Relatively Speaking 1995

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Volume 8 December 1995/Kislev 5776

Whenever I questioned my mother or aunt about Nusbaum relatives in Detroit they mentioned the Reinheimers. So, the last time we were in Detroit (1988), I found some Reinheimers listed in the phonebook, jotted down their numbers, and when I returned home, wrote to them. They were the right ones. Since then Ruth Reinheimer Rothschild has visited in Los Angeles several times and even attended the reunion we had in Las Vegas.

This May we finally returned to Detroit and met the family. Ruth hosted 15 of us for dinner, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience for everyone, especially the first cousins.

In June we attended the Jewish Genealogical Summer Seminar in Washington. On the way we visited with Jack Langsdorf and daughter Mary Ellen, Adelaide Rosenstock Silberstein, David & Harriet Bloom Hutzler, and the Brownstein and Rose families.

Many thanks to Roz Saffer Haas and her new husband Izzy Shever for showing us around the National sights in D.C. We toured the U.S. Holocaust Museum. We were very impressed by the exhibit, and by the international group of tourists visiting the Museum as well.

Most of my research time was spent in the US Archives looking at passenger ship manifests, 1920 U.S. census reports, and Canadian border crossing cards. The most interesting items revealed to me were:

William (Kates) Katz, son of Abraham and Leah, was married to a woman named Violet. In 1920 they were living together with his widowed mother and sister Blanche Weinberg in East Stroudsburg, PA.

Irene Slattery Berkman and son Lawrence were living with her brother Joseph in New York at the time of the 1920 census. Perhaps husband Jay Berkman was traveling on business.

Ida Levistein, 65 and born in Geisa, sailed from Germany to New York on August 20, 1938, leaving her brother Karl, of Greussen, She was probably the last member of that family to escape the Holocaust.

After the Seminar we were supposed to attend the Bar Mitzva of Raphoel Chill, and meet several other family members. However, on the way I received the sad news of my mother Ruth's sudden death from a heart attack and we returned home immediately.

This was also a year for family members to travel to Eastern Europe: Joe & Margot Kohen, Irving & Shirley Simon, Sam & Joan Rimmon. For Sam Rimmon it was a very emotional experience--it was the first time he'd been to Warsaw since he left as a child of 9.

The visit at Auschwitz was, to quote Joe Kohen, "a most sobering visit." I think the part that had the biggest affect on me was the room filled with hair. The nazis were using the hair to weave blankets and clothing. And who questioned it?

On the lighter side: do try to see "The Magic Lantern" show in Prague. It is a feast for one's eyes and sense of humor.

The long-awaited meeting of Hannelore Militzer Noe and Joan Rimmon finally happened in August. It was a wonderful, but brief, event. Hannelore is a dear friend of Gisela Eckstein Zamora. Gisela had told me about a friend who came from Geisa, suggesting that she might have information about the Levistein family. She did have some information about Geisa that helped me, but even more exciting, we discovered we are cousins on the Rosenstock/Moses line.

Back in 1819 when Jews had to select family names, the two sons of Jehuda ben Shlomo, of Tann by Fulda, took the last names of Rosenstock and Moses. Hannalore is descended from the Moses line, Joan from the Rosenstocks.

        JOSHUA KANTOR, January, 1993.
            DONALD REISER, January, 1994.
                DOW PERKINS, August, 1994.
                    MAX FRIEDLICH, September, 1994.
        ALENA KANTOR, January, 1995.
            ZIVA RIMMON, October, 1995.
                AMANDA NEUBURGER, October, 1995.

~~ HILARY GOODMAN, May 1994 ~~ RAPHOEL CHILL, July 1995 ~~
AARON NATHANIEL ROSE, September 1995 ~~ JESSICA KLEIN, November 1995 ~~

    WALBURGA VON RAFFLER-ENGEL on the publication of her latest book, "The Perception of the Unborn Across the Cultures of the World."
    STEPHEN CONE on his new position as Executive VP for Corporate Marketing of the Key Corp.
    IRA ROSS for another fantastic year working with the Elder Hostel program at the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College in Florida.
    RICHARD KATZ, on passing the WV Bar and admitted to practice law in WV. Richard, in graduating from the West Virginia University College of Law, follows in the footsteps of his father, David (1963), and grandfather, Jerome (1931).

   CARLA MARCUS & BRANDON SHARP,   August 1994.
    CARL HUTZLER & TERESA WINSLOW, June 1995.
    JONI KATZ & KENNETH MACKLER, October 1995.
    BRUCE SIMON & DEBBY, October 1995.

   25th: STANLEY & LINDA Brown RUTTA.
          40th: SAM & JOAN Glanz RIMMON.
          45th: WERNER & HENRIETTA NEUBURGER.
    46th: MILTON & MIMI Back LOEB, SAMUEL & IRENE Bettman ZIVI.
        47th: HARRY & RUTH BLUMBERG, BERT & VIVIAN BURGER,
                S. K. & MARJORIE Weinberg OTTENHEIMER, ALBERT & SYDNEY DANNENBAUM,
            48th: WALTER & NAOMI WURZBURGER, HARRY & JULIA DANNENBAUM.
    49th: MANNY & FRIEDEL MARX, SEYMOUR & NANCY Rose ROBINSON,
                CHARLES & BARBARA Rothschild KAHN.
        50th: FRED & ELISABETH WURZBURGER, HERBERT & DOROTHY REINHEIMER,
            IRA & HELENE Strousse ROSS.
            51st: SAMUEL & ELINOR Rothschild THAVIU.
     52nd: HERB & JUDY MARX.
        53rd: ROBERT & MOLLIE ROTHSCHILD, ALBERT & PEARL Katz BLUMENTHAL,
                EDGAR & ELEANOR LANGSDORF.
            54th: DAVID & JEAN Saltzstein HERMAN.
    55th: RICHARD & HANNAH Rothschild ZURNDORFER.
        57th: MORTON & RUTH BERKMAN.
            58th: HENRY & FRANCES Langsdorf GREENBAUM, SAM & ELLEN LANGSDORF.
    59th: RANDOLPH & AMALIE ROTHSCHILD

        10: Elana Brownstein ~ Austin Crispens ~ Landon Crispens ~ Derek Dabibi ~
        ~ Rebecca Neuburger ~ Rachel Schwanke ~ Noah Smith ~ Danielle Stout
        21: Jeremy Fixler ~ David Friendlich ~ Geoffrey Genser ~ Danielle Langsdorf ~
        ~ Evan Rothschild
        70: Carolyn Godchaux ~ Ann Weisburger Lebherz ~ Henry Lowenstern ~
        ~ Alan Reinheimer ~ Sam Rimmon ~ Stanford Rothschild ~ Beate Deutscher Siegler
        ~ Irving Simon ~ Elinor Rothschild Thaviu ~ Sam Zivi,
        75: Abrusha Askenazi ~ Lothar Brown ~ Arthur Cone, Jr. ~ Walburga Engel ~
        ~ Edward Goodman ~ Walter Wurzburger.
        80: Sitta Nussbaum Amram ~ Milton Loeb, Jr. ~ Robert J. Netter ~ Herbert Nusbaum,
        ~ Seymour B. Robinson ~ Margaret Rose.
        81: Ann Breif Berkman ~ Albert Blumenthal ~ Howard Degen ~ Edna Levinson Roberts.
        82: Vicky Rothschild Hershey ~ Jack B. Langsdorf ~ Barbara Levy Thanhauser.
        83: Harry M. Dannenbaum ~ Marie Marx ~ Alex Langsdorf, Jr. ~ Sam Langsdorf, Jr.
        84: Ruth Berkman ~ Edgar Langsdorf ~ Randolph Rothschild.
        85: Ruth Rothschild Bettman ~ Dorothy Katz Bloom ~ Babette Krauss Craven ~
            Arthur H. Goodman ~ Henry Greenebaum ~ Paul Rose ~ Karl Rose ~
            Madeline Dannenbaum Rosewater.
        86: Adelaide Weinberg Tannenbaum Kane.
        87: Peggy Myers Guthman ~ Edward Rosewater
        88: Evelyn Bodenheimer Redstone ~ Mae Luma Weinberg
        89: Frances Herman
        90: Edna Cahn Rosenstock
        91: Adelaide Rosenstock Silberstein
        98: Roma Cosel Schachtel

        ~~ WENDY GROSVENOR ~~ BERNICE KONIKOW ~~ JOE & GISELA ECKSTEIN ZAMORA, ~~
        ~~ ELISE RUBINER ~~ BOB WELSH ~~ DAVID "BRO" HERMAN ~~ ALAN NUSBAUM ~~

            EMANUEL EDWIN GOODMAN, 82, December 1994, Memphis TN.
            LEROY KATZ, June 1994, and wife, LOIS WAYNE KATZ, April 1995, Bluefield WV
            DONALD ZADECK, Jr., September, 1995, Washington, D.C.
            ROSE WEINBERG STROUSSE, 3 July 1995, Montclair, NJ, see Relatively Speaking," Spring, 1988. Rose was 98.
            It was just last October that RUTH WEINBERG GLANZ BOOZELL returned to living in Los Angeles after 20 years in Carson City, NV. She was finally among her children, grand- and great-grandchildren. June 30th she suffered her first heart attack at age 80 and on July 2nd, Ruth passed away. Ruth was your editor's connection to this vast family.

    The 1996 Jewish Genealogy Seminar will take place in Boston, July 14 - 19.   If you live in the area, we look forward to seeing you then.
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