Posted by
David on
December 12th, 2010
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. [...]
Posted by
David on
August 18th, 2009
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.
Posted by
David on
August 16th, 2009
Robert I. Bowie is buried in the Sakamoto Cemetery in Nagasaki Japan. Jocelyn and I, with Marcus and Nick, visited in 2006.
Posted by
David on
August 15th, 2009
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 [...]