I have done a little research into his family because of fiddly non-blood connections to my family and to the family of a friend of mine. I forwarded your post to that friend with the request that she

#russia

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)

#germany #holocaust

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

#germany #holocaust

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

#germany #israel #photographs

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

#poland #photographs

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

#poland

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

#translation #poland

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

#poland

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

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,

#general

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,

#general

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

#rabbinic

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

#rabbinic

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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