[Cz-L] SUCCESS

Thank you to all who helped with my research, and those who visited my site
over the past week (www.geocities.com/zuckermanbrown). Briefly, my
grandfather immigrated alone to Canada in 1910, and never spoke of his
family or homeland. As far as we knew, any family we had, wherever that may
be, would have been killed in the Shoah. I recently found some lost
documents that gave me some ideas for some leads to try and research my
grandfather and where he came from. After the latest edition of Die Stimme,
the newspaper of the Bukovina Jews World Union was published, someone in
Rishon LeZion, Israel, saw the ad I had placed looking for anyone who had
information about the Zuckerman family from the small village of Opriseni.
This person showed it to a neighbour whose maiden name was Zuckerman. She
called me, and after an amazing conversation, it has been absolutely
confirmed that her father and my father's father were brothers. It is the
first time in 95 years two Zuckermans have been in touch!!! It seems a
shame now that after my grandfather left Bukovina in 1910, he didn't know he
has a brother who was alive in Romania until 1985 (my grandfather died in
1983). We are now exchanging photos of the brothers, and telling stories
about how similar they are. Alice Zuckerman was in tears, saying she had
been hoping her whole life to find her lost uncle, who she had heard stories
about. Alice's father (and herself) were the only members of the family to
survive the Shoah in Transnistria. I will now be in touch with my new
cousins (in fact her son, my second cousin moved last year to Vancouver,
Canada). I am now arranging a surprise party for all of my aunts and
uncles, where I'll call and introduce them to their long lost first cousin.

Warren Brown
Toronto, Canada
researching (and finding) ZUCKERMAN, from Opriseni
Received on 2004-05-06 16:04:16