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From: Julia Bonem <>
Subject: Re: German Death Certificates
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:06:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4cbd8g$2r7@nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>


Speaking of death certificates, can anyone help me understand something
strange that occured when I went to obtain my great-grandfather's death
certificate in the Trier Standesamt in March 1995? I was given a
*photostatic* copy of the record, but only after they covered something
that was apparently written in the left margin of the original document.
They told me that this was the policy regarding issuing all death records.

What does this mean? Is this policy indeed the case, or was my ancestor
involved in something nefarious or somesuch? If it means anything, he was
Jewish and died in 1931. I am not trying to concoct any explanation, but
I have to ask whether there is any likelihood that the Nazis retroactively
put anything on documents of the deceased. I am sorry to be completely
clueless about this, but it simply baffled me. There is probably a very
simple explanation, but I don't know it.

Would appreciate any insight into this one.

Julia BONEM, New York, NY

Researching: ALTSCHUELER (Meisenheim, Germany)
ANISH/ANYSH (Warsaw)
BONEM (Trier and Trittenheim, Germany)
CAHN (Cincinnati, OH and St. Louis, MO)
COHN (Wronke, Germany & St. Louis and New York City)
GOCHSHEIMER (Mainz, Germany)
POLLACK (Ruethen and Bonn, Germany)
SCHERICK (New York City)
SPOTT (Bochnia, Poland and Cleveland, OH)
UNRICH (Meisenheim, Germany)
WOLF (Worms, Germany)

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