From: Israel P Subject: Genealogy #71 Reply-to: IsraelP@pikholz.org Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:43:34 +0200 Dear Cousins, We have three births and three death to report since I last wrote. Most recent among the deaths is Bertha Moritz who died last month here in Jerusalem at age ninety-four. Bertha is from the Turka part of the Pinchas/Rachel family. She was born in Przemsyl and later lived in Vienna and Nice (France) before settling in Israel a few years ago. Her mother was born in Turka and her grandfather in Rozdol. Just two days earlier, we lost Isidore Weissman age 92 of the ISRAEL family (his mother Libe/Lena Pikholz was born in Grzmaylow, near Skalat). His son's eulogy appears on our "Who Were Our Mothers and Fathers?" site at http://www.pikholz.org/Bios/BioIndex.html. It would be nice to have additional contributions to this department. Isidore, a native New Yorker, was buried at the Eternal Light Cemetery in Boynton Beach Florida. Back in November, we lost Frances Winikof, age 81, the daughter of Dave and Pauline Pickholz of the IF4 family. Another native New Yorker who lived in Florida, I think she is also buried in Eternal Light, but I am not certain. We have quite a few Pikholz burials in that cemetery and it is one of those waiting for some photography for our web site. See a list at http://www.pikholz.org/Volunteer/PhotoCem.html Three births all in the PITTSBURGH family. A daughter to Motti and Davina Bohm yesterday (no name yet), a son Gilad to Michal and Yossi Leibovitz last month (both those in Jerusalem, and a sixth son, Yehuda Leib to Rivkie and Rabbi Yerachmiel Pickholtz in Buffalo Grove Illinois nearly two months ago. (You may say mazal tov to the grandfather and sandak of Yehuda Leib by pressing "reply.") And mazal tov to my mother on the three great-grandchildren. Two recent discoveries to report. We have just learned that the date of death of Josef Pickholz (born in Rozdol, lived in Mikolayev) of the RavJG family is 19 April 1930. He was sixty-eight. That date corresponds to the seventh or eighth day of Passover, depending on whether he died before or after sunset, so his great-granddaughter in Chicago can say yizkor for him on what may be precisely his eightieth yahrzeit. Steve Pickholtz was looking around at some newly available databases and came up with a 1947 death of Wladyslaw Pickholz (age 38) and the 1954 marriage of Irena Pickholz to Stanislaw Stankiewicz, both in Britain. Although I had serious doubts about these being ours, I purchased the two records and we found that Wladislaw was a second lieutenant in the Polish Army and died in a Polish hosp[ital in Wales. After some inquiry with the British Ministry of Defense, we elarned that hs parents were Leon Pikholz and Maria Lis of Kaczanowka (near Skalat). The only other child we know of from this family is Ztgmunt Pickholz who served with General Anders' Polish Exile Army and is buried in Teheran, where he died at age twenty-nine. So all we know about this family is that they had two sons who both served in the Polish army and died during service. Both are buried as Roman Catholics and we think that this may be from their mother. The Irena who married in 1954 was Wladyslaw's widow. Thusfar, we have not determined if there were children from either marriage, who might tell us a bit more about the family. We assume that the Kaczanowka family is connected to the LAOR family, but evidence is only circumstantial. We have learned a bit more about Lea Pickholz Keller, whom I mentioned last time, but still no identification of her Pikholz grandparents. Parents are Benzion and Rivka-Rachel and I believe that Rivka-Rachel is the Pickholz. Another ITS record from Arolsen has give me hope of finding another family member. Freida Pickholz (b. 1893) married a Mendel Halpern of Podwoloczysk. He was killed and we now learn that she came here and married (here or in Europe?) a man named Hellenberg. So there may be some family here or at least additional information. A grave, perhaps. I have now learned that we can leaf through the arrival records at the Central Zionist Archives and after the holiday will find some time to do that. (It used to be that they search for you, but only if you know the month and year of arrival.) And Rita, if you are still reading this, I know that may give us hope of finding something on your uncle as well. On a non-Pikholz note, I recently did some work for an attorney regarding some property purchased in 1927 by a Jew in New York, whose family never claimed it as part of their inheritance. My research led me to microfilms of a NY Yiddish daily paper, particularly late November 1941 and May-June 1927. I don't read Yiddish, but I was able to get some sense of how the immigrant Jews saw the major events of the day - in one case the approach of war with the Japanese and in the other the Lindbergh flight. If I had been able to understand the papers, they'd have had to throw me out at closing time. More as it happens. May we soon find redemption from the darkening clouds here in our neighborhood and best wishes to all of you for a happy, kosher and meaningful Passover. Israel P. -- End --