Dear Liz, Thanks for your question. Just two weeks ago I had a long conversation about Kennkarten. These were the photo IDs in Germany until 1945. All Germans could have one, the Jewish Germans HAD to

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Dear Liz, Thanks for your question. Just two weeks ago I had a long conversation about Kennkarten. These were the photo IDs in Germany until 1945. All Germans could have one, the Jewish Germans HAD to

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Edith Lynn Goldman phal4gal@... wrote on August 21: Dear Edith, are you sure about the spelling of the surname? There are quite a few HERRNSTADT (with the n after the "Herr"), although no Elsa,

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Edith Lynn Goldman phal4gal@... wrote on August 21: Dear Edith, are you sure about the spelling of the surname? There are quite a few HERRNSTADT (with the n after the "Herr"), although no Elsa,

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On 23.06.2016 Oliver Bryk oliverbryk@... wrote: : Dear Oliver, The printed book on Terezin's victims has on its page 489 three entries for BRILL, one for Helene Brill with the birth date 01-Ma

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On 23.06.2016 Oliver Bryk oliverbryk@... wrote: : Dear Oliver, The printed book on Terezin's victims has on its page 489 three entries for BRILL, one for Helene Brill with the birth date 01-Ma

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Am 19.06.2016 um 17:09 schrieb Ronald Wallace: Sorry, but the birth certificate clearly says "Ernst" and "Kind maennlichen Geschlechts" (i.e. "child of the male sex"). The registrar certainly wrote co

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Am 19.06.2016 um 17:09 schrieb Ronald Wallace: Sorry, but the birth certificate clearly says "Ernst" and "Kind maennlichen Geschlechts" (i.e. "child of the male sex"). The registrar certainly wrote co

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Could it not just be an abbreviated "Ernest" for Ernestine? Fritz Neubauer, North Germany Ronald Wallace ronald@... asked:

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Could it not just be an abbreviated "Ernest" for Ernestine? Fritz Neubauer, North Germany Ronald Wallace ronald@... asked:

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Dear all, a new book has been published in German about Lodz in the Second World War: Boemelburg, Hans-Juergen; Klatt, Marlene (eds.): Lodz im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Deutsche Selbstzeugnisse ueber Alltag,

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Dear all, a new book has been published in German about Lodz in the Second World War: Boemelburg, Hans-Juergen; Klatt, Marlene (eds.): Lodz im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Deutsche Selbstzeugnisse ueber Alltag,

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A postcard >from a Rohproduktenhandlung in post war Upper Austria (=O. Oe.) luckily describes what the store actually does and sells: Lumpen-Sortieranstalt, Holz und Kohle (i.e. rags sorting, wood and

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A postcard >from a Rohproduktenhandlung in post war Upper Austria (=O. Oe.) luckily describes what the store actually does and sells: Lumpen-Sortieranstalt, Holz und Kohle (i.e. rags sorting, wood and

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Seth wrote Sorry, but this hit my linguistic nerve: There is *no* "Polish in Cyrillic", it is either Polish in Latin letters or Russian in Cyrillic letters. Since Lublin was Russian territory at the t

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Seth wrote Sorry, but this hit my linguistic nerve: There is *no* "Polish in Cyrillic", it is either Polish in Latin letters or Russian in Cyrillic letters. Since Lublin was Russian territory at the t

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Dear Robert, To me this looks just like a "normal" residential registration, "normal" in the sense that in Continental Europe (i.e. not in Britain!) even today everybody has to register where he/she l

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Dear Robert, To me this looks just like a "normal" residential registration, "normal" in the sense that in Continental Europe (i.e. not in Britain!) even today everybody has to register where he/she l

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wrote: Dear Andrew, This reminds me of the Russian naming custom: The father's first name becomes the son's middle name in a derived form. Ivan Schapiro's son would become Petr Ivanovich Schapiro or t

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wrote: Dear Andrew, This reminds me of the Russian naming custom: The father's first name becomes the son's middle name in a derived form. Ivan Schapiro's son would become Petr Ivanovich Schapiro or t

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