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(Slovakia) Article Highlighting Jewish Heritage in Slovakia
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Jan Meisels Allen
The Slovak Spectator has an article on Jewish heritage in Slovakia. There
were around 100 identified synagogues in Slovakia before World War II. Many are in disrepair, but there are seven active synagogues in Slovakia: One in Bratislava, two in Nove Zamky and Komarno, two in Kosice, one in Bardejov and one in Presov. Ten have been renovated for use in cultural events. As Slovakia was an ally of Nazi Germany in WWII, their synagogues were not destroyed as they were in other parts of Europe, however some were destroyed during the Communist regime. The Nazi-collaborationist Slovakia deported around 71,000 Jews with only a few hundred returning after the war's end. The few that returned did not stay and many then emigrated to the United States, the UK, Switzerland or Israel. Each year Slovakia holds a Jewish cultural event, "Opening the Windows for You" or Mazel tov, the Jewish Cultural Festival. with Klezmer or jazz music, exhibitions, workshops, and guided tours of some of the former Jewish centers of Kosice, Bardejov and Presov in eastern Slovakia - available in English and Hungarian as well as Slovak languages. The website for the Cultural festival in Kosice was for June 2014. However, the article includes websites for memorials, and synagogues throughout Slovakia. The article found at: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20058562/jewish-heritage-still-alive.html [or http://tinyurl.com/ntlljrl - MODXERATOR] discusses a number of the Slovak Jewish cemeteries. The Jewish Heritage Article which led me to the Slovak Spectator article may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/or4flzk Original url: http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2015/07/06/highlighting-jewish-heritage-in-slovakia/%E2%80%9D In full disclosure Presov, formerly known as Eperjes, is one of my ancestral towns and there is a link for the Jewish Museum in Presov, with photographs. Jan Meisels Allen Agoura Hills, CA, USA SEARCHING: REICH, WALD, ZUPNIK - Presov, Mestiszko, Szivdnik; Salgo, Sebes Kellemes, Slovakia (formerly Hungary) MEISELS, SEGALLA/SIGALL, LIEBERMAN - Brody, Ukraine KLAJNMAN, MICHELBERG, SYK, SZLANG, TYKULSKIER - Sochaczew, Chorzele, and Zakroczym Poland FREJER, IMJAK, WILAMOWSKY, KREPLAK - Stawiski, Poland SZAPIRA, SOBOTKO, PIATKOWSKA, PERLA, ASZ, WAPNIARZ - Lomza, Poland GUTFARB - Zambrow, Poland ASZ, Nasielsk, Poland ELION - Suwalki Lithuania
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (Slovakia) Article Highlighting Jewish Heritage in Slovakia
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Jan Meisels Allen
The Slovak Spectator has an article on Jewish heritage in Slovakia. There
were around 100 identified synagogues in Slovakia before World War II. Many are in disrepair, but there are seven active synagogues in Slovakia: One in Bratislava, two in Nove Zamky and Komarno, two in Kosice, one in Bardejov and one in Presov. Ten have been renovated for use in cultural events. As Slovakia was an ally of Nazi Germany in WWII, their synagogues were not destroyed as they were in other parts of Europe, however some were destroyed during the Communist regime. The Nazi-collaborationist Slovakia deported around 71,000 Jews with only a few hundred returning after the war's end. The few that returned did not stay and many then emigrated to the United States, the UK, Switzerland or Israel. Each year Slovakia holds a Jewish cultural event, "Opening the Windows for You" or Mazel tov, the Jewish Cultural Festival. with Klezmer or jazz music, exhibitions, workshops, and guided tours of some of the former Jewish centers of Kosice, Bardejov and Presov in eastern Slovakia - available in English and Hungarian as well as Slovak languages. The website for the Cultural festival in Kosice was for June 2014. However, the article includes websites for memorials, and synagogues throughout Slovakia. The article found at: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20058562/jewish-heritage-still-alive.html [or http://tinyurl.com/ntlljrl - MODXERATOR] discusses a number of the Slovak Jewish cemeteries. The Jewish Heritage Article which led me to the Slovak Spectator article may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/or4flzk Original url: http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2015/07/06/highlighting-jewish-heritage-in-slovakia/%E2%80%9D In full disclosure Presov, formerly known as Eperjes, is one of my ancestral towns and there is a link for the Jewish Museum in Presov, with photographs. Jan Meisels Allen Agoura Hills, CA, USA SEARCHING: REICH, WALD, ZUPNIK - Presov, Mestiszko, Szivdnik; Salgo, Sebes Kellemes, Slovakia (formerly Hungary) MEISELS, SEGALLA/SIGALL, LIEBERMAN - Brody, Ukraine KLAJNMAN, MICHELBERG, SYK, SZLANG, TYKULSKIER - Sochaczew, Chorzele, and Zakroczym Poland FREJER, IMJAK, WILAMOWSKY, KREPLAK - Stawiski, Poland SZAPIRA, SOBOTKO, PIATKOWSKA, PERLA, ASZ, WAPNIARZ - Lomza, Poland GUTFARB - Zambrow, Poland ASZ, Nasielsk, Poland ELION - Suwalki Lithuania
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Re: Databases from the Netherlands
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Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
I wrote on 07 Jul 2015 in soc.genealogy.jewish:
General Genealogic Qs can also be asked on [MODERATOR: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soc.genealogy.beneluxHowever Google groups makes a mess of Usenet responses nowadays, so for serious discussion in most groups, better install a Usenet-newsreader and link to a usenet-server [some servers are free or provided by your ISP.] This suggestion for <soc.genealogy.benelux> is just as valid for <soc.genealogy.jewish> Read only of soc.genealogy.benelux, [most discussions are in Dutch, some in French or English] try: <http://soc.genealogy.benelux.narkive.com/> Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Databases from the Netherlands
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Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
I wrote on 07 Jul 2015 in soc.genealogy.jewish:
General Genealogic Qs can also be asked on [MODERATOR: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soc.genealogy.beneluxHowever Google groups makes a mess of Usenet responses nowadays, so for serious discussion in most groups, better install a Usenet-newsreader and link to a usenet-server [some servers are free or provided by your ISP.] This suggestion for <soc.genealogy.benelux> is just as valid for <soc.genealogy.jewish> Read only of soc.genealogy.benelux, [most discussions are in Dutch, some in French or English] try: <http://soc.genealogy.benelux.narkive.com/> Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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Does Anybody Recognize These Names?
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Michael Baron
Hi ,
I am a new researcher. My family names are: BARON/BARAN >from Obertyn, Ukraine, SHOOR ( sp?), MIEL/MEIL, also >from Obertyn, Ukraine. SALAK/SOLAK >from Vilnius, Lithuania, HARTSTEIN/HARDSTEIN >from Krasnystaw, Poland. Do anyone recognize these names? Thanks very much, Michael Baron, Montreal, Canada MODERATOR: If you haven't already, Michael, you should check for your names/towns (and register your own names/towns) at The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) - http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ . And be sure to check out the advice for genealogical beginners at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/GetStarted.html
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Does Anybody Recognize These Names?
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Michael Baron
Hi ,
I am a new researcher. My family names are: BARON/BARAN >from Obertyn, Ukraine, SHOOR ( sp?), MIEL/MEIL, also >from Obertyn, Ukraine. SALAK/SOLAK >from Vilnius, Lithuania, HARTSTEIN/HARDSTEIN >from Krasnystaw, Poland. Do anyone recognize these names? Thanks very much, Michael Baron, Montreal, Canada MODERATOR: If you haven't already, Michael, you should check for your names/towns (and register your own names/towns) at The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) - http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ . And be sure to check out the advice for genealogical beginners at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/GetStarted.html
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viewmate translation requested
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אבי freind <avraham997@...>
Dear Friends,
I've posted five vital record in Russian/Polish for which I need a translation. Please focus on all names, ages, relationships and professions. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40945 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40944 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40943 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40942 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40900 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Avraham lapa Israel avraham997@gmail.com
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JRI Poland #Poland viewmate translation requested
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אבי freind <avraham997@...>
Dear Friends,
I've posted five vital record in Russian/Polish for which I need a translation. Please focus on all names, ages, relationships and professions. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40945 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40944 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40943 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40942 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM40900 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Avraham lapa Israel avraham997@gmail.com
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Re: Databases from the Netherlands
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Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
I would tend to say that this is an art of its own,
and the answer would depend on your ability to understand Dutch, antiquated Dutch, local naming customs, Napoleonic naming laws. You could [easier?] ask me and others on this NG when you have a specific question and can give enough data to start from. [so "Any Abraham Cohen between 1812 and 1850" would not do] General Genealogic Qs can also be asked on Usenet-newsgroup: soc.genealogy.benelux [MODERATOR: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soc.genealogy.benelux or http://tinyurl.com/ooxpt3o ] [benelux = Belgium-Netherlands-Luxemburg] Btw, till 1831, Belgium was part of the Netherlands. The Dutch Sephards immigrated mainly short after 1600 from Portugal to Amsterdam.The Dutch Ashkenaz immigrated >from around 1750 from Germany, Poland, [Chechia, Lithuania, etc.]earlier Jewish inhabitants were mass-murdered around 1349 [in Zutphen, Utrecht, etc]. All Jews became citizens in 1795 under the [puppet] government of the Bataafse Republiek. == For Jewish families I would not throw out Sjoah databases, as many of our victims were born in the 19th c. ce.: < http://www.joodsmonument.nl/search?lang=en > < http://www.communityjoodsmonument.nl/?lang=en > The civil registration BMD database of choice, starting >from around 1815 is < https://www.wiewaswie.nl/personen-zoeken/ > Use this older engine for Den Haag/Rotterdam/Eindhoven too: < http://digitalestamboom.nl/search.aspx > More data are in the various provincial databases, and the databases of the city-archives. [see below] most have exquisite scans available. The Jewish family collections of < http://dutchjewry.org/ > are very usefull and often extend back to the 17th c.ce. The newspaper-scans here are an important source, since BMD data abound: < kranten.delpher.nl > [also having the Jewish "NIW", but BMD-advertisements in the 19th c still mainly in here available local papers] useful are: < http://geneaknowhow.net/ > < http://genver.nl/ > [extensive voluntary indexing of LDS-scans] < http://militieregisters.nl/ > [giving DOB of all conscriptable men] < http://www.jhm.nl/ > [Dutch Jewish historical backgrounds] < http://stenenarchief.nl/ > [Jewish gravestone collections] [not "headstones", Americans, as many are buried feet-to-stone] < http://www.online-begraafplaatsen.nl/ > [cemeteries general, also Jewish ones] < http://genealogie.startkabel.nl/ > === Provincial: http://allegroningers.nl/ http://www.allefriezen.nl/ http://beta.drenlias.nl/ http://www.geldersarchief.nl/ http://www.zeeuwsarchief.nl/ http://www.allelimburgers.nl/ [1811 Napoleon era namegiving acts in Friesland, try "Cohen"] http://www2.tresoar.nl/genealogie/naamsaanname/ Local [some random pickings]: https://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/english/archives_database/genealogy/ [or http://tinyurl.com/pwjorfj - MODERATOR] [Amsterdam NOT free of charge] http://www.regionaalarchiefzutphen.nl/ http://www.archiefalmelo.nl/ http://archief.hengelo.nl/ http://217.114.107.60/atlantispubliek/ [Enschede municipality] http://deventit.coda-apeldoorn.nl/atlantispubliek/ http://denhaag.digitalestamboom.nl/ http://rotterdam.digitalestamboom.nl/ [apparently changed to http://www.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/ - MODERATOR] http://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/ [also Gelderlander newspaper] Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Databases from the Netherlands
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Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
I would tend to say that this is an art of its own,
and the answer would depend on your ability to understand Dutch, antiquated Dutch, local naming customs, Napoleonic naming laws. You could [easier?] ask me and others on this NG when you have a specific question and can give enough data to start from. [so "Any Abraham Cohen between 1812 and 1850" would not do] General Genealogic Qs can also be asked on Usenet-newsgroup: soc.genealogy.benelux [MODERATOR: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soc.genealogy.benelux or http://tinyurl.com/ooxpt3o ] [benelux = Belgium-Netherlands-Luxemburg] Btw, till 1831, Belgium was part of the Netherlands. The Dutch Sephards immigrated mainly short after 1600 from Portugal to Amsterdam.The Dutch Ashkenaz immigrated >from around 1750 from Germany, Poland, [Chechia, Lithuania, etc.]earlier Jewish inhabitants were mass-murdered around 1349 [in Zutphen, Utrecht, etc]. All Jews became citizens in 1795 under the [puppet] government of the Bataafse Republiek. == For Jewish families I would not throw out Sjoah databases, as many of our victims were born in the 19th c. ce.: < http://www.joodsmonument.nl/search?lang=en > < http://www.communityjoodsmonument.nl/?lang=en > The civil registration BMD database of choice, starting >from around 1815 is < https://www.wiewaswie.nl/personen-zoeken/ > Use this older engine for Den Haag/Rotterdam/Eindhoven too: < http://digitalestamboom.nl/search.aspx > More data are in the various provincial databases, and the databases of the city-archives. [see below] most have exquisite scans available. The Jewish family collections of < http://dutchjewry.org/ > are very usefull and often extend back to the 17th c.ce. The newspaper-scans here are an important source, since BMD data abound: < kranten.delpher.nl > [also having the Jewish "NIW", but BMD-advertisements in the 19th c still mainly in here available local papers] useful are: < http://geneaknowhow.net/ > < http://genver.nl/ > [extensive voluntary indexing of LDS-scans] < http://militieregisters.nl/ > [giving DOB of all conscriptable men] < http://www.jhm.nl/ > [Dutch Jewish historical backgrounds] < http://stenenarchief.nl/ > [Jewish gravestone collections] [not "headstones", Americans, as many are buried feet-to-stone] < http://www.online-begraafplaatsen.nl/ > [cemeteries general, also Jewish ones] < http://genealogie.startkabel.nl/ > === Provincial: http://allegroningers.nl/ http://www.allefriezen.nl/ http://beta.drenlias.nl/ http://www.geldersarchief.nl/ http://www.zeeuwsarchief.nl/ http://www.allelimburgers.nl/ [1811 Napoleon era namegiving acts in Friesland, try "Cohen"] http://www2.tresoar.nl/genealogie/naamsaanname/ Local [some random pickings]: https://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/english/archives_database/genealogy/ [or http://tinyurl.com/pwjorfj - MODERATOR] [Amsterdam NOT free of charge] http://www.regionaalarchiefzutphen.nl/ http://www.archiefalmelo.nl/ http://archief.hengelo.nl/ http://217.114.107.60/atlantispubliek/ [Enschede municipality] http://deventit.coda-apeldoorn.nl/atlantispubliek/ http://denhaag.digitalestamboom.nl/ http://rotterdam.digitalestamboom.nl/ [apparently changed to http://www.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/ - MODERATOR] http://studiezaal.nijmegen.nl/ran/ [also Gelderlander newspaper] Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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Re: Databases from the Netherlands
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news@...
On 5 Jul 2015 Amit Naor (amitna87@gmail.com) wrote:
I would like to conduct some research regarding a family which I have Thanks to the "Napoleon-effect" (I think) civil registration in the Netherlands goes back to the early 19C and, thanks to the current authorities, most of the entries were available through Genlias. I find that Genlias has now been superseded by WieWasWie.nl See http://www.traceyourdutchroots.com/roots/genlias.html and http://blog.traceyourdutchroots.com/2012/10/genlias-will-close-down-soon.html [or http://tinyurl.com/pkasgq4 - MODERATOR] for more information, in English, and https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/home for a link to a search page in English. I used Genlias a little. I found dealing with spelling of the early 19C was tricky. Using wildcards helped. I also had difficulty with early Jewish families, and could not decide whether the problem was my search parameters or the data held in Genlias. Note that in the early 19C it was not uncommon for people to use patronymics rather than as well as in addition to surnames. I've not tried wiewaswie.nl Cecilia Nyleve
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Databases from the Netherlands
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news@...
On 5 Jul 2015 Amit Naor (amitna87@gmail.com) wrote:
I would like to conduct some research regarding a family which I have Thanks to the "Napoleon-effect" (I think) civil registration in the Netherlands goes back to the early 19C and, thanks to the current authorities, most of the entries were available through Genlias. I find that Genlias has now been superseded by WieWasWie.nl See http://www.traceyourdutchroots.com/roots/genlias.html and http://blog.traceyourdutchroots.com/2012/10/genlias-will-close-down-soon.html [or http://tinyurl.com/pkasgq4 - MODERATOR] for more information, in English, and https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/home for a link to a search page in English. I used Genlias a little. I found dealing with spelling of the early 19C was tricky. Using wildcards helped. I also had difficulty with early Jewish families, and could not decide whether the problem was my search parameters or the data held in Genlias. Note that in the early 19C it was not uncommon for people to use patronymics rather than as well as in addition to surnames. I've not tried wiewaswie.nl Cecilia Nyleve
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HUREWITZ and ABRAMOWITZ - Novarodok connection
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
I am trying to confirm a family connection between the HUREWITZ
families and ABRAMOWITZ families who lived in Novarodok during the 19th cent. As with many families, one branch of this HUREWITZ family came to Eretz Yisrael (Palestine) during the latter part of the 19th cent. The one I had met in the early 1960s was R' Shimon H. who was a shochet in Petach Tikva. of his children are the POCHOVITCH family who I had met many years ago but have since deceased. One of my relatives in Israel who were close with POCHOVITCH family and also "knew" we were cousins is the KATZIN family in Raanana. Another branch of the family came to the Hartford, Ct. USA, one of them being Rabbi Isaac Simcha H. who served as a Rabbi in Hartford until his death around 1935. Some of his extended family include: WAXMAN, BERMAN, RUDMAN, PRENZLAU. They may also be connected to a HUREWITZ family who used to live in Far Rockaway, N.Y. I have been in contact with some of these families but though they also were aware of our supposed connection they didn't exactly know how. Almost all written sources in our family, including my mother's autobiography and interviews of the past with deceased aunts and uncles talk about the two HUREWITZ branches as being our cousins, but no one alive today, that I have talked, to seem to know exactly how. I was told by one of the American HUREWITZs that he had seen many years ago a printed family tree with our names on it but that he doesn't remember where and when he saw it. One additional fact that may be connected is that a deceased uncle wrote that an ancestor of our ABRAMOWITZ family was the brother of the Rabbi of Novarodok some 200+ years ago by the name of David (with no family name mentioned anywhere) , who had written a book called "Galia Mesechet" (or "Galia Mescechta"). I would appreciate it if someone >from the HUREWITZ family group could post this message on their board. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen HUREWITZ and ABRAMOWITZ - Novarodok connection
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
I am trying to confirm a family connection between the HUREWITZ
families and ABRAMOWITZ families who lived in Novarodok during the 19th cent. As with many families, one branch of this HUREWITZ family came to Eretz Yisrael (Palestine) during the latter part of the 19th cent. The one I had met in the early 1960s was R' Shimon H. who was a shochet in Petach Tikva. of his children are the POCHOVITCH family who I had met many years ago but have since deceased. One of my relatives in Israel who were close with POCHOVITCH family and also "knew" we were cousins is the KATZIN family in Raanana. Another branch of the family came to the Hartford, Ct. USA, one of them being Rabbi Isaac Simcha H. who served as a Rabbi in Hartford until his death around 1935. Some of his extended family include: WAXMAN, BERMAN, RUDMAN, PRENZLAU. They may also be connected to a HUREWITZ family who used to live in Far Rockaway, N.Y. I have been in contact with some of these families but though they also were aware of our supposed connection they didn't exactly know how. Almost all written sources in our family, including my mother's autobiography and interviews of the past with deceased aunts and uncles talk about the two HUREWITZ branches as being our cousins, but no one alive today, that I have talked, to seem to know exactly how. I was told by one of the American HUREWITZs that he had seen many years ago a printed family tree with our names on it but that he doesn't remember where and when he saw it. One additional fact that may be connected is that a deceased uncle wrote that an ancestor of our ABRAMOWITZ family was the brother of the Rabbi of Novarodok some 200+ years ago by the name of David (with no family name mentioned anywhere) , who had written a book called "Galia Mesechet" (or "Galia Mescechta"). I would appreciate it if someone >from the HUREWITZ family group could post this message on their board. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Researching SHAMIS family from Verba, Ukraine
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ldance@feigaschoice.com <ldance@...>
I am the producer/director of a documentary in progress called
Feiga's Choice. It is the first-ever documentary about the pogroms with a particular focus on the Russian Civil War pogroms of 1917-1920. We are telling this story through the memoir of Feiga SHAMIS. Feiga survived but then chose to send her two youngest children to an orphanage in South Africa. These two were part of a group known as the Ochberg Orphans. Isaac OCHBERG, a wealthy South African philanthropist originally >from Uman, undertook a mission in 1921 to rescue 200 pogrom orphans. We know a great deal about Feiga through her memoir, but we are hoping to fill in some gaps. Feiga was born in 1878 in Verba as Feiga Mirel MISLER. In 1895 at the age of 17, she married Kalman SHAMIS >from Vishnevets. It is unclear whether they lived for a time in Vishnevets, but they did end up living in Verba when a relative left her house to Feiga and Kalman. He was a civil servant. They had 12 children. Two went to the U.S. We are working on getting more information about those two. We know the youngest two went to South Africa. An infant born in 1915 appears to have died sometime before 1919 as Feiga says that the two who went to South Africa, Rosa and Mannes, were the youngest then. A 16-year-old son died during a pogrom in Shumsk in 1919. We would like to find out what happened to those who remained. The names of the other children that we do have are Jakov, Ichiel, Leika, Vanka, and Janica or Yenta. We think Ichiel may be the 16-year-old killed in the 1919 pogrom, though we cannot confirm that. We have searched records in the Tcherkower Archive at YIVO, but there was no documentation about this particular pogrom, which is not unusual. We are also researching Holocaust records for any of these other children. We know Kalman died of typhoid in Kiev in 1919 and that Feiga moved to Palestine before WWII to join her daughter Tzilla. We would love to connect with any descendants as well as anyone who also may trace their roots to Verba in the early 1900s. Thanks. LeeAnn Dance Co-Producer/Director Feiga's Choice www.feigaschoice.com www.facebook.com/feigaschoice
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Researching SHAMIS family from Verba, Ukraine
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ldance@feigaschoice.com <ldance@...>
I am the producer/director of a documentary in progress called
Feiga's Choice. It is the first-ever documentary about the pogroms with a particular focus on the Russian Civil War pogroms of 1917-1920. We are telling this story through the memoir of Feiga SHAMIS. Feiga survived but then chose to send her two youngest children to an orphanage in South Africa. These two were part of a group known as the Ochberg Orphans. Isaac OCHBERG, a wealthy South African philanthropist originally >from Uman, undertook a mission in 1921 to rescue 200 pogrom orphans. We know a great deal about Feiga through her memoir, but we are hoping to fill in some gaps. Feiga was born in 1878 in Verba as Feiga Mirel MISLER. In 1895 at the age of 17, she married Kalman SHAMIS >from Vishnevets. It is unclear whether they lived for a time in Vishnevets, but they did end up living in Verba when a relative left her house to Feiga and Kalman. He was a civil servant. They had 12 children. Two went to the U.S. We are working on getting more information about those two. We know the youngest two went to South Africa. An infant born in 1915 appears to have died sometime before 1919 as Feiga says that the two who went to South Africa, Rosa and Mannes, were the youngest then. A 16-year-old son died during a pogrom in Shumsk in 1919. We would like to find out what happened to those who remained. The names of the other children that we do have are Jakov, Ichiel, Leika, Vanka, and Janica or Yenta. We think Ichiel may be the 16-year-old killed in the 1919 pogrom, though we cannot confirm that. We have searched records in the Tcherkower Archive at YIVO, but there was no documentation about this particular pogrom, which is not unusual. We are also researching Holocaust records for any of these other children. We know Kalman died of typhoid in Kiev in 1919 and that Feiga moved to Palestine before WWII to join her daughter Tzilla. We would love to connect with any descendants as well as anyone who also may trace their roots to Verba in the early 1900s. Thanks. LeeAnn Dance Co-Producer/Director Feiga's Choice www.feigaschoice.com www.facebook.com/feigaschoice
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Two obscure surnames - VARYUKA and PIKEPRETZ
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harry@...
I am researching two family surnames, so far with no success. They are
VARYUKA >from Georgia and subsequently Vilna and PIKEPRETZ >from Kishinev. If anyone has heard of either surname, could they please contact me. Thank you, Harry Ullmann, Manchester, UK MODERATOR: Please contact Harry directly with any family information. Responses that include leads and/or tips about research techniques or possible information sources are welcome here in the Discussion Group.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Two obscure surnames - VARYUKA and PIKEPRETZ
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harry@...
I am researching two family surnames, so far with no success. They are
VARYUKA >from Georgia and subsequently Vilna and PIKEPRETZ >from Kishinev. If anyone has heard of either surname, could they please contact me. Thank you, Harry Ullmann, Manchester, UK MODERATOR: Please contact Harry directly with any family information. Responses that include leads and/or tips about research techniques or possible information sources are welcome here in the Discussion Group.
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Escape from Vienna, role of Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho
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Shulamit
Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho is another forgotten hero, who saved
thousands of Jewish lives in pre WWII Vienna. http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2015-05/15/content_20722914.htm [or http://tinyurl.com/oyur9w6 - MODERATOR] Shulamit Spain, Scotland MODERATOR NOTE: The above-cited article references the following surnames: GOLDSTAUB, ROSENBERG, LANG, ALFLEN, MARGALIT.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Escape from Vienna, role of Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho
#general
Shulamit
Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho is another forgotten hero, who saved
thousands of Jewish lives in pre WWII Vienna. http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2015-05/15/content_20722914.htm [or http://tinyurl.com/oyur9w6 - MODERATOR] Shulamit Spain, Scotland MODERATOR NOTE: The above-cited article references the following surnames: GOLDSTAUB, ROSENBERG, LANG, ALFLEN, MARGALIT.
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