We Fought Like Lions is coming to Washington, DC. in the USHMM store and a book signing event in Spring 2017!

Hey. It’s been a busy week. BIG NEWS! The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC will be carrying “We Fought Like Lions” in their store and has invited me for a book signing in the Spring of 2017! I am uber excited! Had a great review in the Jewish Link of NJ by Robert Isler “Polish Holocaust Story by Fair Lawn Native Dispels Myths.” Sales continue to grow. Amazon average review of 4.9 stars! More big announcements to come. I need your help to get the book out there and mainstream. So read the book, rate it, review it (esp. on Amazon and Goodreads), blog it and share it. I wrote the book in my grandfather’s grammar i.e. “mine parents.” It’s going to evoke memories of the voices of your parents and grandparents. PM me to speak in schools, synagogues, book clubs or events. Have a meaningful Tisha B’Av on Sunday.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Fought-Like-Lions-Holocaust/dp/1515181596

Montefiore Medical Center Department of Psychiatry grand rounds about We Fought Like Lions

I am very excited to share that I have been invited to give the Department of Psychiatry grand rounds at Montefiore Medical Center on January 26 on my book We Fought Like Lions. Cherkasky Auditorium, Thursday 10:30AM-12:00 Noon, 111 E 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467.
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance day.
Click here for the link to We Fought Like Lions.

Isaac Kadetsky's (1854-1891) hebrew name was Azriel Yeshaya!

Google has lead me to an unexpected find. I google Sam Kadets and found this link http://web.mit.edu/justom/Public/Erica/QuincyDisplay-to-press.pdf
In the tiny print about the now closed Beth Israel Synagogue in Quincy Massachusetts is a list of yahrzeits that were memorialized on plaques in the Beth Israel sanctuary, including Sam and Jennie Kadets, Isaac (1854-1891) and Dora Kadetsky' oldest son. Amazingly their death info has been a mystery to me. But this gets a little crazy since this records that Samuel Kadets's hebrew name was Shmuel the son of Azriel Yeshaya. Meaning that Isaac Kadetsky's hebrew name was Azriel Yeshaya. This adds further evidence that Isaac Kadetsky (1854-1891) is in fact the son of Szmul Kadecki from Biezun who died before his only child was born in 1853. Szmul's brother, was Eliasz Kadecki. Eliasz Kadecki's first born son was Shaya Aziel Kadecki, my grandpa Charlie's grandfather. My grandfather's hebrew name was also Shaya Aziel!

Kadetsky to Rosenstein to Fleisher to Haskin

The Rosenstein family is another family with whom I have had trouble locating their descendants. In this case, the surname Rosenstein is a common Jewish last name, making it difficult without more detailed information to differentiate which Rosensteins are related to the Kadetsky family. Adele Kadetsky, my ggm's oldest sister, married Joseph Rosenstein. They were responsible for hosting and sponsoring 23 Kadetskys when they arrived at Ellis Island at 56 Broome Street in Manhattan. See the link here for the 103 Kadetsky ship manifest list. The Rosensteins had Bertha, Sarah, Harry and Saul. Bertha married Harry Fleisher. They both sadly died in their 40s. They had 2 kids, Helen and Irving. Helen married Samuel Haskin. Does anyone have contact information for the family?

Here is a link to an obituary for Samuel Haskin, the husband of Helen Fleisher:
"Sam Haskin of Peabody, formerly of Manalapan, NJ, on Sept. 29, 2014. Beloved husband of the late Helen (Fleisher)Haskin. Devoted father of Bruce Haskin and his wife Carol, and the late Anne Miller and her surviving husband Dr. Michael Miller. Dear grandfather of Rachel Conrad and her husband Erin, Joshua Haskin and his wife Sara, Benjamin Haskin and his wife Leah, and Matthew and Elyse Miller. Loving great grandfather of Aidan and Sydney Conrad and Jonah and Phinn Haskin. Services were held in New York. Bruce and Carol will be at their residence Sunday 2-6 pm. In lieu of flowers remembrances to The Jimmy Fund, 10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA 02445. Sam loved everyone he met and everyone he met loved him."

Here is a link to the obituary for Samuel Haskin and Helen Fleisher's untimely death of their daughter Anne Haskin Miller:
"Anne Haskin Miller of Edison, N.J., died peacefully on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at 10 a.m. at Congregation Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Ave., Metuchen, N.J. Interment will follow at New Montefiore Cemetery on Long Island at 1 p.m. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Goldstein Funeral Chapel, Inc., Edison, N.J. Shiva will be held nightly at the Miller home Sunday through Thursday, with services at 8 p.m. Mrs. Miller spent over 30 years as a physical education teacher at the Dalton School in New York City. She was the devoted wife of Michael; cherished mother of Matthew and Elyse, and was loved by her father, Sam; her brother, Bruce, as well as two nieces and three nephews. Memorial donations may be made to the Jimmy Fund at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, Mass. 02284."

Sierpc JRI Poland index updated to include births, marriages and deaths from 1869-1879

Does anyone recognize these new Sieprc Kadecki records?

Jacob Kadetsky b.1877 immigrated in 1904 Solved!

Hey everyone out there,
I just received an email from Marcia Sidney, that has resolved a genealogical brick wall. Of all my ggm's siblings, I have never been able to track down her brother, Jacob Kadetsky's descendants. He had four daughters who changed their names upon marriage and 1 son who did not have children. I have posted about the family on this blog. Today I received an email from Marcia through this blog! She gave me an update about this family. Thank you Marcia.
I did some quick research and came upon this interesting 1940 US Census for Schwartzwald-Kadetsky in the 1940 US Census. This entry cannot be found by looking for Pearl Kadetsky since her last name was misspelled by the census recorder. Kadetsky became Pedetsky! Sarah Schwartzwald and Pearl Kadetsky are 2 of Jacob Kadetsky's daughters.

Blum/Bloom is Back!

I found another Blum connection. Benjamin Kadetsky dob 12/10/1872 applied for a social security number on February 1937. (That was the first year of the social security program). He lists his parents as Harry Kadetsky and Rebecca Blum. here is the link; http://wiz2.ancestry.com/Records/LIHP_Reg~Records/8211627c-4169-404b-aa9d-25f44ac831ff#/IndexView This most closely matches Benjamin J. Kadetsky son of Hirsch Tzvi Kadetsky and Rebecca Ruchla Chliebowak. Benjamin married Adele Cohen and had the following children; Herman, Ida (Eisenberg), Henry, and Esther (Lerner).