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    Try and get in touch with the Wiesenthal Center in the US, or in
    Vienna, Austria. I was told they have excellent pointers to archives,
    documentation, etc... If they don't know, they at least know who knows.
    
    No, I do not have their phone#, but your operator should be able to
    help, there.
    
    Chris

I believe that Yad Vashem has extensive archives, as does the Diaspora
museum in Tel Aviv.

Martin.

I believe that the Wiesenthal Center is in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

    Shalom,
    
    Try the Red Cross again - as far as I know the UdssR handled all
    their records over to the Red Cross - so maybe there's a chance
    to get new infos. I saw a TV documentation in Oct 89 about the work
    of the Red Cross - they've *lots* of archives - and they're very
    successful in helping people looking for their relatives lost in
    the Holocaust.
    Try the Red Cross in GY directly - just send them a request incl.
    all infos.
    
    Another possibilty's the Wiesental center in Vienna, Austria.
    
    L'hit
    
    Dom
    
    PS: I could try to phone around to get the Red Cross address in
        GY if you want me too. I'm presently located in GY.

More than two years have passed since I entered the base note, and some 
small progress has been made in trying to find out the fate of my grandparents,
uncle and aunt who disappeared in the Holocaust.

I would like to ask US readers for a small favour.

From my enquiries, it seems that my mother's family was deported from Breslau
(Wroclaw, Poland today) on the seventh transport on 5 March 1943 to Auschwitz.
Survivors after the war reported that my aunt and uncle, who were about 16 and 
20 respectively, were sent to a place called Reibnig.

One of the survivors (some say the only survivor) of the transport of 279
people was a nursing sister by name of Judith Sternberg.  This woman wrote
a book called "In the  Hell of Auschwitz" under the name of Judith Sternberg-
Newman.  The book was published by Exposition Press Inc. 386 Park Avenue South
New York 16 in 1963 (EP 41172).   The book states that Judith Sternberg-
Newman lives in West Kingston, Rhode Island.

Maybe someone can obtain for me a more exact address and phone number, so that
I can contact her, in the hope that she is still alive.

Thank you.

    re: .5
    
    Shalom,
    
    I called Rhode Island information and asked for a Judith
    Sternberg-Newman in the city you mentioned, but they had no number for
    her (or for Judith Sternberg or for Judith Newman).  They did have a
    number for a J. Sternberg in North King(*) (Kingston/Kingsfield, I
    forgot now...) which I called but it was not the home of the author.
    
    Sorry.
    
    Steve

    addendum to .6
    
    I also called information for a number for Exposition Press Inc. and
    they have no listing (are they out of business?).
    
    My dad's a book-reviewer...I'll give him a call and see if he can help.
    
    
    Steve

    
    Jonathan,
    
    I tried looking up Exposition Press in NY, but it's not here.
    Any other leads?
    
    Jem
    

    Thank you both Steve and Jem.
    
    Unfortunately, I have no more information other than that the book was 
    published in 1963.
    
    Judith Sternberg-Newman should be, by my reckoning, at least 70
    already.
    
    Jonathan

    My mother lives in North Kingstown.   She looked in the phone book;
    there is one J(effrey) Sternberg in North Kingstown, no
    Sternberg-anythings in the book, about 15 or so Newmans, but none in
    West Kingston and none with a first name Judith or plain initial J.
    
    There's one synagogue in that phone book, Congregation Beth David of
    Narragansett, Kingstown Road, Narragansett, R.I.  Maybe you could
    write to them.                                
    

    A friend of mine says that Yad V'Shem has a new online database, which
    has been operating only a month or so.  They apparently got help from
    some people in the US to set it up.
    
    It's worth a try.
    
    Maurene

    re.11
    I called Yad Vashem, and spoke to a fellow named Alex, who tried to 
    help me, but was unsuccessful.   He explained to me that the new online
    database that they are setting up, is of the testimonies in Heichal 
    HaShemot (The Shrine of Names).   So the only names that will appear in
    the database, are those about which survivors gave testimony.
    
    Thanks anyway.
    
    re .10
    
    Thanks for the address of the synagogue in Kingston R.I. - I haven't 
    written yet, but still intend to do so.

I should update this note and report on my findings.

After a period of more than two years, I received an answer from the
International Tracing Service at Arolsen Germany, affiliated to the Red Cross.

They were unable to provide any information at all regarding my grandparents and
aunt, stating "that many records were destroyed through the effects of war".

However, they did give me something on my uncle:


     ZERNIK, Bernard (no further personal data),

     was incarcerated in Concentration Camp Auschwitz
     on 17th April, 1943, Prisoner's No: 107156, and
     died there on 20th May 1943.

     According to the information which we could ascertain,
     the prisoner's number 107156 of Concentration Camp 
     Auschwitz was issued on 6th March 1943 (Transport, by
     order of the "Reichssicherheitshauptamt", from Breslau.


There is no doubt that this my mother's brother.  Next Thursday the 20th May
will be the 50th anniversary of his death, and now my mother has some hard
evidence as to his fate, as well as a yahrzeit (15 Iyar).

Jonathan