Missing Gassmann and Nothmann links

Loose beginnings

Borinski and Apt outliers

My family's history brings together, among other Upper Silesian Jewish families, those of my great great grandparents Samuel Borinski and Rosalie Apt. The history of these families - Borinski and Apt - is known for at least a further two generations back, and almost all the people who appear in the online genealogical records of the area bearing one or the other of these family names have been found a place on my tree. And yet, in the same corner of Silesia we find the descenants of one Pinkus Apt (born about 1835) whom I cannot place in my tree. Pinkus is intriguing not least because I have an ancestor of the same name born about 30 years earlier, which suggests the possibility of a common ancestor.

Elsewhere, we find in the records Susel Borinski whose parents are unknown. Is she a member of "my" Borinski family? When her son Max married in 1900, one of the witnesses was Adolf Apt of Rybnik, almost certainly the son of the "loose" Pinkus.

• Conditorei Albert Danziger, Kattowitz.
• An account of the murder of Rudolf Haase during the inter-war Silesian uprisings
  Copy of the original (German, PDF)
  English translation

• Israel Danziger, conditor
  - another Danziger in the conditorei business.
• Muellers of Rybnik
  - an attempt to piece together Rybnik's Mueller / Mandowski brewing family.
• Czwiklitzer family groups
  - derived mostly from JRI-Poland records.
• Staub family from 1750 onwards - see also Gassmann (HaKohen).
• Ancestors of Gerhard Gerrard geb. Schlesinger
  and Hilde Gerrard geb. Weissenberg.
• Therese Jarislowsky's 90th brithday party - an interactive photograph of the event in 1914 shows many members of her family, including Richard and Irma Gassmann and their daughter Kaete.
• The Riesenfeld families of Langendorf and elsewhere

We took these photos during visits to Poland in May and July 2011.

• Kozilska Street Cemetery, Katowice (Kattowitz) - 565 photos - map
• Wielowies (Langendorf) Cemetery - 56 photos - map
• Pszczyna (Pless) Cemetery - 142 photos - map

Awaiting transcription and indexing:

• Gliwice (Gleiwitz - new cemetery) - 19 photos
• Gliwice (Gleiwitz - old cemetery) - 68 photos
• Myslowice (Myslowitz) - 13 photos - map
• Wroclaw (Breslau - old cemetery) - 34 photos
• Zabrze (Hindenburg) - 10 photos
• Zory (Sohrau) - 4 photos

Breslau synagogue community address list (ca 1930) - a searchable transcription containing the names (family, given and maiden) addresses and dates of birth of over 17000 members of the community

Index to the 105 series archive from the JHI collection

Index to the Gleiwitz residence cards from the JHI collection - an index to more than 3000 images of personal residence cards containing the names (family, given and maiden) addresses and dates of birth of members of the Jewish community of Gleiwitz.

The cards appear to have been in use from around the start of the 20th century up to ca 1942