Re: [Cz-L] Helping Vicki and others

Dear Shelley,

Welcome to the list!
Please send me your photo and tell me where you live, so I can put you
in the Photos of List Members, which I will update within a few days.
I'd like very much to include you.

Merle

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From: "Shelley.Mitchell_at_att.net" <shelley.mitchell_at_att.net>
To: "CZ-L" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 4:59 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Helping Vicki and others

I'm also new to this cite so let me share my experiences in searching for
family.
Two of my uncles and their sister, my grandmother, thought everyone left in
Europe was dead because of things they saw in the newspapers. Many years
later I decided I wanted more details. Unfortunately, by then these three
siblings were dead. So I wrote to everyone and looked everywhere:
Jewishgen, Red Cross, Bad Arelson, etc. Nothing. Then I wrote to the
Ukrainian Red Cross about my great aunt Perl (Terner) Platz, her husband,
Isaac, and their 7 children who lived in Delaytn.

They wrote back to me, in Ukrainian with an English translation, that in
1942 some Ukrainians murdered Isaac Plac, 1 female and 2 males and
confiscated their property. They attached a list showing 3 families named
Plac, all from Delaytn. The only names were the father of each family. It
showed how many males and femals under each man's name but no other names. I
assume the other two men were Isaacs brothers.

I now knew what happened to my great aunt and uncle and two of their
children. I only knew the name of one of her sons - Samuel. While the story
is not complete, unless I find something on Samuel Platz/Plac, I'm finished
with that branch. But it was very comforting to know what happened to Perl,
my grandmother's sister.

By the way, to check the translation, I showed it to a young Ukrainian man I
worked with. His face grew red as he learned for the first time what his
ancestors might have done. I told him that he should always love his family
and to look forward to the contributions that he can make in this world,
today. I think that made him feel better.

Has anyone else tried this approach? I don't know if the letter would be of
any value to any of you but I'd be happy to share it.

Ms. Shelley Mitchell
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