That's Klempner (rather than Klimperer), meaning tinsmith or tinker. (Some dictionaries say plumber, but the presence of water or sewage isn't necessarily implied.) See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K

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Feigie, it has now become evident that this has no connection with the Arolsen Archive as we know it - it just happens coincidentally to be located in the same town. Hence I don't see anything to be g

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I believe the mystery is now resolved. Immense thanks to everyone who has replied on this board or contacted me privately, and specially to Sohail, Martha and all others (you know who you are) who hav

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I have received the following PM message from Joachim Mugdan, a regular poster on this board, which he has kindly given me permission to pass on. I do so with considerable relief, and with apologies f

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A friend in Germany has kindly sent me a copy of an article about the Arolsen Archives in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, datelined 2 March 2023, by one Roland Schulze. The Archives are of course a u

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Dear Genners I have a real lulu of a problem, which I just can't get my head around. Would anyone like to take up the gauntlet? In 1845 Jettchen WEINSTEIN, born 1823 , married as her first husband Kal

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Hi Oliver Before you dig too deeply into Marseille, it was actually from Lisbon that your grandparents sailed, on 3 June 1941 on the ss Nyassa, arriving in New York on 13 June. The shipping manifest i

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My great-grandmother Amalie Fränkel, born Sandbank, died in Berlin in March 1927 aged 72. Her death record (source Ancestry) states that she was born in "Tysménica in Ungarn" [Tysmenica in Hungary]. I

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I agree too. The German name for this town was Meseritz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C4%99dzyrzecz Peter Lobbenberg, London

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I'll leave others to comment on questions #1 and #2, but as to #3: Is it possible that your relative and wife No. 1 divorced? Granted, this would (sadly) have entailed each of them lying on the occasi

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I am involved with other posters in researching the all-too-short life of Rolf Rudi Grab, born Breslau (Wroclaw) 1919, a religious Jew. He moved first with his family to Hannover, then in 1939 to Engl

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Dear Lee, You wrote: "In another case, a 3rd cousin has sent me several nasty notes because I entered her beloved grandmother's name as "Sophie Sophia Sonia" in my tree. She argues that having known h

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Hi Hanna, Respectfully, I think you may have misunderstood. Although Schömberg is in the same geographical area as a number of the Gross Rosen subcamps, notably Landeshut which is only a few miles awa

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I must apologise for my inaccurate reply yesterday. Firstly, the image of your mother's postcard did not show up on my screen: I find it only now, by clicking the little green box that appears below y

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Schömberg [note the umlaut]!, now Chełmsko Śląskie, is a village 17km south of Landeshut (now Kamienna Góra). Wikipedia confirms that "during World War II the Germans established and operated a branch

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Hi Peter Here is the link: https://www.ljgamsterdam.nl/en/rabbis Best wishes Peter Lobbenberg, London

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Hi JoAnne To add to the mix: I was born in 1939 and my paternal grandfather, let alone 3xgreat-grandfather, in 1861. But my mother's first cousin (born 1942) can better that: her grandfather [my mater

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Consider Miechówka in Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miechówka Peter Lobbenberg

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Hi Myra I think this will interest you: not only was Ida still living in 1939, but her son Emil - by then in Shanghai - was still in touch with her! See http://www.rosenblumcoins.com/35d, item 1237. E

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According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._10_(Inter-Allied)_Commando#No._3_(X)_Troop, "A total of 130 men served in X Troop; they never fought as a complete unit but provided valuable s

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