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Piano tutor Sadie was good friends with maestro Iso
STUART BROWN recalls his piano lessons in the late 1950s with Sadie Michaels in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Stuart, who lived in Fallowfield, would travel to north Manchester
with his mother, who worked for a Mr Glucksman on Cheetham Hill Road.
He remembers asking Miss Michaels about the number tattooed on
her arm and her simple reply that she had been a prisoner of the
Nazis.
Stuart would like to know more about Miss Michaels. He knows that
she was a great friend of the Russian pianist Iso Elinson.
Stuart has travelled all over the UK as a pianist/entertainer.
During a return to Manchester in the late 1970s, he met Rita Levine,
who had also been a pupil of Miss Michaels. She told him that Miss
Michaels and her sister were in an elderly people's home in Prestwich,
maybe Heathlands.
"I visited her on spec," Stuart recalled. "It was a very large
building. Unannounced, I was taken to her. I said hello and she
replied, 'My wonderful boy pianist' after a period of 25 years of
never seeing me.
"I think she passed away relatively soon after that meeting."
Email stuartbrown777@hotmail.com
Tirza connection
EDWARD JOHNSON, of Manchester, is looking for descendants of
Abraham Laserson, a builder in the 1930s, whose premises were at
140 Bury Old Road, Crumpsall, Manchester.
In 1935, Mr Laserson purchased a plot of land on Burnage Lane,
Manchester, close to the border with Levenshulme.
On this land, he built 18 houses in a Mock Tudor style. The prototype
house for his development is still standing near Crumpsall Metrolink
station.
Edward is looking for any surviving photographs, either of the
old Victorian house named 'Cringle Wood', which was demolished prior
to re-development, or of the construction of the 12 houses in Tirza
Avenue, where he has lived since 1968.
He would also like to know the connection with the name 'Tirza'.
Contact 0161-224 2405 or email tirza10@talktalk.net
Grandma's heritage
Shelley Stephanou-Fawcett, of South Africa, wants more information
about her grandmother, Phyllis Kathleen Groelin.
She believes that before she married Shelley's grandfather, Harold
Fawcett, she wed Mr Rosenthal, with whom she had a son, Albert (Alby).
The family lived in Dundee or Hattingspuit in the Pietermaritzburg
area of Kwazulu Natal.
Shelley's aunt remembered a phone call around 1980/81 with a message
for Phyllis that Alby had passed away.
Phyllis' parents had emigrated to South Africa from Denmark at
the turn of the century.
Shelley's great-uncles changed the family name by deed poll to
Greyling.
Phyllis was born in 1908 in Dundee, South Africa, and died in
1982 in Durban.
"My grandmother often referred to her heritage as Jewish, but
we cannot be sure that she was meaning herself or her ex-husband
and her 'lost' son," Shelley added.
Email stepfaw@iafrica.com
Oz search
Blanche Kahn, of San Francisco, is trying to locate members
of the Streager family, who lived in Melbourne.
Ettie and Jack Streager, who she believes are now deceased, and
sons Gerald and Martin emigrated to Australia from Glasgow in the
1950s.
Blanche last saw them during a visit to Melbourne in the mid-1990s.
She also wants to get in touch with her sister Roberta Adelman
(nee Perris, changed from Pairos), who divorced Leonard Adelman
and married a man from Oregon with the last name of Cooley (Cooly)
who lived with her on the Gold Coast before they got divorced.
Roberta emigrated from Glasgow to Sydney with Leonard, daughter
Judith and son Anthony (Tony).
Shelley's nephew attended medical school in Australia and became
a pathologist, while Judith raised Australian blue dogs and also
horses.
Telephone 001415-374-7088 or email blanchekahn@gmail.com
Five great-uncles
Sheona Green, of France, is trying to discover what happened
to the five brothers of her grandmother, Sarah Green, who was born
in Edinburgh.
In the 1911 census, she lived at 5 Thistle Street, Glasgow.
Sheona's great-grandfather, Morris Green, was born in Russia.
He married Rachel Atlasovitch in Yebvabna, Poland.
Sheona's uncles were Louis (born Russia), Harry (born England),
David (born England), Abraham (born England) and Joseph (born Glasgow).
She discovered that Joseph had a twin who died before the 1911
census.
David married Rachel Silverman at Oxford Synagogue. He and Harry
are buried in Glasgow.
Telephone 0033468820608 or email bonport@wanadoo.fr
Barnett family
LEEDS-born Merv Barnett wants to hear from members of the Barnett
family.
Merv, born in 1948, emigrated to Rhodesia in 1948. Since 1976,
Merv and wife Naomi have lived in Melbourne.
His grandfather, Edward (Isaac) Barnett, was born in the 1880s
and married Mary Wolfruss. Edward's parents were Jacob and Leah
Barnett.
Email barnett@netspace.net.au
Maternal side
BRIAN GRANT, of Montreal, wants to trace his maternal grandmother's
side of the family.
Freda (Frieda) Lobinski, nee Goldenberg, was born in Romania in
1899 and died in 1924.
She was the daughter of David (born 1866) and Leah Goldenberg
(born 1870, died 1922). She had four brothers, Tobias (1889), Bernard
(1894-1948), Samuel (1897), Marcus (1908), and two sisters, Jane
(1904) and Ada (1905).
They moved to England between 1899-1901.
Email vigarus@sympatico.ca
Brooklyn dad
Sandy Muchnick is looking for information about her father,
Max Rosenberg, who was born in Brooklyn in 1914 and died in 2012.
He had two Polish-born brothers, Phil and Harry, and a brother
Tom, born in New York. His mother was Pauline Rosenberg (a name
given at Ellis Island).
Email sandymuch@gmail.com
Ukraine town
David Barrett, formerly of Leeds, is looking for information
on the Ukraine town of Berdichev.
His mother's family (Clarice Ellis, formerly Ehrlich) is from
Berdichev.
David's father Max (formerly Zeretsky) had his origins in Wilkomir,
Ukmerge so he would also like information about this Lithuanian
area.
Email david@nadalia.com
Cousin's wife
AUBREY JACOBUS, of London, wants to hear from the family of
Hannah Weinstein, who was born in 1900.
Hannah married Aubrey's cousin Morris Samuels (Szmulowitz) in
Manchester Beth Hamedereth Beth Aaron in August 1920.
Her father, Jacob Marks Weinstein, lived in Cheetham in 1920,
but Hannah left the UK before the Second World War - destination
unknown.
Telephone 0208-203 1029 or email aajacobus@btinternet.com
WED LETTER DAY
IN THE PICTURE
Help Chedva have hero Paul recognised
Paul Nagant hid the woman during the Holocaust, along with Chedva's
mother Helen Weingarten.
Chedva would like Paul and his wife to be recognised as Righteous
Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, but needs more information.
Paul, who was a member of the resistance, died many years ago,
but his wife, who is now 94, does not remember any details.
Email chedvabendavid@gmail.com
To make an appeal, email MIKE COHEN at roots@jewishtelegraph.com Please include your home address and contact telephone number. |
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