Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 07:18:44 +0200 Thursday I met with Sender Pickholz in Kiryat Motzkin. He is a seventy-eight year old Holocaust survivor. I had hoped that he could help solve the problem of the Israeli Pickholz families who "know" that they are connected to one another, but don't know how. Sender knows that he has a connection with the Etzion/Etzioni branch and he has an Argentine connection. He wanted me to come up and didn't want to give me information on the phone. Problem is that he had a slight stroke two years ago and it affected his memory. He was born in Rozdol and his parents were Avraham and Sosha. Avraham had a brother in the US, but he cannot remember his name. Nor can he remember his grandfather's name. With some difficulty he remembered the names of his own seven siblings, all of whom were killed, tho he only knows the circumstances of one. He has been married to his present wife for eighteen years, and she knows nothing about the past generations. One of his three sons came over and I got the basic descendant info. I think that my trip comes more in the category of mitzva than of research. What they did tell me is that he has a first cousin living in the neighborhood. I spoke to her last nite and she is on his mother's side, so could not help, other than giving me Sender's mother's maiden name, which he couldn't remember. - - - - - - - - - Another call I made last nite was to Chana Kopf. She is also in her seventies and is the daughter of Eliezer Pickholz, who came here ninety years ago and became Haniel. He is Pickholz from his mother. He had no surviving siblings from his mother, who died when he was a child. Chana recently lost her husband and was very pleased for the contact. (I should come to see her in Tel-Aviv etc etc.) She gave me the names of her children and grandchildrem and those of her sister. This is another family who "know" they are related to other families, but don't know how. I keep feeling there is one person out there who must have gotten information from a parent or grandparent. Some old notebook or shoebox. There are still some in the Israeli phonebook to be contacted. I guess that's next. In a few weeks, I'll prepare a summary of what's happened until now for the Hebrew speakers who don't get all these messages. Perhaps that will prompt someone's memory. Have a good week. Israel P. -- End --