Jean's Introduction

I was delighted with my recent discovery of the Czernowitz.ehpes website. T=
he website has provided information, directed me to helpful sources, and in=
 its warm, wonderful way, has helped me to feel less isolated as I research=
 my family history.=0A=0AMy mother had told me how excited her parents and =
my father's parents had been when they first met and discovered they came f=
rom the neighbouring communities of Czernowitz and Sadagora. My mother was =
born in Czernowitz in 1913. Her family left Czernowitz when she was three y=
ears old and she grew up in Dresden. My father's family (Lewin and Fleminge=
r) had, I am told, been prominent in Sadagora and included a Kalman Fleming=
er who was mayor for a while.=0A=0AMy parents were Helmut and Edith Prager =
(born Oling). My mother's parents were Robert and Cilli Oling (born Cecilia=
 Sonnenschein). Robert was born in Zablatow in 1881 and moved to Czernowitz=
. Cilli was born in 1874 in Podmokly am Graben (Podmokly nad Labem in Czech=
 and formerly Bodenbach on the Elbe River). The Sonnenschein family also mo=
ved to Czernowitz and Cilli's younger siblings were born there. My father's=
 parents were Carl and Clara Prager (born Lewin). Clara was born in Sadagor=
a in 1866. Her family was there for some generations prior to her birth. Ca=
rl was born in Skawina in 1870.=0A=0AMy parents immigrated to America in 19=
39/1940, having both been allowed as Jewish students to complete medical sc=
hool in Berlin. They settled in Baltimore where my older brother and I were=
 born in 1944 and 1946 and where we grew up. After college, I left home to =
live, work and study in Boston. I met my British husband there, moved to Lo=
ndon in 1972 and we have been here ever since. Barry retired in 2003 from h=
is position as Senior Tutor in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. =
His skill and unshakable patience (almost!) has supported the work we do to=
gether on Mac Family Tree to record our family history. I retired in May 20=
11 from my work as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. I enjoy having t=
he time to read and to do family research.=0A=0ABarry and I have three chil=
dren and two grandchildren.=0A=0AFrom recording what I know about family hi=
story, I am now searching to fill in the gaps. I have been in touch with so=
me Flemingers through the Czernowitz.ehpes website but welcome further Flem=
inger information from anyone who is out there.=0A=0AI recently discovered =
the Memorial Book to the Jews of Dresden - Deported, Murdered, Disappeared =
(published in 2006). In it is a photograph I had never seen of the Oling-So=
nnenschein Family, including my mother at age 25 and her parents. I am tryi=
ng to locate any family members who may have the=A0originals or early copie=
s of the photograph.=0A=0AMy grandfather Robert Oling had a sister Dora/Dvo=
ra (born perhaps around 1880) who married a Kornblum, had at least 4 sons a=
nd=A0immigrated to=A0Israel. Both she and one of her children, Barukh Kornb=
lum, have written Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony for Robert and for Cilli Ol=
ing. These pages can be viewed on the Yad Vashem website. The pages=A0give =
addresses in Israel but I cannot read them. If any Israeli members of the C=
zernowitz website know a Kornblum with possible roots in Czernowitz, please=
 ask them to contact me by e-mail. They=A0would be able to help me fill in =
their branch of the tree. And they may have family photographs.=0A=0AThroug=
h JewishGen, I found a burial record of Berta Oling who died in 1926 and is=
 buried in Czernowitz. She could be Robert Oling's mother and my great-gran=
dmother but I have hardly any information about her. Did anyone know her or=
 any children she may have had?=0A=0AMy grandmother Cilli Oling had a siste=
r Yette (born Sonnenschein) who married Karl Rieber. I understand Karl work=
ed with the post office in Czernowitz between the World Wars. I believe the=
 family spent time in camps during World War II and later immigrated to Pet=
ach Tikvah, together with their son, Poldi (Leopold). Poldi had a son Jochn=
aan/Jonathan Rieber with whom I would like to make contact, again to fill i=
n their branch of the tree. So, if you know him or his wife, Jutta, please =
pass on my e-mail address and a request for contact. Jonathan might be in h=
is forties or fifties and he and Jutta have twin daughters.=0A=0AFinally, I=
 have some photos from the Sadagora family album from the late 1800s=A0and =
early 1900s which I cannot identify. I hope to get them on-line soon. So le=
t me know if you recognise any pictures from your own family albums!

Warmest wishes to all. Jean
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