Family Gershanowitz

Meyer Gershenowitz married Toba Besser, my grandmother’s sister.  Email from Howard Mirsky:

David:Well, I looked over the links you sent and was very impressed.  I’m pretty certain that this is a real connection.   Here’s the story:

Meyer is one of 5 children from Czestochowa.  (Spellings vary with documents.)

1.    Harry Gershanowitz
2.    Meyer (Max) Gershenowitz
3.    David Gershanowitz
4.    Chaje  Gershanowitz
5.    [...]

Henry Pike’s 1852 Douay Bible

Scans of Henry Pike’s family bible, courtesy of Sid Ohlhausen, showing births, baptisms, deaths and marriages of Bowie-Pikes from the late 1700s on.

Sakamoto

Robert I. Bowie is buried in the Sakamoto Cemetery in Nagasaki Japan. Jocelyn and I, with Marcus and Nick, visited in 2006.

Shoah: Family members murdered by the Nazis 1939-1945

Shoah: Family members murdered by the Nazis 1939-1945

While very little is know about any of these murders, most of the Jews from what is now southeastern Poland were rounded up and  taken to Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp between 1941 [...]