From: IsraelP To: Related families Subject: Conversation with Izak Pickholz Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 04:13:37 +0300 I finally picked up the telephone to Izak Pickholz in Flushing and I want to record a summary of our conversation and at the same time put it for comment from those who may wish to do so. (Izak and his late brother Zalman came to the US from Stryj in 1946 and lived first with their father's brother Hersch on Pitt Street. Izak's parents were both Pickholz. Their father Yehudah Leib was the son of nachman and Hinde and their mother Chaya was the daughter of Zalman and Sara Rivka. Sara Rivka was Nachman's sister. Zalman was a Kohen. So much for background.) Izak's father was born about 1870 and he had an older brother named Itche. (In addition to the brothers hersch and avraham, whom we already know.) Itchie had four sons, three of whom were killed in the Holocaust - Avraham, Zalman and one whose name he does not recall. The fourth son was Shemuel who lived in Netanya. Shemuel had no children. I visited his grave last month. They lived in Boryslaw. Izak says that when the Nazis came to get Itchie - who was then close to eighty - he took an axe that he had under his talis bag and split open the head of one of them and was shot on the spot. People should know this! Hersch's wife Bessie died several months after Izak arrived in the US. He doesn't know if she was from Rozdol or Stryj or where, nor does he know her maiden name. He does not think she was a cousin. Hersch and Bessie had a son Nachman who was killed in the Holocaust. No other children. Izak does not know exactly how his family was related to the other two large Pickhol(t)z families in New York, but he knows they were cousins. I am speaking of the family of Golda Fischer and her brother Itchie Pickholtz on one hand and the family of the brothers Avraham and Berish Pickholz on the other. (He does think that the connection is with Avraham & Berish and not with berish's wife Golda, who was also Pickholz.) You descendants of those two families may yet remember something more specific. Connection to the Weiss brothers. Sara Rivka (Izak's gm) had a daughter Beila (he thinks her married name was Wellish) who had a daughter Sima, the mother of the Weiss brothers. (I wrote one of the Weiss brothers a couple of months ago, but got no response.) The birth order of Izak's family is: Hinde, Feige, Cipora, Zalman, Sara Rivka (the other gm), Miriam, Izak. Other than the two grandmothers, he does not know the sources of those names. His own daughters are Chaya Leah (for her two gms) and Yehudit Liba (for her two gfs). End of summary. One other comment. In Jacob's list of Rozdol records, we have an 1840 birth record for Sara Rivka to Izak and Feige. Since both those names appear in Izak's family - himself and his second eldest sister - it may well be that those are his ggps. In that case there should be a birth record for Nachman as well. The only other birth record we have for Izak & Feige is Pinchak, but I do not assume that we have everything in these Rozdol records. Israel P. -- End --