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from: Ruth Gottesman Sikes,   e-mail: sikes3 "at" rcn.com
I am Ruth Gottesman Sikes, daughter of Harvey L. Gottesman (b. 1902, d. 1985). My sister is Ethel Gottesman Iskander. My father is the son of Louis (Leib) Gottesmann who emigrated to the US in 1893 from Ulaskowce (Ulashkovtsky or Laskovitz). He was born in 1865 and died in 1955, we think. He married Dora Sherman (Shamus?) in 1897 and they had five chidren before she died in 1919. The reason the town has so many different names is that it was one of those border towns that passed from the Austro-Hungarian empire to Poland to Germany and back to Poland.

We have no idea if our grandfather had any brothers or sisters and seemingly came here alone. We have no information of any other relatives either.

from: Renee Poland Gottesman,   e-mail: gottesmanr "at" comcast.net
Avraham Tuvia GOTTESMAN - Information about Avraham's parents, siblings, etc. Avraham was a cattle broker. Place of birth unknown. He last lived in Volochisk, Ukraine with his wife Malka COHEN and their three children, where, in 1919, he was murdered in a pogrom. Shortly after, his wife and children (Gitel/Gertie, Yacov Yosef, and Moshe Yisroel/Murray) emigrated to the US.

from: Ilene Gottesman Rubin,   e-mail: Pen4me "at" aol.com
Franz Gottesmann, born 12/21/1888, died Philadelphia 9/14/53 at age 63. He was born in Rahatyn, Calisia (?), Austria (changed over to Poland?). He arrived in the US on the SSPresident Grant from Hamburg to New York on November 14, 1913. Name was changed to Frank Gottesman. He was a baker in Philadelphia. He married Rose Smilovitz (of Yassi, Rumania, born June 5, 1896, died Philadelphia, 3/1/63 at age 71), on Sept. 29, 1927, sister of Max, Morris, David, Devorah, Pauline, Sylvia, and three others, unknown. They had only one son, Morris David Gottesman, born Philadelphia, 10/4/28, died Philadelphia, 6/30/67. Morris married Dorothy Gorman, sister of Adele, Sylvia, Ada, Kenneth. They had three children:
Judi, born 1951... married Steven Israel, 2 children:
    Melissa, born 1975 and Scott, born 1978
Gary, born 1953
Ilene, born 1955...married Mitchell Rubin, 2 children:
    Stephanie, born 1984 and Philip, born 1988

I am looking for information about Frank's family. We have no information about siblings nor parents and would very much like to know where he, and therefore I, fit on this extended Gottesman tree. Here is what we were told about Frank. Maybe it will jarr some memories:
He was in the German (?) army.
He was smuggled out of the country in a trunk in which he lived for 2 weeks.
His immigration papers denounced his Polish citizenship for U.S. citizenship in 1931.
Anyone with information, please contact me at Pen4me@aol.com
Thank You, ilene gottesman rubin

from: Rachel Rein,   e-mail: gottesman "at" reinyday.com
I am looking for any information regarding the family Zamvel/Samuel Gottesman & Sohre Hilman of Galicia. I believe the family was from Cheremchow, Galicia; I know Paul Mausner was born there on 09 August 1910.
  • Alja/Elya "Elie" Gottesman m. Lena Goldman (USA)
  • Esther/Lea Gottesman m. Schlomo Mausner (France & Israel)
  • Fegya/Freida Gottesman m. [unknown] Meyer (USA)
  • Gussie Gottesman m. David Provisor (USA)
  • Mollie Gottesman m. San Greenberg & Harry Lautman (USA)
  • [unknown female] Gottesman m. [unknown] Jaffe/Yaffe (Israel)
  • Fanny/Fannie Gottesman m. Isador Rein (USA)
  • Ann "Annie" Gottesman m. Samuel Zipser (USA)

from: Christoph Stanger,   e-mail: ChristophStanger "at" aol.com
My grandmother's maiden name was Pepa/Pola Gottesman, born 1917? She comes from Vybranovka/ Bobrka next to Lviv, in what is currently the Ukraine, previously Poland. I do knot know much about her family. I know her father's name was Manes and her mother's Tauba. Does this sound familiar to you?

from: Jackie Gottesman,   e-mail: JACQUELINECORAL "at" aol.com
We are Gottesmans - my husband's family came from a schtetl village near Munkacs called Nelipeno. His father was called David who has now passed on but he has a sister still alive called Regina and he also had a brother Yehuda who survived the concentration camps and after the war lived in Norway for a short time as a misplaced person and eventually settled in Israel + other siblings who were left behind when those three left Nelipeno. Regina was about 16 when they left and she was the youngest. I think they left in the early '30s and went to Belgium where David met his wife Marianna Wijnschenk. We assumed most of David's family perished in the camps but hopefully there may have been some survivors. We live in New Barnet, Hertfordshire, England. Leo and I have a son of 34 married to Nicole and a daughter Alison 32 who is married to Neil and they have twins (boy and girl) of 10 months. Regine has a daughter Frances married to Stuart and they have one son David. We have some relations in America one of who is Leo's grandfather's daughter from his second marriage called Viola. My husbands grandfather who was Leib Gottesman - his first wife was Fager (Fanny) nee Mermerstein. We would love to hear from any relations that may be out there.

from: Alexander Gottesman,   e-mail: renandal "at" comcast.net
My name is Alexander M. Gottesman. My father, Beryl (William) was born near Munkach, as was Joseph, father of Gerald. I think my father's shtetl was Obava. At the time of his birth, 1892, Obava was within the Austrio-Hungarian Empire.

His parents were Abraham Gottesman and Ethel Ruth (nee Solomon) Gottesman. Joseph Gottesman and I discussed the possibility of relationship because of some family resemblance and the Solomon name which was his grandmother's maiden name. His mother doubted the connection. Adrienne is the daughter of my first cousin, Sylvia Gottesman Creed. Beulah, whom she mentions, is my mother.

from: Gerald Gottesman,   e-mail: gerald "at" royal-associates.com
My father, Joseph Ernest Gottesman, is 64 and lives in Bethesda, MD. His father, Menachem Mendel Gottesman, came from Munkach, Hungary, and left there for America in the late 1930's.  He didn't reach here, and settled for a time near more family in Mendoza, Argentina, where my father and his older brother, James Louis, (of Bowie, MD) was born.  My father's family moved to McKeesport, PA in the early 1950's.  He had 3 kids: Me, 32; David, 28 (in Roslyn, NY); and Jill, 24, in Ashville, NC).

from: Henry Gottesmann,   e-mail: henrigot "at" terra.cl
Hello everybody...my name is HENRY GOTTESMANN from Switzerland, but living in Chile. I am the son of Moritz Gottesmann. My Grandfather's name was Jonas Gottesmann and settled down in Lörrach, close to Basel, Switzerland at the beginning of 1900, coming from Tschernovitzy (at that time it was Rumania, now it Russian or Urkrania to be exact) Jonas Gottesmann had five children: Max, Moritz, Sarah, Maria, Didia and Sabina of whom today only survives my father, Moritz in his 92th year.

The only thing I know about my father's parents is their name Jonas and his wife Sarah. I have also cousins in New York of whom I lost track: their name is Feldmann (probably from Jonas sisters who emmigrated to the US at the beginning of 1900.

Well, so far I hope I could help you and would be very very interested to meet some Gottesmanns who originated from Tschernovitzy.

Let's stay in touch and best regards and admiration for your beautiful work you do to find out about our origin.

from: Susan Gottman,   e-mail: Spectra.g "at" sympatico.ca
Our family name is Gottman. Meyer and Yetta emigrated to new york approx 1929 from town of ostroweica poland. Father David a lawyer or Rabbi, sister Malka. Youngest child shot to death in the street. Perhaps Lithuanian, border changed. Any info email me.

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