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Research into public records regarding Solly’s criminal career, disappearance and death fell victim to bad weather and records-purging policies. The…
My cousin Claire Stiglitz once related the story of a cross-burning across the street from our grandparents’ home in Bethlehem…
Hit-man for Murder, Inc…wanted to go straight… killed and thrown into a lake: the family legend turns out to be…
From knowing next to nothing about this branch of the family, details – one rather astonishing – are now being…
Shimon was the first Goldstein (Goldshtern) to arrive in the US and has proven to be elusive, until now. All…
I doubt that any news outlet could publish a suicide note today; journalism standards in the 1920’s seem to have…
The gates of memory opened for Pnina Goldsztern Shaufer (Perla) when I first spoke with her in October 2019, flooding…
Finding Goldstein cousins who survived the Holocaust is the highlight and most gratifying success of my genealogical research. Here’s how…
My father never said one word about Gardelegen and the atrocity he witnessed there. Some secrets are taken to the…
Family in Israel! Finally, genealogical research has revealed some connections! Bruce and I had been invited to spend our second…