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From: David Dahlke <>
Subject: Re: [Posen] Schneidemuehl
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 15:40:09 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030516182935.02702c80@incoming.verizon.net>


Hello James,
Hello List,

a collegue of mine sent me this, maybe it is interestung:
"PILA: {10160}
After the first partition of Poland in 1772, Pila was renamed
Schneidemuehl. The area became the Prussian province
of Posen (Grand Duchy of Posen), Prussia's most Jewish province. To
date, no records of the first Jewish cemetery
are found. This second Jewish cemetery in Schneidemuehl, probably was
established in the late 1840s and is located
in the city center, near the 17th century Jewish quarter. The 1850s
Berlin-Koenigsberg railway creation gave the town
importance. 1905 Jewish population was 800 out of 22,000. My cousin
Martin Rosenberg, as former head of the
Chevra Kadisha of Schneidemuel, immigrated to Santiago, Chile in 1938
and brought with him a handwritten booklet
containing over 500 names, complete with Hebrew death dates
pertaining to the second Jewish cemetery of
Schneidemuehl. (I estimate though, that the names in this booklet
account only for about 25% of all Jews buried in
Schneidemuehl.) The list is a revised, alphabetized master list.
Revisions were possible with the aid of Civil BMD
records of Schneidemuehl in my possession and are based on my own
research into the history of the Jews of
Schneidemuehl, my maternal ancestral town. I have sorted the contents
of the booklet by names, dates and by field of
burial. By comparing this list against the Civil BMD records of
Schneidemuehl, I found numerous discrepancies in the
data of the salvaged booklet. I was able to enhance the original list
by correcting the spelling of some surnames, adding
numerous maiden names, adding some dates of death as well as
correcting many dates, adding all (converted Hebrew
dates) to dates of the Gregorian calendar, incl. dates of the week.
The remaining minor discrepancies in dates between
the Hebrew and Gregorian calendar are due to the difference in the
exact time when the death occurred, i.e. before or
after sunset. The Germans destroyed the Jewish cemetery of
Schneidemahl in 1940. Source:
Peter Simonstein Cullman, 99 Yorkville Ave., Toronto, Ontario,
M5R 3K5, Canada. Copy of original booklet at Leo
Baeck Institute, NY: Storage-Location: Second floor; Accession
Number(s): AR 2600."

David Dahlke
--
David Dahlke, in Posen-L
Surnames: Dahlke, Dahlke-Beach, Rebelski, Hagen-Torn
Locations Poland: Schmilau, Erpel, Posen, Schneidemuehl
Locations USA: Hueytown AL, Birmingham AL, Montgomery AL


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