I am also interested in this information as I too have family from there on two sides of my family. Names are Pollakoff (Pollack in the US) and Rubin. Is there a link as to where the Yizkor book and c

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I can help you with that. Dr. Abraham Lipshitz' daughters both live in Israel. Their names are Anne Silverstein and Rose Nathan. Anne lived in Chicago until a number of years ago. Charles' daughter De

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The Mishne Ugemora section of Waldheim is a portion owned by a synagogue on the North Side of the city of Chicago. Many people buried there though had no connection to the synagogue. We have a huge gr

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I too have several relatives who came from Kapyl to Sioux City, Iowa. They were siblings: Shmerel PASSMAN and Chaya (Passman) HARLOW. They were the children of Yekusiel and Finkel (Perlman) PASSMAN. M

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If you call the cemetery a day or two before you are coming and give them the grave information, they will clear the snow from the grave and from path to it from the road. Obviously this only helps if

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I realized that I should add his name: Yehuda Leib Perlman (Perelman/Pearlman)

For many years we have been searching for the grave of my husband's 3rd great-grandfather who supposedly died in Palestine around 1900. Family history has it that he had lived in Kapyl (also known as