This and that from Stuart Rojstaczer. Usually, it's about music, higher ed, what I'm up to, or politics of the day. Occasionally, what I write finds its way into newspapers. But then there is this stuff like this: too short or too long or outside the box for an op-ed. I write it down fast, in an hour or less, so there are glitches no doubt. With regard to comments, I ask that any postings use a real name. You know mine. Fair is fair. I post on Monday, Wednesday, and sometimes on Friday.
Friday, August 05, 2011
Finishing up book
So this blog is on hiatus. Ocasional short stuff (mostly new lyrics, which is my version of doing sudoku during the week) can be found at http://fortyquestions.com .
There were a couple of Ludmir survivors we used to visit on the North Side of Chicago, but no relatives. My father had one uncle who moved to Argentina before the War and one who moved to Baltimore, so he had a couple of cousins in those places. There were also a lot of pre-War Ludmirers in NYC, but none we knew. There was a Ludmir Burial Society in NYC (I think it was based in Forest Hills, Queens) at least up until the 1980s. Probably a handful of Ludmirers are still living; I talked to one who lived in Florida as of a couple of years ago.
2 comments:
Ran across your 2008 entry about Ludmir ghetto.
I grew up in Chicago. My mother's parents were from Ludmir. Came here in 1905.
Her father's name was Ellegant after he got through U.S. Immigration, but his cousins who settled in England were called "Allerhand."
Her mother's family name was Trock. I believe her mother's parents owned a grain and feed store in Ludmir.
I am an arts journalist living in the DC area. Actually, I went to Stanford about a million years ago, as I noticed you live in Palo Alto.
Do you remember if you had any relatives in the Chicago area? We had a box factory called Ellegant Paper Box on Pulaski Rd.
Hope to hear from you.
J. Horwitz
There were a couple of Ludmir survivors we used to visit on the North Side of Chicago, but no relatives. My father had one uncle who moved to Argentina before the War and one who moved to Baltimore, so he had a couple of cousins in those places. There were also a lot of pre-War Ludmirers in NYC, but none we knew. There was a Ludmir Burial Society in NYC (I think it was based in Forest Hills, Queens) at least up until the 1980s. Probably a handful of Ludmirers are still living; I talked to one who lived in Florida as of a couple of years ago.
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