Interesting, the records I’m most familiar with have a different stamp with handwritten text to the same effect:

The broth have done another ritual sacrifice

Also about 3/4s of the plaque in the former Jewish quarter of Stühlingen is about him, so if I'm right someone might want to let them know.

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(This blog post might interest you, @jernealogy.bsky.social - I recall you discussing your connections to the Weil rabbinical family.)

This small error has compounded into bigger errors as researchers look for his relatives in a town they never lived in. The Geni profile of one of his brothers, connected to 4000 trees, is actually an amalgamation of four different people with the same name.

It's a mess!

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But the 10th Henry was born a Hirsch on July 31, 1828, in Niederemmendingen, just north of Freiburg. His parents were Isaak Wertheimer and Sara Bernheimer. Henry's first two children, born in Canada in the 1850s, were named Sarah and Isaac.

Did we find our Henry?

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The 9th Henry is actually an Aaron, and also pops up in America - Prescott, AZ, to be specific. He owned a dry goods store, cofounded the local Freemason chapter, & was fired upon by native Americans on multiple occasions—once alongside Barry Goldwater's grandfather (?).

Not our Henry though.

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The 8th actually did move to the US and anglicize his name to Henry. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, served until 1864, and sometime after the war wended his way down the Ohio River to live out the rest of his days in Cincinnati.

Interesting, but not our Henry.

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Now looking for Malka Perkals, we get a family where first names - or at least their nicknamed versions - all start to line up. Zysk for Siskind, Juszk for Joseph Azriel, Frejda Elkiewicz (an errant spelling of Feiga Sliwkiewicz) for Fanny Lifkowitz. Chonko & Mariem for Elchanan & Miriam.

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Meanwhile, our grasp on Mollie's surname starts slipping. We get obvious transcription errors, like "Bedkat" (?) on the Kroonland's manifest and "Paerker" on the NYC death record.

But then what I thought was an indexing error starts showing up in handwriting: variants of "Perkal."

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Not only do we have a town of origin, but we have a maiden name for Jack's mother Malka (known in the US as Mollie): Perkoff.

Headstones provide both of Jack's grandfather's names: Yosef Azriel, father of Jack's father Siskind, and Elchanan, father of his mother Mollie.

Surely useful stuff.

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After a long time spent googling various permutation of Osterlinko, it becomes clear that the Aronowitz family came over from Ostrołęka, now in Poland but at the time a part of the Russian empire.

The seas were rough enough on the journey over that the NYT wrote a short blurb about it.

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Fairly early on in my genealogy journey, I found my great-grandpa Jack - the 6 year old Jankel in this ship manifest - arriving in NYC with his family in 1910. The manifest contained exactly what you want early on in your research: a town of origin. In this case, "Osterlinko."

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Then you’ll love this

My version of this, also 100% Ashkenazi. My father’s family was much better at evading the civil authorities than my mother’s.

If you’d like to see yours (cut off one called “Drama” for space)

@pymundgenealogy.com found a very strange origin to my last name on Simone Weil’s Wikipedia page - this is nonsense, correct?

That’s not what I’m saying either. I don’t think the Holocaust is never to be replicated. I’m arguing when we make comparisons saying something looks like what the Nazis did, it should look vaguely similar. I think these examples are all vaguely similar, esp as representatives of a repeated method:

That’s not what I’m saying. For instance, these aren’t what the Nazis did but are comparable, including one primarily relying on starvation. I’m saying what the Israelis are doing simply doesn’t look like this (at least yet, which isn’t to say that it couldn’t).

I am aware! In fact that’s largely what I’m referring to. Simply put, nothing in Gaza is comparable to, say, this random Wikipedia page.