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| My grandfather's parents were Akiba (who came from Svisloch according to their son Moisei's university records) and Olga (ne Palkin) Maizel. My ggf was a "private attorney". I have a modern picture of the building in which they lived in 1912, and a picture of them. According to my mother, her father's grandfather was a rabbi or wise man (to whom people turned for advice). According to her father, he was from a family of rabbis. I have no firm information as to which rabbinic family this was. The story of the Meisel who was a philanthropist in Cracow sounded familiar to her, and she felt there was some relationship to the Meisels in Prague. Again, I have nothing other than her recollection of stories told to her by her father, and I have no deetails on these.Moisei, my grandfather's older brother became a physician and resided in St. Petersburg--he and his son perished during the Seige of Leningrad. I don't know what happened to their two daughters. His wife's family were also Maizel, and they had a large pharmacy in St. Petersburg. Moisei and Vera Maizel were married in Bielsk--was there a Maizel rabbi there in 1903? My grandfather and his younger brother emigrated to the US in 1903 and 1904 respectively. Two sisters remained in Russia--Revekka and Anuta. My grandparents saw them in Moscow in 1932-1933. I think an older sister left Russia much earlier and I have no information on her.My great-grandparents apparently moved to St. Petersburg sometime after 1912, and died there ca 1914-1916. So, my family had pretty much left Grodno before the revolution.The street is Sobornaya Ulitsa in Grodno, and the courtyard scene is entered through the passageway under the balcony, left of center. My ggp's apartment was on the 2nd floor of the building to the right that has a balcony (I think that was their apartment). According to a rental document, it "had no heat"--which probably means they heated it with a stove, rather than central heating. The picture on your Maisel page to which I referred was #masl-6:a.Chana Maisel of Grodno. My grandfather had a sister Anuta and I had wondered if Chana could've been called Anuta by her family and friends. Best wishes,Olga Parker |
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| The origin of the Kosowski (also spelled as: Kosowsky, Kosovsky) http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/newsletter/Lunna.htm I am having a difficult time with the link to the Tarbut school |
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