X-cs: From: Self To: @LIST02A0.PML Subject: The big breakthrough has come Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 00:00:25 +0300 Hi, folks. This week started with a bang, but it's gotten bigger in the past half hour. I thought I'd be writing to you about Anita's visit with Izak Pickholz and all the information from him. (He's a Holocaust survivor from Stryj.) That is indeed a great source of information. But it has now gotten better. Esther Solomon called. Her father was a cousin to Izak's mother and I met her father briefly twenty-five years ago. I stopped taking notes after five minutes, because it became too much for the phone, but a list of people whom esther knows and knows how to connect to includes Raymond's family (including Fischers), Izak's family (incl Hersh), Sender (from K. Motzkin - as I suspected), Hersh Leib from South Africa, the Washington DC Weiss brothers, the families of Sergio & Pablo from Argentina, and more. On top of that, she asked me if I know who goes to school in Mizpe Ramon and when I said that its my son, she nearly fell off her chair. (Her son worked there...) It will probably be a couple of weeks before we can sit together, but be sure it won't be a meeting that starts at eight at nite. Meantime, while I'm talking to you, I'll mention that Steve in Philadelphia just found some new branches of his gf's family, I seem to have a good lead on my ggf's sister's line in Denver and I can hardly wait to see what tomorrow brings. Israel P. -- End --