACZ - and his father's name was named Pinkus. They were from Rowne, Volhynia. My great-grandmother was from Vladimir Volynski, not far from there.

I asked for help in ViewMate (the page of testimony was in Russian). In resume: the man who submited the pages lived in Jalal Abad, Kyrgysztan. Again, I asked for help in this forum and someone googled for his name using the cyrillic alphabet. One of the results was an article from an online newspaper from Kyrgysztan about a blood hospital in Jalal Abad whose 1st director in the 1970's was... Gerschel Pinkusevitch SZTARKMAN. Bingo!

At the age of 86 my grandmother discovered she had a cousin she never knew about.

Flavio Baran

I have the following information from a YiskorBook in Lithuania.
Rabbi Yosef Katz had 2 sons in laws , Abramchik Yossel and Itzik Yossel.
Now Abram(chik) was my great grandfather. He definitely did not have another name Yossel .His father was not Yossel.
I am wondering whether the Yossel in both sons in laws'  names  actually refers to their father in law Yossel.
Is this a known name usage ?
Thank you,
Ros Romem

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I am searching for family and looking for everyone that belong to the familys: Wolkowicz, Kalski, Jastrzembski
from the above towns.
Drori Yoel,
From Israel

It is difficult to make out the second word, but I think the first word is not the name of a ship.   It is also difficult to determine the year
of passage although his second child was born in NY in 1902.    There were no ships on the North Atlantic run
with a short name like this beginning with F.   Bonsor's "North Atlantic Seaway" in the  index for F like this.

Paul Silverstone

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Hi,

Sounds like name of one of the Lithuanian towns "Naumestis" (NewTowns): Kudirkos Naumestis, Zemaiciu Numestis and Naujmiestis.

Alexander Sharon
JGFF

Hi Adam,

Our cemetery project at JGS Toronto has been stalled for a few years. The late Allen Halberstadt did and amazing job of collecting data and took many photographs of most Toronto cemeteries. Since he passed away 6 years ago, we have made slower progress. We have photos for most of the cemeteries including Jones. Please contact me privately with what you are looking for and I'll check and will email what I have.

Neil Richler
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I cannot answer your question but I can empathize because we have similar issues with my own family.

I want to mention the wonderful Yiddish song “Belz, mein Shtetele Belz.” I love that song!

Peace,

Jeff Palmer
Researching PINKOWITZ (Bessarabia), DOKTOR (Bohemia), HARFENIST (Galicia), WEINSTEIN (Russia, New York, Baltimore)

Searching for possible relatives in Montreal.
From 1911 census
Isaac Goodman, a grocer, born approx 1865 in Russia
2nd wife Jennie formerly Endenzweig/Cohen born approx 1874 in Russia, lived in London,UK prior to her arrival in Canada.
Children Abraham, Jacob, Hyman, Samuel and Fanny born between 1890-1901
Do these names ring any bells?
Thanks, 
Peter Bush
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Find A Grave includes this Cemetery and a few photos. I imagine the ones private citizens have taken and uploaded to the site. Worth checking in case you have good luck and yours is among them. 

Sue G