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Presenter: Michael Shade, Brighton U.K.
I've been putting some of the material from the family history talks I have done over the past few years onto my TwentyOne Seven site. Several of the talks are about Gombin and/or my extended Frankenstein family. Details are on the Talks page in the link below.
I've converted the slideshows into m4v video format, I'm hoping they will play OK on different platforms. You should be able to play them full-screen, and use the usual video controls - forward, back, pause. I've also put up the handouts in pdf format, and links to other relevant posts. Let me know if you have any problems accessing any of it.
NB: it will probably advance the slides before you've had time to read what is on them - use the Spacebar to pause and restart.
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TwentyOne Seven: p resentations and handouts The material offered here consists of slides, handouts, and links to articles posted elsewhere...Postal Card mailed from Gombin (Gabin) 1930
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Where is this from??
Wow!! The sender's address is given as #3 Garbanska Street, Gąbin, "Pollen" (Poland) and the sender is D Zychlinska. According to the 1922 Electoral List, the inhabitants of #3 Garbanska Street included Mordka & Dwojra Zychlinski, born 1862 and 1872 respectively. We may be able to link them with descendants or relatives .... Is Scott Harris on here??
We may be able to get the message translated on one of the FB Groups - I could put it up there, if that's OK with Michael Zolno?
Feingold doesn't seem to be a Gombin name - does anyone recognise it? And what is the town in PA that the card is addressed to?
It looks like Phila (Philadelphia)
Checking in the Book of Residents, Dwojra Zychlinsky is Rajzel Zychlinsky's mother.
As translated for us by a member of the Tracing the Tribe FB Group: "By me is everything as before. I am healthy, but not yet completely, since I hit my foot (leg?). Be well, also your husband and child. Greetings from your brother(s) Yakov and Dovid in (or and) ?. Your mother Dvora Tzirl (?) On the left side, vertically: Lately we have big frosts here."
In the BoR, Jakob and Dawid are indeed shown as 2 of the sons of Mortka and Dwojra Zychlinsky.
The card is addressed to Mr L Feingold, although it is written to Dwojra's daughter. She had 3 daughters with Mortka: Rajzla b 1910, Chana b 1899, and Sura b 1897. Rajzla did not emigrate, Chana married a Josef Celemencki - so this must be Sura ... I'll see if this Feingold family are in the 1930 US Census.
It is indeed Sura: she applied for US Naturalisation in 1942, as Sura aka Sadie Feingold nee Zychlinska b Gombin 1897; her husband is Louis, and they have one child, Anita b 1920. Does anyone recognise this family?
Anita is Scott Harris's mother; Dwojra who wrote the postcard is his g-g'mother .... Serendipity! I have found a notice of Anita's death 2018 in the Philadelphia Enquirer, which lists close relatives including Scott & Jillian.
This is wonderful. I also have postcards and letters from Gombin just before and during the War. Is this a project in the making? Think of what we could learn if we combine resources.
Anyone who can translate these?
Postal Card mailed from Gombin (Gabin) 1922
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Michael - it looks like the image at the bottom of the card has been cut off a bit? Could you re-do it so we can see all the writing? I can then post it up to Tracing the Tribe, as I did with the other one, and see if some kind soul there can translate it for us.
And is the image on the right the reverse side of the postcard?
Jewish Gombin Highlighted at Yad VaShem
The International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Israel’s leading Center for Holocaust Remembrance, has launched a new educational program dedicated to the topic of the shtetl. To give both students and the general public an idea of how prewar Jewish shtetl life looked, they selected the Jewish community of Gombin. Using images from the 1937 Sam Rafel film of Gombin and material from the Gombin Yizkor Book, they create a powerful and compelling picture of shtetl life. One of the components in the learning environment is an interactive map (based on the map sketched by Wolf Mantzyk) that… Read More »
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