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The central square of Pilzo as it appeared in 1990 when I visited. The town clerk directed us to the former Jewish cemetery. It was quite overgrown with trees, many four decades old. We looked at as many headstones as we could locate, but none bore our family name nor anything resembling it in Polish...
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The central square of Pilzo as it appeared in 1990 when I visited. With my father-in-law as translator, we inquired about birth records at the town hall. We learned that before World War II, birth and census records were kept by the local churches and synagogues. The Pilzno synagogue was burned to the...
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In 1990, my wife and I travelled around southeastern Poland and visited many of the towns where our respective ancestors once lived. Our tour guide and translator was my late father-in-law, Mark Goetzler. Mark grew up in Jasło and survived the Holocaust by escaping with his family eastward to the Soviet...
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