Subject: Genealogy #19
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 04:02:32 +0300

Our condolences to the family of the late David Siegel
of Los Angeles.  David Siegel was born eighty-seven
years ago in Brezdowicz and went to the US as a child.
His mother was Malka bat Yitzhak Pikholz.

Condolences also to the family of Sylvia Berger of
Herzeliyya, who passed away last Thursday.  Shufka was
born in Skalat, the youngest (and last surviving) of
five daughters of Tuvia and Feige Pikholz. (Her sister
Tonka contributed several articles to the yizkor book
for Skalat.)

Mazal tov to Dov Pickholtz and his family on his
marriage to Tammy.  Dov is from Cleveland and his is
the first wedding among his first and second cousins.

All the relevant genealogic references in the books of
Rav Juda Gershon Pickholz are now available via our
website.  (Get there from the main page.)  The information
is presented in both the original Hebrew and in English.

The Holocaust section of the website - tho still not
updated - now includes a list of Pages of Testimony that
were submitted for Pikholz descendants.

I finally received a preliminary response from the
International Tracing Service of the Red Cross (in Germany)
regarding the files I inquired about seventeen months ago.
(All the inquiries were based on their own card file.)
Their response was that I must first demonstrate a close
relationship with the people in question or show that I
received permission from a close relation.  They are
concerned about violating their privacy, even tho some of
the people in question were born before 1880.  This too
is an obstacle which we shall overcome.  In the meantime,
I did receive written permission from the children of two
of the people concerned and the whole request has been
sent off to Germany.  Perhaps in a year or two, they'll
get back to us either with the information or with more
obstacles.

We have developed additional information on the family
we call "Petah-Tiqva," including the first name (Pinchas)
of the earliest ancestor.  Previously we knew only the
wife's name (Feige) and we mistakenly thought that SHE was
the Pickholz. This Pinchas is closely related to the two
families we call "Dina" and "SR/Nachman" but for now we
don't know how.  We have also added some second cousins
to that family.

That will do for now.

Israel P.







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