tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223435721248605051.post3407366814947135053..comments2024-02-20T08:01:32.002+02:00Comments on All My Foreparents: SOME LITTLE PLACE YOU NEVER HEARD OFIsraelPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16748957039859625149noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223435721248605051.post-48378494094290478042012-07-03T19:16:50.390+03:002012-07-03T19:16:50.390+03:00Thanks for this, Israel. I was touched, especially...Thanks for this, Israel. I was touched, especially, by the sad story of Schmiel's return to Europe, where he, his wife and 4 children were lost in the Holocaust.<br /><br />Over the first 20 years of the 20th century, one of my great-uncles refused to emigrate from Hungary and said goodbye to all his brothers and sisters when they headed for America. They would become more "American" than Jewish, he feared. He barely survived the war years but suffered a fatal heart attack in spring 1945 when he learned of a daughter's death at Auschwitz.Susan J. Gordonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223435721248605051.post-19609529505836477172012-07-01T12:20:28.908+03:002012-07-01T12:20:28.908+03:00When I worked at an industrial company here in Isr...When I worked at an industrial company here in Israel, we had a meeting with a potential equipment supplier, from the UK. The rep mentioned that they had a facility in the US and I asked where and he said Pennsylvania. So I ask where and he says "some little place you never heard of" and I say "try me."<br /><br />He says Zelionople and I say "in Butler County, near Harmony" and he is struck dumb.IsraelPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748957039859625149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223435721248605051.post-68920253222554057052012-07-01T12:13:58.788+03:002012-07-01T12:13:58.788+03:00Stuff like this has happened to me, too. I was onc...Stuff like this has happened to me, too. I was once sitting next to a woman at a mutual friend's sukkah party and we got to talking roots. Her mother's family, as it turned out, was from Eisyskes, only 12 miles from my maternal ancestors' shtetl, Wasiliski. Pretty remarkable how this stuff happens. It can't possibly be random, IMHO.Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17159600299817776906noreply@blogger.com