Emil's Berlin death record, available at ancestry.com, says he was indeed born in Gehrden. It gives his date of birth as 26 September 1871. Simon Srebrny (from London, in Berlin)

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OMG, Myra, I corresponded with your mother and met her and her second husband in Berlin several (many) years ago! We are not quite related. I could explain. I shall think hard about how to find your l

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I can't answer your question, but I have put together a modest, incomplete tree of this Herrnstadt family. Else Herrnstadt, wife of Oscar Grab, was born in Lissa on 21 Feb 1884. Simon Srebrny from Lon

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That's a very abrupt request! And it's not easy to fulfil. I tried to visit that cemetery two years ago. Access is through private property, where there was a barking dog. There is no public path to a

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FYI: Neither Carlsruhe in Upper Silesia nor Militsch in Lower Silesia is in the Poznan region. Simon Srebrny

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Carlsruhe O/S = Carlsruhe, Oberschlesien = Carlsruhe in Upper Silesia = nowadays Pokój, Poland. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokój,_Opole_Voivodeship Militsch = Milicz See https://en.wikipedia.or

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I just discovered that my Sura Czarna Goldreich was indeed the wife of a Leybus Chaim Margules, a kupiec / merchant living in Brody, when she gave birth to their son Maness Margules in Lublin on 28 Au

How amazing that somebody else -- hello Beulah Gross! -- has been looking into this person at the same time as me! I think Sare Czarne Margulies is in fact not a Margulies but a Goldreich. Here is why

Margaret Levin asked about how to request Stolpersteine in Poland. The first step is to contact the artist's team, not any Polish authority: http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/steps/ Here are the contacts

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Margaret Levin asked about how to request Stolpersteine in Poland. The first step is to contact the artist's team, not any Polish authority: http://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/steps/ Here are the contacts

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Majer Balaban writes in his history of the progressive synagogue in Lwow that the lawyer Dr Emanuel Blumenfeld, b. ca 1801, d. Lwow 1880, was a descendant of the Reizes family, implying that he was a

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Majer Balaban writes in his history of the progressive synagogue in Lwow that the lawyer Dr Emanuel Blumenfeld, b. ca 1801, d. Lwow 1880, was a descendant of the Reizes family, implying that he was a

#galicia

Judith Singer asked about the father of Abraham and Benjamin Singer. He was Rabbi Pesach aka Fulop Singer (umlaut over the u in Fulop), b. in 1816 in Uhersky Brod (now in the Czech Republic), d. 1898,

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Judith Singer asked about the father of Abraham and Benjamin Singer. He was Rabbi Pesach aka Fulop Singer (umlaut over the u in Fulop), b. in 1816 in Uhersky Brod (now in the Czech Republic), d. 1898,

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Dear Colleagues, I would be extremely grateful for a little help in reading (deciphering) the 1826 marriage record >from Kalisz of Hawe LIPSZYC, sister of my ggg-grandma Estera HOROWICZ nee LIPSZYC of

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Dear Colleagues, I would be extremely grateful for a little help in reading (deciphering) the 1826 marriage record >from Kalisz of Hawe LIPSZYC, sister of my ggg-grandma Estera HOROWICZ nee LIPSZYC of

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Dear Colleagues, I would be extremely grateful for a little help in reading (deciphering) the 1826 marriage record >from Kalisz of Hawe LIPSZYC, sister of my ggg-grandma Estera HOROWICZ nee LIPSZYC of

#poland

Dear Colleagues, I would be extremely grateful for a little help in reading (deciphering) the 1826 marriage record >from Kalisz of Hawe LIPSZYC, sister of my ggg-grandma Estera HOROWICZ nee LIPSZYC of

#poland

Dear Colleagues, In part two of his essay, Deutsche Einwanderungen in polnische Ghetti, published in the Jahrbuch der Juedisch-Literarischen Gesellschaft, volume 5, 1907, Rabbi Dr Louis Lewin writes o

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Dear Colleagues, In part two of his essay, Deutsche Einwanderungen in polnische Ghetti, published in the Jahrbuch der Juedisch-Literarischen Gesellschaft, volume 5, 1907, Rabbi Dr Louis Lewin writes o

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