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Who Am I – What Is My Name – Part X – Gertrude’s Marriage and Divorce
By now, everyone who reads this should know Gertrude Priess-Spiro, the woman who arranged to have Pnina Gutman smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto in August or September 1942. New information about her has recently been discovered that provides details about her … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alfred Roehrs, Anklamer Strasse, Auschwitz, Brunnenstrasse, David Leo Spiro, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Priess-Spiro, Identifinders, Jewish Historical Institute, Landesarchiv Berlin, Leo David Spiro, missing-identity, Pawiak Prison, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Polish State Archives in Warsaw, Unidentified, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto
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Extreme Genealogy – Arrival in Berlin and First Visit to the Berlin Bundesarchiv
Flight to Berlin and Arrival Thursday, August 11, 2016 My trip from Los Angeles to Berlin went smoothly with a layover in Keflavik Interntional Airport. It is the cleanest airport in the world. It felt more like an igloo than an … Continue reading →
Posted in Historical Identifications, Holocaust Project, Uncategorized, Unsolved Mysteries
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Tagged 23andMe, Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime, Auschwitz, autosomal DNA, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Berlin, Berlin Schoenefeld Airport, Birth Parents, Bundesarchiv, Bundesarchiv Lichterfeld, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spiro, Gertrude Spyra, Gunter Wehner, Gustav Urbschat, Identifinders, Keflavik International Airport, Leo David Spiro, Margarete Kaufmann, missing-identity, Pawiak Prison, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Resistance, Unidentified, Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes, Warsaw Ghetto, Widerstand in Berlin gegen das Nazi Regime
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Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part IX – Gertrude’s Sisters!
Since 2012 we have been trying to discover the birth identity of Pnina Gutman, who as an infant was smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto with the assistance of a woman named Gertrud Spiro. We realized from the beginning that our best chance at solving the mystery was to find … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albert Alfred Roehrs, Auschwitz, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Berjosowka, Berlin Bundesarchiv, Berlin Landesarchiv, Berta Johanna Priess, Birth Parents, Bladiau, DNA Identification, East Prussia, Ernst Otto Gerlach, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spiro, Gertrude Spyra, Gross Lindenau, Heiligenheil, Identifinders, Kaliningrad Oblast, Landgemeinde, Leipzig Stadtarchiv, Martha Maria Priess, missing-identity, Oserki, Paplauken, Pawiak Prison, Pjatidoroschnoje, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Quilitten, Schukowa, Timirjasewo, Tooenhagen, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto
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Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part VIII – Gertrud and Leo’s Trial
Das Bundesarchiv Trial Records According to Widerstand in Berlin gegen das NS-Regime 1933 bis 1945 (Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi Regime 1933-1945), Leo and Gertrud Spiro were put on trial in Berlin in 1938. Trying to locate their court records, I contacted the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Auschwitz, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Berlin, Bernberg, Birth Parents, Brandenburg Prison, Bundesarchiv, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrud Priess, Gertrud Spiro, Gertrud-Priess Spiro, Gertrude Spyra, Gunter Wehner, Gustav Urbschat, Identifinders, Jewish Historical Institute, Kammergericht, Leo David Spiro, Margarete Kaufmann, missing-identity, Pawiak Prison, Plotzensee, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Polizeigefangnis, Ravensbruck, Sachenhausen, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto, Widerstand in Berlin gegen das NS-Regime 1933 bis 1945
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Who Am I? What is My Name? – Part VII – Gertrude’s Other Children?
Last week we received surprising new information about a woman who may be Gertrude Priess-Spiro. Continue reading →
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Tagged Alt Iwiczna, Auschwitz, Barbara Weglinski, Berlin Police Prison, Birth Parents, Chylice Poland, Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft, Forensic Genealogy, Generalgouvernement, German Court in Warsaw, Gertrude Spiro, Gertrude Spyra, Identifinders, Jewish Historical Institute, Leo David Spiro, missing-identity, Nowa Iwiczna, Pawiak Prison, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Richard Gryzak, Stefan Grycak, United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vincent Slatt, Warsaw Ghetto, Zdislaus Gryczak
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Who Am I? What is My Name? Part VI – Our Search for Gertrude Spiro
Gertrude Spiro must have been well-connected. She was the proprietor of a liquor and cigarette shop at 2 Nowiniarksa St. in Warsaw in 1941-1942. The shop undoubtedly generated a lot of income for whoever owned it; liquor and cigarettes are two of the most … Continue reading →
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Tagged 23andMe, Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Auschwitz, Auschwitz Poems, Barbara Engleking, Barbara Wenglinski, Berlin, Bernburg Euthanasia Center, Birth Parents, Brandenberg Prison, Communist Party, Concentration Camp, DNA Identification, Empty Water, Find-A-Grave, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Preiss-Spiro, Gertrude Spiro, I Survived Auschwitz, Identifinders, International Tracing Service, Jewish Historical Institute, Krystyna Zywulska, Leo David Spiro, missing-identity, Nowiniarska St, Pawiak Prison, Pawiak Wiezienie Gestapo, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Polizeigefangnis, Przeżyłam Oświęcim, Pusta Woda, Ravensbruch, Ravensbruch Gedenkbuch, Regina Domanska, Sachenhausen, Sonia Priess-Spiro, Sonia Spiro, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Widerstand in Berlin gegen das NS
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DNA Pilot Study on Missing Identity Holocaust Children – 2013 IAJGS Conference
In August 2012, I was invited to give a lecture at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies in Boston, MA, on our pilot project to identify two missing-identity child survivors of the Holocaust. Please enjoy the video of my talk that … Continue reading →
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Tagged 23andMe, autosomal DNA, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Child Survivor, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Holocaust, Identifinders, Jewish Historical Institute, JewishGen.org, JRI Poland, missing-identity, Otwoc, Otwoc Orphanage, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Rebhun, Rozwadow, Stela Walowa, Unidentified, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Warsaw Ghetto, Weglinski, Wenglinski, Yad Vashem
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Who Am I? What is My Name? Part V – Gertrude and Sonia’s Escape
Gertrude and Sonia Preiss-Spiro’s names are listed on the transport to Auschwitz of 141 women from Pawiak prison in Warsaw on 24 August 1943. Pawiak prison was originally used by the Polish judicial to incarcerate criminals, but after the Nazi … Continue reading →
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Tagged 23andMe, Auschwitz, autosomal DNA, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Preiss-Spiro, Gertrude Spyra, Identifinders, Nowiniarska St, Pawiak Prison, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Sonia Preiss-Spiro, transport, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto, zloty
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Who Am I? What is My Name? Part IV – Wolfgang and Adele’s Eyewitness Account
Charlotte Schössow Rebhun was the oldest of four children of Emil and Margarete Schössow from Berlin. Charlotte, like her friend Gertrude Spiro, was a Christian woman who had married a Jew. Charlotte’s husband Max Rebhun had moved from Poland to Germany and settled in Berlin, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adele Rebhun, autosomal DNA, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Charlotte Rebhun, DNA Identification, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Identifinders, Kristallnacht, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Righteous Among Nations, Unidentified, Warsaw Ghetto, Wolfgang Rebhun, Yad Vashem
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Who Am I? What is My Name? Part II – Pnina, Wolfgang, and the Warsaw Ghetto
Convinced that my surname was Rebhun, I contacted Rebhuns around the world. Though the BBC, CNN, and the international press featured my quest, I initially received no responses. Finally in March 1997, the Munich Red Cross relayed a reply from … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adela Rebhun, autosomal DNA, Barbara Weglinski, Barbara Wenglinski, Birth Parents, Bogdan Kazcmarek, Charlotta Rebhun, Child Survivor Holocaust, DNA Identification, Eva Floersheim, Forensic Genealogy, Gertrude Spyra, Holocaust Anniversary Day, Identifinders, Jewish Central Committee, Jewish Historical Institute, Missig Identity, mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, Munich Red Cross, Otwoc Orphanage, Pnina Gutman, Poland, Sierakow, Sonia Spyra, Survivor, Unidentified, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising, Wolfgang Rebhun
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