Notes: Our Family History

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51	Died 25 Sivan 5701	Margolis, Seine Sheina (I2821)
52	Died after a hip replacement operation	Katz, Joane (I176)
53	Died age 42 of pneumonia He (CHAIM MOSHE CHAIMOWITZ), with his father, owned a bottle store, which bottle store and contents was confiscated by the Russian authorities as no-one was allowed to own property. They received no compensation . Aunty Anne Nay doesn't know what the father (her great grandfather) did thereafter. But her grandfather, Chaim Moshe Chaimowitz, her mother's father (her mother: Janie (Sheina Rocha) Chaimowitz (Flax), who was very religious, wore the "black dress" and prayed 3 x per day - became a melamed: a teacher of Hebrew and Jewish studies. · How the Chaimowitz (Samovitz) name changed to Snoyman was when · Jacob Chaimowitz changed his name from Chaimowitz (Samowitz) because · In London they used to get teased about their surname Samovitz … Sunovabitz … · Jacob (Yankel Schneur Chaimowitz) took his middle name and created a new surname - Schneurman. · His brother, Harry, also adopted the surname Schneurman. · In South Africa the name Schneurman became Snoyman. · But all their sisters remained Chaimowitz (Samovitz).	Chaimowitz, Chaim Moshe (I2465)
54	Died from whooping cough vaccine	Burnham, Loryn Kim (I4679)
55	Died in a plane crash	Snoyman, Michael (I4486)
56	Died of lung cancer	Flax, Jonathan Merle (I392)
57	Died of meningitis	Rome, Harry Julius (I2997)
58	Died of pneumonia	Chaimowitz, Chaim Moshe (I2465)
59	Died when she was 39 years old. She died suddenly while nursing the 3 month old Jake (Jack) Perelson. The standard practice was to kill rats with rat poison in small pieces of bread on the floor. Someone put the rat poison in a full piece, which Chana thought had dropped, picked up and ate.	Cohen, Chana (I1759)
60	Died young	Rome, Annette (I3017)
61	Divorced	Family: Ivan Kruger / Joyce Rabinowitz (F69)
62	Doctor One of the first two Jewish graduates in medicine at the University of Cape Town. First physician to qualify in the Union of South Africa - 19 December 1922 Art collector. Buried in Pinelands No. 1 Cemetery, Cape Town.	Mirvish, Louis Yehuda Leib (I2787)
63	Doctor, psychiatrist, superintendant of hospital.	Helman, Nathan Nachum (I2846)
64	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Helman, Cecil (I2847)
65	Drowned in Pittsburgh - possibly at a young age.	Rome, Louis (I3018)
66	e-mail: awahlhaus@fast.net.au (Alan Wahlhaus)	Wahlhaus, Eric (I3073)
67	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Pesin, Isaac (I3012)
68	Electrician Served in WWII	Millner, Eli (I706)
69	Elka and her husband and children were very successful in the clothing business in Riga and were very reluctant to follow requests of other family members to leave Latvia. They were involved with toiletries and dressmaking and owned several homes and a summer home. They were killed at their summer home in about 1939 or 1940.	Perelson, Elka (I1760)
70	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Marks, Margaret Peggy (I2867)
71	Emigrated to Israel a few years before his sister Bella as a Khalutz (pioneer). Spent all his life on Kibbutz Kineret, one of the first kibutzim in Israel. It is on the shores of Lake Kineret (aka the Lake of Galilee) in eastern Israel near the borders of Jordan and Syria.	Goldberg, Avraham Abraham (I2509)
72	Emigrated to South Africa around 1920 from Vabalninkas, Lithuania. Name: PERELSON, Izrael Chaim Father: Iudel CommentsType of Record: Rabbi Electors DayMonthYear: May 1899 Town : Vabalninkas Uyezd: Panevezys Guberniya: Kaunas Archive Fond: KRA/I-49/1/4103 Inventory: 77 FileRecord #Page #: 8	Perelson, Israel Chaim (I429)
73	Engaged on 18th June 1998	Fox, Haylene (I336)
74	Ester and Robert are cousins.	Shorkend, Robert (I3857)
75	Executed by the Germans during WWII in Voronezh (Russia).	Perelson, Mark (I2985)
76	Family left Lithuania about 1900 on the death of his mother. Zalman - the eldest child - emigrated to Sunderland, England, while his father Yehuda Leib Yankelovitch and remaining children went to South Africa. Yehuda Leib remarried and had several more children. Zalman took British nationality around 1906; volunteered for BEF during WW1, serving in the front line in France for a considerable period, and gassed in the battle of Arras about 1917	Kelly, Zalman Jankelowitz aka Solomon (I975)
77	Famous wealthy British family.	Salmon, Vanessa (I2635)
78	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Baise, Sharon (I14)
79	Founding Rabbi of Temple Sinai in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now semi-retired from congregational duties. He is the Canadian representative to the International Jewish Committee that negotiates on behalf of the Jewish community with the Vatican and the World Council of Churches. He used to write to a Chen or a Katz in Israel who was related somehow by marriage and this guy would write to Russia to Yankel (?) Perelson in Alma Ati, Uzbekistan for the South African family. You could write to Israel but not South Africa from Communist Russia. Also has a law degree from Northeastern University. Tells a story about getting a book on graduation from Felix Frankfurter and then requesting his autograph. When Frankfurter asked why he would want his signature, Frankfurter chuckled when he said because he was Sam Taylor's cousin. Sam was Frankfurter's favorite student. Jordan relates a story about a relative (sibling) in Russia who was sent to the Chinese border area of Russia when they found out that he spoke Russian so well - they wanted to populate those provinces. When he returned from Izbekistan to Lithuania he encountered a Gentile who used to be a tenant of the family and directed him to the two graves of his parents (in two separate cemeteries. The Gentile also gave him the name and address in the U.S. (?) of his sister. (Jordan referred to a relative that had been in laundry work who might have been this same person). Jordan Pearlson, 83: Rabbi fostered interfaith dialogue TheStar.com - Obituary - Jordan Pearlson, 83: Rabbi fostered interfaith dialogue Man who founded Toronto's Temple Sinai in 1954 also had an unexpectedly `ribald sense of humour' February 28, 2008 John Goddard staff reporter Rabbi Jordan Pearlson, who rented a church for his congregation's first service, has died at 83. While still a student in 1954, Pearlson founded the Temple Sinai Congregation in Toronto's Wilson Ave. and Bathurst St. area, and oversaw the synagogue's growth from 14 families to more than 6,000 worshippers by the time he retired in 1995. "The synagogue had its first formal service on a Friday night under his guidance in Asbury & West United Church," his successor Michael Dolgin said. "In 1954, that was no minor thing, on either side for the church to agree, or for him to initiate, together with our founding members. "Throughout his career, both in the city and worldwide, he was strongly committed to interfaith dialogue and understanding." Pearlson was born Sept. 2, 1924, in Somerville, Mass. Before becoming a rabbi, he completed degrees in engineering and law. His first focus was to build the synagogue, but he also distinguished himself nationally and internationally. He was a Canadian member of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations and the only rabbi in the lectureship's 100-year history to give the Chancellor's Lectures at Queen's University School of Theology. He was the first rabbi appointed to chair the National Religious Advisory Committee to the CBC and, from 1979 to 2004, he wrote a religion column for the Toronto Star. "He had a ribald sense of humour," recalled Libby Stephens, his editor for the last few of those years. "I used to enjoy his calls ... "He was outspoken in a friendly way," she said. "In his columns, you could hear his voice. His sentence rhythms were exactly the same as in his speech." His successor also recalled Pearlson's wit. "He had a sense of humour that many found surprising in a clergyman," Dolgin said. "He loved humour and off-colour in particular. "When he and I spoke privately, he would tell me that when you've seen what a rabbi of a community sees for decades, any excuse to laugh is a good one." Pearlson died Feb. 19 of an undisclosed cause. http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=319964 Wednesday, February 20, 2008 'Brilliant' founder of Temple dies Melissa Leong, National Post Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Rabbi Jordan Pearlson, who more than 50 years ago founded one of the largest reform synagogues in the city, died early yesterday. He was 83. He was admired for his keen mind, his warmth and his wit. But he was reknowned for his devotion to interfaith relations worldwide and his meetings with Pope John Paul II. Born in Somerville, Mass., Rabbi Pearlson arrived in North York in 1954 to help a fledging congregation consisting of 14 families. Temple Sinai, on Wilson Avenue, has since grown to more than 6,000 members. "He was such a presence when he preached," Rabbi Michael Dolgin said. "In the early days, people would come and join the synagogue because of the experience of sitting and listening to him. He would always challenge people on an intellectual level." The father of three wrote a religious column for the Toronto Star for a time and started a daily religious interfaith dialogue on the CBC. He had a love of learning which he shared with others. He was the first rabbi to give chancellor's lectures at Queen's University School of Theology and he pioneered non-sectarian nursery programs for learning-handicapped children in his synagogue. "He was a brilliant mind, a very kind person, very committed to helping people and very committed to the cause of Israel being a haven for those who had to or wanted to go there," said Leo Marcus, the executive vice-president of the Canadian Associates. Rabbi Pearlson's funeral will be held tomorrow at 1.30 p.m. at Temple Sinai. Copyright © 2007 CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications, Inc.. All rights reserved.	Pearlson, Jordan (I1910)
80	From a 1 guild trader family.	Kvass, Rosa (I2986)
81	From Cape town, South Africa	Goldman, Yosef (I3825)
82	From Eric Kerbel: We discovered from the birth certificate that Nathan's full name is actually Yekusiel Noson (it appears in Hebrew on the birth certificate). It is incorrectly recorded in the secular Lithuanian records as Kusel Nosel. He never mentioned the name Yekusiel to anyone in the family, and only used the name Noson (Nathan). His Father's name is given in Hebrew on the birth certificate as Yisroel Chaim ben Yudel and his wife as Devorah.	Perelson, Nathan (I433)
83	From Kenneth Schmulow: My grandfather, Samuel Schmulow emigrated from Latvia to Pretoria South Africa around about 1895. His family had been murdered by Cossacks and this was his reason for leaving Latvia. He was a watch-maker by trade. He started a grocery business in Pretoria and finally in 1912 he established " Transvaal Trading Co " which acted as agents for various manufacturers on Government contracts. He met and married my grandmother, (maiden name Barnett) who had emigrated from Bootle in Liverpool.	Schmulow, Samuel (I4240)
84	From Krugersdorp, South Africa	Katz, Rueven (I3819)
85	From Lorraine Fisher: For some reason, Mary Katz (Schrire) apparently denounced having a brother. Started with family politics way back when when there was jealousy over my mom's relationship with Esther Katz (her mother in law)! So sad when you think that there was a time when Mary loved my dad enough to write a book of bedtime stories for him, called "Giggi's bedtime stories". ("Giggi" was my dad's nickname as I think it was Bertha who (as a baby) couldn't pronounce "Julius" and it somehow landed up as "Giggi", which stuck.) The story goes that this book was actually published.	Katz, Julius (I1037)
86	From Paarl, South Africa	Katz, Abraham (I3805)
87	From Peggy Marks Wahlhaus - " a kind and courteous man"	Borcovitz, Isaac (I2874)
88	From Phil Krastman: "Dena Goldberg left home at a young age not learning how to read or write. Dena was schooled in cooking and homemaking. She went off with a cousin who was to be wed. Dena was going along as a paid housekeeper so she could earn passage to America, where she was sponsored by her uncle who was the US Secret Service agent stationed at the White House in Washington, DC. Once off the boat and in Baltimore she was introduced to Solomon Millner a Jew living with relatives in Welsh West Virginia, where the family owned the bar, hotel, general store, Optometry and Jewelry establishments. Dena would not go to Welsh W.Va. so they settled in Baltimore City MD where they set up a Real Estate and Grocery Business. They lost money in Real Estate but made a living in the Grocery business. "	Goldberg, Dena (Dinah) (I683)
89	From Phil Krastman: "Going back to Henry Goldberg in Lithuania, we know him to be a religious Jewish man schooled at the Yeshiva who turned to stone carving to make a living. He made gravestones and such. "	Goldberg, Henry Herzl Avram Harav (I312)
90	From the 1929 SA Jewish Year Book : FLAX, Samuel, Furniture Merchant. Born in Dvinsk in 1884. Educated in Russia. Came to SA in 1904. Married Rosa Rubenstein in 1909; has three sons and two daughters. Supporter of all Jewish causes. Postal Address: 32 Plein Street, Cape Town.	Flax, Samuel (I3735)
91	From Vivienne Press nee Segall: You asked about the child my parents lost before me. She was a girl born three years before me. Her name was Shulamit and she died at the age of three months. My parents went through a very bad time then, from what I can gather. My mother was very ill in hospital after Shulamit was born with "milk fever" (quite a rare illness even in those days). The baby had to go to hospital with her as there was no-one to look after her at home and she contracted gastro-enteritis there. She was one of six babies who died from it in the hospital at the time. My parents didn't talk much about it - as I say, it must have been a terrible time for them. My mother was in hospital for quite a long time, in a clinic in Cape Town, I think. My parents remembered my sister at times like just before my wedding they mentioned her. My mother told me about her, that she was a pretty blonde baby with blue eyes and that everybody adored her. She was the first grandchild on both Segall and Goldberg sides (born even before you). Late Granny Sonia used to catch two buses to my mom's house to come and bath her (or so my mom told me).	Segall, Shulamit (I2627)
92	From Yoel: "As far as I know my father's family came originally from Russia, I do not know when and from which part of Russia. My father had about 10 brothers and sisiters (of those born alive), a few of them avoided the military service in Lithuania or Russia by escaping to the USA, even before my father was born and he only met them when he visited the US in 1951. My father's father was a Rabi and extremely poor, so when my parents got married, and maybe even before, he came to live with my mother's family. I think he was joined by his sister, therefore I am not sure whether Sima was my father's or mother's sister."	Chaitowsky, Moshe Maishel Moses Khaitovsky (I2515)
93	From Yoel: "I know that the family left (or was expelled out of) Lithuania during World War I and spent most of it in Pinsk (BeloRussia (?)). That their big house was burned down and that was rebuilt by them , I think on the same location. The family was in the timber business, and I understand they were doing very well: my uncle Yankele was very good at evaluations of forests, while my crippled uncle was handling the accounts. My mother used to claim that she got information that her brother Yakele went underground during World War II and joined the partisans, but was killed by his Lithanian "comrades" after the war when he uncovered himself and they discovered that he was Jewish. We know that things like this happened. She also claimed that he was married and had a son. I could never confirm it, and since I heard it from my mother only when she was very old and not reliable, I doubt it."	Goldberg, Bella Bertha (I2505)
94	From Yoel: "Owned a large estate in Lithuania and it was confiscated by the Lithuanian Communists, because owners of estates of that size were not allowed to keep it, and it was occupied by many households."	Goldberg, Israel (I2524)
95	Gerry Mann was a good soccer player, and played on Maccabee soccer team.	Mann, Gerry (Yerucham) (I2529)
96	Got his American citizenship by enlisting as an artilleryman in World War 1. Served overseas in a Yankee regiment from Maine and made a lot of close friends. One was a Portuguese boy who he was with on the last day of the war when they heard shouting from the villagers that indicated that the war was over. They stood up together and some SOB German sent one shell that killed his friend - he never forgot that. He was an amazingly gentle and wonderful guy and his sons still talk about him when they get together. He was a Baal Tefilah like his grandfather. At his funeral the Rabbi explained how the year before, at age 94, he had been reluctant to give him a Torah at Simchat Torah for the procession. Jake Perelson grabbed one and proceeded to dance around with it, as if to show him. He had no enemies and was always making new friends. He could not stand bigotry and unnecessary cruelty.	Pearlson, Jake (Jack) (I1826)
97	Had a club foot.	Mirvish, Lewis Bere Lazar (I2856)
98	Had to flee South Africa for political reasons at the time of the Rivonia trials	Borkum, Lorna (I4213)
99	HaRav Nachum Dov HaKohen Kreisman zt"l, av beis din in Petach Tikva and a leading dayan, was laid to rest on Monday 24 Cheshvan after passing away at the age of 81. Born in the town of Rakishok in Lithuania's Ponovezh District, Nachum Dov came from a famous line of rabbonim who served in the Rakishok rabbinate for nine consecutive generations, ending with HaRav Betzalel Yalovetzky, one of the elders in the Holocaust generation of Lithuanian rabbonim. As a boy he studied at the talmud Torah in Rakishok, which had such a good reputation for churning out yirei'im and shleimim that it attracted many talmidim from other locations as well. As a bochur he went to Yeshivas Telz, where he studied under moro verabbo HaRav Eliyohu Meir Bloch. The family could not obtain exit visas until the outbreak of World War II. Upon hearing of their intentions HaRav Bloch wrote a letter to Nachum Dov's parents saying that they should leave him behind in the Telz Yeshiva, and that in his experience America is very impoverished in Torah and mitzvos. He settled in Baltimore, which was known at the time as "the Yerushalayim of America." Nachum Dov enrolled at Ner Yisroel, where he studied under HaRav Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman. At that time HaRav Aharon Kotler came to Baltimore. HaRav Ruderman sent two bochurim to the train station to meet him: Nachum Dov and ylct"a Shmuel Kamenetsky. Noting the high caliber of the two young men HaRav Kotler took them back with him to New York in preparation for starting Yeshivas Lakewood. Ever since that meeting Nachum Dov cleaved to HaRav Kotler who, seeing that his entire life and being revolved around the Torah, gave Nachum Dov semichoh while still a bochur. In 5714 (1954) HaRav Kreisman moved to Eretz Yisroel and married the daughter of HaRav Boruch Mandelbaum, the rov of Beis Knesses Yavneh in Tel Aviv. The couple moved to Jerusalem, where HaRav Kreisman became a marbitz Torah in a yeshiva. In 5727 (1967) he was chosen to serve as a dayan by HaRav Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, HaRav Betzalel Zolti, the rov of Jerusalem, and HaRav Shlomo Shimshon Karelitz. After a short period of serving on a beis din in Haifa, he joined HaRav Michel Zolti and HaRav Karelitz zt"l, then av beis din in Petach Tikva, which was one of the top benches in Eretz Hakodesh at the time. He served as a dayan and av beis din in Petach Tikva for over 25 years and later served as a dayan on the Beis Din Hagodol. During this period he also taught Torah and horo'oh and helped fortify religion in Petach Tikva. When he sat down to learn HaRav Kreisman would completely sever himself from his surroundings. He would often say that one must always seek to understand Hashem's will in every matter. The levaya set out from Yeshivas Lomzha, where he davened for many years, passing Kollel Toras Eretz Yisroel, where he learned afternoons and evenings, and Beis Haknesses Hagodol, where he delivered a shiur. In his will he asked not to be eulogized, but short words of parting were said by his brother-in-law, HaRav Boruch Shimon Salomon, moro de'asra of Petach Tikva and the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Nachalas Dovid, who urged all of the city's residents to fill the gaping hole left following the histalkus of an odom godol beTorah veyiroh. HaRav Nachum Dov HaKohen Kreisman, zt"l, was buried with the setting sun at Seguloh Cemetery in Petach Tikva. He is survived by his sons and sons-in-law, marbitzei Torah following in the path of ruchniyus he set during his lifetime.	Kreisman, Nochum Ber (I1355)
100	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Schneider, Harvey (I1851)

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