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Robert Dupuis (Rob.Dup.@gmx.de) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Shalom, ------------------------------------------------Here are my newest informations about my maternal Kantorowitz ancestrory from Slonim, Gubernia Grodno, Belorus (founding into the State Archiv in Grodno): I. Movsha Kantorovitsch, b. 1750 in Slonim, married with ? D. ? in Slonim ? Movshas child: I.I. Leib Movshevich Kantorovitsch, b. 1771 in Slonim, d. between 18834 and 1853 in Slonim. Married with ? Leibs Movshevichs childrens: I.I.a. Lazer Leibovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1806 in Slonim, d. before 1853 in Slonim, married with ? His child: Sender-Movscha Lazerovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1832 in Slonim, d.? Married with ? Sender-Movschas childs: a. Laser Senderovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1851 in Slonim, married with ? Childs ? D. ? b. Leib Senderovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1852 in Slonim, married with ? D. ? Childs ? c. Noson Senderovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1855 in Slonim, married with ? D. ? Childs ? other childs of Leib Movshevich Kantorovitsch: I.II. David Leibovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1821 in Slonim, married with ? D. ? David Leibovich childs: I.II.I. Jankel/Jakob Davidovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1833/1836 in Slonim, married in Riga/Latvia with Minne Mindel (Wilhelmine Henrietta)Isaakovna Keilmann. My late great-great-grandfather Jakob/Jankel David Kantorowitz worked as a translator and from 1861 til 1900 as a railway official for the St.Petersburg-Warszawa railway compagnie. In 1895/96 he lived with his wife in Warszawa. TZhe location of their death were unknown. Jakob can be dies 1903 in Warszawa or in St. Petersburg and his wife Wilhelmina 1914 in Warszawa or in St. Petersburg ??? Childs of Jakob/Jankel and Minne Mindel/Wilhelmina Henrietta Kantorovitsch: a. Sophia Jakobovna Kantorovitsch, b. 1863 in Vilnius, married with ? childs ? d? b. Alexandr Jakobovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1866 in Vilnius, married with ? childs ? d. ? and my late great-grandmother: c. Eugenie Jakobovna Kantorovitsch, b. 1868 in Vilnius, 1886 married in Riga with the surgeon dentist Isidor Philipovich Keilmann (b. 19.9.1856, killed into the Ghetto Riga 30.11.1941); killed into the Ghetto Riga on Nov. 30, 1941. Childs of Isidor and Eugenie Keilmann: a. Harriet Ellen Siderovna Keilmann, b. 1886 in Riga, d. 1933 in Berlin/Germany; married 1908 in Riga with Harald Woldemar von Rathlef. My late aunt Harriet was a famous expressiv scluptress. Their childs: a. Monika, b. Marianna, c. Elisabeth, d. Karl-Ludwig (called Ulf) b. Paul Otto Sidorovich Keilmann, b. 1888 in Riga, d. 1940 in Riga, married 1909 in Riga with Alide Wilson. Their childs: a. Gerta Auguste; Hans and Karina; c. Nikolai Alexander Sidorovich Keilmann (my late grandfather), b. 1896 in Riga, married 1919 in Heidelberg/Germany with Anna Johanna Hirn, killed on March 30, 1942 into the CC Stutthof near Gdansk. Childs of Nikolai and Anna Keilmann: a. Ingeborg Harriet Auguste Keilmann, b. 1920 in Heidelberg/Germany, d. 1981 ion Weiden/Germany, married 1960 in Berlin/Germany with Hans Karl-Jürgen Schulte. They have two childs: Christina and Klaus b. my late mother: Doris Maertha Dagmar Keilmann, b. 1927 in Offenbach/Germany, d. 2003 in Berlin/Germany, married 1951 in Hamburg Germany with Ludwig Emil Dupuis. Their childs: Ferdinand Louis Claus; André Stephan Peter and me: Robert Alexander René other childs of David Leibovich Kantorovitsch: I.II.II. Sholom Davidovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1838 in Slonim, married with ? childs ? d ? I.II.III. Schlioma Davidovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1842 in Slonim, married with ?, childs ? d. ? Other child of Leib Movschovich Kantorovitsch: I.III. Lipa Leibovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1803 in Slonim, married with ? d. ? Childs of Lipa Leibovich: I.III.I. Jankel Lipovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1819/1822 in Slonim, married with ? His child: Honon-Leib Jankelovich/Jakobovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1852 in Slonim, married with ? childs ? d. ? I.III.II. David Lipovich Kantorovitsch, b. 1835 in Slonim, married with ? childs ? d. ? This informations about my Kantorovitsch ancestors were found into the revisions lists of Slonim, Gub. Grodno 1834-1858. Dear reader, if you are relatet with one of my Kantorovitsch ancestors/relativs, please contact me. My post-address: Mr. Robert Dupuis, Weichselstraße 52, D-12045 Berlin, Germany Looking forward for a reply. Best regards Robert Dupuis
Robert Dupuis
- Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 19:44:28 (EST)
Linda Pressman (lindajpr@hotmail.com) Message: My mother, born Chasia Kacowicz (now Helene Burt) in Krivichi, was one of the few survivors of the Nazi massacres. Her father, my grandfather Yaacov, was a shoemaker and was kept alive by the Germans due to this profession, along with his friend, Binyomin Gitlitz, the tailor. My grandmother, now deceased, was born Golda Alperovitz. My mother is now 75; she was 11 to 12 years old during most of these events. Her family ran away from the town prior to the final massacre and lived in the forest until liberation. Thank you for this wonderful site; it has truly touched me. Due to spelling differences and my mother's insistance that she is from Lithuania, not Belarus, I haven't ever found any information before on the town she was from.
Linda Pressman <lindajpr@hotmail.com>
- Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 19:26:08 (EST)
LOS ANGELES, March 10 Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.----- Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die. In the interview, which has been viewed on the Internet more than a million times and has reached the e-mail of hundreds of thousands around the world, Dr. Sultan bitterly criticized the Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries. She said the world's Muslims, whom she compares unfavorably with the Jews, have descended into a vortex of self-pity and violence. Dr. Sultan said the world was not witnessing a clash of religions or cultures, but a battle between modernity and barbarism, a battle that the forces of violent, reactionary Islam are destined to lose. In response, clerics throughout the Muslim world have condemned her, and her telephone answering machine has filled with dark threats. But Islamic reformers have praised her for saying out loud, in Arabic and on the most widely seen television network in the Arab world, what few Muslims dare to say even in private. "I believe our people are hostages to our own beliefs and teachings," she said in an interview this week in her home in a Los Angeles suburb. Dr. Sultan, who is 47, wears a prim sweater and skirt, with fleece-lined slippers and heavy stockings. Her eyes and hair are jet black and her modest manner belies her intense words: "Knowledge has released me from this backward thinking. Somebody has to help free the Muslim people from these wrong beliefs." Perhaps her most provocative words on Al Jazeera were those comparing how the Jews and Muslims have reacted to adversity. Speaking of the Holocaust, she said, "The Jews have come from the tragedy and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror; with their work, not with their crying and yelling." She went on, "We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people." She concluded, "Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them." Her views caught the ear of the American Jewish Congress, which has invited her to speak in May at a conference in Israel. "We have been discussing with her the importance of her message and trying to devise the right venue for her to address Jewish leaders," said Neil B. Goldstein, executive director of the organization. She is probably more welcome in Tel Aviv than she would be in Damascus. Shortly after the broadcast, clerics in Syria denounced her as an infidel. One said she had done Islam more damage than the Danish cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad, a wire service reported. DR. SULTAN is "working on a book that if it is published it's going to turn the Islamic world upside down." "I have reached the point that doesn't allow any U-turn. I have no choice. I am questioning every single teaching of our holy book." The working title is, "The Escaped Prisoner: When God Is a Monster." Dr. Sultan grew up in a large traditional Muslim family in Banias, Syria, a small city on the Mediterranean about a two-hour drive north of Beirut. Her father was a grain trader and a devout Muslim, and she followed the faith's strictures into adulthood. But, she said, her life changed in 1979 when she was a medical student at the University of Aleppo, in northern Syria. At that time, the radical Muslim Brotherhood was using terrorism to try to undermine the government of President Hafez al-Assad. Gunmen of the Muslim Brotherhood burst into a classroom at the university and killed her professor as she watched, she said. "They shot hundreds of bullets into him, shouting, 'God is great!' " she said. "At that point, I lost my trust in their god and began to question all our teachings. It was the turning point of my life, and it has led me to this present point. I had to leave. I had to look for another god." She and her husband, who now goes by the Americanized name of David, laid plans to leave for the United States. Their visas finally came in 1989, and the Sultans and their two children (they have since had a third) settled in with friends in Cerritos, Calif., a prosperous bedroom community on the edge of Los Angeles County. After a succession of jobs and struggles with language, Dr. Sultan has completed her American medical licensing, with the exception of a hospital residency program, which she hopes to do within a year. David operates an automotive-smog-check station. They bought a home in the Los Angeles area and put their children through local public schools. All are now American citizens.BUT even as she settled into a comfortable middle-class American life, Dr. Sultan's anger burned within. She took to writing, first for herself, then for an Islamic reform Web site called Annaqed (The Critic), run by a Syrian expatriate in Phoenix.An angry essay on that site by Dr. Sultan about the Muslim Brotherhood caught the attention of Al Jazeera, which invited her to debate an Algerian cleric on the air last July.In the debate, she questioned the religious teachings that prompt young people to commit suicide in the name of God. "Why does a young Muslim man, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up?" she asked. "In our countries, religion is the sole source of education and is the only spring from which that terrorist drank until his thirst was quenched."Her remarks set off debates around the globe and her name began appearing in Arabic newspapers and Web sites. But her fame grew exponentially when she appeared on Al Jazeera again on Feb. 21, an appearance that was translated and widely distributed by the Middle East Media Research Institute, known as Memri. Memri said the clip of her February appearance had been viewed more than a million times."The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions or a clash of civilizations," Dr. Sultan said. "It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality."She said she no longer practiced Islam. "I am a secular human being," she said.The other guest on the program, identified as an Egyptian professor of religious studies, Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouli, asked, "Are you a heretic?" He then said there was no point in rebuking or debating her, because she had blasphemed against Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and the Koran.Dr. Sultan said she took those words as a formal fatwa, a religious condemnation. Since then, she said, she has received numerous death threats on her answering machine and by e-mail. One message said: "Oh, you are still alive? Wait and see." She received an e-mail message the other day, in Arabic, that said, "If someone were to kill you, it would be me."Dr. Sultan said her mother, who still lives in Syria, is afraid to contact her directly, speaking only through a sister who lives in Qatar. She said she worried more about the safety of family members here and in Syria than she did for her own."I have no fear," she said. "I believe in my message. It is like a million-mile journey, and I believe I have walked the first and hardest 10 miles."
Los Angeles Times
USA - Monday, March 13, 2006 at 15:33:34 (EST)
I went to Belarus in September/October of 2005. Those of you who have not been able to make the trip and would like to see my pictures may view them at shutterfly at the following web sites. Caviat: I am not a professional photographer so don't expect perfection. I made one set of photo albums for everyone interested in my trip, therefore some photos are not of genealogical interest. I may have mislabeled an item or two. My memory isn't what it use to be. ----- Brest Litovsk--- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYvzg ------ Kobrin Cemetery---- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYvZA ----- Kobrin---- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYvig ---- Kamenets--- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYvqA ---- Antopol---- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYsJW ----- Bronnaya Gora---- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYsIS ---- Minsk---- http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Mbs2rZixYsIw ---Shana
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USA - Friday, March 10, 2006 at 13:06:16 (EST)
JHRG of Belarus to me --------------------------------- Dear Eilat, Bargain on purchasing the house was concluded. Congratulations! I am waiting for any further instructions. Shabbat Shalom.------- Yuri Dorn. -------------------------- The house is in Kurenets, Belarus. about 105 years ago my grandfather; Meir Gurevitz was born at that house to Freda nee Alperovitz and Mordechai Gurevitz. In the 1930s the house belonged to my grandfathers' brother; Natan Gurevitz and his wife; Batia nee Aishiski. During the war the house was use by a Jewish underground cell. I plan to turn the house to a small museum.
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- Friday, March 10, 2006 at 10:58:42 (EST)
Moral Obligation Demands That Holocaust Records be Available for Families of Victims WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Because of the continued refusal of the International Tracing Service (ITS) to permit Holocaust survivors and scholars to access the world's largest closed Holocaust-era archive, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which supervises the ITS, to open the archive and permit the ITS's 11 International Commission board member states to copy its records. Having copies of the ITS records at national Holocaust memorials in their countries would allow survivors and their families, as well as Holocaust scholars, to learn the fates of the victims and better understand the Holocaust itself. Many survivors die each year not knowing details of family members' deportation, incarceration, and death. The international community has a moral obligation to address this injustice. Over 60 years after the end of World War II, the ITS remains one of the few, and certainly the largest, closed archive on the Holocaust. At the end of the war, the Allied powers established the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, to help reunite non-German families separated during the war and trace missing family members. Among other information, the vast collection includes massive documentation from concentration camps, slave labor camps and post-war displaced person camps. The ITS has performed important humanitarian functions. However, many families seeking information from the ITS receive responses only years after their requests were submitted, and often the information is inadequate or inaccurate. In addition to the Museum, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in New York, and the 24-nation Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research have demanded that the ITS comply with requests to open the archive and copy the records. Similar materials, though not on the same scale, have been available at archives such as Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and other repositories in Europe. The ITS is failing to live up to the intent of the 2000 Stockholm Declaration to open Holocaust-era archives. All 11 governments on the International Commission of the ITS, the ITS's governing body, have endorsed the Declaration. For the past eight years the ITS and the ICRC in Geneva have said they would open the archive, and during the last two years, intensive negotiations have taken place. In practice, however, the ITS and the ICRC have consistently refused to cooperate with the International Commission board and have kept the archive closed. Museum Chairman Fred Zeidman said: "There is a moral imperative to make these records available now. It is time for the ITS to give the victims their due and the survivors some closure." Ben Meed, president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, emphasized that, "At a time when antisemitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise, we survivors deserve access to this information and the reassurance that it will be open to scholars." SOURCE United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Web Site: http://www.ushmm.org
http://www.ushmm.org
USA - Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 02:32:33 (EST)
I received many emails about a very brave arab woman who said what she felt about killings in the name of Islam and her respect for Jews on Arab T,V- does anyone know who she is?- to see and hear what she said go to; http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar;=1050wmv&ak;=null
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- Tuesday, March 07, 2006 at 17:59:54 (EST)
A note about the poet Moshe Kulbak. Born in Snorgon to Solmon and Zelda nee Gordon in 1896. His daughter; Raia Kulbak survived and lives in Ramat Gan, Israel since the 1990s'. Moshe and his family; wife, children Raia and Ilia, sister Tonia and her husband and daughter, His parents; Solomon and Zelda Kulbak, all lived in Minsk. Moshe and his wife weres taken to a camp by the soviets in 1937. The entire family, other the Raia and her mother, perished near Minsk in c 1942. It took Raia many years to find the details of her fathers death at the hands of the Soviets in 1937. I would like to thank Leon Koll for emailing a link to a site (in Russian) with a detailed story by Raia and another woman who lived with the family in Minsk during their last years ( 1937- 1942) I found a note; Date: March 18, 2004 From: ptureck@rogers.com Subject: Moyshe Kulbak, Vilne I am seeking material on Moyshe Kulbak's poem "Vilne". It can be found in Yiddish, and in translation in "The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse", edited by Khome Shmeruk, Irving Howe, and Ruth Wisse. Has anybody written an analysis of this poem, penned by Kulbak? I want to understand the poem, and its description of Vilne. I also would like to know if there is a university course in North America on "Jewish Vilne", Yerushalayim D'Lite, or a university course on "The Multi-Ethnic Make-Up of Wilno/Vilnius". Nekhame (Naomi) Miller-Tureck Toronto, Ontario for the site in Russian go to; http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/EK/ek971205-1.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/EK/ek971205-1.html
- Tuesday, March 07, 2006 at 12:02:08 (EST)
Attention All who have found their ascendants to be Holocaust victims but not listed on Yad Vashem. The first line of this request says it all. Rachelle Berliner Let no Holocaust Victim be Forgotten It is extremely important that we do not allow the Nazis to obliterate the memory of those they and their cohorts murdered. As you will see below, half of the six million have been remembered at Yad Vashem. But that means that three million are still missing. Please take the time to make certain that each and every members of your family who perished during the Shoah are recorded at Yad Vashem. You can access their website and do your own search. The urgency of the matter is that 60 years after the Shoah ended, those who remember our brothers and sisters who were killed are becoming fewer and fewer. New Community Outreach Guide For Holocaust Remembrance Let no Holocaust Victim be Forgotten Dear Friends, Yad Vashem invites you to join the historic mission of the Jewish people to memorialize every individual Jew who perished in the Holocaust through the collection of the ultimate representation of their identity: their names. To date, half of the six million victims have been recorded in the Central Database of Shoah Victims Names (www.yadvashem.org), where one may access their brief histories and, when available, their photographs, and submit additional names online. Millions of victims may be forgotten forever, unless we recover their names today. We are pleased to offer a new online community outreach guide to initiate local Names Recovery Campaigns. Packed with valuable resources and materials, this free guide will enable Jewish communities to plan and implement meaningful memorial programs, names collection events and related activities around Yom Hashoah - Israels national Holocaust Remembrance Day (this year, 25 April) and other significant dates in the Jewish calendar, such as 10th Tevet, 17th Tammuz, 9th Av, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The guide is designed for use either by an individual or group, such as a synagogue, community center, welfare agency, survivor and next generation group, university or school. You can use it to call upon members of your community or organization to complete a Page of Testimony for each unregistered victim, or to volunteer to assist others with this urgent task. To access the Community Outreach Guide visit: http://www1.yadvashem.org/names/whyCollect.htm Join today, before the generation that remembers is no longer with us.
www.yadvashem.org
- Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 17:28:04 (EST)
I have carefully, but unsuccessfully, searched the EPSTEIN genealogical tables that Dr. Neil Rosenstein has published in his book "The Luria Legacy" for Rabbi Yitzhak Mordechai (HaLevy) EPSTEIN, who lived in either Kossovo or Slonim, or both. He lived c. 1820-1880. His relative Nechemia EPSTEIN (same estimated dates) most likely lived in Slonim. Rabbi Yitzhak Mordechai had six children including a son, Yosef (Joseph) and five daughters. He and Nechemia each had a daughter called Chaya (Ida), both of whom lived in Kossovo prior to their immigration to the U.S.. Can anyone direct me to other sources, preferably in English, or - only if fairly well organized - in Hebrew, but not Yiddish, and where I can find them? I live in Israel and would need to be able to access the material here. If anyone can offer me information on either of the above EPSTEINs, I shall be grateful. Irene Berman Shoham, Israel
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- Monday, February 27, 2006 at 20:18:00 (EST)
Maybe somebody can help me pursue this problem. I found the Volozhin yizkor book and it has a lot of information about my ancestors Rabbi Chaim Volozhin and his son Itzele (1780-1849). It gives the names of four of Itzele's children, Eliyohu Zalmen, Rivke, Reyne-Basye, and Rekhl. But it also mentions two others without giving their names. How can I find out what their names were. I don't think that this is impossible because according to historian Michael Stanislawski, Itzele was probably the best known Russian Jew in his generation. Regards Charles Nydorf
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- Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 14:51:09 (EST)
Some days ago Tzila told me that the next multi-shtetl azkara is planned to take place (as the last year) in WIZO House, 38 David Hamelekh Str. Tel Aviv Wednesday Evening, on March 22, 2006, 18:00. Lndsleit from Radoshkovitsh, Krasne, Rakov, Dolhinow, Volozhin, Vishnevo, Ivye, Ilye, Postav, Ivianets and other Yiddish-Litvak Shtetls - between Vilna and Minsk, are called to participate. Everyone who wants to participate, is invited to let us know ++972-3-55243932, OR through Eilat's site, or my EMail. During the last year passed away two descendants born in Volozhin, both of them survived WWII, in Siberia, exiled by the Soviets in 1940. Reva Shneider, born Rapoport. Deceased in Australia. Benyamin Wand Polak, Deceased in Tel Aviv. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE Last year a small number of natives of Volozhin came.However a number of second and third generation arrived. Sons and grandsons of Mula Polack, Shoshana Berkovitz, Shaye Cahanovitz, Yosef Shvartzberg, Munia perlman, Lila Nachshon- Shiff, Binyamin Shishko, leyzer Melzer , Chaim P{otashnik and others....
Moshe Porat (Perlman)
Tel Aviv, - Saturday, February 25, 2006 at 14:07:36 (EST)
-----------------------INVITATION----------------------- --------to the multishtel memorial service --------------- ----RADUSHKOVITSH-KRASNE-HORODOK-VOLOZHIN-RAKOV ------ --------------------Shoah Martyrs-------------------------- Dear Landsleit, ---------------------------------------------------------- The multi-Shtetl Memorial Service will take place in the WIZO Home, 38 David Hamelekh Str. in Tel Aviv at Wednesday Evening, on March 22, 2006. The doors will open from 17:30, the ceremony will start at 19:00. On the agenda: ---------------------- Words of the shtetl representatives, El Mole Rahamim & Kaddish, Candles lighting, refreshments. The purpose of the AZKARA is to transmit the memory of our annihilated congregations to the young generation. Pls confirm reception of this message and let us know about your participation/offer to carry some words/ your approval to receive the Memorial Service description. Respectfully: The organization Committee Tsila/Itskhak Zilburg, tel: ++972 3 964 7532, ------------------------------------------
Zilburg
Rishon lezion, Israel - Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 19:24:40 (EST)
David Scheinok (david.scheinok@skynet.be) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: Thanks for doing such internet site... it is the first time that I could read some informations about the story of the diaspora cocnerning specific names... maybe I could find some missing links concerning my family... --------------------- From Ancestry.com; Markus Scheinok born; 18 Dec 1893 passed away; Sep 1966 Far Rockaway, Queens, New York -- Sally Sarah Scheinok born; 13 Jun 1907 passed away; Nov 23 1984 Miami, Miami-dade, Florida --------------- Name: Scheinok, Perry A born; 1931- Malka Scheinok - Source Citation: Who's Who in Technology Today. Fourth edition. Five volumes. Edited by Barbara A. Tinucci. Lake Bluff, IL: Research Publications, J. Dick Publishing, 1984. Use the 'Index of Names,' which begins on page 1125 of Volume 5, to locate biographies. (WhoTech 4) ---- Shalva Scheinok- Chicago ------ Allen & Theresa Scheinok - Poway H L Scheinok - New Jersey --- Nancy T Scheinok - Miami Florida --- Norbert E Scheinok San Diego --- Tamir Scheinok, CEO at Fluid--- David Scheinok de Bruxelles ---
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- Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 10:59:59 (EST)
I fell upon this site...doing some research for an upcoming lecture I will be giving. I found my Dad's name, Marvin (Modechai) Ginsburg. I thought I would let you know that my wonderful father passed away on September 2, 2005. My mother, Judith, (Yudis), lives here in Florida. 1964--- Sheri G Mantzoor---- Marvin Ginsburg -- Last Residence: 33066 Pompano Beach, Broward, Florida --- Born: 26 Jun 1906 --- Died: 2 Sep 2005 --- State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951 ) ---- --------
Sheri Ginsburg Mantzoor
Boca Raton , USA - Monday, February 20, 2006 at 14:49:57 (EST)
Dear Siggers An acrostic on the headstone of my gr grandfather Abraham ben Isaac Levi SOLOVEICHIK (1838-1918) declares him to be a descendent of 'Itsele'. Based on some other facts, I am assuming that Itsele refers to Rabbi Yitskhok ben Khayim VOLOZHINER (1780-1849.) Abraham was an Israel so if he is a descendant of Rabbi Yitskhok who was a Cohen it would have to be on the maternal side. Given their dates it would seem most likely that Abraham's father, Isaac, married a daughter or grand daughter of Rabbi Yitskhok. In the 'Unbroken Chain', R. Yitskhok is shown as having three daughters, Rechl, Reyne-Basye and Rivke, but all married other men. So I am considering three possibilities 1. One of the daughters listed was married more than once and one of her husbands was Isaac. 2. There was another daughter, not listed, who married Isaac. 3. One of R. Yitskhok's grand daughters married Isaac. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has information about this. Regards Charles ----------------------- Charles Nydorf wrote ; I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has information about the daughters of Rabbi Itsele Volozhiner (Itzhok) Moshe Porat, the g g grandson of Rabbi Itsele Volozhiner wrote; As for Charles Nydorf question; Rabbi Itsele Volozhiner (Itzhok) was Rabbi Hayim Volozhiner's (Yeshiva Eytz Hayim Founder) son. Reb Itsele's children were: Daughter; Reine Bashe - married Harav Naftali Zvi Berlin HANAZIV Daughter; Rivka - married Rabbi Eliezer Itzhok Fried Daughter Rehl - married Samuel Landau Son Eliyahu Zalman - He called himself and his children by the second name ITZHAYKIN. His grand daughter; Malka Itshaykin (my father's mother) inherited the big stone house (Beys Harav) on the south rib of the Volozhin Market Place and lived there during the twenties/thirties of the past century. Kol Tuv Moshe Porat Tel Aviv poratm@netvision.net.il ------------------------- Dear Moshe,---- I read with great interest that you are a descendant of HaimVolozhiner. I compiled tree of his descendants, which is incomplete. I would love to be in touch to add your knowledge to what I have. Part of the family appears in my book THE UNBROKEN CHAIN. Below is what I know about Rehl/Rechel from my FTW file. I also assume that you are connected to the Rivlins as is Menachem Porat? Sincerely, Dr. Neil Rosenstein Descendants of Rechel Volozhiner 1 Rechel Volozhiner d: June 15, 1854 .. +Samuel Landau b: 1821 d: August 22, 1845 .... 2 Daughter Landau ........ +Haim Hilllel Fried b: 1833 d: 1880------------- Moshe wrote; Hayim Hilel Fried's Children (from Volozhin Yizkor Book); Rehl, Freydele, Shmuel, Eliezer Itskhok, Batia, Ester Shmuel served as a Rov in Vilna, Eliezer Itskhok worked in the tree commerce in Russia and Danzig, Rehl and Ester were married to men in Minsk and Volozhin vicinities. Freydele di Rebetsn - born in Volozhin deceased in Jerusalem. Freydele's husband Avigdor Derechinski served as Rov in Volozhin (late twenties, early thirties XXth century. Di Rebetsn and my Grandma, Babushka Malka Perlman (born Itshaykin) were best friends. As little boy I was invited to Freidele's Rabbinical Sukot diner. Her first son Moshe Zalman Ben Sasson (Lunz) was the first family member to make Aliya. He replaced his second name to Ben Sasson (Son of Joy - as his mother was called.- Freyd is Joy) The whole family made aliya after Moshe Zalman. Moshe Zalman was murdered by Arab terrorists near Yavniel in 1937. The sons Hayim Hilel and Yona were professors in the Jerusalem University. Her grand kids live now in Jerusalem. Yona's eldest son Professor Menahem Ben Sasson is serving as Rector of the Jerusalem Hebrew University. Kol Tuv Moshe Porat (Perlman)
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- Monday, February 20, 2006 at 13:27:20 (EST)
"Richard Persky" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i am interested to learn more about my ancestors who i believe came from the town ivenits(ivenec) near minsk. my paternal grandfather michel persky and his brothers morris and davis settled in england at the beginning of the last century. their brother jacob settled in chicago.i think that there was a sister ann who also came to england. my greatgrandmother came to england but my greatgrandfather remained behind. i have visited the graves in eastern germany of my maternal great and great great grandparents in leipzig and delitcsh. some of the graves were in remarkably good condition. i feel that i should also visit graves in belarus but i have very little information. can you help? best regards richard persky The Persky family from the area between Minsk and Vilna originated in the shtetl Volozhin.Shimon Peres is a member of the family. You could find many of the family graves in the Volozhin Jewish cemetery. You could find Jewish cemeteries all over Belarus. Some are in very good shape. You need a visa to travel to Belarus. I got a visa in Vilnius a day before I crossed the border ( It took about 2 hours) - Did yoy check the site and the Yizkor book for Ivenits(Ivenec)? Do you have pictures to post on the site?
richard persky <rpersky@tintsdirect.co.uk>
- Friday, February 17, 2006 at 19:20:04 (EST)
By Bradley Burston -----------------Haaretz--- There is something that gives Jews and Muslims alike a perverse thrill in calling the other a Nazi. Maybe that's why we can't seem to stop. Both sides ought to know better. Particularly ours. We know this better than anyone: Whenever the Nazis are invoked to condemn an enemy - no matter how brutal - the enormity, the singularity, the very fact of the Holocaust, is diminished. Leveraging the Holocaust to condemn a foe ultimately plays into the hands of Holocaust deniers. If enough leaders are compared to Adolf Hitler, and if the range is wide enough to include George Bush and Yasser Arafat, we could be excused for concluding that Hitler was, in fact, just one of the gang, no different than the rest, no worse. Knowing this doesn't stop us, though. It doesn't even slow us down. The ink had hardly dried on the Palestinian election figures, when a campaigning Benjamin Netanyahu compared the triumph of Hamas with the rise of Hitler and Nazism in the 1930s. The fact is, never before have there been so many ways to deny the Holocaust. Nor more people so keen on taking part. We know very well, for example, why Muslims worldwide call us Nazis. Because it works. When Palestinians, Iranians, or, for that matter, residents of Detroit, call Israelis Nazis, people listen. Europeans love hearing it, of course, because it gets them off the hook. If the Jews are Nazis, they note, then we're all even. Europeans, hearing this, no longer have to feel guilty about having looked the other way, or having pitched right in, when the actual Nazis turned the world's strongest community of Jews into ash. Western leftists who suffer from the Lawrence of Arabia Complex are especially fond of the image of the IDF soldier as SS man, an analogy that jibes well both with omniscient, oversimplified abused-to-abuser sociobabble, and with many academic leftists' multi-syllabic cartoon vision of world events and foreign peoples. They lap it up when Muslims condemn Israel for Nazification, when they call Gaza the world's biggest concentration camp, or when they cite deportation as evidence of genocide. The Nazified Israeli soldier chestnut also frees Muslims from whatever guilt they might otherwise feel when terrorism cuts down innocent people. When defending oneself against ultimate evil, our Muslim cousins assure us, all means are entirely legitimate. There remains, however, an element of such perversity in calling Israelis Nazis that the lies begin to unravel of their own weight. The perversity is especially evident when radical settlers cast themselves in the role of Holocaust victims, wearing Star of David patches and calling Israeli troops Nazis to their faces. Far more insidious, in some ways, is the collective amnesia of the Internet, which is uniquely suited to Holocaust denial through over-analogization. In the era of the e-news junkie, paranoia is the new pornography. And nothing says My Enemy is a Nazi like paranoia. The compulsion to use the term is such that it has spawned Godwin's Law, which states that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." At this point, more than 60 years after the last of the extermination camps was freed, the horror of the Holocaust has so receded from the collective memory that the words Soup Nazi can elicit gales of sitcom laughter. As the shock wears off, the spin-offs multiply: grammar nazi, fashion nazi, feminazi. And as the spin-offs gain currency, the term nazi can stretch to fit any annoyance. At this point, we can apply it to any vaguely persnickety individual we don't much care for. If anyone can be a nazi, perhaps the real Nazis were no worse than the rest of us. To be fair, if we Jews can't keep ourselves from comparing our enemies to the Nazis, we have, if nothing else, two good excuses. One is our tradition. The many sections of our liturgy that inform us that They're Out to Get Us. We drink it in, if not with mothers' milk, then with Passover wine. "For not one man only has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation do men rise up against us to destroy us," we intone, warming up for the Ten Plagues. And if not with Passover wine, then with Purim schnapps, as we toast the failure of an ancient, aborted genocide plan for Persian Jewry. The second reason, of course, is that there actually are men who rise up against us, generation after generation, in order to destroy us. And the generation time is growing shorter and shorter. Only 15 years separate Saddam Hussein's declared Gulf War goal of incinerating Israel, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent suggestion that the Jewish state be wiped off the map. All the while, the holy men of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad have been preaching our elimination. And yet. The Jewish People owe it to the victims of the Holocaust and the survivors still with us, to resist the impulse to liken current threats - as dangerous as and potentially cataclysmic as they may be - to an event of biblical magnitude in the long history of the Jews. The most insidious form of Holocaust denial, after all, reduces the annihilation of six million people to just one more rhetorical argument over current issues. All we can offer the victims and the survivors, is to honor their memory by reminding ourselves and others of the incomparable uniqueness of their unknowable hell. Enough comparisons. Enough cynicism. Let it stop with us.
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- Friday, February 17, 2006 at 08:44:45 (EST)
My father "Samuel David Bingman" a survivor of Lodz, just died on his birthday November 24, 2005 Bruce Bingman (brucebingman@gmail.com) Name: Samuel D Bingman Birth Date: 1932 City: Chevy Chase Margaret L Bingman
Bruce Bingman <brucebingman@gmail.com>
USA - Friday, February 17, 2006 at 07:37:55 (EST)
A note from the Jewishgen digest;Subject: Success Wainer (Winner) Searching SHEPSENVOL and ZIGLIN From: Bopollack@aol.com Beyond our expectation. I grew up with the name Tzak Springer on my lips. My grandfather lost contact with his sisters during WWII. The only name my mother could remember was that one of his sisters married a Tsak Springer. After 64 years thanks to many most kind and vigilant people including Eilat Gordin, the son of Tzak and Shifra has been found in Israel. His name is Shepsel Shpringer. My cousin, Phyllis Grodzinsky Winstead and I are most grateful and very excited. We now learned that there might be family members in the US. The last names are ZIGLIN (family of Eli Ziglin) and the name SHEPSENVOL. (family of Zalmon and Nehama nee Wainer). Our grandfather was Yehuda (Yudel Mendel) Winner. He came to the US with his sister Rebecca Winner Barofsky. His sisters remained behind. They were Chaya, Nehama, and Shifra. It is the family of Shifra that has been found. There is a possibility that some of Chaya's (Ziglin) and Nehama's (Shepsenvol) family survived also. We are searching in the US for the family of Eli Ziglin who was said to have come here. Perhaps the Shepsenvol family as well. Bonnie Mogelever Pollack You could find a huge family tree of the Shepsenvol family of Horodok and Volozhin in Family tree of the Jewish people. Two daughters of that family ( from Volozin) came out of Vina at the start of the war with "Shugiara Visa" . Many of the family members who came to the U.S c 1900 lived in Ohio ( Canton?) http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/horodok/h_pages/h_stories_wainer.html
for pictures and information
- Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 20:43:28 (EST)
Hello. I came accross your web site while surfing the web (with my daughter's help as I am not very technical). My name is Miki Pear and I am a survivor from Warsaw but was in the Stolin Ghetto then hidden by righteous Christians in a small village nearby. Before that, I was (age 5) with my parents in Luniniecz. I am doing research and writing my memoire. Can you help me? What I am looking for is any and all details regarding the Soviet (then Nazi) occupation and destruction of the region. Memorial Books of both ghettos are being translated for me now from Hebrew and Yiddish to English (I do not speak either), but any additional information or contacts you could provide would be tremendously helpful. Are you a survivor yourself? Please contact me at one of the following: Email: pearsies@aol.com Cell Phone: 201.819.7341
Miki Pear
- Monday, February 13, 2006 at 13:44:42 (EST)
- Press Release--- Academic Institute for Jewish Genealogy Opened in Jerusalem --- The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center opened today in the Jewish National and University Library at Givat Ram, Jerusalem. After riveting the attentions of thousands of Jews throughout the world over the past two decades, Jewish genealogy and family history has reached a level of maturity that makes it ripe to take its place in the academic world. To that end, the new Institute has two main aims to engage in Jewish genealogical research and teaching at the university level and to make Jewish Genealogy a recognized academic discipline within the realm of Jewish Studies. The Institute is the only one of its kind in the Jewish world. It plans to operate on an interdisciplinary basis and also in a collaborative way with organizations engaged in aspects of Jewish genealogy. It will put a premium on innovative programmes and projects of practical benefit to individual family historians. Its establishment is the result of efforts over the last two years of an international Founding Committee, headed by Dr. Sallyann Sack, Ph.D., of Washington, DC. Dr. Yosef Lamdan, D.Phil., has been appointed as Director of the Institute. Its telephone numbers are +972-(0)2-658-6967 and +972-(0)526-622-624. Its email address is info@IIJG.org and its home page is located at www.IIJG.org (under construction). Editors/journalists interested in interviews or "human interest" stories are invited to contact the Director.
www.IIJG.org
- Monday, February 06, 2006 at 10:11:56 (EST)
Results of search for victims whose family name (including synonyms and maiden names) is 'Szereszewski ' : 339 names ----------------------------------- Shereshevski* Tzvi- Tzvi Shereshevski was born in Kovno, Lithuania to Shmuel and Cheina nee Levitan in 1933. He was single. Prior to WWII he lived in Kovno, Lithuania. During the war was in Kovno. Tzvi perished in Auschwitz at the age of 10. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 29/04/1980 by his mother Prof. Cheina Ugenia Shereshevski ( Sheri) Tel Aviv---------- Shereshevski* Menakhem - Menakhem Shereshevski was born in Lithuania to Shmuel and Cheina nee Levitan in 1930. He was single. Prior to WWII he lived in Slobodka, Lithuania. During the war was in Kowna. Menakhem perished in the Shoah at the age of 13. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 29/04/1980 by his mother Prof. Cheina Ugenia Shereshevski ( Sheri) Tel Aviv --------- Szereszewski Tuvia-- Tuvia Szereszewski was born in Kowno, Lithuania to Yitzkhak and Dvora. He was a merchant and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Kowno, Lithuania. During the war was in Kowno, Lithuania. Tuvia perished in Kowno at the age of 58. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his relative Chana Segal in Israel------ Szereszewski Berta-- Berta Szereszewski nee Mariampolski was born in Kowno, Lithuania to Khaim and Rivka. She was a housewife and married to Tuvia. Prior to WWII she lived in Kowno, Lithuania. During the war was in Kowno, Lithuania. Berta perished in Kowno at the age of 50. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her relative Chana Segal in Israel-------------- Klompus Hanze --Hanze Klompus nee Schereschewsky was born in Taurage, Lithuania in 1880. She was married. Prior to WWII she lived in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the war was in Kaunas, Lithuania. Hanze perished in 1943 in Estonia. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/03/1977 by her daughter-in-law-------- Krivavnik Anna - Anna Krivavnik nee Schereschevsky was born in Taurogen, Lithuania in 1942 to Isaac and Gita. She was a housewife and married to Jacob. Prior to WWII she lived in Taurogen, Lithuania. During the war was in Kowno. Anna perished in 1942 in Fort 7. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 06/03/1999 by her granddaughter ---------- Shereshewsky Njuta--- Njuta Shereshewsky nee Koifman was born in Kowno, Lithuania to Zakharia. She was a housewife and married. Prior to WWII she lived in Riga, Latvia. During the war was in Riga, Latvia. Njuta perished in 1941 in Riga, Latvia at the age of 40. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 15/01/1956 by her sister-in-law Rivka Shereshewsky in Tel Aviv ---------- Shereshewsky Lazeris - Lazeris was born in Lithuania in 1923 to Mikhael and Sara. He was a carpenter and single. Prior to WWII he lived in Taurage, Lithuania. During the war was in Kowno, Lithuania. Lazeris perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 12/02/1956 by his sister Yona Shefer . . --------- Shershevski Yosef SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Szereszewska Malka GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1898 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Salomon LODZ LODZ LODZ POLAND 1880 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Volf* 1934 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Batia 1936 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Nisan 1930 Page of Testimony Szereszewsky Khaia 1932 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Neli* 1928 Page of Testimony Szereszewski David 1890 Page of Testimony Szereszewsky Elka 1896 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Noakh Page of Testimony ProofReading SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1929 Page of Testimony Miriam SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1901 Page of Testimony Yitzkhak SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1897 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Avraham SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshevski Vladimir SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1900 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Nachman WARSZAWA WARSZAWA WARSZAWA POLAND 1880 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Sula SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Bajarski Sarah SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshewski Shmuel SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1924 Page of Testimony Shereshewski Zorach SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1934 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Joseph BARANOWICZE BARANOWICZE NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1920 Page of Testimony Shereshewski Yehuda SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1897 Page of Testimony Shershewsky Bluma WARSZAWA WARSZAWA WARSZAWA POLAND 1915 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Roza SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1922 Page of Testimony Levin Lova SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1895 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Abraham WOLKOWYSK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshewski Moshe SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1900 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Salomon LODZ LODZ LODZ POLAND 1880 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Chaja SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1924 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Malka GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1914 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Bluma SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1925 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Itzchak SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1898 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Mania SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshewski Miriam SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1898 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Motel SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshewski Ester SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Ana SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1870 Page of Testimony Szraszewski Sara WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND 1875 Page of Testimony Szaraszewski Ester WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Szaraszewski Rachel WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND 1913 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Leib WARSZAWA WARSZAWA WARSZAWA POLAND 1913 Page of Testimony Solowiejczyk Miriam WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND 1900 Page of Testimony Mosin Zelda WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND 1897 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Rachel MARCINKANCE GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1904 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Wolf STOLOWICZE BARANOWICZE NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1917 Page of Testimony Szereszewska Liuba VILNA WILNO WILNO POLAND 1926 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Meir LITHUANIA Page of Testimony Szereszewska Rachel WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND 1895 Page of Testimony Szereszewska Rachel Page of Testimony Geller Lova WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshevski Ruvim MINSK MINSK CITY MINSK BELORUSSIA 1894 Page of Testimony Shereshevski MINSK MINSK CITY MINSK BELORUSSIA 1928 Page of Testimony Lundin Fania MINSK MINSK CITY MINSK BELORUSSIA 1900 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Grigori MINSK MINSK CITY MINSK BELORUSSIA 1929 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Khasia MINSK MINSK CITY MINSK BELORUSSIA 1905 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Ruvim MINSK MINSK CITY MINSK BELORUSSIA 1896 Page of Testimony Drizin Dvora RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony Shereshevskaya RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1934 Page of Testimony Sharshevski RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1933 Page of Testimony Gurvich Traina RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1881 Page of Testimony Shereshevskaya Gerda RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1910 Page of Testimony Shershevsky Boris RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1900 Page of Testimony Slutzkov Sofya RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony Shereshewsky Susanna RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1922 Page of Testimony Shereshewsky Ljuba RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1900 Page of Testimony Shershewsky Aaron RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony Schereschevsky Gerda RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1910 Page of Testimony Shereshewsky Jakow RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony Shershewsky Nechoma RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1904 Page of Testimony Shereshewsky Njuta RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony Stupel Elfriede 1900 list of deportation from the Netherlands Sharshevski Boris RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1902 Page of Testimony Sharshevski RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1931 Page of Testimony Sharshevski Gerda RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1910 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Eizhen RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1932 Page of Testimony Shereshevsky Frida RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony Minz Slawa RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1902 Page of Testimony Name Town District Region Country Birth Date Source Friedman Sonia PINSK PINSK POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony ProofReading SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1929 Page of Testimony Miriam SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1901 Page of Testimony Yitzkhak SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1897 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Meer BRATSLAV BRATSLAV VINNITSA UKRAINE Page of Testimony Vrubel Bluma BIALISTOK BIALYSTOK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1916 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Szmuel DROHICHIN DROHICZYN POLESKI POLESIE POLAND 1889 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Gedaljau DROHICZYN POLAND 1922 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Elka DROHICZYN POLAND 1890 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Brajndla DROHICHIN DROHICZYN POLESKI POLESIE POLAND 1920 Page of Testimony Szereszowski Aron KOBRYN KOBRYN POLESIE POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Avraham SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Meir SIMIATIC BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1903 Page of Testimony Tokarski Nekhama SIMIATICE BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Feiga SIMIATIC BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1875 Page of Testimony Shershevski Vladimir DNEPROPETROVSK DNEPROPETROVSK DNEPROPETROVSK UKRAINE 1925 Page of Testimony Schereschewski Eva BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN GERMANY 1901 list of deportation from Berlin Schereschewski Martha BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN GERMANY 1870 list of deportation from Berlin Schereschewsky Philipp BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN GERMANY 1864 list of deportation from Berlin Szereszewska 1917 card file of Mauthausen camp Stupel Elfriede 1900 list of deportation from the Netherlands Shereshevski PRILUKI UKRAINE Page of Testimony Szereszewski Chaja LODZ LODZ LODZ POLAND 1894 list of Lodz ghetto inmates Schereschewsky Philipp 1864 list of Theresienstadt camp inmates Schereschewski Martha 1870 list of Theresienstadt camp inmates Szereszewska Elczbeta 1912 list of ghetto inmates Berta HORODISHTCH BARANOWICZE NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1890 Page of Testimony Shershevski Leiba 1854 Page of Testimony Ester Page of Testimony ProofReading Page of Testimony Source Szereszewska Mirjam KAMIENIEC LITEWSKI BRZESC BUGIEM POLESIE POLAND 1910 Page of Testimony Szereszewska Sheina DANZIG DANZIG DANZIG Page of Testimony Geller Lova WILNO WILNO WILNO POLAND Page of Testimony Wermund Lola LODZ LODZ LODZ POLAND 1913 Page of Testimony Szereszewska Estera GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1886 Page of Testimony Sharshevsky Chaikel BARANOVICH BARANOWICZE NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1907 Page of Testimony Szereszewsky Khaia 1932 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Neli* 1928 Page of Testimony Shershevsky Volf* ERZVILKAS TAURAGE LITHUANIA Page of Testimony Szereszewski David 1890 Page of Testimony Szereszewsky Elka 1896 Page of Testimony Krivavnik Anna TAUROGEN TAURAGE LITHUANIA 1942 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Betea BESSARABIA REGION BESSARABIA ROMANIA 1887 Page of Testimony Katz Charna TAVRIG TAURAGE LITHUANIA Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Noakh Page of Testimony Szereszewska Wichne WOLKOWISK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND Page of Testimony Szereszewski Yakob GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1927 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Mair SIEMIATYCZE BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Szereszewska Malka GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1898 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Mordechaj GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1902 Page of Testimony Szereszewska Estera GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1886 Page of Testimony Szereszewska 1917 card file of Mauthausen camp Berta HORODISHTCH BARANOWICZE NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1890 Page of Testimony Ester Page of Testimony ProofReading Page of Testimony Miriam SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1901 Page of Testimony Vrubel Bluma BIALISTOK BIALYSTOK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1916 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Meir SIMIATIC BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1903 Page of Testimony Tokarski Nekhama SIMIATICE BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Feiga SIMIATIC BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1875 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Altka WOLKOWYSK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1908 Page of Testimony Szarszewski Jakob KNISZYN BIALYSTOK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Jakob GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1930 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Yaakov GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1927 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Estera GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1882 Page of Testimony Porecki Cypa SZCZUCZYN SZCZUCZYN NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1882 Page of Testimony Kolbowski Chasia SZCZUCZYN SZCZUCZYN BIALYSTOK POLAND 1880 Page of Testimony Shereshevski GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1924 Page of Testimony Shereshevsky MARCINKANCE GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1900 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Rachel MARCINKANCE GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1904 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Abraham WOLKOWYSK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND Page of Testimony Szariszewski Feiga SEMIATYCZE BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1875 Page of Testimony Shifmanovich Ester GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1870 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Chuma SIEMIATYCZE BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Herc SZCZUCZYN SZCZUCZYN NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Szeraszewski Sima GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND Page of Testimony Sima GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1893 Page of Testimony Szeroszewski Fajge SIEMIATYCZE BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1885 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Fania GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1900 Page of Testimony Szerszewska Rachela GRODNE GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1903 Page of Testimony Szarszewska Zelda KNISZYN BIALYSTOK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1902 Page of Testimony Losz Liza SZCZUCZYN SZCZUCZYN NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1892 Page of Testimony Shereshevsky Lolek GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1903 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Fania GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1903 Page of Testimony Magid Maria WARSAW WARSZAWA WARSZAWA POLAND 1890 Page of Testimony Shereshewski Israel GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1920 Page of Testimony Losz LIDA LIDA NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1892 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Ester GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1880 Page of Testimony Sheraszewski Max POLAND Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Majer SMIATICZ BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony Shereshevski* Aharon WOLKOWISK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1919 Page of Testimony Epshtein Rakhel WOLKOWISK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND Page of Testimony Szereszewski Malka GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1914 Page of Testimony Poczapovska Bertha HORODYSZCZE BARANOWICZE NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1900 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Ania WOLKOWYSK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1939 Page of Testimony Shereshevski Shlomo WOLKOWYSK WOLKOWYSK BIALYSTOK POLAND 1935 Page of Testimony Shereshewski Miriam SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND 1898 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Ester GRODNO GRODNO BIALYSTOK POLAND 1887 Page of Testimony Szereszewski Motel SLONIM SLONIM NOWOGRODEK POLAND Page of Testimony Schereszewski Ester SIMIATIC BIELSK PODLASKI BIALYSTOK POLAND 1905 Page of Testimony
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- Wednesday, February 01, 2006 at 08:05:24 (EST)
Louisa Spivack (louspiv@yahoo.co.uk) -- I visited the Kossovo site today and came across my father's uncle, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Szereszewski dated July 1926. It was wonderful to find this, as I am currently trying to find out what happened to my father's large family in Poland/Bylorussia after the war. I know that Rabbi Menachem Mendel died in America in 1929 when he was 83. My grandfather (his brother) Abraham recorded this event in the short family hisory he wrote before he died. My grandfather died when I was one, so I never knew him. Therefore, I got a lot of pleasure to see his brother today. Thank you once again.
Louisa Spivack <louspiv@yahoo.co.uk>
- Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 03:38:22 (EST)
seth persky (perskys@comcast.net) on Monday, Message: discovered your site as i am compiling family history. wow! my name is seth persky, son of marshall and sheila persky. i live in the detroit area. i am trying to find information out on my father's side of the family, persky. his mother and father were rita persky (rita Singer before marriage/ family named was Persinger before arriving in america) and Samuel Persky, who died when my father was just 9 years old (would have been around 1953). i know virtually nothing about him. my grandmother recently died and in looking through old photos, no one seemed to recognize anyone. i know little to nothing about my family history, other than they came from Lithuania. have found some helpful information on this website but little else on internet. there is an old family story how one of my ancestors was a guard for the tsar, and when he was killed, the family came to america, but have little information on the name, the area, etc... any help or direction would be g! really appreciated-------------------------------
seth persky <perskys@comcast.net>
USA - Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 03:34:36 (EST)
Keith Levit (klevit@shaw.ca) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Comment Home Page: http://www.keithlevitphotography.com Message: You may be interested in my return to the shtetl web-site http://www.keithlevitphotography.com/exhibitions/shtetlindex.html It was an amazing journey back to my roots - my zaida Velodie Levit and baba Malke karasick
Keith Levit (klevit@shaw.ca)
- Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 03:31:10 (EST)
From the internet; Hello, My grandfather's name was Yudel Mendel Winner or Wiener/Wienner. He came over from Minsk with his sister, my tante Becka (Rebecca). His mom's name was Hilda and my cousin says the husband was Gordon ( Gutel). She was a stern one! He had 4 sisters and we lost contact with them after WW2. Hilda and Gordon previously had managed an apple orchard in Minsk. Does this make any sense? Yudel and my baube lived in St.Albans, Vt. They had 10 children (3died at birth, one was mentallly retarded). Make any more sense? My cousin is also looking for those missing sisters--one married Ytzhak Shpringer? Any infor would be appreciated------------- Hello! I'm Phyllis Grodzinsky and my grandfather was Julius (Judel Mendel) Winner. It wasn't originally Winner and I've been scouring the Ellis Isle Website (can't remember how to get back there!) for a Wiener,Wienner, Weiner, Weinner to no avail. He had 5 sisters and I understand he came over with my Tante Becca ( Rebecca Winner married David Barofsky and settled in Elkton, MD.) from Minsk. I guess his parents managed an orchard around there and I guess Minsk was not such a good area for the Jews) (was there any good area?) We don't know what happened to the 4 other sisters. I guess my cousin Bonnie says that one of them married a Springer (interesting, like Jerry) --------------------------- Dear Phyllis, I spoke to Shepsel Shpringer ( born in 1923) today. He told me that his mother; Shifra nee Winer, had a brother Yehuda Winer in America who had many children. He also knows of a sister of his mother who came to America. Three Winer sisters did not come to America. His mother Shifra married Ytzhak Shpringer and Lived in Horodok with 8 children, Only he survived as a partisan and later in the Red Army ( two of his brothers were with him and killed as fighters. Another sister married a Shpsenwol and lived in Horodok with 7 children. They all perished. One married a Zoldin and lived in Minsk. He found her son after the war and they are in touch with the children in Minsk. The family Winer originated in a tiny town east of Minsk Shepsel Shpringer has a son ( Ytzhak Shpringer) and a daughter. He has six grandchildren and some great grandchildren. He was always hoping to find the family of his mother in America and was unable sine Winer is a common name.
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- Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 14:39:31 (EST)
Yves Sobel (webmaster@levinas100.org) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: Congratulations for this exceptionally valuable and informative site! May I suggest you add the outstanding philosopher Emmanuel Levinas born in Kovno on January 12, 1906. Numerous events and international conferences in the World, including Kovno, celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. You can find them on a dedicated website: http://www.levinas100.org Message: You can find data and pictures on members of Levinas family from Kovno on the following web pages: http://www.levinas100.org/01freres.html http://www.levinas100.org/00DVEIRE.html http://www.levinas100.org/00JECHIE2.html http://www.levinas100.org/biogr.html Links to more pages on Emmanuel Levinas: http://www.levinas100.org/liens.html
http://www.levinas100.org
- Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 01:49:47 (EST)
Phyllis Grodzinsky Winstead (Psherryred1@verizon.net) Message: Hello! I believe Shepsel (Sabtai)Shpringer to be my second cousin. I believe my mgf Julius (Judel Mendel Winer or Vainer) was his mother's brother. His mother's (Shifra) parents, of course were my great grandparents, Godel and Hilda (Hinda). I used to stare at their picture over the wall in my grandmother's guest bedroom! Julius was the only male with about five sisters and no one even knew their names. Just that all correspondence stopped abruptly and no one ever heard from them again. All me and my cousin Bonnie Mogelever Pollack had was a name Tzak or Jack Shpringer until I went on the Yad Vashem website and pulled up a memory and a tragedy knowing that Shepsel had siblings that also perished. I read that he was a partisan. That would be typical for the "tough as nails" Winner (my grandfather changed his name) side of the family. If anyone has any info please, please, e-mail me double quick. I'm 51 and there is so much more I need to know!! Phyllis ---------------------------------------------------------- It seems that Shepsel had 4 older brothers and 3 much younger brothers ( only one was a girl named for her grandmother; Hinda). Shpringer Ytzkhak Ytzkhak Shpringer was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1885. He was an argriculturist ( horses) and married to Shifra. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Horodok, Poland. Ytzkhak perished in 1943 in Horodok, Poland at the age of 58. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 01/01/1990 by his son Shepsel/ Shabtai Shpringer. 115 Rothchild Street, Petach Tikva Shpringer Shifra Shifra Shpringer nee Winer was born in Russia in 1897 to Gutl and Hinda. She was a housewife and married to Ytzkhak. Prior to WWII she lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Horodok, Poland. Shifra perished in 1943 in Horodok, Poland at the age of 46. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/01/1990 by her son Shepsel/ Shabtai Shpringer. 115 Rothchild Street, Petach Tikva Shpringer Yaakov Yaakov Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1915. He was an argriculturist. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Army, Ussr. Yaakov perished in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/01/1990 by his brother Shpringer Faive Faive Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1918 to Ytzkhak and Shifra nee Winer. He was an argriculturist. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Army, Ussr. Faive perished in 1941 in the Shoah at the age of 23. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 01/01/1990 by his brother Shpringer Dodel ( David) Dodel Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1921. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Horodok, Poland. Dodel perished in Horodok, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/01/1990 by his brother Henek Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1922 to Ytzkhak and Shifra nee Winer. He was a pupil. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Army, Ussr. Henek perished in 1944 in the Shoah at the age of 22 as soldier in the Red Army. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/01/1990 by his brother Gutel Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1932.he was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Horodok, Poland. he perished in 1942 in Horodok, Poland at the age of 10. This information is based on a Page of Testimony ( submitted on 01/01/1990 by his brother. Hinde Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1936 to Ytzkhak and Shifra nee Winer. She was a pupil and a child. Prior to WWII she lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Horodok, Poland. Hinde perished in Horodok, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/01/1990 by her Zalman Shpringer was born in Horodok, Poland in 1938 to Ytzkhak and Shifra nee Winer. He was a child. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. During the war was in Horodok, Poland. Zalman perished in Horodok, Poland. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 01/01/1990 by his brother.
Phyllis Grodzinsky Winstead <Psherryred1@verizon.net>
- Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 01:47:09 (EST)
David Eberiel (David_Eberiel@uml.edu) -- Message: My grandfather immigrated to the U. S. around 1904 from llja. His name was Jeschiel Eberiel(Changed to Julius Eberiel in the U.S.). I have a copy of the manifest of the ship he came in on. Any information on him before(or after) he immigated would be appreciated. Please e-mail: David_Eberiel@uml.edu
David Eberiel
- Friday, January 27, 2006 at 14:39:06 (EST)
Message: who has information about the Joseph and Leah Upin family from Seda, Lithuania. In 1920 Leah Upin came to the United States wih 6 children, Marion, Jennie, Sarah, Saul, Orrin and Samuel. Charles and Otto preceded their mother to the United States.Joseph was deceased. We are looking for any known relatives of this family. We know of no siblings nor their decendants of either Joseph or Leah. All of that generation are now deceased but our children are interested in knowing extended family. Does this sound familiar to anyone? http://www.assetprotection.pisem.net From: ernic66ernic@hotmail.com (Remo Rimo)
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USA - Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 13:19:17 (EST)
bonnie mogelever pollack-- frederick, Md---- Bopollack@aol.com ---- Shpringer Ytzkhak-- Ytzkhak Shpringer was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1885. He was a farmer and married to Shifra. Prior to WWII he lived in Horodok, Poland. I need help understanding who to contact about this person or persons related who are listed. I the oldest grandchild of Julius Winner (Yudel Mendel Winer) son of Gordon and Hinda parents of Yitzhak Springers wife Shifra. Julius was one of 5 children, the only son. His sister married Yitzhak Springer and the correspondences stopped around 1941 or so. Last words, "things are getting really bad." My cousin alerted me to the Yad Vashem site and the name. All facts match. I do not know how to contact the person who posted the information in the guestbook. Any information would be appreciated.
bonnie mogelever pollack
USA - Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 12:59:31 (EST)
Lionel Rogosin was the son of Israel who was an HONORARY CHAIRMEN of Anshei Volozhin; with Irving Bunim and Samuel Rudin. from the internet; Lionel Rogosin remembered: --Friends and fans gathered at the Anthology Film Archive on July 13, 2001 to recall the life and work of Lionel Rogosin, whom John Cassavetes once called "probably the greatest documentary filmmaker of all time." The memorial for Rogosin, whose grandfather was a Talmudist from Volozhin ; Shalom Eliezer Ragosin , was followed by a screening of "On the Bowery" (1956), Rogosin's close-up look at the poor on skid row. Seen: Rogosin's sons, Daniel, a Los Angeles filmmaker, and Michael, an artist living in Angers, France; Michael's wife, Pascale Rivault Rogosin, a teacher, and 14- year-old son Elliot; and Robert Downey.
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- Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 12:50:33 (EST)
Philanthropist Andrea Bronfman killed in road accident in NY ------------- By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent ----------- Andrea Bronfman, the wife of Jewish Canadian billionaire Charles Bronfman, was killed in a traffic accident in New York Monday. Bronfman was hit by a passing car during a morning walk near her apartment. Her funeral will be held on Friday on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who are friends of the family, were notified of her death. In 2002, when Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem, he gave Andrea Bronfman the key to the city. Advertisement Andrea Bronfman was born in Britain in 1945 to parents who were active in the Zionist Movement. Her father, Haim Morrison, headed the United Jewish Appeal in the U.K. In June 1982, she married Charles. The couple did not have children together and Bronfman had three children from a previous marriage. The couple used to divide their time between New York and Jerusalem, where they would stay in Bronfman's parents' apartment in the Talbieh neighborhood. The Bronfmans are among the world's leading Jewish philanthropists. The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Foundation supports a broad spectrum of organizations and institutions in the field of education, welfare and strengthening Jewish identity. Andrea Bronfman was an art collector who devoted much of her time to supporting cultural institutions and artists. She was also active in the campaign for Soviet Jewry. The couple also invested in Israel's business sector over the years and are among the owners of the Koor concern. Jewish Agency chair Ze'ev Bielsky said Bronfman's death was "a huge loss to the Jewish people and Israel." The birthright program, of which Bronfman was one of the founders, said "Andrea's death is a terrible loss." The World Jewish Congress today joined Jews in communities around the world in mourning the untimely passing of Andrea Bronfman. "Andrea Bronfman was a pillar of her family and the entire Jewish community. She was an activist as well as a philanthropist," said Israel Singer and Stephen E. Herbits, chairman of the World Jewish Congress Policy Council and secretary-general. "Her way was that of the Jewish matriarchs and her passing leaves a void that can never be filled... She was cut off in the prime of her life," they added.
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- Monday, January 23, 2006 at 19:16:02 (EST)
Subject: ROSNER From Krakow From: Abuwasta Abuwasta Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:24:15 -0800 (PST) X-Message-Number: 1 My name is Jacob Rosen from Jerusalem. I am the son of the late Leon Leib Rosner (1903-1999) who was the youngest child of Jakub Chiel Rosner and Ittla Borgenicht. My father was convinced until his death that he was the only survivor from his family and barely spoke about his brother and 4 sisters. He never mentioned their given names or married names. Last year I managed to find out that a son of my father's sister Channa, Reuven Orschutzer (b.1925), survived and lives in Israel. He gave me the names of the other siblings of my father. Following that I discovered via Yad Vashem that the son of his brother Abraham Meyer, Rudy (b.1920), survived as well and lives in Florida. We reunited last year in Jerusalem (they had not seen each other since 1938). Now I have more or less the list of my father's siblings: 1. Abraham Meyer b. 1890 in Gdow .Disappeared in the USSR. 2. Channa Orschutzer b. 1894/5 in Gdow. Perished in the Holocaust. 3. Erna /Esther Susskind b.1896? in Gdow .Perished in the Holocaust. 4. Beila /Berta (surname unknown) b. 1897-9 married and lived in Tarnow. Perished in the Holocaust Mechla/ Michalina b.1901 in Dobczyce. Was a Communist,married at a certain stage(surname unknown). Disappeared in USSR. 5. Leon Leib b. 1903 in Dobczyce (my father). My grandfather Jakub Chiel Rosner after whom I am named was born in 1866 in Dabrowa Tarnowska to Rubin Rosner and Malka Perlberg. My grandfather moved around 1905 to Krakowwhere he had a big storehouse of coal. My two surviving cousins are named after our ggrandfather Rubin. Mechla/Michalina is probably named after our ggrandmother Malka. All this info was constructed from www.shoreshim.org, JRI-PL, Yad Vashem and my cousins' memory. I wonder whether any one of you came across these names and may shed some light on the two aunts of me whose married names are not known to me. Thanks.
Jacob Rosen
Jerusalem, - Saturday, January 21, 2006 at 17:55:06 (EST)
debra rosen (bubehzeldeh@msn.com) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: looking for members of Rosen family tree that originated from minsk.Information,history.Great grandfather was a schochet
Debra Rosen <bubehzeldeh@msn.com>
USA - Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 12:59:46 (EST)
From: weorion64@AOL.com (Walter G Eife) Message: Hi My surname is Eife and I have located the name in list of survivors at a Vilnius camp of WW2 ---Can anyone tell me the origin of the name ? My great grand father Johann Eife was born in Wetter Hesse Germany around 1840 --he left Hamburg for the USA and arrived in 1860/61 --He was then enlisted into the Union Army in an entire German outfit --the 75th PA VOlInf and he served throughout the civil war and was interrred as a POW in the Andersonville Ga camp---Here it gets ocnfusing as he later married in the Presbyterian church in Philadelphia Pa---I also have census info and also info from Ellis IS that Eife's from Russia came to the USA and listed as religion Hebrew ---Somehow finding roots is so interesting ----thanks for any help Walter G Eife
Walter G Eife
- Monday, January 09, 2006 at 10:47:26 (EST)
From: fulbirdi@aol.com (Richard S. Rome) ---- I believe I am a great grandson of one Shmuel Rome, whose son, Abraham Rome(or some Ellis Island variant of our unknown original name) had a brother , Aaron, murdered in a pogrom around 1905. Abraham immediately fled to the U.S. via Britain where relatives named Solomon kept him briefly. Soon after arriving in NYC, he moved on to New Haven, CT, married Fanny Solomon of Brighton Beach and raised a son, Sol (Solly, Zerach, my father) in New Haven. Do we have records of Zuslav gubernia? I'm desperate for more geneology but also would love to trace Grandpa's passage out of Lithuania. I suppose he could have sailed from anywhere- Melmel, Riga, who knows? As an interesting incidental, my maternal great grandfather, Avram Goldstein from Kiev, emmigrated with De Hirsch funds to Oxbow, Saskatchuan, before 1900 but eventually settled in New Haven and constructed all the housing around Yale University
Richard S. Rome
- Monday, January 09, 2006 at 10:45:06 (EST)
Dear Eilat,------------------- I happened on your site while googling a shtetl. It's really incredible!! Does the rest of the world who are doing their roots know about it? Do the folks at Jewishgen.org know about it at least? I noticed the "Gordin" in your name. One of my great uncles, who I'm trying to track down might have used the name Gordan after leaving Russia. His brother definitely used it after he went to Egypt around the turn of the century (late 1800's). The name used by my great uncle here in the U.S. was "Rubin." Have you traced yourself to Any Rubins, or Calofs, or Adelman? My gg grandfather was named "Abraham Adelman" here in the U.S. He settled with his wife Razel and family in Devils Lake North Dakota. They lived near the Calofs (which is rumoured to be our family name before Adelman), and the Mills and Soslofskys. If any of this rings any bells, I'd love to hear from you. Regards, Wm Adelman Los Angeles
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- Wednesday, January 04, 2006 at 22:56:48 (EST)
Thanks you for your wonderful website. My father was Avrom Chaim Chanowicz and was born in 1911 in Minsk, but spent the first 11 years of his life in Horodok. His parents were Golda and Ben Zion Chanowicz. They eventually emigrated to NYC.
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- Sunday, January 01, 2006 at 12:49:10 (EST)
Do you have old family letters written in Yiddish? ...Is it impossible to read them? Do you want to know what your ancestors lives were like in the Shtetl? I specialize in translating Yiddish handwritten letters, postcards, printed newspaper articles, Yizkor books, and the like. I translate these into understandable English while retaining their original flavor. Address: Mindle Crystel Gross 8870 Boatswain Drive Boynton Beach, Florida 33436 ---------------------------- Phone: 561.369.1854---------- Email: marv144@aol.com
Mindle Crystel Gross
Boynton Beach, Florida - Sunday, January 01, 2006 at 12:06:53 (EST)
From: pedroalper@2vias.com.ar (pedro alperowicz) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http:// Message: Querida Eilat: Por fin voy a cumplir el sueño de visitar Israel.El día 20 de Enero llego con mi esposa Laura y voy a poder concretar el encuentro tan deseado con Edna Litvak ,la prima de mi padre Mauricio Alperowicz. Debo agradecerte a ti porque a través de esta maravillosa página lograste contactarnos. Nunca voy a olvidar nuestro encuentro en New York y las charlas que mantuvimos. Será un orgullo para mí poder encontrarme con otra gente de Kurenetz,por eso al que lea estas notas (aunque estén en español)y desee escribirme con todo gusto le responderé. El año que viene en Jerusalem. Recibe un gran abrazo. Pedro Alperowicz Buenos Aires Argentina
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- Friday, December 30, 2005 at 12:01:38 (EST)
Shalom Leon, I have been talking to Dan Mendelson of Rehovot who studied in the Dolhinov Tarbut school during the years 1935- 1937. He lived at the home of Shmuel Alperovitz ( his daughter was Chaia Sade of Ramat Hakovesh. Her husband is alive in the Kibbutz and is now age 96! !- Dan Mendelson had relatives; Rudel Kaidanow,( sister of his uncle, Chaim Klotz of Ilja) and her children; Chaim and Alper who lived in Dolhinov. Could you ask the older people if they know anything about them? I did not find them on the list. I know that there was a Kaidanow family in Krivichi. There son ; Jerry ( a survivor) wrote me. I think that he said that his family was from Dolhinov. Thanks, Eilat -------------------- Shalom Eilat, I tried to find some answers to your queries. Yes, there was a Kaidanov family in Dolhinov, this was Laibe and Rutke Kaidanov with their three children: Shirle, Chaim and as you mentioned probably Alper ( I could not find out what was his exact name ). Laibe Kaidanov was Jerry Kaidanov's uncle ( Jerry and his brother survived and they live in the New York area). Rutke Kaidanov as it turned out was a cousin of my father Gavriel Rubin, she had siblings: Michle, Faigl and Avrom-Ele. All of them were murdered by the Germans in Dolhinov. I hope I was of some help. Have a happy Chanukah Holiday. Chag Sameach, Leon Rubin
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- Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 11:21:51 (EST)
Sam Weisbord was born in New York in 9- 21- 1911 To Jacob Weisbord and Goldie nee Kaufman ( born in 1888). His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. They came to the U.S c 1890 as children They married in 1907. They had 3 children; Abraham, born in New York in 1908 was an artist, Sam and Mildred born in 1916. The family was involved in the Dairy business. They owned a dairy store.Sam was still a child when his father passed away. By 1930 their 22 Years old cousin Nettie lived with them at the home they owned ( $ 12,000 in 1930). Sam was a book keeper in his youth. Sam Weisbord was the President of the William Morris Agency. He passed away in Los Angeles on 05/07/1986
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- Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 19:52:50 (EST)
Anne McAdam (velvetblue@rogers.com) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Comment Home Page: http:// Message: Dear whoever this information can be of use to: This is regarding your question of who knows anything about Sam Weisbord, who lived in Los Angeles, California 90069. Sam was the President of the William Morris Theatrical Agency, the most prestigious in the business, and I was his executive secretary for three years, from 1976 to 1979. He was quite a character, quite well known for his savvy business knowledge, and for his idiosyncrasies....if someone there is interested and wants to e-mail me directly, I can relate some amusing and heartwarming stories about Sam. I liked him very much. I was much distressed to learn of his death; at that time I was married and no longer working for him. I hope this helps. Anne
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USA - Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 18:43:18 (EST)
From: ASilberf@aol.com Subject: Rubinstein information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am trying to locate Eilat Gordon Levitan for information on the Silberfeld-Rubinstein connection. My great Aunt Gitel Silberfeld was the mother of Helena Rubinstein and I am trying to learn why Arthur Rubinstein, the concert pianist was on Mr. Levitan's Web site on the Rubinstein family. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Alfred M. Silberfeld, Founder, President Emeritus and Life Member Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County Inc. Past Supreme Representative and 54 year Life Member Knights of Pythias. --------------------
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- Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 19:00:59 (EST)
This is no fish tale: Gefilte tastes tell story of ancestry---- BILL GLADSTONE--- Jewish Telegraphic Agency---- TORONTO -- How do you like your gefilte fish: sweet or peppery? The answer may reveal more about yourself and your family history than you might think. You've heard of the Mason-Dixon Line? The 49th parallel? Well, there's also the "gefilte fish line" separating the Eastern European regions where Jewish palates once favored the sweet, from those that preferred the peppery varieties of the tasty traditional dish. Michael Steinlauf, who teaches Jewish studies at Gratz College in Philadelphia, told this to an audience at the 19th annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in New York last month. With some 1,200 participants, this year's conference was by far the largest to date, indicating the continued mushrooming of interest in genealogy among Jews. The "gefilte fish line" ran though eastern Poland. Jews living to the west -- most of Poland, as well as Germany and the rest of Western Europe -- ate the sweet gefilte fish. Those to the east -- Lithuania, Latvia and Russia -- ate the peppery version. But Steinlauf's tale is not just a fish story. It's also about language. He said the "gefilte fish line" roughly overlaps another important line: a linguistic divide between two major variants of Yiddish. Like Henry Higgins, the professor from "My Fair Lady" who could place Londoners by their accents, Yiddish linguists can determine a person's native region by his pronunciation of certain words. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that Jews' taste buds carry significant clues about their origins. Steinlauf wasn't the only speaker at the New York gathering to urge family-tree researchers to look around their own dinner tables and elsewhere in their homes for clues about the past. Rafael Guber, an American genealogist, artist and curatorial designer, spoke about "Using Documents and Ephemera to Retrace Your Ancestors' Footsteps." Old prayerbooks, marriage contracts, ritual washing cups and phylacteries are among the items that may help understand how and where one's ancestors lived, Guber said. Prayerbooks, for instance, may indicate whether one's ancestors were Ashkenazim or Sephardim, and if Ashkenazim, whether they were Chassidim or their opponents, the Mitnagdim. Displaying photographs of various types of head coverings worn in the Old World, Guber indicated when and where each regional variant of the fashion could be found. Even a tombstone in an old photograph can offer a geographical clue, he explained, since only in central and western Galicia did tombstone carvers place clearly visible inset stones within larger tombstones. Guber ended his talk with a Jewish version of the popular British TV program "Antiques Roadshow," inviting audience members to come forward with documents, photographs and other ephemera for instant and public evaluation. The boom in Jewish genealogy began in 1977 with the establishment in New York of the first postwar Jewish genealogical society. Today there are more than 80 such societies around the world, including groups in Belarus, Sweden, Jamaica and Brazil. One of the most successful innovations within the genealogical community has been JewishGen -- www.jewishgen.org -- an Internet information service that started in 1986 as a bulletin board for 150 people. It now sends out 30,000 pieces of e-mail daily and receives some 3 million hits on its Web site every day -- an increase of more than 600 percent over last year. Next year's Jewish genealogy conference is scheduled to take place in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2000. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/12012/format/html/displaystory.html
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- Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 18:48:55 (EST)
School told Nobel Prize winner in economics, `You're no good at math, try auto mechanics' ------------ By Tamara Traubman ------ At the yeshiva high school where he studied, he was told he was not very good in mathematics, and they advised him to choose something simpler, like auto mechanics. But yesterday, Professor Robert Aumann received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his mathematical research into game theory, together with American Thomas Schelling. Aumann, a professor at Hebrew University, received the $1.3 million prize from the hand of Sweden's king at a ceremony in Stockholm. Following the ceremony, the recipients were hosted at a festive dinner attended by diplomats, politicians, businessmen and members of the royal family. Aumann arrived in Sweden with his 35 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as his new bride, Batya, the sister of his deceased first wife. "We had tears in our eyes," said his son, Yonatan. "It doesn't matter that we've known for a long time already; the excitement was enormous." According to the official announcement, Aumann and Schelling received the prize "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis." In remarks during the ceremony, the judges elaborated on this, crediting Aumann with having shown that when a particular situation repeats itself, the very fact that it does so provides opportunities for cooperation, even between parties to a conflict. "War is not irrational," Aumann said earlier last week, adding that military preparedness is the best way to prevent war. "During the long, dark days of the Cold War, peace was maintained because airplanes carrying nuclear weapons were in the air 24 hours a day." Two of Aumann's relatives went to Stockholm a week early to ensure that the arrangements would meet the Orthodox prize winner's religious requirements. In addition to arranging kosher food, they had to ensure that his tuxedo did not contain a forbidden mixture of linen and wool and rent a room near the hall where the ceremony would take place so that he would be able to set out after the end of Shabbat and still arrive on time. At the ceremony, awards were handed out to the prize winners not only in economics, but also in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature. In medicine, the award went to Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for proving that ulcers were caused by bacteria rather than stress. The literature prize went to British playwright Harold Pinter, who is ill with cancer and was therefore unable to attend, but gave a prerecorded speech in which he attacked U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair over the war in Iraq. Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency, of which he is the director general, jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize earlier yesterday. In his acceptance speech, ElBaradei said that if the world is to survive, there is no place for nuclear weapons in it. Therefore, he said, we must ensure both that no country obtains nuclear weapons, and that those that already have them, destroy them. Peace prize awards are often controversial, and this year's was no exception: The Greenpeace organization demonstrated both Friday and yesterday against the award to the IAEA, arguing that even nonmilitary uses of atomic energy, which it is the agency's job to promote, ought to be banned, as nuclear energy is dangerous both to the environment and to human beings. However, it is rare for the scientific prizes to arouse controversy. Thus the opposition to Aumann and Schelling's award was exceptional: Close to 1,000 people, including several dozen Israelis, signed a petition proclaiming it "monstrous" to award a Nobel prize to "two war-mongers." The petition charged that the theory developed by Schelling encouraged the use of military force and helped inspire the U.S. bombing campaign during the Vietnam War, and it accused Aumann, who is right of center politically and belongs to the rightist organization Professors for a Strong Israel, of using game theory to justify Israeli control over the territories. Last year, two Israelis, Professors Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002, Professor Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli working at Princeton University, was one of the winners of the economics prize. A week's hard Labor Amir Peretz's emergency meeting of the 'security shadow cabinet' was ridiculed. Russians vs. Netanyahu Russian immigrants won't forgive Netanyahu, but won't vote for Peretz either. Today Online Ex-Shin Bet chief sued in U.S. over Hamas assassination Responses: 298 World slams Iran's Holocaust denial Responses: 370 Abbas is wasting the chance for peace Responses: 186 Congress to Abbas: Hamas or financial aid Responses: 76 More Headlines 22:16 Israeli professor awarded Nobel Prize in Stockholm 23:50 IDF finds tunnel used for smuggling terrorists from Gaza to Israel 00:11 Two men shot dead, another wounded in Jaffa clan warfare 20:33 Palestinian dies from wounds incurred in Thurs. IAF airstrike 19:03 Adalah boycotts forum due to presence of ex-police chief
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- Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 13:41:44 (EST)
Kira Pilat (kirushka29@yahoo.com) on Friday, December 09, 2005 at 17:25:01 Message: May the memory of your loved ones live on forever! My surname is Pilat too. The lineage is from Slovakia.
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. - Friday, December 09, 2005 at 22:00:47 (EST)
Theodore Joel (Ted) Shoolman was a son of a native of Kurenets; Max Shoolman ------------------ Theodore Joel (Ted) Shoolman of Lighthouse Point, Fla. and Brookline died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005, at his home in Brookline. He was 86. Mr. Shoolman grew up in Brookline and Marblehead, graduated from Harvard in 1941 and was an aviation cadet in World War II. After a brief career in the movie industry in Hollywood, Shoolman became a real estate developer like his father, Max Shoolman, who built the Metropolitan Theater, now known as the Wang Center, in Boston's theater district. Mr. Shoolman was one of the developers of the controversial Charles River Park residential complex near downtown Boston The upscale Charles River Park was built on 48 acres of the old West End neighborhood after it was cleared for redevelopment in the late 1950s. Critics said it was urban renewal run amok. The gritty neighborhood was home to 10,000 residents, but developers and city officials argued that the new complex would boost Boston's real estate economy and revitalize the city. The apartment and condominium complex, which includes Longfellow Place towers, today is home to 5,000 people. Developers in 1999 sold the last large piece of the complex for about $240 million to Chicago-based Equity Residential Properties Trust. Charles River Park is bounded by North Station, the Charles River, Beacon Hill, and Government Center. To read about Mr. Shoolman go to http://www.rejournal.com/ne/Profiles/Profiles/Theodoreshoolman1967.htm
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- Monday, December 05, 2005 at 12:36:15 (EST)
Eliezer Lurie was born in Birzai, Lithuania to Moshe Eliyahu and Miriam. He was a merchant and married to Sara nee Even. Prior to WWII he lived in Birzai, Lithuania. Eliezer died in 1941 in Birzai, Lithuania at the age of 60. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 28/08/1955 by his brothers' son in law; Submitter's Last Name* LEVIN Submitter's First Name ARIE ------------------- Tzvi Lurie was born in Birzai, Lithuania to Moshe Eliahu and Miriam. He was a grain merchant and married to Tema. Prior to WWII he lived in Birzai, Lithuania. During the war was in Birzai, Lithuania. Tzvi died in 1941 in Birzai, Lithuania at the age of 70. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 28/08/1955 by his relative ------------------ Aharon Yaakov Lurie was born in Birzai, Lithuania to Moshe Eliyahu and Miriam. He was a grain merchant and married to Mina Rivka nee Feibush . During the war was in Birzi, Lithuania. Aharon died in Birzai, Lithuania at the age of 60. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 28/08/1955 by his son-in-law. Submitter's Last Name* LEVIN Submitter's First Name ARIE from Herzlia -------------- Bentzion Lurie was born in Birzai, Lithuania to Tzvi and Tema. He was a grain merchant and single. Bentzion died in Birzai, Lithuania at the age of 25. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 28/08/1955 by his relative. -------------------- Sara Lurie was born in Birz, Lithuania to Yisrael and Rakhel Even. She was a housewife and married to Eliezer. Prior to WWII she lived in Birzai, Lithuania. During the war was in Birz, Lithuania. Sara died in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 20/06/1955 by her niece from Israel- ( daughter of her sister); Batia Friedman of Kibbutz Yagur ------------------------- Khasia Lurie was born in Birzai, Lithuania to Tzvi and Tema. She was a sales person and single. Prior to WWII she lived in Birzai, Lithuania. During the war was in Birzai, Lithuania. Khasia died in 1941 in Birzai, Lithuania at the age of 23. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted on 28/08/1955 by her relative.
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- Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 12:02:46 (EST)
Gail Samowitz (gsamowitz@yahoo.com) Message: My name is Gail Samowitz and my father Abraham Chanovich was born in Gorodok in 1911. He lived there between 1911 and 1922 with his mother and her family. Dad and his mother joined my grandfather in NYC in 1922. I suspect there was more family in Gorodok who lost their lives in the Holocaust. My grandmother's family were the Berezowicz's listed in the 1929 Gorodok directory as a butcher. Please contact me if you are connected to this family.
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- Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 11:36:03 (EST)
In 1850 there were about 17,000 Jews living in America. By 1880 there were about 270,000 Jews. Most of these Jews lived in the New York area, which at this time had a Jewish population of 180,000. It would soon grow to 1.8 million. In New York City, the Jewish area was the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The ones who made it quickly moved up to the Upper East Side. And these Jews did remarkably well in the New World. Some famous names of those who made it rich quick were: Marcus Goldman, founder of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Charles Bloomingdale, founder of Bloomingdale's department store Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman, founders of Lehman Brothers Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb, founders of the banking firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co. Jacob Schiff, Loeb's son-in-law , a major finacier Joseph Seligman, who started out as a peddler and became one of the most prominent bankers, the Mandel brothers of Chicago. and more.....
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- Sunday, December 04, 2005 at 11:30:57 (EST)
Notes from the Belarus sig ( Jewishgen)-- .....To Dr. Ioffe's article I would add Abraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin [1863-1941], one of the leaders of the First Zionist Congress in 1893 and president of the Jewish National Fund from 1917 until his death. He was born in Dubrovno, a little town southeast of Vitebsk. The name Ussishkin derives from the Usisa River that flows through the town of Gorodok north of Vitebsk and into the Obol River. -- Z. Usiskin
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USA - Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 14:47:46 (EST)
The role of Belarusian Jews in creating the state of Israel - An article of Dr. Ioffe from Minsk----could be found at; - http://www.open.by/belarus-now/cont/1998/0512/politics/4.html............. Some information from the site..... ....There were a lot of Belarusian Jews among those Zionist activists who performed the great practical work to create in Palestine the independent Jewish state. One of the leaders of the international Zionist movement and the first president of the state of Israel was a native of the place of Motol in Kobrin region of Grodno province (now the village of Motol in Ivanovo region of Brest oblast) Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952). His father Ozer was a rafter and had 15 children. Chaim was the third one. After receiving a traditional Jewish education and graduating from a vocational school in Pinsk he studied Chemistry in Germany and Switzerland. Mr Weizmann got his doctor's degree in 1897, when he was only 23 years old. A year before he joined Zionist movement , and in 1897 he took part in the World Zionist Congress. In 1920-1931 and in 1935-1946 Mr Weizmann was elected the President of the World Zionist Organisation. His ebullient activities contributed to the creation in the British Army of the Jewish brigade at the end of the Second World War. In 1947 Mr Weizmann as a member of a Jewish delegation took an active part in the work of the General Assembly of the United Nations, which discussed a question of Palestine dividing into two independent states - Jewish and Arabic. One can consider as Mr Weizmann's diplomatic merits the including of the Negev areas in the territory of the future Jewish state proposed by the United Nations, and the promoting of the US recognition of the state of Israel. On May 14, 1948, at a day of the new state creation, President of the United States Harry Truman in response to Mr H. Weizmann's personal letter confirmed the recognition of Israel by the United States, and at the end of the same memorable day there appeared a telegram from the leaders of labour parties of the country, which said about their wish to nominate Weizmann's candidacy for the presidency of the state of Israel. Exactly this person secured the promise of the US President to finance the start of economic development of the new state by granting it a $100 million privileged loan, as well as to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel immediately after forming the first democratic government of the country. First, Chaim Weizmann was elected the President of the Provisional State Council of the country, and in February, 1949 - the first President of the state of Israel. One of the largest scientific centres in the country - a scientific and research institute in Rachovota was named after him, on the territory of which (in the garden of his house) he was buried. The place of Vishnevo in Oshmyany region of Vilno province (now the village of Vishnevo in Volozhin region of Minsk oblast) gave to the world a Zionism leader Nachum Goldman (1895-1982). When he was 24, he defended his thesis and got the degree of Doctor of Law, and when he was 25 - the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1936 Nachum Goldman become one of the founders of the World Jewish Congress. He was the first chairman of its Executive Council, and in 1949-1978 - the president of the World Jewish Congress. At the beginning of the Second World War, Nachum Goldman moved to New York, where he began the propaganda and fight for the immediate creation of the independent Jewish state. In 1948-1956 he was the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Zionist Organisation. On all of his responsible chairs Nachum Goldman did his best to promote the creation and international recognition of the state of Israel. Abba Achimeir (Abba Shaul Geisinovich) was one of the leaders of the Zionists-revisionists, an ideologist of the revisionist movement's most radical wing, a politician and a talented publicist. He was born in 1898 in the village of Dolgoe in Soligorsk region. In 1928, when he lived in Palestine, Abba Achimeir joined Zionists-revisionists and became a supporter of active resistance to British mandate authorities. In 1935 he was arrested and imprisoned for organising the illegal "Rebels Union" (Brit-gabirionim). Abba Achimeir's views have significantly influenced the shaping of Ezel and Lechi underground combat organisations' ideology. He died in 1962. The native of the town of Bobruisk, Berl Kaznelson (1887-1944) became the leader and ideologist of the Zionism labour movement. His aim was to create an independent Jewish state in Erez-Israel, in which the society of equal workers will own the land and natural resources. In 1939 Katsnelson together with David Ben-Gurion became a leader of the party's "active" wing, that proclaimed stepping up the struggle against the British mandate authorities. He became an initiator of the "Kol Israel" underground radio station creation and the issue of the illegal journal Eshnav. At the beginning of the Second World War Berl Kaznelson agitated for the mobilisation of the Palestine Jews to the British army, and he viewed that as a way of the Jewish armed forces training. At the end of the War Kaznelson joined those people who required the urgent creation of the Jewish state, notwithstanding even a possibility of the country's division. Today the kibbutz Beeri, the training and pedagogical Bet-Berl centre of the Malai party and the Oholo training centre are named after Berl Kaznelson. A native of the place of Mir in Korelichi region Zalman Shazar (Rubashov) (1889-1974) was one of the leaders of the Zionist and Jewish labour movement in Palestine and all over the world. He studied at the Universities of Germany and France. At the age of 22, Shazar first visited Palestine. After that he became an active propagandist of an independent Jewish state creation. Zalman Shazar was elected in the Zionist movement managing bodies, and after his move to Palestine in 1924 - in the Gistadrut managing board. He was one of the editors of the Davar newspaper, the member of the first Knesset. Zalman Shazar was the minister of education and culture, the member of the Jewish agency (Sokhnut) board, the chief of the department of education and culture of the World Zionist Organisation. He was a talented writer, journalist and historian. On May 21, 1963 Zalman Shazar was elected the third president of Israel and had this chair during 10 years. A native of the Belarusian town of Mogilev Rosa Kohen (1890-1937) was an active propagandist of the idea of a Jewish state creation in Palestine. Having arrived at the beginning of 1920s in Tel-Aviv, she became a member of this town labour council and she was a central figure in the Hagana headquarters for many years. Regrettably, Rosa Kokhen did not live till the day of joy - May 14, 1948. She did not see the results of her struggle. At the day of Kohen's death her son Izhak was only 15 years old. The years would pass, and the name of Izhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, the laureate of Nobel peace prize, would become well-known all over the world. Belarusian Jews took an active part in all stages of the state of Israel creation, especially in 1940-1948. The organisation known as Hagana was one of the cornerstones, on which the independence of Israel was built. The word Hagana in Hebrew means defence. As a matter of fact, that is a translation of a Russian term self-defence, which appeared in the days of pogroms against Jews which spreaded around Russia at the end of 1905. Eliyahu Golomb (1893-1945) who was born in the town of Volkovysk was an organiser of the Jewish defence in mandated Palestine and one of the Hagana founders and leaders. When the youngster was 16 years old he arrived in Palestine where in four years he finished a higher school in Tel-Aviv. In 1918 Golomb was one of the organisers of the Jewish Legion, which was included in the British army. In 1936-1939 he became one of the initiators of the "field troops" creation, which fought against Arab terrorists. Eliyakhu Golomb thought that Hagana must be the only military force of the Jewish people. He was one of the creators of the special Hagana troops - Palmaha, he laid the basis of the armed forces of Israel and defined the direction of their development. Iehuda Slutski writes in his book "Hagana - Jewish military organisation in Erez-Israel": "After Eliyakhu Golomb's death in 1945 there was a constant feeling of this Hagana recognised leader's absence. Though he was never formally appointed as the highest Hagana commander, all the same his authority played a particular role in all spheres of its activities." In the house where E. Golomb lived in Tel-Aviv, it was created the Hagana museum named after him. The persons who made the most important contribution to the consolidation of the national security of Israel are nowadays awarded with the Eliyahu Golomb prize. The native land of the trade-union leader of Israel, ?garon Becker is the town of Kobrin though he was grown up in Brest-Litovsk, where he joined the Zionist youth labour movement. In 1925 when he was 19 years old, Becker arrived in Palestine, where he first worked as a builder. In four years he began working in the system of Gistadrut. In 1947 David Ben-Gurion appointed Agaron Becker the organiser of Hagana logistic division, and then - of the whole Army of Israel defence. In 1949 he returned to the work in Gistadrut and became the chief of the section of managing staff. During eight years (1961-1969) Agaron Becker was the Gistadrut Secretary General. He was repeatedly elected the member of the Knesset. The history of the state of Israel creation will always remember a name of the prominent lawyer, economist and diplomat, the native of the town of Gomel David Gakogen (1898-1985). David Gakogen studied at the Military academy in Istanbul, in the school of economics of London University. Officially he was one of the founders, a member of the board of directors and the manager of Solel Bone Ltd., but actually he carried out a secret mission of David Ben-Gurion on buying weapons for Hagana and the Defence Army of Israel. In 1949-1953 Gakogen was a member of the Knesset. Since 1950s he was an Israeli ambassador in Burma, a member of Israeli delegations on the UN General Assembly sessions, a member of the Committee on foreign affairs and security, the Israeli representative in the International Parliamentary Union, a member of the Council and the Political Committee of Mapai party. On the grounds of the national discipline observance the Hagana splitted in several organisations: Irgun Zvai Leummi (National military organisation - Ezel) and Lochamey kherut Israel (The Fighters for the liberty of Israel - Lekhi). During the last period of British ruling in Palestine these two organisations played an important role in the weakening of the mandate authorities regime. A native of the town of Smorgon, David Rasiel (Rosenson) (1910-1941) was the founder of Ezel. In 1937 he was one of the Ezel and its Jerusalem branch leaders and in 1938 he became its commander afters Zeev Zhabotinsky's offer. D. Rasiel took an active part in organising the illegal immigration. He pursued the policy of military operations in response to Arabs' terrorist actions. Once, in the morning on November 14, 1937, in several days after the murder of five Jews, D. Rasiel as the commander of Ezel organisation in Jerusalem, directed three groups in different ends of the city which were to fire upon Arab passers-by. Two Arabs were wounded and one more killed on Gaza street in Rehavia. Soon another four Arabs were killed too. In May, 1941 David Rasiel was killed during a diversion and reconnaissance operation in the region of Baghdad. Today Ramat-Rasiel moshav in the Judaic mountains is named after him. A younger David's sister Ester Rasiel-Noar (Rosemson) who was also born in Smorgon in 1911, participated in Ezel military operations too. In 1939 she became the first speaker of the Ezel underground radio station. In 1943 Ester Rasiel was a member of Ezel command. In 1944, after British police found a secret radio station in their house, her husband - one of the Ezel commanders, Y. Noar and she were arrested. E. Rasiel was released after the seven-months conclusion, but soon she was arrested again. After the state of Israel creation Mrs Ester Rasiel-Noar was a member of the Knesset during the quarter of a century. In 1942 a native of the town of Brest Menachem Begin, the former Beitar leader in Poland, who had been released from a Soviet concentration camp, arrived in Erez-Israel. He immediately became a commander of Beitar troops in Erez-Israel and at the end of 1943 he was unanimously elected the Ezel commander. Under Mr Begin's command the Ezel policy toward the British changed very much. When he had been in Poland, Begin was against his teacher Zeev Zhabotinsky's pro-British orientation. The anti-British moods in Ezel were intensifying. During several weeks a new headquarters were formed, and at the end of 1944 Ezel appealed to Palestinian Jews. There were such lines in that appeal: "We cancel the armistice between the Jewish administration and English authorities which give our brothers out to the Nazis. We declare a national war on these authorities, the war up to the victory end!.. Jews! To create a Jewish state is the only way to save our people, to ensure a worthy life for it. We will go this way because there is no another one. We will fight! Each Jew will fight for his motherland. The God of Israel will side His people. We will not surrender. Liberty or death!" ..................... Izhak Shamir (Ezernitsky) was a number one in this organisation. He emigrated from the western part of Belarus in 1935 when he was 20 years old. In July 1945 all three underground military organisations (Hagana, Ezel and Lekhi) created the united Resistance Actions Movement, which existed 9 months. In the same year there was published a joint Declaration of Ezel and Lekhi, one of the main initiators of which was Izhak Shamir. After the UN resolutions on the Palestine division in December, 1947, the members of Lekhi under Shamir's command took part in military actions against Arabic troops. In May 29, 1948 in a fortnight after the state of Israel creating, Lekhi became a part of the Defence Army of Israel. In 1980s Mr Izhak Shamir was twice appointed the prime minister of the state of Israel. A native of the town of Slonim Efraim Ben-Arzi (Kobrinsky) (he was born in 1910) became a well-known military figure of Israel. During the Second World War Ben-Arzi was on service in the British army, where he was demobilised in the rank of colonel from. In 1948-1950 the brigadier-general E. Ben-Arzi was the quartermaster of the Defence Army of Israel and greatly contributed to the reinforcement of the country's defence, to the victory in the war for independence. Chaim Laskov from the town of Borisov was an eminent Israeli warlord, one of the creators of the Defence Army of Israel. He joined Hagana when he was 20 years old, where soon he became the deputy commander of a special troop. In 1942-1943 as a member of the Palestinian regiment of the British army he partic