Dear Frank, So glad you’ve joined the group; welcome! Amster was a well-known surname in Czernowitz and there are very prominent burial locations in the Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery for the Amster family. Have you checked for Czernowitz burials, including photos, on the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry? (Of course, there are BINDERs as well.)
It sounds like you’ve found your way to internet sources for Cz. vital records. Have you also found the online searchable newspapers and other resources? https://www.difmoe.info/2020/11/24/collection-jewish-german-bukovina-1918-online/ Austrian newspapers including Czernowitz are searchable here: https://anno.onb.ac.at/anno-suche#searchMode=simple&from=1 Tips for searching ANNO along with other useful websites and information are found here: https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/reischtoronto.html With best wishes, Bruce From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Frank Suss <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 0:08 To: CZERNOWITZ-L <[email protected]> Subject: [czernowitz-l] Can anybody help? Hi, My name is Frank Suss from Melbourne, Australia. My mother, Edith Suss nee Grünberg, was born in Czernowitz in 1910, the daughter of Isidor (Itzie) Grünberg, born in Korolowka and Regina (Rachel) Amster (paternal) or Binder (maternal), born in Czernowitz. The family moved to Vienna circa mid-decade. Before her death in 2008 I had asked her about her early life however this discussion never eventuated. After the death of my mother, my wife discovered a bag of photographs which we had never seen. Among them are postcards dated variously from 1910,11 and 12 addressed, in German, to either of my grandparents at Springbrünnengasse 42 from a family, I assume on holiday, taken at Franzensbad. What I find infuriating is that only given names are mentioned and I am not sure if there is a family connection, although the wife pictured in these cards appears to bear a resemblance to a photo that I assume is of my grandmother. The attached photo is dated 1910 and the adult names mentioned are Salomon and Berta. From another card I think the girl’s name may be Edith, the boy unknown. In addition there is another photo, taken in 1962 in Czernowitz, which I have had translated, I think from Romanian, saying, “ To dear Edith (my mother’s name was Edith), beloved of Koko, from her aunt Zuza Laub. I have never been told of Zuza Laub, however the name Koko is mentioned in the previously mentioned postcards. Does anybody know how I may be able to determine who these people are. I have trawled through several genealogy sites with little success, finding my mother’s birth certificate, her parents wedding certificate, plus the wedding certificate of my maternal great-grandparents, translation attached, that mentions several siblings of my maternal grandmother. Kind regards, Frank Suss. ________________________________ ________________________________ This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>. To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions<https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris>. To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________ ******************************************************************************* This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
