From: IsraelP Subject: Genealogy #2 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:00:23 +0300 By the time I actually send this - or perhaps up to an hour later - you should be able to see the first version of the Pickholz Project web site at http://www.jewishgen.org/family/pickholz courtesy of JewishGen. This is part of a new project for JewishGen and they have asked that we not make a general public announcement until they get a volunteer to run the whle thing. Comments are welcome. This is a first version and we haven't yet done such things as a guest book. And there are surely bugs and errors. And probably some things that seemed clear to me when i wrote them, which need clarification for the reader. I'd also like to hear opinions on the issue of privacy. For the time being, we have avoided it by keeping our focus on people who are no longer living. As a teenager, I knew how to do a few things that my father didn't, but they were never things that he felt he needed to know. The webmaster for this site is my son Eliezer. Actually, this may turn out to be a very temporary version. Months ago I obtained copies of twenty-four Pages of Testimony submitted to Yad VaShem in the 1950's for people named Pickholz. Now comes Shuki Ecker, who is doing the Roth family, which includes a marriage between Leib Roth and Feige Pickholz (they had kids from 1885) - went did his own research at Yad VaShem, coming up with about a hundred Pickholz Pages of Testimony. I haven't seen the copies yet, but it may enable us to revise quite abit of our work. Robert P in Connecticut has completed a survey of his cousins' descendants (may he be an example to others!) and that line looks pretty complete. We have also attached his grandfather Bendit Pickholtz to the Rav Juda Gershon line, as we are 95% sure that Bendit was a son of Juda Gershon's brother (and father- in-law) Meshullam Zusia. That means that Robert is not a third cousin to Dina Ostrover, but rather his children are. The elusive William of Brooklyn (1907-1985) has been found. He has a son (Eric) in Brooklyn, a sister (94 years old) also in Brooklyn. William and the sister Sarah were born in Skalat, but lived in Vienna before the War. Their parents were Tova Pickholz and Ezra Orenstein. Some months ago, I came across a summary of a 1811 census of the Jews of Stryj and surrounding communities (including Rozdol). The summary gave the number of the carton in which the records themselves were stored. I located the material in the State Archives in Vienna, but apparently the raw data was destroyed in a fire in 1927. They sent me a microfilm of about six pages and I hope to have a look at it next week. Finally - and certainly not least - one of our number, Elio from South Africa, will be visiting Lvov and the surrounding area in late August, providing they can get the necessary visas. Elio and his wife Shirley plan to visit Rozdol (where he was born), Rohatyn and perhaps other places of interest to the group. We wish them a safe and successful trip and hope that they will share their experiences with us. And just this minute, today's mail brought a note from Tamar Dominitz (born in Rozdol, her mother was a Pickholz). her husband was looking for one of his relatives in a cemetery in Karlsbad and came across a grave of Sofie Pickholz, who died 71 years ago. Hebrew name Zissel. No age or father's name. Her yahrzeit was yesterday. The letter includes a photograph. I have no idea who this is. Israel P. -- End --