Thanks Bernard for this answer to my question. Is there a central database I can search to see whether Paul STRANSKY was in a French camp before 1940 when he joined the French Army? I did find the ent

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Bingo I found that my cousin Paul STRANSKY was a foreign volunteer in the French army under Laval. Marvellous. Daniela Torsh Sydney, Australia

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I'm searching for any information about a distant cousin Paul STRANSKY. He was born in Vienna 1905 to Else and Emil and somehow managed to leave Austria and ended up living and working in Paris by 194

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Thanks a lot Peter for posting Bernard's guide to research in France. I have found naturalisation for Paul STRANSKY a cousin of my mother's in 1946 the year I was born in Prague. Now I need to find ho

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Thanks to quite a few people who have helped me uncover more information about some distant cousins of my mother's family. Else Stransky was born 1882 in Podmokly today Decin in Czechia. Her mother Lo

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I am starting to research a relative of my great grandmother Wilhelmine POLLAK. She had an older sister Charlotte Loebl born in Eidlitz in Bohemia who married Moritz FRANKL. One of their children was

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Hi Selma. I'm afraid a friend has already been to the cemetery to take the photo of Heinrich Neumann's grave. You'll have to ask again separately in this group. The burial record should be at the IKG

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Hi Misha, I am asking for a friend. She says her uncle died of malnutrition. That's all I can tell you for now. Thanks for the cemetery information. I didn't know that the IKG had a hospital. I had re

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Could some kind person please take a photograph of a grave at the Zentralfriedhof for me? Heinrich Neumann born in Lvov in October 1913 died in Vienna in 1941. According to JewishGen JOWBR he is burie

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another way of finding someone is to check the arrivals by ship via the National Archives records. These are easy to use. If you cannot find anything write to the National Archives and they will help

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The Czech Nat Archives also has the Familiant books and they are also available online. Not sure if that helps but worth looking at. Lenka Matusikova is the expert on the Jewish records. Ask her. You

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Just finished reading a terrific non fiction book " A woman of no importance" about an American spy who worked first for Brits OSE and later for Yanks OSS. Her name was Virginia Hall (born east coast

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Look at the marriage certificate for your grandmother. It ought to have his name and possibly other information that could help.

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Recht als Unrecht is a book of names of Jews who filled out forms to detail what possessions they had so the Nazis could confiscate them before they emigrated. Its held in the National Library in Vien

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Hi Leah, I found a whole cache of these questionnaires in Jerusalem at the Centre for the history of the Jewish People. I managed to find some relating to my cousin Fritz Lichtblau. He and his mother

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