To: @PIKHOLZ.PML
Subject: Genealogy #42
Reply-to: Israel@pikholz.org
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:21:11 +0200

Greetings to the Pikholz descendants as we close out the year 5763.

Mazal tov to Michael and Jessica Pickholz (YITZHAK family) on the birth 
of Samantha Chase Pickholz - also to Marvin on becoming a first-time
grandfather.

A belated mazal tov to Andrew and Janine Pickholtz (IF1 Family) on the 
birth of Lia - and to grandfather Raymond.

A somewhat belated (last April) mazal tov to Oded and Michal Hauser 
(RavJG family - Langenauer branch) on the birth of Ofek.

Condolences to the family of Ruth Braun Reinwasser, who died last week at
age ninety (PITTSBURGH family).  Ruth left one grandson and nieces and
nephews.  (Her only son died some years ago and her daughter-in-law
Suzanne Reinwasser died in January, which I only now learned.)

A gen contact named Judy mentioned to me that there was a
Pickholz family in her building in Forest Hills (NY) when she was a 
child. She doesn't remember the names, but I assume someone here 
recognizes the address.  Judy describes it as follows. "The building in 
which there was a branch of the Pickholtz family as our neighbors was 
located at 64-11 99th Street in Forest Hills.  It was between 64th Road 
and 64th Avenue, 2 blocks north of Queens Boulevard, and 2 blocks away 
from the underpass to the 63rd Drive stop of the "Independent" subway 
line. "  

In the large Tel-Aviv area cemetery in Holon, there are several hundred
monuments put up by Holocaust survivors in memory of their communities. 
The Skalat community has such a monument and I try to get to the service
they have each year.  Inside the monument are two scrolls, listing names
of Holocaust victims from Skalat.  The first is from 1961 and the second
was added in 1990.  It is definitely not a comprehensive listing, but it
is something.  Those two scrolls have now been scanned, translated and 
put online at 
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Skalat/Second_Scroll.html 
and  
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Skalat/First_Scroll.html .  
(Sorry about the poorly designed links.  I don't control tghe site 
anymore.)   There are some Pikholz descendants listed and others who may 
be, but we aren't sure.  We did learn one very useful thing - at the very 
end of the first scroll, there is a family group whom we identify as 
Pikholz (ELIEZER family) from the given names, as no surname is 
mentioned.  The adults are mentioned as being the children of Yosef 
HaLevi, which removes any doubt we had about the identity of that 
particular Yosef.  There are several Yosef Pikholz, but only one who was 
a Levi - Itzig-Josef ben Eliezer. 

I have finally added the Pikholz Pioneers page to the web site.  This is 
a page I have been working at for some time, celebrating those who took
their descendants from Europe before 1939.  There is an entry for each
head of household, and in the case of those going to the US it includes
the date of arrival, the ship and a link to the family's passenger lists. 
 see that at  http://www.pikholz.org/Pioneers/Pioneers.html .  I do not 
have that information for those who came here or went to South America, 
but I would be pleased to add anything that you can tell me about your 
parents' or grandparents' emigration from Europe.  I have only listed 
those about whose emigration we know something (anything!) - not those
whom we find overseas without knowing how or when they got there.  

I have run aground on Sam and Rose Greenberg of the Barney family.  we 
have them and their four year old son Max in 1920, but I cannot find them 
in the 1930 census.  Problem with common names.  I'll come back to it 
some other time.

A few weeks ago, I mentioned briefly in a special notice that we now have
an index of Rozdol births for 1897-1900, which includes nineteen Pikholz
descendants.  Most are simply additions to families that we know, but
there are about a half dozen that I would like to order.  (Four others
have been ordered by close family members, but I do not expect to learn
anything new from them.)

Some other towns are now becoming available, including Bolechow, where we
have several births of the Haftels (RavJG family).  And here is a curious
thing.  When we were in Galicia three years ago, we visited the Bolechow
cemetery, which has several hundred standing tombstones.  As we entered,
there was a large, prominent stone for one Sima Jager of Skalat and
because of our Skalat connection, I photographed it.  (Skalat is nowhere
near Bolechow.)  The new Bolechow index includes several children born to
this same Sima Jager and I now see that her maiden name was Kaczka, a 
name that we know from Skalat - and more interesting, a name I have an 
interest in because I think that my great-grandmother's Kwoczka is a 
variation of this Kaczka and related to them.

That will do for now.  The holiday is coming close and there is yet much
to do in preparation.  May we all have a good new year, quiet, healthy 
and prosperous and may your Rosh Hashanah be happy and meaningful.

Israel P.