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Preface
Bonar / Banarsky / Bernhardt
Kantoff
Brin
Lentzner
Wyman / Steinman
Gruenberg / Bonar
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The Bonar Family History
Preface
Bonar / Banarsky / Bernhardt
1890 – Sam Bonar: Born in Kishinev (Кишинёв), Bessarabia, Imperial Russia
A short account regarding the surnames of Ashkenazim
Sam Bonar’s birthplace, Kishinev
1903-1905 – Kishinev Pogroms
1910 – Sails from Vancouver B.C. to Sydney, NSW, Australia
1914-1921 – Works as a ‘Showman’ throughout Australia
1918 – Arrested for Breach of Alien Registration
Sam’s 1918 Arrest in Historical Context
1919 – Letter petitioning for Australian Citizenship; ownership of land in Mt. Hutton, NSW
1921 – Australian Citizenship granted
1923 – Sails to San Francisco, California and settles in Los Angeles
Aspects of the steamship Ventura
1924 – Sam Marries Sylvia Block in Los Angeles, California
1925 – Jacob ‘Jackie’ Bonar born to Sam and Sylvia Bonar in Kaspare Cohn Hospital
Kaspare Cohn Hospital where Sylvia’s child was born
1928 – Sylvia Block Bonar dies
1929 – Sam Marries Margie Steinman-Gruenberg with son Merrill
1933 – Sam and Margie sign their respective Declarations of Intention to become US Citizens
1937 – Donald Bonar born to Sam and Margie Bonar
1939 – Margie and Sam granted US Citizenship
1940 – Jack Bonar dies in an accident, Sam dies a year later
1941 – Sam dies of coronary disease
The fate of Sam Bonar’s European family members during World War II
The Bonar Brothers: Later Years
Summary: Sam Bonar
Kantoff
Introduction: The Chaiet- Kantoff Homeland
The Pale of Permanent Jewish Settlement: Introduction and Historical Context
1905 Russian Revolution and a Pogrom in Zhytomyr
Family Lore regarding the Origins of the Kantoff Name vs History
Samuel Ishiach Kantoff’s Family
Fred Chaiet-Kantoff and his daughter Sandra
World War II: Zhytomyr, Shepetovka, Korets, Sudilkov: birthplace of the Kantoff and Brottman Families
Photographs of Fred Kantoff taken during his later years
Summary and Forward: The Kantoff and Brin Families
Brin
The Town / Duchy of Biržai in Imperial Russia, birthplace of Wolf and Jennie Brin
Rev. Wolf Brin in Chicago
Arthur Shapiro, son of Celia Brin and Zelig Shapiro, remembers Wolf Brin
The education of Wolf Brin’s daughters
World War II: The Riga Ghetto
Family of Celia Brin and Zelig Shapiro
Family of Rose Brin and Samuel Neuman
Family of Sara Brin and Irwin Clorfene
Richard Clorfene / Chiam Noach Clorfene’s Great Adventure
Family of Hanna Brin and Irving Schulman
Family of Leila ‘Tutu’ Brin
Family of Edith Brin and Joseph Poppie
BRIN POWER! Summary and Forward
Lentzner
1883-Herman Lentzner born in Szczekociny, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
The Koplowitz Connection to the Lentzner and Wyman Families
1903-04 – Herman’s two trips to America
Immigration from Congress Poland to the US via the Port of Hamburg
1904 – Herman Arrives in St. Louis, Missouri
1906 – Herman marries Tillie Wyman
1924 – Herman and Tillie Visit France, Germany, and Poland
1924 – Herman and Tillie Lentzner, and Margie Steinman move to Los Angeles, CA
The Santa Monica Beach Photographs
Additional friends of Herman and Tillie in Los Angeles
Herman Lentzner’s Entrepreneurial Ventures
Remembering Uncle Herman Lentzner
Szczekociny: The fate of the birthplace of the Lentzner Family
Liba Lentzner and the McTeer Family
Summary: The Lentzner and Wyman Families
Wyman / Steinman
Introduction: Łosice (לאָשיץ) in Congress Poland
The Polish-Soviet War of 1917-1920 and the Łosice Massacre
Photographs of Still Unknown Family Members
The Holocaust: Martyrs and Survivors in the Wyman Family
Margie Steinman: Biography
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Margie’s Wyman Relatives from Łosice: A Case of Double First-Cousins
MEYER WAJMAN and his wife, ROCHL ‘REBECCA’ SZTEJNMAN
MENDEL ‘SAM’ SZTEJNMAN and his wife, NECHAMA ‘ADA’ WAJMAN
ROSY WAJMAN aka ROSE WYMAN NIAMAN / RODIN /ROSENBAUM
TSINE WAJMAN aka TILLIE WYMAN LENTZNER
YACOV WAJMAN aka JACOB ‘JAKE’ WIMAN
YACOV WAJMAN aka JACOB ‘JAKE’ WYMAN
AVRAM WAJMAN aka ABRAHAM ‘ABE’ WYMAN
SORE ‘SORELE’ WAJMAN aka SELMA WYMAN BRUSTIN
Summary: Wyman-Steinman to Gruenberg-Bonar
Gruenberg / Bonar
Introduction: The Gruenbergs
Jack Gruenberg: a chronology of his life in Minneapolis, Los Cruces, and Los Angeles 1911-28
Jack Gruenberg’s Forebears and his and Five Siblings
The Mafia in Los Angeles and Al Gruenberg
Merrill Gruenberg / Bonar’s Childhood
Merrill Bonar’s Working Years
Elvis Presley in ‘Change of Habit’: on location at Glassman’s Market
The Bonar Siblings: Their Spouses and Children
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