To: @PIKHOLZ.PML
Subject: Genealogy #51
Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:47:49 +0200

Dear Pikholz descendants,

A few things since last time.

Condolences to the family of Rhoda Pickholz Reisner (IF4 family) who 
passed away on 7 May.  Rhoda is the daughter of the late Sol and Mary 
Pickholz.  Both her daughter Sharon Smith and her brother Jerry Pickholz 
are among the first members of this mailing list.

Also late condolences to the families of Mary Frank - widow of Sol Frank 
of the IF4 family - and Dorothy Augenblick - widow of Leonard Augenblick 
of the PITTSBURGH family.  Both of these deaths were during the past 
winter.

Mazal tov to Rivkie and Rabbi Yerachmiel Pickholtz of Buffalo Grove 
Illinois on the birth of their fifth son, Mordechai, last Monday.  Press 
"reply" to congratulate the grandfather.

Mordecai and Taube Pikholz of Skalat (ELIEZER family) had three daughters 
we know of for certain, and for two of them we have quite a few 
descendants.  (As yet unproven descendants are several other families, 
including BUCZACZ, MATI and KOPEL.  My own family is connected here too, 
but I am not quite sure how.)  Of the third daughter, we know only that 
she married a man named Chaim Degen and they had three sons, one of whom 
died at age twelve.  Several weeks ago, I learned that one of the sons - 
Leisor Degen, b. 1879 - went to New York in 1913 and was followed by his 
wife Chanci and children (Chaim, Lea and Isak) in 1921.  I am now in 
touch with someone in his wife's family and we are trying to make contact 
with someone we think is a grandson.  Leisor himself made aliyah and died 
here in Israel in 1969, but I have not yet found a grave.

A wonderful new discovery on the Rozdol side.  About a year ago, I 
commissioned a researcher in Budapest to go through some early 1900's 
birth records looking for a particular Pickholz family (IF3) whom we know 
lived there.  In the course of his work, he found three births to another 
Pickholz family we didn't know - Yitzhak Pickholz/Tallenberg b. 1877 in 
Boryslaw and his wife Gittel Feige Silber.  Although Yitzhak himself was 
a new name, his parents were obviously David-Samuel ben Aron Pikholz and 
Sara Thalenberg, who lived in Boryslaw and whose family appears near the 
bottom of the RavJG family page.  The three children born in Budapest are 
Dezso (David-Samuel) in 1905, Mathild (Matl) in 1907 and Aranka (Golda) 
in 1908.  I hadn't a clue what happened to any of them.  Now I know.  The 
son of Mathild found our web site and made contact.  He is a professor 
emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and he filled me in on all 
the descendants of both sisters.  Dezso was a physician who volunteered 
in the Spanish Civil War and was killed there. Yitzhak died in Budapest 
in 1941, but the rest of the family - including Yitzhak's wife - made 
aliyah in the 1950's.  Golda - whose husband was killed in the Holocaust -
 is still living, in Jerusalem.  Just yesterday, I received two lovely 
booklets that the family published - one about Dr. Dezso and one about 
the rest of the family - and I look forward to reading them both.  After 
seeing our information, they now know why some people referred to Yitzhak 
as "Pickholz"  while he and his family used only the name Tallenberg.  I 
hope to visit their Jerusalem graves in the near future.

Fianlly, we have received index files for additional Galician records.  
Unfortunately, none are from Skalat or Rozdol, but the file from 
Trembowla (south of Skalat) had three births of interest.  Three children 
were born to Sara Pikholz of Zalosce and Arie-Majer Tunis of Loszniow (a 
nearby town with probably 100-200 Jews).  The only Pikholz family from 
Zalosce is my own and Sara is almost certainly a first cousin of my 
grandfather - especially since two of her children have the same names as 
my gf's uncle and aunt.  I did some checking in Yad VaShem and found that 
several Pages of Testimony were submitted for Leib Tunis of Loszniow and 
two sons, one of whom seems to match one of our new births.  Leib (which 
is the Yiddish equivalent of Arie) was described as a widower, with no 
mention of his wife's name, but I expect that Leib and Arie-Majer are the 
same person, considering the small size of Loszniow.  One of the Pages 
was submitted by the wife of one of Leib's sons, who survived the 
Holocaust and came to Israel.  We just missed her - she died last 
November.  I spoke with her daughter - from a later marriage - and an 
older niece and was told that Leib's other son had a son (age 79) living 
in Wroclaw Poland.  I inquired, but we just missed him too - he died 
sometime in 2004.  So we are at a dead-end for now, but who knows what 
may turn up later.

More as it happens.

Israel P.

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