Dear Alberto Guido Chester There is nthing special about the handwriting on this postcard. It is a kind of calligraphic writing which people in Vienna used formally. My grandfather who was from Galici

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Arszana sounds like Ashana, one of the jiddisch names of Mszana Dolna in Southern Poland, south of Kraków Researching: TROMPETER, SZWEICER, KÖNIGSBERG, WOLFZAHN, SOBEL, ROSENSTRAUCH

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Grandmother with 2 fake birth certificates My grandmother Elke, no surname given – she had 6 of them – had two fake birth certificates. She didn't buy them though. She first needed one when she had fl

Dear Leah Rosa is registered as number 376 in this way: Helpern (heilpern) Rosa, 17.1.1909 (aus Preßburg, Slowakei) - Pressburg being the name of Bratislave at he time. I don't see any English transla

There was a book about the Kladovo Transport published in Vienna, as well as an exhibition at Jewish Museum in Vienna. The book was written by Gabriele Andeerl and Walter Manoschek. The title is: Gesc

If anything comes from your suggestion of a group of people whose relatives were interned on the Isle of Man, I would like to be included as my father was interned from June 1940 until January 1942. T

Dear Deborah Dworski record 2 (38275) yes, it says: Jewish (i.e. mos.=mosaisch), married helen krag

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Dear Deborah Dworski record 2 (38275) yes, it says: Jewish (i.e. mos.=mosaisch), married helen krag

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There is an entire book written about getting steamship passengers out of Galicia. It was in the interest of the companies. The book is about other details in the out-of-Galicia-traffic, too. The book

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There is an entire book written about getting steamship passengers out of Galicia. It was in the interest of the companies. The book is about other details in the out-of-Galicia-traffic, too. The book

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Dear Hannah Berliner You ask: Is there any reason a family in Poland would give a daughter a later birthdate than her own? My own GM had 2 birth certificates, both were false. She was not registered w

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Dear Hannah Berliner You ask: Is there any reason a family in Poland would give a daughter a later birthdate than her own? My own GM had 2 birth certificates, both were false. She was not registered w

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