Here are the Perkels in Pruzhany in the Census of 1853. The source is a site about Pruzhany I am not sure it still exist. Abram Leizerovich Perkel 62 Sons 1) Leizer Ber 37 2) Leiba 24 3) Morduch 21 4)

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Oscar de Lubicz-Milosz's mother was Rosa or Rozalia Rosenthal, a student at Warsaw University. Her father was a teacher in Warsaw. Oscar was born in 1877, but baptized only in 1886 in the church Saint

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Zanvel is exclusively a yiddish version of Samuel and has no relation with Zev which is Wolf in yiddish. Zelik and Zeligman is a very common name in Germanic countries. It can be found very often in A

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According A. Beider, A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, p. 530, Kune is a Jewish name borrowed from German Christians who used the form Cuna since the 10th century as a hypocorism for Cunigundis

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Hi Neil, I believe it is Wola Solecka, a colony in the gmina of Lipsko. There are Rozenblatts in Lipsko (JRI Polnd). Regards, Max Polonovski, Cercle de généalogie juive, Paris

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Barbara, There is no Fredericka Moehler. I believe it is a mistake for Frederique Moog. You can find in Lembach records all the names you attribute to Fredericka Moehler: Frederique Moog (known as Fan

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The real and official yiddish name is Dwoire (Dvoyre) which can be found in Polish and Russian civil records. Devorah is the Biblical name which was not used in dayly life. Look for references A. Beid

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Hi Alberto, Anyuta is a russian hypocoristic form of Anna. Max Polonovski CGJ (French Jewish Genealogical Society) Paris, France

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Hi Molly, My guess is that the name Paderier or Paderiver comes from the village Pader near Slutzk in Belarus. The ending -er is yiddish. The slavic ending -ski gave the names Paderski and Paderevski.

I posted a double page of a hidden diary written in the Ghetto of Lodz in 1942 (Viewmate VM76289). It is in yiddish with some sentences or words in polish. It seems that the author of this diary, Leo