Elaine, This naming pattern (given name followed by patronym) was absolutely standard among Ashkenazi Jews before surnames were introduced. In Eastern Europe the patronym was generally "decorated" by

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Mike, Julius Levy is in the Gedenkbuch. He spent time in Sachsenhausen in 1938, and was deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 26-Feb-1943. No date of death is available, but it seems he did not survive

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Karen, The first name is Creine rather than Freine. The father's name is the same name twice - Dov is Hebrew for Bear. Ber is Yiddish for the same thing.

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Moses, The CAHJP (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People) in Jerusalem has 37 files from the archives of the Jewish community of Militsch (Milicz). However, as far as I can tell from th

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Moses, The card is actually a residency card from the city of Posen. I find the German Wikipedia to be useful to find these towns from Prussian Poland. A search by the German name will generally bring

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Karen, The date is on the stone is 8 Iyar 5697, which corresponds to 19-Apr-1937. That means he must have died after sundown on 18-Apr-1937 (the hebrew day starts at sundown). The difference from the

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Rich, You don't specify exactly when these children were born, but there are two scenarios, both of which were known to happen. One is that Gerson was widowed and then married his wife's sister. Who w

#germany #names

Aida, There is an enormous amount of data from Königsberg on line at familysearch.org in the form of scanned microfilms. Unlike many other places, most of these microfilms are viewable from home. The

#russia #germany

Yaron, The end of 1939 and the start of 1940 were a period known as the "phoney war". After Poland was divided between Germany and Russia in September 1939, there wasn't much fighting until Denmark an

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Joyaa, I looked up Julius Gerson at https://www.mappingthelives.org and it shows that he was born at Bischofsburg in 1899, but was living at Koenigsberg in 1939. So "Bischofsburg-Koenigsberg" is two p

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Rene, The name adoption lists can now be found at: https://www.a-h-b.de/de/projekte/familienforschung/name-adoption-lists I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia

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Mike, In the Jewishgen Holocaust database, the "German Towns Project" collection includes two Ludwig Lilienthals. It sounds as if the information you gave is a mashup of these two people. One of them

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Wendy, Searching JRI-Poland with surname begins BAR and town phonetically like Plock turns up the following family in the book of residents: Josek BARABEL & Ryfka Ruchla (nee KWIATEK), with children P

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Dear Garystuff24, The stone gives his Phillip's Hebrew name as Feitel son of Nahum HaCohen, died 7 Nisan (5)697 I hope this helps, Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia

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Wesetx, There are two parts to your question. In Germany, religions were funded by a proportion of taxes. Everyone was a member of the religion into which they were born - unless they formally renounc

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Peter, I have seen similar situations as a result of surname adoption in both France and the Rhineland. It may be that the older Joseph Mayer was originally called Mayer Joseph. When he had to registe

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Peter, Please make a higher resolution scan and post to Viewmate. See: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ What you have posted here is highly compressed and low resolution. Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne

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Judy, Assume nothing. Personally, I wouldn't consider Menachem and Nechama to be the same name. I know of several cases where siblings had the same name - usually they are named after a deceased grand

#ukraine #names

Brigitte, I have had some success searching for Haifa burials at https://gravez.me/en/search but you will need to play around with the spelling, e.g. EIGER instead of EJGER or EGER. You will have to b

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Alberto, Under the message is a line of links. Click on "View/Reply Online". On the web page that is displayed, click on the button that says "View all x messages in Topic". It is pretty clunky, but t